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Lecture a Scotsman who breaks bowl (8)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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As some of you might have been aware by some Australian post... Australian election are coming this Saturday!
On Facebook, not as private message but on a wall, someone shared an handy guide to all the minor parties. I commented, and I quote from memory, the post has been removed "party X is a bunch of crooks, shoot them on sight".
Now I was not really recommending to go full American and do a public shooting for real. It was more like a metaphor between like minded small group of friend, to emphasize how untrustworthy were those wanna be minister. Plus we don't have a tradition of public shooting here, I mean we did but no longer, thanks John Howard (even if you're a crook in other aspect).
At any rate, The Algorithm told me that my post was inflammatory and has been removed, and I could appeal if I think I was misunderstood.
I didn't, annoying but no big deals. In the past I noticed many web site have some heavy handed, wild blanketed rude language filter and they are just gonna ignore my complaint. Plus hey, I did use the words "shoot people". I mean obviously nobody I know (and nobody that would read that post) will think I was really advocating it, but, emm.. The Algorithm will think I mean my word. The Algorithm being as subtle as a 3 years old. Perhaps for good reason, according to the rumor I hear on the internet.
But I thought about it again today... it was just one click away, should have I complained, what says you?
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I'd say there are a lot of loonies out there, and posting "let's assassinate politicians (or would-be politicos)" is bound to upset a lot of filters because it could be pointed at if just one loony does go postal. Even if said loonies never see it, and said politicos are crooks who do deserve a quick and merciful death - I have no idea what the parties are in Oz, let alone which one you think are crooked. All of them seem to be, worldwide anyway ...
Should you complain? No, it's probably saved you from some of the attention such things get from security forces, even if they give it a quick glance in context and decide it's nothing to worry about the fact of their looking at you and your comment history raises your profile next time you get red flagged.
Just like here: posting something obnoxious or spammy gets attention, which even if it is let through remains in the gestalt memory next time you come up. Too many memory joggers and teh ban hammer gets twitchy. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I have the have the, perhaps naively idealistic view, that one might occasionally find honest politicians in the small fringe parties! 
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I don't think that level of naivety lasts much past the point at which they are elected and see how big the trough they could get their snouts into, unfortunately. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You should think yourself lucky, we have the best politicians that money can buy. 
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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fair dinkum!  
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Oh.. poor right winger. Everybody hates them, it's true!
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Ah, the good old Daily Fail. The paper that campaigned vigorously against the "yellow peril" of Chinese immigrants. The paper which campaigned against granting women and lower-class men the right to vote, and against granting independence to India. The paper that supported the actual Nazis (right up until it became apparent they were going to lose). The paper that was a big fan of apartheid. The paper that wanted to identify and abort homosexual foetuses based on a so-called "gay gene" test. The paper that recently partnered with The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese communist party.
And that's before you get to the Fail Online's "sidebar of shame", which was infamous for perving over predominantly female - and sometimes even underage - celebrities.
But sure, we'll pay attention when they criticize the perceived behaviour of another website.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I did once recommend dropping a frog into the Christmas punch of a popular journalist on a social media site.
The algorithm picked up the word "punch" and I was banned for a day.
It takes a little skill to word things in a manner that will not get the pearl clutching algorithms from taking things out of context.
(For those not in the know "punch" is a drink)
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 7 mins ago.
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A good choice of first word for me:
Wordle 332 3/6
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 332 3/6
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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GAH! 
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Somewhat lucky second guess...
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I'm just figuring out all the neat stuff i can do with it. Like octocoupling a circuit to prevent a ground loop, with just a tiny IC chip. =)
Turns out I can build a reliable MIDI breakout without the pain of a non silicon based coupler like they used to use.
I know it's not new tech, but it's new to me, because I'm relatively new to *this*.
I actually picked up circuit building 2 years before I started coding, but once I learned to code I put it down because it was hard to keep myself in materials at such a young age. Software is vapor, once you have the machine.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Careful! The blue ringed octopus has no less than two deadly poisons, When it octocouples you, you are done.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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hahaha I meant optocouplers.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Who would have thought. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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