Poor old Australians
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You are children, naive children. You may not do the things your parents did, because the nanny state knows best. Your rights are being eroded, your freedoms taken from you. But the puritans will tell you it is for the best. They will tell you what to do, where to go, how to think. They will even tell you how to raise your children. Even art is to be subjected to what the state thinks is good for you.[^] Oh Australia, what hast thou become?
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Are you sure you are not in America?
Don't push the rush.
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_Josh_ wrote:
Dave just wishes he had 20 degree sunny days that he called winter, beaches with actual sand, cold beer, good looking women and MM for a neighbour.
ROTFL - if I could vote, I would '5' that.
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Christian Graus wrote:
if I could vote, I would '5' that.
Why can't you vote?
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You are children, naive children. You may not do the things your parents did, because the nanny state knows best. Your rights are being eroded, your freedoms taken from you. But the puritans will tell you it is for the best. They will tell you what to do, where to go, how to think. They will even tell you how to raise your children. Even art is to be subjected to what the state thinks is good for you.[^] Oh Australia, what hast thou become?
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Unfortunately a large proportion of the Australian public are stupid enough to NEED to be told what's good and what's not. However a lot of what they're being told is utterly ridiculous and incorrect. We live in an age of boundless information, but with no more capacity to process it than the generation before. There are so many conflicting world-views it seems whichever is shouted the loudest people tend to agree with. We are given the conclusions, not the facts with which to determine our OWN conclusion. I think you make a good point but it's not just Australia that's going this way, the whole world is going this way. It's like an apartheid of conservatism and liberalism. Soon there'll be conservative only pubs where they serve iced tea and fruit juice with barbershop quartets and slapstick comedy for entertainment, while the liberal pub over the road is handing out scotch by the bottle, serve up shots of a different kind during Heroin Happy Hour and all the barmaids are available (for a few hundred bucks). It's like moderate people don't exist any more, everybody's got some opinion they're going to shove down your throat.
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I shall now have nightmares because of that picture. :((
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AspDotNetDev wrote:
Rated NSFW-13
Glad I read that. I was about to open it. :laugh:
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If that is the best of your boasts regarding Cricket you're welcome to it, and if the rumours are true it's an 'artificial' boast too.
Ᵽompey wrote:
If that is the best of your boasts regarding Cricket you're welcome to it
Well there was that 5-0 thing a few years ago.
Ᵽompey wrote:
if the rumours are true it's an 'artificial' boast too.
Warne says the rumours are false, that's good enough for me.
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It was the wrapper too. Nearly every street has them for 'our security', but obviously anyone looking to commit a serious crime just wears a hood. But this was a mobile camera attached to the top of a van and parked in a Macdonalds car-park, obviously for the sole purpose of catching hardened criminals like me, as they have your Reg plate, you can't deny it so it's pickings.
Ᵽompey wrote:
as they have your Reg plate, you can't deny it
Busted. :-D Maybe now you won't feel so free to toss your trash out of your car window.
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Christian Graus wrote:
if I could vote, I would '5' that.
Why can't you vote?
Driven to the ARMs by x86.
b/c I've not got a confirmed email address, and it's part of my plan to not have my gmail filled with CP notifications.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Ᵽompey wrote:
as they have your Reg plate, you can't deny it
Busted. :-D Maybe now you won't feel so free to toss your trash out of your car window.
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Unfortunately a large proportion of the Australian public are stupid enough to NEED to be told what's good and what's not. However a lot of what they're being told is utterly ridiculous and incorrect. We live in an age of boundless information, but with no more capacity to process it than the generation before. There are so many conflicting world-views it seems whichever is shouted the loudest people tend to agree with. We are given the conclusions, not the facts with which to determine our OWN conclusion. I think you make a good point but it's not just Australia that's going this way, the whole world is going this way. It's like an apartheid of conservatism and liberalism. Soon there'll be conservative only pubs where they serve iced tea and fruit juice with barbershop quartets and slapstick comedy for entertainment, while the liberal pub over the road is handing out scotch by the bottle, serve up shots of a different kind during Heroin Happy Hour and all the barmaids are available (for a few hundred bucks). It's like moderate people don't exist any more, everybody's got some opinion they're going to shove down your throat.
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GlobX wrote:
It's like moderate people don't exist any more, everybody's got some opinion they're going to shove down your throat.
I tend to agree in part. But I think there's more moderate people than the media wants you to think. It just sells more media to divide people in to opposing, extreme camps. It's hard to hate someone moderate, and a moderate view is not easy to turn in to a soundbite. All people on the right want to starve the poor, all people on the left want to give free heroin to junkies. THAT is a headline. Only stupid people read the paper, and believe what it says. The US, by the way, is far worse in this regard than Australia. And incredibly uptight about biology, to boot.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Ᵽompey wrote:
If that is the best of your boasts regarding Cricket you're welcome to it
Well there was that 5-0 thing a few years ago.
Ᵽompey wrote:
if the rumours are true it's an 'artificial' boast too.
Warne says the rumours are false, that's good enough for me.
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_Josh_ wrote:
Well there was that 5-0 thing a few years ago.
The last two series have ensured that all bragging rights regarding that one have expired.
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GlobX wrote:
It's like moderate people don't exist any more, everybody's got some opinion they're going to shove down your throat.
I tend to agree in part. But I think there's more moderate people than the media wants you to think. It just sells more media to divide people in to opposing, extreme camps. It's hard to hate someone moderate, and a moderate view is not easy to turn in to a soundbite. All people on the right want to starve the poor, all people on the left want to give free heroin to junkies. THAT is a headline. Only stupid people read the paper, and believe what it says. The US, by the way, is far worse in this regard than Australia. And incredibly uptight about biology, to boot.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
The US, by the way, is far worse in this regard than Australia.
Agreed 100%! I guess you're right about the media thing, which is something I'm quite often annoyed with. Isn't a free media one of the sine quibus non of a functioning democracy, the thought being they will hold the democracy accountable for its actions? The capitalistic nature of the media seems not to do that idea justice. BTW are you a Brisbanite? Are you familiar with the free MX paper and its "vent your spleen" section? I have a masochistic need to read it every afternoon even though the ridiculous and useless comments in it make me angry/sad to be a human being...
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Christian Graus wrote:
The US, by the way, is far worse in this regard than Australia.
Agreed 100%! I guess you're right about the media thing, which is something I'm quite often annoyed with. Isn't a free media one of the sine quibus non of a functioning democracy, the thought being they will hold the democracy accountable for its actions? The capitalistic nature of the media seems not to do that idea justice. BTW are you a Brisbanite? Are you familiar with the free MX paper and its "vent your spleen" section? I have a masochistic need to read it every afternoon even though the ridiculous and useless comments in it make me angry/sad to be a human being...
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Ᵽompey wrote:
The last two series have ensured that all bragging rights regarding that one have expired.
:) Fortunately we still have Warnie to brag about
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b/c I've not got a confirmed email address, and it's part of my plan to not have my gmail filled with CP notifications.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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GlobX wrote:
Are you familiar with the free MX paper and its "vent your spleen" section
Don't read it man! That's without doubt the most IQ absorbing news paper in the country. Every time you read it you get stupider.
Haha, thanks for the warning, if so my IQ must be on par with the temperature of a glass of fridge water by now... I have been toying for a while with the idea of starting an anonymous "blog" type thing where I write responses to the ridiculous things said in that section and tell people how stupid they are. But I don't want to be that guy, you know the one with the turtleneck who pretends he knows everything about the world... Ah well, all those well articulated, thinly veiled insults will have to stay locked in the old brain box...
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Christian Graus wrote:
The US, by the way, is far worse in this regard than Australia.
Agreed 100%! I guess you're right about the media thing, which is something I'm quite often annoyed with. Isn't a free media one of the sine quibus non of a functioning democracy, the thought being they will hold the democracy accountable for its actions? The capitalistic nature of the media seems not to do that idea justice. BTW are you a Brisbanite? Are you familiar with the free MX paper and its "vent your spleen" section? I have a masochistic need to read it every afternoon even though the ridiculous and useless comments in it make me angry/sad to be a human being...
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GlobX wrote:
BTW are you a Brisbanite?
No.
GlobX wrote:
Are you familiar with the free MX paper and its "vent your spleen" section? I have a masochistic need to read it every afternoon even though the ridiculous and useless comments in it make me angry/sad to be a human being...
I read the comments in our local paper for the same reason. I am also astounded that the paper prints a survey. You know, stop people on the street and ask 'should the government spend more to house the homeless ?' or 'do we need a carbon tax ?', or 'do we benefit from being part of NATO ?'. How does the person on the street offer an informed view on this, and why should I care what they think ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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GlobX wrote:
Are you familiar with the free MX paper and its "vent your spleen" section
Don't read it man! That's without doubt the most IQ absorbing news paper in the country. Every time you read it you get stupider.
Things like that are like a car accident. You know there's nothing good to see, and you should drive on, but you just can't control it.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Haha, thanks for the warning, if so my IQ must be on par with the temperature of a glass of fridge water by now... I have been toying for a while with the idea of starting an anonymous "blog" type thing where I write responses to the ridiculous things said in that section and tell people how stupid they are. But I don't want to be that guy, you know the one with the turtleneck who pretends he knows everything about the world... Ah well, all those well articulated, thinly veiled insults will have to stay locked in the old brain box...
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GlobX wrote:
my IQ must be on par with the temperature of a glass of fridge water
Fahrenheit, celsius, kelvin, other?
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