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Taear posted:A good side effect of the way music has fragmented is that even I've heard of the big hot groups because EVERYONE has and they're megastars. Actually there are loads, you just haven't heard of them.
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big scary monsters posted:Actually there are loads, you just haven't heard of them. Yeah, I hadn't heard of Imagine Dragons until someone linked me to a YouTube video with over 100 million views. I didn't start watching it before asking which Twilight movie they'd had a song in.
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Jun 29, 2015 15:15
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Music is good in 2015
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Jun 29, 2015 15:22
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There's some really good new poo poo coming out and I enjoy keeping abreast of things while also having a massive backlog of old folk and punk bands to discover. I mean I remember the day Frightened Rabbit finally clicked for me, it was glorious, even better than when Joy Division did.
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Jun 29, 2015 15:28
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tdrules posted:Music is good in 2015 This, but ironically.
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Jun 29, 2015 15:30
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This has just been retweeted onto my timeline
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well, the first time I said: they weren't really expecting to win it and were expecting a Labour government it looks like it's true the second time too
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Jun 29, 2015 17:10
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Maybe he's a liar who'd say anything while fully intending to get elected, just throwing that out there
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To be fair, he didn't say that he wouldn't cancel transport projects, only that labour/snp coalition would do it as well.
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Jun 29, 2015 17:21
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Pretty awkward, though. Page 11, Conservative manifesto.
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Jun 29, 2015 17:35
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The only parts of a manifesto to survive an election day are the awful bits, it's not that hard to figure out.
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big scary monsters posted:Actually there are loads, you just haven't heard of them. Yes I have
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TinTower posted:Pretty awkward, though. Is this their first manifesto pledge to be broken? Nearly two months is pretty good!!
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Taear posted:Yes I have This is a great argument I can't wait to see how this pans out
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/spins a turntable anticlockwise under a full moon at midnight, casts Summon Bozza So South West Trains offer season tickets. If you lose your ticket you're entitled to one (1) replacement per 12 month period. I can sort of see why because they're just dumb pieces of paper so theoretically you could sell your annual season tickets (face value: £4,000 from where I live) on the black market and then ask for a refund. They're also trialling electronic ticketing, Oyster style. TfL offer unlimited replacements of season-ticket Oyster cards because they can cancel the missing card remotely. They charge you a small fee but there's no limits to the number of times you can get a replacement. I've heard that SWT are going to keep their one-replacement-only policy even when they switch to electronic tickets. Presumably this is because they're greedy bastards and like the idea of pocketing some extra cash from their customers. I know this isn't really Network Rail's business but I wondered if you'd heard anything on the grapevine about whether that's true or not?
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The train station nearest my place, and the one at work both don't have barriers. I spend like £1,500 a year on season tickets and, given that i never need put it through a barrier and the guards never take it out of the little plastic wallet i'm honestly wondering why i don't start printing my own on glossy card. They only need to stand up to a cursory glance every couple of days.
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Oberleutnant posted:Is this their first manifesto pledge to be broken? Nearly two months is pretty good!! Pretty sure they broke one within 24 hours, though I can't remember which one now.
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Jedit posted:Pretty sure they broke one within 24 hours, though I can't remember which one now. Deeper cuts in welfare than the 12 billion announced iirc
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Zephro posted:They're also trialling electronic ticketing, Oyster style. TfL offer unlimited replacements of season-ticket Oyster cards because they can cancel the missing card remotely. They charge you a small fee but there's no limits to the number of times you can get a replacement. I've heard that SWT are going to keep their one-replacement-only policy even when they switch to electronic tickets. Presumably this is because they're greedy bastards and like the idea of pocketing some extra cash from their customers.
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Jun 29, 2015 18:15
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Guavanaut posted:Don't leftists and environmentalists get more backlash from the anti-terror poo poo than neo-nazis and religious extremists? I would have to say yes, given the fact that the training area I visited was mostly kitted out for animal rights and anti-capitalist protests.
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Jun 29, 2015 18:24
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Well, if you accept that generally leftists are interested in punching up, whereas right wing groups usually want to punch down, who do you think the filth are going to consider more of a threat?
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Guavanaut posted:It seems strange that they don't do more through phone apps, Google Tap/Apple Pay style. Most smartphones now have the required hardware.  all ticket barriers and validators are required to be dually compatible with the ITSO NFC smartcard standard and EMV contactless. Travel smartcards are also required to be mutually compatible with each other. It's basically organisational inertia that they don't do it.The idea of being able to load both a PTE smartcard and/or single-journey tickets into Apple Wallet is pretty awesome, although I doubt they'll make any progress by 2020; West Yorkshire still don't have pay-as-you-go smartcard functionality. 
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Jun 29, 2015 18:42
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Fracking denied in Little Plumpton, BBC takes to the streets to attempt to prove the decision is undemocratic, interspersed with interviews with industry experts looking like kicked puppies wondering why this happened and exclaiming how terrible it is that progress was denied. Just... ugh.
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Oberleutnant posted:Is this their first manifesto pledge to be broken? Nearly two months is pretty good!! Also, strictly speaking, the Tories are still about one-and-a-half out of three on that promise: there will still be new trains anyway as the Pacers need to be off the network by 2019, and the Northern Hub is still ongoing, albeit in a reduced scale that entails postponing electrification east of Stalybridge. The electrification pledge is clearly broken, though. Interestingly, the Northern and TPE invitation to tender, issued in February, instructs potential franchisees to assume that electrification doesn't happen during the franchise, so the way out was clearly there. That said, the Ordsall Chord should be beneficial for capacity in the interim, especially with crossing services being rerouted via Victoria. One of the major problems with Piccadilly at the moment is that Manchester Airport services to Yorkshire and the North East have to cross the throat then reverse back out, which is a major signalling headache. Once Ordsall is complete, they can go through 13–16, then through Victoria and from there onwards.
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I'm well loving happy my homeland is not going to be fracked. And that the council had a spine.
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I liked the quote from some energy dickhead "It's time for the Government to step in". Greenest Government ever! Now fracking for more fossil fuels!
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So this happened today, just round the corner from where I work: Two suspicious packages found in Exeter 'made safe' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-33308628 BBC News posted:Bomb disposal experts have dealt with two suspicious packages in Exeter which prompted the evacuation of a school, homes and businesses. There's something off about the whole thing. This morning, the rumours flying around were that a suspect package had been found at a mosque. The Express and Echo confirmed this, while stating that the school caretaker found it by railings - railings on one side of the school border a mosque, so the implication was that it was the mosque that was being targeted. The beeb made no mention of the mosque, and later in the day the Express and Echo dropped all reference to it. 'Police aren't treating this as an act of terrorism'? If two bomb threats, targeting civilians in a city centre isn't terrorism, then what is? Was it not terrorism when the IRA planted fake devices? Note that this was long before they declared the devices 'non explosive' and before the controlled explosion. Then there's the complete lack of media attention. I realise they turned out to be false, but for most of the day nobody knew this. It's not like the media to wait and see whether something's real Maybe I'm missing something here. EvilGenius fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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I saw an article on fb earlier about a suspicious package removed by the police up in Peterhead.
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EvilGenius posted:So this happened today, just round the corner from where I work: Arguably if people are planting fake devices, simply not telling people about it denies them the effect? I mean, it's hardly a failure of the police or security services that they can't stop people leaving backpacks around the place.
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OwlFancier posted:Arguably if people are planting fake devices, simply not telling people about it denies them the effect? There was enough info out there to have made a big thing about it, and it did appear on national news. Just not to the sensational degree that I was expecting. Perhaps this is confirmation bias on my part - the only bomb scares I hear about are the ones I hear about.
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I wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone requested it not be reported on, no need to start a panic and as mentioned, it denies the people their goal if it was a planned thing.
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EvilGenius posted:There was enough info out there to have made a big thing about it, and it did appear on national news. Just not to the sensational degree that I was expecting. Many bomb scares don't get reported widely - I think there was a bomb scare near where I lived a year or two back, which required them closing the entire street, investigating some guys home (probably home chemist). Didn't hear anything about it except a single article in the local paper.
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Be more concerned if they start getting reported on constantly to drum up support for antiterrorism legislation.
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EvilGenius posted:So this happened today, just round the corner from where I work: Look it was near a mosque so it can't be muslims so it's not terrorism
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Dabir posted:Look it was near a mosque so it can't be muslims so it's not terrorism
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Guavanaut posted:Maybe they were trying to radicalise the moderates. Radicalise the middle class.
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EvilGenius posted:Then there's the complete lack of media attention. I realise they turned out to be false, but for most of the day nobody knew this. It's not like the media to wait and see whether something's real BBC posted:Exeter BBC posted:Devon and Cornwall police There's your answer; didn't happen in London/SE, didn't happen.
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