GRIMLY FIENDISH

Anonymous again...?

Exactly... Griff obviously doesn't fancy a life of debt slavery paying back his tuition and student loan for about 30 years after graduation..... -_-

Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal Music Source - Russia Today After a Department of Justice-executed raid today on the file sharing site Megaupload, hackers aligned with the online collective Anonymous have shut down the websites for both the DoJ and Universal Music Group, the largest record company in America. Both universalmusic.com and justice.gov went down on Thursday afternoon, less than hours after it was revealed that Megaupload had been brought down by federal authorities and four people linked to the site, all outside of America, were arrested and charged with a conspiracy related to copyright infringement. “It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the concurrent attack on Justice.gov,” Anonymous operative Barret Brown tells RT on Thursday afternoon. Brown adds that “more is coming” and Anonymous-aligned hacktivists are pursuing a joint effort with others to “ damage campaign raising abilities of remaining Democrats who support SOPA.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is now becoming a cyber-WAR... Good on you Anonymous.... They take down one, then there will be retaliations.... F'uck 'em up, take them all down, f'uck the US Govt, the MPAA and Music industry.... :yahoo: :yahoo:

The fact that the Feds have been able to take down Megaupload without SOPA, proves that SOPA isn't even necessary, that's first off... So, it begs the question, what the f*** do they actually need something like SOPA for..? Gee, surely cant be censor our thoughts and our opinions on the net, could it...? Naaaaah, surely not, I mean, that would make them just as bad as China, Egypt, Syria or Iran, wouldn't it...? Second off, just where the f*** do the Americans get off insisting that New Zealand citizens are arrested for doing activities that aren't even illegal in New Zealand...? Since when did US law become the standard for the entire globe...? I'm sick of this shit.... <_<

I'm personally not too bothered about the change of pace tbh, it's been giving you a bit more time to really get to know the characters. And, i kind of think if you'd had endless zombie attacks, the final scenes in episode 7 would never have packed the sheer emotional gut-punch that they did... I think people need to realise that this show, and Kirkman's graphic novels, aint Romero....

The corporate Hollywood moguls certainly dont like Obama's stance, theyre threatening to stop donations to the Democrats if they dont get their way... Because of course law should be written just for their interests and not the voters..... They're as bad as J P Morgan.... -_-

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Indeed. It's like "Oh No, oh No, Wiki is down, shit, that means I actually have to go to the library...???". Morons.. Anyone who relies on Wiki that much deserves to fail their exams anyway... -_- SOPA will decimate the likes of Wiki, Youtube, Facebook, Google, even Twitter maybe... Some people are so dumb if they cant see that...

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I'm fed up with these cry-baby whingers like Murdoch and politicians who bitch about the Internet.. They're threatened by it because they cant control it, that's the bottom line.. These people claim to be in favour of "free markets", they claim to be in favour of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, they claim to be defending democracy and freedom.. A completely autonomous internet IS the "free market", it IS the innovation of the 21st Century it IS the most conducive thing to Entrepreneurial spirit as there is practically zero barriers to anyone setting themselves up on the net as a business and it IS the ultimate democratising force... These people in favour of SOPA are full of shit and spitting the shit out their arse..... f*** SOPA, f*** MURDOCH, f*** THE CORPORATE STATES OF AMERICA...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOP...tive/Learn_more http://www.sopastrike.com/ https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage

Couldn't agree more... Ca-Moron and Gideon are basically putting pressure on Salmond to call a referendum early because they know damn fine that by 2014, the economy will be so f/ucked, there will be so much unemployment and the real consequences of "austerity" will be there for anyone to see, and they'll realise that the voices of opposition to all this crap were correct all along... There wont be the need for a third question..... Or, arguably, even a second one.... :lol:

Ahh, bugger, you're right..... :lol:

And lo! Gove's Bible project did run into a spot of bother http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/ja...P=FBCNETTXT9038 A plan by the education secretary, Michael Gove, to send a copy of the King James Bible to every school in the country – each including a personal inscription from him – has run into trouble after government sources reported he has been told to find private funding for the project. Sources said David Cameron told Gove that while he supported the idea, the education secretary should avoid using taxpayers' money for it. But Gove has yet to find a private philanthropic sponsor for the enterprise, and some Whitehall sources said he has been told he cannot distribute the book until he does so, leaving thousands of copies in a warehouse abroad. The Department for Education denied aspects of the story, but said they did not know if the copies had yet been printed, or where the copies might currently be stored. They added the Bible was always intended to be distributed to schools at Easter, so there had been no slippage in the timetable due to the lack of a sponsor. Education department officials said the prime minister supported the plan and said they did not recognise accounts of a conversation in which Gove was told no taxpayers' money could be used. But Whitehall sources said Gove was told at the highest levels that it would be wrong to spend nearly £400,000 on the project at a time when the government was in negotiations with teaching unions over cuts to their pension entitlement. Education department officials insisted the bibles would be distributed before Easter even if no sponsor had been found. A senior education department source said enough public cash was available to press ahead and No 10 had merely indicated that "sponsorship was desirable". A Department for Education official said in a statement: "The prime minister was clear in his speech in December about the importance of the King James Bible, and marking this important anniversary. The prime minister supports the plan to send a copy to every school. We continue to seek philanthropic sponsorship." The 400th anniversary of the publication of the Bible was in 2011. Earlier this week, Gove emerged as an enthusiastic supporter of plans for a new royal yacht to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee. He has insisted unambiguously in one letter that no taxpayers' money will be involved in the yacht project , but in another to cabinet ministers his wording appeared to suggest that public funding was an option. Questions have been asked whether the upkeep, running costs and security surrounding a royal yacht would fall on the public purse. Gove has been both lauded and ridiculed for his support for the yacht, and has faced a similar divided response for his support for the King James Bible distribution. In a speech in December, Cameron celebrated the importance of the King James Bible giving three reasons for its relevance. He said: "The King James Bible has bequeathed a body of language that permeates every aspect of our culture and heritage. Second, just as our language and culture is steeped in the Bible, so too is our politics. Third, we are a Christian country. And we should not be afraid to say so. Let me be clear: I am not in any way saying that to have another faith – or no faith – is somehow wrong." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No, seriously, that bit in bold is LEGIT... A personal inscription by Gove in The Bible... FFS, you couldn't make this one up... No wonder he cant find anyone keen on sponsoring this, is there no end to this man's insufferable arrogance...?? Even by Tory standards, that's taking the custard cream..... And the jaffa cake.... Well, seeing as how Gove seems to have such a Messiah Complex, how about we indulge him a bit... Get a couple of big bits of wood, some nails and crucify the prick on Parliament Square...... -_-

Britain 'back in recession': economists http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world...0116-1q2io.html Britain is likely to already be in recession, according to two highly regarded economic forecasters, as developments in the eurozone paralyse the country's recovery. The Ernst & Young ITEM Club and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) both believe that gross domestic product (GDP) shrank in the final quarter of last year and will fall again in the first three months of 2012. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of contracting output. The prospects for the economy in Britain are closely tied to the fate of the eurozone, according to both reports, which is hitting the export trade so crucial to the country's recovery. The warnings come shortly after France, the second biggest economy in the eurozone, saw its triple-A credit rating downgraded by Standard & Poor's (S&P) in a move which signals more troubles for the single currency bloc. Professor Peter Spencer, chief economic adviser to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club, said: "Figures for the last quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of this year are likely to show that we are back in recession and we are going to have to wait until this summer before there are any signs of improvement. But it's not going to be a repeat of 2009 - we are not going to see a serious double dip." The ITEM Club report forecasts GDP growth of just 0.2 per cent this year before increasing to 1.8 per cent in 2013 and 2.8 per cent in 2014. The ITEM Club said deteriorating levels of confidence will see business investment stagnate in 2012, while export prospects have already slowed. However, the group said British companies have stronger balance sheets than in 2009 and have built up large cash stockpiles, which will provide a useful insurance policy if the situation deteriorates further. The ITEM Club forecasts that investment fell by 2.6 per cent in 2011 and will grow by just 0.4 per cent in 2012, while unemployment will approach three million, representing 9.3 per cent of the UK's labour force. Prof Spencer added: "The only piece of good news for UK households is that inflation should fall back below 2 per cent this year, as commodity prices weaken and the VAT rise drops out of the calculation." The forecaster said exports accounted for most of last year's growth, adding 0.9 percentage points to GDP in 2011, but with weakening demand from the Eurozone and concerns over China's ability to soft land their economy, the outlook for 2012 looks much less promising. Meanwhile, CEBR revised down its forecast for growth for 2012 as a whole from 0.7 per cent growth as predicted last October to a decline of 0.4 per cent with a risk of a more serious decline of 1.1 per cent if developments in the eurozone are worse than feared. Douglas McWilliams, one of the report's authors and chief executive of CEBR, said: "We take no pleasure in outlining such a bleak forecast. But the world is going through a fundamental change where previously poor economies are industrialising fast." S&P stripped France of its gold-plated triple-A credit rating on Friday, and also lowered the long-term ratings on Austria, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia, by one notch. The rating levels for Cyprus, Italy, Portugal and Spain were dropped two notches. There was no change for Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. A Treasury spokeswoman said: "The uncertainty in the euro area continues to have a chilling effect on the UK as well as elsewhere, but there are reasons to be optimistic: business surveys showed the UK service and construction sectors strengthening at the end of 2011, and the government's credible fiscal plan is helping keep UK interest rates at record lows." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Right, so, what's Gideon's excuse going to be this time do you think.....?

Jark, you giving anyone a lecture in objectivity is frankly hilarious... I dont mind someone making a film about Thatcher, but the treatment of the subject in this film is complete garbage and attempts to re-write history in a manner that is both trite and insulting to the intelligence. Compared to Downfall, which is a film made about probably one of the most evil people in history, Adolf Hitler, that film is powerful, moving, disturbing, and manages to actually humanise these people without ever being trite or ever dumbing-down, without trying to make you forget who and what these people actually were and not trying to create some false mythology that they were somehow "underdogs struggling against system".... Hitler was a bast*rd, I wont ever change my opinion on that, but for two and a half hours of Downfall, I can see and appreciate the more human side of him without ever forgetting he was a bast*rd; in fact, presenting the human side of the Nazis gives it an even more chilling dimension.. The Iron Lady tries to make the viewer believe some bullshit fairy tale about Thatcher being some kind of Feminist Icon... In short, Downfall, is the work of real film-makers who know their subject and I give them credit for presenting a figure in history whom I detest utterly in an intelligent and thought-provoking manner; The Iron Lady is the product of people who are film illiterates who dumbed down Thatcherism into the film equivalent of a fun-sized Mars bar, and at worst are just downright dishonest and are creating a false myth.... If The Iron Lady had been even half the film Downfall was, then I would have no issues with it...

Well said. Jark is too young to know any better, so he just believes whatever rubbish fantasy some Hollywood producer wants to spin about a figure in history he's completely detached from, because he never had to deal with the reality of living in Scotland, Wales or the North during this period...

So, err, why bother watching them in the first place if that's your rather narrow approach to film. Surely you must've been aware of the subjects of the films and should have realised that they weren't exactly gonna be your thing.... Just to take Sophies Choice as an example I dont exactly know of very many "light-hearted comedies" centred around the Jewish Holocaust... I suppose next you'll be saying you weren't sufficiently "entertained" by Schindler's List or The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.... Personally, i watch many different genres and types of films for different reasons, sometimes i want to be entertained, sometimes I want to be challenged, sometimes i want to be scared or thrilled, sometimes i want to be head-fukked....

Griff, your generation is basically being f uked by the selfishness of the "baby-boomers", the banksters and their agents in political office.. They want to condemn you to a life of debt slavery, decreasing wage values and a "pension" that wont be worth jack-shit, assuming you manage to collect it.. Bht, hey, that's okay so long as Queenie gets a nice Jubilee and a yacht, MPs get their expenses and nice pensions and the bankers and execs pick up the bonuses they never actually earned, they just used clever accounting techniques to hide the debt off the balance sheets...

I wasn't aware she was dead....

You're not really meant to "enjoy" a film like Silkwood, A Cry In the Dark, Ironweed or Sophie's Choice though, they're not "entertainment", they're supposed to make you think about what you're seeing presented on the screen and challenge your perceptions. They are great films, IMO, and deserve their status..... Devil Wears Prada is enjoyable enough, but it's mere fluff....

Yes, a pretty, blond, 19-year old virgin, who he patently had absolutely f*** all in common with. He was into Polo and talking to plants, she liked Pop concerts and actually having fun, like any 19-year old girl... The Royal establishment just absolutely bled the life out of the poor girl and turned her into a shell of her younger self... And for that they should NEVER be forgiven... I dont go along with the theory that they "caused" her accident, but they sure as hell broke her spirit... Which is worse in a lot of ways...

Well, you'd be unfaithful too if your spouse was spending all their time pining away for their f***ing ex... I honestly cant blame her for shagging around, the fact of the matter is Jug Ears was too much of a f***ing gutless wimp to say to "mummy" that he actually wanted to marry Camilla... How can I have any respect for someone like Charles who doesn't even have the bottle to go after the person he actually cares about...? I cant, he's a coward, and a worm... Like all his kind. Royal scum, who just use people for convenience's sake, been going on for centuries... I mean, let's face it, in terms of genetics, a marriage between Charles and Di was always going to produce more aesthetically pleasing off-spring... And that's pretty much what the sham "marriage" in 1981 was all about.... -_-

My thoughts exactly.... Really nice thing to do to the generation who fought against Hitler and Stalinism, isn't it...?

HEAR HEAR.... :cheer: