Comment What a leet address (Score -1) 380
TFA: Honeypot Road in Hackham? Locations don't get any more leet than that. (0_o)
They probably used Facebook because they wanted friends to help them unfuck the situation, and not get sprung by the authorities / parents. Guilt and shame are interesting motivators, and it's against the law to enter drains - but they're not caged off for logistic and safety reasons.
The CC encourage competent exploration of the urban environment, not this kind of shit. It doesn't look like it rained in Adelaide on Sunday night, but if they were panicking, this could have been worse.
The parents should sue ... Eastman and Laird ;)
Comment GBA mobile hybrid? (Score -1) 92
I wish.
Buy games from some online store ... I could trade my pokemon http://www.eegra.com/comics/2009/04/80.jpg with other losers online ... or play via bluetooth if it's fast enough ... it would be awesome.
It'll never happen. *sigh*
Submission + - Michael Jackson fan fined for 'pirating' bootlegs (theage.com.au)
alex4point0 writes: A grieving Melbourne fan with an 'unhealthy obsession' for the late Michael Jackson has been convicted and fined $24,000 for pirating the King of Pop's music and DVDs. Described in court as a caring and likeable, if ''unusual'', man, Matthew Zore's almost lifelong worship of Jackson grew into a lucrative online 'blackmarket' enterprise in Australia and overseas. (...) Police who raided Zore's home after British authorities found his DVDs of bootleg concerts on sale there found 7268 DVDs. (...) yet "None of the pirated work was commercially released material, but came from bootleg recordings, (Defence lawyer Michael Gleeson) said. Zore pleaded guilty to six charges, including possessing, making and selling infringing copies."
This rather strikes me as biting the hand that feeds you, with a dash of Streisand for effect. MJ fans can usually be relied on to buy every version of every album released on every continent. If they're not already aware of the bootleg industry, they are now. The article also fails to mention what relationship the UK and Australian police have in regard to sharing information. Can they provide information to prosecute someone who is breaking UK law if they're in another country? What if it's not against the law there? (convict jokes aside...)
How can you be fined for selling a copy of a recording that the studios and labels didn't create? Like the cinema industry, where insiders leak timed copies or review editions well before the screenies emerge, isn't it sound technicians and other crew who leak the better copies of concert footage?
The bootleg industry is a de-facto 'viral marketing mechanism' for everyone who profits from a tour, I can understand why it exists — and why the studios want to kill it, even though it will piss off MJ fans. They're about to run out of albums and merchandise to buy, anyway ...
(zore !zune !zerg !spore)
This rather strikes me as biting the hand that feeds you, with a dash of Streisand for effect. MJ fans can usually be relied on to buy every version of every album released on every continent. If they're not already aware of the bootleg industry, they are now. The article also fails to mention what relationship the UK and Australian police have in regard to sharing information. Can they provide information to prosecute someone who is breaking UK law if they're in another country? What if it's not against the law there? (convict jokes aside...)
How can you be fined for selling a copy of a recording that the studios and labels didn't create? Like the cinema industry, where insiders leak timed copies or review editions well before the screenies emerge, isn't it sound technicians and other crew who leak the better copies of concert footage?
The bootleg industry is a de-facto 'viral marketing mechanism' for everyone who profits from a tour, I can understand why it exists — and why the studios want to kill it, even though it will piss off MJ fans. They're about to run out of albums and merchandise to buy, anyway
(zore !zune !zerg !spore)
Comment Image problem? (Score -1) 487
Just put one wheel in front and one in back
paint it red
http://images.google.com/images?q=akira+motorcycle
image issues solved. Now the giant transhuman destroying the city, that's a different question
Comment Don't tell Ronald (Score -1) 451
http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/bonnenaccount.gif
She doesn't like McDonalds?
Batman doesn't like chocolate.
http://www.demotivateus.com/posters/batman-chocolate-demotivational-posters.jpg
Comment Chrome! (Score -1) 213
Will the universe !DIV/0 if/when Chrome is ported to it?
Comment You can't ban the BPA! (Score -1) 251
I love those guys! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Port_Authority
oh, wait
Comment Bill Murray's a /b/tard (Score -1) 444
Murray better get off
Comment Re:Stop calling it H1N1 (Score -1) 84
The Go lobby is too busy playing Go to comment.
Comment Re:Jerkcity (Score -1) 503
Jerk City is the only place MSCS should ever be seen. It's a bit like the fridges at the CDC, a safe place to store nasty shit for research purposes -- and to see if it can be used as a weapon... for the uninitiated (or uninfected?) Jerk City is rendered in an old MS product, MS Comic Chat.
Comment Re:Sure it would. (Score -1) 518
Golf is a waste of arable urban land. Food security is the new domestic security priority.
Come the Revolution, (or the 2010 Civil War that Russian economist was bragging about the other day) the first thing we do, let's plough all the golf courses.
Comment Re:maybe try a new company name? (Score 0, Funny) 77
More like "Aye-Aye-Cap'n!-Net".
Big caps, low fees, popular with
Comment update from ROOTERS (Score -1) 622
Spokespippil from the British and French Navies are today denying that two of their submarines have formed a bizarre romantic relationship.
The submarines were on separate exercises in the Atlantic Ocean, but managed to slip away from their surface vessel chaperones for a Beatles-esque underwater liaison.
Nooone was hurt in the collision and both Britain and France insist nuclear security was not compromised. Defence experts believe neither vessel was sufficiently aroused to involuntarily discharge ICBM or torpedo munitions, IYKWIM, AITYD. They theorise that the water was too cold, and the submarines were frightened they would be caught. However, it is understood that the submarines still managed to spend a brief moment alone together, intimately fondling their conning towers and sonar arrays.
HMS Vanguard and Le Triumphante have both updated social netwrok pages denying the incident.
-- ROOTERS
Comment Steaming Pile of Shjt (Score -1) 68
Here in sunny southern Austria the entire train network in Melbourne is a steaming pile of shit - and it's high quality French shit too. Just search for 'connex' and have a look.
