The government really don't get it. They keep going on about "buttons" to report sex offenders online, registering email or IP addresses or any other crap which *will not* work - I've countless email addresses, some traceable to me, some not - nothing online actually requires you do give a real name, address or anything else.

 

You register their email addresses, they just get another. Register their IP (few ISPs even give static IPs) they'll use a new IP. I use O2's wireless broadband, half the time geolocating services claim I'm in Germany.

 

No; the *only* way to deal with these people is to lock them up permanently. If they are in a controlled environment they will not be able to re-offend. But of course, the lawyers won't allow that...

As you can see, this site has a new design & the back-end software has been updated.

 

"I've a right to..."

 

Couple of things that've been on the news recently...

 

First, the Venables business - he probably should be identified, as long as it doesn't affect any trial - although knowing the pathetic terms paedophiles get it'd probably be better just to recall him indefinitely as a danger and forget the trial.

 

However, the mother of the kid he killed has no more right to know than anyone else. He's not gone back to the original crime's location etc - nothing he's done has affected her so there is no reason for her to know more than anyone else. People seem to expect that they are more important than anything else days, or that they require special treatment and such. Which leads to...

 

Locked in energy contracts.

 

Apparently, energy prices have been falling recently and people are complaining that their fixed contracts are remaining high. They signed the contracts - they hoped to get one over on the energy firms by getting cheap prices whilst the firms lost out and the rest of us had to pay. Whether that happened or not - you took a risk, it didn't pay off - hard luck. It's all a method of gambling.

 

My parents have a fixed rate mortgage. Since then the interest rate has collapsed and it's a pretty poor rate. I have a friend in the same boat. They hoped to win and lost out - there's nothing they can do either.

 

People don't seem to want to own up to the responsibilities of their own actions. No-one forced them to take the locked in contracts - they did it on the hope of winning. They wouldn't be complaining now if the prices had gone up, or no one would be listening to the firms when they complained that the rates they have given were costing them money (not that I'm on their side either).

 

It's an example of everything that's wrong with society these days - "I'll take everything I can and then complain when it comes back at me". What happened to accepting the outcome of your choices?

 

Rant over, shall be posting back to this a bit more often as things are still going badly and this is my only "output" now.

"I don't know who St Valentine was, but I hope he died alone surrounded by couples"

- Miranda

 

Valentine's day is just a means to hurt the lonely.

 

If you've someone to love why do you need a day to show it? You should show you love them every minute of every day. We used to buy each other little presents all the time - if I saw something I thought she'd like I bought it for her.

 

Not that I hadn't hoped that I'd have had someone to love this year - was stupid to think that. I've only ever sent one valentine in my entire life - I was about 7 I think.

 

It's also continually rubbed in your face that you've no-one - every shop and restaurant has posters up. I've received so many emails from electronics sites, even audiobooks offering deals for you to get for your 'beloved' that GMail now deletes anything with "valentine" in the message.

 

So, for everyone who got someone - make a special effort every day, not just the 14th, because being lonely hurts.

An article from the BBC...

 

 

No wonder these little shits think they can do what they like. Some excerpts:

 

From Friday, a police officer will be able to seize alcohol from suspected under-age drinkers without having to prove they intended to consume it themselves.

 

Underage kids are allowed to drink only in their parents homes and a few other places - ALL LICENCED. There is *NO* reason for an underage child to have alcohol in public (eg. on the street). They cannot buy it so should not be carrying it for anyone else or such.

 

He will also be able to issue a so-called "direction to leave" order to children as young as 10 who are causing trouble - until now only those over 16 could receive one.

 

WTF? When did just doing as a copper tells you stop being something people did? Can we honestly come up with more pointless bureaucracy than this? a "direction to leave" order? No, just do what a fucking copper tells you, it's not bloody hard.

 

Finally, any shopkeepers who are caught selling alcohol to under-age drinkers twice in three months will immediately lose their licence - a toughening of the law from "three strikes" to "two strikes".

 

It's illegal to sell alcohol to under 18s. It's easy enough to ask for ID. There should be no "strikes" - punish for the first offence. Even if it's just "you'll lose your licence for a week - pull the alcohol from the shelves or shut for that time" - see how often they want all that work.

 

Of course, all this just comes down to the lack of respect and "I'll do what I want" culture we seem to have now. And I'm sure some scum lawyer will find a "human rights" excuse.