Discovered this on the door of a CS professor's office

[kentonio]

... yeah... with help from you

Yes, your kidnap planes were allowed to refuel here. Something that shames us.

And if the positions were reversed, the UK would probably be even worse with regards to human rights abuses. You're just butthurt that you aren't a superpower capable of inflicting that much worldwide repression.

Sure.

[giblets]

... yeah... with help from you

And if the positions were reversed, the UK would probably be even worse with regards to human rights abuses. You're just butthurt that you aren't a superpower capable of inflicting that much worldwide repression.

Oh God... what if the UK were a superpower? That's a scary thought.

[kentonio]

British people must have really thin skins...

What if someone from Ben's school wandered on here, heard the accusations and decided that there must be a reason for them and decided to summarily fire him? Personally I think that would immediately raise the standard of Texan education considerably, but it's hard to argue that it wouldn't be genuinely damaging to him and his 'professional reputation'.

[giblets]

Can MOBIUS haul someone off to court for saying he ****s sheep?

[Sava]

Yes, your kidnap planes were allowed to refuel here. Something that shames us.

The UK... yes... they respect the human rights of repressed peoples.

Three Royal Marines carried out the "execution" of a suspected insurgent as he lay badly wounded after being hit by helicopter cannon fire in Afghanistan, a court martial was told on Wednesday.

Footage of the helpless, bloodied man being dragged across a field and the moment a sergeant bends down and apparently shoots him in the chest at close range was shown in court.

The sergeant, who can be identified only as Marine A, is allegedly heard telling the man: "There you are, shuffle off this mortal coil, you ****. It's nothing you wouldn't do to us."

A few moments later Marine A is allegedly heard telling colleagues: "Obviously this doesn't go anywhere fellas. I've just broken the Geneva convention."

The footage was captured on a camera fixed to the helmet of another of the men, Marine B, who is accused of helping Marine A carry out the murder.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/23/marines-accused-court-martial-execution-afghan-insurgent

British hospitality

[giblets]

What if someone from Ben's school wandered on here, heard the accusations and decided that there must be a reason for them and decided to summarily fire him? Personally I think that would immediately raise the standard of Texan education considerably, but it's hard to argue that it wouldn't be genuinely damaging to him and his 'professional reputation'.

What if an alien civilization read these posts and determined that humans are utterly depraved and must be exterminated? Oh ****...

[kentonio]

Can MOBIUS haul someone off to court for saying he ****s sheep?

Not when it's easy to show it was meant as humour not a genuine accusation.

[Sava]

his 'professional reputation'.

He does a good enough job destroying his own reputation. He doesn't need any help from us.

[Sava]

humor

Fixed.

[kentonio]

The UK... yes... they respect the human rights of repressed peoples.

The real difference is that the public here opposed nearly all of it, and continue to do so, while half your country thinks stopping the torture was a sign of weakness.

British hospitality

I wonder how their sentences will compare to those of the US soldiers and mercenaries who committed war crimes in Iraq?

[kentonio]

He does a good enough job destroying his own reputation. He doesn't need any help from us.

This is perfectly true.

[giblets]

Not when it's easy to show it was meant as humour not a genuine accusation.

What's the legal distinction between "I was only kidding" and "being cute"? What's legal proof that something is a joke?

[Sava]

while half your country thinks stopping the torture was a sign of weakness.

Most of whom are Anglo-American scum, descended from your inbred island stock.

I wonder how their sentences will compare to those of the US soldiers and mercenaries who committed war crimes in Iraq?

We sentence ours to life in prison without parole.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who pleaded guilty to slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians inside their homes, will spend the rest of his life in prison, a military jury decided on Friday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/us/soldier-gets-life-without-parole-in-deaths-of-afghan-civilians.html?_r=0

Your soldiers will probably go to some tea and crumpet, fish and chips resort.

But honestly, being forced to serve that time in your own country is probably the worst punishment I can think of.

[Dauphin]

People have openly called Ben Kenobi a pedophile on these forums. If he wasn't a pedophile would this be considered libel?

The thing about UK libel or defamation is that it requires the reasonable reader to think less of someone as a result of the defamation. Hence calling Ben a child molester is unlikely to be considered defamation.

And UK defamation laws are terrible. Burden of proof is arse backwards in too many cases.

[Nikolai]

I don't think HC will get any trouble for posting that on FB, but I can't see what good it'll do him either.