Posts by tussock
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I think the whole case against David (nominally "Bain", but that applies equally to Robin, so here we are) was ridiculous.
The idea he'd shoot most of the family, then go on his paper run to forge an alibi, then get home in time to hide behind a curtain (he's fucking well 6'3", curtains won't hide shit, not to mention hoping the old man didn't wake early and notice anything was amiss) while his father knelt in prayer right next to him, move the gun barrel to no more than 8" away without making so much as a peep, shoot his old man, wash up pretty damned incompetently, then hang about for a hour or two to make it look weird before clowning around on the phone and being extra weird for the medics.
Like, What The Fuck? That's the police case? Really? And why the hell did they spend half the prosecution's time attacking the credibility of the victims this time around?
Surely he was all weird because they left him sitting in a freezing house in his t-shirt, sans any food after early morning exercise and a bang on the head, for half the day, as policemen poked and prodded at his recently dead family, with his only company a cat stained with the blood of his murdered brother. Was he really quoting lines from one of his operas by then? Really? Gone to his happy place had he?
Surely he went on the paper run because he had a paper run to go on. Surely his dad used a silencer when he shot himself because there was a silencer on the damn thing already (how many suicides use a silencer? More like how many murder suicides stop to take it off. Not to mention, well, statistics 101: what you are looking at is 100% likely to be).
Surely, I don't know, the guy living in the caravan with all the empty shell casings in it might have an idea or two how to unlock the gun? Which one was estranged from the whole family again? Oh, that's right.
What reminded me of the OJ case was the dude saying "I can't figure out how to reach the trigger like this", like a man trying to pull on a pair of gloves with his fingers spread. Comedy theater bullshit.
Was there a bloodstain on the washing machine? Yes. David did the washing every morning. Like he said he did that day. Found his sister, banged his head and gave himself a minor concussion running for help, found the rest of the family, and lost an hour. Called 111 in a confused state, cleared up when asked simple questions.
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Isn't it all just like with Mark Lundy where the police proved it was absolutely impossible for him to have done it and the jury convicted anyway? Because, you know, he did look a bit weird at the funeral on TV, eh. The Bain boy? He wore that funny jersey, must be guilty.
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Slater was introduced there as a national party spokesman, wasn't he? I'm sure they'll love that becoming official.
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But these people aren't so clever that they could engineer the viral explosion of that first video.
You reckon? I'd think it was a natural to get a fairly good number, 100k or so, quirky look, nice story, sounds good, and they've been supported by their own news programs and affiliated stations, and just pushed the story cheaply 'round all the international media to make a story of the story to boost ratings, until the tabloids tore down the facade to flex their own muscle. I mean, the thing didn't get 200m views from blog links, there's not that many people read blogs.
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Only work a 40 hour week to get that income, own their own home on it, leave the keys in the car, sell all our butter to rich countries at inflated prices, go to some pointless war alongside the yanks for a trifling economic deal, ... oh well, we've still got the last one.
Speaking of butter mountains, wool mountains, and waiting for the return of the golden weather, fonterra's still paying out on milk powder they're stockpiling. That's going to bite them hard in three or four years time, eh.
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bogus files make up a large proportion of bit torrent files.
That's rather like saying heroin makes up a large proportion of marijuana baggies, what with neither being at all true. OK, don't download dialers or other trojans from teh www, and a torrent of a passworded archive file is just a zombie in waiting, but they're all pretty rare these days.
If you're paranoid, noscript is your friend, and don't grab anything that hasn't already had a couple hundred suckers try it out first (it's better seeded then anyway). Everyone who asks for your password is a crook. Etc.
Tim Long: thank you for enhancing the thread, sir.Kids are still believing everything they hear from anonymous authority figures? Damn shame. Just remind them, the greatest trick of the internet is the hyperlink, http. Want to present something when you're not sure of copyrights? Link to where you found it with a summary review, and have the school use proper caching and detailed whitelists (including for streaming data like youtube) to let all the kids see it at once without exploding your bandwidth bills.
If you can't find it online to link, it's probably because you're not supposed to copy it. As to IMG and the like paying someone to issue takedowns on their behalf, they're just engaged in a rent seeking ploy against youtube at the moment. Most of the notices have no real legal backing, it's just easier for users to repost the clip somewhere else than get lawyers involved.
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Surely, rather than Nat/ACT being stupid people who would accidentally enrich businessmen whom they have no connection with, one might consider their "anonymous" campaign funding.
OK, I know it doesn't have to be an actual conspiracy, just that rich folk with an eye to looting an asset-heavy state monopoly happen to support politicians who have dedicated themselves, in the pursuit of pleasure by association, to serving stunningly rich and powerful men.
Similar for bat-shit insane social commentators and the men who buy the add space on their stations.
'S just, to me, the whole "bought and paid for" angle seems the least complex of the reasonable options. No one was surprised the roading lobby got a huge boost from the Nats, all while kicking public transport in the nuts, eh.
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Except it's easy to block internet ads. I don't, but, to be honest, I find them easy to ignore- except for the annoying ones, and who wants to reward them. I can't think of one I've ever clicked. I've certainly never bought anything that way.
I follow add links if it's of interest, but only once. Either the site gets bookmarked and I go there directly thereafter or I ignore the place for a few years and give it time to evolve or die.
The main problem for advertising is many sites that advertise aren't selling anything but more add space, which can't work. You need something for visitors to buy, with money, like archive access, so those who link to you and your products and services can take a big chunk of any resulting order (and not get much of anything otherwise). 'S the model that works for someone other than the add server, eh.
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"The real depressing thing is that heavy shelling *is* the government's attempt to evacuate refugees."
Fuck off and die, Keith.
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Do you want all this wonderful content- books, films, music- to be mostly created by amateurs?
Most of my life's content is either amateur/community, add supported, or tax and rates supported already: firefox, Slackware/KDE, and a shed load of other free software, plus PAS, blogs, newsgroups, webcomics, open source RPGs, youtube, wikipedia, google, angband, openTTD, podcasts, free to air TV, radio music, the local library, ....
I think [folks are] naive to think that won't have profound effects on what culture gets produced, by whom, and for what end.
Of course it will! It already has! The internet is dramatically changing the who, what, and why of information. Commercialised entertainment will survive, but the market (you know, porn) will show us what funding and production models work best for it from here.
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heroes to a generation they may be but what is it exactly pirate bay do? I'm trying to think of equivalent actions in a different area that showcase the nature of their actions away from the glow of free media stuffed piglets.
In real terms, they would be a public notice board. One man would post "I have a most excellent bow-staff, should anyone wish to see it." and another would reply, "I would, as I could then make myself a most excellent bow-staff from the wood on my property by copying the design."
The RIAA would be the guys with a monopoly grant by royal decree that only they can make bow-staffs, and they're having the sheriff imprison the man who erected the notice board for "aiding a man to make his own bow-staff".
The people consider this odd, as every surface in town is a potential notice board. The king is planning to outlaw walls in response.
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Yes, and we aim to be moderately polite, most of the time. Your aim will help ;-) Welcome back.
I have no polite left for those who would look into my private life to prevent me doing harmless things for my own interest and enjoyment. It is beyond offensive. There is no limited resource, there is no harmed party, I have broken no contract, the world does not change for anyone else by my efforts (aside the trivial cost to the "sharer" who specifically wills it to be).
Please try to address the actual issues without the emotional stuff.
The actual issues are emotional to me. We have this amazing machine that copies information from all around the world into our homes, perfectly, and they want us to not use it, so they can keep making money doing something we can do for ourselves now.
It's insane. We have a potentially infinite library in our very homes: When a book comes up in conversation, I can read it. When I miss an interesting clip on TV, I can watch it, and even be led to find interesting things from long past I did not know about. When someone recommends a song, I can listen to it, and that act can recommend the song to others if I wish. All for free. Let us revel in it.
Why the hell is anyone giving the time of day to people who suggest breaking that so as to turn it into a commercial venture? Imprisoning people for sharing common information? Bankrupting people who would volunteer to provide an simple index for everything you would care to find, a service people have dreamed of for millennia? It's insane!
Like, take Tussock's suggestion and go on tour already?
Better yet, and less rude, give me something I can't make for myself, an experience, or something physical, because digital copies I can do. I understand TPB sell various accouterments, might be an idea.