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When you travel in some parts of Australia, there are lots of kangaroos. They mostly get mobile at evenings and at night. So the road kill count climbs at night, there are the bodies on the sides of the roads the next day, then there are the kills, where the kangaroo bounces off the vehicle and it's momentum  or residual life carries it into the the grass and trees, a little way off the roads.... After a short while they begin to stink as the bodies decompose. So if you can't see them, you can smell them... for sure. It's one of the luxuries of travelling by motorcycle. I call them hoppies and stinkies. And the stinkies do fucking stink . But after coming across a fresh dead one, in the middle of the road, killed only minutes before hand, mashed up to the fuck, and seeing all the blood and guts splattered around, and the penny dropped, in that there are a lot more blood spatters and patches on the highway, than there are hoppies and stinkies..... So someone - be it enterpri

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Seriously - Brand new tyre. 8000K - absolutely fucked. Worn to the legal minimum. It's consistent with the experiences with other users of the same tyre. Metzler users on the other hand, report 24,000 - 32,000K's from their tyres. And I thought "Oh surely not! They can't possibly be getting 3 or 4 times the distance of the Dunlop tyre?" And given that the two different brands are around the same price, I booked the bike in for a tyre change, for a new Metzler - about 2 weeks down the track. And the very same day - late in the afternoon, some guy comes up to me, and we strike up a conversation, and asks, "Has this got Dunlops on it? Next comment: "Oh they are really shit - they don't last long at all - you want to get rid of them." Followed by: "You want to put Metzlers X-ers on them." - which was the exact same type and model - as I had ordered. He continued, "I had a set of them on my bike, and had the rear tyre on for over 5 y

https://www.rt.com/uk/342430-lauri-love-encryption-ruling/ Published time: 9 May, 2016 23:15 UK authorities have hijacked a civil suit launched by a cybersecurity expert from Suffolk accused of hacking into the Federal Reserve, in a move that has sinister implications for journalists and others who rely on encrypted data storage and communications. Gifted programmer and human rights activist Lauri Love, 31, stands accused of intercepting online systems operated by the Fed, NASA, the FBI, the US Department of Defense and the US Environmental Protection Agency, among others. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is pursuing him with three extradition orders, claiming he and several collaborators violated millions of US networks between 2012 and 2013, landing US tax payers with a multimillion dollar damages bill. The series of political protests, dubbed “#OpLastResort,” was orchestrated by online activist network Anonymous to decry the US criminal justice system’s draconian persecution of th

Not after seeing the shit you eat.

Thanks Rupert Murdoch, But Australians Can Choose Their Own Government | Election | GetUp! Australia Published on Aug 27, 2013 Rupert Murdoch's newspapers created controversy during the 2013 Australian Federal Election campaign for the political campaign some newspapers were seen to be running against one side of politics. The Gosford Anglican Church's sign perhaps said it best: "Thanks Rupert, but we'll choose our own Government." They were supported by the Australian Press Council who issued a warning to newspapers this week, saying "a paper's editorial viewpoints and its advocacy of them must be kept separate from its news columns."* News Corp employs some of the best journalists in the country, and until recently, The Courier-Mail in particular has been a reasonably balanced newspaper. But during this election campaign, News Corp Australia have consistently used the front pages of The Courier-Mail and The Daily Telegraph to launch aggressive poli

By Thom Mitchell on May 3, 2016 https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/03/adani-case-coal-mines-approved/ A landmark case that could “put a brake on Australia’s fossil fuel exports” kicked off this morning in the Federal Court, in a precedent-setting bid to invalidate Environment Minister Greg Hunt’s approval of the largest coal mine the nation would ever see. The Australian Conservation Foundation is challenging Minister Hunt’s decision to approve Adani’s Carmichael Coal Mine, arguing it is unlawful because he failed to properly consider the impact that associated greenhouse gas emissions would have on the Great Barrier Reef. The case is being run by the Environmental Defenders Office Queensland. It hinges on the Federal Government’s obligations to protect Australia’s World Heritage from damage – in this case, the Great Barrier Reef – and argues that Hunt has failed to meet those responsibilities. If it succeeds, the case would have wider ramifications than

A Manly Men's Bread Toaster, for hairy chested men and women of either gender. Also usefully melts steel, which shits all over every other kitchen appliance - because it does. Bread to toast in 1/10th of a second = perfect. OK sliced bread toasters come in two basic sorts - ones that have heaps of fucking cooking power and ones that don't. In my terminal psy-fucking-chosis, where I really do not have the tolerance for standing beside a gutless 2 slice toaster and crawls along for 5 minutes just to warm up, prior to browning the bread - and my last one having died from cheapness and nastyness of design... I went looking for a NEW toaster.... Now the really shit hot toasters are like 2 slice toasters that use like 2200 watts - and they cook really FAST. They also have proper elements in quartz glass or metal tubes... But they cost a shit load - seriously expensive commercial kitchen type gear. But there is a mid point between crap-tastic appliances with glossy enamel and biscuit