Posts by Rich Lock
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Hey! Hands up who WOULDN'T love the chance to sit in some kind of throne drinking out of a skull cup like some kind of prehensile dwarf king or troglodyte or something.......
Well, exactly.
Sometimes, when you get home from a hard day's looting and pillaging, all you want to do is pop a Manowar CD on, and put your feet up with a nice skull cup of radler.
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Beer would leak out the eyes.
If it's leaking out of your eyes, you've probably drunk too much too quickly. Ahaha.
Here's an example. Looks like just the thing for a relaxing post-work drink in the sun.
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I mean, it would be a bit morbid to skull a drink. Unless you were a pirate.
Oh, I dunno. Possibly one ancient tradition worth reviving.
If it's good enough for Lord Byron, it's good enough for me.
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Or possibly just the Chinese government looking out for the well-being of their citizens...?
NO ONE ever tells you how dangerous this stuff can be: they just go on pumping it out, hour after hour, day after day. You're consuming it right now, without a clue about the possible consequences. The worst thing is, evolution has predisposed your brain to crave it as much as your body craves fat and sugar. And these days - as with fat and sugar - you can get it everywhere.
New Scientist also has another interesting article about cyber-warfare.
The attacks on Georgia, for example, appear not to have come from some Kremlin supercomputer, but from regular PCs and laptops. Patriotic Russian youth organisations, including the notorious Nashi, declared "information war" on Georgia on the day that physical hostilities commenced. Participants did not need to have sophisticated computer skills - stopgeorgia.ru provided a list of Georgian government websites and the software needed to attack.
It's quite likely that a good number of the Chinese hack attacks have a similar origin. Not formally government-originated, but probably at least tacitly supported by the government, as explicitly stated in this article.
China regularly mobilises its "netizen" army to probe the systems of perceived enemies beyond its borders.
Interesting times....
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if a British man wants to come to New Zealand and pay a willing sex worker for sex... what's wrong with that, exactly
The release of approximately 9,336 lbs CO2 into the upper atmosphere caused by said British man's round trip flight?
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Interesting overview of dissent in China and the current situation
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instant coffee....My duty as a good host
There may be a few members of the Cult of Brown who'll have a word or two to say about that.
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businesspeople not in the know will still be wondering why so many of their younger staff called in sick this morning
And someone might gently have a word in Mr Dodd's ear about this thing we Earth people call 'the weekend'.
What a twerp.
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I see unenforced laws as a kind of security measure, were someone committing an actual crime, the unenforced laws are an extra arrow in the authorities bow when charging someone for vandalism or something.
In that case, we should probably make everything we can possibly think of illegal, and just leave it to the discretion of the police whether they arrest someone or not....right?
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...and to get back to the Depeche Mode covers, I suspect this may disturb some people on a number of levels...