The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

So anyway yeah, has that changed? I doubt we'd let cops just rip one from a woman's head wholesale, but I can kind of see where "please show me your face" might be a reasonable request from an authority figure - we were allowed to do so at the passport office iirc

hypocrite? xpost

Once I was told "he's old, you should make allowances for him" in defence of a homophobe, i.e. I should get off his case so that he can prejudicially get on someone else's

xxp hypocrite doesn't sum up the whole logic trail well enough imo

http://delimiter.com.au/2011/08/30/wikileaks-cable-outs-secret-iitrial-background/

- MPAA in America orchestrated the action against iiNet, wanted that fact to remain a secret
- MPAA hassled Conroy directly (again in secret)

omg this bit

The US Embassy, according to the document, noted that Australia had “very high rates of illegal movie and television show downloads”, in part because of “the sometimes long gaps between their release in the US and their arrival in Australian theaters or on local television”.

This stuff doesnt seem to be news, is whats weird to me, I'm not sure what I am missing.

“AFACT and MPAA worked hard to get Village Roadshow and the Seven Network to agree to be the public Australian faces on the case to make it clear there are Australian equities at stake, and this isn’t just Hollywood “bullying some poor little Australian ISP,” the cable quoted the US Embassy as writing.

iiNet, the cable claimed, had been targeted because the ISP was “big enough to be important”, as the third-largest ISP in Australia. The MPAA didn’t go after Telstra, the cable claimed, because the telco was “the big guns” and had “the financial resources and demonstrated willingness to fight hard and dirty, in court and out”. In addition, iiNet users had a particularly high copyright violation rate, the cable claimed, and its management had been “consistently unhelpful on copyright infringements”.

This was already a known thing? Certainly at least the supposed situation, as I had always read it.

(partic the "dont pick on T because they got too mucn clout" bit)

Yeah the reason for singling out ii was always pretty obvious but it's the other stuff, mainly (a) MPAA wanted desperately to be the secret overlord in all this (b) MPAA had to nag VR & 7 to be its sockpuppets and cop the flak publicly

of course the cover's blown now so

What amazes me most about all this is that corporate action is almost always emotionless and soulless, i.e. legal action proceeds, everyone works through it professionally and without real emotive anger, but the MPAA seems to actually chuck tanties, probably because it knows its business model is dying and the people at the top (i.e. not the law firms) are in a constant and escalating state of reactionary panic.

...which is bonkers when there are people who have exploited the exact same medium and got rich e.g. steve jobs

- Malaysia solution scuttled by High Court
- High Court decision may invalidate previous tactics e.g. the "Pacific "Solution""
- Herald Sun runs scary "HERE THEY COME" headline accompanied by scary pic of scary boat
- is anybody actually listening anymore

nah

What are you serious? Read some comments sections sometime - even in the Age, there are far too many ppl saying "we're full/we have infrastructure problems/we dont need any more immigration/blah rargh boat pppl"

None of them ever seem to consider the fact "boat people" make up like 2% of the yearly influx and the bulk of the supposed "overcrowding" is bloody students coming over on planes and then breaching their visas but whatever.

Oh yeah the usual tornado of entitlement is still spinning, what I meant is people like us have no reason to give a crap anymore because they're all behaving like arseholes. Sorry, wasn't clear.

Ah yes, agree on that point. I'm over it, frankly. I dont care anymore. I dont care about whos in govt. I dont care about the carbon "tax". I dont care about school funding. I JUST DONT CARE.

Yeah that's what I mean. I've decided to never vote again ever unless an actual LEADER comes in and LEADS based on 21st century thinking rather than bigot-chasing. Lack of marriage equality is what tipped me over the edge because there's only one correct outcome and it's being blocked by bigots.

Also obv the overcrowding has bugger-all to do with immigration and everything to do with councils and government sucking at town and infrastructure planning, but hey what do I know I'm just a lefty softcock.

look see i'm off now

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pls explain the excitement about this bloke

He just released an album, presumably one would expect it to be getting media, non?

no I mean pls explain why so many people are so incredibly super-excited

Oh ok. Didnae know they were. That new single is quite pleasant, but it is ruined when the chick starts singing.

hey dirt-aye, baby i gotye money

^ ~layered post~

but it is ruined when the chick starts singing.

except the twist makes the song approx 90x better

held her cardigan when she went on to do it at the Opera House the other night tbh, she is tiny

"Uh, is it Silverchair?"

(Sorry.)

what's the biggest month for weddings in oz?

There's a month for weddings? What like, weather wise u mean?

i guess? i think here may is considered biggest month, then a bit of june before it gets too hot?

i got married in february and we can see how that turned out

Big place, loads of weather variation. Nov/Dec is good for Melbourne but that's when it's wet in a load of places.

Yeah some ppl will go north and have a wedding in winter in QLD for example thats a good point. 2 friends of mine had a Feburary wedding the same day but that may have been more cos it was Feb 29th =)

I would think March-April in Canberra would be beautiful (stunning autumn leaves)

Pff weddings tho

aw man my sister-in-law was being induced a few years ago and was given the option of scheduling it on feb 29 or march 1

she chose march 1 wtffff

kid is pretty cool anyway i guess

aaaaahahahaha

"you were born on a boring day but you turned out all right"

otm

u shouldn't schedule ur wedding on charlton agricultural show day, my moms (yo) did that and still hasn't heard the end of it

lol, this 'at home with gillard' thing

"Prime Minister, I have good news"
"Alan Jones has emigrated?"
"No"
"Chocolate eclairs?"

not watching (couldn't get through wil anderson's hair and shit gags in the half hour beforehand) but both are indeed good news items

can I just say that one of these days I'm gonna start up a protest with a hundred trucks converging on Canberra to protest at the ABC still allowing Wil Anderson to pollute our television screens

that show was great

it was p good actually, who'd have thought!

a protest with a hundred trucks converging on Canberra to protest at the ABC still allowing Wil Anderson to pollute our television screens

COSIGN THIS

I was expecting it to be horrific, ended up snorting with laughter about 15 times

Better view this on iView dude iView at some stage then!!

When is the last time Wil Anderson was in anything? I cant say Ive seen him.

you also frequently note that you don't even WATCH tv

he has been hosting one of the ABC's top-rating programs for four series now, with a fifth iteration coming in a few weeks

I keep confusing him with the guy on spics and specs so I dunno.

...actually now we have a damn digital tv i have been watching tv :( Mostly Freinds re-runs and crappy Simpsoys eps.

Tony Abbott IS Dick Dastardly, sez Age.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/abbott-wont-guarantee-pair--for-thomson-if-wife-gives-birth-20110908-1jz5l.html