The Ranting Room

To mr blacksword...there speaks the true voice of the tories...anti-european and xenophobic. If the poles or whoever didn't tkae these jobs on minimum wage ...the lazy scum in the uk won't...so get your facts right. At least labour aren't going to make million pound homes free from inheritance tax.....how many uk people own a million pound home...erm tories.

Edited by alphawave10 - December 28 2009 at 19:59

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Edited by floydispink - January 08 2010 at 07:57

NuLabour. NuRant!!      

As Britain braces itself for a General Election, Gordon Brooon has backflipped, somersaulted and u-turned once again. This time, on how the party has treated the 'white working class' in the UK. The conclusion being that the government needs to do more to address the needs of these communities, and not focus all its energy on the minority immigrant population.

Of course, it's not Gordie himself making the claims, oh no. He's clearly given the go ahead for prize pillock and communities Tzar John Denham to stick his neck out and state the mother ing obvious. So, D!ckhead Denham wins this weeks 'No sh*t, Sherlock' award, and the party, true to form has suddenly decided - and it's nothing to do with the election - that it should address the concerns of the nation. Twelve months ago, any discussion of this matter within NuLab circles would have had party members choking on their organic muesli, but when there is an election to win, suddenly they give a sh*t, and it becomes a legitimate and acceptable topic for discussion.

NuLab has achieved what it set out to do with it's immigration policy; to acquire an unskilled labour force, from abroad, many working for below min wage, for contract companies, agressively bidding for work in publically funded institutions like the NHS. In doing so, it has also imported armies of potential voters, grateful for the opportunity to shovel our crap from pile A to pile B for a handful of loose change. In the meantime, 50% of youngsters are bulldozed into university and into lifelong debt, to achieve a degree, with barely a fraction of what the same qualification would have been worth 20 years ago,just so they can qualify for even the most basic of jobs after they graduate. At the same time, vast swathes of the working class population fall into hopeless chavdom with no prospects whatsoever.

Fear not, NuLab now cares about you all and will save you...... Did I mention there was an election next year...???

Nu Labour, slave Labour...

stonebeard wrote: If I were Australian, I'd be ranting pretty hard now about how your government treats you like babies regarding video games. Wait a few weeks and Modern Warfare 2 will be banned.

Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

-Justice Potter Stewart


Not banned, just editing out the civilian killing mission (Which I'm fine with) and taking out most of the blood. That revised version came out last thursday. Apparently, whilst checking the game to decide if it was alright for us and our feeble minds to experience, they happened to miss the No Russian mission, in which you kill the civilians in the airport. They found out after it had already shipped (HA!) and decided to release the weak version.

Its pretty ridiculous - The average age of gamers in Australia is 30, and then went up from 28 over the past two years. I remember when I was super hyped for Fallout 3 and they said they had to ban it, I read the official statement about why, and it was complete and utter bullsh*t about how some people might just kill someone in the game and think it's alright in real life, which is ridiculous and I don't think even he believes it. People who don't know the difference between murder in a game and murder in real life are idiots already.

The maximum rating we have here is MA: 15+, even though thats half the age of the average gamer. Movies and DVD's here have up to R: 18+, even though the average age of people who partake in movie watching is obviously far less than that of gamers.

I mean seriously... The government thinks they can sensor nearly everything here, and they're not gonna get away with it.


Video Games

In June 2009, it was confirmed that the Government's proposed internet censorship regime would block downloadable games, flash-based web games and sites which sell physical copies of games that do not meet the MA15+ standard, such as Ebay and Amazon.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia

If they think they're seriously going to be able to flash games, then I laugh in their faces. If they think they're going to stop me from buying US copies of PS3 games from Amazon, or from Australian stores which sell American copies on eBay so that they can continue their price discrimination and force me to pay LITERALLY twice as much for a censored (and often much more buggy because of it) version of a game, well then they can

They've tested the filter, and from the same Wikipedia article, the filters reduced download speeds by 22% when they weren't even filtering anything. My parents don't pay money for the internet every month so the government can limit the freedom AND speed. (yes, I'm aware of how snobby that sentence sounded )

If the government tries to run the blacklist without a referendum, they're going to have a whole lot of crap on their hands to deal with, and once they do open the polls on the subject, well then they're wasting everyone's time by making us vote, because it'll never pass anyway.
Moreover, they're wasting tax payers money on a project which no-one wants, no-one likes and no-one needs. People are going to access porn and government protest sites anyway, so they're idiots for thinking the internet is the only media for such product, and also for thinking they have the right to control our freedoms.



/rant

I'm having trouble understanding how one CD player could sound better than another, unless you are referring to the quality of the speakers. Personally, I would rather spend $350 on headphones instead of speakers if I was going to spend such a large amount of money on equipment.

floydispink wrote: Dean wrote: floydispink wrote: I'm  mad!  I bought a new CD-player which is of great quality, but somehow in between the songs there's a one minute break. I've called the support service and they said it was because of the quality of the sound that the thing needed to read every song for a second. It wasn't mentioned anywhere when I bought the thing.  enjoy listening to Dark SIde Of The Moon this way.  I think you've been fobbed-off with a bs answer - even if that was a truthful answer (which I very much doubt - the gap in a track on a CD is silent, but not empty of data - the player is reading the disc constantly from the moment you start playing and even if it does pre-read 1 second of data, it will do it over the silent bit too). Take it back and ask for a refund as being not fit for purpose. Yeah, I'm going to ask for refund tomorrow, as the company's service is closed now. They told me the problem might be helped when I updated the CD-player by putting some USB stick with files in it. I did that, but nothing has solved. The sound is very good though, but I get extremely frustrated every time the gap comes in.

Dean wrote: floydispink wrote: I'm  mad!  I bought a new CD-player which is of great quality, but somehow in between the songs there's a one minute break. I've called the support service and they said it was because of the quality of the sound that the thing needed to read every song for a second. It wasn't mentioned anywhere when I bought the thing.  enjoy listening to Dark SIde Of The Moon this way.  I think you've been fobbed-off with a bs answer - even if that was a truthful answer (which I very much doubt - the gap in a track on a CD is silent, but not empty of data - the player is reading the disc constantly from the moment you start playing and even if it does pre-read 1 second of data, it will do it over the silent bit too). Take it back and ask for a refund as being not fit for purpose.

Edited by floydispink - November 27 2009 at 13:45

floydispink wrote: I'm  mad!  I bought a new CD-player which is of great quality, but somehow in between the songs there's a one minute break. I've called the support service and they said it was because of the quality of the sound that the thing needed to read every song for a second. It wasn't mentioned anywhere when I bought the thing.  enjoy listening to Dark SIde Of The Moon this way.

Dean wrote: I'll freely admit I am not the world greatest programmer - if I was I would be a games programmer or some other high-flying software mechanic and not a lowly engineer... however, I have been programming since the late 70s in a variety of languages, from raw machine code (if the processor is simple enough) to rather misguided attempts at graphics based 4GLs... Languages such as FORTRAN, COBOL, coral, pascal, basic, Modula-2, HTML, css, java, asp.net, c, c++ and a variety of machine specific propriety languages hold no mystery to me. But here I am at 3:30 am on a Sunday morning after 12 solid hours of staring at a p*xy PC screen trying to figure out why the fk I cannot perform a simple task of using vb.net to suck an XML "database" into Excel and plot a few (well 167) crappy graphs. I mean - XML is supposed to make life simple, but for the love of all things precious, why the fk did the mrns at W3C invent such a ridiculously verbose syntax and then give it to fking muppets  (who haven't quite grasped the concept of object oriented languages yet) at MicrSft to code! For example: objAdapter.SelectCommand = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand(strSQL, objConn) ... clear as sodding mud... at night... wearing a blindfold... in a coal-celler... while still under the affects of those drops the optician gives you that dilate the pupils so people afterwards think you're pissed or stoned or just plain mad.   I think to would have been quicker for me to print these 180MB XML files out on paper and use scissors and glue to organise them into a life-size papier-mâché model of an elephant on roller-skates juggling three hippopotomi.   At least I'd have something to show my boss and his customer on Monday.   Oh well, back to it... now where did I put that bottle of PVA glue?...

Kind of interesting, my VB.Net teacher uses the phrase clear as mud all the time in class. I have her for a programming logic class as well, I don't think she says it nearly as much in that class.

I do hate my programming logic class more though, I get to use a language called JustBasic, which feels like it takes the limitations of TI-Basic. I have only used Python to see what it feels like, but it seems like a nicer language.