A man avoids possible incarceration by hiding away in an embassy building and refusing to come out - ever.
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A man avoids possible incarceration by hiding away in an embassy building and refusing to come out - ever.
Yeah, that equals out to be about three months per dead person. Bit f*ckey.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
According to the Chicago Tribune report, 21 years is the maximum sentence possible under Norwegian law. It also says, "His release, however, can be put off indefinitely should he still pose a threat to a liberal society left traumatized by his bomb and shooting rampage last July." So from the sound of it, this could still end up being a life sentence.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
Is anyone here from Norway? I'm curious about reasons for the the 21-year limit.
I know the USA's judicial system is messed up, but I'm glad it's not that messed up.
I can't last forever because hiding away in an embassy has its limits too.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
But then one could describe that in itself a new type of incarceration.
I am not sure I believe his story anyway.
Anthing can be made up.
Who is to say this is not just a masquerade to get attention?
So who was the man who made a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadoran embassy just a few days ago and that was shown on TV channels around the world?Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
Norwegian prisons are not as rough as Swedish prisons where no chocolate mint is put on your pillow each morning and the yoga classes are not as well organized.
Emil LOL I see I have upset the apple cart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Would you like to tell me what the answer to this post should be?
:banghead:
LOL see above.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
That's a lesson to us all. Engage cacian and beware!Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I suppose it's possible but I get the feeling that it would be like trying to explain the first law of thermodynamics to a Mongolian who doesn't speak English.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
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Originally Posted by Emil Miller
δQ=T dS
Whoops, that's the 2nd law. (entropy)
Hmmm, Pv=nRT
Ack, partial pressures
I forget, so back to the news:
Police killed 34 workers on strike from a platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa. “We are aware,” said an officer of the London-based company that owns the mine, “that it will take some time for some trust to be regained.”
From Harper's Weekly Review, August 21, 2012
But many wise and noble minded individuals have stated in prior threads, that the law should not be used to punish but to rehabilitate, because desiring punishment for punishments sake is so uncivilized.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis
Well, I haven't. All I've said is that there shouldn't be a death penalty. Life in a small, cramped cell? Definitely.
You get the feeling?Quote:
Originally Posted by emil miller
I get the feeling too.
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Originally Posted by Emil Miller
That was Julian Assange an Australian who claimed aslylum in the London embassy of Equador to avoid extradition to Sweden for fear of being tried in America for leaking secrets from Afghanistan and Iraq
Simple.
I would never have guessed.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
A lion is on the loose in Essex.
Police will deploy tranquilizer darts, and when everyone has calmed down they will start searching for the lion.
:skep: Deplore tranquilizer to who/whom?Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
prendrelemick is the signature yours?
I'm not a doctor but I'm pretty sure the meanings of deploy and deplore are not the same. The correct pronoun to use would be whom because you are referring to the object of the sentence.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
Don't you just hate it when you have to explain a joke.
Well it is LitNet.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Well no not really it is called expectations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Had the joke' phrase' been under Joke threads then one would have made the connections and since it is under News one's expectations of what had come next is naturally absconded.
Ay that was a slip of the tongue.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenLucky
The question/sentence is perfectly sensical out of context because one can deplore or deploy tranquilizer depending what one means.
About who or whom:
In formal letter:
One says 'to whom it may concern'
The reason for that is because the receiver or the reader is unknown to the subject ie the writer here.
In this instance however
I used whom to mean 'non human' ie lions and who for humans because I was not clear on what the OP actually meant.Quote:
Deploy tranquilizer to who/whom?
In other words I was not sure whether he was refering to the lions or people being tranquilized hence the use of who and whom at the same time.
I might be wrong please free to add more.
...and, in a related story:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
A young male mountain lion tried to enter a casino in Reno, but was foiled by a revolving door.
(Harper's Weekly Review)
That was lucky! He was well under age.
Forgive me I thought that was lucy for a minute. :smilewinkgrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Loose Lucy the Luckless Lioness?
That could’ve been a Dr. Seuss Title
(I ‘ave always attempted to attain an affinity for alliteration.)
Once during a heavy fog a young mountain lion wandered into my town and was just sauntering up mainstreet. That was a fun day.
And you have done a good job here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
Your affinity has shone.
Shun? Another slip of the tongue?
I first wrote it shone but then thought better of it and changed to shun t because it sounded better phonetically wise.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenLucky
I get shone and shun mixed up all the time.
Who wouda thunk it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
;)
However, in observance of the elegance of assonance, which doesn’t have the dominance of, or the extravagance of, but does have a resemblance to alliteration, you have my assurance I’ll now, with no reluctance, direct my vigilance.Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
Consonance anyone?
How about an ambulance?
(my brain hurts)
It doesn't take much to make me laugh, simple things like someone falling or walking into a glass door. I often wonder what it is in me that makes me laugh at others mistakes and misfortunes. Maybe I need to take a good look at myself and search inside for the answer.
But this really made me laugh and it cost a whole lot of money: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ing-woman.html
Ouch my head hurts a little :svengo:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
I love the way old black and white thrillers use the weather as in storms rains and thunder to accentuate the melodrama of someone about to commit a murder.
Modern television and films have really moved on!
Pink Floyd’s old house was put up for sale, and former Duran Duran bassist John Taylor told the press he had decided to start thinking of himself as middle-aged. “It was actually a really good decision to make,” said Taylor, “because I’d been feeling like a very tired young man.” British researchers found that a significant percentage of headaches are caused by pain-relief medication, climatologists explained that the hole in the ozone layer keeps Antarctic ice from melting, and a police officer from the South Pacific nation of Kiribati claimed that a shark saved his life while he was stranded at sea.
--Harper's Weekly Review, again
Medications are very addictive and yes it makes sense. Someone I met once told me that he could not do without his pain killers on a daily basis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
It was very scary.
Sharks are not all predators and not instinctively anyway they only attack when they feel threatened and when hungry.Quote:
climatologists explained that the hole in the ozone layer keeps Antarctic ice from melting, and a police officer from the South Pacific nation of Kiribati claimed that a shark saved his life while he was stranded at sea.
--Harper's Weekly Review, again
I think there was something about it in a programm I watched.