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http://posthumanthem....com/watch-the-film/-panzer (July 29, 2013, 04:37 AM)
What's clear here is that David Cameron wants people to sleepwalk into censorship. We know that people stick with defaults: this is part of the idea behind 'nudge theory' and 'choice architecture' that is popular with Cameron.
The implication is that filtering is good, or at least harmless, for anyone, whether adult or child. Of course, this is not true; there's not just the question of false positives for web users, but the affect on a network economy of excluding a proportion of a legitimate website's audience.
I never watch trailers or anything about a movie before I see it,-Renegade (July 28, 2013, 10:32 PM)
For The Colony, neither had I, but from watching other movies that had the same 'adversaries', (hinted at in the first few minutes), the narration of what happened to the planet, the SOS, the initial confrontation between Paxton and Zegers, etc, etc - it all adds up to give you a pretty good idea of what's going to happen further on. As Shades said.-4wd (July 28, 2013, 10:52 PM)
Unfortunately, the referenced article in the first post of this thread, doesn't mention the relativity of this 'polution' caused by 3D printers: it's comparable to grilling meat on a charcoal barbeque or smoking a cigarette, as mentioned here and in other articles.-Ath (July 28, 2013, 12:33 PM)
Wet/dry vacs have two filters, one filter that catches real fine particles like dust. The outer filter which fits over the dust filter is foam. I've used it on real fine saw-dust and nothing got by the filters, the exhaust was blowing clean air even though the foam filter was dry....-Tinman57 (July 28, 2013, 08:30 PM)
And I'll go along with Shades w.r.t. The Colony, much of the storyline was apparent after the first 10-15 minutes.-4wd (July 28, 2013, 10:10 PM)
With all the other attacks on the Constitution, I think the ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" might fall one day too. I had it all worked out a while back... so you could give people "unusual" punishments simply by declaring them "not cruel proportional to the crime".-TaoPhoenix (July 28, 2013, 11:10 AM)
This makes for endless comedy skits - going all clockwork orange on someone and making them watch Barney repeats!-TaoPhoenix (July 28, 2013, 11:10 AM)
Why Canada Should Block Internet Pornography
On Tuesday, July 22, 2013, I applauded British Prime Minister David Cameron for his bold approach to work with Internet Service Providers to develop solutions to protect children, including an opt-out adult content filter. In this massive fight against child exploitation and the sexualisation of our children, every step we can take makes a difference.
From the outset, I have emphasized the need for a conversation amongst Canadians about how we can better protect youth from adult content online. We currently restrict and protect children from exposure to adult content everywhere but the internet. When ordering Cable TV, you have to 'opt-in' to receive adult channels. Why should the internet be any different?
Canada's national anti-slavery advocacy group...
I look forward to working with parents, governments, ISPs, search engines and stakeholders about how we can increase the tools and choices available to protect children online from adult content.
BEN KNIGHT: Part of that is because the big data companies have learned from the Chattanooga experience. They've successfully lobbied 18 US states to pass laws that block other cities from building their own fibre networks.
If that isn't anti-competitive, what is?-4wd (July 28, 2013, 12:50 AM)
No, they want him to come home, and will not seek the death penalty. Oooh....
-wraith808 (July 28, 2013, 09:40 AM)
The Colony - Predictable storyline (same as Hunger games) but the actors put in better performance.-Shades (July 27, 2013, 12:04 PM)
You can rest assured, Detroit, that America will come to your rescue if those bloodthirsty Canadians attack!
The hunger games - Waste of time (why it got the high IMDB score is beyond me).-Shades (July 27, 2013, 12:04 PM)
Grabbers - Good Irish horror movie that is more funny than horror and I think that the missus wouldn't mind watching this one together either.-Shades (July 27, 2013, 12:04 PM)
I near peed myself when I read that. Throwing out the mice? Wow. The depths of idiocy in government just knows no bounds.-Renegade (July 26, 2013, 09:14 PM)
Hay now, they were just trying to prevent history from repeating itself ... Rodents carried plague throughout the land back in the dark ages...and devil be damned if they were going to let that shit happen again..!-Stoic Joker (July 27, 2013, 08:53 AM)
We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun, is waging war on us so mercilessly we suspect he is being stirred up against us by perfidious Albion (excellent diplomacy nowadays!), particularly because he has for that haughty island a respect that he does not show for us.