It's not the people just downloading illegally that they care about, that would just be impractical, it's the people who profit from it that they care about. That's why they went after Megaupload, because there were incentives and rewards being handed out for sharing illegal material.

They've just relocated the servers out of Sweden and started over. It's all alive and kicking for pirate bay.

Talking about SOPA, heard of the group Anonymous? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29

Anonymous are just a group of online terrorists and anarchists masquerading as 'doing good' the only difference between much of Anonymous and Osama Bin Laden is that they don't hide behind religion in what they do.

On a completely unrelated topic, there's a watermelon in my hallway and I have no idea how it got there.

AFAIW they haven't flown any planes into high rise buildings, or sent suicide bombers into town markets, etc...

That's probably because they have a far broader medium at their disposal in which to convey their 'message'.

Righto

Marconi's exhibit A for their claptrap.
Anonymous: You will think for yourselves.
Everyone: We will think for ourselves.
Anonymous: You will question authority.
Everyone: We will question authority.
Anonymous: You will join us in our fight against evil.
Everyone: We will join you in your fight against evil.
Anonymous: Down with the government!
Everyone: Down with the government!

Where have you been the last 5 years or so?

It's hard to take 'Anonymous' seriously, I mean obviously they have numbers and know what they are doing in terms of hacking and stuff like that and are this capable of causing damage.
But I just can't shake the feeling that they are just pathetic keyboard warriors who have seen too many anarchy films and action movies, sorta like when kids play cops and robbers. I dunno just seems like a joke how seriously they take themselves.

Edited by fredsta: 7/2/2012 03:02:08 PM

>Implying I'm part of Anonymous

Most of the time they don't even hack. They just perform DoS attacks. Which is basically done by a program that they entire an IP address and click "start"

It just spams the servers which brings the sites down.

ie. All they are is a fucking nuisance.

Considering whether I should run a Battle of the TV shows on here.

Didn't we already do that? Or was it battle of the movies?

Anyway, we all know Top Gear will win.

Serious? I don't reckon

There's a good one going on the Brighton fan forum, battle of the comedians. Battle of the foods even :lol: I'd put my house on bacon.

Bacon was never going to lose.

I'd be interested in that.

Help me out here guys.

Today, my car decided to be difficult, and the speedo, temperature gague, tachometer and some of the warning lights decided to stop working and inconvenience my day. Does anyone know roughly how much it will cost to get all these fixed?

Thanks in advance.

It's impossible to say because it's impossible to tell where the fault might actually be. Could be anything from $100 to $500.

Cheers mate. Hoping it's towards the $100 end of the scale.

Would just like to add that M_M and I made it into the Herald social pages

Marriage announcements?

There's a few Pokemon fans on here, right? I saw this...pretty cool.

That's awesome. If only Marowak was actually a huge dinosaur rather than a lil fella.

EDIT: And the Gastly evolution line is sick too. Too bad Gengar doesn't have triangular eyes though.

Edited by ual: 28/2/2012 10:11:20 AM

Afro- are those initial concept artworks, or a potential re-launch?

What im assuming is meant to be Arcanine, looks awesome.

It's a modern artist's interpretation of the pokemon. Not a re-launch as far as I'm aware.

There's a few there I'm not sure what the fuck they are though.