VLC is generally good, but something that's constantly annoyed me about it is the way it always seems to get the track lengths wrong, and it's still not fixed.
I'm playing a 4:14 song right now and it says it's 7:32. Grr.
Seriously. The only way that censorship list would work, is if you made it a whitelist of 10 000, and you'd struggle to make up the numbers. I've never seen a politician become so disconnected from reality - the man is a lunatic!
Most importantly, people with the personality of professional thieves realise that it's just as easy to work within the law as it is outside of it, if you're willing to be educated about it in the first place. I don't feel I even need to give examples, we all know them. These are the people to be truly afraid of.
No.
The truth is we don't know what they did because they deliberately evaded even the lax oversight from the FISA court.
If they were only doing as you say, why not tool along to FISA at some point for their rubber-stamp warrant? Why not allow an investigation now rather than engaging in this massive, unprecendented effort to effect a coverup? Do you know what the point of a warrant is? It's accountability and oversight, and this is what being avoided, criminally. It's perfectly reasonable to assume the worst until they damn well account for themselves.
The lack of an adult category for games is just a continuing embarrassment for Australia. What's more, they don't even seem to be consistent.
In the 2005 Xbox game 'Call of Cthulhu', you use Morphine in the exact way it's been described in Fallout 3, yet (thankfully, as it's a favourite game of mine) it was released under the MA15+ rating.
From the game's manual:"Because it's renowned as a potent pain blocker, morphine is provided to Jack to help subdue pain that may otherwise prevent rapid movement or strenuous acts, but it does not cure him."
Essentially, as you take damage in the game, you slow down and morphine will let you operate at normal speed again. Maybe they got away with it because it was linked to 'Sanity effects', who knows, but it sounds exactly the same to me. Here's hoping for some sanity from that idiot in SA on this issue sometime soon.
This one seems a little odd to me. How do they have the Internet history of a random EU citizen who chooses to travel to the US? Surely EU governments aren't actively monitoring and filing away their population's web activity en masse? I assume this is for 'persons of interest' who have been monitored, which is bad enough; but I'm so disturbed and outraged by the possibility of mass surveillance, I have to ask, even though it seems silly (and I'm Australian, so I may have missed something that happened over there).
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VLC is generally good, but something that's constantly annoyed me about it is the way it always seems to get the track lengths wrong, and it's still not fixed. I'm playing a 4:14 song right now and it says it's 7:32. Grr.
Seriously. The only way that censorship list would work, is if you made it a whitelist of 10 000, and you'd struggle to make up the numbers. I've never seen a politician become so disconnected from reality - the man is a lunatic!
Details of the planned protests are here:
http://sites.google.com/site/stopthecleanfeed/protests
Let's kick against the pricks!
Most importantly, people with the personality of professional thieves realise that it's just as easy to work within the law as it is outside of it, if you're willing to be educated about it in the first place. I don't feel I even need to give examples, we all know them. These are the people to be truly afraid of.
No. The truth is we don't know what they did because they deliberately evaded even the lax oversight from the FISA court. If they were only doing as you say, why not tool along to FISA at some point for their rubber-stamp warrant? Why not allow an investigation now rather than engaging in this massive, unprecendented effort to effect a coverup? Do you know what the point of a warrant is? It's accountability and oversight, and this is what being avoided, criminally. It's perfectly reasonable to assume the worst until they damn well account for themselves.
Hmm, FCC - Fellating Corrupt Corporations? It does have that certain ring of truth.
The lack of an adult category for games is just a continuing embarrassment for Australia. What's more, they don't even seem to be consistent. In the 2005 Xbox game 'Call of Cthulhu', you use Morphine in the exact way it's been described in Fallout 3, yet (thankfully, as it's a favourite game of mine) it was released under the MA15+ rating. From the game's manual:"Because it's renowned as a potent pain blocker, morphine is provided to Jack to help subdue pain that may otherwise prevent rapid movement or strenuous acts, but it does not cure him." Essentially, as you take damage in the game, you slow down and morphine will let you operate at normal speed again. Maybe they got away with it because it was linked to 'Sanity effects', who knows, but it sounds exactly the same to me. Here's hoping for some sanity from that idiot in SA on this issue sometime soon.
I just thought of a whole new use for those 'tube' hotels.
This one seems a little odd to me. How do they have the Internet history of a random EU citizen who chooses to travel to the US? Surely EU governments aren't actively monitoring and filing away their population's web activity en masse? I assume this is for 'persons of interest' who have been monitored, which is bad enough; but I'm so disturbed and outraged by the possibility of mass surveillance, I have to ask, even though it seems silly (and I'm Australian, so I may have missed something that happened over there).