tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post4801527365014784322..comments2024-03-29T10:53:28.617+11:00Comments on loon pond: Day 24, and the pond takes a walk amongst the tribal bigots ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-31457790550452367552016-04-15T04:44:35.706+10:002016-04-15T04:44:35.706+10:00They're watching us. Cover up your computer...They're watching us. Cover up your computer's little camera!<br /><br />Microsoft, in a move that could broaden the debate over the balance between customer privacy and law enforcement needs, is going on the offense.<br /><br />The software giant is suing the Justice Department, challenging its frequent use of secrecy orders that prevent Microsoft from telling people when the government obtains a warrant to read their emails.<br /><br />In its suit, filed Thursday morning in Federal District Court in Seattle, Microsoft’s home turf, the company asserts that the gag order statute in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 — as employed today by federal prosecutors and the courts — is unconstitutional.<br /><br />The statute, according to Microsoft, violates the Fourth Amendment right of its customers to know if the government searches or seizes their property, and it breaches the company’s First Amendment right to speak to its customers.<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/technology/microsoft-sues-us-over-orders-barring-it-from-revealing-surveillance.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-19030629705195737772016-04-15T04:35:15.933+10:002016-04-15T04:35:15.933+10:00When to pixellate and when not pixellate? The Guar...When to pixellate and when not pixellate? The Guardian and other sources seem to be a bit schizophrenic about this. Early reports of Sally Faulkner and her kids (the Beirut kidnapping) show them clearly, but now it's all pixellation.<br /><br />What's the rule on this? And why the prevarication?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-58391034367188576322016-04-15T02:13:24.957+10:002016-04-15T02:13:24.957+10:00Well ys, the 'Rus' Mongols attacked Poland...Well ys, the 'Rus' Mongols attacked Poland three times, but they were military actions, not immigration, and they all went back home again when it was time to select the next Khan.<br /><br />There was also a bunch of Huns under tAttila, but again that was an invasion, not an immigration, and they faded away again after Attila died.<br /><br />Otherwise, did Mongols really reach Spain ? I know Vandals did (hence Andalusia) but that was long before the Mongols, and anyway the Vandals were Scandinavian.<br /><br />Moors invaded Spain and were tossed out again a long time afterwards - again, not exactly a 'wave of immigration'. But if we don't count Scandinavia as part of Europe, then the Goths and Vandals certainly had a major European diaspora - but personally, I do consider, so that's just 'intra-Europe Scandinavia part of Europe, as I'm fairly sure Phillips would also, so that's basically 'intra-Europe migration.<br /><br />So I'm still having difficulty grasping what Phillips might have actually meant by "waves of m igrants".<br /><br />The nearest I can think of was the "wave" of Turkish 'guest' workers into Germany who then stayed on - but of course that was a Muslim migration too.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-51417985725230907902016-04-14T23:40:00.546+10:002016-04-14T23:40:00.546+10:00Saw the excremental Bolt appearing with mucus coat...Saw the excremental Bolt appearing with mucus coated charm on ABC Pickering show. The slimy condescension and glib prejudice as seen in the extracts above were in abeyance for a time. The struggle with his inner atavistic id kept the appearance short. He was seen running naked into the Ultimo night flagellating his most sensitive parts.Patrickbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09965709616278735547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-38442708100541232362016-04-14T23:05:13.843+10:002016-04-14T23:05:13.843+10:00Indeed, Andy's mob poietically expresses the s...Indeed, Andy's mob poietically expresses the same shamelessly unabashed sentiments tomorrow, after the Australianish Question's final resolution began, time and again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-72214949745131495142016-04-14T20:07:02.766+10:002016-04-14T20:07:02.766+10:00Due NZ process to put them beyond the reach of Chi...Due NZ process to put them beyond the reach of Chinese anti-corruption law?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-66179712543383696172016-04-14T19:59:50.063+10:002016-04-14T19:59:50.063+10:00In fact Joh was largely a product of his media adv...In fact Joh was largely a product of his media adviser Clive. The minister for everything, Russ Hinze, and other cabinet crony crooks were the ones smoothing the way to riches for themselves and Clive and his fellow fellow 'white shoe brigade'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-86292993737608772992016-04-14T19:51:39.824+10:002016-04-14T19:51:39.824+10:00Monguls from "Rus" attacked as far overl...Monguls from "Rus" attacked as far overland as Spain. <br /><br />There are the Finns, Basques, the Hungarians, and others who've descended on Europe and blended in that "diverse identity landscape". <br /><br />Various "celts" before the above... and that other intriguing group of non-celts from the steppes some going by a route north of the alps, leaving descendants there, and their kin by another route across Egypt and North Africa to reside in the west of Ireland and to later invade northern Scotland and then take up a big royal invitation to live in Sweden. Haemochromatosis genetics, and a number of middle eastern memes travelled with them. (BTW is Scandinavia proper Europe? If not there's the Viking migrations followed by remarkable blending.)<br /><br />Moors rolled in and rolled out. The Romany rolling over the place are rolled on. Jews internally migrated to Poland, others externally to EU wannabe Turkey. West Indians and others previously colonised migrated to the UK.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-73583381898115527192016-04-14T19:07:04.703+10:002016-04-14T19:07:04.703+10:00Sharia Law?Sharia Law?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69357183874271125482016-04-14T19:05:59.278+10:002016-04-14T19:05:59.278+10:00Bishop's just not hysterical enough. I'm ...Bishop's just not hysterical enough. I'm thinking someone along the lines of Hanson, Katter, Palmer, Bjelke-Petersen.<br /><br />It obviously has to be a Queenslander. Maybe CanDo can make a comeback for the feds?Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69515568046775225162016-04-14T19:03:50.456+10:002016-04-14T19:03:50.456+10:00More Chinese reside in NZ now than Maoris, and tha...More Chinese reside in NZ now than Maoris, and that's rapidly increasing.<br /><br />Who are they barracking for?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-327728480961389062016-04-14T18:02:08.688+10:002016-04-14T18:02:08.688+10:00Sophie?Sophie?Mattoxichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14552242601998972584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-49899919552880137622016-04-14T18:00:59.357+10:002016-04-14T18:00:59.357+10:00Mongols invaded Poland.Mongols invaded Poland.Mattoxichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14552242601998972584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-22276268776958150892016-04-14T17:29:59.430+10:002016-04-14T17:29:59.430+10:00Oh nothing could ever be grander
Than to gaze on a...Oh nothing could ever be grander<br />Than to gaze on a blazing Miranda<br />Tied fast to the stake<br />By her cheering ex-mates<br />Who fan the flames from their veranda<br /><br /><br />The Bolt claims he speaks for the masses<br />But his brain is as thick as molasses<br />For the old days he pines<br />So he whinges and whines<br />And he’s just as dumb as his ass is!<br /><br /><br />A tight-fisted palmer named Clive<br />Decided to give himself five<br />But he’s pulled his last tug<br />Cos it fell on the rug<br />And the ants hauled it back to their hive<br />Kezznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-59507872980720845862016-04-14T16:35:20.367+10:002016-04-14T16:35:20.367+10:00Julie Bishop ?Julie Bishop ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-42817948090610215262016-04-14T16:12:30.209+10:002016-04-14T16:12:30.209+10:00Makes you wonder, GD, will there be a RWNJ hero/he...Makes you wonder, GD, will there be a RWNJ hero/heroine running in this year's election?Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-59989404477559274582016-04-14T09:52:26.399+10:002016-04-14T09:52:26.399+10:00You're spot on about the reptiles blaming the ...You're spot on about the reptiles blaming the rise of Clive on the ABC. The Dog Botherer and La Devine sent a storm going on Twitter to that effect. It conveniently overlooks that the ABC probably played a bigger role (other than Clive himself) in Clive's fall than all the investigative efforts of dear old Hedley.<br /><br />Never mind, but it did give me pause to wonder what role the reptiles had played in championing Cathy Jackson and if they still stood by their working class hero.<br /><br />Your point is more important, though. Clive is a product of Joh's politics right down to the maverick tendencies (anyone, apart from John Howard, remember the Joh for PM push in 87?). Demagogue politics seems to capture the imagination up there and Hanson and Katter have had their moments in the sun before Clive burst on the scene.Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-5692390659297905792016-04-14T09:17:30.826+10:002016-04-14T09:17:30.826+10:00When Rupert was cosying up to the COMMUNIST Chines...When Rupert was cosying up to the COMMUNIST Chinese government in the hope of a TV licence, the bolter, for some reason, was silent about the Han hordes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-35969251429941576322016-04-14T08:39:47.235+10:002016-04-14T08:39:47.235+10:00Hmmm. The Bolter reports this as coming from Trev...Hmmm. The Bolter reports this as coming from Trevor Phillips: "... that Europe's Muslims would become like previous waves of migrants ...".<br /><br />What "waves" would that be ? I can't recall any "waves" of immigrants to Europe since the "Cro-Magnons" (so-called) took over from the Neanderthals. Unless maybe he's speaking of the 'waves' of Angles, Saxons and Jutes and later Vikings and even later Normans which 'discovered and settled' Britain ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-9244513349137848942016-04-14T08:27:58.353+10:002016-04-14T08:27:58.353+10:00I have it on good authority that Kiwis in Australi...I have it on good authority that Kiwis in Australia also barrack more for the underdog - sorry, the New Zealand side - than they do for Australia.<br /><br />Ungrateful knobs.Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-43763994288934884942016-04-14T08:04:07.264+10:002016-04-14T08:04:07.264+10:00"When I woke up this mornin' I heard a di..."When I woke up this mornin' I heard a disturbin' sound ..." It was Barnaby trying to make sentences. Disturbing.<br />Anyway, in support of the abolition of the RSRT, I see columns of monster B-doubles converging on Canberra. I see Abbott leading the convoy. I see 130kg, superbly fit owner-drivers with their "extremely attractive" partners, I see large snarling dogs, I see flags & guns. I see banners flying ... hang on, what's written on them? Words that Abbott, BBishop & Sophie would be proud to stand before? ...<br />Dozing over, I'm wide awake to ScoMo blathering. Quite refreshing, Chris Bowen would agree. Can anyone throw ScoMo a lifesaver? Josh F ...? Say again, Josh, is it possible Peabody Coal could close Oz mines? "That's not what they told me", says Josh. That's a relief, then. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08158673564017581517noreply@blogger.com