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Dismal Failure of Internet Filters In Australia
An anonymous reader writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA), the department responsible for implementing the insane Internet regulatory framework put in place by the current government, is about to drop a number of Internet Filtering packages due to their ineffectiveness. The full article is available here. There is also news that the Minister for Communications, Senator Richard Alston (whom The Register has labeled the Worlds Biggest Luddite :) ) is awaiting a review of the law with possible changes to follow. Be afraid Australia, be very afraid!"
YOU FAIL IT!
too bad, if they are anything like me, they would never see ur comment considering you a mod score of 0.
Did anyone else read this as "Australia Filters Internet Instant Messaging"?
Local man dismembers his own member
Cherry Hill Times
November 18, 1997
CLAYTON, NJ. Early Tuesday morning New Jersey State Police were astonished to come across a man on the side of the road without any clothing on bleeding from his groin. The 26 year old man was staggering about, holding his hand over his crotch, stammering, saying "can somebody please help me?" Police soon discovered that the man's penis had been torn off, leaving a bloody stump. Investigating the situation while summoning paramedics, Sheriff William Brown claimed "This is one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen in my career as a police officer, I really don't know what to make of it. The man's penis was gone." As the paramedics arrived the sheriff's deputy had located the detached member about 30 feet away lying in the ditch near the man's clothes, along with some drug paraphanalia. Paramedics had rushed him to St. Francis Medical Center 10 miles north where the ER staff was able to successfully reattach the mans penis." Medical examiner Soren Matthews, doing bloodwork had noticed abnormally high amounts of dextromethorphan, PCP, crack and marijuana in his bloodstream. "Dextromethorphan is a common additive in cough syrup, at recommended doses it can suppress the instinct and urge to cough during colds and flu.", Matthews stated. "At extreme levels, it can cause hallucinations, euphoria, a sense of detachment from reality and a general anesthesia."
Several hours later, police were able to speak with the victim and find out what exactly happened. They discovered he had drank 3 4oz bottles of Robitussin Maximum Strength several hours prior to being discovered. He had gone out for what he liked to call a "wonderwalk" and suddenly got the urge to masturbate. Not realizing that he couldn't feel himself, tried for several minutes and noticed a shock wave resounding throughout his body. He then realized that he was holding his detached penis in his right hand. He was very fortunate that the police found him when they did.
Matthews went on further to state "People need to be aware of what they are doing to themselves. Common over-the-counter medicines have specific dosages there for a reason and when you abuse that tragedies like this happen. Parents everywhere need to look for the signs that their children are 'robotripping'." According to St. Francis Medical Center, this was the 3rd dextromethorphan related incident that they had seen this year. The other two incidents were and both involved teenagers at party situations taking Coricidin, another brand of OTC cough tablets. Both of these incidents were unrelated to each other. The man, who wishes to remain unidentified, was not charged with the possession of the paraphanalia since the circumstances were so bizarre.
Two words: PAUL HOGAN
And let's not forget Foster's, Yahoo Serious, and Jacko. OY!
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Fosters? noone in Australia drinks it. It's just a giant joke on everyone not in Australia.
There are a number of excellent beers from Australia , take a little time to hunt them up.
As for us being crimials, does that make people from the US terrorists? (AKA, War of Independence?)
Q:I was listening to a CD in Grip and it sounded horrible! What's up? A:Perhaps you are listening to country music
Calling fosters Australian beer is like calling Coors Light beer at all.... [we used to call it texas water]
PostBlock(tm) device.
.contain even more evidence of high FUDgerIE.
anybuddIE knows, if you're going to advertise (sucksassfullIE) for Godless felons, you MUST keep the 'riff-raff' DOWn to a whisper, bullow the din.
failing that, who waNTs their ADs to be underlined with 1000 byte MEs from the 'target' audience?
lookout bullow. rumour has it that fuddles has also left folk's holding/emailing out, millions of 'draft' documents, that
va.msn.?net? (VAST) [trustworthycomputing.com]? last gaspers at best. talk about foistering dismal failures.