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Didn't watch any breaking bad, but just completed a binge of Fargo and not long ago True Detective.

Need something to fill the gap between now and the next series but seriously can't/don't want to get into something too big. Also like 6 seasons, right? Too much content.

Might just rewatch True Detective at the risk of becoming wrist splittingly depressed.
 

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Possible Outcome 1.

Didj player says, "No, women are not allowed to play the didjeridoo". Woman complains to her manager, department head, Public Service Commissioner that equal opportunity has not been allowed, takes stress leave, claims compo. Not satisfied with Comcare offer to pay for counselling and further cross cultural awareness training, the case is now before the Australian Human Rights Commission. The ABC's Q&A programme shows an empty chair with an Andrew Bolt name tag in front of it.


Possible Outcome 2.

Against his cultural beliefs the didj player reluctantly allows the woman to play the didjeridoo. Word gets around the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cross Cultural Awareness Training industry that this fella is nothin but a bloody coconut. Work dries up; company goes out of business without acquittal of Federal Government advance.


Possible Outcome 3.

The didj player breathes a sigh of relief that it wasn't a man who asked first, but wise to the cultural/ethical/legal dilemma of refusing a woman her 'equal rights', smiles and says, "Lady, I don't let nobody touch my didj - not even my missus!"
Apparently I'm the only one that thought she was asking if she could take the place of the didgeridoo.
 
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I've never known the official law regarding torrents.
Apparently Piratebay has been re-opened by the FBI who are taking down IP addresses of those using the site and whilst this could be total BS, I'm a calculated risk taker ;)
Even then it's just an IP, they need to get your details (identity) off your ISP who are not obliged to give your details up iirc. They can't prove what you've downloaded either, and it could have been someone else using your service.

There's too many obstacles for legal action to possibly be taken.
 

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Well, for those who remember...about a year ago, I posted that I don't have a mobile phone. People came at me with their opinions that I wasn't human. Well I have decided to join the 20th century and purchase one. A hundred bucks give or take 5 or 10 bucks, I just want one with a 5MP camera. So i looks on ebay and am inundated with Chinese 'smartphones' 0.3 MP and 2.0 MP immolated to 2 MP and 5.0 MP, jellybean capable dual core pixelated to dual sim capable hotspot navigable app with a toughscreen touchscreen TFT soft cover free gift all with a European plug. Anyone have experience with these Chinese village assembled bling pieces that could point out a particular brand? Oh...and I don't like fruit
 

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I was annoyed with the latest episode.....part 2 of season 5...


its like they are killing people for the sake of it
I though similar but in reality, if the world was overrun with zombies, they would not discriminate with who they sink the old chops into.
A little like GoT I suppose, no one is safe....
 

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Well, for those who remember...about a year ago, I posted that I don't have a mobile phone. People came at me with their opinions that I wasn't human. Well I have decided to join the 20th century and purchase one. A hundred bucks give or take 5 or 10 bucks, I just want one with a 5MP camera. So i looks on ebay and am inundated with Chinese 'smartphones' 0.3 MP and 2.0 MP immolated to 2 MP and 5.0 MP, jellybean capable dual core pixelated to dual sim capable hotspot navigable app with a toughscreen touchscreen TFT soft cover free gift all with a European plug. Anyone have experience with these Chinese village assembled bling pieces that could point out a particular brand? Oh...and I don't like fruit
Yeh, get that one.
 

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Even then it's just an IP, they need to get your details (identity) off your ISP who are not obliged to give your details up iirc. They can't prove what you've downloaded either, and it could have been someone else using your service.

There's too many obstacles for legal action to possibly be taken.
Lot's of voters torrent
 

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Even then it's just an IP, they need to get your details (identity) off your ISP who are not obliged to give your details up iirc. They can't prove what you've downloaded either, and it could have been someone else using your service.

There's too many obstacles for legal action to possibly be taken.
I used to work in the email section of a large ISP (I still work for them, but not in emails anymore) and one day I stumbled over a completely disused email queue full of notices sent by copyright holders or whatever about people on the ISP torrenting their movies (didn't see any for TV shows). As far as I knew there was no-one in the company whose job it was to investigate or follow up at all.
 

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I though similar but in reality, if the world was overrun with zombies, they would not discriminate with who they sink the old chops into.
A little like GoT I suppose, no one is safe....
I understand ...

*******Spoilers*****

The way he was killed was so poor.....and unimaginable I mean this is a guy who survived with a crying infant ....he would never let his guard down to die like that...just weak..

Beth's death was so well done as it was unexpected yet so believable at the same time.....
 

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I used to work in the email section of a large ISP (I still work for them, but not in emails anymore) and one day I stumbled over a completely disused email queue full of notices sent by copyright holders or whatever about people on the ISP torrenting their movies (didn't see any for TV shows). As far as I knew there was no-one in the company whose job it was to investigate or follow up at all.
That is because you are all too busy downloading stuff.
 

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I used to work in the email section of a large ISP (I still work for them, but not in emails anymore) and one day I stumbled over a completely disused email queue full of notices sent by copyright holders or whatever about people on the ISP torrenting their movies (didn't see any for TV shows). As far as I knew there was no-one in the company whose job it was to investigate or follow up at all.
'Stumbled' hey....?
 
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I used to work in the email section of a large ISP (I still work for them, but not in emails anymore) and one day I stumbled over a completely disused email queue full of notices sent by copyright holders or whatever about people on the ISP torrenting their movies (didn't see any for TV shows). As far as I knew there was no-one in the company whose job it was to investigate or follow up at all.
Haha, somewhere there is a person sending all of these notices out who has since been sacked, because the lack of response from you has led their employer to believe they weren't sending any notices, nor doing anything at all.
 
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Well, for those who remember...about a year ago, I posted that I don't have a mobile phone. People came at me with their opinions that I wasn't human. Well I have decided to join the 20th century and purchase one. A hundred bucks give or take 5 or 10 bucks, I just want one with a 5MP camera. So i looks on ebay and am inundated with Chinese 'smartphones' 0.3 MP and 2.0 MP immolated to 2 MP and 5.0 MP, jellybean capable dual core pixelated to dual sim capable hotspot navigable app with a toughscreen touchscreen TFT soft cover free gift all with a European plug. Anyone have experience with these Chinese village assembled bling pieces that could point out a particular brand? Oh...and I don't like fruit
100 dollars for a phone lol what world are you living in

double that budget
 
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I used to work in the email section of a large ISP (I still work for them, but not in emails anymore) and one day I stumbled over a completely disused email queue full of notices sent by copyright holders or whatever about people on the ISP torrenting their movies (didn't see any for TV shows). As far as I knew there was no-one in the company whose job it was to investigate or follow up at all.
I used to get these kinds of notices sent to me from my mum when i was living at home. She would get them from our ISP and flick them to me asking me to stop downloading tv shows.
The emails mentioned they would cut off our Internet if we didn't comply.
I now live with my missus and we download 2-3 movies a week and various tv shows once they have full seasons available and we've never received one of these threatening emails.
 

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100 bucks for a name brand from the same village in China?
There are over 80 cities in China with a population over 5 million ie. larger than Sydney (about half of them have a population over 10 million). There are around another 50 Cities with a population over a million.

It probably wasn't made in a village.
 

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I used to get these kinds of notices sent to me from my mum when i was living at home. She would get them from our ISP and flick them to me asking me to stop downloading tv shows.
The emails mentioned they would cut off our Internet if we didn't comply.
I now live with my missus and we download 2-3 movies a week and various tv shows once they have full seasons available and we've never received one of these threatening emails.
So...it was your mother?
 
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