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Just when you thought Djokovic was the most hated man in Australia.... https://doublebaytoday.com/latest-polling-shows-more-australians-want-scott-morrison-deported-than-novak-djokovic/ Polling company Newspoll interviewed a random sample of 5,600 Australian voters, asking who they’d like to deport more. “It was a tight contest, but 52% of respondents chose Scott Morrison,” says Newspoll’s Lyle Sims. “That’s 4 percentage points more than Novak Djokovic.” The result will come as a major wake up call for the coalition, just months out from the federal election. I stand corrected, Scott Morrison might be the most hated man in Australia. The upcoming election is going to be interesting. One can always hope he's gone for good and the Australian Liberal Party gets relegated to the history books. Stories to scare kids with in the future.

An impressive feat of engineering, the Apollo Guidance Computer (the computer built for the Apollo that landed on the moon) Weight: 32kg, power consumption 55 Watt (yes, fifty five) and 2 Kilo Words of memory (a unit I haven't seen since Computer Science classes back in University)!

Maybe it was just a few too many mushrooms?... people do weird things after eating mushrooms

I like this Dutch tradition... more countries should use it to keep their politicians in line!

The problem (as far as I see it) is the quality of the camps and the staff... private security is the runt of the litter so to speak. People get abused, killed etc. in the camps. When locals attacked one of the camps, the guards turned tail and left the detainees to be attacked (and killed) by angry local mobs. It's one thing to make it an unattractive option to arrive illegally, it's another to cause the death of people.

Iirc, the term used here is “offshore detention camps”. The idea behind them being, anyone trying to force their way into Australia (I.e. it’s really aimed at boats and the people smugglers who used to operate them) will forever be banned from getting access to Australia. You can still apply for asylum and refugee status as long as you do it overseas. The moment you set a foot on the ground uninvited, you’re disqualified. Edit: People get sent offshore, get processed and either returned to country of origin or if that country doesn't want them back, offered to be repatriated to places like Papua New-Guinea (i.e. making it non attractive for economic migrants)

I remember OCZ advertising alternatives to keyboards years ago... https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1766/ocz_neural_impulse_actuator_mind_over_hand/index.html

It doesn't have anything to do with another 'G'?

A jaded gamer is still a gamer

I mentioned elsewhere, federal election is going to happen this year. @Guard Dogmight appreciate this bit about independent mp's

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Stealing setting and plot from wiki... Setting The Great Cataclysm is an event that happened two hundred and fifty years ago, 50 years before the Solar year 0. During it, the world was set on fire, and many nations were wiped out with very few habitable areas left in the aftermath. The survivors took refuge in the Tokyo Empire, which remained mostly stable during the period despite losing some of its landmass. The Tokyo Emperor Raffles I establishes the faith of the Holy Sol Temple as it and Haijima Industries developed the perpetual thermal energy plant Amaterasu to power the country. In Year 198 of Tokyo's Solar Era, special fire brigades called the Fire Force fight increasing incidents of spontaneous human combustion where human beings are turned into living infernos called "Infernals".[Jp. 3] While the Infernals are first generation cases of spontaneous human combustion, with more powerful horned variations known as Demons, later generations possess pyrokinesis while retaining human form. The Fire Force was formed by combining people with these powers from the Holy Sol Temple, The Tokyo Armed Forces, and the Fire Defense Agency, and is composed of eight independent companies. Plot Shinra Kusakabe is a third generation pyrokinetic youth who gained the nickname "Devil's Footprints" for his ability to ignite his feet at will, and was ostracized as a child for the fire that killed his mother and younger brother Sho twelve years ago. He joins Special Fire Force Company 8, which features other pyrokinetics who dedicated themselves to ending the Infernal attacks for good while investigating Companies 1 through 7 for potential corruption in their ranks. Shinra begins to learn that the fire that killed his mother was a cover for Sho to be taken by the White Clad, a doomsday cult behind the Infernal attacks with agents within the facets of the Tokyo Empire. Company 8 and their allies oppose the White Clad while learning of their goal to gather eight individuals like Shinra and Sho to repeat the Great Cataclysm for an ancient being who manipulated humanity for that very purpose.

Found something new to watch... first season of Fire Force (Enen no Shouboutai). Looks like this thing's hot! 24 Episodes though. Completion is going to depend on the quality of the first half dozen episodes.

Happy Birthday @KP on top of ZA WARUDO... dang, to be that young again Thread continued here

Continued from old thread...

As petty as it may sound, I firmly believe domestic politics and a mid year federal election plays a major role too. The federal government is the rotten to the core, corrupt Liberal Party with known serial liar as a PM. Victoria is governed by the opposition party, and the two has had a go at each other throughout the pandemic, being at odds constantly (a bit of a mirror of Trump and Demoract governors in the US, where the federal government threatened to withhold vaccine supply from those states), Our beloved (/sarcasm) federal PM, Scott Morrison, who has pretty much bungled everything beyond even the wildest expectations, since disgracing himself with the mishandling of the bush fires (just before covid was a thing), is under a lot of fire for letting rich and famous people travel to and from Australia at will, while Australians are prohibited from doing the same. He's looking to score some brown nosing points with the disgruntled masses at the moment by cherry picking something where he thinks he can do "the right thing" at the expense of the opposition party in Victoria. Edit: Never mind that this train departed a long time ago and covid is all over Australia, including remote outback villages

You need new friends then Genital Jousting on Steam is just hilarious when played with the right friends. Sorry, can’t link to it. Search for it on the Steam site

[hint]Australia could use a regime change![/hint]

Bruce... I believe in one set of rules that has to apply to everybody equally. That people are celebrities (including porn stars) doesn't change my opinion. You want to visit a country, follow the local rules. End of story. I know the liberal party made a lot of exceptions the past two years, bending over backwards for celebrities when they thought it profitable. But Morrison being a piece of lying filth, doesn't change my own values (i.e. all being equal in the eyes of the law, rules, regulations, whatever)

"Borat" is probably the extent of the majority of the forum members knowledge of Kazakhstan https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443453/ edit: Yes, I expect there to be exceptions to this, but, the majority? Nah

I care when people use their celebrity status to grandstand against vaccination. In case you missed it, Djokovic is against anyone being vaccinated and it’s a personal campaign against vaccinations on some twisted ideological grounds. He’s mocking the people who died from or lost loved ones to covid. The piece of **** can take a hike as far as I care.

It sounds nice… until you think about it. See my comment about chaos. Kazakhstan had no democratic culture. They wouldn’t know what to do with democracy no matter how many bombs you drop on them. We’re talking about mobs that are angry at the previous ruler because of fuel prices, not the current president (who is new in office, relatively, and kicked out the previous guy from his self appointed security chief position). Like it or not, the best and lasting changes happens gradually when a society “matures” (imho). Until then, failed states doesn’t benefit anyone. Not the Russians, not The West and least of all the Kazakh people.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59880166 Russian-led military troops will be deployed to help "stabilise" Kazakhstan amid anti-government demonstrations. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for support from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as nationwide unrest escalates. The protests were first sparked by rising fuel prices, but have broadened to include other political grievances. ... President Tokayev is only the second person to lead Kazakhstan since it declared independence in 1991. His election, in 2019, was condemned by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as showing scant respect for democratic standards. Much of the anger on the streets, however, seems to have been aimed at his predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has held a powerful national security role since stepping down. On Wednesday, he was fired in a bid to subdue the growing unrest. Not really much of an opinion on that one to be honest, except possibly, that chaos is something that should be avoided in everyone's best interest. Too many opportunities for extremist groups (ISIS, AQ etc.) to find a new home in inaccessible parts of the world, if Kazakhstan disintegrates.

Should I stay or should I go now... (insert Clash tune) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59889522 "Tennis star Novak Djokovic has had his visa to enter Australia dramatically revoked on his arrival in Melbourne. The world number one was held in the city's airport for several hours before border forces announced he had not met entry rules and would be deported. He has reportedly now been taken to a government detention hotel pending his departure on an outbound flight." Who would have thought a federal government could be useful when state authorities fails badly?... Such a rare sight, that's worth it alone to mark a red circle around the date 2022 in the calendar. Edit: He somehow managed to convince the Australian Open organizers it would be worth it to let him flaunt the rules and **** over the average Australian, because he's someone "special", but immigration (and visas) is run by the federal government, and he didn't meet the visa requirements, even if eligible to play. Edit2: I suspect it has something to do with massive public outrage and the federal elections coming up this year. The government was already under heavy fire for selling out to the rich and famous the past two years, where Hollywood and sports stars could come and go as they please (with the federal governments blessing), whereas ordinary Australians couldn't even say last goodbyes to dying kids living just across a state border and tens of thousands of Australians stranded abroad who couldn't return home.

My brothers and my dad are... not quite bald, but very, very thin haired by now. I seem to have inherited all the hair in the family Leaving it uncut for 3 months makes me look like a 70's hippie with "microphone hair" (it's also very curly)