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In a follow up to my post in the last thread, regarding the insider traders defence of "he was acting too dumb to be guilty" http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774162&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=86#post460455956 Shockingly he was convicted of 45 counts of insider trading, who knew a defence of "this is too obvious a paper trail to have been criminal" would fail.
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2016 07:51 |
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# ¿ May 22, 2024 04:33 |
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Snod. posted:I mean when all else fails it can't hurt to try "I'm too dumb to do something wrong on purpose" He could've tried pleading guilty
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2016 08:12 |
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Literally Beyond Parody Liberal-leaning think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has taken insider trader Oliver Curtis as its cause celebre, arguing that white-collar criminals should literally pay for their crimes rather than face prison. Such a move would remove prison as a deterrence for many corporate criminals, including the executives jailed over the collapse of HIH Insurance. The IPA posted a column on Thursday by staffer Andrew Bushnell that said: "Curtis should have to pay a fine sufficiently large that it hurts him and communicates the public's outrage." It also appeared in the Australian Financial Review.
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2016 23:51 |
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"It might be argued that this is unfair because it allows wealthy offenders to buy their way out of prison. But there is a genuine principle at stake," Bushnell said. "Whatever their social status, non-violent, low-risk offenders should be given the chance to avoid prison."
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2016 23:54 |
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Recoome posted:lol Libs/Labor working together for realsies It gets better The Liberal party will get Labor preferences in three rural seats to help fend off threats from Nationals candidates as part of a deal in which the Liberals will preference Labor ahead of the Greens in inner-city seats where those preferences would have given the Greens a chance of defeating Labor MPs.
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 06:37 |
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Vaccination sceptics and natural medicine advocates positioning themselves as the Health Australia Party have landed the coveted first column on the NSW Senate ballot paper. The spot of luck risks a repeat of the Liberal Democrats' accidental success in 2013, when David Leyonhjelm drew prime position, which was widely thought to have got him elected. (Possible but unlikely, Leyonholm also had the fact his name confused the elderly with the Liberal Party)
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 17:25 |
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Ummmm... change places? EXCLUSIVE Labor will preference the Greens ahead of the Liberals across the country and is considering a deal with Nick Xenophon, which could see the Independent Senator pick up three Liberal seats in South Australia and possibly even Cabinet Minister Christopher Pyne's seat of Sturt.
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 18:40 |
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There are a lot of similarities between Orlando and the Sydney siege. The only great difference seems to be is the outcome.
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2016 13:30 |
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hooman posted:He's not technically wrong, the danger that gay marriage poses to children has stayed exactly the same at 0. His name rung bells http://www.news.com.au/national/i-w...r-1225994542432 Oh it's this Fred Nile mother fucker. Mr Madden also targeted Prime Minister Julia Gillard, asking: "Are we happy that a self-professed atheist in a de facto relationship sits in the seat of power?"
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2016 14:28 |
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Recoome posted:lol reactionary justification against Islam (again) Meh, in honesty gently caress this guy. We get rightly pissed when anti-vaccination preachers or Christian fundamentalists calling for murder get kicked to the curb here. It's not a good sign to be a moral relativist about these things when the morals espoused by the individuals are abhorrent.
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 07:17 |
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open24hours posted:I don't think being in favour of an immigration department that isn't run on an ad-hoc basis counts as moral relativism. We can do the debate about how Chris Brown was different from Eminem again, but this doesn't seem to be much of a hill to die on.
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 07:23 |
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Recoome posted:Yes but when does this really even happen? http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/us-antivaccination-campaigner-dr-sherri-tenpenny-cancels-tour-of-australia-20150128-130qa4.html http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/hillsong-church-cancels-pastor-mark-driscolls-australian-visit-after-backlash-20150607-ghijl9.html Not the government but there is a consistent theme to "gently caress off" when it comes to people like this. Government ones tend to involve misogynists http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/07/protesters-force-us-pick-up-artist-julien-blanc-to-quit-australian-tour http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...201-gmj70h.html
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 07:26 |
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quote:The surviving son of a former Australian family who were axed to death in South Africa has handed himself into police in South Africa. Forgot about this story but... yeah
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 10:59 |
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http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-15/the-light-and-shade-of-roger-rogerson/7475700 The gently caress is this gushing profile? "The dark side won." He laments about a man known to have murdered four people, suspected in more, took bribes, ran protection racket, corrupt as the day is young... but no lets lament that he was a good ol boy.
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2016 06:13 |
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Great company at the pub, lamenting the loss of literal scum. He locked up a lot of bad people! But was paid off by others and killed cops to protect them!
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2016 06:15 |
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:did Norm Macdonald write that "puff piece"? I'm legit furious about this, I'm assuming that the reason this wasn't tighter edited (or outright removed because reading it goes to great lengths to justify Roger Rogerson planting evidence on people) is because the guy that wrote it is the bloody senior editor so he is the higher up to nix this poo poo. I read the Australian, the Telegraph, and all the other Murdoch rags from time to time because I think it's important to see what the other side is saying (slandering probably a better word) but rarely do I see something so clearly just... wrong and with no idea of the pulse of its readership or the public. It's loving insane.
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2016 06:35 |
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Senor Tron posted:At the last election, didn't the ASP preference One Nation ahead of the Greens? There's a feud between the Sex Party and the Greens - namely that the Sex Party (as well as being run by the sex industry) are third wave pro-porn pro-sex feminists, whereas The Greens have a tinge of second wave militant, and to some aspects anti-porn and anti-sex, feminism (i.e. proposing the Swedish Model for prostitution which puts them alongside right wing Liberal's and Evangelical Christian's). It's all a remnant of the feminist sex wars but as the Sex Party is, well, the Sex party, it's a sticking point between the two and the slapfights are huge.
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2016 07:25 |
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Domain is this hilkarious little bubble that every now and then posts 21 year olds with 21 properties and you can do it too also 21 million in debt
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2016 09:27 |
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Paingod556 posted:I was gonna say, wasn't this exact same story posted last year? "I want 10 properties by the time I'm 30, no I don't believe in investment bubbles, America's was a fluke" also this http://www.domain.com.au/news/what-does-1-million-get-you-around-australia-20160610-gpegtt/
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2016 09:58 |
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Vladimir Poutine posted:These are the people I've got in the seat of Adelaide The funniest thing about this guy is Tenth Planet. As MMA people would know thats Eddie Bravo aka "you perform better while on quaaludes" essentially. Joe Rogan is also a perpetually stoned devotee.
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2016 07:31 |
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MALCOLM Turnbull tried to fool us about gay-hating and bigoted Islam when he held his end-of-Ramadan dinner on Thursday at Kirribilli house. With the bodies not yet buried from the latest Islamist attack – this time on a gay nightclub – the Prime Minister made sure he was joined at his head table by the most photogenic and least representative Muslims he could find. On his right sat a white ex-Christian Muslim convert, academic Susan Carland, joined by her husband, TV star Waleed Aly.
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2016 14:14 |
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Anidav posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I0wae57nJ0 scoff.gif
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2016 11:14 |
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You Am I posted:http://www.theguardian.com/australi...tisation-attack Bob Hawke is essentially a nuke when it comes to campaigning
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2016 11:48 |
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"Liberal senator Cory Bernardi has launched a blistering attack on Malcolm Turnbull, accusing him of implying that he and other Coalition MPs are homophobic." “The demand for tolerance by leftists is nothing more than a thinly veiled insistence that you surrender your views, your values and your beliefs in favour of theirs.” “If you don’t, the name calling starts. You instantly become a ‘phobe’, a ‘bigot’ or worse. These slurs are designed to shut down any sensible dialogue or meaningful discussion about the subject matter at hand.” I'd be attacking it too for only being an implication.
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2016 07:07 |
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Can you imagine how undeservedly smug Abbott would feel if the libs lost and Turnbull lost his seat? If he'd just kept MY policies...
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2016 10:17 |
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While in a waiting room this popped up on the TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zJ_Y2x1mY Oh God it's out in the wild
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2016 05:30 |
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Watch that inflation soooooooar.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 04:57 |
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The Baby Boomers, managing to ruin the entire world before they finally cark it.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 05:07 |
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Scotland rejected independence because they didn't want to go into the EU alone. CHANGE FROM WITHIN
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 05:10 |
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MysticalMachineGun posted:You'd think so but then you get old and somehow the good world economic state was because you worked hard and these punk kids just need to get a job rather than complain... That cliche used to work except Gen Y gets to be the first generation to make less than their parents so if we create a good economy it's going to be through undoing a whole bunch of errors.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 05:50 |
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wombat74 posted:SNP don't have the majority in Holyrood, but the Greens have said they are "open" to supporting a new referendum on independence. They have enough eats to give SNP the majority they need to call it, so in reality another referendum could be called pretty quickly. if the pound continues to collapse the Brits may have to reach out to a non-EU friend to aid them from Ireland's renewed army and independence this period will be known as The Roubles
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 06:01 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:Pretty sure that's the slogan they used: Less actually, but thats because Australia is an outlier. This isn't a benefit, England has tonnes of other lovely rags ala the Mail.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 06:16 |
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open24hours posted:The Commonwealth basically hasn't existed in any meaningful way for decades anyway. Leave or stay you wouldn't even notice a difference. At this point i trust the Commonwealth Games to be run better than the Olympics. Edit: this is not entirely factoring in Brexit.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 06:36 |
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Well thats probably still better than Rio.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 06:41 |
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A secret push is under way within the Coalition party room to hobble any positive public vote in favour of same-sex marriage equality by giving conservative MPs and senators express permission to vote in Parliament against reform if their individual electorates had voted in a majority for "no". Senators would be able to claim the exemption from a national "yes" vote if their home states had voted "no". The ploy, which was to be kept under wraps until after the election, has been crafted to allow conservative anti-marriage equality campaigners to concentrate their resources in conservative-leaning regional and outer-suburban electorates where there is the greatest chance of winning enough individual contests to frustrate an expected popular vote, in Parliament.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 23:33 |
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T H E T R O U B L E S
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2016 04:47 |
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http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-rise-of-the-millionaire-labor-voter-20160624-gprf0x.html How house prices have created the Millionaire Labor.
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2016 23:36 |
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hooman posted:Can the Libs cut the company Tax Rate with a hostile senate? Morrison has started to trot out the "mandate" argument again, so someone out back has shined up that old chestnut to argue that not to pass tax cuts to the party in power is overruling the Will of the People.
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2016 08:40 |
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SCIENCE PARTY / CYCLISTS PARTY The nerds and the lycra crew are combining their forces in Victoria! As a certified nerd, I can dig pretty much 100% of what they’re standing for. Interesting that they propose the creation of an Australian Charter City. WTF is a charter city? Basically a place that’s set up to be a center of science and technology excellence in Australia. They wanna call it Turing Im having the strangest case of deja vu
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2016 02:42 |
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Frogmanv2 posted:Does he have strong opinions on how the hugos should be awarded? I appreciated this. A lot.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2016 04:42 |