From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:33:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171230153329.7a4c06dd@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A47A380.20504@youngman.org.uk>
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:32:32 +0000, Wols Lists wrote:
> [3rd random OT factoid]
> The News Of The World was a British tabloid, which shut down after the
> phone hacking scandal - a lot of their stories were obtained by hacking
> into celebrities, politicians, royals voicemails, and while it was very
> hard to prove it was also blatantly obvious that journalists were acting
> under pressure, if not actual orders, from the very top.
This had been going on for years, and not just the NotW, but even though
the allegations were made no one really cared. Then they were accused of
hacking the voicemail of a murdered teenager and suddenly it mattered.
Of course, the paper didn't really close down, it was almost immediately
relaunched under a different name.
--
Neil Bothwick
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
(Albert Einstein)
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-21 14:20 [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page? Mick
2017-12-21 15:16 ` tuxic
2017-12-21 18:00 ` Mick
2017-12-21 17:01 ` Jack
2017-12-21 18:28 ` Mick
2017-12-21 21:18 ` Mick
2017-12-21 21:24 ` Jack
2017-12-21 22:35 ` Mick
2017-12-21 22:46 ` Jack
2017-12-21 23:01 ` Walter Dnes
2017-12-21 23:20 ` Mick
2017-12-22 16:30 ` Mick
2017-12-27 19:45 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored Mick
2017-12-27 23:53 ` Mick
2017-12-28 6:14 ` Taiidan
2017-12-29 13:51 ` Mick
2017-12-29 13:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-12-29 14:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-29 15:01 ` Mick
2017-12-29 16:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-29 16:45 ` Wols Lists
2017-12-30 0:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-30 12:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-30 14:32 ` Wols Lists
2017-12-30 15:33 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2017-12-31 2:26 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-31 10:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-31 11:11 ` Wols Lists
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