Park Life

Colony innit.

He's declared war on Hawaii.

There was that seminal scene around the coffee pot.

It's a film critic term. It means 'feel good', 'cheesy'.

You don't want the British deep state coming down on your arse. Nasty.

BIt chocolate box tho.

All the best bits are owned by the Crown and the Church anyway. They can have the rest and no more money. Fucked.

Get invaded by Denmark innit.

Krauts are loving this Scotland stuff. Another stick to beat Eng down with is how they see it. There is no way Scotland would flourish alone. Just simple things like their borrowing rates would take an instant hike when not backed by the BOE.

Scotland.

Mars Burgers.

Two servers in Germany - in Berlin and Nuremberg - are under surveillance by the NSA. Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person doing the search. Not only are German privacy software users tracked, but the source code shows that privacy software users worldwide are tracked by the NSA. Among the NSA's targets is the Tor network funded primarily by the US government to aid democracy advocates in authoritarian states. The XKeyscore rules reveal that the NSA tracks all connections to a server that hosts part of an anonymous email service at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called "the Linux Journal - the Original Magazine of the Linux Community", and calls it an "extremist forum". ''The Tor Project is a non-profit charity based in Massachusetts and is primarily funded by government agencies. Thus it is ironic that the Tor Network has become such a high-priority target in the NSA's worldwide surveillance system. As revealed by the British newspaper The Guardian, there have been repeated efforts to crack the Tor Network and de-anonymize its users. The top secret presentations published in October last year show that Tor is anathema to the NSA. In one presentation, agents refer to the network as "the king of high-secure, low-latency internet anonymity". Another is titled "Tor Stinks". Despite the snide remarks, the agents admit, "We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time". ''The former NSA director General Keith Alexander stated that all those communicating with encryption will be regarded as terror suspects and will be monitored and stored as a method of prevention, as quoted by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in August last year. The top secret source code published here indicates that the NSA is making a concerted effort to combat any and all anonymous spaces that remain on the internet. Merely visiting privacy-related websites is enough for a user's IP address to be logged into an NSA database.'' http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-1.html ''Back in 2007, a Swedish hacker/researcher named Dan Egerstad showed that just by running a Tor node, he could siphon and read all the unencrypted traffic that went through his chunk of the Tor network. He was able to access logins and passwords to accounts of NGOs, companies, and the embassies of India and Iran. Egerstad thought at first that embassy staff were just being careless with their info, but quickly realized that he had actually stumbled on a hack/surveillance operation in which Tor was being used to covertly access these accounts. Although Egerstad was a big fan of Tor and still believes that Tor can provide anonymity if used correctly, the experience made him highly suspicious. He told Sydney Morning Herald that he thinks many of the major Tor nodes are being run by intelligence agencies or other parties interested in listening in on Tor communication. “I don’t like speculating about it, but I’m telling people that it is possible. And if you actually look in to where these Tor nodes are hosted and how big they are, some of these nodes cost thousands of dollars each month just to host because they're using lots of bandwidth, they're heavy-duty servers and so on. Who would pay for this and be anonymous? For example, five of six of them are in Washington https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/ ''If you thought the Tor story couldn’t get any weirder, it can and does. Probably the strangest part of this whole saga is the fact that Edward Snowden ran multiple high-bandwidth Tor nodes while working as an NSA contractor in Hawaii. This only became publicly known last May, when Tor developer Runa Sandvik (who also drew her salary from Pentagon/State Department sources at Tor) told Wired's Kevin Poulsen that just two weeks before he would try to get in touch with Glenn Greenwald, Snowden emailed her, explaining that he ran a major Tor node and wanted to get some Tor stickers. Stickers? Yes, stickers.'' ''So the two of them threw a “crypto party” at a local coffee shop in Honolulu, teaching twenty or so locals how to use Tor and encrypt their hard drives. “He introduced himself as Ed. We talked for a bit before everything started. And I remember asking where he worked or what he did, and he didn’t really want to tell,” Sandvik told Wired. But she did learn that Snowden was running more than one Tor exit node, and that he was trying to get some of his buddies at “work”to set up additional Tor nodes… H'mmm....So Snowden running powerful Tor nodes and trying to get his NSA colleagues to run them, too?'' ''Dingledine and Mathewson might have been based in Boston, but they — and Tor — were hardly independent. At the time that the Wired article went to press in 2005, both had been on the Pentagon payroll for at least three years. And they would continue to be on the federal government’s payroll for at least another seven years. In fact, in 2004, at the Wizards of OS conference in Germany, Dingledine proudly announced that he was building spy craft tech on the government payroll: “I forgot to mention earlier something that will make you look at me in a new light. I contract for the United States Government to built anonymity technology for them and deploy it. They don’t think of it as anonymity technology, although we use that term. They think of it as security technology. They need these technologies so they can research people they are interested in, so they can have anonymous tip lines, so that they can buy things from people without other countries knowing what they are buying, how much they are buying and where it is going, that sort of thing.” Government support kept rolling in well after that. In 2006, Tor research was funded was through a no-bid federal contract awarded to Dingledine’s consulting company, Moria Labs. And starting in 2007, the Pentagon cash came directly through the Tor Project itself — thanks to the fact that Team Tor finally left EFF and registered its own independent 501©(3) non-profit. How dependent was — and is — Tor on support from federal government agencies like the Pentagon?''

''When I look at Alexis it's like looking at myself in the mirror blahd''...

Friend of mine works there for a few months of the year and he said it was a total soul destroying nightmare. He just takes his tax free cash and runs.

I really like Naked, but I have trouble going back to it. Lawrence or Kwai I can still put them on even though I've seen them loads of times...Same with Life of Brain or Withnail...I haven't tired of them. There is a lot of air and space in these films the viewer can move into (we take up our old positions we remember from previous viewings). Find Naked a bit too disconnected and the intense melancholy too distancing. It's classic British realism and clearly a standout Leigh film. https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2008/feb/20/isnakedmodernbritainsmost

Wicker Man and Ladykillers are really good films. Clockwork Orange is not a British film or it would have been in my list. Written and Dir by Kubrick (American) Warner Bros. (American). The screenplay diverges from the book as well. The weird thing is that Kubrick I always felt had a very English quality about him and lived in the UK a lot.

Slum Dog and KIngs Speech are really enjoyable films.

Great film.

This arrived today. The full 3 1/2 hr version.

No cause then Red Shoes and shit like Kes would be in it.

My Top 10 British Films. 1.The Third Man 2.Brazil 3..Lawrence of Arabia 4.Bridge Kwai 5.The Lavender Hill Mob 6.The Servant 7.Life of Brian 8.Withnail and I 9.Performance 10.Distant Voices Still Lives