Anidav posted:Absolutely and here's why! They have gently caress all else, and this is a public threat that the banks are going to make labours life a living hell if they campaign on this issue.
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norp posted:If you think no crimes have been committed with a particular type of gun in the last 125 years then I have a bridge to sell you. OK Farmer Brown may have poached an emu with a lever-action shotgun in 1903 or something, but it seems a stretch to go from "someone may have possibly committed a low profile crime in the last century" to "what kind of poo poo stain wants to put these guns on our streets PANIC PANIC THIS IS TERRIFYING NEW TECHNOLOGY " Kat Delacour posted:A good graph that should be more prominent in the HECS debate (Click for article) I'm sure this has nothing to do with the push for every man woman and child to go to university (even if it's Gender Studies with a minor in some language that's been dead for centuries), therefore devaluing higher education. Mithranderp posted:Just look at the way people carry on when someone tries to apply any sort of academic criticism to video games. If they can't handle even a simple feminist critique then it doesn't deserve to be art So a minority of weirdos are bitter over some issue I'm happy to say I've managed to avoid learning about. This is a truly bizarre way to judge if something qualifies as art. GoldStandardConure posted:LibertyCat: do you attend any arts festivals at all? Do you visit galleries or go to see a show at the theatre? You also said you would shut down the AIS, do you follow any sports at all? No, Not in Australia, No, Not really. I enjoy participating in sport more than watching. Don't think I'm some kind of robot who doesn't appreciate art tho. I have been to the Louvre, Sistine Chapel and a bunch of world renowned artistic sites. I enjoy exploring weird new genres of music on youtube. I play two instruments (admittedly nowhere near pro level, I play just because I enjoy it) and started when I was in primary school. Editing MIDI files is fun. I am not kidding when I say I was more moved during the events of the Mass Effect series than I ever was by the works of Beethoven or Leonardo da Vinci. Saying video games aren't art is purely snobbery - how dare the hoi polloi have a say on what is and isn't art. Based on sales figures I'd rather see video games subsidized than some overpriced work selected by unelected wankers that is only appreciated by a tiny fraction of society. LibertyCat fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Spudd posted:Jackson Pollock is so loving good. I think it looks like someone gave an autistic chimpanzee a paintbrush and too much caffeine. I guess beauty really is in the eye.
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Hey Cat you should've gone to APT8 in Brisbane, it was a great exhibition which had art from a variety of Asia-Pacific cultures.
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If Brisbane were closer I probably would check it out occasionally. Oh yeah if you ever find yourself in Italy the Vatican Museum shits all over the sistine chapel.
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Isn't Vatican City where they keep the dudes who concealed paedophilia in the church?
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LibertyCat posted:OK Farmer Brown may have poached an emu with a lever-action shotgun in 1903 or something, but it seems a stretch to go from "someone may have possibly committed a low profile crime in the last century" to "what kind of poo poo stain wants to put these guns on our streets PANIC PANIC THIS IS TERRIFYING NEW TECHNOLOGY " Even you can surely admit that the reason this gun is legal is an oversight when they were drafting the law. That it applies only to pump actions isn't because they didn't want to ban lever actions, but because they didn't know about them. open24hours fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Charges have been formally filed against the 60 Minutes team currently imprisoned in Lebanon over a failed child recovery operation. Four charges, including one relating to kidnapping, are expected to be brought against reporter Tara Brown and three other members of the 60 Minutes team, Channel Nine reported. The group are expected to go before a judge within the next few hours. lol
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Lid posted:Charges have been formally filed against the 60 Minutes team currently imprisoned in Lebanon over a failed child recovery operation. hahahaha
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https://twitter.com/DanielAndrewsMP/status/719799320677982208 blaze it
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Victoria: The Garden State of Mind
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open24hours posted:Even you can surely admit that the reason this gun is legal is due to an oversight when they were drafting the law. That it applies only to pump actions isn't because they didn't want to ban lever actions, but because they didn't know about them. It's quite likely. Even if you agree with Gun Control, it's not like our weapons laws were drafted in a competent and proportionate manner. Silencers (that a crim could make in an evening with a trip to bunnings)? Let's treat them like Rocket Launchers , despite being legal in Britain NZ and most of the USA, because Hollywood. Paintball markers? Let's consider them as dangerous as 12ga shotguns. Air rifles (also unregulated in Britain and NZ)? Let's treat them as 12ga shotguns as well. If you jump through the hoops you may as well buy a 12ga. Safes? Meh, a locked wooden cupboard will do in Qld. A gun that is otherwise legal 22lr but looks just a bit too much like a scary machine gun? Better treat it as if it actually is a machine gun A blank-firing starting pistol? Let's treat it like it's an actual pistol. Pump-action Rifle? No problem Pump-action Shotgun? etc etc
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LibertyCat posted:I think it looks like someone gave an autistic chimpanzee a paintbrush and too much caffeine. I guess beauty really is in the eye. *looks at a Pollock work* LibertyCat: I could do that But you didn't.
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LibertyCat posted:Don't think I'm some kind of robot who doesn't appreciate art tho. I have been to the Louvre, Sistine Chapel and a bunch of world renowned artistic sites. I enjoy exploring weird new genres of music on youtube. I play two instruments (admittedly nowhere near pro level, I play just because I enjoy it) and started when I was in primary school. Editing MIDI files is fun. Local libertarian believes video games are art, but traditional art is boring and not worth funding in news shocker. I'm not the sort of person who hates video games - i've got thousands of them ffs (thx Pickled Tink) - and while I don't particularly hate art, I recognise that having it is important for the expression of our culture. I simply don't understand the mindset that says art needs to generate a return, art needs to conform to my own particular views, etc - the entire point of art is to generate things of beauty, to express alternative viewpoints that don't conform with the norm. Recoome posted:Isn't Vatican City where they keep the dudes who concealed paedophilia in the church? Vatican City rhymes with Paedophile Paradise.
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In a way I'm sympathetic to parts of your argument. That airsoft guns and low-powered air guns are treated like real guns is the only real problem I have with our gun laws. Silencers should be legal though.
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I forgot Airsoft, it's actually my favorite example of firearms law stupidityQld police website posted:Airsoft weapons, under current legislation, irrespective of muzzle velocity, cannot be lawfully possessed in Queensland. As an Airsoft firearm cannot be used in Queensland lawfully it cannot be imported into Queensland. Unlawful possession of such weapons may result in prosecution for weapons related offences. They are toys. They fire little plastic pellets. oh it gets better quote:Should the Airsoft firearm replicate a military style assault rifle (Category D) then the Airsoft weapon will also be classified as a Category D weapon. If you get caught with a childs toy that looks like a machine gun (aka what they give out in showbags at the Ekka every year) you face the same charges as actually owning a machine gun. LibertyCat fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Air soft and the lower power air rifles I am fine with deregulating, but I have no problem with the licensing and regulation of paintball markers though.
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Chris Berg with his most recent entry into the "dumbest thing said this century" competition: "Tax havens perform an important function by putting downwards pressure on domestic tax rates. They are the global economy's escape valve - preventing sclerotic Western welfare states from pushing taxes up and up." Citation needed Mr. Berg. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-12/berg-are-the-panama-papers-really-such-a-scandal/7316618
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hooman posted:Chris Berg with his most recent entry into the "dumbest thing said this century" competition: poo poo, beat be to it. gently caress this guy.
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Airsoft is all over Rural QLD, You see kids playing with them and cops don't give a gently caress. Kinda like those kids who strap a lawnmower motor on their bicycles.
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GoldStandardConure posted:I have no problem with the licensing and regulation of paintball markers though. Sure, but at the same level and requirements as 12ga shotguns? Should they need to be locked in a safe that is bolted down (not fun for renters)? Should paint balls be legally considered ammunition? Should a special permit be needed every time you want to buy a new marker even if you're already licensed? If you own a paintball marker is it OK for the cops to visit your house at random just to make sure you are keeping it and the paintballs locked in a safe?
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Spudd posted:We should start an AusPol Gallery where every poster submits art and whoever is voted best gets to perma-ban LibertyCat. donatello.jpeg is on its way back to Auspol from the depths of imgur. Got this in the bag.
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LibertyCat posted:I was more moved during the events of the Mass Effect series than I ever was by the works of Beethoven or Leonardo da Vinci. Not only the stupidest opinion I've heard all day, also the worst opinion I've ever heard on the Internet.
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BlitzkriegOfColour posted:Not only the stupidest opinion I've heard all day, also the worst opinion I've ever heard on the Internet. I had chills when I learned that the Reapers were created by an AI in order to harvest organic beings to stop them from creating AI that would kill all organic beings. Truly the most moving piece of fiction in centuries.
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I wonder why this was suggested to me
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tithin posted:having it is important for the expression of our culture. This is probably the part that bothers me most. How can art be an expression of our culture if its production is based on undemocratic methods? It's an expression of the culture of the committees that choose the art that gets funded, or at best what they interpret as our culture. It's like when a council commissions a piece of art to go in a local park: it doesn't reflect the culture or tastes of the local people so much as it reflects on the small fraction that got to make the decision. For something like that I'd prefer that the locals get input into the commissioning of the piece. I also reject the notion that alternative art enriches the lives of those who don't value it. You need to have a somewhat open mind for it to make much of an impression, not to mention the desire to actually expose yourself to it in the first place. That people would only fund boring worthless poo poo but that committee funded art would enrich their lives seem like conflicting statements to me.
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LibertyCat posted:I am not kidding when I say I was more moved during the events of the Mass Effect series than I ever was by the works of Beethoven or Leonardo da Vinci. This is amazing.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:I had chills when I learned that the Reapers were created by an AI in order to harvest organic beings to stop them from creating AI that would kill all organic beings. Truly the most moving piece of fiction in centuries. Sure Kafka's Metamorphosis is worth a read but did you see when Shepherd took down that big-rear end robot with all pew-pew lasers? Chills down my spine, man.
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Mad Katter posted:I wonder why this was suggested to me Freedom to not pay tax on tobacco and then spend your latter half of your life being looked after in taxpayer funded hospitals
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you skilfully craft the medium of poo poo in the form of posts would fund
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Sure, I could write my thesis on nuclear particles Professor but DID YOU SEE THE WAY SHEPARD TOOK ON THE REAPERS, CHILLS.
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LibertyCat posted:Sure, but at the same level and requirements as 12ga shotguns? Should they need to be locked in a safe that is bolted down (not fun for renters)? Should paint balls be legally considered ammunition? Should a special permit be needed every time you want to buy a new marker even if you're already licensed? Safes I wouldn't mind either way, but I have no issue with needing to register a paintball marker when you purchase one. If you are licensed, sure make the acquisition of a second or so marker a bit easier, but I am all for having them require registration to own and not have them sold over the counter at department stores.
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Hello friends, I came to share the best video game art
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Bifauxnen posted:Hello friends, I came to share the best video game art Also 60 minutes? More like 3-6 years lol http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-12/60-minutes-crew-to-be-charged-in-lebanon/7321104
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Tonight on 60 minutes: the dodgy Lebanese builder kidnapping our fat kids, and the miracle diet that can bring them back (To Australia).
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LibertyCat posted:Based on sales figures I'd rather see video games subsidized than some overpriced work selected by unelected wankers that is only appreciated by a tiny fraction of society. I'd like video games subsidised as well as other mediums of art. I just think you're a loving idiot for thinking that should be based on sales figures. The fact they sell well would surely mean they need fewer subsidies, wouldn't it?
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Anidav posted:Absolutely and here's why! So ASIC already has more powers than a royal commission but if a royal commission were held it would destroy the banking sector because of the powers it would have. fascinating
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Screen Australia has actually funded the development of quite a few video games. https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/productions/Whats_On/games.aspx Who wouldn't want to play Bonza Word Puzzle! Actually Hand of Fate is pretty fun.
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LibertyCat posted:I am not kidding when I say I was more moved during the events of the Mass Effect series than I ever was by the works of Beethoven or Leonardo da Vinci. e: hooman posted:Chris Berg with his most recent entry into the "dumbest thing said this century" competition: BBJoey fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Who could forget the Half Life mod Escape from Woomera? https://twitter.com/maxuthink/status/719670313366085633
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