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#9646
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
16 April, 2011, 07:29:22 PM
"Local politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities, even when we truly care."

(7m06s)

http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-04-12&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email
#9647
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
16 April, 2011, 03:09:55 PM
"The disastrous proposal to extend the term of copyright protection for sound recordings to 70 years is back on the European Council's agenda.

"There is a chance to stop this. You can help by writing to your MEPs now to tell them about your concerns, and ask them to make sure the Directive gets proper scrutiny from the European Parliament."

This is going on all over the world, even in the UN. They're starting with music and such, but it's basically a way of giving corporations more power over the things they create (drugs, new technologies etc), thereby extending the amount of time they can extract over inflated profits from stuff that could be produced cheaply by smaller companies once the copyright has run out.

http://action.openrightsgroup.org/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=1422&ea.campaign.id=10288
#9648
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
16 April, 2011, 02:51:04 PM
Ah, Tories - confusing freedom of choice with freedom. Numbskulls.

Anyhoo.

"Save The NHS: What Next?

"Let's decide together what we should do next to Save The NHS. Please fill in the survey at: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/what-next-nhs#petition   "
#9649
Books & Comics / Re: PARAGON #7 out now!
14 April, 2011, 11:30:37 PM
Wowzer - thanks for giving me the opportunity to write Jikan, I really appreciate it! And thanks for pairing me with such excellent artists - makes me look a lot better than I am!
#9650
Suggestions / Re: Wednesday Night Chat
13 April, 2011, 09:18:24 PM
Gentle? Well, okay.


Maybe...
#9651
Suggestions / Re: Wednesday Night Chat
13 April, 2011, 08:38:31 PM
We'll pull out an extra rubber sheet for you, Emps. (Don't forget to bring your own oil, the room's supply ran out last week...)
#9652
We could debate this issue in the Yap Shop this  very evening...
#9653
Suggestions / Re: Wednesday Night Chat
13 April, 2011, 06:54:50 PM
What? No early birds tonight?
#9654
General / Re: Life Spugs because...
13 April, 2011, 06:12:39 PM
Sorry to hear that, Tordel, such things genuinely upset me. A perfectly good business, perfectly good people, struggling through no fault of their own.

Things really do have to change.
#9655
Why the Hell not? I think it's a great opportunit... er, idea!
#9656
General / Re: The Dan Dare Poster magazine
13 April, 2011, 06:06:02 PM
Why frame a copy when you can frame the original? Mine's stored away in a dark box somewhere for my relatives to fight over/dump when I shuffle off.
#9657
Suggestions / Re: Wednesday Night Chat
13 April, 2011, 06:00:35 PM
Good evening, Yappers!

The Cybergod awaits your wisdom...
#9658
Books & Comics / Re: Jikan Noon
13 April, 2011, 03:53:30 PM
If anyone wants to download the finished version of Jikan: The Flood for free, you can find it hosted on Z-Share:

jikan_the_flood.zip - 12.20MB  http://www.zshare.net/download/8850784104f806a9/
#9659
Off Topic / Re: dodgy looking threads in off-topic
13 April, 2011, 03:38:02 AM
Quote from: Emperor on 13 April, 2011, 02:06:08 AM
There are two types:


  • Your blatant spammers - they hope that either a) in the brief time the links are live some curious fool might click on links for "flange-melting fun" and "Scooby Doo porn" or b) that the forum is neglected and no one ever removes the links

  • Your stealth spammers - they sign up, post "oh yeah me too" a few times and disappear. Sometime later, they insert links various spammy sites into their sigs in the hope that either some search engine bot stumbles across it and helps boost the sites search ranking (although I assume folks like Google have long ago downgraded the significance of such links).

Their aim is not to annoy - in almost all the cases it is either completely automated or some poor sod in a Chinese sweatshop is doing this as a break from farming gold in World of Warcraft and probably working from a script. When you Google up possible suspects (the ones that post something iffy but not enough to get them banned) you find identical posts and accounts of hundreds and sometimes thousands of forums (it is how Stop Forum Spam can react so quickly as this isn't isolated). When you go to block the account of a blatant spammer and check the IP range you'll often find dozens (and occasionally hundreds if the IP is somewhere like India or China or Indonesia) of stealth spammers.

Or maybe the internet is becoming self-aware and trying to communicate with us. I am the Mighty Cyber. Buy my shoes.
#9660
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
12 April, 2011, 07:02:32 PM
"FREEZE MURDOCH'S DEAL

"Rupert Murdoch's media empire has finally confessed to widespread phone hacking.

"Sign the petition - build pressure, stop Murdoch's takeover."

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/Murdoch_BSkyB_takeover_phone_hacking_petition