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From: David Kennedy on 7 Apr 2010 14:09 Bruce Horrocks wrote: > On 07/04/2010 12:28, David Kennedy wrote: >> Weren't the first deportees under the terrorist legislation the Nat West >> three; and, wasn't the same act used to freeze the Icelandic Bank assets? > > It was the "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001" -- the > Icelandic bank assets were frozen using the 'Crime' bit of the > legislation, not the 'Anti-terrorism' bit. > True. But, why roll these things into one unwieldy package in the first place and, of course, it's only the Anti Terrorism bit that gets remembered. -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: David Kennedy on 7 Apr 2010 15:25 Tim Streater wrote: > In article<823udmFacoU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > Bruce Horrocks<07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > >> On 07/04/2010 12:28, David Kennedy wrote: >>> Weren't the first deportees under the terrorist legislation the Nat West >>> three; and, wasn't the same act used to freeze the Icelandic Bank assets? >> >> It was the "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001" -- the >> Icelandic bank assets were frozen using the 'Crime' bit of the >> legislation, not the 'Anti-terrorism' bit. > > Which crime was that then? > Not agreeing with the government... -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Jim on 7 Apr 2010 15:29 David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > >> It was the "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001" -- the > >> Icelandic bank assets were frozen using the 'Crime' bit of the > >> legislation, not the 'Anti-terrorism' bit. > > > > Which crime was that then? > > > Not agreeing with the government... 'Driving a bank without due care and attention'. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: David Kennedy on 7 Apr 2010 15:59 Jim wrote: > David Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > >>>> It was the "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001" -- the >>>> Icelandic bank assets were frozen using the 'Crime' bit of the >>>> legislation, not the 'Anti-terrorism' bit. >>> >>> Which crime was that then? >>> >> Not agreeing with the government... > > 'Driving a bank without due care and attention'. > > Jim Let's not go down that road... -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: J. J. Lodder on 7 Apr 2010 16:58
Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Preparing to send my iffy RAID maxtor/Seagate back, I am erasing it, > having decanted stuff i want to keep. I set it to do seven times > overwrite, but it's going to take two and a half days. So I then set it > to just zeroes, which has taken around eight hours. > > Is this really enough? It's far to much, Jan |