Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[growler]

On Monday, 2 September 2013 at 05:41:50 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 2 September 2013 06:55, Nick Sabalausky <
> SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 02:37:09 +1000
>> Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Do. But the website is slow, and you probably haven't tried 
>> > to use the
>> > internet in Australia recently.
>> > Also, our new government intends to set Australia's internet 
>> > back
>> > about 10 years:
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-6E5yX1E0U
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpN7VCzDTdg
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyY-xI6zgfk
>> >
>> > Quality leadership to be sure...
>> > Note: I can only watch these in 320p after about 20-30 
>> > seconds buffer
>> > time ;)
>> >
>>
>> Genuine question, not sarcasm: Have they decided to stop 
>> engaging in
>> thinly-veiled censorship yet? Or at least admit that they 
>> censor? ("Oh
>> no, we're not censoring! We're merely 'denying classification' 
>> on things
>> that are outlawed without government classification!")
>
>
> No.
> We're the 51st state of America, so we're all about censorship 
> and hiding
> information from the people at all costs. We also don't have 
> the American
> constitution in our defence, we're more like a lame England 
> acting as
> America's patsy; they can more-or-less just do whatever they 
> want, and rely
> on the fact that even if some of the public whinge and complain 
> about it,
> nobody will actually do anything meaningful to stop it. Our 
> political
> representation is truly embarrassing.
> We also experience 80% Murdoch media coverage, so if they don't 
> want you to
> know about something, you certainly won't hear 
> discussion/debate about it
> on the television, and don't talk about it with 
> non-nerds/over-40's,
> because they'll just tell you you're a wonky conspiracy 
> theorist.
>
> The current government wants to install a nation-wide internet 
> filtering
> system with a classified black-list so they an filter 
> _specifically_ 'child
> pornography' from unsuspecting viewers...
> I don't know about you, but I've been on the internet a long 
> time, and
> while it is (or used to be, google are better at filtering it 
> now)
> reasonably common to stumble upon unexpected porn, I've NEVER 
> seen child or
> animal abuse in my life. Clearly this isn't the real motivator.
> The child abuse department of the federal police are suggesting 
> they give
> them the budget instead, and they'll be able to make a much 
> more meaningful
> difference... but nobody listens to them.
>
> Meanwhile, people are constantly asking the leaders if they're 
> spying on us
> like the NSA and friends. Their preferred response is not to 
> respond at
> all. They ignore the question and walk away, every time.
> Whee!
>
> Of course, investment in the nation's internet is ridiculous, 
> who would
> want to invest that sort of tax-payer money on communications
> infrastructure which is just "essentially, a video 
> entertainment system":
> https://www.youtube.com/v/DPgJA25Nso4?start=39&end=57
> Again though, Murdoch has made it clear that he opposes 
> improving the
> nation's internet infrastructure, because people might prefer a 
> $10/month
> subscription to online tv services to his own $100/month foxtel
> subscriptions.
> Would you believe that you can't watch Game of Thrones in 
> Australia unless
> you pay at least $80/month for a foxtel (cable tv) 
> subscription? And they
> wonder why all the statistics appear to show that Australians 
> are the worst
> media pirates on earth...

+1

I'm aussie and totally ashamed of the crappy government we 
have...on both sides.  Censorship is only the tip of the iceberg. 
We have an election coming up and there has been *nothing* about 
climate change policy and yet we've just had the warmest winter 
on record.

It's the usual crapola spinning us the line of how much better 
off us middle income earners will be rather than coming up with 
any real policy for the future of the country, homelessness, 
mental health, ... you get the picture

...and don't get me started on the abysmal response to "the boat 
people" from both sides. Poor buggers they are. It's about time 
the robot politicians of this country started showing some 
respect for human beings.

of mine started showing people of the world some respectDo people 
here really believe they'd get onto a dodgy leaky boat for fun?  
deserve to be treated with respect like every other human being  
IMO.

Very disheartening.

Sorry, got side tracked growling about Oz politics ;)

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