Interesting Links for 27-10-2019

[andrewducker]

Amazon Facial Recognition Falsely Linked Athletes To Mugshots

(tags:racism faces AI Amazon )

Lib Dems and SNP offer Johnson route to December election

(tags:elections libdem snp UK politics )

Uluru climb closed permanently

(tags:Australia religion mountains )

Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who tells police

(tags:murder headline outsourcing )

Government rejects Lib Dem and SNP bid for earlier general election

(tags:UK elections politics libdem snp )

Brexit: Former chancellor Philip Hammond backs bid to keep UK in customs union

(tags:UK europe )

The opening page of H.G. Wells's novelisation of Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds.

(tags:funny musicals novel scifi )

"You could have had Brexit by now if you hadn't been such dicks about it"

(tags:uk europe true )

Comments

[strange_complex]

Actual lol at the novelisation!

Hit men

[lsanderson]

In the long ago at my father's funeral, the bright spot, if you can call it that, was the news that a member of the family two of his sister's married into, had called a 'hitman' in Las Vegas to take out his wife -- with whom he was in the process of divorcing -- rather than hiring a great divorce attorney at the getgo. The 'hitman' turned him over to the police. The lesson learned, if there is one, is hire a good divorce lawyer first, and if you can't do that, hire a real hitman, not the somebody that somebody that somebody knows in Las Vegas.

[simont]

The odd thing about the hitmen story is that all five of the hitmen were convicted of attempted murder – including the one who decided not to murder the target, and instead attempted to conspire with the target to defraud his (the hitman's) employer.

Not saying that there's no crime you could possibly pin on hitman #5, but attempting murder seems to me like the one thing he could make a good argument that he didn't do.

[dewline]

Yeah. That is an odd quirk of organized crime law, there...odd, but perhaps inevitable.