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  • dr_spyn said:

    Tim_B said:

    dr_spyn said:

    Can someone please recommend a reputable laptop battery supplier, as my laptop's battery is no longer taking full charges.

    check amazon
    Its for a Toshiba - don't recognise the brands Amazon has thrown up. Any idea which ones to avoid?
    get the part number of the current battery & make sure it matches on amazon or ebay, try for a genuine one (might be expensive) or try somewhere like laptopsdirect.co.uk who can be expensive but can be talked to over the phone.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395

    nunu said:

    German police press briefing: the perp was apparently an 18-year-old German-Iranian who has been living in Germany for a long time and had no previous contact with the police. No word on motive yet.

    If he shot himself, maybe he wasn't islamist or far right, islamists normally keep killing people until they are killed and don't normally argue back with people.
    Unhinged.
    Sounds likely. With an Iranian background, I'd certainly have thought he's unlikely to have been an IS sympathiser.
    The Iranian Embassy siege back in 1980 was down to Iranian Sunnis.
    According to Wikipedia around 5-10% of Iranians are Sunni. I thought it was about 1%.
  • nunu said:

    German police press briefing: the perp was apparently an 18-year-old German-Iranian who has been living in Germany for a long time and had no previous contact with the police. No word on motive yet.

    If he shot himself, maybe he wasn't islamist or far right, islamists normally keep killing people until they are killed and don't normally argue back with people.
    Unhinged.
    Sounds likely. With an Iranian background, I'd certainly have thought he's unlikely to have been an IS sympathiser.
    The Iranian Embassy siege back in 1980 was down to Iranian Sunnis.
    Then I stand corrected.
    Sorry to be more precise, Iranian Arabs.
    Isn't that less precise??
  • AndyJS said:

    nunu said:

    German police press briefing: the perp was apparently an 18-year-old German-Iranian who has been living in Germany for a long time and had no previous contact with the police. No word on motive yet.

    If he shot himself, maybe he wasn't islamist or far right, islamists normally keep killing people until they are killed and don't normally argue back with people.
    Unhinged.
    Sounds likely. With an Iranian background, I'd certainly have thought he's unlikely to have been an IS sympathiser.
    The Iranian Embassy siege back in 1980 was down to Iranian Sunnis.
    According to Wikipedia around 5-10% of Iranians are Sunni. I thought it was about 1%.
    Surprises me too. I thought Iran was almost completely Shia.
  • These political acts of terror really suck at explaining their actual politics. A couple of barely-audible lines shouted at the start of the attack? FFS how hard would it be to put up a page on a website?

    He may well have a website - early days yet. I'm sure we'll find out more over the next few days.
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669

    AndyJS said:

    nunu said:

    German police press briefing: the perp was apparently an 18-year-old German-Iranian who has been living in Germany for a long time and had no previous contact with the police. No word on motive yet.

    If he shot himself, maybe he wasn't islamist or far right, islamists normally keep killing people until they are killed and don't normally argue back with people.
    Unhinged.
    Sounds likely. With an Iranian background, I'd certainly have thought he's unlikely to have been an IS sympathiser.
    The Iranian Embassy siege back in 1980 was down to Iranian Sunnis.
    According to Wikipedia around 5-10% of Iranians are Sunni. I thought it was about 1%.
    Surprises me too. I thought Iran was almost completely Shia.
    I always thought Sunni and Shia were a 60s duo.
  • Tim_B said:

    AndyJS said:

    nunu said:

    German police press briefing: the perp was apparently an 18-year-old German-Iranian who has been living in Germany for a long time and had no previous contact with the police. No word on motive yet.

    If he shot himself, maybe he wasn't islamist or far right, islamists normally keep killing people until they are killed and don't normally argue back with people.
    Unhinged.
    Sounds likely. With an Iranian background, I'd certainly have thought he's unlikely to have been an IS sympathiser.
    The Iranian Embassy siege back in 1980 was down to Iranian Sunnis.
    According to Wikipedia around 5-10% of Iranians are Sunni. I thought it was about 1%.
    Surprises me too. I thought Iran was almost completely Shia.
    I always thought Sunni and Shia were a 60s duo.
    Very droll, I'm sure.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,727

    nunu said:

    German police press briefing: the perp was apparently an 18-year-old German-Iranian who has been living in Germany for a long time and had no previous contact with the police. No word on motive yet.

    If he shot himself, maybe he wasn't islamist or far right, islamists normally keep killing people until they are killed and don't normally argue back with people.
    Unhinged.
    Sounds likely. With an Iranian background, I'd certainly have thought he's unlikely to have been an IS sympathiser.
    The Iranian Embassy siege back in 1980 was down to Iranian Sunnis.
    Then I stand corrected.
    Sorry to be more precise, Iranian Arabs.
    Isn't that less precise??
    Well, it seems most of the Iranian Arabs are Shia, like their near-neighbours in southern Iraq. The Pro-Iraq group that captured the Embassy in 1980 seem to have been motivated more by ethnic nationalism than religion.

    Saddam invaded southwestern Iran with the express aim of trying to foment rebellion in the Iranian Arab population, but for the most part they didn't turn on their fellow Iranians.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Arabs

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966
    Hell the remain campaign dodged a bullet by someone keeping Peter Sutherland in a box until after the vote or it would have been 70/30!
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/07/21/europe-open-borders-economic-migrants/
    United Nations (UN) representative and former Goldman Sachs banker Peter Sutherland has declared that European countries must open their borders to all, including economic migrants. Mr. Sutherland said that refusal to accept everyone who wants to live in Europe is an affront to the European values of dignity and equality of man. Economic migrants, he claimed, are “survival fighters” and the future of Europe.
  • theakestheakes Posts: 962
    Mike, is it extraordinary, there was some evidence of this during the miners strike and look at the undercover police, even having sexual relationships with and childern by, whilst infiltrating anti nuclear and other groups. Jacqui Smith is like so many Labour MPS at the moment, not thinking through what they doing and saying, and losing some credibility. We should not be naive as to think everything is is as it seems. I am not saying whether it is right or wrong but to simply dismiss it as "extraordinary".
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