I hadn't researched/.'s history of postings from them. I'll agree that the interface is annoyingly shiny. However I'd never seen the site before today, and I'm already reading some interesting material. Example: https://theoutline.com/post/40...
Not really germane but I had to thank you for posting the link to that intersection in Arlington Heights. I lived near it and I used to go through it every day on the way to work. The picture doesn't show the blind spot for anyone coming down Park from the north but it still shows enough of the horror.
I wanted to say Townsville or Rockhampton but neither alliterate with "blogger".
Broken Hill! Yeah, goats and blogs in Broken Hill... and hey, it's NSW. Suddenly an entire state is Not Safely Wanking, at least online. Hmmm... nah. Let's keep the goats free.
Allow me to clarify. What, beyond "we get a tip and then send a nastygram" would happen? Assume, perhaps, that the recipient of said nastygram places it in the memory hole. Then what? Is that the moment three SWAT team dudes burst into the door or is there a fine? What is the scale of enforcement?
I ask this because that will determine how serious the government is about this censorship. Is it on the level of posting a prominently English sign on a shop in Montreal (thereby violating Bill 101), where the Office of the French Language depends on a photograph of the violation which would be the equivalent of dropping a dime?
Neither link provides any detail about how they're going to make such rules stick. What will be the fine for a blogger in Brisbane that talks about goat sodomy?
Also, how would such a crime be prosecuted? Most police work in Australia is state-based and not federal. I'm assuming there is an equivalent to the FBI which will handle detection, evidence collection and prosecution.
Are they going to use packet filtering to detect what people download or will they simply be picking on ISPs hosting content for not hassling their web serving customers?
Honestly, I'm not being sarcastic. I'm just looking at this as a scare tactic without teeth, since the notice from Canberra makes no mention of tactics. Please provide links if you find them.
Oh man, that was the peak moment for me. This was back when Joel was the human, the show was still on Comedy Central and Friday nights meant everyone in the dorm would gather to get 'faced and laugh. This one in particular featured a woman calling herself "Mister B#". Yep. It was a shill from a certain brass musical instrument manufacturer. Some highlights:
Joel, Crow and Tom, singing to the opening theme: "Come on and buy some crap from uuuuuus! You know that you want too! And the White race will salute you!"
Mister B: "If you wanna be as big as a giant, blow a Sousaphone!" Tom: "Oh now you're in your own weird area here."
The industrial films as opening pieces were often better than the full flicks... or maybe I just had a shorter concentration span from all the chemistry. Another favorite was the Union Pacific safety film feature the line that still haunts me, "gentle pressure". The bots wound up doing a mockery piece afterwards about getting your eyes welded open from lack of safety.
Oh wait, what about TV's Frank and his production company? That rules too. TV's Frank was what I lived to see. "Oh yeah Crow, I'm shopping the option for your 'Earth Versus Soup' script..." he says on a headset phone as he plays with a desk chochke (or is it his fingers? Man, chemistry...).
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I hadn't researched /.'s history of postings from them. I'll agree that the interface is annoyingly shiny. However I'd never seen the site before today, and I'm already reading some interesting material. Example: https://theoutline.com/post/40...
Not really germane but I had to thank you for posting the link to that intersection in Arlington Heights. I lived near it and I used to go through it every day on the way to work. The picture doesn't show the blind spot for anyone coming down Park from the north but it still shows enough of the horror.
I wanted to say Townsville or Rockhampton but neither alliterate with "blogger".
Broken Hill! Yeah, goats and blogs in Broken Hill... and hey, it's NSW. Suddenly an entire state is Not Safely Wanking, at least online. Hmmm... nah. Let's keep the goats free.
Allow me to clarify. What, beyond "we get a tip and then send a nastygram" would happen? Assume, perhaps, that the recipient of said nastygram places it in the memory hole. Then what? Is that the moment three SWAT team dudes burst into the door or is there a fine? What is the scale of enforcement?
I ask this because that will determine how serious the government is about this censorship. Is it on the level of posting a prominently English sign on a shop in Montreal (thereby violating Bill 101), where the Office of the French Language depends on a photograph of the violation which would be the equivalent of dropping a dime?
Neither link provides any detail about how they're going to make such rules stick. What will be the fine for a blogger in Brisbane that talks about goat sodomy?
Also, how would such a crime be prosecuted? Most police work in Australia is state-based and not federal. I'm assuming there is an equivalent to the FBI which will handle detection, evidence collection and prosecution.
Are they going to use packet filtering to detect what people download or will they simply be picking on ISPs hosting content for not hassling their web serving customers?
Honestly, I'm not being sarcastic. I'm just looking at this as a scare tactic without teeth, since the notice from Canberra makes no mention of tactics. Please provide links if you find them.
Oh man, that was the peak moment for me. This was back when Joel was the human, the show was still on Comedy Central and Friday nights meant everyone in the dorm would gather to get 'faced and laugh. This one in particular featured a woman calling herself "Mister B#". Yep. It was a shill from a certain brass musical instrument manufacturer. Some highlights:
Joel, Crow and Tom, singing to the opening theme: "Come on and buy some crap from uuuuuus! You know that you want too! And the White race will salute you!"
Mister B: "If you wanna be as big as a giant, blow a Sousaphone!"
Tom: "Oh now you're in your own weird area here."
The industrial films as opening pieces were often better than the full flicks... or maybe I just had a shorter concentration span from all the chemistry. Another favorite was the Union Pacific safety film feature the line that still haunts me, "gentle pressure". The bots wound up doing a mockery piece afterwards about getting your eyes welded open from lack of safety.
Oh wait, what about TV's Frank and his production company? That rules too. TV's Frank was what I lived to see. "Oh yeah Crow, I'm shopping the option for your 'Earth Versus Soup' script..." he says on a headset phone as he plays with a desk chochke (or is it his fingers? Man, chemistry...).