This just keeps on giving.
Yeah, it's GC from a couple of years back, am i bothered though? No, no i'm not.
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he did exactly that and ended up in Brazil and married his gay lover Estefani.
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are prepping a big budget MacGyver film! I wonder if Richard Dean Anderson will be the dad to a new younger version, kind of like Muppet Babies?
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and he's a really nice guy, humorously self effacing and with a lazy charm all his own (and said my jacket was cool) :-)
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but that series went a bit wrong towards the end IIRC
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Here's what i read about a film though:
www.variety.com/article/VR1118062093
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And hahahahaha.
To be fair though, I used to love MacGyver when I was about 9 or 10. Thought it was super cool.
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Marge's sisters in The Simpsons took the piss out of him
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MacGyver is no exception to this rule of mine. See also Streethawk, Airwolf, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, Hardcastle & McCormack, the Fall Guy...
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ChiPS, Ulysses 51, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Jossie's Giants (Every episode had different lyrics which explained the plot) and Jamie and the Magic Torch
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Just something you can dip in and out of when you fancy it.
It's all about backstory, and 'series arcs' now.
I think person of Interest is the closest thing to this kind of show, but even that has backstory taking up valuable punch up/car chase/gun fight time
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What am I missing that explains any of this?
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Asks for $252 million in back taxes
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but it's 70% of their incomes over a certain level. I know that's still unacceptable to some people, but saying it's 70% of their income is misstating how graduated income tax works.
Also maybe worth noting that the top rate of federal income tax in the US was over 80% for 20 years after World War 2 when they experienced a massive boom in prosperity, and remained at 70% or over until the Reagan years without the nation collapsing into the sea.
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hence my cynicism. I think I should leave the house and visit my fluffy animal friends
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Or, at least, so said the the late Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the USA. Seems these days taxes are what the proles pay for a civilized society while certain large corporations are content to take all the benefits of various states' infrastructures while contributing as little as possible to them. I think people's concern is justified on those grounds alone.
But yay, fluffy animals. Bring back pictures, maybe? :)
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It's not as worrying now all the kids have learnt to kick box.
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And don't even get me started on Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Have an amusing video of an Amazon exec floundering in front of a Government committee.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20301381
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Basically didn't take the committee seriously and sent an ill prepared underling.
(, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 11:02, Reply)
but forgot the "plausible" part of plausible deniability
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but: can't we wait till after Christmas before the collective taxmen of the world fire a broadside at Amazon that sinks it to the depths of the fiscal seas?
(, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 11:04, Reply)
they're a massive company with very good accountants and lots of lawyers, they'll find some way of wriggling out of it.
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(admittedly on their weaker than weak drivetime show)
had some tax bod from some tax specialist co (was it kpmg?) arguing that poor Starbucks' had consistently made a loss in the UK and therefore paying no tax was fair. The interviewer just wasn't equipped at all to argue how the flow of money might be engineered in such a way to make this look plausable, and completely missed the point that if they make 1% profit (as he admitted "some" of the shops do), 20% of whatever the real number/amount for that should still be payable.
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It's a charity video but it does mention bottoms mobro.co/grahammurkett
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with the tackle/dangerous area diagram :)
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This is helping me through the morning at work!
Pt 1 with: Kid Koala + Terence Bernardo 1. Terence Bernardo Dirge
2. Fridge Long Singing Domino
3. Amon Tobin Natureland (Kid Koala Remix)
4. Two Lone Swordsmen Driving With Gears In Reverse (Kid Koala Remix)
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Skeletons (Kid Koala remix)
6. Gescom Snackwitch Skam
7. Nosaj Thing Light #1 Alpha Pup
8. mϊm Green Grass of Tunnel FatCat
9. Damon Albarn, Dan The Automator, Kid Koala Untitled
10. Sparklehorse + Fennesz - Marks Guitar Piece In The Fishtank
11. Henry Mancini Moon River (Kid Koala Remix)
12. Autechre Charachi Krib Warp
13. Radiohead Videotape (Live From The Basement) Kid Koala Remix
14. Helios Dragonfly Across An Ancient Sky Type
15. ISAN Recently In The Sahara Morr Music
16. Terence Bernardo Brutal Beat
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What a mix! Cheers for this Mr Hoppity. I'll be signing up for this Beats in Space Malarky too.
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but still would even if only for the freacky phone calls at 3am
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A 15 minute of fame situation. I'll die long before I figure out what makes certain things on the internet popular.
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But I've done worse. At least she's an honest loony.
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So yes.
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I'll let you have a go on her if you want.
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She can be main course in the weekend of debauchery and satanism
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Some lully images on sale for the "SpecialEffect" charity :)
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But yes, there are some super bits of art on there. Might even be tempted to have a punt on one bit, if the price doesn't go silly.
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...might be in Prague.
It's all about the face you choose.
(, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 10:27, Reply)
And aim to piss in her mouth. That'll show 'em
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They've got stuff like that in there, and it's not too difficult actually.
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"Is that all for me? I just want to cuddle it"
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she said last night
well maybe not those exact words but that what i heard , i tell you your honour.
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similarly forgotten:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=usZF2467UUw
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a some fantastic tracks out there that we forget, until a chance snippet or a phrase or even a badge reminds us of what we used to listen to in our younger days.
i am a big fan of the '80's music accross all genres and acts
i posted this from the '70's a few weeks ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI01yagcfnc
after just hearing a few of the lyrics and hunting around i found the full song, again a great song that was lying at the back of my head, waiting to be re-heard, and all it needed was that little snatch of lyrics
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'the erection section'
loads of men desperately doing circuits around the club looking for someone, anyone, to grab hold of before they get slung out at 2am
they dont do them anymore now they have all this new fangled all night drinking hours and music by them black eyed keys and that
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Yep, it's Apple again.
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Hopefully this doesnt embolden Braun to go after Apple, because it pretty clearly ripped off the German company in its original iOS calculator design
Of course Braun will now.
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altho braun should go after the ipod really readersrecommend.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/braun-ipod.png
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and more detailed
gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future
www.businessinsider.com/apple-braun-inspiration-2012-9?op=1
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It would be like IKEA making a cheap knockoff of a Eames chair
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I wonder who's next
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It may come across as a witch hunt but i think if any company is robbing stuff they should be forced to pay, i'm sure it happens all the time but Apple are so big (and therefore considered 'evil' by some people) they make the news.
If someone robbed my stuff, or your stuff, i'm sure you'd want some kind of compensation and acknowledgement.
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As if it's something new in the behaviour of a corporate monolith
I think the world would be better lived if everyone took of their ties and wore these instead
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It's even more fun because most of its disciples are a bunch of Stockholm Syndrome obsessives.
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That's probably because it's like the bully at school who always robbed kids' dinner money and always gets away with it, then one day a teacher clocks them at it, they get taken to heel for it and everyone is happy to see them get what they deserve.
To be fair, i think apple have probably made a lot of money by ripping off a lot of people who can't afford to take them to heel for it (obviously they aren't the only company to have done this), throwing their weight around and so on, so when someone can afford to pull them up on it and does it's just good to see.
(, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 11:53, Reply)
which can easily be turned into currency symbols.
Appl?
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They're sitting on the wealth of a small nation over there.
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They look very similar...
www.artofthestate.co.uk/london_photos/Canary_Wharf_clocks.htm
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Not as controversial as Mr Lee here, probably.
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Used to go to a comedy night when i lived up north, tiny little venue, and sit at the front just so we could get the piss ripped out of us, it was superb.
Some of the guys who were in some of Peter Kay shows are actually really great standup comedians.
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MD of Starbucks UK tries to speak to 'da people' in their language and comes a bit unstuck when it appears that most people are a lot more savvy than him. Oh dear.
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Because millions of kids go to university hoping they might one day be a fucking Barista at Starbucks!
(, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 9:47, Reply)
web.orange.co.uk/article/news/starbucks_denies_making_money_in_tax_grilling
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Basically they're all been found out to be utter shits.
What they're doing (Apple, Amazon, Starbucks and proberbly others) is legal however those laws can be changed and applied retrospectively so they may still be getting a large tax bill.
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Im filling up
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uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-uncut-plans-day-action-104421428.html
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHbmIl9yQJQ
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You better watch. Out.
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I think everyone can consider that a win!
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Old but quite good (though not good enough for new post)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECauVEyPaks
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My normal first reaction when someone has a fit and is potentially dead is also to keep filming.
(, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 10:02, Reply)
A friend showed me this - it was posted already in 2006 and 2009 but it made me laugh a lot, so thought I'd re-post
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I don't like the old Star Treks etc, but someone did show me this a while ago that made me laugh: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCeg9AyFWVw
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Proof positive of what you can do with a deft bit of editing.
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Wanted to do a trippy sci fi music video. Started with the idea of a man talking to God. Any and all feedback welcome. Thanks!
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*calls dragons den*
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