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# ¿ Sep 1, 2014 09:26 |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 05:46 |
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webmeister posted:Best news of the year: Mad as Hell is coming back! Fkn yay! Of course it will be on a shoestring budget. On the other hand, multi-billion transnational entertainment corporation Disney has decided it wants to take the tax bonus from a delayed film and get it increased so it will film a Pirates of the Caribbean here. Our dear Feds didn't quite give them enough money so they'll be mooching off state governments. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/01/pirates-of-the-caribbean-5-shoot-australia posted:The next instalment of Disney's blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean film series looks set to shoot in Australia after ministers approved tax incentives worth a reported $20.2m (£12.1m). And they wonder why we don't want to throw money at them. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Sep 1, 2014 |
# ¿ Sep 1, 2014 20:02 |
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Meanwhile in darkest NSW...Alex Mitchell, Crikey posted:Shades of Rudd mark II in Dump Robbo campaign Welp. Staying in the provinces... William Bowes, Crikey posted:Poll Bludger: Labor's party reform a gift to Newman Hmm, I like Poll Bludger but it is a long Bowe to assume the voting public are going to be interested in that line of attack when the Newman government has got a lot of explaining to do if it wants to come back not as a rump. Finally I want to share this extraordinary email to Crikey, an all-out attack on Mike Carlton from a Sky News someone-or-other: quote:Mike Carlton’s malevolent agenda Yup, no self-interest in that little tirade, no sirree Yet another crusader who doesn't understand what anti-semitism is.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2014 07:16 |
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Here's a cheerful list from Crikey today, which says don't worry about the terrorism, worry about loving gastro and falling out of loving bed.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2014 08:56 |
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EvilElmo posted:Terrorism is the only thing on that list that scares the swinging voter bogan. Oh, you read the article too? We have a rockn'roll party in Victoria now http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-04/gotye-leads-rock-n-roll-party-to-victorian-election/5720066 posted:Gotye and his bandmates have formed a rock'n'roll-based political group to contest the upcoming Victorian election. Imagine if Midnight Oil had thought of that. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Sep 4, 2014 |
# ¿ Sep 4, 2014 09:04 |
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Fruity Gordo posted:Are you guys ignoring the irony and hypocrisy of an anti-immigration PM being technically ineligible for office based on his citizenship status? Is this some more 'no the personal is never political' poo poo like when a bunch of people tried to say that Abbott's consistent infidelity is irrelevant when he runs on 'family values'. No, but we're not dumb enough to think anything will come of it either. Marching has no effect on the ruling class, why should something like the actual law make a difference?
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2014 09:32 |
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Kial posted:Surely a more focused attempt could be made. If it doesn't drive business to the casino, it ain't happening.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2014 11:20 |
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Ler posted:The Ashby poo poo: From Courier Mail Gold. What a big surprise that Mal Brough had his dirty mitts all over this despite allll the denials. What an arsehat.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2014 16:38 |
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Crikey did something on student politics and fee deregulation.quote:Why aren't uni students jumping to the Left? The elephant in the room of course is over two decades of persistent chipping away at the value of student political power. UQ isn't mentioned in the article but I saw first hand how the Young Libs got themselves into power and systematically took down the Union back in the 80's. It's been downhill from there of course. The background to all of this is the fear of a popular uprising by intelligent, committed non-politicians as was seen in the 70's with the Vietnam marches. The youth wings of both majors were enrolled to turn student unions and councils into safe, irrelevant play-pens for student politicians which is how they've essentially stayed since the 80's. The degree treadmill got rolling and fee deregulation is the final nail. No one will have time or money to ask questions or have opinions.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2014 14:53 |
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Ler posted:They took away some 9000 bot votes. Sure, but as long as they're obsessed with perception, that's a weakness. It's good that they're spending resources on this. Treating the electorate like a monolithic stupid blob will bite all of them in the end. If you want to worry about something, worry that Twitter wants to further monetise their assets by changing their algorithm to be more "targeted". That level playing field goes away and it's just like Facebook.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2014 15:10 |
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gay picnic defence posted:Any ideas on how these changes could be wound back? It's not impossible just very very difficult. You're trying to roll back a couple decades of right-wing cultural change across the whole of society, it's a hell of a thing to push against. It will probably take the same kind of incremental change back the other way. I wish I could give you a roadmap but that's the best I can do right now.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2014 05:52 |
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Hysterics from the Herald Sun in Victoria today, accusing "Dan" Andrews of evilness for refusing to back the East-West Link in a court-case which will certainly mean the end of the deal because evil lefty councils want to destroy jobs by challenging the tender process etc etc. Front page screams DON'T TRUST HIM under a picture of "Dan", editorial has "lost trust" in him, and apparently "Dan" has fallen for a "trap" that three actual journalists who wrote the slight column couldn't explain. Oh, and he's a backflipper too because tearing up a contract is the same as not signing one. For non-Victorians, the East-West link has been tirelessly thrown at the electorate for months as the reason to vote Denis (or maybe it's "Den" now), and the shock to poor tabloids who might not have it to keep throwing is so great etc etc something terrorists. Besides, it will cost money in compensation claims, oh dear. from the website i will not link to posted:LABOR’S decision not to honour any East West Link contracts if elected in November has been slammed by the Napthine Government as reckless and costly.
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2014 02:12 |
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Haters Objector posted:This is a bad political move. Swinging voters (read: bogans) love the East/West Link. Would have preferred for them to just dodge the issue until the election and scrap it the day after. On the other hand, too much concentration on this issue is a good thing because the Libs are on the nose everywhere else. Even in low-margin seats like here in Bendigo, that simply won't help them. And the problem with the East-West link is that a great deal of those who'd benefit are from high-margin Liberal seats anyway. It might hurt us Greens though. Oh yes, I renewed today
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2014 02:46 |
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The terrorists will win if the poll numbers don't improve.
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2014 11:00 |
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Mosque: super one day, wonderful the next.
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# ¿ Sep 16, 2014 04:05 |
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So they're thinking of removing David Johnson from Defence because he's obviously incompetent, but as Crikey says, its a problem to replace him:Bernard Keane posted:
Keane also made a bunch of words about Brandis and his "existential" crisis about terrorists but it's too drat depressing to even cut and paste.
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# ¿ Sep 16, 2014 04:43 |
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tithin posted:This is what I was gonna say. Best practice my arse. The scale of this is breathtaking, typical of the mentality that loving your employees over is an efficiency bonus. edit: CrazyTolradi posted:In other QLD is poo poo news, QLD police are basically a political wing of the Newman government, keeping tabs on any groups that oppose policies. Ah, Special Branch returns! It's like Joh never left and Lewis wasn't an evil corrupt bastard long may he rot. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Sep 17, 2014 |
# ¿ Sep 17, 2014 10:16 |
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Given we'll never know the facts behind any victims of ASIO, why even bother with authorization for torture?
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2014 08:53 |
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Community announcment! I heard a couple of stories today about 08 number social engineering scams you may want to watch out for. They've been doing it for some time and being careful to target people on the do not call register, or in a specific suburb. This is anecdotal but I trust the source and there is something you can do if this happens to you. The first scam is to try and get details about peoples computers. The spiel is "your computer has a fault give us details etc". They will repeatedly ring and get abusive. My source's parents were harassed for 5 weeks with calls a dozen times a day. They threatened to change providers from A Telco Which Will Not Be Named, and contacted the Telecommunications Ombudsman. But then they met other local couples who had also been targeted and discovered that the simple way to make it all stop is to demand to speak to their manager. So they did. Within half an hour a representative from ATWWNBN hastened to assure them that the Ombudsman had been in contact and the 08 number would be "blocked". A number of things about this story smelt really bad to me. If asking for a manager really has that effect it sounds like someone from a telco is making cash on the side for Bad Guys: they didn't care that they weren't getting details, just enjoying the harassment, so someone else was paying them. And calling someone on the Do Not Call Register also points to someone having access, which no one outside telcos can have (in order to avoid calling them of course). Another detail was that the victims were actually told they were being called during "downtime" which sounds suspiciously like a call centre term. The source told me they had recently put themselves on the do not call register and were getting similar calls now, but they know what to do! Demand to get a manager, and they should go away. Scam 2: Another 08 number is calling people either on the dole or getting benefits (they are asking leading questions to be sure) on Fridays and the weekend, and claiming they are in line for a one-off payment of $1500 and they need to get details before they can receive it. If the person called refuses, they are threatened with being cut off. My source tells me they know of at least 8 local people contacted this way in the last week. Now this is simple, ignore them. Centrelink are never going to ring people on the weekend, nor threaten to cut people off. Much easier to cut people off and wait for them to contact THEM. So if this happens to you, tell the caller to get hosed, and report it to Centrelink! Hope neither happens to anyone, never give important details to someone who calls you without a good reason!
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2014 12:46 |
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Anidav posted:So I had a job interview at a Japanese Restaurant and one of the pre-requisites is to be able to speak Japanese. I lied, I don't speak Japanese. Can't even get a schadenfreude emote right Mr Speaker. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Sep 22, 2014 |
# ¿ Sep 22, 2014 14:11 |
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Pickled Tink posted:Thus far my experiments have shown that they will hang up on me and not call me back that day if: These are all excellent ideas, I'll pass them on!
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2014 16:06 |
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Cartoon posted:Unwelcome calls. You missed the part where this didn't work. They made excuses like "it has to go on for three weeks", complete bullshit since I know for a fact that it's actually more than 3 calls in 2 days. Don't forget the little fact that they were illegally calling someone on the do not call register, that alone should have spurred immediate action. To reiterate: the calls didn't actually get blocked after contacting that number OR contacting the Ombudsman OR threatening to cancel their a/c. It only stopped after they demanded to speak to a manager. Within half an hour Telstra rang them and said "oh the Ombudsman contacted us we'll block that number". Speaking of competition, the taxi industry's response to Uber is like buggy manufacturers demanding to be protected from trains. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Sep 23, 2014 |
# ¿ Sep 23, 2014 01:59 |
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i got banned posted:
Page after page of hysteria, including a whole page devoted to gloating over Fairfax's mistake. And The Blot? He blames the ALP, ABC, Andrew Wilkie, Paul Barry, Richard Ackland, Q&A, The Greens, for INFLAMMATORY SLANDERS!!! We'd all be fine if it wasn't for those MEDDLING LEFTIES. Oh and he then slags off people who claim Aboriginal children were stolen, because he doesn't believe the evidence. But SLANDERS Such a misunderstood comedian.
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 02:30 |
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XMD 5a posted:THE ETHNIC LOBBY is the funniest phrase I've seen since THE WELFARE LOBBY. They're up against the coal lobby, the bank lobby, the christian lobby, the property lobby, the insurance lobby, the management lobby, the secret lobby, the death lobby and the control lobby. Well, maybe not the death lobby.
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 00:36 |
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T-1000 posted:Fascism doesn't have a monopoly on authoritarianism, militarism, violence and nationalism, seeing any/all of these and yelling "fascism!!!!!" has been an issue since at least Orwell's time. Orwell seems to have been physically revolted by journalese, he'd be horrified and vindicated by today's journalism. It has devolved well beyond merely aping the guff of politicians and now believes its own press. Fascism, useful guff or a shorthand for increasingly bold and efficient authoritarianism? When I studied it in highschool the definition was restricted to 'a unification of corporate and executive power' (the Italian model). But then you could say that of European rule of the last 1000 years.
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 13:29 |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 05:46 |
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Choice quote #1 from Gillard's new book:About Campbell Newman posted:At his local kebab shop, he told everyone, he was appalled to hear how many regulations there were for the handling of the meat, including -- to his horror -- one about the temperature the meat needed to be at on the spit! He was going to abolish all this red tape. The studiously polite Katie Gallagher, the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, commented that that would all be fine until the first salmonella outbreak. Although she did not mean the remark unkindly, it produced guffaws all round, including from Liberal premiers. And my other favourite #2: quote:The Canberra press gallery is an insular world and, given the foment of the media industry, a curiously unchanged one at the leadership level. Many of the key personalities who reported politics 20, 30, 40 years ago are still there, albeit more jaded, more cynical -- and more annoyed if their assumed mastery of political reporting is in any way challenged.
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# ¿ Sep 29, 2014 06:06 |