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I guess it boils down to what you think is a reasonable markup on something. $1 AUD buys $0.90 USD currently. So what do you think a reasonable markup on something would be? 20%? 50%? How about 400%? Because that's what they expect us to pay, and then they call us pirates when we choose to seek alternate methods to access Netflix!!! FWIW - News Corpse owns The Australian newspaper, and owns half of Foxtel, the monopoly payTV provider in Australia.

I guess it boils down to what you think is a reasonable markup on something. $1 AUD buys $0.90 USD currently. So what do you think a reasonable markup on something would be? 20%? 50%? How about 400%? Because that's what they expect us to pay, and then they call us pirates when we choose to seek alternate methods to access Netflix!!! FWIW - News Corpse owns The Australian newspaper, and owns half of Foxtel, the monopoly payTV provider in Australia.

It gets better. Foxtel (the major rights holder for TV content in Australia) wants people to have their internet connections cut off if they pirate TV shows, whilst charging $150 a month for cable TV in HD. There's no legal way to access shows like Game of Thrones in Australia via streaming, the cheapest possible way to watch it as it airs overseas is with a "Foxtel-Play" subscription for $35/month for the 3 months. And then Foxtel and Village Roadshow and Quickflix all cry about piracy, because people don't want to pay a 400% markup for TV content. Netflix and a VPN service is costing me $15/month for five times the content I can get from Foxtel for $150/month

Let's hope BREIN gives up on itself soon. The scent of corruption hangs around this organization.

Let's cut him some slack. After all he did "save a bus load of children from a burning building", per organic search result #9 for "guy hingston bankrupt" (YRMV).

http://www.zgeek.com/guy-hingston-saved-a-bus-load-of-children-from-a-burning-building/

Makes one wonder if, on a large scale, this technique could be used by reputation companies to dilute negative results during a streisand event.

And it's probably a fantastic solution!!!

And Stephen Conroy is probably popular and loved all over the interporns...

http://bastardsheep.com/tag/stephen-conroy/
http://zgeek.com/content.php/1742-4chan-plan-to-assassinate-Stephen-Conroy
http://stephenconroyisacunt.wordpress.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Conroy

Whoops! Is that a few more sites Conroy's adding to the list??

'Yes, I said add them!!! Because I mean look - I said child porn is bad Ok. Just trust me these need to be added. Now I need to see if Turbull is going to interrupt my plans on how to stop people being exposed to the truth... I mean defends child porn!'

Stephen 'Refused Intelligence' Conroy
It's not fucking censor***p it's fucking REFUSED CLASSIFICATION you idiot!

I think you're making a mistake there. These things aren't exactly medium-sized.

Picture this: aiport security team hard at work

http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/7/1/1/armpit-sniffer.jpg

• Lost city found off Cuba coast

  "May 20, 2001 article reports on sonar sightings of what appear to be man-made structures on the seabed near Cuba...."

  http://www.andrewcollins.net/page/articles/lostcit y.htm

  "In a press release dated Havana, 14 May 2001 Reuters of London..."

  Update on Mysterious Deep Water Sonar Images Off Western Cuba

  Underwater City Reported Off Western Cuba

I could go on, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

Hint: try a google search for "cuba" and "underwater" and "city"

Ya'd think /. would have picked up on this a while ago, but then, maybe not...

I guess "news" doesn't necessarily mean "new".

t_t_b

Here, I hope this helps.

(For the Goatse.cx weary: http://www.zgeek.com/images/news/america.gif