Hiro Protagonist
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Gotta love drinking Google's tears.
"Google has decided to hide some Australian news sites from its search results, in a move that is being interpreted as a response to the Australian Government attempting to make the tech giant pay for original news content."
"In early December 2020, the Australian Government tabled legislation that will force Google and Facebook to pay news organisations for access to their journalism."
"Under the code, media organisations can bargain with the digital platforms for the amount charged per piece of content. If the bargaining is unsuccessful, the decision goes to arbitration. A panel of arbiters can make a final decision."
"The mandatory bargaining code is the result of many years of complaints from traditional media outlets that social media platforms pay nothing for the work of journalists but make millions of dollars through advertising."
"Google should pay for content, not block it."
Google has accounted for this benefit: it estimates the referral traffic was worth $218m to publishers in 2018.
"For every $100 of online advertising spend, $53 goes to Google, $28 goes to Facebook, and $19 goes to other participants,"
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It looks like Michigan may have been ground zero last year and possibly a dry run for the Capitol. There was a plot to capture and televise a public execution of the Governor.
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12 minutes ago, Gorth said:
the Oxford/AstraZeneca seems to be way less efficient than hoped at the time of ordering those?
It seems spacing the doses may be more effective. Some more AZ twists... From the Guardian
"Second shots of coronavirus vaccine could be delayed even further amid growing evidence that spacing out the doses improves their effectiveness."
"Evidence now suggests that spacing out doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine may be more effective at protecting people. Clinical trials revealed the efficacy of the vaccine was substantially higher, at 90%, in a subgroup of people who received half a dose followed by a full dose, rather than two full doses, which had an efficacy of 62%."
"People who had the half dose then full dose were those who were vaccinated at a longer time interval, roughly six to 12 weeks, and what they’ve seen in their data is that people who have the second dose later probably have a three times higher antibody level than those who were vaccinated earlier"
One wonders why The Guardian is so slow coming to this understanding. Data backing this up was included in the UK regulatory approval for AstraZeneca, published 30 Dec. Reporters do need to read beyond the first page to get the scientific rationale for greater spacing of the doses.
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Scientists developing Covid-19 vaccine nasal spray.
https://www.miragenews.com/scientists-developing-covid-19-vaccine-nasal-spray/
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For a population of 25 million, Australia has ordered the following:
10 million Pfizer
50 million Oxford/AstraZeneca
50 million NovavaxWhy do we need so many doses? Then again, why did we need to hoard toilet paper?
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An update on the post I linked with the Chinese Vaccine and Shanghai-based vaccine expert Tao Lina being quoted with 73 side effects including loss of vision.
According to the below news article from the Chinese state run GlobalTimes.cn, he was apparently misquoted.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212084.shtml
Yeah, I would be backpedaling as fast as possible as well.
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China's Sinopharm vaccine 'most unsafe in world' with 73 side effects
Side effects of China's vaunted Sinopharm vaccine include loss of vision
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This is a great clip from 60 Minutes (USA) showing absolutely no electoral fraud in Georgia and how the official explains what Rudy Giuliani cherry picks from the surveillance video.
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Twitter's share price was lower back in Nov 2020 than it is now and even lower back in March when the share market crashed. Over the course of the last 12 months, it's actually higher that it was this time last year. Overall, I think Twitter will be okay.
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Retired Lt. Colonel Larry Brock in court in connection to siege at U.S. Capitol. Turned in by his ex-wife.
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2 Gorillas In California Contract The Coronavirus
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955782284/two-gorillas-in-california-contract-the-coronavirus
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Trumpers losing their jobs and they usually don't know why. It wasn't my husbands 'best moment'. Seriously? So much cope.
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5 minutes ago, Darkpriest said:
4 ppl died from gun wounds? That's on police and sec serv?
No. As far as I know:
1. Woman shot in chest/neck.
2. Heart attack from flashbang
3. Taserface. He tasered himself and had a heart attack.
4. ???
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3 hours ago, majestic said:
I wonder when he wrote the script, never thought Max Landis would get to work on a film like... ever again.
It must have been a while back. The director has distanced herself and the movie from him so much that she now is credited with a co-writer on it - meaning she has re-written more than 50% of the script.
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I was never a huge fan of George W Bush but he was, and I think remains, a statesman. This is his comment reported in the Guardian:
Former president George W. Bush condemned rioters who stormed the Capitol and the politicians who “inflamed them.”
“This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic — not our democratic republic. I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election,” Bush said in a statement.
Bush, who did not mention Trump or any other politician by name, said the people who attacked the Capitol had their “passions inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes.”
Calling it an insurrection, Bush implored those disappointed by the outcome of the presidential election to put country over “the politics of the moment.”
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Looks like someone is taking a souvenir with them.
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Where's all the security that we see in the movies?
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18 hours ago, Gromnir said:
gonna guess it were homage.
It's definitely a homage movie. It's a cross between a twilight zone episode and many other action/horror b movies from the 80/90s and a little bit of looney tunes thrown in for fun. It's over the top and it knows it. It was originally written by Max Landis and was a 70 page script. The director rewrote and added more to the script and stretched it out to 1h 20 minutes.
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Shadow in the Cloud. Saw this today and it's pretty good. Had a John Carpenter synth inspired soundtrack in the first half of the movie. Just your action packed popcorn flick. It was also short in at 1hr 20mins. Hopefully, more movies will go back to 90 minutes instead of being dragged out to 2-3 hours.
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Transformers War for Cybertron Trilogy. Watched Part 1 Siege and Part 2 Earthrise. Now waiting on Part 3 Kingdom to be released in May 2021 to finish off the trilogy. Each part is 6 episodes - 18 episodes in all. The cool thing about this series is it's basically a prequel and uses all the characters from the 1985 cartoon and Transformers movie. Siege is the War on Cyberton. Earthrise is when they leave Cyberton for Earth. Kingdom will be ? Who knows. But this was freaking awesome to see all the characters back from the 80s.
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Wonder Woman 1984. It was okay. I enjoyed the first movie more.
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It's all deflection from Morrison from the real issues of war crimes and reparations to Afghanistan.
I thought this was hilarious. The YouTube comments are gold.
Politics US Edition (2021!)
in Way Off-Topic
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If Australia can afford 1 trillion and give people up to $1500 every two weeks, then why can't America afford 2 trillion? We don't have $1k loaves of bread. You can buy bread from the supermarket here for $1.30
https://shop.coles.com.au/a/national/product/coles-smart-buy-bread-white