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#1771
Quote from: (Sandman) Logan-5 on June 01, 2017, 01:46:36 PM
Hope I didn't overload your cicuits. ;)
Nah it's more just a lot of work for someone as lazy as me.  ;)

At the very least I've been meaning to look into the DNS thing, since the government has started blocking websites and as far as I know it's only implemented through DNS blocking.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-15/federal-court-orders-pirate-bay-blocked-in-australia/8116912
#1772
Politics / Re: President Donald J. Trump
June 02, 2017, 04:02:34 AM
Pretty sweet car



#1774
Random Topics / Re: Random Landscape of the day
May 31, 2017, 09:53:22 PM
A 10th century cathedral on Akhtamar Island, Turkey.

#1775
Quote from: whoozit on May 31, 2017, 08:34:21 AM
At least she apologized for doing it.  So many only apologize only for offending others.  It was disconcerting that it took the reaction of others to make her realize it was over the line.  Let us all remember she would have thought this was OK if only a few complained.
Well it sounds like the Secret Service are looking into it now too.
#1776
QuoteIn a video message posted on Twitter, Kathy Griffin "begged" for forgiveness and said she had "crossed a line".
She said she was asking celebrity photographer Tyler Shields to remove the photo from the internet. In her video apology, she said: "I'm just now seeing the reaction of these images. I'm a comic, I crossed the line. I moved the line and then I crossed it. I went way too far.
"The image is too disturbing. I understand how it affects people. It wasn't funny, I get it. I beg for your forgiveness."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40102229

She apparently couldn't see what was wrong with it when it was made, but now that people are reacting negatively to it she absolutely does.  ::)
#1777
Quote from: (Sandman) Logan-5 on May 29, 2017, 06:01:13 AM
Hey Jaz...   
Has your ISP sent you a new router recently ?    Heads-Up, buddy. ;)

That's NZ, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was common practice everywhere. In the last 12 months I had my ISP send me a new router while threatening to disconnect my services if I didn't start using it.
#1778
Random Topics / Re: Celebrity mugshots
May 30, 2017, 02:00:12 AM
Quote from: Walks_At_Night on May 29, 2017, 05:07:57 PM
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods

This picture is the very definition of money not buying you happiness.

People are already selling T-shirts of it.

#1779
Random Topics / Re: Music
May 30, 2017, 01:56:48 AM
Here's the music used to help force Noriega to surrender: http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nsa/DOCUMENT/950206.htm

Naturally it included 'Panama'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKDBPw8wQA
#1780
Random Topics / Re: Celebrity Deaths
May 30, 2017, 01:45:30 AM
Manuel Noriega, ex leader of Panama who was removed from power by the US in the 80s.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40090143

#1781
Random Topics / Re: Nice Little Facts
May 29, 2017, 01:57:16 PM
Moonraker holds the world record for the largest number of zero gravity wires in one scene. The scene in the Venice glass factory also holds the record for the largest amount of break-away sugar glass used in a single scene.
#1782
Random Topics / Re: Star Trek: Discovery
May 29, 2017, 12:53:24 PM
Quote from: trostol on May 29, 2017, 12:48:07 PM
so in the end..sounds like it is coming down to Abrams being a jackass and he and Paramount are killing Star Trek

At least he united the Star Wars and Star Trek fanbases with a mutual hatred of him and his films.
#1785
I finally saw John Wick 2 yesterday.
It was a good old fashioned action film set immediately after the events of the first, but I don't think it was quite as good as the original. Plot was a bit too convoluted and they stretched the suspension of disbelief a bit too much to the point the film suffered for it.  It also had a couple of fight scenes (in particular fist fights between the same two characters) which went on too long for seemingly little reason and as a result wrecked the flow.

While it works as a fairly self contained sequel, it also has a bit of a cliffhanger ending setting up another film.
#1786
Politics / Re: Fake News...
May 25, 2017, 02:26:34 AM
Quadrant online editor laments that Manchester blast was not against the ABC

So the short of it is that someone for an online magazine wrote an article saying that if there were any justice in the world that a bomb would go off where a particularly toxic/controversial tv show is filmed (it's always causing some form of drama - this is only an abridged listing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_(Australian_talk_show)#Notable_episodes ) and that humanity would be no worse off without the panelists. The TV network is now playing up their victimcard and trying to make news by saying things like the article was reported to the federal police (similar to the FBI) and that they'd be consulting with security experts, while quoting their own staff about how 'scared' they are.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/quadrant-online-editor-roger-franklin-laments-that-manchester-blast-was-not-against-abc-20170523-gwbreb.html

and

http://www.smh.com.au/national/quadrant-editor-issues-unreserved-apology-to-the-abc-over-sick-and-unhinged-article-20170524-gwch1q.html
#1789
Quote from: 21st Century Man on May 20, 2017, 04:01:31 PM
No offense but that version of The Wicker Man sucked.  Watch the original with Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee.  That one is a classic.

I don't take offence, but the remake is a classic bad film and is only known for how terrible it is. Sort of like The Room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_5ZKcYROw
#1790
Politics / Re: President Donald J. Trump
May 18, 2017, 02:33:17 AM
Quote from: Meister_000 on May 18, 2017, 02:22:33 AM
Why is everybody always pickin on me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRo4SZUCxnc


The ones who were actually executed by their citizens or rebels  (e.g Mussolini, Ceaușescu, Gadaffi) probably got it worse.
#1792


Quality.
#1793
Random Topics / Re: War Birds
May 17, 2017, 01:06:42 AM


Canadian F86s in 1956 at Narsarsuaq Airbase, Greenland.
#1794
Chanel's £1,100 boomerang branded 'a new level of ignorance' for appropriating Aboriginal culture

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/16/chanels-1100-boomerang-branded-new-level-ignorance-appropriating/
#1795
Politics / Re: President Donald J. Trump
May 16, 2017, 05:27:37 AM
Quote from: Meister_000 on May 16, 2017, 05:14:34 AM
Shared information could be leaked to Russia and onward to Iran, American officials implied to Israelis in closed meeting, saying Kremlin has 'leverages of pressure' over Trump

Right, because the Israelis have never given over valuable knowledge to America's enemies or themselves physically attacked American forces.  ::)

 
#1797
I watched Italian Spiderman last night before going to bed. Nice little Australian comedy short film from 2008 spoofing old 60s/70s Italian action movies. Only 37min long, but entertaining enough (and the whole thing is on youtube).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zen_zRmbKaM

The people that made it went onto make a show called Danger 5, which follows a group of Allied fighters during a sort of pulp fiction version of WW2. You might've even seen screenshots or animations from it without realising it.

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