Jippa posted:

I need some context.

Slugnoid posted:

After refusing to take any form of action for years the conservative Australian PM recently announced a 'voluntary non-binding postal plebiscite' on gay marriage, basically asking gay australians to beg from everyone else for the right to marry each other rather than putting it up for a parliamentary vote (where it would almost certainly win).

Today Bill Shorten, the Australian opposition party leader finally stood up and gave a speech in parliament tearing apart the PM for his cowardice and saying the poo poo i've been screaming at my TV set since the gay marriage plebiscite was first announced last year.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-10/same-sex-marriage-labor-to-hold-pm-responsible-for-filth/8794580

It's bittersweet since the Labor party was in power for six years recently and flatly refused to hold a vote either - only growing some balls and standing up for marriage equality once they were in opposition.

Volcott posted:

What was Labor's excuse for those six years? I don't follow Aus. politics that closely.

Zaphod42 posted:

https://twitter.com/i/moments/895379101585883136

https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/895358655905792001

mobby_6kl posted:

FYI, you can have one of your shipped from Gina right now for just $350:


https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20170810011119&SearchText=trump+chicken

Zaphod42 posted:

https://twitter.com/i/moments/895379101585883136

https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/895358655905792001

Skippy McPants posted:

The last couple years would make a lot more sense if it turned out the president was just Chick Boo in disguise.

Duodecimal posted:

It's been seven months.

MariusLecter posted:

Luckily only the police can do those things to you here in the US.

ugh its Troika posted:

No they can't. In the US, copyright bullshit is a civil matter.

ugh its Troika posted:

No they can't. In the US, copyright bullshit is a civil matter.

Fart of Presto posted:

http://i.imgur.com/kMvE5OX.gifv

ugh its Troika posted:

No they can't. In the US, copyright bullshit is a civil matter.

quote:

Smash-hit TV series Power is well into season four but impatient fans won't have to wait for the next three episodes. All have leaked onto the Internet having been obtained via a STARZ press portal. In a world first, the episodes were 'cammed' using a phone, while being played back on a phone, with the 'cammer' recording his own face for good measure.

quote:

If the whole situation isn’t bizarre enough so far, the episodes contain quite a bit of complaining from the ‘cammer’, mainly due to his arm aching from holding up the recording phone for such a long time.

Why he didn’t simply place it down on the table isn’t clear. He managed it with the playback phone, which is seen leaning against a large water container throughout, something the ‘cammer’ believes is pretty badass.

“You see, I got my poo poo propped up like a G,” he said, placing the phone against the water bottle. “Next episode, definitely not holdin’ this poo poo, so you n*****s gotta relax.”

If this whole scenario isn’t crazy enough, the ‘cammer’ polishes off his virtuoso performance by turning the ‘cam’ phone around and recording his own face for several seconds. To save his embarrassment we won’t publish an image here but needless to say, he is extremely easy to identify, as is his Facebook page, where the content seems to have first appeared.

CharlestheHammer posted:

Just tell us the context then, I am sure you know it.

You must

Aerdan posted:

She. Drove. Herself. To. His. House. For. These. Encounters.

She also consistently does not refer to any of them as 'rape', as I said earlier. It's up to her, not to you or any other Internet wannabe judge, what she classifies her encounters with him as. Yes, she regrets loving him, but that doesn't make it rape.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Phanatic posted:

Nobody in the US can serve a search warrant except the cops. If a company sues you for civil copyright infringement, they can get a subpoena demanding you produce certain things. They can't just invade your property and search for those things themselves. A subpoena isn't a search warrant, and only officers of the government can serve search warrants.

A company could send agents to break into your house and take your poo poo, just like a burglar can break into your house and take your poo poo, and it'd be just as illegal.

Toast Museum posted:

I think what they were saying is that, not only can a company not obtain a warrant to search your property, the police aren't going to do it either for a copyright case.

Volcott posted:

What was Labor's excuse for those six years? I don't follow Aus. politics that closely.

Glazier posted:

Uhhh, in the United States there is such a thing as Criminal Copyright Infringement and authorities do apply for and serve search warrants all the time for it.

Action-Bastard posted:

Toast Museum posted:

I was only trying to clarify the other post's point as I understood it, since more than one person interpreted it differently than I think it was intended. I wasn't endorsing its content.

Hihohe posted:

http://i.imgur.com/xJunIVT.mp4

Phanatic posted:

Nobody in the US can serve a search warrant except the cops. If a company sues you for civil copyright infringement, they can get a subpoena demanding you produce certain things. They can't just invade your property and search for those things themselves. A subpoena isn't a search warrant, and only officers of the government can serve search warrants.

A company could send agents to break into your house and take your poo poo, just like a burglar can break into your house and take your poo poo, and it'd be just as illegal.

evobatman posted:

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/09/02/iphone.5.prototype/index.html

Phanatic posted:

If you consent to a search than anyone can search your stuff for any reason at all, anywhere in the world. That's what consent means.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

http://i.imgur.com/R2l5idC.gifv