No! This Is Nothing To Do With The 'Starry Trex' Character
Brent Spiner - a name to conjure with in itself - the actor who played Data, said that there was a problem playing a character who would never age, when he was a mere mortal man. Mere mortal men get jowly and lose their hair whilst growing a splendid crop of liver-spots, don't you know. Art!
Brent as the semi-comic relief Dr. Okun in "I.D. Resurgence", which role must have come as a wonderful contrast to Data, as Okun is an unkempt, exuberant nerd of epic geekiness.
Yes, that's not what we're about here. Come on, how often does BOOJUM! maintain a plumb-line straight course through the seas of sentient sentences?
Quite.
I just thought I'd update you on the case of Morrisons versus Andrew Skelton, because I've worked in HR for a couple of major UK retailers and have a bit of an insight. Art!
This sweaty rascal is Andrew Skelton, who used - past tense - to be a Senior Auditor at Morrisons, and whom had been denied promotion thanks to
So, as one obviously - of course! - would, Andrew copied the personal details of 100,000 Morrisons staff and uploaded them to the internet, since he had access to this kind of data.
Ooops.
He was rapidly found out, prosecuted and sentenced to eight years in prison back in 2015. Unless he was a bad boy, he would have been released on licence in 2019, but if he was a bad boy then he'll see release this July.
Morrisons, in a kind of Well There's Your Biter Bit court case, were found guilty of the Data Protection Act. Art!
This would have been bad news for them, because DPA breaches are now punished by being fined a percentage of the business's overall turnover, which in Morrisons' case would have been in the region of £10 million. They had already spent £2 million in mitigating the data protection breach and were looking at a class-action lawsuit with dread.
But Hay Pesto! here we are in 2020 and the case has gone to the Court Of Appeals, who ruled against Morrisons, and then to the Supreme Court, who rule in favour of Morrisons. Don't do the Yay Success Dance yet, because that case has gone back and forwards for 5 years, and you just know that the solicitors involved have been paid handsomely for their legal work. Conrad wonders if it wouldn't have been cheaper to settle in the first place. Art!
Now, the reason we've brought this topic up is because of a young chap named Jack Teixeira, whom was an intelligence analyst in the Air National Guard of South Canada. Young Jack was not entrusted with explicit access to Top Secret documents, he just had the access in the first place, and should not have been poking around where he was not supposed to be. Suddenly!
The info is all over teh Interwebz. This info is not people's National Insurance number and date of birth, it's directly relevant to the conflict in Ukraine. If Mister Skelton got 8 years I feel Jack is at risk of 888 years.
There's Willing Suspension Of Disbelief - & There's "White House Down"
Because some things need a pillar of salt 100' high with a diameter of 36" to be consumable.
We've already covered how hugely unlikely several plot elements already are, but let us push on through the barrier of Hot Plot Grot Spot. Art!
In the first picture you see James Woods' Villainous Minions shooting at incoming helicopters with a Ma Deuce, with no repercussions. They are out in the open, completely exposed, and nobody outside the White House grounds does anything to them. Nor are there any drones observing the situation. Yes, the film might be 10 years old but drones are older.
In the second picture you see the assembled HQ staff listening to James Woods rant at them about what he wants. The implication is that he can outguess all of them because he's been doing this for years. This does not sound correct to me. If this was really South Canada they'd have half a dozen teams trying to think around the problem, with another half dozen teams trying to shoot down the first team's solutions, as soon as they realise who the bad guys are.
Last picture, James threatens the assembled staff, saying that they (the JWVMs) have 'eyes in the sky'. Except they most definitely don't. WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT DRONES!
Believe me, there is more to come here. Art!
The Song Of Roland
"The Sea Of Sand"
Albert and Private Mickleborough are carrying out a desperate and dangerous attack on the invading bio-vore complex at Makin Al-Jinni, using improvised Molotov cocktails.
No experience of aircraft! he
enthused. Especially not an aircraft
that flew over and dropped flaming bombs on them.
They
might have gotten away successfully, if the Lysander had not flown over the
giant circular platform of the Dias, where various crates and scrolls were
deposited. One second their right-hand
wing was over the platform, the next it was gone, nine feet missing.
Instantly
Albert lost control, the aircraft spiralling downwards around it’s axis with
incredible speed, smashing into the HQ building. It blew up, the explosion made even bigger by
the collection of spirit bottles carried, a bright blue sheet of flame erupting
outwards between the building columns.
Droning eastwards, at five thousand feet, the pinprick flashes of Albert and Davey’s first attack drew the attention of a pilot aboard a Blenheim Mk V, christened “Guynemer”. His aircraft was one of a flight of three, and the only one to still have bombs aboard. Their target, an Italian freighter, had been hit and sunk by the first and second aircraft in the flight.
The
aircraft were from the FAFL, frankly-obsolete but generously given by the
British to their prickly French allies, who took great relish in attacking
anything Italian. The Germans would get
their turn, was the common consensus of the squadron, but for now – kill
Italians!
Sorry for the bit of a downer there if you were fond of Albert or Davey.
Well There's A Question
Quora DAMN YOU QUORA YOU ARE MORE ADDICTIVE THAN HERON because everyone knows that large wading birds are m - hang on hang on YOU ARE MORE ADDICTIVE THAN HEROIN Dog Buns! your eyes. Here's a question of genuine personal interest.
What is the best WW1 documentary that goes in full detail of the Great War without getting boring?
Contemporaneously, this would definitely be "They Shall Not Grow Old" by Peter Jackson, yes the "Lord Of The Rings" guy. Art!
For those of you unaware, Ol' Pete took scads of First Unpleasantness films, amended their speed, remedied all the scratches and flaws on the original film, colourised them and put them into a documentary that knocks thirty years off their aspect. It is eye-opening. I would say the only fault is that it doesn't have chapter titles to indicate where you are in the war's duration. And yes, I do have a copy.
One Gear In Reverse
Conrad was struck, whilst walking Edna this morning, about when exactly cars got reverse gears? Art!
This was triggered by a learner driver in a car, inching backwards verrrrrry slowly, as we went past them far quicker than they were moving backwards. You see above why learner drivers practice on Tandle Hill Road - it's long and has very little cross traffic.
The answer is 1905. Before that it was very much you can ask if you want it, but very few wanted it. What madness!
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