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Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 - Provides for the interception of user logs and e-mails of suspected criminals by the security and intelligence services.
Terrorism Act 2000 - Act detailing the legal measures that are available in the prevention of terrorism.
Interception of Communications Act 1985 - Report presented to parliament that deals with the Secretary of State's power to issue interception warrants at the request of the intelligence and security agencies.
Security Service Act 1989 - Report by the Security Service Commissioner, which examines the Secretary of State's powers to issue, renew, and cancel warrants. In addition, too investigating cases referred to the Commissioner by the Security Service Tribunal.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Legislation If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Legislation "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Legislation "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Legislation Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Legislation "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Legislation The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Legislation Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Legislation It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Legislation Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Legislation The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Man and wife make one fool. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Legislation "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Legislation Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Legislation I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Legislation Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Legislation Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Legislation If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale Legislation There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Legislation The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Legislation Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Legislation Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Legislation Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Legislation
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