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I must go on the record as saying that I am willing to try Haggis once. It can't be any worse than Hot Pockets.

Give me a couple of weeks and I'll send you a proper one. IF you're gonna try it, might as well try the best!

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

whatwhat wrote:For every one reason an American can think up to boycott Scotish product I can think of ten reasons for a scotsman to boycott American products.

Again, dumb.

I see we've smoked out another haggis eater in our midst. Should have known. Cumbria's awfully close to Scotland. A little too close to Scotland. You're not harboring any prehistoric, heavily accented sea going dinosaurs in your pool are you? Admit you crimes Loch lover!

I think you're a closet Jock matey. CONFESS TO YOUR GINGER GENES AND EMBRACE YOUR HAIRY HERITAGE!

"Nevah! You can take our chicken fried steak, but you'll nevah take...OUR FREEDOMMMMM!!!!!"

Frazzled wrote:

lmao

this may sound like a dumb question to some, but why don't the american government use the 'hacker', to help fix any problems in their computer system, if he can do it, so can others

I think they want to make an example out of him.

But Haggis and Scotch are delicious! Can't we all just blame it on the French and boycott their whiny country instead? Lets be honest the French are always a good scapegoat...

No that won't do. The French invented croisants, which are delicious. So its back to haggis.

If thine haggis offends thee pluck it out!

What, and avoid eating french fries, the US? me dont think so.

Frazzled wrote:No that won't do. The French invented croisants, which are delicious. So its back to haggis.

If thine haggis offends thee pluck it out!

Highlander Chicken....Chicken Breast (I said Breast. And then I said it again) stuffed with Haggis, wrapped in Bacon, cooked, served with a creamy Whisky sauce.....

statu wrote:this may sound like a dumb question to some, but why don't the american government use the 'hacker', to help fix any problems in their computer system, if he can do it, so can others

Because it wasn't a 'hack' in the traditional sense of the work. There was no port scanning, sql injectionn script exploitation or any of the normal activities normally associated with hacking.

Essentially the pentagon upgraded some PC's to windows 2000 (this was back in 2001) and Gary thought the local administrators might forget to turn off the guest accounts and by goodness he was right! He simply looked up the I.P. ranges belonging to the pentagon (this is public info) and put together a basic script to connect to the IP's in this range with a user name of Administrator and no password.

This isn't the work of genius hacker as the British press are claiming but merely fairly standard stuff for a mid level techie. He simply exploited a known weakness because the local admins messed up. He wouldn't be much use to the Pentagon.

There no doubt in my mind he deserves to be punished, I think it's rather offensive to the majority of aspergers sufferers, that go about their day to day lives without breaking the law, that this guy is trying to use it as some kind of excuse. A to whether the trial should take place in the UK or the USA I think as the damage was done to American machines it's fair to say America has every right to put him on trial. Had an American pulled a similar trick on computers at GCHQ I'm sure we would be keen for a trial in the UK.

The really Inronic thing is that has he cooperated in the first place his sentence would now long be over and he would be home a free man. Talk of 60 year jail sentences is tabloid hyperbole.

Again, the aspergers issue wasn't the point. The point was the US has declared he will be punished for drawing out the extradition process, i.e. punishing him for exercising his right to an appeal.

You said it yourself...

LuciusAR wrote:The really Inronic thing is that has he cooperated in the first place his sentence would now long be over and he would be home a free man.

Can't do the time don't do the crime.

Scottish girls are fine and dandy.

Can I vote this thread as the most off topic/on topic thread seen on Dakka?

Veering from the subject, to taking the OP seriously, to discussing extradition, to discussing food, via the original subject, and then back out the window shouting 'WIBBLE'

Did I tell you I how I hated haggis?

Can't we just let the John Waynes handle this instead?

It's like a Space Hulk of the Interwebs, where somewhere, somehow, half a dozen different threads collided in the Warp of Webspace, before being shat out onto Dakka's server, attracting yet more flotsam and jetsam of posting

If you really want to stick it to the Scots just start drinking bottles of Jameson and Bushmill's and begin your drunken declaration of how superior Irish whiskey is to Scotch. Or even better, fly the flag of St. George from the top of the Scottish parliament to remind them who is in charge. Both of these things will rile them up thoroughly Fraz.

Or you could steal some haggis from someone named scott, get taken to scotland yard, then later, get off scot free.

whatwhat wrote:Or you could steal some haggis from someone named scott, get taken to scotland yard, then later, get off scot free.

lol

Ok, lets put our cards on the table and clarify the situation here.

America... it goes without saying that you are the current superpower and you believe that you know everything when it comes to world politics. It was 233 years ago that you became a nation in your own right and correct me if I'm wrong here, but another hundred odd years before you really started getting involved in world politics.

What do you think Europe was doing before 1776 and after 1776? We were screwing each other over, either by military force or using diplomacy. The political back stab to gain power, influence or wealth was invented by us, we probably have a thousand year head start on you in this area. Which is why I'm not shocked that such a deal has happened, especially as there is evidence that the guy was stitched up and that an appeal would shine a bright light on things that the powers in charged don't want looked at.

What really does hack me off is that the buggers in charge can't even get this right. For crying out loud we are one of the founding nations when it comes to political skullduggery and we manage to cock this up big time. The bloody French wouldn't of and if they had there would of been a national shrug of shoulders and a "so what, it's business" response. If it had been the Germans we wouldn't known anything about it, unless sometime in the future someone stubbled across his grave in Libya and recognised the name!

In fairness you've tried your best, but you've been just too obvious in your approach.

"Do you hate communism?"

"You do? Great, we'll be your friend"

"What you're a dictorship that sponsors death squads?" Don't worry about that, we know it's just to protect yourself from those darn reds."

"You don't do elections?"

"No problem, we know it's because you're too busy fight the red menace to have time to run elections."

"You've got no money left to fight those commies? No problem have $200 milliion off us as a loan to help arm your forces." Don't worry you can keep your $120 million slush fund in one of our nice banks... don't want those reds getting hold of it do we?"

Sneaky beaky, that's the way to do it... unless you're a bunch of bumbling buffoons like our bloody lot are sheesh!

BrookM wrote:Scottish girls are fine and dandy.

Pics or it didn't happen

whatwhat wrote:What, and avoid eating french fries, the US? me dont think so.

THEY'RE CALLED FREEDOM FRIES NOW, DAMMIT!

Je ne (le ) pense pas!

halonachos wrote:
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MeanGreenStompa wrote:

halonachos wrote:We must go one step further and boycott england for preventative measure.

...Are you including Cornwall in that.../twitch

I am including everything on that island, I am also going to include northern Ireland. I will wait to see if boycotting the rest of the Ireland Isle is necessary as well.

The Cornish Nation hereby withdraws your pasty privileges. Neither Fairings nor Saffron cake, Heavy cake nor StarryGazey Pie will you know from now until the ends of time.

i love french fries and french toast. I also am a big fan of haggis, kilts now (cause they piss of frazzled), and braveheart

I for one welcome my highlander overlords. I love me a good plate of haggis, and Cornish pasties are damn beautiful.

I love cold haggis in the morning warmed up in the zapper with a big mug of hot steaming chai. Lovely.

G

I don't get what the whole deal is. Neither country makes anything to boycott.