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20-8-02

New beer

Tried some "Hollandia" beer with my homemade pizza tonight. Quite nice it was too. Good "food" beer, though undoubtedly not "tasty" enough for some. Flavour & texture is very light.
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They're still at it

Phillip Adams, Margot Kingston and some dork are still whining about the "children overboard" affair and the boat we didn't sink. Of course, they're still going bonkers with rage about the fact that nobody else gives a shit.
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Fuckers, Fuckers, Fuckers

As part of their endless phoney road-safety campaign, it seems the collective idiots that are the Transport Ministers from each state have decided to re-introduce front numberplates for motorcycles - a policy not deemed necessary in any other country on earth.

Why? Because our fabulous tax collecting speed cameras can't tag motorcyclists because they don't have a front plate. Our Protectors of Moral Virtue have decided this is causing billions of deaths and injuries (nobody mentions revenue of course), and are going to make us evil motorcyclists fit numberplates dammit.

Of course, these fuckers seem to have forgotten that front numberplates were abandoned on bikes because of safety issues, or that 2/3rds of motorcyclist deaths are the fault of fucking stupid car drivers. Rather than do something which would actually improve road safety (like making sure people with driver's licences can actually drive), they're gonna get us evil bikers.

Yet, it seems that the rules will only apply to new bikes registered from 2003 onwards, meaning most speeding riders will still evade capture. New models will have to have special fittings (at great inconvenience, expense, unsafety and ugliness) done to fit the front plate. People wont buy these new bikes, dealerships will collapse, people will keep re-birthing their old bikes.

So once again, riders get fucked with as part of a politicians PR show, for no good reason. And for what benefit? Why don't these silly cunts just turn the cameras around. The highest estimate I've seen is a million bucks for the whole state of Victoria. And with that they'll collect a lot more of their precious revenue, riders wont be put to expense and inconvenience, and politicians won't waste valuable time farting around developing legislation.

Of course, common sense is a little too much to ask from traffic cops, safetycrats and politicians. These are the fuckers - after all - who faked the photo of the "speeding rider" giving the finger to the speed camera. Common sense and good policy from these goons? Don't make me laugh.

Fuck I hate politicians.
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The end of DVD region coding?

Hot Buttered Death put me onto this story which predicts the complete abandonment of the idiotic "region coding" system. Praise Gawd for that.
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A couple of gems

Reader Aaron Oakley points me toward this short-n-sweet article by ANU economist Dr. Alex Robson, telling us why Australia should have nowt' to do with the Kyoto Protocol.

Aaron also contributes his own fine whacking to Hugh Mackay. Too much Mackay-whacking is never enough.
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Kick the left while they're down I say

WarNow has some funnies today

According to the Australian media (brain-cell-free since 1964), US policy on Iraq today lies in tatters, President Bush finds himself increasingly isolated domestically, there is a growing chorus of international condemnation, blah blah you know the drill. War on Iraq Bad, mm-kay?

This from the same people who brought you the Brutal Afghan Winter (currently being recycled as the Brutal Afghan Summer), the Mighty Pushtun Warrior - Slayer of Empires, and of course the awful threat of the Mighty Arab Street which would rise up and slaughter us all if a single bomb fell during Ramadan. God, if these people were stock analysts their customers would be living under motorway on-ramps. Why is this nonsensical leftists wishful thinking still taken seriously?

and this

The only reason to be a leftist in the 21st century is the smug self-satisfied sense of superiority you get by knowing that morally you stand head, shoulders and thighs above the common rabble. The fact that your entire world view is about a hundred years out of date is irrelevant. In fact, what we are seeing today, as the left retreats into tiny but influential enclaves in the media and academia, is that it is suffering from cognitive dissonance.

The more evidence is piled up showing how wrong their beliefs are, the tighter then cling to their inherited faith. It's got to the stage that it's practically self-defeating to engage the Left in dialogue. It's like trying to negotiate with the Borg collective - if you don't share their frame of reference, no communication is possible.

Heh.
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