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Emile Berliner established the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellshaft(German Gramophone Company) around the mid-to-late 1870s. His initial trademark on single-sided discs was the Aufnahmende Engerl(Recording Angel) embossed on the unrecorded side of the disc. Within a decade he'd travelled to England where he established a British division called The Gramophone Company Of England Ltd. and it was through the British division that Berliner first acquired the painting that was to provide the new trademark, it was of a Jack Russell Terrier listening to "his master's voice" on, initially a cylinder-based phonograph, but on request, the artist painted over the cylinder machine with a disc-playing gramophone, thus the trademark "His Master's Voice" was born. Ownership of the trademark would be held by Berliner but control of the trademark, and licencing its use would be vested in the British division of Berliner's empire. In the 1890s, Berliner travelled to the USA and set up the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey. The new entity would licence the trademark from the British division. This arrangement lasted until the outbreak of WW1. After that war, Berliner lost control of his British and US companies. The Gramophone Company of England assumed TOTAL ownership and control of "Nipper" as the dog was named in the trademark, and Berliner's DGG had to licence the trademark it once owned, a bitter pill to swallow. DGG could only use the HMV trademark in Germany under the translation: "Die Stimme Seines Herrens", for export, they had to create a new brand, Polydor. In the meantime, Victor in the USA was using the HMV trademark, licencing same from The Gramophone Co. in England. Until 1929 when some reps from RCA came sniffing around the Victor plant, looking for somewhere bigger than what they had, so they could build more radios. RCA started as a division of General Electric but soon took on autonomy after getting hold of the Victor plant and brand-name, but that's all they should've got, no more. The HMV trademark licencing should've ended the minute the ink was dry on the deed of sale of the Victor plant and name to RCA and the Dog & Gramophone should not have been seen in America or Canada again until 1955. WW2 came and went, just prior to that war, The Gramophone Company had merged with Columbia Graphophone Company(a surviving remnant of a failed US venture) to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.[EMI], the year was 1938. The merger also brought the Parlophone brand into the mix as Columbia had gained this former Dutch-owned trademark as war booty from WW1. After the 2nd war, EMI expanded into Europe, its new German division, Electrola GmbH taking over control of the HMV trademark, leaving DGG having to use Polydor now for domestic as ell as export markets. Berliner himself was spared the ignominy of seeing all this as he was in his grave by then. Siemens bought out DGG. In America a new label, Capitol was launched just after the war, the new entity struggling to find its feet. A decade on and Capitol would become the infant member of the expanding EMI group. Infant, because EMI bought an established label rather than EMI setting the company up from scratch. EMI owned almost 95% of Capitol, the remaining 5-and-a-bit% held by Capitol's founder. It's here that EMI should've brought in the HMV brand, reappearing in the USA to carry the EMI British roster into the American market, particularly in the 1960s: The Beatles, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Herman's Hermits, Manfred Mann, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas etc., drawn from EMI's HMV, Columbia and Parlophone labels, all together on HMV in the USA instead of scattered around the non-EMI labels like they were.
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As of 2nd June, 2017 Denmark no longer has such law(I hate the word "Blasphemy" because it's such a phony, made-up word. It's been created to sound religious). This video was made in the month BEFORE the law was repealed. So technically, Steve was correct, for the time when he made his statement, a bit over a week later it would've been different. As for that "word", well, the simple term, "swear" or "curse" suffices, along with the description, "expletive".
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@idontgiveafaboutyou Edward IV was a bastard, in that he was born of a dalliance between his mother, Cecily Neville and an archer in her husband, Richard II's regiment. Cecily Neville even publicly announced this fact soon after his birth. The rules of ascendency to the Throne of England are clear, you MUST be of Royal birth but you MUST be born legitimate(the offspring of biological parents already holding title of King & Queen, or the legal offspring of a Prince and Princess who are legally in line to the Throne). Edward IV, ascending to the Throne, as he did, as a bastard, had in one fell swoop, delegitimised every single monarch from that time onward, right through to Elizabeth II, Charles, William and Harry, as well as their offspring. They have NO legitimate right whatsoever to ascend to the throne, and Elizabeth II has no legitimate right to sit on the Throne as Queen. The TRUE legitimate heirs to the Throne of Britain are, in fact, a family living in New South Wales, Australia, the regional town of Jerilderee. They are the Hastings Family, sons, daughters and grandchildren of the late Michael Hastings, descended from the Hastings Plantagenets, who had their titles usurped by another branch of the Plantagenet family. Type "Britain's Real Monarch" in the search bar and Tony Robinson's documentary will come up. You can see it all played out right there.
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The ex-cop, Derick Wiley should be jailed for LIFE with NO prospect of parole. ALL his property, his wife's property, his children's possessions, INCLUDING CLOTHING seized, and liquidated to pay compensation to Mr Jones. IF Wiley was already fired from the police, then just he, his wife and children suffer the loss, but if he was still a cop when he committed this crime, then the entire state's police should wear this punishment. The consequences of a cop's unjust actions against civilians must be EXTREMELY SEVERE and affect not only the offending cop, but his/her family and colleagues at his her own station and the rest of the state.
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America needs to completely rebuild its governmental structure from ground up. The presidency should be STRIPPED of ALL executive power and be rendered a Ceremonial Figurehead position ONLY. Actual EXECUTIVE power in Government should/MUST be vested in a Prime Minister and Cabinet of ministers with various portfolios(education, health care, transport, finance, treasury, etc.). Trump's presidency should've rung alarm bells in 2016 about what kind of president he would be, and now America is seeing EXACTLY Trump's true colours.... HE IS A DESPOT, DICTATOR, TYRANT! He is EVERYTHING that Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and others were striving to AVOID as they formulated America's SECULAR constitution!
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Just yesterday, or the day before(5th or 6th September, 2017), Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said, "We have America's back" and then went on to say "America has Australia's back". The first part was right, in a grovelling, lap-dog fashion. The second part was EXTREMELY wrong, because America, under Trump will, at the first sign of Australia being threatened in any way, will "throw us under a bus!".
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D - A - C: Acronym! Not "DACK": Word! Acronyms ARE NOT WORDS and should not be spoken as words. Acronyms are individual letters that represent the initials of corporations, institutions or authorities, alternatively they represent names of scientific, technical or natural phenomena or devices. *Zum beispiel: EMI stands for Electric & Musical Industries, the British-based multinational music giant that owns the Dog & Gramophone trademark, His Master's Voice among its other trademarks(Capitol being one of the lesser trademarks). Under the HMV brand, EMI manufactured a wide range of consumer electronic products like TV sets(colour and monochrome), stereo and mono record players or radio/grams and, surprisingly, whitegoods, like chest freezers and suchlike. EMI also stands for Electro-Magnetic Interference, the noise you hear when listening to AM radio(FM is susceptible but not as much) during an electric storm(lightning strikes) or when someone operates an electric motored hand-tool(saw, drill, etc.) nearby. These represent the ONLY two uses of an acronym. EMI can only be used once for the corporate identity and once for the natural phenomenon just described, its uses are thus exhausted and cannot be used again for either purpose. By the way, *Zum beispiel, is German and means "For example"!
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Under a compulsory vote system, fringe groups with only a minority following(KKK, Nazis, Alt Right etc.) would see their vote cancelled out by the mainstream party votes. The fringe groups couldn't possibly hope to gain any kind of foothold in the system, no matter how much money they spend on their campaigns. But under the USA optional vote system, a fringe group can muster enough voter support to "get a foot in the door" if, through apathy, other voters, who might've voted Democrat or Republican in large enough numbers, stayed home and watched that umpteenth rerun of "Leave It To Beaver" instead of getting out to the polling station and voting. Those fringe parties would use democracy to "get into power" but once in, there goes democracy down the gurgle-hole(drain).
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Actually, DR. F. U., you are NOT straight as you have knees, elbows and a neck, each of which can bend or turn. To be STRAIGHT is to have NO corves, bends or corners, in the geometric sense, and, in the ethical sense, is to be true, honest, upright and sincere. Those are the ONLY TWO senses and definitions applying to the word, "Straight". What you are, is a HETEROSEXUAL WHITE MALE!
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Rainer67059: Your second paragraph brings up the point I was trying to make. I'm fully aware of discs with no region-encoding, And should that I were to copy a disc(to make a back-up), the region-encoding would not transfer to the copy. If I'm transferring what I've shot and uploaded to YouTube, onto DVD, there'd be no region-encoding as the software being used does not provide such a feature. However, the movie studios(other than those making pornography) wanted the feature to restrict the marketing of their product to selected countries. With videotape this restriction was imposed by the colour system being used, PAL through Britain, Irish Republic, most of Europe(except for those countries stupid enough to choose the utterly abominable SECAM system), parts of Asia, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, NTSC in the USA, Canada, Mexico and a modified NTSC in Japan and other parts of Asia. In many VHS or Beta VCRs, where a choice of colour system had been provided, it was only ever PAL or NTSC. SECAM was, thankfully, NEVER included.
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Corporations, as such, AREN'T people, but they are run by people, and those people must be held accountable for their actions, at ALL levels, from the Chairman of the Board(bored! LOL) right down to the tea lady in the staff canteen. Corporations don't deserve any respect. They are there simply to provide some kind of service or manufacture a product, or whatever other role they may have. The corporation should have no rights, only responsibilities, only the individual people working for the corporation should have the rights. If the corporation commits a crime, you shut it down and the board has no right of appeal against the shut-down.
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@robertristevski3446 I have a whole different slant on media. 1) Commercial TV and radio networks should be broken up with all stations operating as stand-alone concerns, not having any kind of affiliation with any other TV or radio station in Australia. Only ABC and SBS should operate as networks but first, SBS should be stripped of its privilege of running ads. 2) Media ownership should be ONLY ONE TV station per proprietor, OR ONLY ONE radio station per proprietor OR ONLY ONE newspaper per proprietor in ONE MARKET ONLY! And the proprietor MUST BE A LONG-TIME RESIDENT IN THE REGION SERVED BY THE TV, or Radio station or the newspaper. 3) If you own radio, you shall be barred from owning TV or newspaper, if you own TV that shall bar you from owning radio or newspaper, likewise, owning a newspaper bars you from TV or radio. Regional media should be owned by regional proprietors, in line with cases 2 and 3. 4) Translator stations shall be the exclusive preserve of regional TV stations with a maximum of 6 unstaffed translators per station. Metropoltan (capital city stations) shall be allowed only *one translator and ONLY if topographical obstacles require such translator. For this purpose, Canberra will be classed as a regional city. Now to your suggestion. no politician, whether current, nor former, shall have ANY involvement with commercial TV, radio or print media, whatsoever! That ban will be lifelong.
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The hospital should be renamed the "Alex Wubbles Medical Centre". The cop, J. Payne, should be SACKED. He should have EVERYTHING HE OWNS SEIZED, INCLUDING CLOTHES OFF THEIR BACKS! Leave him NAKED AND HOMELESS with NOTHING to his name! And NOT just Officer Payne, but EVERY COP at EVERY LEVEL THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF UTAH should get the same punishment! SEVERE CRIME DESERVES THE MOST SEVERE PUNISHMENT! The thinking behind this is: If you, as a cop, commit the crime Officer Payne committed, then not only you but your colleagues get exactly the same punishment, you might stop and think before jeopardising your job, and the job of your fellow cops, not just at your precinct, but ALL of the state of UTAH.
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15:52 I've said this before and I'll say it again. RCA had, and has no business using the "Dog & Gramophone" symbol of EMI's His Master's Voice. Prior to RCA buying out the Victor Talking Machine Company, Victor was using the HMV trademark UNDER LICENCE! Victor OWNED NO PART WHATSOEVER of the trademark. When RCA bought Victor in 1929, The Gramophone Company of England(9 years before merging with Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd.) to form EMI should've revoked Victor's licence on the trademark so as to PREVENT Radio Corp. of America from getting their clammy hands on it. Thus with HMV secured with its rightful owners, when in 1955 EMI bought the lion's share of Capitol, they could then reintroduce the His Master's Voice trademark into the USA and Canada, along with the Parlophone and Regal/Regal Zonophone trademarks to ensure that EMI's roster of talent(Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Lulu, Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, Adam Faith and many other top BRITISH acts) wouldn't get farmed out to lesser labels.
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Vitali Goji: Wake up to yourself! Racism is at the heart of this issue, the relative ages of the offendor and the offended have only a tiny part to play here. Perhaps you've never experienced racism yourself, and admittedly nor have I but then I'm not Aboriginal but minority ethnic people, like Aboriginals, Afro-Americans, Asians living in western countries and such-like have to put up with racist abuse on an almost, if not daily basis and it will get to them and wear them down because they shouldn't have to put up with such rot. So if someone actually calls it out and shames the person who committed the offence, the person who called it out should be lauded and praised, not ridiculed by ignorant fools like you. And yes, I DO OBJECT to you calling Adam Goodes a "pussy", I object on his behalf.
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@podfixx You were taught wrong, and considering it's French influence, that compounds the crime! In all but a handful of cases, words beginning in 'H', be they nouns, adjectives or verbs, take A instead of an as their preposition. The ONLY exceptions are hour(hourly), Honour(honoured, honouring, honourable), heir and heirloom.
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@lynnenglish8548 A "channel" is not a station! A station is a massive building in the heart of a city, or located in one of that city's suburbs, or it could be a smaller building located in a regional centre. The building will contain offices for General Manager, Programme Manager, Sales Representative, etc. The building will have large areas set aside as studio space, possibly with seating for a studio audience for live-to-air shows. The building will have all the necessary space to contain sound and vision mixing booths complete with monitoring equipment, voice-over announcers, rooms for VTR and Telecine equipment plus much more. A channel has absolutely no physical presence whatsoever! A channel is a six-, seven- or eight-megahertz-wide chunk of VHF or UHF spectrum space over which the station transmits its signal. The station DOES NOT own that channel and can be moved, if required, to a different channel, such as what happened to Station ATV-Melbourne in Australia back in 1980. ATV was transmitting on a channel at the very bottom of Australia's 13-channel VHF allocations(Ch.0 - 45-52Mhz) but that channel was needed for the introduction of SBS Multicultural TV to provide a VHF channel for those whose sets did not yet have UHF tuners(from 1975 a lot of early Australian colour sets did not include UHF tuners but some did). The SBS servise would, for its first few years, simulcast on UHF Ch.28, then on UHF only. ATV was moved from 45-52Mhz up to 208-215Mhz (VHF Ch.10) where it stayed until the end of analogue broadcasting in 2012. There you have it.
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You tuned in to a STATION, not a channel! On a typical Australian colour TV set of the mid-1970s, you had a rotary tuner with thirteen channels(some sets had a UHF tuner that was activated by either a 14th position on the VHF tuner, or one of the unused channels swapped out with the "biscuit" that activated the UHF tuner, or, you pressed a button that selected between the tuners. Some sets only had VHF). Depending on whether you were in a capital city or a regional centre, you'd have a choice of two or four statons. In NSW for instance, if you were in Sydney you'd get the following: Ch.0 - hash; Ch.1 - hash; Ch.2 - Station ABN(ABC TV Sydney key station); Ch.3 - weak signal from Station NBN-Newcastle*; Ch.4 -slightly stronger signal from Station WIN-Wollongong*; Ch.5 - Weak signal from Station ABHN-Newcastle(ABC regional staton)*; Ch.5a - hash; Ch.6 - weak signal from translator for Station WIN-Wollongong*; Ch.7 - Station ATN-Sydney; Ch.8 - hash; Ch.9 - Station TCN-Sydney; Ch.10 - Station TEN(which should've been UTN)-Sydney; Ch.11 - hash(or weak signal from another of WIN's translators*). *Depended on where you were in the Sydney "basin", how good your antenna was and prevailing weather conditions. The point I'm making is, that a channel without a station to broadcast a signal thereon, is worthless.
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Technically speaking, and in a normal situation, the onus of pardoning rests with the individual who issues a pardon to the court that has committed an injustice against that individual, for instance, in a wrongful arrest. If I were arrested for parking in a no-parking zone(as a hypothetical case) and it was proved that I was nowhere near that part of town where this act was supposed to have occurred, then I would have the power of pardon over the court that wrongfully convicted me of the illegal parking., Naturally enough, I would NOT pardon the court, but would instead seek full redress and compensation for the wrongful arrest.
But this is NOT a normal situation. Trump has surrounded himself with criminals and charlatans who should be imprisoned for a very long time for their crimes, which have seemingly been proven in court, so they SHOULD NOT receive any kind of pardon whatsoever.
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When you say "Volk"(German word, literally translates as "Folk", or "People") then the 'V' should be pronounced like an 'F'. Indeed, the 23rd and 24th letters of the German Alphabet, 'V' and 'W' are named thus: V = "Fau", W = Weh(pronounced Veh). The 'V' is sounded like an 'F' and the 'W' like a 'V'. The German Alphabet has 27 letters as there is an "Etszet"(like this: ß, looking like a fancy 'B') which follows the 'S'. To further illustrate the pronunciation of 'V' and "W' in German, take the name of the car, the Volkswagen, abbreviated to VW. We in the English-speaking countries naturally say Vee-Doubleyou but in Germany they say Fau-Veh. And while we've bastardised the full German name as Volkswagen, the German-speakers say it as Folksvagen! Wie soll Ich das Wißen? Ich hab’ Deutsch gelernt! How should I know that? I have learned German!
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Inside 6 months there will be a mass exodus of Americans to Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, various European countries, wherever.....! But all the rest of the world should CLOSE THEIR BORDERS TO AMERICANS! Many of those trying to flee will have been Trump voters and supporters, but even if they voted for Kamala, no difference! Americans should be BARRED FROM ENTRY to the rest of the world's countries. Basically we tell them, before spinning them around and send them flying off our boots up their arses, "You stupid American fuckwits have made your bed, now you lie in it!"
NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD can a convicted criminal be allowed to hold the top office in that country's government! In many countries, if a person has spent even one year in prison on ANY crime, he/she is FORBIDDEN to stand for even local council, let alone state or federal government! But under America's FATALLY FLAWED SYSTEM, A convicted felon can be elected President! HOW FUCKED-UP IS THAT?
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Far-right lunatics DO NOT DESERVE the loyalty of their offspring or their spouses! If your son, your daughter, your father, your mother, your husband, your wife, your brother, your sister, or your cousins espouse far-right extremist ideas, then act on them, you are duty-bound to report this directly to the FBI because your local police cannot be trusted as they may well be sympathisers.
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I'll agree on the reverse light, the car should have two, one in each tail-light assembly. That aside, I need to give you some advice when doing piece-to-camera work while outside. Don't rely on your video camera's microphone to pick up your voice too well on outdoor shots. If your camera has a connection for an external microphone, get one with a good, long lead, or get a wireless micophone where the receiver runs on batteries and connect its(the receiver's) output to your camera's external microphone connection. If your camera does not have an external microphone connection(and most cameras don't have such a connection unless they're really expensive up-market models), then use a separate digital voice recorder(which creates a WAV audio file, same as that created by the camera). Start the camera and voice recorder, then give a good, loud clap of your hand, which serves as the synchronising sound for editing. When editing, import the video and the audio files, listen for the clap sound on the video and split just ahead of the clap sound(you'll see a visual representation of the waveform on the audio track under the video track, now mute the video's audio and add the voice recorder's recording to an audio track below that of your video. Listen again for that handclap and split the audio just ahead of that handclap. Unmute the video's audio track, cut the audio recorder's recording to clipboard(Ctrl+X), go to the beginning ov the video and then paste the voice recorder's audio back into place(Ctrl+V), now just nudge the audio from the recorder until the clap sound is in unison(no echo), Then render your clip for use in the final video production(you'll be editing out the handclap sound as ithas served its purpose). Do the initial recording part of this routine as often as needed for each piece-to-camera sequence you need to do.
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@numbskullent4091 And I hope that we've cleaned up our act, but looking at ignorant, insular America, sadly, no we haven't cleaned up our act, although the British, Aussies, New Zealanders and Canadians have tried their best, it's the ignorant, insular Americans who stuff it all up, including their woefully-corrupted use of the English language. There is a cure, though, and that is for ALL American schools from kindergarten(german for "Children's Garden), through primary and secondary levels, and up to college and university level, for the subject of English to be taught ONLY by British, Australian or New Zealand-born teachers armed with the Oxford English Dictionary, the Webster's dictionary consigned to its rightful place - the rubbish bin.
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7:41 Here again you make the same mistake of assuming one audio channel is derived from vertical movement while the other channel is derived from horizontal movement. The method in transcribing stereophonic audio into the groove of a record was invented by Mr. Alan D. Blumlein, a technician working for the then-infant BRITISH organisation, EMI(The Gramophone Co.) Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex England which, by the way is the SOLE owner of the Dog & Gramophone "His Master's Voice" trademark, having inherited it as part of the merger of The Gramophone Co. and Columbia Graphophone Co.. RCA had ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS using the trademark as when RCA bought out Victor in 1929, Victor was no more than a mere licensee with absolutely NO OWNERSHIP, OR EVEN MINORITY SHARE in the HMV trademark, so they had zero right to sell the trademark to RCA and, as a consequence, had VIOLATED THEIR LICENCE to use the trademark.
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The fact is, these people DeSantis is trying to persecute are NOT gay, they're HOMOSEXUAL, BISEXUAL, TRANS-SEXUAL! Those are the PROPER descriptive words for people of those sexual orientations. They are NOT insults, derisions or put-downs at all, they are the straight-forward honest descriptive words for people of those sexual orientations. Gay is a word that has been hijacked and perverted to mean Homo, Bi- or Trans-sexual when the word was NEVER, EVER intended to be used in that way. "Gay" is supposed to mean "cheerful, happy, elated" and its opposite is "morose" meaning "sad, dejected, miserable". As for "Lesbian", A male can be a Lesbian, the qualification is simple: to be born on, and native to the Greek island of Lesbos! And the mythology and legend of that island has ZERO validity in any argument about the island or the word, Lesbian.
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@davedthomson I'm in Australia and we also have three divisions, Our Parliament's lower house, The House Of Representatives enacts or repeals laws as required, the upper house, The Senate scrutinises the laws before they can be passed, noting amendments that need to be made, then sending the law(still as a bill, technically speaking) back to the House Of Reps for those amendments to be made. In the event that a bill passes the lower house unamended, but the upper house rejects the bill as unamended, or with amendments the upper house rejects, and vice-versa. If this happens three times consecutively, the Prime Minister then has the trigger to call a General Election, dissolving both houses. The High Court in Australia DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY, OR EVEN RIGHT to overturn any laws once enacted by Parliament. The High Court's sole purpose is to make adjudications BASED ON THE LAWS AS THEY STAND! The Australian system does have its flaws, but even with these flaws, our system is FAR AND AWAY SUPERIOR to that messed-up pile of manure that is the American system.
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As a YouTuber, you are entitled to take credit for your efforts. If you've made a certain point that gets tons of thumbs-up clicks("Likes"), meaning a lot of people agree with that point or, on the technical side you've achieved a brilliant edit that makes your video really stand out. your efforts deserve credit and thus you deserve credit. Someone who's a gifted singer(we really have to go back to the 1960s, 1970s and, to a lesser degree, 1980s to find an example), who cuts a record(LP or single, we're talking vinyl here) that sells a million copies and earns that singer the ultimate accolade, the platinum disc award(a step up from the gold disc), then he/she truly has earned and truly deserves that accolade, together with the producer, arranger, recording engineer and contributing songwriters deserve credits for their parts in the production, but if the performer has done all this work him/herself, then he/she alone has every legitimate right to take sole credit for that work. The trick is to keep the ego in check and not boast or brag about your success. The late Cassius Clay(his REAL name, not the one he adopted) used to boast "I am the greatest" about his boxing career. Aside from the fact that boxing is not a legitimate sport, it is no more than glorified thuggery, claiming oneself to be "The Greatest" is an unjustifiable ego-trip. It was for OTHERS to say if he was great or not, not for Clay himself to claim..... "Self-praise is no recommendation!" That's my take on something you said in the course of this video.
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If someone does a good and useful thing for the community, in a point-for-point value, the good thing is worth 10 positive points. but if he/she does something bad and against the community, that is 1,000,000 negative points. Basically said, the BAD ALWAYS OUTWEIGHS THE GOOD. If you've done good in your life and not done anything against your community, the points in your favour will accumulate, albeit slowly, but if you've done anything against your community, that wipes out and totally negates ANYTHING good that you have done.
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The TRULY talented singers and songwriters are now in retirement.... or dead. They come from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Interestingly enough the rise in music quality, particularly Rock & Roll, started alongside the advent of the vinyl 45rpm record, or just a few years thereafter. Music of the 1900s to the 1940s was stoltifyingly boring and well deserving of the meagre shellac-based technology of the day. As the 1960s madeway for the 1960s and a technology first developed in the late 1930s finally found a use, stereo, music steadily improved and evolved into Adult-Oriented-Rock, along with the other popular genres. But as we moved into the 1980s and the compact disc era of digital reporoduction, music quality was beginning to go backwards as those artists and groups began to leave the industry through retirement and/or death, only to be replaced be less-talented, or non-talented wannabes into the 1990s and through to today's pathetic specimens. The greats, like Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, Gordon Lightfoot and their generation live on only through the legacy of their vintage recordings in original or reissued compilations.
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Acronym: noun, initials to identify a corporation, institution or any type of group of people with common cause, or a phenomenon of science, nature or technology, for instance, EMI = Electric & Musical Industries Ltd., England, a giant recording and consumer electrical manufacturer, famous for their His Master's Voice TV, stereograms and radio receivers, also, EMI = ElectroMagnetic Interference, the noise you heard on AM or FM radio or over your TV's speakers along with flashing effects when an electrical storm was taking place. Any one given acronym can only ever have two uses, as shown, once for an organisation, and when that use is expended, once for phenomena of science, nature or technology, and when that use is expended, that's it! No other corporation or authority shall use EMI as it's already claimed. And no, Acronyms are NEVER words. one demonstration is the FTSE in England, which should be identified as Eff - Tee - Ess - Ee, the letters stand for "Financial Times Stock Exchange". If someone were to approach you and ask "Where is the FTSE?" and say the acronym wrongly as a word(footsie), your reply should be: "on the end of your legsie"!, Then you proceed to tell him(if you know) where the F.T.S.E. is.
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It's Time America was PUT IN ITS PLACE! America, and Americans should be regarded, and treated as IMBECILES by the rest of the world. America should be STRIPPED OF ITS SOVEREIGNTY and placed under a STRICT GOVERNANCE of a PANEL OF 12 made up of former High Court Justices from Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Canada, 3 from each country, and Americans must be BANNED from serving as police officers, this role again going to people from Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Canada. This is because America has PROVED TO THE WORLD that it is UTTERLY INCOMPETENT AND INCAPABLE OF GOVERNING ITSELF IN A FAIR AND DEMOCRATIC FASHION! The recent election of a CONVICTED FELON is PROOF POSITIVE OF AMERICA'S INCOMPETENCE! Such a thing as this is IMPOSSIBLE IN EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! And I make no apology for writing in ALL Caps and bold print! Americans have proved themselves as *IMBECILES by voting for Trump, voting AGAINST THEIR OWN BEST INTERESTS! America CLEARLY CANNOT RUN ITSELF so it needs to be run by outside forces, and AMERICA MUST NOT HAVE ANY RIGHT OF APPEAL AGAINST THIS RULE! Democracy is ONLY FOR THE COMPETENT COUNTRIES!
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I am Australian and I am often ashamed of what My country's government does. Especially this Liberal(?) Party government under Turnbull. The Liberals have always been the party of TRAITORS to Australia, ever since the party was founded(established) that most despicable of all the traitors, Robert Gordon "Pig Iron Bob" Menzies. So what we gave homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals(HBT) the right to marry, BIG DEAL! WE NEED WHISTLEBLOWERS NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE IN OUR HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way, why Menzies was called "Pig Iron Bob", In 1938 or 1939 there was an embargo placed on ships in Australian harbours(particularly Sydney and Newcastle) loaded with pig-iron which was supposed to go to Japan. Menzies BROKE that embargo and sent those ships on their way. That VERY SAME pig-iron came back to Australia in the form of the BOMBS that were dropped on the town of Darwin and the West Australian city of Broome AND..... IT IS THAT SELF-SAME PIG-IRON IN THE BOMBS THAT WERE DROPPED ON PEARL HARBOUR, HAWAII!!!!! As an Australian, I felt I HADS to tell you Americans of who was ultimately responsible for the death of military and civilian personnel and destruction of military and civilian property...... IT WAS THAT FILTHY, DESPICABLE TRAITOR, MENZIES!!!
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@akimbofurry2179 You underestimate the capacity of the single-layer DVD disc. From the get-go, the capacity of the disc was 4.7Gb, 2 gigabytes more than you gave them credit for. This was also the capacity for the first DVD+/-R discs(DVD+R or DVD-R) for home-burning of video content(home videos) or for file storage. Thus, a company transferring a feature movie to DVD(Digital Versatile Disc) should be able to get the entire movie onto one disc, with just a modicum of compression, remembering again the capacity was 4.7Gb, not 2.7Gb. A 2 Hr.40+m movie should, with the touch of compression, easily fit the 4.7Gb disc When the dual-layer DVD came along, the capacity increased to about 8.7Gb, not quite twice that of the single-layer disc but enough to provide more "headroom" for longer movies without needing any degree of compression. Some of the latter Harry Potter movies come within a sneeze of reaching 3 hours - epic features indeed! There is one huge drawback for DVD+R or DVD-R dual-layer discs, they're fine for storage of movies or data, but don't expect your home DVD player to handle them! I tried it! I burned some home movies onto a dual-layer disc and the player "just didn't want to know about them", totally refused to play the disc.
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@akimbofurry2179 I'll accept you had a "typo" and meant to type 4.7Gb for the DVD capacity, but what I'm saying is that the quality of video would not have suffered as much as what you suspect, in fact, the quality loss would be negligible. The movie would've, if processed by a competent DVD processing firm, presented with its full 16:9 wide-screen aspect ratio, and its audio transferred intact, in full stereo. Which brings me back to what I've suspected all along. The processing firm did such a shoddy job at transferring the movie to DVD that they needed to put it across two discs, like the old Laser Discs had to spread the movie(any title) across both sides of the 12-inch LP Record sized disc, technology gain = "goose-eggs!" A lot of early DVDs were single-layer, carrying titles of over 2 hours in length with wide-screen aspect ratio and stereo sound. But they were processed by COMPETENT corporations. Thus you need to look at the package of your movie to see who manufactured the disc(s). Perhaps you'll be lucky to come across a new copy of "Gangs Of New York" which may be a two-disc set, but the movie will be on the first disc and "bonus features" on the second disc because the movie will be processed by a company who knows what they're doing.
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Multi-region players were a scarce breed but the PAL Vs. NTSC bogie had been well and truly laid to rest with the DVD format. In terms of videocassette players, PAL-system VHS decks with NTSC playback(only) capability, or conversely NTSC-system decks with PAL Playback(only) capability were the beginnings of laying that bogie to rest. SECAM was not included in the playback capabilities as it was seen rightly for what it was, a pile of shit. Why bother with a colour system that the French couldn't even use in their TV studios? That's something those arrogant French never admit to! French TV stations were kitted out with PAL-system cameras, VTRs, Telecine, Vision Switching gear and everything else in studio that was related to the video output, it was only at the transmitter that the signal was transcoded DOWN to the woefully-inferior SECAM system. The reason was that attempt to use SECAM in the studio resulted in a gosh-awful mess on studio monitors when switching from camera to camera, or to VTR or Telecine, or vice-versa, the SECAM system was a dismal failure!
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The Morris 850(Mini), in spite of its outward appearance, was quite roomy and 4 people could ride in comfort. The only model that failed was the Moke because the driver and passenger were hard up against each other shoulder-to-shoulder, and from what I could see, there was no rear seating and those boxy sides confining the space..... I rode in a Moke once. After that ride, any ideas I harboured about ever owning one if ever I got a licence were very quickly jettisoned, but a Mini-Minor or Mini Clubman, provided I could get one with auto gears, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!
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I wish you'd get this fellow's name right, it's pronounced as Clue, like in a crossword puzzle. And he's NOT STRAIGHT, he is HETEROSEXUAL! The PROPER definition of "Straight" is 1) without curves, angles or bends(geometric); 2) honest, sincere, genuine(ethical). The word "Straight" is NOT the opposite of "Gay". The opposite of "Gay"(cheerful, happy, elated) is "Morose"(miserable, sad, gloomy, dejected).
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America has only itself to blame for the rise of Trump. America's republic is a flawed, defective concept, right from the start and the BIGGEST MISTAKE was an "executive resident"! The second massive MISTAKE is the long and convoluted election process! America could be a true democracy if it modelled itself on AUSTRALIA! We don't have a President but our Governor-General is, for all intents and purposes NEUTRAL AND CEREMONIAL with very few if any political powers. REAL EXECUTIVE POWER in Australia is vested in a PRIME MINISTER but not solely with the PM, a Cabinet of Ministers with various portfolios(Trade, Education, Health, Foreign Affairs etc.) also has an important role in the governance of our country. And sitting above the House of Representatives(we don't use pretentious terms like "congress" here) is the Senate which acts as a check on the powers of the House of Reps. Our system is supposedly called the Westminster system, but that, in itself is an insult to our system as we DO NOT HAVE A USELESS UNELECTED PACK OF ARISTOCRATIC TWATS sitting in our upper house. Our Senate is elected by POPULAR VOTE but with a different method to electing the members of our House of Representatives. In a nutshell, All we need to do to become a Republic, is to have our Governor-General answer to us, the Australian Citizens instead of the head of a "past its use-by date anachronistic, doddering monarchy.
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1:00 Taylor Swift is NOT Lesbian! She may be homosexual but she is CERTAINLY NOT Lesbian! To be a Lesbian you need to be born on the Greek island of Lesbos and that is the ONLY qualification! Lesbian is NOT a sexual orientation, it is a REGIONAL IDENTITY the same as being Californian, Texan, Virginian, etc. or in Australian context, a Queenslander, New South Welsh, Victorian, Tasmanian, etc. Taylor Swift is American by birth, speaks English(though corrupted my Americanism) and likely as not, NEVER BEEN TO GREECE, LET ALONE THE ISLAND OF LESBOS!
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The land is PALESTINE! And that's ALL OF IT, INCLUDING THE PART THAT IS NOW OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL! In 1948 when the nation-state of Israel was created, it was a United Nations charter which granted a large chunk of Palestinian land to the Jewish people in spite of Palestinian protests. But it was a FIXED amount of land that could not be extended: "You shall have this much and no more!" may have been the words spoken. But this new infant country was GREEDY and set about grabbing more and more of Palestinian land for itself in defiance of the U.N. charter(I use the word "charter" for want of a better name). In the 75 years since 1948, the Israeli governments have persecuted and harassed the Palestinians relentlessly. Now, whether it was Hamass or any other organisation is irrelevant. The fact here is that the Palestinian people have HAD ENOUGH OF THE PERSECUTION AND STRUCK BACK AT THEIR OPPRESSORS! I, for one, have ABSOLUTELY NO SYMPATHY WHATSOEVER FOR ISRAEL! Simply put, THEY HAD IT COMING!
The Jewish people had been a marginalised and persecuted people for many centuries, this is historical fact. This persecution culminating in the years of Nazi Germany. But here's the rub, THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE NEVER LEARNED THEIR LESSON FROM THIS HISTORY! That lesson being COMPASSION AND EMPATHY FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN! The Jews claim that Israel is theirs by a promise from god. THIS IS WRONG! As I said at the start, it was the United Nations that granted the land to the Jews AGAINST THE WISHES OF PALESTINE because there was, and is NO GOD!
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That "one rare shooting" was severe enough to enact those gun laws, and then some years before that, in Melbourne a crazed gunman caused what is today referred to as the "Hoddle Street Massacre. Thing is, we DID learn from these tragedies. America, failing tragically, as it has, to learn from Sandy Hook, will continue to see such tragedies played out again, and again, and again. Until the influence of that obscenity known as the National Rifle Association is neutralised, such tragedies as Sandy Hook will go on happening.
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@garethhanby Q & A is a public forum programme that has been going on for well over a decade, hosted by Tony Jones(except when ill or has time off[for good behaviour LOL]). The programme goes to air on Monday nights at 9.30pm, capping off a night of current affairs programming that starts just after ABC's 7.00pm news bulletin with the programme that takes its name from its timeslot, "7.30", then at 8.00pm comes "Australian Story", half-hour potted docos on the famous and not-so-famous in Australia, then, at 8.30pm a current affairs show that has been running in one form our another and in various timeslots since 1962, "Four Corners". At 9.15pm is "Media Watch" which has a history of over 20 years, currently hosted by Paul Barry, this segment uncovers the dirty antics of our(mostly) commercial media, radio, TV and press, though the ABC itself will cop a serve on occasions. Then, at 9.30pm the night comes to its end with Q & A. There's a late news bulletin following, plus perhaps a doco but the night of current affairs really ends with Q & A. I wonder if the BBC could run a schedule like that, or even mount its own version of Q & A.
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General Motors/Holden launched its first model in 1948, simply designated the 48-215 with the numbers referring to make year(1948) and engine capacity in cubic inches(215). After that, the successive models had simple two-letter designations, FJ, FE, FC, FB, EK, EJ, EH(a story attaches itself here), HR, HD and so on with only "Special" or "Premiere" attached. It wasn't until the late 1960s that names like Torana, Monaro, Kingswood(Ted Bullpitt's favourite car), Commodore, Gemini, etc. were given to the cars. As for the EH, it came about when the GM/H Chairman put the question to the bored...er... board as to how they were going to designate their new model. One smallish fellow who was a bit hard of hearing, sitting at the other end of the table, put his hand up to his ear and said: "EH, what'd you say?" LOL🤣
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The kids are NOT gay, they're "Homosexual." To be "gay" is to be in a cheerful, happy, elated state of mind. The opposite of gay is "morose", sad, miserable, dejected. To be "straight" is a physical impossibility as we have curves and bends(wrist, elbow, shoulder, knee and ankle joints, and, of course, our necks). That's the geometric sense. but we can be straight in the ethical sense, being honest, sincere and genuine. As for being Lesbian, there's no "ism" attached. Lesbian is a regional identity, same as being Texan, Californian, etc., or like here in the GREATEST COUNTRY EVER, AUSTRALIA, New South Welsh, Queenslander, Victorian, Tasmanian, South or West Australian. The ONLY people who can LEGITIMATELY call themselves "Lesbian" are those native to the Greek island of Lesbos.
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@Gencturk92 It does affect the drivers, very much so! If a person jumps in front of the train they're driving, and it's so sudden that the driver has no time to react, it will play on the mind of the driver for months, years or decades to come.They will feel the guilt of that person's death, even though the driver was innocent and it was an accident. Such an incident can totally ruin the career of a driver, who'll have nightmares about the incident and likely suffer panic attacks when in the vacinity of where the incident happened. You talk as if the train driver has no feelings and has a mercenary outlook on his/her job. I don't envy the driver his/her job, but I'd feel for him/her if he/she were involved in such an incident. Jut be glad you don't drive a train, in London, England, Sydney, Australia or anywhere else!
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@hagdore For India, English is an absolute necessity to communicate with the rest of the world, so the Indian educators strive to get it right, basing their education on British English rather than the corrupted American version. I've lost count of the times when Americans writing on these comments sections in YouTube, cannot use the correct versions(for want of better description) of There, Their or They're*, or of *You're and Your. For America, it's time to get back to basics. Throw that Websters dictionary in the rubbish bin, where it belongs, import massive stocks of the Oxford English Dictionary, then hire teachers who were educated in British, Australian and New Zealand universities to teach English to American children. I would've included Canada but Canadian English has been partly soiled by the poisonous American influence.
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There was nothing preventing Disney except his own utter lack of talent to create ANY really FUNNY cartoons. The earlier Warner cartoons, outside the main, and familiar character features with Bugs, Porky, Elmer, Daffy and such, the Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Leon Schlessinger, a lot of them were utterly stupid. It's not until Chuck Jones, Ted Clampett, Friz and Isadore Freleng and co. came on board at Warners did the really GREAT Warner Merrie Melodies and Looney Toons(or Tunes) classic shorts start to be produced. So while Warner's product improved RAPIDLY, there was ABSOLUTELY NO IMPROVEMENT AT ALL in the Disney camp, Disney kept churning out those saccharine-sweet overly-cute crap shorts they always did, except they started producing feature-length drivel, which made things 10 times worse. Warners, by contrast, kept their features short, never more than 8 minutes, and quick-paced, and that's what made Warner's cartoons, other than those produced by Leon Schlessinger, far superior to Disney's drivel.
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@lilaclizard4504 Our media is ALSO in an awful mess as our ACMA(Australian Communications & Media Authority [Apologists]) are doing absolutely BUGGER-ALL to regulate our TV, radio and newspapers. We need a MUCH STRICTER authority to regulate our media and our media needs a wholesale shake-up. For a start, only ABC and SBS should be allowed to operate as networks(but first, SBS must lose its privilege of running ads, as SBS has ABUSED that privilege) and all the commercial TV and radio networks be ABOLISHED, leaving the stations as stand-alone broadcasters, they trade programmes across state borders, but on an open market. TCN-Sydney selling to or buying from either GTV-, ATV- or HSV-Melbourne, selling to or buying from BTQ-, TVQ- or QTQ-Brisbane, and the so-called regional "networks" should also be broken up with Bob Hawke's BRAIN-FART of regional market aggregation being dismantled. The incumbant station in each market reverting back to its own region, of the other two, one closed and the other sold to local owners and rebranded. For example, in my own region, Newcastle/Hunter, NBN-Newcastle's licence be seized from TCN-Sydney and handed back, free-gratis to Soul-Patinson (Newcastle-based chemist business) and NOT A CENT paid to TCN in compensation! The NEN(Prime) station be sold to other Newcastle-based owners and the former NRTV(now WIN) station closed down. The Syney stations would then have to sell their shows to two independent regional stations, like it should've been in the mid-1980s and early 1990s.
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Here in New South Wales, Australia a few years ago we had the "Opal" card introduced. The system involves putting a said amount of value onto the card, for instance, $10. If you hold a Pensioner Opal gold-coloured card, a trip to Sydney from Newcastle will cost $2.60 and you can "tap on" and "tap off" all day and not go over that initial charge. To "tap on" before your ride or "tap off" after the ride, you simply tap the card on a card reader at the station where you depart or arrive. There are also Opal readers on our buses, ferries and trams(at the moment only Sydney has a tram network but they stupidly call it "light rail", which it isn't because the lines are standard gauge). Full-fare riders, I'm not sure what they pay per trip, but the idea is still the same, tap on - tap off.
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+Tracey S.: Russ Hinze indeed, yes, but you've forgotten Terence Lewis, he was, I believe, Police Commissioner during the Bjelke-Petersen era and just as rotten-corrupt as Bjelke-Petersen himself. So it's no surprise the Qld Police were so corrupt. Like the fish, the rot starts at the head and goes to the rest of the body, so it was with the Qld Police, the corruption started with Lewis and spread, like cancer to the rest of the force. As for the federal government, I doubt they even had the intestinal fortitude to sort Bjelke-Petersen out, BjElke Petersen held the top spot from about 1968 or so, right up the 1984(?*) FitzGerald Royal Commission into corruption in the Qld Government and Police. Thankfully we're well rid of this scumbag trio of Bjelke-Petersen, Hinze and Lewis but I still think there's more than a tiny element of corruption still infecting the Qld Police, and I doubt there's anything that could convince me otherwise.
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1:30 And this is something Australian car designers avoided like the plague! As Holden got into automobile making in 1948, its first model, the 48-215 was very basic in its design and was only tarted up to a minimal degree in the follow-up model, the FJ. And through successive models, FE, FC, FB, EK, EJ and EH(the first to have auto gears as optional), Holdens were built for Substance Over Style IN SPITE of being an American-owned company. Of Ford's Australian-built cars, the first Falcon was a disaster as it was likely built in "clueless" America but in right-hand-drive for Australia, those first American-built cars were substance over style and fell apart on Australian suburban streets. The Ford name came to mean "Fix Or Repair Daily" in Australia. We did see some of the Chrysler models here that were American-designed but latter Chrysler models were designed and built in Australia because we Aussies rejected the stupid, ostentatious "style-over-substance" shallow approach to car design favoured by the Yanks.
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Ethnicity and religion, even ethnicity and nationality, are separate from each other. I am Australian by birth(nationality) but I am northern European(caucasian) by ethnicity. These two elements are natural and while nationality can be changed by migration to another country and taking out citizenship, ethnicity cannot be changed. Religion, however, is COMPLETELY ARTIFICIAL! The three main religions of christianity, judaism and islam, and all their variant forms, as well as all the other religions of the world, are totally fabricated by overworked by undereducated, or even uneducated, ignorant minds. Thus religion, in all its forms, is completely unworthy of ANY respect!
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Here in Australia TV call-signs for commercial stations are: two letters to denote the licensee with the third letter denoting the state, N = New South Wales(NSW); V = Victoria; Q = Queensland; S = South Australia; W = West Australia; T = Tasmania. The Northern Territory is NOT a state, the third letter in the TV call sign there is D = Darwin(the chief town in the territory), the state identifier should be S = South Australia. The Australian Capital Territory is also NOT a state, it is cocooned within the state of NSW but TV call-sign identifier letter there is C = Capital, it should be N = NSW. The ABC TV network(national non-commercial) call-signs are AB followed by state alpha identifier in state capitals, and in regional and rural areas, one, two or even three letters between the AB and state alpha identifier. When SBS(Special Broadcasting Service) started their TV network in 1980, the broadcasting authority of the day never applied the call-sign template to them. Strange, that! With radio a state numerical identifier precedes two call-letters for AM stations and three call-letters followed by -FM for....you guessed it! They are: 2 = NSW and ACT; 3 = Victoria; 4 = Queensland; 5 = South Australia(should also apply to Northern Territory); 6 = West Australia; 7 = Tasmania; 8(but should be 5) = Northern Territory.
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I've said this before and I'll say it again: America's ENTIRE police force across ALL 50 states should be SACKED! Then, the whole system closed down and rebuilt from ground up..... BUT.... ABSOLUTELY NO AMERICANS to be on the new forces. Instead, the new forces would be staffed at all ranks, uniformed and plain-clothed, by Canadian, British, Australian and New Zealander personnel. The reason is that they already speak English without having to learn the language first. As for the former cops, the only jobs that should be open to them is cleaning out the holding cells, officers' lunchrooms and the toilets. And WHY do I say this, this video proves it, plus where a black man stops a girl from being raped and gets arrested for his heroic deed, A hospital nurse is arrested and violently manhandled just for doing her job, black people being murdered by police officers pulling them up in their cars, even when unarmed and showing no resistance..... ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! America's police are 100% out of control and MUST BE SACKED!
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It's VERY EASY to see why other countries, even so-called allies could hate America with so much zeal! The answer to that question lies in America's behaviour toward other countries, always wanting to "butt in" on affairs that don't even concern America. America behaves like all the other countries are there simply to do America's bidding, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain, Europe, all the countries of the world are supposed to bow down and be subservient to the great lord and master, America. NO OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE EVER ASKED AMERICA TO BE THE LEADER OF THE WORLD! This is something America assumed on its own. Well I have some breaking news for you, America, you are NOT the greatest country in the world, you are merely one of the countries in the world!
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@MilkySubstance It has NOT gone over my head, I simply recognise the fact that most others miss, that a channel is nothing more than a 7Mhz-wide chunk of spectrum space and is utterly worthless without a STATION to transmit programme content over that channel. Cast your mind back to that old black-and-white, or early colour TV in your parents' or grandparents' house. That big knob that clunked through 13 VHF channels, 0-1-2-3-4-5-5a-6-7-8-9-10-11 but you got clear signals on only 4 of those channels and maybe some grainy images on one or two others(long distance reception of regional STATIONS), and what you knew as commercial TV on Ch.7 in the capital cities, if you went to a regional town, you'd find the ABC instead. The stations did not own the channel on which they transmitted, but it is the STATIONS that made the shows, or provided the facilities for the production of the shows. You go to Newcastle and it will be NBN you'll find on VHF Ch.3(which was nothing more than 85 to 92 Mhz on Band 2) but go to Canberra expecting NBN, instead you'll find the ABC. While the analogue frequencies are gone, it does NOT change the fact that without the station to transmit its programmes on that channel, all you'll get is the wording on your screen "Invalid Channel".
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Maybe the better thing to happen should be thus: 1929 Execs from RCA(then owned by General Electric as a minor division) go sniffing around the Victor plant at Camden NJ, see what's happening and suggest to RCA they get into the recording business and making the gramophones to play these records. When they approach Victor to offer to buy the company, Victor accepts the offer, but only for the plant and the "Victor" name, The trademark of HMV DID NOT belong to Victor and they had no right to on-sell that brand. RCA insists it wants the HMV brand and the head of Britain's Gramophone Company which, by then is a separate and wholly-British-owned entity as a consequence of WW1 steps in and BLOCKS RCA's acquisition of the HMV(His Master's Voice) trademark, which is the British company's own property, 100%.
Instead of RCA getting their hands on the HMV trademark, The Gramophone Company buys 100% of RCA! and becomes the owner of the Victor AND RCA brands which The Gramophone Company merges together to become RCA and markets the records in Britain under that brand. RCA still does NOT get to use the HMV brand in the USA but markets the records and gramophones under the RCA brand. The Victor brand being phased out under The Gramophone Co.'s orders so RCA WILL NOT BE PERMITTED to use the name "Victrola". Fast-forward to 1955 and The Gramophone Co. merging with Columbia Graphophone Co in England to form EMI in the 1930s, buys out a touch under 95% of an insignificant little record label called Capitol. EMI then imposes the HMV trademark as well as the RCA trademark on Capitol to manufacture and distribute, while RCA is reduced to being the electrical division only. Capitol will be rebranded as EMI North Americas Ltd. and relocated to Toronto, Canada as Canada is a British Commonwealth member country and EMI is British, after all. EMI also buys up CBS so they can use the Columbia name in the USA and Canada(after all, it was Columbia Graphophone, England that re-established the Columbia name in the USA anyway) so that His Master's Voice and Columbia are established as EMI's flagship labels in the USA and Canada, as they already are in EMI's other territories and the Capitol and RCA brands being reduced to their proper status as "two of the other minor insignificant trademarks" in the EMI group. Colour TVs would be made in Britain for the Canadian and US markets, for Canada they'd carry the His Master's Voice brand, for the USA they'd carry the lesser RCA brand. RCA in the USA will be limited to making radios and stereo gear. As for video technologies, EMI would put an Immediate block on RCA doing ANYTHING in that field. That work would be carried out at EMI's British factories. So the CED system would never be made and no money wasted on it. Instead, EMI would licence the Pioneer laserdisc system(I'm not giving credit to Philips here because Philips makes crap!).
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In 1929 when RCA(still part of General Electric) bought the plant at Camden, New Jersey, and the Victor brand-name, that's ALL they should've been allowed to buy. The His Master's Voice brand was 100% owned by The Gramophone Company of England Pty Ltd., and The Gramophone Company should've IMMEDIATELY REVOKED The Victor Talking Machine Comany's licence to use the HMV trademark. Prior to World War One, The Gramophone Company of England held 50% of the HMV brand, the other 50% being held by what was, at that time, the British company's German parent, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellshaft mbH, under which, the trademark was known as "Die Stimme Seines Herrens". Emile Berliner, who had established the German and British companies, also set up the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey, but only as an afterthought. Victor was an insignificant minor side-operation. It owned not even the smallest fraction of 1% interest in the HMV trademark and the patents on the trademark and the products made, disc-playing gramophones and the discs themselves were registered by DGG and The Gramophone Co. Victor played ZERO part in the development and/or improvement thereof, they just made and sold the product, nothing more. In 1918, after WW1, DGG lost the Gramophone Co and Victor Talking Machine Co. as "spoils of war". Indeed, DGG could now only use the HMV trademark in Germany itself and only under licence from its former division, now fully-fledged independent company, The Gramophone Co. DGG found itself in a similar situation to its insignificant American offshoot, Victor. The HMV trademark was now 100% British-owned and Victor was now paying licence fees to Britain for the privilege of using the trademark and building the HMV gramophone for the US/Canada market and putting its own name on what was basically a British product. So that brings us back to 1929 and two jokers come sniffing around the Victor plant at Camden, initially just wanting greater floor space to expand radio production, but seeing what was going on, deciding to get in on the act, and here is where The Gramophone Co. should've said "STOP! You can buy the plant and the Victor name but the rights to the HMV brand are NON-TRANSFERABLE! The Brand is EXCLUSIVELY the property of The Gramophone Co. of England and will remain so until WE deem otherwise!"
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The better result would be that in 1929, instead of RCA buying Victor Taliking Machine Co., that RCA AND Victor both end up as being owned by The Gramophone Co. of England. RCA would still not get its grubby paws on the HMV trademark as that trademark would return to the British aforementioned company that solely owns it. Instead, the RCA and the Victor trademarks would be owned by, and used in Britain by The Gramophone Co. as record labels carrying American artists into the British market. When The Gramophone Co. and Columbia Graphophone Co. merged to form EMI in 1938(1931 sounds far too early and Columbia Graphophone was relaunching the Columbia brand in America at the time), then the RCA and Victor brands would be kept separate and used as described earlier. In 1955 when EMI bought out the largest chunk of Capitol, the HMV brand would then return to the USA and Canada. CBS should then be bought by EMI so as to establish in the USA, the HMV and Columbia Brands as flagship labels of EMI North Americas Pty. Ltd., based *NOT in Hollywood California, but in Toronto, Ontario Canada as Canada is a British Commonwealth Country and EMI is a British company! With TV manufacture and marketing, EMI would make the sets for the American/Canadian markets at its British plants. The sets for Canada would be branded His Master'sVoice, the sets for the USA would be branded RCA, but the colour system would be a modified PAL system to accommodate America/Canada's 117 Volt/60 Hz power system. By EMI owning RCA and CBS, this would stop RCA falling into the hands of BMG and CBS into the hands of Sony.
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One correction: Known STATION at known time! A channel is nothing more than a chunk of spectrum space(7Mhz for PAL-system colour broadcasting, 6Mhz for NTSC in the analogue days - we'll ignore SECAM as it was a rubbish system). Without the STATION to broadcast its programme content across that range of bandwidth, you would get only static hash, same as when the station closed down for the night, as they did in the 1970s. A channel produces nothing, employs no-one, earns no revenue, pays no salaries, it can't, because a channel is ethereal. A channel's only physical representation is in the circuitry of the tuner used to select it. As you turn that knob(in those old days) your set goes clunk-clunk-clunk through 13, 15 or maybe 20 VHF channels but there may only be signals on three, they'd be the NBC, CBS or ABC affiliate for your area, or if your in a small town, you'd have two stations, each independent and carrying their pick of content from the three major networks plus some local shows produced in their own studios. The remaining channels will be blank unless a stray signal comes a-wafting its way past your antenna and it might be a distant independent or a network affiliate that you might sniff it up on Ch.6. Put it this way, if you're in an art gallery and see a painting that grabs your attention, do you give credit to a] the artist who worked and sweated blood to create it, or b] the canvas on which it was painted, ignoring the artist's efforts? Crediting the channel for TV shows is like crediting the canvas for the painting.
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For a start, this boy, Xander is NOT "Gay", he is HOMOSEXUAL! (7:00). To be "Gay" in the PROPER sense, is to be cheerful, happy, elated. "Straight" is NOT the opposite of Gay. Straight has two meanings, NEITHER of which has anything to do with sexual orientation. Straight means a) without curves, angles or bends(geometric), and b) honest, sincere, genuine(ethical). The PROPER opposite of "Gay" is "Morose", meaning sad, dejected, miserable.
The word "Gay" has had its meaning PERVERTED over the past 50 or so years. It's past time we RESTORED the PROPER AND CORRECT meanings to words and stopped their misappropriation and PERVERSION into uses for which the were NEVER intended when first coined.
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You pronounced his name correctly the first time you uttered it but the second time and each successive time thereafter you said his name WRONG! Rosenstein means Red Stone in English. the last part of the name, "stein" should rhyme with "wine", "fine" or "line". And think back, Harvey Weinstein, BOTH halves of his name should rhyme with "wine", "fine" or "line". The names are German in origin.... und wann kommt 'i' nach 'e' in jedem wort, dann ist 'i' die staerkere Buchstab! (English: and when 'i' comes after 'e' in each word, then the 'i' is the more pronounced letter!) There, I've explained this in both German and, in brackets, English!
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Ginnungagap He IS a Centrist. Here in Australia, a Republican is someone who wants an Australian Head Of State instead of the foreign Queen. The word Republican here has a far different meaning to what it has in America. In America, the word has come to symbolise a political party devoid of scruples and integrity, a party that has done, and will do anything to win at all costs, and will throw the rule book out the window, The Republican Party will use voter fraud, ballot rigging, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and any other dirty trick in its bag of dirty tricks, in order to hang on to power. That's the example of a Right-wing political party. And the sad thing is, there's no independent Electoral Commission in America to prevent the Republicans from using those dirty tricks. Here in Australia, we have the Liberal Party, a wannabe Republican Party in the sense that they share the American party's putrid ideals. The Liberals here see themselves as "born to rule" and they begrudge the Australian Labor Party any time they get to run the country. However, in Australia, we have the Australian Electoral Commission, which is charged with the responsibility of running all elections at local council, State and Federal levels, as well as any by-elections that may arise for any reason. Neither party may interfere with the AEC during the process of elections from the time the writs are issued to the time of the final tally of votes. Plus our voting methods are the same across all states and territories. That's what makes our system far superior to that of America, even though we have some flaws in our method.
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George H.W. Bush.... As President he was, at his best merely mediocre. His son, George W. Bush was a megalomaniac, eclipsed only by Donald Dump(as in "take a dump", in other words, have a shit). Barack Obama was the only really DECENT President America had in the past 30 years and America never really appreciated him. George Bush, the elder, just passed, was head of the CIA, and that is one monstrously huge stain on his character. To his eternal credit, Obama was NEVER a head of that despicable organisation.
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Those 3" discs really were a fucking waste of time. Their capacity(storage) would've been around 20 minutes, about 125-200 Mb, so-called "CD-singles"..... HAH! A 45rpm record could easily carry an epic song like Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 release, "The Wreck Of The Edmund FitzGerald" which clocks in at over 7 minutes, and is in STEREO as well! Thus making these CD-singles REDUNDANT before they were even developed. What makes the record a "single" is that, on a turntable, one side is face-up and accessible to the pick-up arm, the other is face-down on the platter mat. The disc has the run-in groove leading to the modulated section of that groove, then out to the centre dead-wax(there's only one groove spiralling into the centre, so it's wrong to say "grooves" plural) which means there's no wasted capacity but these "CD-singles" when inserted to play, the laser, though playing one song at a time, has access directly to all the content of the disc(usually 3 or more songs, which means it's not a "CD-single") playing for 15 minutes, leaving 5 minutes wasted..... UTTERLY STUPID! The indented portion of the tray(15:25) was standard in players almost from the get-go, that's an early model player being used. The standard 5" disc with its initial 74-minute, then later 80-minute capacity is best suited to albums, even then you get a lot of wasted capacity as some albums when reissued in the format, may have only played for 30-45 minutes, leaving a lot of wasted capacity.... Ugh! As to ink discolouring the disc surface.... I've never seen that! Probably because the Australian firm, Disctronics took greater care in how they produced their discs.
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If a name ends in -Stein, like Weinstein or Rosenstein, learn the CORRECT pronunciation. These are German, Austrian or Swiss names, and in such cases when the 'i' and 'e' come together, if 'i' follows 'e', 'i' is the dominant vowel. If 'e' follows 'I', then 'e' is the dominant vowel, thus 'ei' should be pronounced like the 'i' in "dine", and if it's 'ie', then it should be pronounced like 'ee' in "teen". Und wie wisse ich das schon?(and how do I know this already?) Weil hab' ich deutsch gelernt!(because I've learned German!) Okay?
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+Skyprince27, you don't quite understand the purpose behind Cruise Control. You would NEVER use CC(abbreviation for purpose of this post) in a city, where you're stopping and starting due to the traffic lights. CC is for the open road, where you can get your car up to a given speed, engage CC and hum along at a constant set speed(say, 100 Kilometres per hour[Km/H]). "Hum along"? Probably only because I for got the words LOL. Seriously though, CC is for use on multi-lane freeways(or highways or expressways, however they might be called). CC is not for inner-city stop-start driving. As for the term "Self-Driving", more correctly it should be "self-steering" because it's the engine that actually "drives"(propels) the car, the so-called "driver" merely sits behind the steering wheel and guides the vehicle and operates the gears in cars with "Spanish" gears(Manuel = manual, get it? LOL). It's that last vestige of control that we should not/must not relinquish to automation.
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@Banom7a I drove a Toyota Camry(1989 vintage) station wagon for a few years. The same model was also marketed here in Australia as the Holden Apollo. This, like each car I've owned, had wipers on the left of steering column, turn indicator & light switch on right of column, the CORRECT way round. This also was the case in a Daihatsu Applause(1990) and the three Fords(1985 Meteor, also marketed as Mazda 323), 1996 EF Falcon "Futura" sedan and 2003 BA Falcon "Futura" station wagon. All my cars were Automatic with floor-mounted gears. Even going back to cars with column-mounted gears, the gear lever would be on the left of column for RHD cars, auto or manual, and the turn indicator(without the other functions) on the right of column, back in the day when light switches and wiper controls were still dashboard-mounted switches. I do remember a big 1964 Rambler, owned by a friend's father, automatic with column shift, built for Australia's right-hand-drive standards but with gears and indicator set for the American system, arse-about! Gears on right, turn indicators on left! They forgot they were building for a RHD market.
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@kyandeiai Where a word(noun or adjective) begins with a consonant, it takes 'a' as its preposition. when the noun or adjective begins with a vowel, then it takes 'an' as it's preposition. The only time 'H' become silent is in "Hour", "Hourly", "Honour", "Honoured", "Honouring", "Honourable", "Heir", "Heirloom". At ALL other instances, the 'H' is aspirated(pronounced). "A historic event", "A horrible situation", "A horrendous accident", "A heroic deed", "A herculean effort", "A herbal remedy", and so on.
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If the size(disc diameter) of the MCA Laservision disc(I won't credit Philips as Philips make crap) was married to the method of encoding the video and audio content on a DVD, then a 12-inch disc, perhaps 2 discs, could've held the entire 11 seasons of M*A*S*H for example, or a 3-disc box-set of Classic Carry-On(Carry On Camping, Carry On Doctor, Carry On Again, Doctor, etc.), or a four disc set of the Harry Potter saga from "Philosopher's Stone" right through to "Deathly Hallows Part 2", and with home-burn, home movies burned to the format, the possibilities would be endless.
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Emile Berliner was the founder of Deutsche Grammophon Gesellshaft mbH in Germany. He also established a British division, The Gramophone Company of England Ltd. It was these two companies that, in the years leading up to WW1 shared ownership 50/50 of the Dog & Gramophone, "His Master's Voice" trademark. Berliner also set up the Victor Talking Machine Company in the USA but did so ONLY as an afterthought. Victor held no share whatsoever in the famous HMV trademark and used it ONLY under licence from DGG and The Gramophone Co. of England until 1918, and from 1918 from the British company only, as DGG had lost co-ownership as a result of the war, and could only use the trademark in Germany under licence from its former division. The Gramophone Co. should've put a halt to RCA acquiring the trademark when RCA bought the Victor name and plant in 1929. RCA already had its own trademark but Victor's only self-owned trademark was its own brand-name, the Dog & Gramophone trademark was NOT Victor's to do anything with except surrender the licence and let the trademark revert to its British owner. In 1938 The Gramophone Co. merged with Columbia Graphophone Company, the successful British orphan child of the failed US company of that name, to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd., bringing together the Dog & Gramophone HMV trademark and Columbia's Magic Notes trademark to become the two flagship labels of EMI, while a third label, Parlophone, a former Dutch-owned label acquired as post-WW1 war booty by either Columbia Graphophone or The Gramophone Co., became the label for novelty acts until 1962 when four Liverpudlian kids were signed to the label....... When EMI bought Capitol in 1955 to make it a subsidiary of EMI(subsidiary = infant child), EMI should've FORCED RCA to relinquish the Dog & Gramophone trademark so it could be used in the USA under its CORRECT name, "His Master's Voice", as well as making Capitol distribute the Parlophone and(in lieu of CBS using the Columbia name), Regal-Zonophone labels as well as any other labels EMI would own in the coming decades, ensuring that ALL EMI's artist & group roster would appear on Capitol-distributed labels instead of getting farmed out to all and sundry non-EMI labels.
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"Don't say Gay"? Absolutely! The proper term is HOMOSEXUAL! The word "Gay" has been hijacked by the homosexual/bisexual/transsexual community when its proper meaning is "cheerful", "happy", "elated". This is NOT an issue of "freedom of expression", it is, instead, an issue of corruption of the language, to take some words and pervert their meanings. "Straight" is NOT the opposite of "Gay"! The opposite meaning to "Gay" is "Morose", meaning "sad", "miserable", "dejected", "depressed". The word "Straight" has two definitions, one being geometric, a line without curves, bends or angles, the other being ethical, meaning "honest", "sincere", "candid", "trustworthy". As for those women calling themselves "Lesbians", if they're NOT born on the Greek island of Lesbos, and cannot even speak a word of Greek, then they HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS SUCH! And even if they learned the language, they're still NOT Lesbians as they were NOT BORN ON THE ISLAND OF LESBOS! They are simply homosexual women..... end of story! So DON'T SAY GAY unless you're describing someone who's in a cheerful, happy mood.
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Milo Yiannopoulos is NOT gay. He is HOMOSEXUAL! The opposite of "Gay" is NOT Straight! The opposite of Gay is Morose! "Gay" = cheerful, happy, elated. "Morose" = miserable, sad, dejected. "Straight" has ONLY two meanings, the first is geometric, without curves, angles or bends. The other meaning is ethical, honest, sincere, genuine, trustworthy. The Homosexual community has taken the words "Gay", Straight" and "Lesbian" and thoroughly corrupted their meanings. Milo Yiannopoulos's claim, read correctly is that he was homosexual* but is now heterosexual.
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@somebodysomething3451 No, it would NOT be a "personal problem" for a person to be describing him/herself as "feeling gay", or at least it should not be a problem. In the event of someone having a pleasant experience, like for instance getting a promotion at his/her job, winning a huge amount of money in a lottery, meeting up with a long-lost friend, one would describe these experiences as making him or her feel gay, but the opposite situations would make him/her feel morose. The Homosexual community took the word "Gay" and made it an acronym for "Good As You", thus robbing the word of its proper meaning. Before they hijacked the word "Gay" they used the word "camp" ( he's as camp as a row of tents ) but thankfully to good sense the use of "camp" was dropped. But the word "gay" needs to be let return to its proper meaning as well.
There's nothing wrong with the original word, "homosexual". It's not a put-down, it's not an insult, it's just the technical word for someone romantically and/or sexually attracted to someone else of the same gender. I'm not that way inclined myself. I'm just sick to death of the misuse of the language.
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@somebodysomething3451 It happens! It could be a social status thing(class distinction is still prevalent in Britain), it could do with wealth, where you were educated, who your parents were, it ties in with social status. But since the word "Gay" was hijacked in the early 1970s by the homosexual community, it has rendered the word unusable in ordinary circumstances. I can remember when the word "Gay" was used as a brand-name for a range of soft-drink(aerated waters) in lemonade, lime, orange, raspberry or other flavours here in Australia. We had an icecream on a stick, covered in chocolate and crushed peanuts, marketed as "Gaytime". In the "Flintstones" cartoon theme they sang "We'll have a gay old time!" But now the word is virtually "out of bounds" and that's sad.
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The whole idea of quadraphonic sound was quite ridiculous, really. When you go to a concert tosee, say, the late, great Gene Pitney, for example. He's there on stage, IN FRONT of the audience and his backing band(or perhaps a full-blown orchestra) is behind HIM! So the sound you hear is IN FRONT of you, not around you, unless, that is, the auditorium is echoey, then the sound may bounce around the walls(like the Civic Theatre, Newcastle NSW Australia), which will give a false perception of depth of sound. But if the theatre's acoustics are properly designed, the sound will come only from in front of the audience, as it should. As to CDs, they were first introduced as a play-only medium for public consumption, but as computers developed further, blank 74-minute-capacity CD-R discs became available to burn your own choice of songs onto CD, then came 80-minute-capacity discs, but you could only handwrite any info on their labels with a marker pen, then came CDs with inkjet-printable labels and printers that could print onto those labels, and my creative urges went into OVERDRIVE! Not only could I put the music I WANTED on CD, but I could create a label design to better those commercial-issue CDs. And THEN..... Verbatim started marketing spindle-packs of CD-Rs with SILVER inkjet-printable surfaces.....WOW. These are what I'm using now and they look just BRILLIANT!
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+Blair M Schirmer: This is where the Australian method of preselection works. The Party determines an ran & file level(local) who their candidate will be in each electoral seat, then they determine who the federal or state leader will be. Federally the winning party's leader becomes the Prime Minister, at State level he/she becomes the Premier. The party looks for the candidate most likely to win his/her local electoral seat, and if the candidate happens to be the one chosen as party leader, he/she still needs to win his/her electoral seat before being able to assume the Prime Minister's role, as long as his/her party wins the 50%+1 seat minimum required. Under a method like ours in Australia, if applied to America, then Trump would've been turfed out with a foot up his useless arse(trouble is, there were no other Republican candidates worthy of being President either), and Hilary Clinton would've lost out to Bernie Sanders. But the Presidency should NEVER be anything beyond ceremonial figurehead status with only one real role, that being an umpire in dispute resolution. Executive governmental power SHOULD be vested in the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
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The role of a court at ALL levels, up to, and including the highest court of the land in any nation, is to make adjudications BASED ON EXISTING LAWS, AS THEY STAND! Courts AT ALL LEVELS have ABSOLUTELY NO POWER OR RIGHT to overturn ANY law with which they don't agree. The US Supreme Court COMPLETELY LOST ITS LEGITIMACY by overturning Roe - V - Wade in 2022. The US Supreme Court VIOLATED ITS CHARTER in that act. And now, in granting TOTAL IMMUNITY to Trump and future presidents, the US Supreme Court has just KILLED OFF THE USA! There is, as of 1st July, 2024, from the border with Canada to the border with Mexico, A HUGE VOID where the USA used to be. AMERICA IS DEAD!
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1:06 Not "Timeframe" but TIMELINE! Time is NOT 3-dimensional!, it has no height, depth or width. It is merely linear, from one second, minute, hour, day, etc. to the next second, minute, hour, day, etc.
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+Killer Funghoul 1) Keep voting age at 18. 16-year-olds may be politically aware but are often not mature enough to make such important decisions. 2) Postal votes should only be used in sparsely-populated areas where its more than 60 miles to the township from the home. 3) Ex-prisoner voting rights should return after parole has elapsed, however, convicted paedophiles should never ever be allowed to vote, even if they've been released and served out parole. 4) Major fault with this is that it does not allow for anyone whose employment requires them to move houses constantly. 5) In Australia, schools ARE used as polling places, as are community halls, but, in keeping with separation of church and state, don't use churches. 6) Considering the size of America, population-wise, as well as geographically, polling stations should open from 6.00am in each time zone and stay open until 11.00pm in each time zone and Voter Suppression tactics MUST BE OUTLAWED, Attempting such practice by any party, major or minor, should see that party immediately and permanently BARRED from that, and further elections. 7) Minor parties should be able to contest seats, as well as independent candidates. It's entirely up to the populace to form a party or for individuals to run as independents. and one more here, 8) As the Republicans are known to practice voter-suppression tactics, and the Democrats are also likely to have engaged in such practices, America's elections should be managed by a neutral nation, and run according to that neutral nation's electoral laws and practices.
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5:26 Correction - This Navy Seal is openly HOMOSEXUAL! The word "Gay" should be restored to it's PROPER meaning as being cheerful, happy or elated. The opposite meaning is "Morose" being sad, miserable, dejected. "Straight" is NOT, AND NEVER WAS the opposite of "Gay". "Straight" means, without curves, bends or angles(geometric), or honest, sincere, genuine(ethical sense). The word, "Gay" comes up in Pop Music in its PROPER SENSE, e.g. Chubby Checker's 1973 comeback hit, penned by Larry Weiss:
Reggae My Way, makes you feel so light and gay......
Also, in the cartoon series theme song for "The Flintstones",
When you're with The Flinstones....... Gonna have a Gay Old Time!
We were able to use that word in its proper context, freely and unselfconciously.
Here in Australia, ice-cream maker, Streets had a line of ice-creams on sticks, covered in chocolate and peanut crumbs, marketed as Gaytimes and a now long-gone soft-drink bottler had a range of lemonade, orange, lime and other flavoured cordials sold under the brand-name, Gay. These companies openly marketed their product and no-one even batted an eyelid. But after the homosexual and bisexual community misappropriated that word and perverted its meaning, companies like those aforementioned would NEVER be able to market those products again because people would give sideways looks at anyone consuming those products and think they were "strange".
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Voter suppression is an obscenity! If the Republicans are actively engaging in such practice, then it must also be assumed the Democrats are doing it too! Therefore, America's voting processes should be TAKEN OUT OF AMERICA'S HANDS, as clearly, AMERICA CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO RUN FREE, FAIR AND OPEN ELECTIONS! A neutral country should run the process according to its OWN electoral laws, *zum beispiel: If Canada were to run the American elections, they'd be run according to CANADIAN electoral law, if Australia ran the elections, then they'd be run according to AUSTRALIAN electoral law. (*German - means "for example"). As for being Mandatory(compulsory), yes! ABSOLUTELY! Optional voting leads to apathy. When this happens it's usually the extremists who take advantage of the situation. An extreme right-wing candidate(KKK or Nazi-sympathiser) gets in because he(usually male as they're often also misogynistic) gets like-minded voters out to the polling booths while the democrat or republican opposition candidate can barely muster a dozen votes because his potential voters have "heard it all before" and couldn't be bothered dragging themselves that quarter-mile down to the polling booth. APATHY will get extremist candidates into office! Compulsory voting will NEGATE and CANCEL OUT the extremist candidate's chances.
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@pervert: Yeah, your opening sentence hits the nail on the head. I wasn't actually referring to Chinese-language newspapers as such, more I was referring to our mainstream media in general which should be 100% Australian-owned, and this means shutting Rupert Murdoch out as he has long since ditched his most priceless possession, his Australian heritage, to chase down, buy and corrupt foreign media. But, since you mention these Chinese-language papers, the original purpose of such a paper was to publish reports on activities in the local community, but be printed in either Mandarin or Cantonese, or both, for the benefit of those who cannot read English, but instead, they've become propaganda organs of the Chinese Dictatorship. This treasonous federal government has sat back and allowed this to happen and done nothing to prevent it, yet they were perfectly willing to kill off community TV by denying them the one single free-to-air channel they had to share while there were 7 free-to-air digital channels being wasted on 24 hour/7 day stations running nothing but bullshit ads for worthless products.
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In Australia, polling days are held on Saturday, be it local council, state or federal parliamentary elections. But even then, some people, through circumstances outside their control, must be somewhere else on polling day, even outside Australia's borders. So, because voting is compulsory in Australia, as it SHOULD be, provisions are made for postal voting and pre-poll voting at selected venues within each electorate. This gives voters a chance to still participate in the election process and not have to worry about where they'll be on voting day. This also applies to referenda whenever they are held(and yes, the plural of "referendum" is "referenda").
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For a start, you change the position of President from executive head of government to a ceremonial figurehead ONLY and put in a Prime Ministership as your effective Executive Head Of Government. If you want the best example of this, look to the Australian parliamentary model. Moreover, you should have COMPULSORY voting for ALL citizens of age 18 or over, as long as they are registered on a voting roll which needs to be vetted by an INDEPENDENT AUTHORITY which has neither Democrat, nor Republican members making up this authority.... TOTALLY NEUTRAL! The need for compulsory voting is clearly obvious, even to a blind man. Optional voting means that only those motivated by extreme political viewpoints will actually go out and vote while the larger portion of the population stays at home(apathy). As a result, the extremist wins the seat in government, and if the process is repeated over each voting district(electorate), you'll get a government made up of extremists who will then do away with democratic elections altogether. Compulsory voting ensures the larger vote count cancels out the extremist vote as the votes will, by and large, go to either of the major parties, who, by necessity need to straighten out their membership and expel the corrupt members. In reality, the Australian parliamentary method is, though not perfect, by far the superior method of governance. New Zealand uses basically the same model(with some modifications to suit NZ) and is far superior to the British system, from which we derived our method, that to refer to ours as a "Westminster" system would be a gross insult to our Australian system.... Why? because Britain's upper house(House of Lords) is infested with useless unelected aristocratic twats who wouldn't even know what day of the week it was, let alone what bill they were debating and voting on, whilst in Australia, our Senate is a States' house with members voted in by the populace of each state(and territory). No useless aristocracy here, mate!
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If Pioneer had applied Sony's DVD-type methods to the Laserdisc, then it's conceivable that the entire 11-season run of M*A*S*H, including the movie-length final episode, "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen" could've been issued on 1 or perhaps 2 12-inch discs. Note here that I give Philips absolutely none of the credit for Laservision or DVD. Philips may have had the idea for these video formats, but if left to develop the product themselves, would've delivered an absolute unworkable mess. You only have to look back to that unmitigated failure, the N1000 and then N1500 "VCR" videorecorders that initially had the cassette shells made of stiffened cardboard, and the concentric spools(feed reel above the take-up reel) that used to mangle the tapes. Even the other European electronic goods makers like Telefunken's electrical goods division, Nordmende, Bosch, Blaupunkt, Grundig, AEG(Algemeine Elektric Gesellshaft) and others wouldn't even touch the system. So to spare the DVD or Laserdisc any embarrassment or stigma, I DON'T associate these product lines with the utterly incompetent Philips brand.
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Hirohito most CERTAINLY should've been dethroned and tried as a war criminal, for indeed he WAS a war criminal. As a penalty for their war crimes, measurably more atrocious than those of the Nazis, Japan should've been STRIPPED of its sovereignty, never to regain it. Japan should, even to this day, be ruled by a tripartite group with Australia/New Zealand/Canada at the head, Britain at Second Rank and America at third rank. All Japan's cities and towns renamed in English with Tokyo renamed Curtin City in honour of Australia's greatest Prime Minister, John Curtin, the second-most important city named for Neville Chamberlain, Britain's PM before Churchill, and the least important city named for George Washington, America's first President.
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Listening to doctors is HOMOSEXUAL as it should've been said, not that it's a true comment, it isn't true at all! The correct definition of Gay is "cheerful, happy, elated. The correct opposite to Gay is Morose meaning sad, miserable, dejected. The opposite of Gay is NOT Straight! The word Straight has ONLY TWO DEFINITIONS! Definition 1 - geometric: without curves, bends or angles. Definition 2 - ethical: honest, sincere, genuine, trustworthy. The word straight has absolutely zero sexual relevance!
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This goes to show how utterly PUTRID the American electoral system is! For a start, the Presidency should be PURELY CEREMONIAL with NO executive power whatsoever! Actual executive power should be vested in a Prime Minister, but exercisable only upon majority vote in the House Of Representatives(Congress). The party leadership should be determined in-house by parliamentary and rank-and-file membership on a one vote=one value basis. Once determined who the party leader is to be, he/she becomes the nation's Prime Minister provided a] He/she wins his/her electorate(seat) with at least 50%+1 vote, and b] enough of a majority of other members of his/her party also win their electorates(seats) by at least 50%+1 vote. Of course, the higher the vote count, the better for the candidate. With a clear majority of candidates winning their seats, the party leader can then take on the mantle of Prime Minister. From those winning candidates, the Prime Minister then selects his/her "front bench" or "cabinet", i.e. Minister for Roads and Transport, Minister for Education, Minister for Health, etc. Those not selected to become ministers form the "back bench", they remain simply as members representing their constituents. The leader of the losing party is then the "Leader of the Opposition", choosing a "shadow cabinet" and those missing out on shadow cabinet portfolios sit as back-benchers in the opposition. The President's role in all this is simply to witness the swearing of, or affirmation(preferably affirmation in order to keep religion out of governmental matters) of oath of office. Other than welcoming presidents or governors-general, or members of monarchies, the president lies dormant in the day-to-day running of government. For all this to work properly requires one MAJOR INGREDIENT! And than ingredient is COMPULSORY VOTING!!!!!
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In spite of the word "News" in its branding, "Newsmax" is NOT a station broadcasting ANY news content. Instead, they are a perveyor of gutter-level propaganda! Across the English-speaking countries, and the rest of the western-style democracies, regulations governing broadcasting, be it by radio or TV, or any visual or audio platform, have clauses that utterly prohibit the broadcasting of any material designed or intended to incite violence in the community, or to broadcast any content that contravenes established fact, such as that Congressman for Georgia, Andrew Clyde stating there was NO INSURRECTION on 6/1/2021 and that the crowd at the Capital Building were behaving like normal tourists. This comment made in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary that even we in Australia have seen on our nightly news bulletins, If Newsmax had broadcast this nonsense, they'd be in violation of American broadcasting law. But......and there is a huge but here, and that is that the FCC are a bunch of craven cowards that will not enforce the broadcasting regulations and punish the stations accordingly for their violations. Instead, you'd find the FCC quivering in their boots, sucking their thumbs and shitting their pants rather than perform their sworn duty to regulate broadcasting. Australia's ACMA is the same, a pack of gutless cowards that will immediately run and hide, shitting theirpants, sucking their thumbs..... and quivering in their boots as soon as any media proprietor even so much as look sideways at them.
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This all came about after Google took over YouTube. Google favours the corporates, the "legacy" media and is trying to push out small operators and, dare I say it, hobbyist videographers who make ghost-hunting, transport, or other innocuous types of videos to make more room for the "big boys", CBS, NBC, ABC(USA and Australia though non-related to each other), Fox(Murdoch sleaze merchants) and CNN. The only REAL way to get YouTube back to they way it was, and should be, is to, by the anti-trust laws that exist in the USA, force Google to relinquish its hold on YouTube.
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Being happy, cheerful, elated is the ONLY meaning of the word "Gay"! The homosexual community has hijacked the word and corrupted its meaning. The word "homosexual" is not an insult or a put-down. It is the simple technical term for someone sexually/romantically attracted to his/her own gender, nothing more. As for being a Lesbian, that is a regional identity, it is NOT a sexual orientation. To qualify as a Lesbian, you must be born on the island of Lesbos, in Greece(and have the birth certificate to prove it) and be able to speak fluent Greek, and you can be male or female, heterosexual or homosexual, even bisexual or transsexual, but YOU MUST BE BORN ON THE ISLE OF LESBOS!!! Claiming to be Lesbian by being a homosexual female IS NOT VALID!!!!! And the myths and legends of that island carry ABSOLUTELY NO VALIDITY in any arguments about homosexual females and that island.
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In Australia, voting is COMPULSORY, as it SHOULD BE! You register to vote at the age of 18. If you're about to turn 18 prior to a Local Council, State or Federal Government Election, you are required by Australian law to register with the Australian Electoral Commission to be put on the roll for your electorate(or Ward, in the case of local council elections) and you are then permanently registered to vote and, unlike the utterly corrupt American system, an Australian voter CANNOT BE DISENFRANCHISED unless he/she commits a crime which requires a prison sentence. And no, Prisoners should not have the right to vote. You forfeit your rights as a citizen when you commit a crime which requires a prison sentence, if that sentence is beyond 3 months. A minor crime which results in a sentence of three months or less should not revoke that right, but would suspend said right for the duration of the sentence, but if the sentence goes beyond 3 months, then the voting right is PERMANENTLY forfeited.
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Atheists as murderers? Not bloody likely! Atheists have no reason to murder anyone. Just about ALL the murder has been committed by the three main religions and their adherents. "My religion is better than yours! My religion is right and yours is wrong, and if you don't agree I shall put you to the sword(kill you)". Wars are fought over religion, who's right and who's wrong. Atheists simply try to avoid such arguments because we know these arguments to be futile. Christians argue with Jews and Muslims, Muslims argue with Jews and Christians, Jews argue with Christians and Muslims....it's just an endless loop of argument that gets heated to the point that any one of them will, at some point, pull a gun or a knife and another will be lying motionless on the floor with his/her life trickling away. Buddhists and Jaines(not sure on spelling) don't get involved as Buddha was an actual person who simply gave himself the name and came up with some "wise sayings" and started attracting a following. He never pretended to be "divine" or have any supernatural powers. Jaines(I'm spelling this way as I'm not sure of exact spelling) are, as I've been told, of the belief that every living thing has some kind of soul so they are taught not to kill anything. But Buddhists and Jaines lie outside the three main religions. Sikhes(again, guessing at spelling) and Hindus, I have no idea about them so I won't comment, except to say they are also outside the three main religions. It is the three main religions who/which must answer for all the murder and destruction down through the eons.
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America, you need to take a LONG, HARD LOOK at your governmental system.... Then you'll realise.... It's WELL AND TRULY F**KED! Then take a look at your neighbour, Canada, also Britain, New Zealand and Australia. Canada, New Zealand and Australia have better models of government as they have Governors-General above their Prime Ministers. The Prime Minister is chosen by his/her party to lead them in Parliament. He/she is elected by people living in several districts around a region, these are called "Electorates" which can be geographically large(several hundred square kilometres) or small, depending on the density of population, so long as a roughly-equal number of voters live in each electorate. The voter must be 18 years or older, born or naturalised as a citizen and enrolled to vote. Note here the voter is NOT enrolled to vote for a particular party, he/she is simply enrolled to VOTE, and in Australia, VOTING in FEDERAL and STATE GOVERNMENT, as well as local council elections, is COMPULSORY, AS IT SHOULD BE! The role of the Governor-General is as a "Ceremonial" Head Of State, in effect the Queen's "proxy", but that role is, should the people vote for a republic in a referendum, easily convertible to that of a ceremonial President, but with the same role as he/she currently fulfils except he/she no longer represents The Queen, but instead represents the citizens of the nation, akin to The Republic of Ireland.
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Invasion Day? Survival Day? Yeah, our "first nation's people" can call it that! They'd be right, too. The BEST day for us to celebrate Australia Day would be 1st January, in tandem with New Years Day, because it was on New Years Day in 1901 that Australia was born as a nation, a "New Nation", born on the very first day of a "New Century! Perfect Symbolism! Australia, as a nation had a bloody long gestation period, 112 years, 11 months and 5 days! Not even elephants carry their pregnancies for that long! To put it another way, one celebrates his/her birthday on the date he/she came into the world, not the day his/her mother was impregnated with the seed that became hi/her.
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A terrible lot of Americans just cannot face reality. As to Elvis being "King Of Rock & Roll", that title rightly belonged to Aussie, Johnny O'Keefe. O'Keefe controlled his OWN career while Presley allowed himself, wittingly or unwittingly, likely the latter, to be exploited by that illegal Dutch Alien that called himself Colonel Tom Parker. O'Keefe's manager, Lee Gordon, played only a minimal role in O'Keefe's career, managing O'Keefe's finances was the extent of Gordon's involvement. When Lee Gordon died, O'Keefe's new manager, if there was one, had the same role as Lee Gordon. O'Keefe chose all his own material for live shows and records, planned his own tours, concerts and TV appearances. Johnny O'Keefe sadly died in October, 1978, the very day after his last TV appearance on the "Steve Raymond Show" that went out from Station TEN-Sydney on Friday Night(can't remember the date). Johnny O'Keefe is sadly missed by his Aussie fans but we have faced reality and do NOT try to pretend he's still alive. We remember him fondly as we listen to his back-catalogue of hits issued by Festival Records, his enduring legacy. Johnny O'Keefe did not start Festival, he joined Festival in 1956 but he is the reason why the record company thrived after Mainguard Ltd. (the company that first established Festival in 1952 as one of its subsidiaries) went belly-up after several other unsuccessful ventures.
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For "Direct Democracy" to work PROPERLY, first you need COMPULSORY VOTING. Second, you need a STANDARDISED VOTING SYSTEM, right across the country, instead of the hotch-potch of differing systems you now have. Third, you MUST strip the right of citizenship AWAY from corporations. Only individual people can be citizens of any state or nation. Forth, political parties have rigged elections through voter purges and other voter suppression tactics probably since the very first elections(wouldn't surprise me if that were true). That, in itself is HIGH TREASON and any party guilty of this should suffer immediate ABOLISHION with NO right of appeal. NO citizen, over the age of 18 years should EVER have his/her voting right suppressed or cancelled for ANY reason except for being convicted of a crime requiring a sentence of life imprisonment. If the sentence calls for a for a given number of years with a parole period thereafter, when the parole period has elapsed, full voting rights are reinstated. And fifth, but MOST IMPORTANTLY. The President should, nay MUST, be a NEUTRAL, NON-PARTISAN FIGUREHEAD with LIMITED constitutional powers and ABSOLUTELY NO POWER to sack a government. Executive governmental power must be vested in a Prime Minister, to be enacted ONLY after consultation with cabinet.... NEVER EVER UNILATERALLY!
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9:55 Ad masqueraded as news, we have in Australia, the Australian Communications & Media Auth..... er.... Apologists which, if some media owner were to look angrily in their direction, would scurry behind a rock, suck their thumbs and shit their pants rather than actually do the job they were put there for, to REGULATE Australia's print and broadcast media! Australia needs a STRONG media regulator and a MASSIVE SHAKE-UP of media ownership laws:
1) ONLY the ABC and SBS to operate as networks. All commercial stations to operate ONLY as single stand-alone stations, Regional commercial networks also should be ABOLISHED. Applies to TV and radio.
2) Metropolitan TV proprietors shall own ABSOLUTELY NO PART, NOT EVEN .0001% OF REGIONAL STATIONS, Likewise with radio.
3) ALL Broadcast stations, TV or radio must be wholly-owned by interests residing WITHIN the region served by that station.
4) A media proprietor shall own ONE radio licence, AM or FM but not both, OR shall own ONE TV licence, OR shall own ONE newspaper IN ONE MARKET ONLY! This rule MUST BE SET IN STONE!
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D A C, A D C = Acronyms. Making them into words sounds, at best infantile, at worst imbecilic. D. A. C. - Digital (to) Analogue Conversion, A. D. C. = Analogue (to) Digital Conversion. Acronyms should only ever be uttered as individual letters, not made to words. Ram is a male sheep, but R. A. M. is Random Access Memory..... Arr-Ay-Emm(phonetic). E. M. I. is(corporate) Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. Ee Emm Eye(phonetic). It also stands for Electro-Magnetic Interference, which brings me to another point. Acronyms can have only two uses, 1) as the initials of a corporation or an institution or authority, and 2) to identify a phenomenon of science, technology or nature, as E.M.I. is there to represent. When used for one purpose, it can NOT be used again for the same purpose. That use is exhausted. A.P.R.A. stands for Australian Performing Rights Association, and has done since the mid-1920s but another organisation that regulates banks and financial institutions here in Australia has STOLEN the acronym. The other authority has been in existence for roughly 20 years and should be forced to change their acronym.
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"His Master's Voice" was developed by Emile Berliner in the late 19th Century, originally in German as "Die Stimme Seines Herrens". The artist, Francis Barraud painted the picture of a Jack Russell Terrier listening to the voice of his master on an Edison cylendar-playing phonograph which Berliner, as inventor of the disc-playing Gramophone, had at first rejected. but when Barraud made the alteration to replace the phonograph with a gramophone, Berliner adopted it as the trademark of his Deutsche Grammophon Gesselshaft and his offshoot, The Gramophone Company of England Ltd., which, between them would own the His Master's Voice name and trademark on a 50/50 shared basis. Berliner then, in the early years of the 20th Century, travels to an insignificant country called America and sets up, as an afterthought, a minor operation called Victor Talking Machine Company to manufacture gramophones to te British/German design and patent specs, and to make discs to play on those machines, again to British/German patents and specs (specifications). Victor would use the HMV trademark BUT NOT EVER OWN ANY PART of it. The HMV trademark would, up to 1914 remain 50/50 with DGG in Germany and The Gramophone Co. in England. Victor would only hold a licence to use the trademark. The only thing the American company owned was the factory at Camden, NJ and the Victor name. WW1, beginning in 1914 saw DGG lose its 50% stake in HMV, name and trademark, and at the end of that war in 1918, DGG had to apply to its former offshoot for a licence to use the trademark combined with the German translation of the name, "Die Stimme Seines Herrens" while The Gramophone Co. assumed 100% ownership of the trademark and name as war reparations. The Gramophone Co. held that 100% ownership until 1938 when it merged with Columbia Graphophone Co. to form EMI, that new entity then assumed 100% ownership of the HMV name and trademark, plus the names and trademarks of Columbia(Magic Notes) and Parlophone(Pound symbol). In 1929, 9 years before the merger, RCA sent a couple of execs to Camden NJ to "suss out" the Victor plant with the view to buying it to make radio sets(RCA was still just a division of GE at the time), saw what was going on, reported back to RCA bigwigs in New York and set about buying the plant and the Victor name, with the HMV trademark, but the snag was that the Dog & Gramophone HMV brand was NOT Victor's to sell, or even sub-lease. The trademark was still 100% the property of The Gramophone Co. The ONLY legitimate way for RCA to acquire the HMV brand was to become a subsidiary of The Gramophone Company, and sunsequently, a subsidiary of EMI in 1938. For this to happen, RCA would have to become EMI(North Americas) Pty Ltd and shift their headquarters to Toronto, Ontario, Canada! They still would not OWN the trademark, but would be allowed to use it provided the Victor name was ditched and replaced with the His Master's Voice name, the RCA brand would be a secondary label WITHOUT the Victor appendage. And in 1955 when EMI buys Capitol, Capitol then becomes EMI Records(USA) Pty Ltd and distributes all the EMI brands under licence except for Columbia, the Regal/Zonophone brand would substitute.
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Well, he's not "gay", he's "homosexual". To be "gay" is to be cheerful, happy, elated, and the opposite of "gay" is "morose", to be miserable, dejected, sad, dismal. The only real reason homosexuals use the word "gay" to describe themselves is verbal laziness. "Gay" is a single syllable word, "homosexual" has 5 syllables.
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