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snoremac posted:According to the wiki, the author of the surely unbiased Civilization: The West and the Rest. I liked that book >_>
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Civilization: The West and the Rest Book by Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson is funny because he's poo poo but also more recently lost his teaching gig for conspiring with a conservative students club for some pathetic reason I can't remember
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That book was awhile ago though so I dunno what he's been up to but the book itself is a solid perspective.
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Oh right it was to own the libs,quote:Niall Ferguson, the conservative British historian and political commentator, has resigned from a key position on a US university free speech programme after leaked emails revealed that he urged a group of Republican students to conduct “opposition research” on a leftwing student. His thing about KILLER APPS is real sad and dumb too
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conduct “opposition research” on a leftwing student That is super hosed up.
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Oh, he became a idiot.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why has nobody pointed out to these fuckwhittles that the only reason reusable bags might be unhygienic is because customers are disgusting pigs? He assaulted her.
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It's OK to like bad fiction. I've read a bunch of Clive cussler stuff, myself
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I assume they got the story [about Gichuhi's financial issues] from somewhere else. https://twitter.com/Leroy_Lynch/status/1012937330384965632
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Megillah Gorilla posted:People don't go to court for attacking retail workers. You have to steal something during it or it doesn't count. Or rather, investigating further will only waste precious police resources on helping proles instead of capitalists.
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Wow they're evil geniuses.
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I wonder if she'll jump to the Nick Xenophon Fence Sitter Party or (hilarious option) One Nation
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It's just like, comedy level getting chewed up by politics.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Think about it. With the stroke of a pen, the Senate could ban single-use condoms. How many whales porpoises dolphins and turtles would be saved from that cruel fate. But there is another upside, to coin a phrase: the same ban would spoil the friendly intercourse that unites the members of most political parties at their conventions, especially those left-wing cathedrals of morality, the Greens and the ALP. accidentally made the left sound rad again
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bandaid.friend posted:accidentally made the left sound rad again The left are flat out fuckin’
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What do you have to do to get DayZ refunded, we talked about it in this thread a while back.
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By 2020 Foxtel is switching all their pay TV services to satellite. Why? Because the NBN is too expensive and that satellite is "the best option for high quality video images watched on the large screens in homes and other venues". https://www.finder.com.au/foxtel-moving-cable-customers-to-satellite
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Periphery posted:By 2020 Foxtel is switching all their pay TV services to satellite. Why? Because the NBN is too expensive and that satellite is "the best option for high quality video images watched on the large screens in homes and other venues". lmao
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Periphery posted:By 2020 Foxtel is switching all their pay TV services to satellite. Why? Because the NBN is too expensive and that satellite is "the best option for high quality video images watched on the large screens in homes and other venues". Can't wait to see the huge complaints that spawn whenever it is either a cloudy day or there's a thunderstorm. Satellite Internet and Pay TV suuuuucks
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Periphery posted:By 2020 Foxtel is switching all their pay TV services to satellite. Why? Because the NBN is too expensive and that satellite is "the best option for high quality video images watched on the large screens in homes and other venues". Except if it's cloudy.
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Periphery posted:By 2020 Foxtel is switching all their pay TV services to satellite. Why? Because the NBN is too expensive and that satellite is "the best option for high quality video images watched on the large screens in homes and other venues". incredible
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https://twitter.com/ABCRural/status/1012527893237436417
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You Am I posted:Can't wait to see the huge complaints that spawn whenever it is either a cloudy day or there's a thunderstorm. Satellite Internet and Pay TV suuuuucks I think there's more to this than Foxtel being stupid. No way they didn't consult with their biggest shareholders *cough* Telstra *cough* et. al., or it was "suggested" by them. It's some dumb circling-the-wagons poo poo sure, but you look at the current board, there is a strong contingent of Sky UK imports as well as the News Corpses. Sky UK are obsessed with box hacking, to the point that they hacked their own cards to screw with jailbroken boxes. Might it be easier to control a satellite box than a cable box?
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RIP bees, our mite free hives are the only thing keeping bees from going extinct globally
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This is the result of Labor's weak border protection policies.
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Sources reveal the mites went undetected after border security was unable to see through a reusable bag.
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snoremac posted:Sources reveal the mites went undetected after border security was unable to see through a reusable bag. Laughed at this irl
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how'd it arrive on a boat if the boats were stopped
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Zenithe posted:You have to steal something during it or it doesn't count. Yeah, this. Sadly. To paraphrase Raul Julia, "A retail worker being abused and assaulted isn't crime. It's Tuesday." The only way a worker can expect any kind of justice is if the security tapes get leaked after being shared around for a laugh by management. Or a customer records it on their phone and it ends up on Today Tonight. Then the company has to to something. Otherwise the only response you can expect is "Please make sure you follow our 'Dealing with Aggressive Customers' policy* more thoroughly in future. We won't fire you this time, but don't let it happen again. Also, when you get out of hospital for the injuries to your neck where you were strangled from behind, please come in so you can sign this form which shows that you understand this. This form also counts as a written warning." * Policy written by someone who has never worked with the public a day in their lives. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Jun 30, 2018 |
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Not to downplay the significance of this, but don't they already check bee hives that hitchhike on shipping containers and destroy local hives within whatever radius to limit the spread of this kind of stuff? I seem to remember ret something about this recently.
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Mad Katter posted:Not to downplay the significance of this, but don't they already check bee hives that hitchhike on shipping containers and destroy local hives within whatever radius to limit the spread of this kind of stuff? https://twitter.com/nikolaibeilharz/status/1012521706890522624
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That's good. Stay safe bees.
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ewe2 posted:I think there's more to this than Foxtel being stupid. No way they didn't consult with their biggest shareholders *cough* Telstra *cough* et. al., or it was "suggested" by them. It's some dumb circling-the-wagons poo poo sure, but you look at the current board, there is a strong contingent of Sky UK imports as well as the News Corpses. Sky UK are obsessed with box hacking, to the point that they hacked their own cards to screw with jailbroken boxes. Might it be easier to control a satellite box than a cable box? Not sure on the technicalities to cable boxes, but I know of at least one friend who got suckered into getting rid of his Foxtel cable box so Foxtel could provide him with the "cheaper" satellite option. When he told me this, and asked if it was the right decision, I told him of the negatives about satellite. He was very pissed off that the salesperson didn't mention that. Strangely enough.
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My first act as Prime Minister will be to ban any IPA shitheads from all forms of media
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Cutting wages is good, cutting taxes for corporations is good, but I suddenly care about poor people when it comes to 15c loving bags
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Someone make a new thread I'm too mad
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Isn't satellite even easier to steal? You just get your family/mate to rent an extra box on their account, buy a dish from Jaycar and look up where to point it on the internet. You pay your mate/family for the box rental which is a fraction of the price of an actual subscription.
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Laserface posted:Isn't satellite even easier to steal? You just get your family/mate to rent an extra box on their account, buy a dish from Jaycar and look up where to point it on the internet. Which is a lot more than sharing the extra screens on Netflix/Stan subscriptions.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:What do you have to do to get DayZ refunded, we talked about it in this thread a while back. Can't use the refund ticket system as that's actually automatic. Start up some other ticket for the game, tell them you didn't request a refund earlier because you thought Steam didn't allow refunds/didn't allow them after their 'time frame' but the game was a broke piece of poo poo.
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 14:03 |
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The union should have stop-worked me from making a July thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3861878
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