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Zenithe: Feb 25, 2013; _{Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.}

Anidav posted:

The Gold Coast City Council will be offering free wi-fi to visitors at next month's Commonwealth Games, but people using Facebook to log in to the service will have their data mined by council for tourism marketing.

That's just anything you log into with facebook though.

# ? Mar 20, 2018 22:33

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# ? May 23, 2024 19:19

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

You don't need Facebook logins to run a public WiFi service

# ? Mar 20, 2018 23:10

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Oh hey America finally found a cop they�re willing to pursue for murder charges

(His name is Mohamed Noor and he shot a blonde white woman)

# ? Mar 20, 2018 23:35

starkebn: May 18, 2004; "Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

Solemn Sloth posted:

Oh hey America finally found a cop they�re willing to pursue for murder charges

(His name is Mohamed Noor and he shot a blonde white woman)

my thoughts exactly

# ? Mar 20, 2018 23:39

The Before Times: Mar 8, 2014; Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

Solemn Sloth posted:

Oh hey America finally found a cop they�re willing to pursue for murder charges

(His name is Mohamed Noor and he shot a blonde white woman)

yeah when I read the list of charges I was just like 'wow, they would never lay those charges on a white cop who'd shot a black person in the same circumstances'

# ? Mar 20, 2018 23:40

MysticalMachineGun: Apr 5, 2005

Solemn Sloth posted:

Oh hey America finally found a cop they�re willing to pursue for murder charges

(His name is Mohamed Noor and he shot a blonde white woman)

gently caress

# ? Mar 20, 2018 23:59

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

The cops shoot lots of white people in America though.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 00:05

Cartoon: Jun 20, 2008; poop

norp posted:

The peak buyers will hold out as long as they can for the old rents, but that can only go on for so long until they are forced to sell or accept a loss.

Well that depends. If you are a landlord that owns a significant number of properties in one area and owes little or nothing on them, sadly more common than you'd imagine, then "for so long" may be measured in decades. A vacant property with a nominally large rent is better than a rented property at a discount because this would drag down rents in the rest of your portfolio.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 00:22

hiddenmovement: Sep 29, 2011; "Most mornings I'll apologise in advance to my wife."

DancingShade posted:

Enough people are sufficiently dumb that the media (owned by the rich) would convince them it was the fault of ~~some other group~~ brown people.

Personally I would benefit immensely from a housing crash because I've no dependents, my parents own property I can fall back on if I cant find a place to rent, and I have enough liquid capital that I could potentially make a lot of money in the ensuing chaos. My job couldn't give the first gently caress about the Australian economy, the whole country could slip under the sea and It would make almost no difference (and don't get me started on how much I would LOVE a collapse in the value of the Aussie dollar).

However a major recession would devastate most of my friends. I know a lot of people that bought at relatively high prices way out of the city, or that have huge debts that they need their jobs to service, or who work in sectors that benefit from the boom (mostly construction). Yes, it would be nice for me to be king dick for a change considering I spent most of my twenties poor as gently caress, but this wont hurt boomers and property investors nearly as much as one would think because for the most part they have enough capital to shrug off the damage. It will hurt ordinary people in their 40s and down, because they have had to engage with this over-leveraged economy just to live a good normal life.

To me, these calls for a recession now are basically a big ol' dose of accelerationism and anyone that is actively wishing for a forest fire to pass through their community hasn't thought about it properly.

hiddenmovement fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Mar 21, 2018

# ? Mar 21, 2018 00:34

million dollar mack: Aug 20, 2006; Larson ain't getting this cow.

*bursts into thread, breathless*

Guys guys, Cory Bernardi is actually a hypocrite!!!

A Massive Piece of poo poo posted:

I don't think that sort of language is an appropriate thing on TV at any time.

"When you have a person of Kevin Bailey's pedigree, I mean he's a former soldier, a philanthropist, a former ambassador, I don't think any candidate should be subject to that just because they step into the ring."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-21/bernardi-says-someone-should-lose-their-job-over-abc-comedy-ske/9570346

Still A Massive Piece of poo poo posted:

This snowflake-protecting, damaging ideology and its proponents are hurting our country...If the political class won�t support freedom of speech what will they support? What other of your freedoms will they limit to make their already-cosy lives easier?

# ? Mar 21, 2018 00:55

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

oh no are troop got called a name

# ? Mar 21, 2018 01:01

bigis: Jun 21, 2006

hiddenmovement posted:

To me, these calls for a recession now are basically a big ol' dose of accelerationism and anyone that is actively wishing for a forest fire to pass through their community hasn't thought about it properly.

This is the way to think about it. Congrats, you've bought a house while everything crumbles around you?

Surely you guys understand the government is going to prop up investors to the very end at the expense of the young.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 01:11

G-Spot Run: Jun 28, 2005

Everything is so completely and utterly hosed of course people are putting on the blinders and daydreaming about a single comfortable outcome with daily resonance like "hey what if housing crashes and I can afford to live somewhere, that'd be nice".

edit: here, let's cross post this a bit further, it's like one of those youtube "don't look away" challenges.

SKULL.GIF posted:

Things that Happened Today:

A fifth bomb exploded in San Antonio destined for Austin, injuring a mail carrier

A second bomb was found at the FedEx facility in San Antonio, making six total

Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy was arrested over corrupt campaign financing from Libya

Zuck! was summoned before the British Parliament to squeal about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

FTC is probing Facebook for use and abuse of personal data

There was another school shooting, this time in Maryland

Trump is weighing firing Ty Cobb and John Dowd

Multiple lawyers, including one who claimed Trump was the victim of a mass conspiracy, have declined to represent Trump

Trump and Putin had a nice long phone chat while Trump twirled the phone cord around his finger

Committing a serious diplomatic misstep Trump congratulated Putin on winning the sham election

Trump announced he will meet personally with Putin in the near future

Oblammo's campaign also got bigly personal data from Facebook and says Facebook was "on their side"

A gunman raided a Panera Bread at Princeton

A judge temporarily blocked Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban

Trump said that Saudi Arabia will give lots of money to USA

The world's last male white rhinoceros died

Another porn star sued to break her NDA on Trump - Karen McDougal from Playboy

ANOTHER porn star is suing Trump, this one for defamation - Summer Zervos

A NY judge ruled that being President doesn't protect Trump from defamation suits, including Zervos's

Bitcoin contains child pornography on its blockchain

Shulkabee refused to refer to Russia's election as a sham election

Shuckabee refused to call the Austin bombings terrorism. (It is terrorism.)

Trump is dropping restrictions on selling armed killdrones to American allies

Pennsylvanian Republicans are attempting to impeach their State Supreme Court justices

Despite having more Democrats at the vote than Republicans, Trump's Border Protection Commissioner appointee was confirmed 77-19

Cambridge Analytica's CEO was shown hobnobbing with Russia's UK Ambassador

Cambridge Analytica's CEO claims they ran Trump's entire digital campaign -- which includes illegal poo poo

Cambridge Analytica's CEO says that their candidates (Trump, presumably, included) were "always puppets"

Cambridge Analytica's CEO is suspended immediately pending the investigation

Housing and Urban Development has been replacing all upper officials with Russians

90% of the property HUD has been selling since inauguration has been to Russians posing as Americans

The FBI is raiding HUD for false credentials and vast corruption

Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have been hiding all day long from their own employees, and are excusing it by claiming that Zuck's phone was dead all day long

We found out that Trump ignored **explicit instructions** from his staff to "DO NOT CONGRATULATE" Putin, but also refused to condemn him for poisoning spies in the UK

Betsy DeVos hid her secret plans for completely revamping Education from Congress and the White House and everyone's flaming pissed now

+ mentally add in the local stuff e.g. reef protections being removed yesterday, continue this list as an exciting homework task.

G-Spot Run fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Mar 21, 2018

# ? Mar 21, 2018 01:48

The Before Times: Mar 8, 2014; Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

gently caress me that's a lot

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:00

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Yeah this is the Australia thread so who cares.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:03

tithin: Nov 14, 2003; [Grandmaster Tactician]

Because all of that has a global impact.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:05

birdstrike: Oct 30, 2008; i;m gay

tithin posted:

Because all of that has a global impact.

especially the porn star stuff

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:07

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Haha pitiful people worrying about housing in Australia, behold my infodump of Trump poo poo.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:08

tithin: Nov 14, 2003; [Grandmaster Tactician]

Birdstrike posted:

especially the porn star stuff

Emphasis

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:09

G-Spot Run: Jun 28, 2005

You've kinda proven my point about people being fatigued since that list also included the certain death of a species, French corruption, etc.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:16

hooman: Oct 11, 2007; This guy seems legit.; Fun Shoe

Frankly I'd have been more shocked if the blockchain didn't have child porn in it.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:18

put both hands in: Nov 28, 2007; FYFE

I'm sad about the rhino

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:20

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

I'm sad about the Panera Bread.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:22

thatbastardken: Apr 23, 2010; A contract signed by a minor is not binding!

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:25

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Fun fact the ABC was talking about rhino rescues this morning and I assumed the rhinos were saffer farmers until they clarified it lmao

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:27

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

https://twitter.com/emilyhwoods/status/975886925054623744

Sure hope Malcolm doesn�t have anything planned for 3-4 months time which would make it embarrassing if Cash wound up in court

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:29

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

hooman posted:

Frankly I'd have been more shocked if the blockchain didn't have child porn in it.

It shouldn't be on the list since we've known about it for years now.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:37

hiddenmovement: Sep 29, 2011; "Most mornings I'll apologise in advance to my wife."

Surely the only way we can get to an early election is if Tones rolls Malcolm

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:42

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

hooman posted:

Frankly I'd have been more shocked if the blockchain didn't have child porn in it.

Does this mean everyone who was making bit coins has also been sharing child porn?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/northcrest-development-tender-criticised-by-nt-attorney-general/9568046

quote:

The NT Government controversially awarded free land to a major Darwin developer without knowing the full value of the property and without a final cost-benefit analysis for taxpayers, a report by the Auditor-General has revealed.
Northern Territory Auditor-General Julie Crisp found serious issues with the awarding of the 168-hectare former Berrimah Farm site to Halikos Group in 2015 under the Country Liberal Party, including that the valuation of the land was rushed, no cost-benefit analysis existed and financial and reputational risks were not adequately mitigated.
Ms Crisp also flagged concerns the scope of the development, dubbed Northcrest, had changed significantly behind closed doors from what was initially offered for public expressions of interest.
Halikos Group were ultimately awarded the land for free, despite another developer offering $30 million for the site.
The $300 million development, which will see 2,000 homes, a retail precinct and commercial office space, is estimated to be worth $1 billion when completed.

The original project offered $4 million towards the estimated $28 million in headworks on the site to the winning bidder, but changes were made to the proposal after Halikos was selected as the preferred tenderer by government, the audit report shows.
That included a $4.9 million buy-back of a section of land, as well as a government lease of office space on the site.
The report also shows a $2.9 million public bus depot that was to be built by the developer was dropped from the project, as well as other smaller requirements.

Is a buy-back what it sounds like? Why would you give land away only to buy it again?

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:46

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

hiddenmovement posted:

Surely the only way we can get to an early election is if Tones rolls Malcolm

The potatoes have eyes

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:49

G-Spot Run: Jun 28, 2005

bandaid.friend posted:

Is a buy-back what it sounds like? Why would you give land away only to buy it again?

How else are you supposed to launder public money into your own pocket.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 02:51

Blamestorm: Aug 14, 2004; We LOL at death! Watch us LOL. Love the LOL.

hiddenmovement posted:

Surely the only way we can get to an early election is if Tones rolls Malcolm

I think if the LNP sees an opportunity (like a crisis of some sort) they may just seize it. I recall the possible timings for elections over the next year may push the LNP to go early, but I forgot the exact rationale - the next NSW and VIC elections and the impacts on $$$? VIC is in November and NSW in March I think, and they have to do a Federal one between August and May. So either they call it right after two major state elections have sucked up lots of $$$ or do it before November.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 03:29

gucci bane: Oct 27, 2008

US politics is fun but apart from the digital news all that poo poo has no relevance to us.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 03:44

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

gucci bane posted:

US politics is fun but apart from the digital news all that poo poo has no relevance to us.

The stuff like porn stars etc I agree, but trump still has a big effect. For example our whole recycling problem at the moment seems to be basically because we are collateral damage in China telling Trump to get hosed

# ? Mar 21, 2018 03:54

Konomex: Oct 25, 2010; a whiteman who has some authority over others, who not only hasn't raped anyone, or stared at them creepily...

bandaid.friend posted:

Does this mean everyone who was making bit coins has also been sharing child porn?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/northcrest-development-tender-criticised-by-nt-attorney-general/9568046

Is a buy-back what it sounds like? Why would you give land away only to buy it again?

I think the LNP always blithering on about red tape just clicked for me. They want to get rid of regulations so it's easier to skim money for themselves and their friends, right? It's essentially about removing oversight for massive corruption.

I bet no one goes to prison for this, but it really sounds like someone should.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 03:59

bell jar: Feb 25, 2009

australia voice: we live in a bubble, we are not affected by world news, the goings on of the world have no impact on us or our politics

# ? Mar 21, 2018 04:01

froglet: Nov 12, 2009; You see, the best way to Stop the Boats is a massive swarm of autonomous armed dogs. Strafing a few boats will stop the rest and save many lives in the long term.

You can't make an Omelet without breaking a few eggs. Vote Greens.

Solemn Sloth posted:

The stuff like porn stars etc I agree, but trump still has a big effect. For example our whole recycling problem at the moment seems to be basically because we are collateral damage in China telling Trump to get hosed

I though the whole China plastics thing was about oil being cheap enough that they didn't have to recycle plastics, and a lot of the plastics coming in were contaminated and either ended up getting burnt or dumped in landfill?

# ? Mar 21, 2018 04:05

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

bell jar posted:

australia voice: we live in a bubble, we are not affected by world news, the goings on of the world have no impact on us or our politics

go to the american thread for five thousand dogshit trump hosed a hooker facts that will go nowhere, hth

# ? Mar 21, 2018 04:07

Coq au Nandos: Nov 7, 2006; I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

Remember when Ted Cruz wanked off

# ? Mar 21, 2018 04:08

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# ? May 23, 2024 19:19

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

SKULL.GIF posted:

borderline relevant things that Happened Today:

FTC is probing Facebook for use and abuse of personal data (maybe)

Bitcoin contains child pornography on its blockchain

Trump is dropping restrictions on selling armed killdrones to American allies

Cambridge Analytica's CEO says that their candidates (Trump, presumably, included) were "always puppets"

Has anyone mentioned the Vic ALP "fraud"?

# ? Mar 21, 2018 04:12

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