2013-06-24, 07:08 | Link #10281 |
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Daredevil Nik Wallenda completes high-wire walk across Grand Canyon
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...95K15Z20130624
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2013-06-26, 04:20 | Link #10282 |
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As of, 5 minutes ago Australia has (or will be needing) a new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard voted out in a Party vote in favor of Kevin Rudd.
Linky (live feed) Saw this linked on Twitter, under #ruddwedding Spoiler for Game of Thrones reference:
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2013-06-26, 04:25 | Link #10283 | |
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2013-06-26, 04:44 | Link #10284 |
Did someone call a doctor
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Well, I'm not the best since I don't know the specific details, but the short version is that after a series of highly unpopular decisions, and low opinion polls, grumbling in the labour party finally reached critical mass and Rudds supporters pushed for a vote in change of leadership. Sentiments in the labour party have never been good since Gillard stood against Rudd, and ousted him as Prim Minister, and they lost a lot of standing with the public.
TBH the whole situation politically here is pretty stupid, neither party leader is all that popular (I may be a bit biased against the Liberal party from all the feedback from my gay friends, Abbot is a bit of a bigot), Rudd somehow still has quite some popular support in the public, he is pretty charismatic, especially in comparison to both Gillard and Abbot. Honestly I doubt Labour will win an election, so this whole thing was probably just the final death throws for a Labour government. (Which will suck for the new broadband network, Labour is giving FTTH Liberal FTTN and shitty wireless). Apparently she was voted out unanimously to. Result was 57 to 45, actually. She's retiring to, along with a few of the other party folks. edit: http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/ new live feed, speech's and stuff.
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Iowa man selling coffin gets questions about bones
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2013-06-26, 06:47 | Link #10286 | |
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Why Snowden asked visitors to stow their phones in the fridge
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2013-06-26, 13:35 | Link #10288 | |
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It is not a wireless-monitoring enabled pacemaker......yet.
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2013-06-27, 08:13 | Link #10291 |
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Cautious, maybe. Through? likely not. Putting the phones into a fridge would stop the phone recording there and then, but the location can still be leaked out during the time when they step into the house and when it is placed into the fridge. For recording, camera can now be the size of a shirt button, so that's no help...
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2013-06-27, 12:08 | Link #10293 |
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Horse throws rider, goes on to win race at Belmont:
"Strike a blow for the forces of horse freedom! In the sixth race at Belmont on Wednesday, Downtown Hottie, age 6, decided she'd had quite enough of The Man holding her down, whipping her back end and telling her which way to turn and how fast to run. So she dumped his sorry behind, and as so often happens in these situations, she was the better for it, going on to win the race." See: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-tu...130603903.html |
2013-06-27, 20:14 | Link #10295 |
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Mich. man recognizes mom as bank robbery suspect
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...06-26-16-29-30
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2013-06-28, 23:21 | Link #10296 |
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Teen charged with making 'terrorist' remarks.
Seriously, that is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have read in a long time. Sure the kid should have been smacked upside the head for being a dumbass and not realising Facebook is public and the internet isn't an impenetrable shield for douchbaggery, but potentially 8 years in prison is mind meltingly stupid. Hell, the fact he has spent 3 months so far in prison should never have happened. Way to completely ruin someones life. If (when!) he gets cleared, or whatever, I'm wondering if he could sue the living shit out of certain paranoid people. Could he seek restitution against that canadian woman?
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2013-06-29, 13:02 | Link #10298 | |
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2013-06-29, 19:57 | Link #10299 | |
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In light of the overturning of gay marriage ban in the US, we decided to do the same.
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