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Best of the season to one and all.

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Disassembles bits and pieces from obsolete old computers, like the vic 20, zx81 and Amstrad PCW2000, fashions a funny looking altar with the old motherboards, genuflects in praise to Omalley the cybergeek god.

Good work, bud.

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Thanks for the information, Mallycat.

I had already heard of this and other forms of ‘ransomware’ but wasn’t aware of that programs currently existed to counter this particular threat.

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Lol. that made me laugh.

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@annette-curtain wrote:

As for the death,sex and bondage poetry… I would suggest a website for that …. but I thankfully , don’t know of any :wink: :lol:

Therewasakinkymanfromnantucket(dot)com

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@ironduke wrote:

Look a bit deeper people, Mandela was a murderer and a terrorist, thousands died at his command before he became a political leader. Do you think he was imprisoned for no reason at all? Good riddance to bad blood, Martin Luther king and Malcolm X were similar, one did it legitamately and one didnt, learn your history

There are few things worse than someone telling you to know your history who obviously has no idea about history. Some may agree with you that Mandela was a terrorist (although by that definition you can probably include the french resistance and countless other organizations that were unable to access democratic methods). But if so he was a rather crappy one and Thousands did not die at his command.

And you’re absolutely right, Martin Luther King and Malcom X were similar in that all the people you mentioned, and seem to have some peculiar hatred for, happen to black. And therein lies their guilt, right?

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@tinks wrote:

too many pay cuts and job losses …..MPs surely should lead by example…….for a change

I take great issue with our elected representatives taking a pay rise in these times of great austerity. The argument that they tend to posit in support of the money they earn are generally twofold. firstly, there is the claim that MPs wages appear to have fallen considerably when juxtaposed against comparative professions. Secondly, we need to provide sufficient remuneration to attract the best candidates.

Both points put me in a tizzy. The job of an MP is like no other, a particularly unique privilege with particularly unique obligations. Politicians ought to be motivated by a sense of civic duty, not the desire to get rich. And when I look at my MPs I want – to some extent – to see a mirror image of society at large.

I want to be represented by people with second class degrees that have had to struggle a bit to get their first decent job. Likewise the economically-challenged single-mom with a knowledge of making an income below the national average stretch so she can buy the basics and a few of life’s so-called pleasures. A few charity workers or those with experience of poorly-paid jobs in NGOs too. Teachers, doctors, scientists that understand quantum physics, candlestick makers wouldn’t go amiss either. Although I might draw the line at the some of the more unsavoury users of JC.

I don’t just want to be represented by those that had the good fortune to excel in the current status quo and read PPE in the hallowed halls of Oxbridge. Give me a Cambridge educated MP with a PPE degree whom has realized, despite how hard they worked to get their first, they are undoubtedly very lucky in comparison to all those other capable people not afforded such opportunities – and want to address such inequalities. That person is driven by passion, and much more likely to get my vote.

Besides, so far there seems to be very little correlation between what we pay and what we get.

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@mellow wrote:

A thread to discuss poetry and all it’s forms and virtues
so you may wish to post here all and any views
on how you feel there may be some content
to any poems your mind may have spent
reading and enjoying the meaning they bring
wether they make you smile scowl or sing.

The great poets maybe old or young
some are heralded some are un-sung
in life in death in sadness or grief
there can be only one belief
some words bring comfort some bring joy
it is how you perceive them that is the truth you know.

LIKES

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@nicey wrote:

Man of the century

Agreed.

He represented the best of humanity and, in his desire to create a united South Africa, an acknowledgement that we are more alike than we are different.

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@sceptical guy wrote:

I liked Bjork in that movie Dancer n the Dark..

there was director Lars von Trier, the bad boy of cinema, directing

and there’s the marvellous dance of the lumbermen at the end, putting Rogers and Hammerstein to shame..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62pLY5zFTtc

Yup, a decent film. I’m a bit of a Dogme fan and LVT’s films are always worth a look, even the bad ones like Direktøren for det hele. The soundtrack to Dancer is very good too.

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