nick’s (n)-line life

Update: new article

Wow, this is scary… a fifteen year old girl raped in central Cambridge.
Can’t help but think of my lil’ sis, soon to be 17th, living in a student house.

CEN News : City Edition : Terror of girl, 15, raped in car park
Terror of girl, 15, raped in car park
A TEENAGER was raped in [...]

Bearing in mind that I have a Sentencing and the Penal System exam tomorrow I thought I would give an illustrative example of the sentencing system being too lenient (although I think it’s normally fairly harsh) by discussing some thieving little sh*t who rips people off on ebay.
Why is this wrong? Well, he made [...]

The Chinese government has just announced a new system of web censorship which aims to require all domestic websites and blogs to register with the government or face being shut down. [just to make sure that the enemies of the people can’t write anti-government propoganda!]. This ties in to an earlier post I wrote.
I’m not [...]

The National Geographic tries to decide whether the Star Wars Saga is believable or not [it’s not in case anyone missed that fact]

Well, who can blame China for telling the US to get lost and sort it’s own human rights record out?
BBC Article
The Foreign Ministry in Beijing said the US should pay more attention to its own human rights violations

Today, I spent quite a lot of time reading about Eddie Gibson, the 19 year old (now 20) who disappeared in Cambodia last October (detailed facts). There is also a website set up by the boy’s family including a video appeal for information.
He had begun a university course in Asian Pacific Management Studies at Leeds [...]

Wow, talk about lax security!
Citibank admits: we’ve lost the backup tape | The Register
The retail finance division of Citigroup has admitted that a backup tape containing personal information on almost 4 million customers has gone missing. … The tape contains Social Security numbers and transaction histories on both open and closed accounts at the bank’s [...]