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Murodese posted:http://www.itnews.com.au/News/401763,brandis-to-introduce-site-blocking-legislation-this-week.aspx 2008 called, they want their legislation proposals back 
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Murodese posted:http://www.itnews.com.au/News/401763,brandis-to-introduce-site-blocking-legislation-this-week.aspx I bet everyone at whirlpool and OCAU is glad that we voted Conroy's party out.
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Mar 17, 2015 12:59
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Labor will probably vote it through. If I wasn't a goon that'd probably be the moment I'd quit in an alternate timeline.
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Mar 17, 2015 13:01
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Murodese posted:http://www.itnews.com.au/News/401763,brandis-to-introduce-site-blocking-legislation-this-week.aspx It's not even a filter aimed to stop anything but Foxtel losing their precious profits. Rupert's crying poor and the LNP government must dance like the puppets they are to please their lord.
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Mar 17, 2015 13:12
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Gough Suppressant posted:surely then you'd just kidnap the executives of any company whose details weren't published. Or crack open the Forbes list.
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Mar 17, 2015 13:27
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If you look at how Foxtel, RIAA/MIAA and MPAA rally against piracy, it's an interesting contrast to the stance some video game publishers have taken on the matter. Paradox Interactive have come out and said that instead of making the new game Cities: Skylines harder to pirate, they're just going to keep providing post-release updates and content and make it easier for people to access this by simply having a legit copy. If you look back pre-Steam and other digital distribution models, software piracy for video games was rampant. While it hasn't completely stopped piracy, online distribution has certainly had a major impact in reducing the instances of piracy that do occur.
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They thought we were gone. They called us a "footnote in political history". But this election, we're back. And we're keeping the bastards honest. Goons, I'd like to introduce a new contender for the NSW Upper House for 2015:  Rendall Wagner, from Point Clare on the Central Coast, has signed up for an Upper House ticket along with a dozen other Australian Democrats candidates around the state. The NSW Australian Democrats are firmly behind putting a total kybosh on coal seam gas (exploration as well as fracking), keeping the Libs from starving TAFE of its funding, supporting the growth and development of manufacturing and hi-tech industry, improvement and further development of passenger rail and making the most out of the NBN. In particular, Rendall wants to see more telecommuting, teleconferencing and other work from home initiatives in places like Gosford and Wyong. Some background for those not familiar with the Dems (especially foreign goons): Founded in 1977, the Australian Democrats are a nominally centrist (but noticeably left-wing in practice) party devoted to government transparency and accountability (as expressed by the rather colourful slogan "Keep The Bastards Honest"), the absence of corporate or other vested interests in politics, economic justice, social justice and human rights. (Basically, we're the polar opposite of the LNP and ALP, but not as far left as the Greens.) In 1986, Janine Haines took the helm of the Dems to become the first woman in Australia to lead a political party. Ten years later, things fell apart when Meg "the gays are ruining the party" Lees failed to hold John Howard accountable for introducing tax reforms he said weren't going to happen. The Goods and Services Tax passed the Senate, the Dems as a whole were blamed and despite maintaining a Senate presence right up until 2008, the party's reputation was permanently stained. In 2012, a near-bankrupt money hungry shitstain by the name of John Davey set up his own faction with the intent of taking over control of the party completely, aided and abetted by the then-president of the NSW state division and some other muckety-mucks in the National Executive (ironically, this all happened shortly after I joined the party). Calling themselves 'RebootD' and claiming their aim was to give the Dems a fresh start, Davey and company laid waste to the party's organizational structure and finances EVE-style, including looting $22,000 from the national bank account and hijacking all the web domains, engaging in some truly bizarre correspondence with the Australian Electoral Commission that nearly cost the party's national registration, seizing control of the official social media accounts and using them to slander and bully the living crap out of anyone who questioned their actions, and holding their own separate national executive meetings where they pretended that the Democrats' national president, Darren Churchill, had resigned. After a concerted effort involving the real NE and the AEC, RebootD was given the flick, but three years later we're still picking up the pieces. Needless to say, it cost us the ability to field candidates for the 2013 federal election. Fortunately, we've been able to restore the party's functionality enough to get Rendall Wagner and friends on this year's Legislative Council ticket, and hopefully something can be put together for next year's federal election.
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CrazyTolradi posted:If you look back pre-Steam and other digital distribution models, software piracy for video games was rampant. While it hasn't completely stopped piracy, online distribution has certainly had a major impact in reducing the instances of piracy that do occur. Anecdote: With the advent of steam my piracy of games has dropped to zero. And I've been doing it since the TRS-80. Almost to the point that if it isn't on steam, I could nary give a gently caress even to pirate it.
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I always voted Democrats when they were an available option. Thought they had imploded for good. Good to see you guys are trying to get them back into service!
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MiniSune posted:Anecdote: With the advent of steam my piracy of games has dropped to zero. And I've been doing it since the TRS-80. Sounds like an effective business model to me. starkebn posted:I always voted Democrats when they were an available option. Thought they had imploded for good. Good to see you guys are trying to get them back into service! With a bit of luck, we'll be an available option more often from now on.
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Mar 17, 2015 14:01
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Why should someone looking to "protest vote" or "keep the bastards honest" choose the Dems over the Greens?
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I wouldn't mind the Dems resurging. Anti GST this time, I hope.
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MiniSune posted:Anecdote: With the advent of steam my piracy of games has dropped to zero. And I've been doing it since the TRS-80. Also anecdotal, but I'm in the same boat as you. I've pirated ONE game since Steam developed into a major distribution platform and it was an indie game selling for $60 that I deleted anyway because it was crap. But yeah, the same can be said for my friends too. Steam is a major success story on how to combat copyright infringement in a way that doesn't make it impossible to enjoy something you've purchased and makes it more convenient to access that content. Convenience and appropriate pricing, to a lesser extent, is the best strategy to sell more, who'd have thought it? Not the RIAA or MPAA. Nah, just stick to the good old days of the late 80's and early 90's when you could gouge a customer and they had no other options because it was VHS or nothing.
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thatfatkid posted:Why should someone looking to "protest vote" or "keep the bastards honest" choose the Dems over the Greens? I guess if you're pro-liberal capitalism but anti-corruption?
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I wouldn't mind more Dem posters in here, it'd spice up the thread so I hope you don't disappear when the election is all said and done.
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Oh good, finally people who want to vote for a centre right party but don't like the ALP can be represented again.
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I'm not sure about other states, but from my experience local council elections usually don't have candidates campaigning based on their party. Coming back from Coles this evening, Mith and I noticed an electronic billboard ad for a Labor candidate in the coming Brisbane City Council elections. Is this a new thing in local government elections or is it just Brisbane catching up with the rest of the country, as usual?
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Mar 17, 2015 14:43
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How do you expect people to take you seriously with your claim of "keeping the bastards honest", when you are the bastards who assisted in passing the GST, and were found to have dishonestly inflated your party membership resulting in deregistration by the AEC?
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I think because the ALP mayor candidate is a young energetic lawyer, the campaign teams are getting excited and gearing up. A few former comrades have called him "Council Rudd" on Facebook. I'll wait for an actual public appearance to judge but the ALP are gunning for the BCC after the taste of victory which is no doubt still in their mouths after that crazy ride in Janurary. Who knows if it's for the better but Quirk has always struck me as a Newman puppet.
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I think those bastards got replaced with newer, fresher, bastards. "..the number of babies born to unmarried women has increased by 70% in the past ten years. The survey found that half the bastards are total bastards, one third of the bastards aren't half bastards, but calculating what kind of bastard the bastards left over are proved to be a real bastard. They did find, 40% are lazy bastards, 30% are stupid bastards, 20% are ugly bastards and the top 10% are smug bastards" - Paul McDermott, Good News Week
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Gough Suppressant posted:How do you expect people to take you seriously with your claim of "keeping the bastards honest", when you are the bastards who assisted in passing the GST, and were found to have dishonestly inflated your party membership resulting in deregistration by the AEC? 1. What makes you think the whole party was OK with the GST? 2. That was One Nation. Totally different bunch of bastards.
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Anidav posted:I think because the ALP mayor candidate is a young energetic lawyer, the campaign teams are getting excited and gearing up. A few former comrades have called him "Council Rudd" on Facebook. I'll wait for an actual public appearance to judge but the ALP are gunning for the BCC after the taste of victory which is no doubt still in their mouths after that crazy ride in Janurary. I've only been in Brisbane for 6 years now (6 years too long) and I've only ever known the BCC to a LNP shitfest. I really can't see ALP getting numbers to push them out, but hey, I was wrong about the state election so you never know.
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Zetsubou-san posted:I think those bastards got replaced with newer, fresher, bastards. Hey, I have this quote on a Best of Good News Week 1997. It's spectacularly prescient if you look past all the Princess Diana jokes.
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ScreamingLlama posted:They thought we were gone. Hi fronds, pls vote for my party. It is the Democrats, the party that keeps bastards honest. Except for when we passed a horrifically regressive tax against the howls of the entire population. Lol, we didn't even bother to insist that loving tampons and pads not be listed as luxury goods! We have a long and proud history of looking out 4 u. Also you can totally trust us to keep THEM honest, because we have learned our lesson since 2013 and DEFINITELY since last year when we probably got rid of the last of the corrupt bastards in our leadership, I'm p sure iirc. So now we are super double cross our hearts committed to keeping the bastards honest, if by bastards you mean us, and if by honest you mean unelected, because yes, the Democrats are unelectable bastards.
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It's a bit disingenuous to claim the GST was passed to the howls of the entire populace when it was taken to an election and the party doing so formed government. It's still a poo poo tax and the democrats can get hosed forever for passing it.
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ScreamingLlama posted:1. What makes you think the whole party was OK with the GST? 1)It is in the minds of most people the single most defining act of the Australian Democrats. You can't try to resurrect the name of a party and trade on don chipp's catchphrases for some easy notoriety without also being linked to that. 2) Nope, the party claimed it had well above the threshold for registration, the AEC reckoned you were lying and what do you know, turns out you were. If you are claiming this incarnation to be a fresh face and has no institutional memory of those things then it sure as gently caress has no connection to any of the far more distant virtues you're laying claim to.
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All this talk of change from the old parties when we all know the new two-party system is pup and amep. I trust Muir to be a friend of the worker, Palmer the friend of capital. Only the Greens and One Nation have stayed true to their founding principles.
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thatfatkid posted:Why should someone looking to "protest vote" or "keep the bastards honest" choose the Dems over the Greens? ScreamingLlama please address this i'm genuinely interested, as right now when i think of the Dems i picture a socially-liberal Liberal party and the GST.
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http://www.theguardian.com/australi...ion?CMP=soc_567quote:Private companies such as those controlled by the billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart will be exempt from new laws requiring the publication of their tax information because of fears this could jeopardise their safety and possibly lead to kidnappings. 
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You know, if multi-billion-dollar businesses did publish their tax Hi, ASIO.
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Anidav posted:drat guys you probably scared the Den away. As if it were anything other than a gimmick post
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What is with that photo? I can't tell if it's legitimately trying to paint her in an attractive, thoughtful light or if she just insisted on that photo because she is too rich to give a poo poo. Well obviously the second part is true regardless but it's just a weird photo. And if thou gaze long into an abyss...
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All we're saying is they're special and you normos(normal people) cant be trusted.Anidav posted:Fairfax is reporting incoming ALP staffers have been greeted with this message, written in permenent market on a wall inside the Executive Building: Lmbo
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"If yall knew how rich the big end of town was yall would start choppin necks, im just sayin" -josh "skidmark" fryndenburg
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katlington posted:"If yall knew how rich the big end of town was yall would start choppin necks, im just sayin" -josh "skidmark" fryndenburg http://www.vox.com/2015/3/17/8233343/one-chart-that-shows-just-how-ridiculously-huge-wall-street-bonuses
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