The Thread about Nothing....

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Originally Posted by paulambry

Jeremy Clarkson?

Bingo

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Originally Posted by 531Aussie
Say it ain't so, Joe :-(

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Re Jeremy... Yes, well, no prizes really... his kind of ugly is pretty distinctive. Good weekend Lammie?

I remember that someone once said that money can't buy you love - but it seems as though it can get you plenty of 'sexy time' in the sack with some really hot women.

Found this in the brochure for the Suzuki Vitara. wut? [IMG ALT=""]http://www.cyclingforums.com/content/type/61/id/294623/width/500/height/1000[/IMG]

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Originally Posted by gplama

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Has that bulldog been eating custard?
When I first heard that joke when I was young, I nearly pooed me pants laughing :-)

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Originally Posted by gplama

Bingo

So, where's our wrap-up of the race? :-) Is it on your blog?

Trivia: for the first time, there are apparently now more restaurants, bars, clubs and tuck shops, etc, in the Melbourne CBD than there are shops selling non-edible 'stuff'.

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Originally Posted by 531Aussie
Trivia: for the first time, there are apparently now more restaurants, bars, clubs and tuck shops, etc, in the Melbourne CBD than there are shops selling non-edible 'stuff'.

I'd believe that.

They just interviewed Bernard Tomic on the news. [censored] he is a dumb [censored]. Aren't the Special Olympics on at the moment? Why isn't Tomic competing? It may well be he's not our best intellectually disabled tennis player. Which brings me back to why they were talking to Tomic. Apparently there is a John Newcombe award for the years best performed tennis player, and the ceremony is this evening. I suggest they put the award into recess this year. Australian tennis players are [censored].

paulambry said:

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It could be worse:

Ace final day at Bright. Flogged myself up Hotham through to the final 10km. Climber teamy took over from there and flung up the climb and held onto 5th on GC. More time in the hills for me next year.

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Here is a TAN worthy rant I've crafted tonight on the issue of 'online privacy'. Wasted tucked away on Facebook. So here is a cut+paste.

I've changed my views on this a lot in the past few months. An example - You're walking down the street for a coffee. A person with a clip-board walks up to you and demands to know where you're going, how much you're spending, when you're going home, via which route, and they want a record of every word you'll speak that day. 10/10 times you'd tell them to mind their own business and not give them that information (this is your basic right to privacy). Your walk to the coffee shop isn't illegal. You are breaking no laws. You have the right to get your coffee yourself without revealing why to strangers. If you've ever replied to someone "It is none of your business" then you're already a supporter of privacy. Online we have to accept that every step of the way can be viewed, reviewed, stored, and profiled. The digital person with the clip-board is over your shoulder. Does it matter? Maybe not. Do they need to be there? No.
Take smart meters as another example. My energy company knows when I go to bed, when I wake up, when I get home from work, and when I'm away from home. No big deal? Maybe not. What I am uncomfortable about is that I have no control over who at this energy company has access to this information, IT workers, contractors, their kids with iPads and a bookmark to their admin systems with a saved password, who knows? Even worse is the energy company themselves profiling my power usage and having the ability to tailor their plans to maximise their profits. Tin-foil hatting, sure, another example of where 'data' is collected by flicking a light switch.

Is there a lawyer in the house? I need a coffee, or another drink of undisclosed contents from my fridge that I've hot-wired into someone else's power circuit. 🙂

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Further on that. I'm no Snowden but I have been an outsourced IT security person for years. It'd scare the [censored] out of most people the data that I was in a position to view. From anywhere at any time.

I support your right to online privacy.

Good postage Llammie. I've been cogitating on these matters a lot of late. Haven't really come to a settled position though. But I do wonder how much good Mr Snowden (and men/women/indeterminates of his ilke) has done the world. I mean, even the dull and the unengaged are probably aware that Governments spy on their citizens. And those in other states. That is hardly news. So what of these revelations? Lots of diplomatic inconvenience for several Western countries. No great harm there, but no great benefit either. I think you are highlighting the more pressing problem... how much private enterprise kowns about us and how few safeguards there seem to be to protect our privacy. If the US Government, with all its safeguards and protocols, cannot secure its data, how much more are we at risk with private enterprise? As usual, the technology has run ahead of our taking stock of the implications of the technology. On a slightly different topic, but perhaps related, is this latest issue of freedom of association. While I abhor the culture and the illegal activities of the bikie gangs, I am more than a little unsettled by the legislation which prohibits their freedom of association. I think it sets a very bad precendent. Very bad indeed. Menzies tried it with the Communists and he failed. It is dissapointing that one of our Parliaments has permitted this kind of law. But then, it is Queensland... and they run a unicameral Parliament. Sigh...

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Its interesting how you can injure a lollipop lady and get jailed for six months and lost his licence for four years (rightly so I might add). theage.com.auman jailed for running into lollipop lady while using phone 20131202 2yljl.htmlOpen ↗

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I heard a stat the other day, something along the lines of "mobile phone usage has now overtaken alchohol as a primary cause of road fatalaties." I feel like causing a few fatalaties when [censored] walk into me while they have their faces in ther phones. [IMG ALT=""]http://www.cyclingforums.com/content/type/61/id/294659/width/200/height/400[/IMG]

Ma, do you have a view on this? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-03/survey-shows-patients-off-heart-drugs-after-abc-catalyst-program/5130670

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Originally Posted by paulambry

I heard a stat the other day, something along the lines of "mobile phone usage has now overtaken alchohol as a primary cause of road fatalaties."

I feel like causing a few fatalaties when [censored] walk into me while they have their faces in ther phones.

As someone once said on Bike Forums during one of the interminable "headphones or not" debates: "we've all gotta open our eyes and stop relying on our ears"

Spending time at a friend's joint in Rae St, North Fitzroy eventually taught me to look, rather than listen, because there are so many hippies on bikes riding on that street. :-)

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Originally Posted by steve
Its interesting how you can injure a lollipop lady and get jailed for six months......

I've said this before, but a motorist could plan and murder a cyclist with their car and easily get away with it by saying "they moved in front of me"