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Nov 2, 2013 10:32:52 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 2, 2013 10:32:52 GMT 10
I've recently reacquainted myself with The Bugle thebuglepodcast.com/It's so good. It's like the daily show but with all restraint removed. I stopped listening ... for a while ... after the times-online bustup. I think it's actually better now. I think murdoch was holding them back ... right before kicking them out the front door with a "don't you @#%!ers ever come back". To be fair, I think they were asking for it. Literally :-)
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Nov 2, 2013 10:50:54 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 2, 2013 10:50:54 GMT 10
Thing I learned from the bugle today. Dixon, Illinois. The boyhood home of Ronald Reagan, and now .... This
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Nov 2, 2013 12:30:36 GMT 10
Post by angra on Nov 2, 2013 12:30:36 GMT 10
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Nov 2, 2013 16:36:27 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 2, 2013 16:36:27 GMT 10
I dare say ... you might well have just proposed a car commercial.
Nah, it's probably been done.
I'm very annoying to watch TV with, because (due to my very unique television-watching arrangements) I don't ever see commercials. Most of the advertisements I see these days are on youtube, to be honest. For a while I was seeing some really interesting MTV ads on The Daily Show ... which I watch using a ... never mind.
So every now and then somebody will fool me into watching the telly using the old-fashioned "watch whatever crap they happen to be broadcasting at this very moment" arrangement. And that ADS! Oh, the ads. I still remember the time I fell off a beanbag after seeing an ad involving a guy in a ute collecting rocks for his missus. The punchline - "Get many meteorites?". I think the people with me at the time wondered if I was insane. No, I was just in the mood for a good laugh, and that was perfect.
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Nov 2, 2013 20:43:28 GMT 10
Post by chookmustard on Nov 2, 2013 20:43:28 GMT 10
Hi guys,
I'm finally coming out of my deep depression after the election. Haven't had the heart to read anything from Bolt et al The gloating would be unholy
Can't even bring myself to read Joe Hildebrand.
Politics has taken the wind outa me sails. I haven't noticed labor make much of opposition yet. Adam Bandt had a crack with his AGW/ bush fires/ direct action sledge. Good on him for trying at least.
Speaking of fires, I've had a few nervous days in my area re bush fire. Been flat out at times preparing the property.
I work in the bush everyday I can see how very very dry things are. It's kinda scary!
Anyways, I've been listening to podcasts that do not involve politics to cheer me up.
I'm sure Tony is a nice guy but him and his party and front bench have no soul
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Nov 3, 2013 8:07:39 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 3, 2013 8:07:39 GMT 10
"I've been listening to podcasts that do not involve politics to cheer me up"
I'm not quite as heart-broken about the 'leccy result as it seems some are. I was sufficiently appalled by the last lot's internal chaos that I wasn't really expecting anything else. I think the outcome was helped along by vast numbers of australians believing a bunch of things that aren't actually true, but regardless ... I think the ALP had to be turfed simply because they'd become dysfunctional. I'd love to see them try another term in office just out of morbid curiosity, but ... only if it could be done in some sort of hyperspace alternate reality so that it couldn't affect the country.
I think the current lot are going to be interesting to watch. Where "interesting" could mean all sorts of things.
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Nov 3, 2013 8:22:31 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 3, 2013 8:22:31 GMT 10
What a mess in WA.
I think it's probably only human to be suspicious. One packet of votes went missing? Completely disappeared. Just one? And just in THAT seat?
There's surely going to be an inquiry over that, and I feel sorry for the AEC ducklings who're going to be in the room with the bare bulb and the grumpy senators, because I suspect that they didn't actually do anything wrong, and I imagine that some of the inquirers will have things that they'd like to work into the recommendations.
I know people who work / have worked at the AEC, and all of them (the ones I know, anyway) are as objectively apolitical as you're likely to find anywhere. It's a pretty small outfit, too. It annoys me that people like clive (and plenty of others, when it suits them) put the boot in, because it seems a bit misguided.
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Nov 3, 2013 15:57:42 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 3, 2013 15:57:42 GMT 10
Random observations ... NBN Co given approval to connect 150,000 more homes to minimise impact on construction industryHang on ... that's a bit odd. When did the good of the construction industry become a concern of the new government? That's the sort of thing the LAST government worried about ... at least, publicly. Last week's map-boundary rejig was a chuckle. A friend saw his house's status change TWICE the day that was announced. And while I don't doubt that the labs were very very optimistic in their interpretation of "under construction", I know for a fact that the claim that the guv was just readjusting the boundaries to reflect the actual ongoing work on the ground isn't true ... because I actually spoke to the guys doing the work in my street the week before. Like, actually there, with the access hatches to the ducts open, actually doing the prep-work to lay fibre. A Telstra ute on my footpath and all. I was "under construction" then, and now I'm not. Awkward. If they're not going to continue the hook-up to my street, then that means somebody's cancelled work that was already under way, which is at odds with last week's statement. I wonder if today's news is just a way to blur the edges a bit, and "worries for the construction industry" just means "worried about being sued for breach of contract by the construction industry" That said ... FTTN would actually be fine for me personally in the near future, assuming that ever happens (not a lot of liberal votes in canberra ...). In the event that I need more, I'll just write a check for the $5K. My interest in the NBN has always been to get Telstra's cold, rotting hand away from the throat of Australian economic growth.
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Nov 3, 2013 16:05:36 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 3, 2013 16:05:36 GMT 10
And .... Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss says the West Australian Senate recount has been a "debacle" and a "huge embarrassment" to Australia's electoral system.Yes! I totally agree. And THAT'S why the AEC should immediately stop its agressive approach to pre-enrolling people who've recently left school, or moved out of the family. And, from now on, the rolls should be frozen the week before an election is called ... or whenever tony wants to freeze them. Making sure that young people get the chance to vote is precisely what got us into this mess. I know, I know - that's not at the LNP is actually saying. It's what they'll be saying at the end of the inquiry, though. It's a great shame - wingnuts now have all the evidence they need to expand their magical conspiratorial thinking. Next stop - The Queen.
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Nov 3, 2013 16:23:06 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 3, 2013 16:23:06 GMT 10
Firefox 25 now has a setting for add-ons ... "ask to activate"
So now I can leave adobe flash DISABLED, but not have to go through the nonsense of reloading the page when I want to watch a video on a site which hasn't got with the program yet.
Yaaaaaay!!!
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Nov 3, 2013 16:26:18 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 3, 2013 16:26:18 GMT 10
Every body ... PANIC!!!!!!!
Paul Anthony Ciancia shot a bunch of people with an assault rifle in LAX and killed a cop!
(... What? ...)
Just a second, gotta take this ...
(... yeah? What? Not a what? Oh, not a muslim? Ok, thanks ...)
As you were everyone. You won't hear about this one again after Tuesday, at the latest. Sorry to bother you unnecessarily.
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Post by jreidy on Nov 3, 2013 18:26:09 GMT 10
Actually you might hear about the shooting (although not from News Ltd), apparently there was an Aussie student trapped there, and was live tweeting during the shooting (including pics), I am continually surprised by how the Internet and mobile technologies are changing everything.
Oh and Chook, yes the right wing media (read NewsLtd) are completely unbearable, but at least we don't have to be continually disappointed by a Labor Govt. The sad thing is apart from the major factor of the chaos; Labor didn't loose because they went too far left, it was they didn't go far enough.
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Nov 4, 2013 11:44:48 GMT 10
Post by jack on Nov 4, 2013 11:44:48 GMT 10
So, I watched the JFK Smoking Gun thing on SBS last night.
Apparently the weight of evidence points to the fatal shot being an accidental misfire of a single round from an automatic weapon by a butterfingered Secret Service agent named George Hickey.
Against astronomical odds, the shot doesn't hit Mrs Kennedy, or Governor or Mrs Connolly, or the driver of the presidential limo, or any other bystanders.
Rather, the POTUS's brains are blown out by a perfectly placed shot of which, under the circumstances, any marksman would be proud.
Thus, Hickey unwittingly finishes Oswald's half-botched job for him.
Clearly this is just outlandish enough to be true!!!1!!
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Nov 4, 2013 15:59:03 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 4, 2013 15:59:03 GMT 10
"So, I watched the JFK Smoking Gun thing on SBS last night"
What are the odds? My nigh[1]-magical TV watching arrangements let me down. Or, rather, Canberra's rather curious constantly-swirling TV reception conditions did me in. When I got to the file this morning, it was a load of rubbish, so I didn't get to see the load of rubbish. If it's on the on-demand then I'll take a look.
[1] You too, huh?[2] [2] if anyone gets that reference, I will be very impressed.
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Nov 4, 2013 18:04:38 GMT 10
Post by chookmustard on Nov 4, 2013 18:04:38 GMT 10
You guys cheer me up!
I'm disappointed that a lot of people never got the full picture. May not have changed result if it had, but folks should be properly informed.
I didn't vote labor anywho
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