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Plan B wrote:For the record, I coined `nixed`first, no matter what this pedstan says .

Andrew Tingley, an immigration specialist at law firm Kingsley Napley, said the collapse was "beyond farcical" because many applicants needed to have their permit dealt with on the same day.

"The system that was introduced was not fit for purpose," he said. "It was close to collapse a few weeks ago. It has now collapsed. It's an absolute mess.

"Employers are saying they can't access a reasonable immigration system and they're considering moving abroad. They've come to the point now where they're seriously considering not investing or working in the UK because they can't access any reasonably competent system."

The government is to offer a blank cheque to internet and phone firms that will be required to track everyone's email, Twitter, Facebook and other internet use under legislation to be published on Thursday.

The Home Office has confirmed it will foot the bill, thought to run into tens and possibly hundreds of millions, for collecting and storing the extra social media and web browsing records needed to implement the scheme, which critics have dubbed an "online snooper's charter".

4days wrote:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nix - maybe plan b is even older than you.

UK Border Agency ID card system crashes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17943589

Andrew Tingley, an immigration specialist at law firm Kingsley Napley, said the collapse was "beyond farcical" because many applicants needed to have their permit dealt with on the same day.

"The system that was introduced was not fit for purpose," he said. "It was close to collapse a few weeks ago. It has now collapsed. It's an absolute mess.

"Employers are saying they can't access a reasonable immigration system and they're considering moving abroad. They've come to the point now where they're seriously considering not investing or working in the UK because they can't access any reasonably competent system."

well, it makes sense. it's not like it's illegal or anything

as for the ethics of it: that seems to me to be bound up with the larger question about whether it's reasonable to infiltrate protest groups. frankly, spending a fuckload of police time and money to stop some hippies from hanging a banner off a power station doesn't seem like a great way to spend the day

A Houston police officer shot and killed a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair Saturday inside a group home after police say the double amputee threatened the officer and aggressively waved a metal object that turned out to be a pen.

Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the man cornered the officer in his wheelchair and was making threats while trying to stab the officer with the pen. At the time, the officer did not know what the metal object was that the man was waving, Silva said.

She said the man came "within inches to a foot" of the officer and did not follow instructions to calm down and remain still.

"Fearing for his partner's safety and his own safety, he discharged his weapon," Silva told The Associated Press.

While during all his years in custody [Guantanamo Bay prisoner Adnan Farhan Abdul] Latif has never been charged with nor convicted of any crime related to terrorism or any other offence, his death now is made even more tragic due to the fact that he had been recommended for release from Guantanamo by the Department of Defence since as early as 2004, and again in 2007, which said at the time that it had determined that he "is not known to have participated in any combatant/terrorist training". In 2009 a special task force commissioned by the Obama administration also ruled that Latif should be released, a decision which its internal mandates specified could only be reached by the unanimous consensus of all US intelligence agencies. However despite being cleared for release he remained in military custody as a decision had been made not to repatriate any prisoners to Yemen due to ongoing political instability in the country, effectively leaving him and others like him in a state of indefinite detention.

Despite this, Latif fought his own long legal battle through the civilian court system, taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court in order to prove his innocence and win his release. Finally after years of legal challenges in 2010 an order for Latif's immediate release was given by US District Judge Henry Kennedy, who called the allegations against him "unconvincing" and in a 32-page order ruled that the government had failed to provide evidence that Latif had been part of al-Qaeda or any other militant group and ordering it to "take all necessary and appropriate diplomatic steps to facilitate Latif's release forthwith".

Despite this, the Department of Justice successfully appealed the judges' decision, and in a 2-1 ruling that Latif's release order was rescinded; effectively on the grounds that the allegations against him must be taken as accurate if they are claimed to be so by the government.

Police drone crashes into police SWAT team

New cell phone footage shows Miami-Dade Police officers aggressively pinning an unarmed teen to the ground while choking him. His alleged crime: giving the officers “dehumanizing stares” and “clenching his fists.” The 14-year-old was allegedly carrying a puppy when officers wrestled him to the ground.

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McMillan says he obeyed orders, and was leading the officers towards his mother when they jumped him. The teen adds that he was holding and feeding his puppy at the time, who got injured during the encounter. Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta justified the use of force, saying McMillan was exhibiting threatening “body language,” which includes “clenched fists.” McMillan adamantly denies this charge because, well, he was holding a puppy.