Naughty naughty Mark :-)))

Conchita Wurst is an Austrian pop recording artist and drag queen portrayed by Thomas "Tom" Neuwirth. Wurst came to international attention for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 as Austria's entrant with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".

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Hi Janne yea your right , well the he / she / IT has / did have a susasage . With that and the Russian grannies cant wait to see this year ;-).

No chris to ip spoffing. As i said the U.S Navy had to release it . You can't be anonomous buy yourself .

And you info is not correct .

It is called the onion network because there are 3 layers of encryption , as it is past through each computer 1 layer of encryption is removed until it gets to where it's spose to go . Like a onion !

Yes it is now free or to use the computer parlay open source now .

Also a bit more complicated than my explaination .

The N.S.A is trying to spy on people and the U.S navy releases the very thing that is now causing them big headaces in war and crime . It's so funny man . Only in America .

Also Berkely Uni is also to blame yep the same Uni that does Seti also helped with the Onion network although not directly thou , but the idea did spring from one of the people at the Uni , he wrote a paper in 1981 all about it and how to do it the Navy used his idea's to devolop it

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Well why don't you rename this thread "Any excuse to post anything about anything just for the sake of it".
Then we would all know where we stand.

Knock it off Chris. This is not your sandbox.
Everyone but you understand what the topic is!

Um, i'm with Chris on this.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

I wouldn't get to exited about Eurovision mate its basically a load of swat and the voting is arse licking and political bull shite - but worth a watch to see on a Saturday night with a few smokes ;-)

Yes.
When Greece votes for Cyprus they say Douze Points.
When Cyprus votes for Greece they say Douze Points.
It has always been like that:)

Oops It's start tomorrow.
The contest will consist of two semi-finals, which will take place on 19 and 21 May, and a final, held on 23 May 2015.
It will take place in Vienna, Austria, following Conchita Wurst's victory in the 2014 edition with her song "Rise Like a Phoenix".

Conchita Wurst? Her? Is Wurst a name? I thought it was a sausage...

Tor is free software for enabling anonymous communication. The name is an acronym derived from the original software project name The Onion Router. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than six thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis.

Isn't this what we know/knew as IP spoofing?

Oh and this is the list of the countries competing in Eurovision 2015

Albania
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Macedonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Moldova
Montenegro
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Serbia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
The Netherlands
United Kingdom

How many of them are in the EU? And I'm surprised that half of them could afford to send anyone to it anyway. It's all boom bang a bang, and most winners disappear without trace as one hit wonders. The only lot that really made it from nowhere was ABBA. And there have been rumours for years of vote rigging.

Load of old rubbish and announcers with tortuous French accents. "Royaume-Uni d'un point".

Douze Points, Glenn, as they say in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Welcome Australia to Europé:)

Reality : Yes i think it's amazing we are in the Eurovision Song Contest

Myth : Australia was moved to Europe

How SBS pulled that off is beyond me . Last year it was Jessica Mauboy

This year it's Guy Sebastian

I wouldn't get to exited about Eurovision mate its basically a load of swat and the voting is arse licking and political bull shite - but worth a watch to see on a Saturday night with a few smokes ;-)

Well why don't you rename this thread "Any excuse to post anything about anything just for the sake of it".
Then we would all know where we stand.

Knock it off Chris. This is not your sandbox.
Everyone but you understand what the topic is!

Douze Points, Glenn, as they say in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Welcome Australia to Europé:)

Reality : Yes i think it's amazing we are in the Eurovision Song Contest

Myth : Australia was moved to Europe

How SBS pulled that off is beyond me . Last year it was Jessica Mauboy

This year it's Guy Sebastian

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Well why don't you rename this thread "Any excuse to post anything about anything just for the sake of it".

Then we would all know where we stand.

What do you mean?
It's I who are the OP!

I don't know about Glenn, but I am rather mystified as to what relevance Australia participating in the Eurovision song contest has to do with anything else here.

Douze Points, Glenn, as they say in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Welcome Australia to Europé:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_2015

Myth : The Silk Road was shut down

Realities : Less than 6 months after it was shut down it was restarted by new players and is still working

Myth : People buy there drugs via the silk road with there visa card or bank accounts or Pay Pal

Realities : They use Bitcoin !!!!!!

Myth : The Tor network was developed by some very smart entrepreneur

Realities : The U.S navy develop'd the TOR , ONION network but in order to make it work it had to be released to the public .

Myth : Government's know what they are doing to protect us

Realities : Look at above statements

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Gertrude, where are my darned pills?

+100

Had something similar only a few days ago. Got asked for a favour as the man couldn't get hold of any drivers. Needed a "trunking" run done. Fancied a change so accepted.

Arrived on site & the "jobsworth" security would not let me enter - all because I was not wearing a Hi-vis at the wheel. (I got in without wearing it, but they checked to make sure I wore it after leaving the vehicle) :-)

Hi-Vis vests are to be worn on-site or when exiting the cab on the road to enable one to be seen. There is no need for it to be worn while driving.

Even worse was a news report recently of a mysterious explosion in the West Country. There was a photo of a soldier wearing (in plain sight) a hi-vis over his camo's - WTH was the point of wearing camo's?

Health & Safety gone mad!

Oh, & don't get me started on hi-vis! Originally Yellow, now we see red, green, blue & recently saw some purple ones.

Sorry William your country gets the blame for everybody suing everybody for compo . T.V and all that .

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" And slowly answer’d Arthur from the barge:
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world."


Include me and Chris out !

Here in the states it means someone on a picnic or church social didnt keep hot food hot or cold food cold. OR did not follow proper hygine or santitary procedures.

Over here it has got to the stage where some Church fetes have had to ban the WI from having a stall selling home-made cakes and jams, because they couldn't guarantee that the produce was made and cooked in approved hygienic conditions. Absolutely ludicrous I hear you all say, has any one ever had food poisoning from a WI scone? Well exactly! WI stalls have been a part of rural village life for generations, but put yourself in the place of the Parish Council.

Their insurer says that they refuse to cover the event for public liability if the WI has a stall. Why does a church fete need public liability insurance? In case a member of the public trips over a tent peg and breaks a leg, or slips on a patch of mud and breaks an ankle and sues the organisers. Never happened? Not so far, but people have won damages from supermarkets for slipping on a grape on the floor. No WI stall or no fete, simple choice.

Are we a namby pamby litigation conscious society, YES WE ARE! The reality is that some schools have banned three legged races because their insurers wouldn't cover the liability of a kid breaking an ankle and the parents with an eye to a freebie sue the school for damages. Kids can't play conkers without eye protection now.

Councils are being forced to chop down all the trees in streets and roads in case someone slips on a wet leaf in the autumn and sues the Council. In days past you would have been told your fault, you should have looked where you going. But it complicates things when all the Day Centres for old people have been closed to cut costs, meaning many more struggling to get about on the streets. Result, a demand from the insurers to reduce their liability. It is unlawful for a Council not to have public liability insurance.

So a question. Why are the insurers so fidgety? Answer the UK has inherited the compensation culture which is rampant in the States. Dodgy lawyers out for a quick buck with no win no fee court cases, and wimpy judges that haven't got the guts to stand up to them.

Result? The beginning of the end of the British way of life as we know it. I'm glad I won't be around in 10-15 years, at least I saw it when it was still just about at its best. It is certainly not a world I want to be a part of in 20 years time.

Here in the states it means someone on a picnic or church social didnt keep hot food hot or cold food cold. OR did not follow proper hygine or santitary procedures.
Your sense of smell cant be relied on to keep you from getting sick.

Exactly James cooking kills most things but people don't cook food , especially meat properly !!
Use clean untensils blah blah

I am really leary of going to a party where you bring a dish to pass. But If I see meat being grilled I ask for it to be done, No pink.
Hot days and mayonaise, I tend to pass that by.

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Old James

Here's a idea donate it , just before it does goes off . Retailers know when it's going to go out of date so here your phone up a company and they pick it up and deliver it to homeless soap kitchens and get a tax rite off ....Just a idea . You will never starve in Sydney on the streets .

This already happens.

A Tesco spokesman said the supermarket giant does donate surplus food to the needy via the charity Fareshare and also redistributes food donated by their customers to the Trussell Trust.

He added: "Working with the charity FareShare, we have already distributed over three million meals worth of surplus food to people in need and we are working on ways to make sure more surplus food is donated in this way.

"It is not safe to take food from bins and that is why we work with charities to redistribute surplus food that is safe to eat to people who need it."

The tabloid press homed in on this story not because of the food issue, but to highlight the couples situation. But as I said is this the best sensible way forward. Why are major retailers regularly left with surplus food? Over ordering? Bad management? Do their prices reflect that? Why are people driven to these desperate measures to survive? Similarly take people that help themselves to unwanted furniture in skips without permission. It is stealing but could they sue if a chair collapses injuring them?

The reality is that we have a divided society of haves and have nots, and that gulf is growing, and not helped by the attitude of many to being in a benefits culture, where it is less effort to help yourself to others cast offs than work for your own. That then leads to less self respect and denigration of society. Waste food is just one of the symptoms, which is highlighting poverty.

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