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aylaah
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mud not being from NSW are you confusing the SMH with the Daily Telegraph? The latter, I'd question. SMH is ok though.
Mud Cake
God
Ah.......That's the one. my bad. The Daily Terrorgraph.......That's the dodgy one.
So I guess Fairfax isn't owned by Murdoch so won't have that particular bias that all his papers have. But with Gina taking a huge share of the Fairfax papers I guess she can do a Murdoch and make them biased too.
http://hey.ipa.org.au/2012/06/and-what-about-those-media-companies-the-government-owns/
The facts of the matter are (a) newprint is rightfully on its way out anyway, and (b) left-urds / left-urdia is typically sh!t scared The Market and an Open Shop.
Their meritless freedom hating ideology can only flourish via the vehicles of closed shop, subsidy, and tyranny.
Looking forward to the day when the ABC and SBS etc are sold off and they cease to be "Left-urd Propaganda Central" on my coin.
regarDS
The facts of the matter are (a) newprint is rightfully on its way out anyway, and (b) left-urds / left-urdia is typically sh!t scared The Market and an Open Shop.
Their meritless freedom hating ideology can only flourish via the vehicles of closed shop, subsidy, and tyranny.
Looking forward to the day when the ABC and SBS etc are sold off and they cease to be "Left-urd Propaganda Central" on my coin.
regarDS
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Makes sense when it comes to newsprint ... should be replaced by kindle type devices or HUDs type glasses or fold up LCD.
The following is disturbing though, for all sorts of reasons including the ability for governments and NGOs (etc) of the day to more easily not only censor stuff but also revise it at will (much like happens with wikipedia but without the tracking).
From here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...ools-scrap-books/story-fn59nlz9-1226373017622
How dare that teacher look to happy and smug about this assault upon free-thinking and common sense, etc ! I bet she is a left-urd !
Oh, and howz all those billions of dollars of current and the next generation of Real Tax payers money spent on building and stocking libraries etc that are now, according to the latest left-urdian paradigm, "so last year" anyway ?
Sure, reference books DO soon get "dated", but that in itself makes them an even MORE valuable resource, for they then also serve as a snap-shot of a view history and thinking at a particular time.
AFAIC, bookless libraries are about as nutritious and worthwhile as a McDonalds happy meal. Sure, it might give you a sugar boost and a bit of feely good for the moment, but the long term diet of it surely has to be just bad, bad, bad !
regarDS
Before there was Craig Thomson, there was the longterm boyfriend of years of a certain 35ish yo lawyer/senior partner of a law firm ...
Or, as it was recorded in the Senate today
See: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...onfronted_with_the_scandal_she_almost_buried/
The fish stinks from the head down ...
regarDS
Or, as it was recorded in the Senate today
See: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...onfronted_with_the_scandal_she_almost_buried/
The fish stinks from the head down ...
regarDS
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Mud Cake
God
How do you feel about e-paper?
See here
[video=youtube;0B28SHBmMNI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B28SHBmMNI[/video]
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wynter
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Today is Alan Turings 100th birthday.
He also led the team who developed the machine used to decypher secret german Enigma codes during WWII and was one of the most brilliant men of his time. His list of accomplishments is enormous. He is considered one of the fathers of modern computers. He was however, tormented, tortured and convicted as a criminal because he was gay.
He committed suicide at age 41 by consuming cyanide after having chemical castration treatment. We can only guess at what he would have accomplished if he had lived out his full life.
There is a rumoured story that because cyanide is found inside apple seeds, that the apple with the bite out of it as used by the apple corporation is a nod to the contribution of Alan Turing to the world of computing. Steve Jobs was once asked about this by Stephen Fry and he said that sadly it was not true, they made no connection to Alan Turing when chosing the logo - but he wished he could say the story was true.
Google has a code breaker puzzle today on their search page for anyone who is interested
Happy Birthday Alan Turing.
He also led the team who developed the machine used to decypher secret german Enigma codes during WWII and was one of the most brilliant men of his time. His list of accomplishments is enormous. He is considered one of the fathers of modern computers. He was however, tormented, tortured and convicted as a criminal because he was gay.
He committed suicide at age 41 by consuming cyanide after having chemical castration treatment. We can only guess at what he would have accomplished if he had lived out his full life.
There is a rumoured story that because cyanide is found inside apple seeds, that the apple with the bite out of it as used by the apple corporation is a nod to the contribution of Alan Turing to the world of computing. Steve Jobs was once asked about this by Stephen Fry and he said that sadly it was not true, they made no connection to Alan Turing when chosing the logo - but he wished he could say the story was true.
Google has a code breaker puzzle today on their search page for anyone who is interested
Happy Birthday Alan Turing.
Mud Cake
God
Today is Alan Turings 100th birthday.
He also led the team who developed the machine used to decypher secret german Enigma codes during WWII and was one of the most brilliant men of his time. His list of accomplishments is enormous. He is considered one of the fathers of modern computers. He was however, tormented, tortured and convicted as a criminal because he was gay.
He committed suicide at age 41 by consuming cyanide after having chemical castration treatment. We can only guess at what he would have accomplished if he had lived out his full life.
There is a rumoured story that because cyanide is found inside apple seeds, that the apple with the bite out of it as used by the apple corporation is a nod to the contribution of Alan Turing to the world of computing. Steve Jobs was once asked about this by Stephen Fry and he said that sadly it was not true, they made no connection to Alan Turing when chosing the logo - but he wished he could say the story was true.
Google has a code breaker puzzle today on their search page for anyone who is interested
Happy Birthday Alan Turing.
He was also the subject of a very good Doctor Who novel.
Did anyone work out the doodle on the Google home page. Took me a while but I worked it out. Just think binary
Mud Cake
God
ichi
Active Member
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/med...w-fairfax-attack/story-e6frg996-1226410182982
Oh sucked in Gina - though she will probably just buy the whole thing now.
Oh sucked in Gina - though she will probably just buy the whole thing now.
Taylia
Domestic Goddess
I only saw a snippet on the news tonight about a Javelin athelete that was found guilty of drink driving and unlicensed driving. But is still able to compete in the games with no mention of being sent home after his heats. Was this true? If so where is all the up roar by the media and such?
Edit: finally found the info
AUSTRALIAN Olympic athlete Jarrod Bannister will still compete in the London Games after he was caught drink-driving on his way to the shops for icecream.
The champion javelin thrower pleaded guilty to five charges in the Brisbane Magistrates Court today including driving unlicensed, unregistered, uninsured and with cancelled plates while his blood alcohol concentration was .057
Source
So driving unlicensed, unregistered and uninsured car whilst over .05 is ok but having your photo taken holding a gun in gun shop gets you quickly sent home from the olympics. ?? I am not a fan of the swimmer (mental block - forgot his name) but just where is the reality in all this ?
Edit: finally found the info
AUSTRALIAN Olympic athlete Jarrod Bannister will still compete in the London Games after he was caught drink-driving on his way to the shops for icecream.
The champion javelin thrower pleaded guilty to five charges in the Brisbane Magistrates Court today including driving unlicensed, unregistered, uninsured and with cancelled plates while his blood alcohol concentration was .057
Source
So driving unlicensed, unregistered and uninsured car whilst over .05 is ok but having your photo taken holding a gun in gun shop gets you quickly sent home from the olympics. ?? I am not a fan of the swimmer (mental block - forgot his name) but just where is the reality in all this ?
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