Better than Yanks, try Seppo's.
it goes like this: Seppo=short for 'Septic Tank'
'Septic Tank'=rhymes with 'Yank'
'Yank'=slang for 'Anyone from the USA'
gotta love Aussie Surfie Slang. All that salt water must do something to their brains.
...is not something any of us can take for granted any more. Every single day little facts about all of us are being recorded, stored and (probably) cross-referenced. The government does it, businesses do it, it's the way things are.
The fact that census data can be used to track back to its subject isn't really anything amazing or astounding, for years now it's been relatively easy to find out pretty much anything about anyone. It make take a while and require a bit of cash, but really it's the people with time and money that we really need to worry about. It's a pretty logical extension of this that sooner or later it was going to start working back the other way.
As much as it's a cliche, Big Brother is watching, and will continue to do so. The best you can hope for is that they won't notice you.
Gev
We see outdated industries, stuck in their ways, forcing the world to change for them.
The worst part is, things are going to keep on like this. Sure, it'd be nice if we could make the governments, record companies and general idiots out there see some sense. It's not going to happen.
At least not anytime soon. There's a post somewhere here that talks about banning/taxing ties, paper, letters etc and as much as we like to chuckle at things like this it's probably not too far off the truth. The fact is that governments don't want to spend money, businesses don't want to spend money, combatting piracy costs money. So rather than attempt to find a reasonable solution to the problem the simply think up a new tax or charge and justify it by saying "Ohh well, you know, we have to do this to cover the costs of piracy!"
This excuse is complete crap, I mean the current cost of a CD (generally much higher than it should be, wherever you are) is justified by the 'covering the cost of piracy' claim. Do you really think that, if this charge were applied all over the world, the cost of a CD would drop? Of course not.
Big business, the government and the church (any church) are the entities that run the planet. They're all packed with liars, cheats and charlatans. It's not going to change, just the way they screw us over will.
Yes. I'm in a bad mood today. And hungover, apologies for any lack of coherence or clarity
AFAIK insurance companies won't insure you against pre-existing conditions. Fair enough too. However, if they're using genetic testing to figure out if you're ever likely to develop a condition then we have a problem. For example, you might carry the genes for some horrible, disfiguring disease which you may never actually develop. The company can then refuse to insure you because it was in your blood, so to speak.
Now, you could argue that you'd still have the option of going to another company that doesn't perform these tests, but if this sort of thing gains popular acceptance there could potentially be a new form of 'genetic discrimination' taking place all over the world.
And this could extend beyond insurance to things like getting jobs, immigration, marriages... all sorts of things.
Then again, humanity's always looking for a new reason to keep one group or another down, so I guess it's really nothing new.
p.s. Hope this makes sense, it's been a long day, I'm tired and explaining thoughts is difficult...
It wasn't actually a Ninja that Indy took on.
It was a sword-wielding middle-eastern nutbag Arab-type bloke (Sorry, I don't know the technical term). Remember; Just because he was wearing black and swinging a sword about, doesn't make him a Ninja. Heck, he could have been a Goth/Geek who, in this 'Post Columbine era' was feeling oppressed and thought the only way he could express the angst he was feeling was through some blade-related violence.
Something like "that's like the sewer calling the outhouse stinky?"
With thanks to Lobo, from whence I stole that line.
Oh yes. The comic only cost me A DOLLAR
What really killed the dinosaurs was a bunch of little lizard dudes with ray guns. They used to hunt them you see.
Once they'd killed off all the dinosaurs they ran around zapping each other, until there were none left.
It should be good as long as people remember one very simple fact.
It's an adaptation of the trilogy. So no, it won't have all the scenes in the books, the characters won't all be exactly the same as in the books. Things may even happen in a different order. That's what happens when you adapt a book for cinema.
As long as people don't go expecting to see a scene for scene copy of what their imagination built during the course of reading the trilogy I don't think they'll be disappointed. Peter Jackson is a great director who really knows how to put his vision on film, the cast is really solid, generally being well respected actors (not the latest hollywood 'cool' people) and the location is perfect.
From what I've seen online and the reports I've heard from cast members it will be a fantastic cinema experience.
Just you wait.
Soon we will be presented with an article by that Katz bloke along the lines of:
"In this post-Columbine era geeks are being persecuted in our educational institutions. This persecution leads to a growing sense of isolation, in turn preventing geeks from fully developing their learning potential, especially in the areas of spelling and grammar."
Ok, here's the deal. As far as I know...
Milky Way in Australia "Has it's centre whipped 'til it's nice and fluffy, so it won't fill them up"
In the USA a Milky Way is what we call a Snickers.
That is truly wierd.
In Australia you can play some violent games, get drunk and then head out and die for your country (or at least because some guy in the government told you to) at age 18.
You seppo's have some fucked-up values. (not that Australia doesn't, but that's another story...)
Yeah, it was 'Battle of the Planets' but for some reason everyone called it 'G-Force', probably due to the fact that they say 'G-Force!' every 5 minutes or so;)
Then they actually did the 'G-Force' version. It sucked.
Gev.
Ok, I'll stop posting about this now. Honest.
Ahhh yes. Now I remember. They unmasked Zoltar, there's a bright flash and a quick shot of a woman with long blond hair... they all pass out and no one remembers exactly what happens.
Still, it explains the lipstick.
I'm pretty sure his name was Keop. Not sure about the spelling.
God I love that show, I have very fond memories of making those little watch-thingies they wore and running around the house, waving my arm past my face and saying 'Traaaaaaaansmute!'
But now I can't remember the bad guy's name... Something begining with Z as far as I remember (all cool bad guys have names beginging with Z. It's a rule).
And I seem to remember that 'he' may not have been a 'he'. But that could be the drugs talking;)
You seem to have missed my point.
The fact that it may have been translated from the original Greek/Hebrew/whatever doesn't matter. What I'm saying is that the original writers' meanings have most likely been lost in the translation process. I'm no expert on language, but I do know that you'll often find one word in language X that can have may meanings in language Y when translated, this can b overcome by the original writer explaining exactly what he/she meant, but in this case that's a little tricky. The bible isn't written like a textbook, full of exact facts, figures and dates, it's much more metaphorical, therefore open to interpretation.
It's also been translated, over hundreds of years, by scores of different writers.
Not meaning to disrespect your beliefs, but have you ever seen a set of instructions that have been translated from, say, Japanese? The original text made sense and reported factual information, the translated text technically reports the same thing, but the translationm process tends to put the wrong spin on things, so you can't take the words at face value.
Same thing applies here (IMHO of course). But, as another poster said, it's all a matter of faith.
Hehehe Gotta love those "It wasn't EXACTLY like the comic, therefore it was crap" posts. You failed to point out that Wolverine didn't wear Yellow-and-blue (or that browny-red) spandex, wasn't built like a brick shithouse and his hair wasn't the same size. Oh, and Storm's breasts were definately smaller. Gee, how could they get it so wrong?!
Here's a hint: X-Men the movie = ADAPTATION of X-Men the comic. Not a copy.
Of course, the Australian govenment isn't exactly afraid of scaremongering to get stupid laws passed. When the Internet Cencorship bill was being passed we had politicians who had obviously had minimal contact with the internet saying things like 'I don't want my kids surfing the net and stumbling across objectionable material' (sic) as if it was just like channel surfing. The general populace does tend to believe the leaders of their country and take most of what they say as gospel so, when the pollies come out with this kind of drivel, Jo Average swallows it and thus stupid laws gain some popular support. If the government of any country is going to try to pass laws concerning the internet they really need to have people who actually *know* what they're talking about to advise them and show the lawmakers the realities of what they're trying to regulate. Until this happens we're going to see stupid laws popping up all over the place.
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I got... rostered to work Christmas day.
Just what I always wanted.
it goes like this: Seppo=short for 'Septic Tank'
'Septic Tank'=rhymes with 'Yank'
'Yank'=slang for 'Anyone from the USA'
gotta love Aussie Surfie Slang. All that salt water must do something to their brains.
GEV.
...is not something any of us can take for granted any more. Every single day little facts about all of us are being recorded, stored and (probably) cross-referenced. The government does it, businesses do it, it's the way things are.
The fact that census data can be used to track back to its subject isn't really anything amazing or astounding, for years now it's been relatively easy to find out pretty much anything about anyone. It make take a while and require a bit of cash, but really it's the people with time and money that we really need to worry about. It's a pretty logical extension of this that sooner or later it was going to start working back the other way.
As much as it's a cliche, Big Brother is watching, and will continue to do so. The best you can hope for is that they won't notice you.
Gev
The worst part is, things are going to keep on like this. Sure, it'd be nice if we could make the governments, record companies and general idiots out there see some sense. It's not going to happen.
At least not anytime soon. There's a post somewhere here that talks about banning/taxing ties, paper, letters etc and as much as we like to chuckle at things like this it's probably not too far off the truth. The fact is that governments don't want to spend money, businesses don't want to spend money, combatting piracy costs money. So rather than attempt to find a reasonable solution to the problem the simply think up a new tax or charge and justify it by saying "Ohh well, you know, we have to do this to cover the costs of piracy!"
This excuse is complete crap, I mean the current cost of a CD (generally much higher than it should be, wherever you are) is justified by the 'covering the cost of piracy' claim. Do you really think that, if this charge were applied all over the world, the cost of a CD would drop? Of course not.
Big business, the government and the church (any church) are the entities that run the planet. They're all packed with liars, cheats and charlatans. It's not going to change, just the way they screw us over will.
Yes. I'm in a bad mood today. And hungover, apologies for any lack of coherence or clarity
Gev
Now, you could argue that you'd still have the option of going to another company that doesn't perform these tests, but if this sort of thing gains popular acceptance there could potentially be a new form of 'genetic discrimination' taking place all over the world.
And this could extend beyond insurance to things like getting jobs, immigration, marriages... all sorts of things.
Then again, humanity's always looking for a new reason to keep one group or another down, so I guess it's really nothing new.
p.s. Hope this makes sense, it's been a long day, I'm tired and explaining thoughts is difficult...
Gev
Remember; Just because he was wearing black and swinging a sword about, doesn't make him a Ninja. Heck, he could have been a Goth/Geek who, in this 'Post Columbine era' was feeling oppressed and thought the only way he could express the angst he was feeling was through some blade-related violence.
Gev
With thanks to Lobo, from whence I stole that line.
Oh yes. The comic only cost me A DOLLAR
Once they'd killed off all the dinosaurs they ran around zapping each other, until there were none left.
Seriously.
Gev.
It's marked as being really 'Aussie' with lots of Australian slang and orange shirts in the ads.
Those ads call up all those homocidal tendencies that doctors struggled for years to supress.
I haven't been sent a CD yet.
Gev.
It's an adaptation of the trilogy. So no, it won't have all the scenes in the books, the characters won't all be exactly the same as in the books. Things may even happen in a different order. That's what happens when you adapt a book for cinema.
As long as people don't go expecting to see a scene for scene copy of what their imagination built during the course of reading the trilogy I don't think they'll be disappointed. Peter Jackson is a great director who really knows how to put his vision on film, the cast is really solid, generally being well respected actors (not the latest hollywood 'cool' people) and the location is perfect.
From what I've seen online and the reports I've heard from cast members it will be a fantastic cinema experience.
Gev.
Soon we will be presented with an article by that Katz bloke along the lines of:
"In this post-Columbine era geeks are being persecuted in our educational institutions. This persecution leads to a growing sense of isolation, in turn preventing geeks from fully developing their learning potential, especially in the areas of spelling and grammar."
Or something like that.
Gev.
Milky Way in Australia "Has it's centre whipped 'til it's nice and fluffy, so it won't fill them up"
In the USA a Milky Way is what we call a Snickers.
Confused yet?
Good.
Gev.
In Australia you can play some violent games, get drunk and then head out and die for your country (or at least because some guy in the government told you to) at age 18.
You seppo's have some fucked-up values. (not that Australia doesn't, but that's another story...)
Gev.
Then they actually did the 'G-Force' version. It sucked.
Gev.
Ok, I'll stop posting about this now. Honest.
Still, it explains the lipstick.
Gev.
God I love that show, I have very fond memories of making those little watch-thingies they wore and running around the house, waving my arm past my face and saying 'Traaaaaaaansmute!'
But now I can't remember the bad guy's name... Something begining with Z as far as I remember (all cool bad guys have names beginging with Z. It's a rule). ;)
And I seem to remember that 'he' may not have been a 'he'. But that could be the drugs talking
Gev.
The fact that it may have been translated from the original Greek/Hebrew/whatever doesn't matter. What I'm saying is that the original writers' meanings have most likely been lost in the translation process. I'm no expert on language, but I do know that you'll often find one word in language X that can have may meanings in language Y when translated, this can b overcome by the original writer explaining exactly what he/she meant, but in this case that's a little tricky. The bible isn't written like a textbook, full of exact facts, figures and dates, it's much more metaphorical, therefore open to interpretation.
Gev
It's also been translated, over hundreds of years, by scores of different writers.
Not meaning to disrespect your beliefs, but have you ever seen a set of instructions that have been translated from, say, Japanese? The original text made sense and reported factual information, the translated text technically reports the same thing, but the translationm process tends to put the wrong spin on things, so you can't take the words at face value.
Same thing applies here (IMHO of course). But, as another poster said, it's all a matter of faith.
Gotta love those "It wasn't EXACTLY like the comic, therefore it was crap" posts.
You failed to point out that Wolverine didn't wear Yellow-and-blue (or that browny-red) spandex, wasn't built like a brick shithouse and his hair wasn't the same size. Oh, and Storm's breasts were definately smaller.
Gee, how could they get it so wrong?!
Here's a hint: X-Men the movie = ADAPTATION of X-Men the comic. Not a copy.
Gev.
And Australia IS NOT BLOODY AUSTRIA. Thank you.
Of course, the Australian govenment isn't exactly afraid of scaremongering to get stupid laws passed. When the Internet Cencorship bill was being passed we had politicians who had obviously had minimal contact with the internet saying things like 'I don't want my kids surfing the net and stumbling across objectionable material' (sic) as if it was just like channel surfing. The general populace does tend to believe the leaders of their country and take most of what they say as gospel so, when the pollies come out with this kind of drivel, Jo Average swallows it and thus stupid laws gain some popular support. If the government of any country is going to try to pass laws concerning the internet they really need to have people who actually *know* what they're talking about to advise them and show the lawmakers the realities of what they're trying to regulate. Until this happens we're going to see stupid laws popping up all over the place.