Don't believe the headlines. This is a few very small incidents (and one major fire) being blown out of all proportion by the media (I'll not bore you with my conspiracy theories about this).
Last night I watched our (normally balanced) BBC news show a video of 7-8 riot police running down a street towards 20 unarmed teenagers. The voice over said something like "and the police have just charged a gang of youths". Seriously, if that's the best evidence they can come up with of the "riots" I'm not at all worried. I was around during the race "riots" of the mid-80's, they were thousands of people across square miles in multiple cities. Today we have tens of people in a single streets. Even the '80s events were not as worrying as the media is portraying these events today. In summary - for a very few people who are caught in a place where such a gang are present it must be scary. But these are not "riots", they are mere disturbances (at least that is the case so far). Ross On 10 August 2011 10:59, Mohammad Nour El-Din <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi... > > I am sorry for what is happening now in UK, are you all OK ? > > -- > Thanks > - Mohammad Nour > Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User Guide) > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html > - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour > - Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com > ---- > "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" > - Albert Einstein > > "Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a > professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less > than your best." > - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship > > "Stay hungry, stay foolish." > - Steve Jobs > -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
