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Postby ntw3001 » Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:50 pm

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Postby MysticalDescent » Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:35 am

For all the coverage that SOPA got, ACTA has barely even been mentioned in this country, despite everyone being on the verge of signing up to it. Not that the majority of the electorate would actually ask for them to sign up to it.
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MysticalDescent wrote:For all the coverage that SOPA got, ACTA has barely even been mentioned in this country, despite everyone being on the verge of signing up to it. Not that the majority of the electorate would actually ask for them to sign up to it.

I thought the same thing regarding America, so I looked up "ACTA US" and this is what Wikipedia had to say:

Both the Bush administration and the Obama administration had rejected requests to make the text of ACTA public, with the White House saying that disclosure would cause "damage to the national security." In 2009, Knowledge Ecology International filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request in the United States, but their entire request was denied. The Office of the United States Trade Representative's Freedom of Information office stated the request was withheld for being material "properly classified in the interest of national security." US Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) penned a letter on 23 November 2009, asking the United States Trade Representative to make the text of the ACTA public.
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Postby MysticalDescent » Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:28 am

Huh.

The full content is supposedly here, but I can't make the page load.
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Postby ntw3001 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:54 pm

Canada has another thing with a coin Canada is cool because it sticks things on coins, like colours sometimes. There is a Remembrance Day quarter with a red poppy, and a Breast Cancer quarter with a pink ribbon. No other country has done this but it's cool. But this is better because it's a dinosaur with a glow-in-the-dark skeleton.
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Postby PonderThis » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:16 pm

SO VERY COOOOOOOL 8)
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Postby fanelian » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:40 pm

I am disappointed that this is not for general circulation :(
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Postby Judas Maccabeus » Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:14 pm

The most disappointing part of that article:

The other side depicts Queen Elizabeth. Her Majesty does not glow in the dark.


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Postby chrismachine » Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:08 am

I was going to quote that for humour as well. See, here it is on my clip board: "Her Majesty does not glow in the dark."
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Postby ntw3001 » Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:53 am

I'm sure her skeleton does.
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Postby James » Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:31 pm

Does her species have skeletons?
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Postby fanelian » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:32 pm

Surely they must have some in their closet.
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Postby jvcc » Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:07 pm

When did "artist" become a synonym for "mad scientist"?
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I'm simultaneously awed, disgusted, and terrified.
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Postby Skimba » Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:15 pm

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Postby ntw3001 » Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:02 pm

From the comments (I love Daily Mail comments):

Anyone who is caught engaging in a public sex act more than once should just go to jail for ten years. If you don't learn your lesson after getting caught and fined the first time, then you are clearly a menace to society who has no concept of boundaries and may even go on to hurt someone. The fact that this guy has been caught FOUR times shows what a joke our legal system has become. If it were truly interested in protecting society, he would have been put away the second time and not gotten a chance to do it again for a very long time.

- Nikki, Boise, USA, 15/6/2012 23:41


There's no inherent humour to it. It's a response I'd expect if the guy had been flashing, or jerking off in a park or something, but 'menace to society' comes across as a touch hyperbolic when discussing a man who fucks teddy bears in public toilets. As sex criminals go, he doesn't sound like the dangerous kind. I'm not sure that jailing him after the second bear would have been an effective means of 'protecing society'.
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Postby loofah » Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:09 pm

But we must protect the teddy bears!
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Postby IanC » Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:34 pm

It seems that due to Olympic sponsorship, you can't have chips in the staff canteen unless you have fish swell. WTF?
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Postby chrismachine » Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:48 pm

Unless I'm reading that wrong, it didn't happen, and isn't happening... no?
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Re: Amusing News Articles

Postby MysticalDescent » Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:56 pm

I'm rather indifferent to the whole thing, as the plan came to nothing.

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Postby James » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:28 pm

chrismachine wrote:Unless I'm reading that wrong, it didn't happen, and isn't happening... no?

I didn't actually read it; somebody linked to it, and the headline made me think of MD. I am a responsible consumer of news.
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