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AusGAF IV - A No Hope, Government - Double the price, region locked and now adults
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Ruthless_Barbarian
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reptilescorpio said:
NZ won 20-6.
roosters93
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In the other rugby match that pales in comparison we won 42-6.
You know, it is. I would buy one just because it looks fucking sweet.reptilescorpio said:
Kudos to you for using "boss" in that fashion, too. It's making a comeback and I love it.
I await the flames.Bernbaum said:
PS. Glad (and surprised) to hear about Star Wars. Did it resemble what was shown at E3? Because that looked like arse (for the most part).
PPS. Forza. This game will be the death of me. Much like WoW was for losers with no self control, except Forza is cool.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Is anyone else unable to open ebay.com.au?
EDIT: Nvm, it's working now. It was down for the past hour.
EDIT: Nvm, it's working now. It was down for the past hour.
reptilescorpio
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normal person + audience + self crafted persona = insulting stupidityRandomVince said:
reptilescorpio said:
Thats more it. But it never ceases to amaze how mindnumbingly stupid people can be. I think the worst shit I saw was when the tsunami hit Japan earlier this year, and people were labelling it 'karma' for Pearl Harbour. Obviously done under their own names.
People arent afraid to be completely tasteless, inhumane fuckwits.
roosters93
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That is fucked.
shanshan310
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Woah hey facebook. I didn't think anyone used the ausgaf page there...
Trolling on facebook is the best kind... or worst. I can't remember.
If you're planning on going to the Co-op bookstore, don't. Order at QU books instead. In fact, go anywhere! Co-op bookstore is always most expensive...
Trolling on facebook is the best kind... or worst. I can't remember.
Salazar said:
If you're planning on going to the Co-op bookstore, don't. Order at QU books instead. In fact, go anywhere! Co-op bookstore is always most expensive...
reptilescorpio
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Wasn't even a few people. Hundreds of people. Just goes to show that although we try and be caring people everyone has their own opinion that has been created by our upbringing and by how the world around us has created their opinion. I blame the media and free speech. I can yell about how the Jews are stealing our children in the night as loud as I want, or how the Chinese are ruining our jobs. If I get enough people behind me I can create a whole army of people who think what I say is gospel.RandomVince said:
Human choice is a double edged sword. It is our defining attribute and gives us an edge in surviving this world but it is also our undoing at times.
Worst thing is when your lecturer has a custom textbook so the only places you can find it all sell at the $150 RRP. I just want to use Book Depository damn it!shanshan310 said:
shanshan310
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The worst thing is when your lecturer has a custom book that they wrote and its terrible.
Yesterday some dude I went to high school with posted an article about how the whaling fleets had been decimated due to most of the fishermen being dead, and most of the boats destroyed. I then had a jolly old time blocking all the morans who started cheering "karma!" and "win for sea Shepard!".
RandomVince said:
Yesterday some dude I went to high school with posted an article about how the whaling fleets had been decimated due to most of the fishermen being dead, and most of the boats destroyed. I then had a jolly old time blocking all the morans who started cheering "karma!" and "win for sea Shepard!".
roosters93
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shanshan310 said:
there's an ausgaf facebook page?
shanshan310
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roosters93 said:there's an ausgaf facebook page?
There is, but there is also a banner at the top now saying the page is going to be archived since no one is using it
reptilescorpio said:
Nocturnal insects navigate by starlight. The distant objects and relative lack of parallax movement makes it easy for them to head in one direction and stay straight and true. That is an evolutionary trait that benefits them and their hunting and mating.
Humans invented artificial light sources. Due to them looking like point light sources, insects navigate by them. But the parallax movement of the light relative to the insect is great, so instead of flying in a straight line, they instead travel in a spiral that grows ever smaller until they are lured inexorably closer to an ineffective journey at best, or a hungry waiting gecko at worst.
Human choice is much the same. In the natural world, it leads to social strengths of community, leadership and survival of harsh conditions. In the internet world, it leads to facebook.
FormallyMegadrive
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Me at 12am: I reckon I can fit in a quick test of this installer.
one hour later, still compiling.
god damn it nsis. why did i choose lzma compression.
edit: and it didnt copy files to the right directories. trying "SetOutDir" now. pleasepleaseplease i want to distribute.
fuck this im going to bed.
one hour later, still compiling.
god damn it nsis. why did i choose lzma compression.
edit: and it didnt copy files to the right directories. trying "SetOutDir" now. pleasepleaseplease i want to distribute.
fuck this im going to bed.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Dunno if anyone follows Indy Car, but seems there was a big stack this morning and a driver died. :S
Crash Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVu7iTf59SQ
Crash Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVu7iTf59SQ
bodyboarder
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Shaneus said:
It looked nasty.
Jetstar pilots do not have as many flight hours as the Qantas pilots
you graduate from Jstar to Qantas (ive spoken to a qf pilot about this who lives next to me)
Hence thats why there is a pay difference. Qantas pilots dont want the Jetstar guys to get the same pay necessarily, they want to ensure that when a 'Red tail' plane as they call them is flying it has a 'red tail' pilot not a Jetstar pilot or even worse a contractor pilot. And when a Jetstar pilot flies the red tailed planes, they get the QF Rates (thus to remove the incentive for management to just put jetstar pilots on QF flights)
Jetconnect is not Qantas. Its a New Zealand based company that has a controlling share interest from Qantas so tags it as so. The pilots are paid about 50% of the QF pilot rate as are the hosties.
What the QF Pilots fear is Qantas putting Jetconnect pilots on long haul flights at the reduced rate.
so you hvae a flight from singapore to sydney. Qantas pilot costs $400 an hour lets say, Jetstar $250 and Jetconnect $200
all 3 are open to you. Which one do you go for? as management the Jconnect
BUT Jetstar and Jetconnect pilots don't have the same hours in the air as the QF pilots so its a higher risk situation. That's what the QF pilots don't like.
Also jetstar pilots are paid 50% less than the highest QF pilots for one main reason
They don't get trained and are not trained in flying Boeing 747s and Airbus A380s which are the most complex planes to fly. My neighbour showed me a video of him in the A380 simulator during a rash of failures he was being tested on. The amount of stuff he was flicking and changing was phenomonal and you need to remember it all.
you graduate from Jstar to Qantas (ive spoken to a qf pilot about this who lives next to me)
Hence thats why there is a pay difference. Qantas pilots dont want the Jetstar guys to get the same pay necessarily, they want to ensure that when a 'Red tail' plane as they call them is flying it has a 'red tail' pilot not a Jetstar pilot or even worse a contractor pilot. And when a Jetstar pilot flies the red tailed planes, they get the QF Rates (thus to remove the incentive for management to just put jetstar pilots on QF flights)
Jetconnect is not Qantas. Its a New Zealand based company that has a controlling share interest from Qantas so tags it as so. The pilots are paid about 50% of the QF pilot rate as are the hosties.
What the QF Pilots fear is Qantas putting Jetconnect pilots on long haul flights at the reduced rate.
so you hvae a flight from singapore to sydney. Qantas pilot costs $400 an hour lets say, Jetstar $250 and Jetconnect $200
all 3 are open to you. Which one do you go for? as management the Jconnect
BUT Jetstar and Jetconnect pilots don't have the same hours in the air as the QF pilots so its a higher risk situation. That's what the QF pilots don't like.
Also jetstar pilots are paid 50% less than the highest QF pilots for one main reason
They don't get trained and are not trained in flying Boeing 747s and Airbus A380s which are the most complex planes to fly. My neighbour showed me a video of him in the A380 simulator during a rash of failures he was being tested on. The amount of stuff he was flicking and changing was phenomonal and you need to remember it all.
Planet_JASE
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Thanks for the reply but I'm going to go with Bern on this one. He gave far more rationale for his opinion and did not in the slightest seem like he hated well nigh everything and everyone over the weekend, so I trust his views more on this one.EatChildren said:
At work so couldn't look at the footage. Knowing what happened, I don't think I could bring myself to.Dead Man said:
Holy shit at that picture. Carnage. I'm actually wondering whether safety features in US-only motorsport are as stringent as others. Almost every year or two (it seems) there's a death in Nascar or Indy or something.
Did they say what caused it?
Planet_JASE
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DeathJr said:
What. The. Fuck.
Obligatory:
Shaneus said:
not yet but indy cars have never been redesigned when people die
where as F1 cars always are. It's also interesting to note that the FIA does not regulate the design of the cars like F1, only the tracks.
For example Massa would have died in his crash before Senna. The exact same thing happened to massa as senna and he survived. Not through luck, through changes to the cars.
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