On Thu, 8 May 2008, David Hansen wrote:

On Thu, 8 May 2008 18:28:10 +0100 someone who may be Tom Anderson
wrote this:-

Well, the events in Stockwell did establish that the police are quite
touchy when it comes to unseasonable gear.

Except that the man murdered by the police at Stockwell was not wearing
anything unseasonable, despite various false claims afterwards that he
was.

Curses!

I was just reading up on the Stockwell thing. He wasn't running from the
police either, was he? It really was a completely shocking business. And
yet there are still people who want to give the police *more* powers.

This is a bit like the people who think the solution to the credit crunch
is to give the banks more money and ease the regulations. I despair.

tom


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that they were more interested in fun and games than in serious work,
so I shifted to eating with the physics table. There I stayed for a
number of years until the Nobel Prize, promotions, and offers from
other companies, removed most of the interesting people. So I shifted
to the corresponding chemistry table where I had a friend. At first I
asked what were the important problems in chemistry, then what important
problems they were working on, or problems that might lead to important
results. One day I asked, "if what they were working on was not important,
and was not likely to lead to important things, they why were they working
on them?" After that I had to eat with the engineers! -- R. W. Hamming