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"Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. - Ludwig von Mises"

Yeah, naah....

I give you this:
https://www.smh.com.au/politic...

which says:
"Preliminary calculation shows Mr Pyne would be entitled to an annual pension of about $220,500 a year. If he took half of it as a lump sum, that would be around $1.1 million."

I do NOT agree with your assertion, not at all.

If you follow the link, Mr Pyne is the Australian defence minister who is retiring aged 52 or so.

It is likely that he will soon be on the boards of many companies, earning even more, on top of that (largely tax free) pension.

I don't know about costs of living where YOU live, little1973, but where I live, an income of $220,500 a year is very very wealthy. Rich, if you want me to call it that. And he has ample opportunity to become even MORE rich in the next 20-30 years.

I suspect that level of income is rich even by your standards, assuming you are in the US, and even after converting Ozbucks to Greenbacks.

Thanks to renewables, Australia ended up paying $500 a day per family for electricity [blogspot.com].

Obviously not written by someone who lives in Australia:

--- Our coal plants fail during peak demand, like our hottest-on-record January this year. Congrats coal, you fail at the definition of baseload.

--- The conservative coalition promised a saving of $500 when our experiment at a carbon price was axed. Surprising nobody, we didn't! I believe these figures more than the nonsense from that Borepatch site, a site that's keen to list externalities like the cost of food when power goes up, but not when we burn the Earth's densest carbon sinks.

--- There's a phrase in Australia: gold-plated power grid. Different states privatised their energy grids, and their new owners went on a spending spree which was passed on to us. The cost is significantly higher than the glorified rounding error in that Borepatch article.

--- Victoria has some of the dirtiest coal in the world. Hazelwood, the power station listed in that article, was the least efficient and most greenhouse-pollution generating station in Australia, and needed to go.

--- AGL, Australia's largest electricity retailer, has said they're not investing in new coal plants because its not economical. The private sector, which conservatarians always tell us works best because they have a profit motive, doesn't want more Australian coal.

It's currently technologically impossible for renewables to provide baseload power at a competitive, or even reasonable, price, and will not do so anytime in the near future no matter how much religious environmentalists claim otherwise.

I can see where you're coming from. The only way we're going to make the significant and immediate reductions to carbon we need to mitigate or limit climate issues (we're past the point of avoiding) is investment in nuclear.

I have found an article in the Sydney Morning Herald that covers a lot of ground.

Allow me to quote some parts of a well-written story:
Cardiologist Andre La Gerche, a marathon runner, is conducting long-term research into endurance sport and heart health, says "endurance athletes are somewhere between 2 per cent and 5 per cent more likely than the general population to develop heart problems. Yet there is no evidence that years of endurance exercise will shorten your life." He wants to reconcile such findings.

My favourite quote is from Dr James O'Keefe, a cardiologist who authored a paper titled Potential Adverse Cardiovascular Events from Excessive Exercise, who said "It's not survival of the fittest, but survival of the moderately fit". He has a TED talk.

Quick summary: there's a lot we don't know. Research is continuing. Genetics may play a part in whether or not you drop dead on the running track or not. All things in moderation.

How they'll use the registry is one thing, but I think the principal battle on whether they'll have a biometric registry on everyone is over, at least here in Europe. The reason is that post 9/11 the US insisted all passports have biometrics with photo and fingerprints, here in Norway 90%+ of the population have a valid passport because in Europe you cross borders constantly. They don't register DNA on anyone but criminals, but the threshold has been going down and down from sex-related crimes to serious crime to any crime punishable by jail time. Currently 1.5% of the population is registered 5 years after the latest relaxation of the rules and you never get off, once you're on file it's for life.

The other big push is from medicine, personalized medicine and research into genetic predispositions means they will want to have a bio-bank and in countries with universal healthcare that's likely to be a national registry. Probably voluntarily but if they tell you that you get better healthcare through signing up, well I think many people would. At least enough that everybody's cousin is on file. They'll probably be separate registries but the only thing holding them back is the law, which can always be changed/circumvented for national security reasons. Oh yeah and I mentioned photographs, once Face ID is more established I bet there'll be a push to add a 3D scan of your face and iris scan too. Here's the direction it's going:

https://www.smh.com.au/politic...

Basically, every snippet about you is going to be on file the moment you touch modern civilization. I wouldn't be surprised if a DNA swab within a few decades becomes a standard part of getting a birth certificate.

Saunders claims he did nothing more than stumble across a loophole, a period of time when the ATM was offline from the bank's main systems.

There is Google, you know. Since the USA is too easy as a target, I'd point out the Philip Cross affair (as a reminder, Jimbo Wales is married with Christine Rohan, Tony Blair's former secretary), then the Australian Government editing spree, and finally the Zionist editing courses.

Besides propaganda, a good starting point on the truthfulness of Wikipedia would be 10 Most Notorious Wikipedia Editing Scandals, outdated, bust still good.

Unions, from the original Article
"The Autohaul program has drawn the ire of unions worried about its impact on train driver jobs but the company said it had not made any forced redundancies and did not expect to make any in 2019."

Apparently even Angela Merkel thinks of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison as some random dude

That's because he is and no one voted for him.

Apparently even Angela Merkel thinks of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison as some random dude

I don't understand why they chose South Australia and gave up the advantages of a site closer to the equator.

Also, why we spend billions upon billions BUILDING submarines in South Australia when we could just buy them from an ally for a fraction of the price.

Oh, that's right: pork barrelling

https://www.smh.com.au/educati... "Dr Blijlevens said the font could also be used by teachers, or by industries keen to reinforce important messages. “It can have quite far-reaching implications,” she said. The researchers are now preparing to publish their findings in a scientific journal."

The appropriate response for end users. I know exactly what would cut back on shit ads, lets make companies, any company that promotes products, financially liable for the products they promote. See, they fucking called it a recommendation, they are recommending the product by intent and for profit and thus should be legally liable for any failure of the product or service.

Want to see change in the advertising model, makes those selling advertising, legally liable, by Xiaomi's own mouth, for the products they recommend. Every company, every blog, anyone who shows a product or service recommendation for profit, liable for the failure of that product or service.

Why the fuck should companies who profit by recommending shit product be free from the legal liability for that failed product, how the fuck did they escape that, they are selling it, they should be liable for it. So when companies are sued for failed product, those who advertised it, are also sued and all the victims have access to their pockets as well. Why can't you sue google when it recommends crap on it's advertising platform, they are selling it to you, targeting your personally, manipulating your choice, where the fuck is their legal responsibility for the qualities of the products or services they sell on their advertising platform, corruptly absent it would seem.

Even when they sell it directly https://www.smh.com.au/money/b..., they still claim innocence. Google should be hit in the courts for this, right alongside the fraudster, the executive who approved the sale, should enjoy a custodial sentence for their criminal negligence or were they paid to allow the product to be sold, well they were paid, they are professionals, they are experts and they were 100% criminally negligent and should get a major fine, a major civil suit by those banks for damaged reputation and a custodial sentence for whom ever at Google was involved.

From Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles:

Indiana law requires persons with a learner’s permit to complete at least 50 hours of supervised driving practice with a licensed instructor or:

A licensed driver, with valid driving privileges, who is at least 25 years of age and [if the individual is under 18] related by blood, marriage, or legal status

This can become a lot more difficult (read: expensive) if your parents don't drive, if your parents don't live in the same state, or if you are a member of a set of twins, triplets, or more (NSW, Australia):

Each of her 16-year-old quintuplets needs 120 hours behind the wheel to qualify for P-plates

OK, so, lemme get this straight.

Microsoft has tried to manipulate people using malware tactics to twist your arm into wiping out Windows 7 for a Windows 10 install they can control, has uninstalled applications without asking during their updates, has had to be forced by the EU to reveal the data they're sucking from your computer, and this was just the stuff I could find with five minutes on Google. If I bothered to spend a half hour on this I'm sure I could come up with dozens more things, all consistent with Microsoft's long history of generally pulling every dirty trick in the book that they could, which only abated as long as the DoJ watched them like a hawk.

And you're going to try to sell us that they're doing this for our own good?

You REALLY believe that?

SERIOUSLY?

Did you, like the FCC, also believe it when the Internet companies PROMISED (cross-their-heart-and-hope-to-die) they wouldn't abuse the lack of net neutrality, because they wanted net neutrality too, or whatever crap they were peddling at the time?

Microsoft and all the other large tech companies have only their own pocketbook and access to power in mind, and your data is how they intend to expand both. Specifically, CONTROLLING your data, whether you like it or not, by slowly converting your computing devices into a dumb terminal under their control. The whole PC platform has slowly but surely moved in this direction for a while now, whether the users like it or not, because they're doing their best to crush or assimilate all choice. Ultimately what Microsoft wants is for you to have a dumb terminal where it is illegal for you to do anything they do not allow on it. If they could get away with it, for "computing safety" they would probably MANDATE that you can't have any kind of computer other than a dumb terminal, because it's "too dangerous" to let the filthy peasantry have access to general purpose computers and unfiltered, uncensored, uncontrolled network access.

Windows 10 is a nice, big part of that, as is slowly dragging their applications (and your work) into their cloud infrastructure, and making sure that you don't own program licenses, you RENT your software from them.

The magical improvements don't need half these changes, and most, if not ALL, of them could easily be made to existing OS's, but their business model is switching to controlling the computing infrastructure, so they can't allow that. As such, they plan to lock you, and your data, into paying them forever, and obeying their dictates as to what you can and can't do with your data, software, and computer. They also get to change around your computer in whatever manner they like for whatever purposes they deem fit. Plus as a bonus the government can use them to enforce whatever crackpot laws they want to. Whether you love or hate Trump, Hillary, or anyone else, this should give you very serious pause.

These approaches are both subtle and gross. A rather gross one is changing your OS because they twisted around a dialog box or asked a naive user, swapped things around overnight, and gave them the "choice," right when they needed their data, whether to keep what they did to things (not even knowing what those things were in most cases), or to spend hours uninstalling their "upgrade" and leave you with the mangled remains of your previously perfectly functional Windows 7 installation (uninstalling an OS is not a nic

Didn't the horse already bolt five years ago? I seem to remember New South Wales police posting videos on YouTube showing how easily 3D printed guns from Defense Distributed blew up, https://www.smh.com.au/technol...

Just about anything works

https://www.smh.com.au/busines...

ustralia has power prices worse than a third world country, a global renewable energy guru says.
"For a country that has a very high standard of living, stable economic situation and tremendous opportunities, it makes no sense at all for the price of power to be more than a banana republic," the Australian head of global renewable firm SunEnergy1, and part-time racecar driver, Kenny Habul said.

Speaking at the Bond Business Leaders Forum on the Gold Coast, Mr Habul said Australia needs to dramatically change its energy landscape in order to escape the energy price crisis, adding that there is a disconnect between Australian standards of living and electricity costs.

Mr Habul said will meet with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull later this month to discuss how to halt spiralling power costs and restore the nation’s electricity prices to normality.

https://instituteforenergyrese...

As of July 1, 2017, electricity prices in the state of South Australia are the highest in the world, exceeding Denmark’s due to price increases of between 15.3 and 19.9 percent by its three major electric utilities.[i] In nearby New South Wales the problem is not much better, with more than 60,000 households at risk of having their power cut off because they cannot afford the bills.

Further, South Australia is faced with the possibility of brownouts and blackouts due to the intermittency of wind power.

If you're in the capsule, and there's an explosion, the launch escape system fires and you're safe.

That's like saying that we shouldn't worry about safe refueling procedures on an F15 because it has an ejection seat. That's incredibly irresponsible and almost weapons grade stupid. Emergency escape systems are nice to have but not something you want to depend on since they are almost as dangerous as the problems they protect against. Furthermore explosions can happen MUCH faster than any escape system could carry the crew to safety. Ejection systems only help with failure modes where you have some amount of time to react. Rockets are fast but not instantaneous.

The question is: are the odds of an explosion with the rocket pre-fueled, during the crew loading time, less than the odds of the crew escape system working?

You don't work in risk management do you? That is NOT the correct analysis. If you actually are relying on the escape system rather than designing a safe refueling procedure then you have a poorly designed rocket and incompetent engineers. You use escape systems for to mitigate risks that cannot be further mitigated which isn't the case here. If SpaceX is using unsafe fueling procedures then you redesign the fueling procedures until they are safe. This might involve blowing up a few more (hopefully unmanned) rockts first. You do not say "YOLO" and hope the escape system will protect your ass from incompetent engineering.

Ocean acidification and global warming are already covered under other programs

Name them. Meanwhile, here's something for your perusal: https://www.smh.com.au/politic... "And in a report last week, the independent Climate Change Authority recommended against Australian companies using international credits to meet domestic obligations, arguing it would slow down our transition to a lower-carbon economy. It cited a submission from energy giant AGL stating such a scheme would "effectively defer Australia's own decarbonisation"."

I'm sure you know more about this topic than the 200 employees of that department that have made it their life's work.

Show me where I doubted the department's credentials on the reef? I'm talking about the allocation of money and targetting of policy, not the reef science.

Idiot.

Sorry Slashdot friends, this is completely off-topic ... but this stuff needs to be spread as widely as possible:

Beaten, abused, humiliated and filmed by Victoria Police

So let me get that straight, a crazy tall Asian women (equal opportunity imagination) walks down a street and punches 50 passes by (http://scienceblogs.com/whitecoatunderground/2009/03/18/a-simple-bump-on-the-head-can/ and http://www.smh.com.au/national...), failing at intent should not be rewarded.

As in this case, they stole as much as they possibly felt they could get away with from as many people as possible, also cheating their shareholders and investors and honest staff, all who have to pay a much greater economic price. That fine, just what the bullshit, that's fine is now a free loan, at least charge interest on the fine but in reality double is the norm, you pay back not only what you stole but the same again as the penalty (there is zero penalty in the first part of the fine, you are just returning what you stole, so not a fine at all).

I have to ask this. What planet are you living on?

This one, and I'll respond to that in response to your next sentence

Here you go my misandryst compadre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... A North Carolina man's daughter lied when she accused him of raping her.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... A man's wife falsely accused him of molesting his daughter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/trav... A woman accused a man of sexually molesting his daughter, while they were on an airplane flight, because she thought his skin was too dark ? I guess she just knew that he was pimping her out or something.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... A social worker accuses a man of molesting his daughter - again, falsely, Apparently mens fault she did that

http://www.latimes.com/local/l... Man falsely accused of molesting a child. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/man-... Man falsely accused of sexual assault by teenage girl. NOw on the the never occuring false accusations of sexual harassment in the workplace.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... Yup, woman accuses a man of sexual harassment, ruins him.

Here's one that should make you happy a man falsely accused of rape. He hung himself, ismn't that what men deserve? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men...''

https://www.dailywire.com/news... et us not forget The Rolling Stone's shining moment, when what you probably were partying about, when the Rolling stone and "Jacie" a victim of gang rape by the patriarcial members of a Fraternity this was the real dirt on all men ar pigs, and rapid justice was needed. THere was just one little teeny weenie problem.

It was completely false, as in a lie. Don't worry though, after all of the trouble for th eUniversity and th eFraternity, Jackie was never charge - and that is the important thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Perhaps you agree that the problem is so awful that innocent men must be destroyed to get rid of this probelm - after all you wrote in another pose that all men are assholse. Here is a link to re-affirm your cognitive dissonance.https://www.dailywire.com/news/23892/teen-vogue-columnist-claims-shes-not-concerned-if-emily-zanotti

So anyhow - no, it is not likely that men will be falsely accused of sexual harassment. That much is true. Most women just want to get along in life and find love and friends, and happiness, and to avoid being abused. I suspect you disagree based on some of your remarks, but the same is true of most men.

But there is a fair non zero chance of being falsely accused of something that will end your career without any chance of response, and that might get you sent to jail, and have to register as a sex offender.

And society and the legal system is on her side, not yours. Even if you are eventually exonerated, you

Clean power is there, its just not being utilized.

Ocean current based:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.smh.com.au/articles...

binary geothermal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

1% of jet stream could replace all forms of power on earth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

1960's LFTR nuclear reactor design that fails safe passively via a freeze plug and doesn't use rods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It also will take 90% of the worlds nuclear waste and turn it into energy and produce
P-238 for space programs that need it and its running low.

The current energy "racket" is about making a small number of ppl insanely wealthy.

Some of the reason there is push back against ppl going "off grid".

2 men bashed for pointing a toy dinosaur at 2 policemen. The bashing only stops when a policewoman walks in. The 2 policemen are promoted. The policewoman - who testified against the policemen - is bullied out of the police force. Not only are the 2 policemen not punished, they're both promoted.

Yeah: I have confidence in our legal system.

Australian consumer law is generally pretty strong. Apple tried to pull the "one year warranty" argument, and they were slapped down - hard - by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

The result can be seen for yourself: in Australia, you have a two year statutory warranty, given that that's the standard contract for a plan plus phone.

More details here and here.

You seem to have forgotten what the C in AC stands for. Not to pick on the person but most certainly their are crap corporations out there like Google who will absolutely fire you for expressing an opinion their corporate marketing team do not approve of ie https://theintercept.com/2017/... and http://www.smh.com.au/technolo... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and, well, enough is enough. Whilst I can write ESAD Google and the big shit at Alphabet, no it is not a joke, I mean it, many can not and will suffer consequences for doing so. Google as evil as they come not better or worse than M$ and in the most surprising fashion, consider their exploitative over priced based on marketing nature, much worse than Apple.

(people) looking at their phones while crossing the street aren't a problem. .

the problem is people crossing a street while looking at their phones

. Wait. What?

It's the sidewalk that's dangerous, because people who are looking down at their phones don't necessarily realize when the sidewalk ends and the road begins.

Our council has installed flashing red lights embedded into the road right on the kerbside specifically to target screen zombies. It still doesn't help.
The problem is absolutely people concentrating on their devices instead of the potential danger around them. I ride a motorbike and I almost hit these people every_single_day. I've actually broken my horn button from using it so much to get these fuckwits to pay attention.

One thing to note is that Australia got to their sad state by using some of the alternatives.

This particular state, South Australia, adapted their power grid over the last few years to rely heavily on wind power. And it cost them: almost the entire state grid went down last year, when they had a non-windy period. (Ref: see the end of this article.)

This battery is a patch to ameliorate the effects of dependence on wind power. It won't let them ride through non-windy periods - the battery holds enough energy to power the state for only 10-20 minutes - but it can buy them enough time to shut down cleanly, so they only get localised brownouts, rather than losing the whole grid.

Now, all is missing is Watson joining the happy dance.

T, FTFY.

Cyber spying risks the future of the internet (Nov 7 2013)
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/s...
We are opening an office in [Washington] DC for this reason. We will send our source code, you can check our source code. You're welcome."

Argle Bargle, that was an excellent arglebargle. Made me laugh. I agree.

Morris Dancing? I found this: Bad rap for morris dancing

Quote from below, edited: "Radio in the 1940s, TV in the 60s, D&D in the 80s... There has never been a shortage of parents who didn't understand new technology and needed a scapegoat to blame their bad parenting on."

Oh good. In the past there have been incidents when the computers apparently took over an aircraft and locked out the pilots.

http://www.smh.com.au/good-wee...

Now there won't be any pilots to be locked out, so the aircraft can just destroy itself in its own preferred way.

Nothing like the AI disconnecting the controls from a pilot who is still trying to fly a plane. But the AI decided it knows better.

Ever tried to indent in Word when it has decided you don't want to do that?

No need for AI for something like this to happen, it already happened. See The untold story of QF72.

I think the very idea of an autonomous, civilian plane is ridiculous at this time. I only need to imagine one of those freighter 747s flying over here each and every day, manipulated into crashing into town. The damage could go much further than even 9/11. The only context in which the autonomous plane might make sense is in a military context - and I do believe drones are already close enough to this.

Adam Clarks Adams Platform:
https://www.itwire.com/opinion...
http://www.smh.com.au/business...

Now you might think ok, this one was a scammer, but people vet those things, cant fool me twice, right?
http://v-net.tv/2015/10/09/unk...

5 years later VERY SAME "The company’s senior development team comprises: Adam Clarke"
Adam Clark, of Adam’s Platform Technology (2004) "transfer a 1.3 gigbyte video file to a 1.4 megabyte floppy disk." strikes again in another scam :)

Another one is Madison Priest's Zekko Corp:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sac...
http://jacksonville.com/tu-onl...
http://jacksonville.com/tu-onl...
Magic video compression turned out to be buried cable :D

Want more video compression scams? Check out V-Nova Perseus - they promise 3x smaller files than h.264, but somewhat independent tests show 20% bigger files at same quality :) and the real kicker is Perseus is really just reencapsulated h.264 video with resize filter on top :D multi million dollar scam, they even scored one Sat TV network contract.

Happens in Australia, too. We have a large, well developed public hospital system in each state.
http://www.smh.com.au/national...

You are right, federated identity is a very real risk right now.

Let's all reflect on what the Australian Government has done with their "MyGOV" portal. Note, I wanted to start this list with a Wikipedia page informing readers of what MyGOV is. But such a page does not exist. Why not?

https://my.gov.au/mygov/content/html/about.html

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/revealed-serious-flaws-in-mygov-site-exposed-millions-of-australians-private-information-20140514-zrczw.html

https://www.scmagazine.com/bold-phishers-use-australian-mygov-to-pull-pii/article/641854/

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/security-bolstered-on-mygov-website-after-dire-warnings-20141230-12fm2l.html

You are right, federated identity is a very real risk right now.

Let's all reflect on what the Australian Government has done with their "MyGOV" portal. Note, I wanted to start this list with a Wikipedia page informing readers of what MyGOV is. But such a page does not exist. Why not?

https://my.gov.au/mygov/content/html/about.html

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/revealed-serious-flaws-in-mygov-site-exposed-millions-of-australians-private-information-20140514-zrczw.html

https://www.scmagazine.com/bold-phishers-use-australian-mygov-to-pull-pii/article/641854/

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/security-bolstered-on-mygov-website-after-dire-warnings-20141230-12fm2l.html

Because Australian politicians deemed the most crucial thing for the power companies to do, was to use green sources of energy.
Even if it can't meet demand.

See: http://www.smh.com.au/business...

So your unsupported supposition is untrue - it's not a problem with producing the power, it's the high cost of a centralized for profit utility that's the problem.

French historian detained for 10 hours
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/...

Australian Children's author detained
http://www.smh.com.au/entertai...

Both of those stories are from this week. I think that qualifies them as "new".

French historian detained for 10 hours
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/...

Australian Children's author detained
http://www.smh.com.au/entertai...

All of these stores are usually f**k'd. http://www.smh.com.au/interact...

7-11 is not the only one doing. I remember growing up all of the corp mcdonalds were awesome the owner operated ones were hit or miss. They are all OO now.

So here is the tl'dr version:
Dude decides to buy a store from conglomerate.
Dude gets loan to manage store. Conglomerate will help facilitate this.
Dude signs contract to pay 60-70% of before taxes gross profit to conglomerate.
Dude now needs to pay employees, vendors (usually overpriced wholly owned by conglomerate), store rental (again the conglomerate), and taxes (full amount including taxes on the 60-70% already paid). In the states that can include health insurance.
Dude realizes they are fucked and starts cutting hours or OT'ing people with little or no pay. Many times they will hire illegals or visa immigrants. As working in the store is against the visa or illegal. So they can bully the employees to working as much as they want for a small pittance of money. Conglomerate liaison shows them how to do this 'off the record' of course.
Employee decides to narc them out. No biggie to the dude. He cops out and folds out the business and no one gets paid. He walks away with lots of debt and cuts his losses.
Conglomerate wants to keep the store going. Finds new sucker dude original dude comes out slightly ahead. The farce goes on.

This reminds me of the murder of David Crawford in Australia. The killer had an alibi matching what police initially thought was the time of death. By analyzing data from Crawford's pacemaker, they were able to pinpoint the exact moment he died, which busted the killer's alibi.

From the SMH Key phrase.

In the 40 years to 2015, not a single American was killed on US soil by citizens from any of the seven countries targeted - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen - according to research by the conservative-leaning Cato Institute.

When the Cato Institute is calling you out on racist policies you know you're up shit creek.

The real irony here is that Trump and his alt-right claque are banning travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and justifying it by citing 911 but the countries that the 911 terrorists came from are not on the list, especially Saudi Arabia and the UEA and keep in mind these are the same countries whose citizens are covertly funding ISIS. On top of that Trump set up a series of shell companies to handle a hotel deal in Saudi Arabia and he did it after his bid for president: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-... at the same time as he was lambasting Clinton for taking donations from the Saudis.

My favourite parts:

"They [Saudis] buy apartments from me, ... They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”

"I would want to protect Saudi Arabia, ... But Saudi Arabia is going to have to help us economically. They were making, before the oil went down ... they were making $1 billion a day.”

So rich countries that can make tribute payments to the Trump regime and whose citizens are financially benefitting Trumps companies are not destined for 'the list' even though these countries are financing terrorist organisations that attack and kill US citizens but others including some that are actually fighting ISIS in Syria make the list. I suppose Trump supporters have a hard time spelling 'hypocrisy'.

In the 40 years to 2015, not a single American was killed on US soil by citizens from any of the seven countries targeted - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen - according to research by the conservative-leaning Cato Institute.

When the Cato Institute is calling you out on racist policies you know you're up shit creek.

Of course biometric data security simply present the new problem. People can pretty much steal your identity in reality by the simple exchange of a few bytes of data. Those particular bytes being the ones that match your biometric data to your legal identity. So to steal your identity, they just need to point your legal identity to their biometric data and you are hosed, seriously, proving that theft would require major legal effort in a world driven by that biometric data. There is also the idea of hacks to destroy biometric databases and thus force costly reconstruction of that data, whilst provision of services has been completely halted.

Sounds good but when it goes wrong it can be enormously wrong and computers are really, really, good at repeating a mistake over and over again super fast ie http://www.smh.com.au/federal-... and when the automated digital system is all there is, then you are well and truly done.

Stable manual, people controllable systems need to remain in place in critical areas, else failures quite readily become system catastrophic. It's like the idiots are begging for the society to be crippled by an extended digital outage which is guaranteed in a world hit by solar flares, earthquakes or US government driven cyber attacks.

1. My guess is your computer is far away from your TV, otherwise you could hook it up with an HDMI cable.

2. Probably illegal. I don't think it's as traceable as a torrent. It's like if you download a pirated program illegally from some web page.

Kodi's just a piece of software to play videos. It's the plugins that get you the illegal content btw. Kodi boxes are pretty much a scam ("It’s gotten bad enough that core Kodi developers have threatened to quit in protest.") and you're better off buying a Raspberry Pi and installing Kodi and the unofficial plugins themselves, because they're similar except the RPi has a better community around it and it's a general purpose computer, which can't be said for Kodi boxes.

Also, I understand you wanting to stay legal, but AFAICT the content providers don't want freely accessible content. Unfortunately for consumers, content providers restrict access to particular programs in specific markets so as to control pricing and TV rights negotiations. For example, if you buy a DVD in the US then bring it home to watch in Australia, there's a good chance it won't work because DVD players in Australia are set to region 4, while discs in the US are encoded as region 1. The same is true of many video games.

The last line of the summary reminded me of this guy http://www.smh.com.au/technolo... ahh the joy of schadenfreude

People do FOREX trades based on flows of government fiscal policy, interest rates and taxation flows often. Presumably these are linked to real 'investment' eg: when any arm of the US government spends USD to buy literally anything it wants in the currency it issues. Indeed your criticism is more of currency market hysteria which Bitcoin more prone to or this slashdot article would not be here. eg: brexit http://www.smh.com.au/business... http://uk.businessinsider.com/...

Yep, and now that story contains a correction at the top of the page. That's what legitimate news sites do when they make factual errors.

The BBC published an article describing biased, allegedly misogynistic criticism of the new Ghostbusters movie, quoting as an example a post from Reddit. The Sydney Morning Herald ran an article on the same point, but their reporter took five minutes to do some actual journalism, looked up the Reddit poster's history, and found it was a fairly obvious false flag attack. The BBC responded by excising this part from a revised version of their article, without any sort of acknowledgement of the change, or the fact that they had been fooled (or, less generously, had tried to fool their readers).

Does this mean that the BBC is not a legitimate news site?

When a Republican benefits from Russian intelligence exposure everything is cool.

That's because the Republican(s) are hoping that the Russians keep what they have them quiet most likely. Whether this stuff was originally done by state actors or not, I bet it all finds its way into state actor's hands and I doubt that the Democrats were the only ones targeted or that the Republicans are any better at security.

When a Republican benefits from Russian intelligence exposure everything is cool.

It's not like Snowden can tell the Russians to go fuck themselves.