Not to be flamebait or say it's right, but maybe this explains the issues Aussies seem to have getting television shows imported from the States in less than two years. They don't want to show the current season and have someone legally be able to stick it up on YouTube while they're trying to sell the DVD box set still.
The ABC shows almost no American television, so their content policies are irrelevant. Blame the commercial channels or better yet, ignore them and download your favourite shows. Frankly I've given up on Australian commercial television like they've given up on the Australian creative industry in favour of rehashed and increasingly moronic reality television.
because using strong-arm tactics to corner a market, financially ruin families, and hamstring technological advances is just like committing genocide...
The RIAA is bad, but they're nothing compared to the Nazis.
The parent is right, it's an unfair comparison.
The Nazi party spent around ten years building up to genocide, I say we give the RIAA a little more time.
I've been around this scene since the 5.25" floppy days...
I'm really hoping that you're not still in the scene, most of us got over it before we were 20.
I applaud the fact that another leech has bitten the dust, and can no longer make an easy living selling the fruits of other people's works to noobs and lusers.
I'm going out on a limb here and presuming you're referring to the work of suppliers/crackers/couriers rather than the people who created the stuff. Warez scene != work. It was and is a game, race some other kid to up a release on a top 10 site for rankings and bragging rights.
It's not like the scene was ever as pure as people made it out to be. Plenty of the bigger groups were giving out carded hardware for suppliers or shell boxes.
Perhaps we'll see Microsoft do the same with their Community Licensing, preferably for the.NET Framework SDK and DirectX to fuel development of Mono Project and Cedega, respectively. That way.NET would be a multi-platform development environment in practice instead of in theory, and Linux could expect better support for gaming.
Doubtful, the day Linux or Mac gaming is viable will be the end of Windows as the dominant desktop. Personally I'm not looking forward to trying to decipher a support post on a forum that begins with 'kekekekelolzergrushomgwtfbbqcamperfag'.
I'm currently messing around with turning Mediawiki into a basic CMS. Search has been a lot more effective at returning usable results since I changed over to Omega.
You searched for: Bill Gates
you got: 400 pictures of penises, vaginas, and one picture of a penis covered in something that looks like it came out of the OTHER opening.
Australia doesn't export Fosters at all. It is owned and brewed by Scottish and Newcastle, and probably isn't even brewed in Australia.
I'm already sick of this discussion but here goes...
Australia still brews and exports Fosters, admittedly on a small scale since in some countries the Fosters Group license local breweries to make it. Scottish and Newcastle own the European rights to the beer, please note... Europe does not equal the whole world.
I'm wondering why people keep posting on this stupid topic without doing any damn reading about it. Fosters still sucks.
Foster's isn't even brewed in Australia!...snip... Long story short, Fosters is actually brewed in Canada.
It's brewed in pretty much every country, including Australia. I said we export it anyway, very little difference if it's licensed to be brewed locally to save on shipping/spoilage.
Please don't create this system. While I'm pretty sure that a high percentage of slashdotters are posting furry hentai on the chans already, seeing them do it here would crush the last of my meagre faith in humanity.
You Linux freaks can foam at the mouth trying to convince anyone that Linux + open office will be widely adopted by corporates. People that actually work in corporates and support infrastructure, will never let that amateur junk in.
Some of us linux freaks don't care whether corporates adopt it or not. I'm a little curious about the source of your hostility though.. what did oss do to get your panties in such a bunch?
Personally I'd put it on the darknets, Tor and Freenet both have sites dedicated to preserving unpopular/threatened/censored information. I'd imagine that I2P would have similar resources although I'm not personally familiar with it.
While darknet sites aren't reachable by the average computer users, this allows the more technically-minded to repopulate the mainstream net with the content when torrents or public hosts are taken down.
Without getting too far into discussing whether she merited the award or not, since I'm not really qualified to judge. I find it interesting that her Wikipedia entry was only created on 6 February 2007 by a username that has made no other edits. I've always found the Wikipedia coverage of computer science fairly comprehensive.
It's baffling to me why a country that has consistently and fairly been compared with Nazi Germany, to the point of concentration camps and illegal medical experimentation, has been allowed to exist for this long. Drudge reported this morning that they're prepping another nuke test, and it's a well-known fact that they've been developing chem and bio weapons for years. A new Hitler has risen, and we are so busy looking elsewhere that we either haven't noticed or don't care.
Concentration camps... illegal medical experimentation... a new Hitler.
So after NK is pacified, America has replacements for all the Nazi scientists that died of old age? Remind me to invest heavily in American bio-tech and weapons development over the next 30 years.
It's admittedly OT but I'm wondering if other people find the Kubuntu modifications to Vanilla KDE as annoying as I do.
I've tried to like it but every version of Kubuntu I've played with has horribly broken my normal KDE customizations. The last one I noticed was that having konqueror preserve different directories in multiple tabs is broken, after saving the settings and re-running konqueror you're left with multiple tabs with only the first open to a directory.
If it was just that one example I'd submit a bug report and move on but it seems every time I try to customize KDE, Kubuntu has problems with it. Which leaves me wondering why you'd even fork the distro away from Gnome (which is better suited to people who don't customize their desktop extensively).
There are many Alzheimer's patients around the world that have the mental capacity as two-week-old pre-embryonic blastocyst and would probably do about as well against you in a game of chess.
Your first comparison was genetic material versus an adult, now you're comparing them to alzheimer's patients?
With logic like that you should be defending creationism.
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So it dosn't seem like The Chaser are against piracy, only the ABC.
Where did the ABC state that they are opposed to piracy? That aside, you're at least on the money about Chaser being one of our best shows.
Death to Naomi Robson.
Not to be flamebait or say it's right, but maybe this explains the issues Aussies seem to have getting television shows imported from the States in less than two years. They don't want to show the current season and have someone legally be able to stick it up on YouTube while they're trying to sell the DVD box set still.
The ABC shows almost no American television, so their content policies are irrelevant. Blame the commercial channels or better yet, ignore them and download your favourite shows. Frankly I've given up on Australian commercial television like they've given up on the Australian creative industry in favour of rehashed and increasingly moronic reality television.
because using strong-arm tactics to corner a market, financially ruin families, and hamstring technological advances is just like committing genocide...
The RIAA is bad, but they're nothing compared to the Nazis.
The parent is right, it's an unfair comparison.
The Nazi party spent around ten years building up to genocide, I say we give the RIAA a little more time.
I've been around this scene since the 5.25" floppy days ...
I'm really hoping that you're not still in the scene, most of us got over it before we were 20.
I applaud the fact that another leech has bitten the dust, and can no longer make an easy living selling the fruits of other people's works to noobs and lusers.
I'm going out on a limb here and presuming you're referring to the work of suppliers/crackers/couriers rather than the people who created the stuff. Warez scene != work. It was and is a game, race some other kid to up a release on a top 10 site for rankings and bragging rights.
It's not like the scene was ever as pure as people made it out to be. Plenty of the bigger groups were giving out carded hardware for suppliers or shell boxes.
Perhaps we'll see Microsoft do the same with their Community Licensing, preferably for the .NET Framework SDK and DirectX to fuel development of Mono Project and Cedega, respectively. That way .NET would be a multi-platform development environment in practice instead of in theory, and Linux could expect better support for gaming.
Doubtful, the day Linux or Mac gaming is viable will be the end of Windows as the dominant desktop. Personally I'm not looking forward to trying to decipher a support post on a forum that begins with 'kekekekelolzergrushomgwtfbbqcamperfag'.
Yeah I'm doing it for fun though (well my version of fun)... so I prefer just hacking away at mediawiki itself.
The parent has a good point..
I'm currently messing around with turning Mediawiki into a basic CMS. Search has been a lot more effective at returning usable results since I changed over to Omega.
You searched for: Bill Gates you got: 400 pictures of penises, vaginas, and one picture of a penis covered in something that looks like it came out of the OTHER opening.
The system works.
Wow, you sure got a lot of responses just for successfully spotting the joke. Well, half the joke anyway.
HTH NE1 is a strange name, I'd have called myself Chazwozza.
And the karma to boot!
Yep, that'll come in handy the next time someone mentions religion and I wield the mighty stick of the FSM.
Australia doesn't export Fosters at all. It is owned and brewed by Scottish and Newcastle, and probably isn't even brewed in Australia.
I'm already sick of this discussion but here goes...
Australia still brews and exports Fosters, admittedly on a small scale since in some countries the Fosters Group license local breweries to make it. Scottish and Newcastle own the European rights to the beer, please note... Europe does not equal the whole world.
I'm wondering why people keep posting on this stupid topic without doing any damn reading about it. Fosters still sucks.
Foster's isn't even brewed in Australia! ...snip... Long story short, Fosters is actually brewed in Canada.
It's brewed in pretty much every country, including Australia. I said we export it anyway, very little difference if it's licensed to be brewed locally to save on shipping/spoilage.
I apologize on behalf of my country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster's_LagerI think it must be broken. I keep putting in Fosters but I don't get back beer.
There's a simple answer, Fosters isn't beer. We just export that swill, no one here actually drinks it.
Actually it does have an Australian to English converter. I'm not too sure what good that would do a Yank though.
In future, I'd ask you to refrain from reading the article before commenting. You then won't notice the dupes or make the rest of us look ignorant.
Thank you.
I'm reluctanctly forced to agree with you. To me however the Body is a pasta dish and my God created your God a week last tuesday.
Pastafarianism... now faith isn't just for the deranged.
Please don't create this system. While I'm pretty sure that a high percentage of slashdotters are posting furry hentai on the chans already, seeing them do it here would crush the last of my meagre faith in humanity.
You Linux freaks can foam at the mouth trying to convince anyone that Linux + open office will be widely adopted by corporates. People that actually work in corporates and support infrastructure, will never let that amateur junk in.
Some of us linux freaks don't care whether corporates adopt it or not. I'm a little curious about the source of your hostility though.. what did oss do to get your panties in such a bunch?
Slight correction: Tor isn't technically a darknet.
Personally I'd put it on the darknets, Tor and Freenet both have sites dedicated to preserving unpopular/threatened/censored information. I'd imagine that I2P would have similar resources although I'm not personally familiar with it.
While darknet sites aren't reachable by the average computer users, this allows the more technically-minded to repopulate the mainstream net with the content when torrents or public hosts are taken down.
Without getting too far into discussing whether she merited the award or not, since I'm not really qualified to judge. I find it interesting that her Wikipedia entry was only created on 6 February 2007 by a username that has made no other edits. I've always found the Wikipedia coverage of computer science fairly comprehensive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_AllenEdit history of Jtaylord
It's baffling to me why a country that has consistently and fairly been compared with Nazi Germany, to the point of concentration camps and illegal medical experimentation, has been allowed to exist for this long. Drudge reported this morning that they're prepping another nuke test, and it's a well-known fact that they've been developing chem and bio weapons for years. A new Hitler has risen, and we are so busy looking elsewhere that we either haven't noticed or don't care.
Concentration camps... illegal medical experimentation... a new Hitler.
So after NK is pacified, America has replacements for all the Nazi scientists that died of old age? Remind me to invest heavily in American bio-tech and weapons development over the next 30 years.
It's admittedly OT but I'm wondering if other people find the Kubuntu modifications to Vanilla KDE as annoying as I do.
I've tried to like it but every version of Kubuntu I've played with has horribly broken my normal KDE customizations. The last one I noticed was that having konqueror preserve different directories in multiple tabs is broken, after saving the settings and re-running konqueror you're left with multiple tabs with only the first open to a directory.
If it was just that one example I'd submit a bug report and move on but it seems every time I try to customize KDE, Kubuntu has problems with it. Which leaves me wondering why you'd even fork the distro away from Gnome (which is better suited to people who don't customize their desktop extensively).
Down this AC poster, he's not even talking about the right person.
How it got +2 interesting I'll never understand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_PerensMy point is this: can anyone explain to me what precisely yahoo contributes to the internet nowadays?
To be honest I'd completely forgotten yahoo existed. Thankfully I managed to dredge up a link.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yahoo&btnG=Go ogle+Search&meta= gave me a reference to http://www.yahoo.com/.
I'd strongly suggest not clicking on the second, it appears to be a linkfarm.
There are many Alzheimer's patients around the world that have the mental capacity as two-week-old pre-embryonic blastocyst and would probably do about as well against you in a game of chess.
Your first comparison was genetic material versus an adult, now you're comparing them to alzheimer's patients?
With logic like that you should be defending creationism.