Keep at it Australia! Second Life is banned. - Polidicks

It's like a thousand furfags all around me are crying out in pathetic agony. I can't stop laughing.

I hope you guys realise that if you really wanted to play the game you could run it through a proxy which would be unfiltered [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/emot-doh.gif[/img]

[QUOTE=K1ngo64;15745572]I hope you guys realise that if you really wanted to play the game you could run it through a proxy which would be unfiltered [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/emot-doh.gif[/img][/QUOTE] You'd have a ping well over 1000.

[QUOTE=ColinSSX;15738740]What next? Ban Wikipedia because it has an article on sex? Ban Google because you can use it to find porn? Ban YouTube because there's footage of M rated games? :ughh:[/QUOTE] Don't give them ideas. Sure, the ideas would never pass, but it'd just waste time.

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;15745585]You'd have a ping well over 1000.[/QUOTE] I reckon they would still play with that kind of ping.

if they ban world of warcraft im gunna kill myself

it's hilarious because we're going in the backward direction of democracy. we never asked for it, never wanted and we don't need it. the Howard Government's filtering plan was better, as it was opt in only

Nice fucking job Rudkipz, good luck next election.

[QUOTE=3com111;15745386]Hey Aussies. You guys can't just sit back and let this guy do this to you. Protest and strike until he lifts this ban. It always starts with something small. Then it'll escalate to something much bigger.[/QUOTE] If this bill ever passes, I assure you that we will protest the fuck out of it.

[QUOTE=3com111;15745386]Hey Aussies. You guys can't just sit back and let this guy do this to you. Protest and strike until he lifts this ban. It always starts with something small. Then it'll escalate to something much bigger.[/QUOTE] They've already censored the entire internet and all but entirely banned guns. This isn't the "start" by any means. [editline]12:36AM[/editline] [QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;15745585]You'd have a ping well over 1000.[/QUOTE] Not really, for secondlife, you'd only have to login with a proxy, then shut off the proxy once you were ingame. SL is nearly impossible to disconnect from, so you can switch connection, drop connection, and do about anything as long as it can find a connection within a minute or 2.

[QUOTE=occer;15746053]If this bill ever passes, I assure you that we will protest the fuck out of it.[/QUOTE] People need to be DOING IT NOW. It is easier to create a law than it is to remove it. If you can stop it from being created, that is the best possible option. The senate [house of representatives, whatever they call it] NEED to hear what people think. Once the law is enacted, it is pretty much stuck. Start writing letters [or emails], get all AU nerds to do the same. Hell, unless all of Australia has it's head up it's ass, other people should see problems with this as well. If there is a large LARGE public outcry against a law, then odds are it will not be enacted. Right now all of Australia is sitting on their hands hoping when they should be screaming and protesting.

[url]http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442[/url] They've basically created it and organized it in the face of the entire public and ISPs, what we can do now is mail senators to make sure they won't pass the law which they are likely not to do. [QUOTE=DrMortician;15746066]They've already censored the entire internet and all but entirely banned guns. This isn't the "start" by any means. [/QUOTE] Who?

Labour don't have the numbers to pass it, it can't pass the senate in it's current state. Sure, you can write letters and such, but the majority already agree with you.

[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;15733497]To try to erase the fact that they are still, deep inside, a prison colony. Censoring the present can never erase the past! Also, am I the only one who is imagining an Australian version of V for Vendetta?[/QUOTE] i was imagining a german version, but yeah same basic thoughts.

What the fuck is going on? This is some Chinese bullshit right here.

This new filtering system doesn't stop anyone from playing second life, it only blocks the site that let you download it.

Proxy! :eng101:

[QUOTE=Malumbre;15851699]Proxy! :eng101:[/QUOTE] I just went onto the site, and it didn't block me.

Maybe it's all bullshit then?

It is. [editline]04:01PM[/editline] The new filter system is good, it blocks all the malicious porn sites and shit.

[QUOTE=tarkio;15733231]In Australia, they came first for Second Life, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like Second Life; And then they came for GTA Hot Coffee, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like GTA Hot Coffee; And then they came for the Postal 2, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like Postal 2; And then... they came for me... and by that time there was no one left to speak up.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of a poem from english class. Into our town the hangman came, smelling of gold and blood and flame. He paced our bricks with a different air, and built his frame on the courthouse square. The scaffold stood by the courthouse side, only as wide as the door was wide with a frame as tall, or a little more, than the capping sill of the courthouse door. And we wondered whenever we had the time, Who the criminal? What the crime? The hangman judged with the yellow twist of knotted hemp in his busy fist. And innocent though we were with dread, we passed those eyes of buckshot lead. Till one cried, "Hangman, who is he, for whom you raised the gallows-tree?" Then a twinkle grew in his buckshot eye and he gave a riddle instead of reply. "He who serves me best," said he "Shall earn the rope on the gallows-tree." And he stepped down and laid his hand on a man who came from another land. And we breathed again, for anothers grief at the hangmans hand, was our relief. And the gallows frame on the courthouse lawn by tomorrow's sun would be struck and gone. So we gave him way and no one spoke out of respect for his hangmans cloak. The next day's sun looked mildly down on roof and street in our quiet town; and stark and black in the morning air the gallows-tree on the courthouse square. And the hangman stood at his usual stand with the yellow hemp in his busy hand. With his buckshot eye and his jaw like a pike, and his air so knowing and business-like. And we cried, "Hangman, have you not done, yesterday with the alien one?" Then we fell silent and stood amazed. "Oh, not for him was the gallows raised." He laughed a laugh as he looked at us, "Do you think I've gone to all this fuss, To hang one man? That's the thing I do. To stretch the rope when the rope is new." Above our silence a voice cried "Shame!" and into our midst the hangman came; to that mans place, "Do you hold," said he, "With him that was meat for the gallows-tree?" He laid his hand on that one's arm and we shrank back in quick alarm. We gave him way, and no one spoke, out of fear of the hangmans cloak. That night we saw with dread surprise the hangmans scaffold had grown in size. Fed by the blood beneath the chute, the gallows-tree had taken root. Now as wide, or a little more than the steps that led to the courthouse door. As tall as the writing, or nearly as tall, half way up on the courthouse wall. The third he took, we had all heard tell, was a usurer..., an infidel. And "What" said the hangman, "Have you to do with the gallows-bound..., and he a Jew?" And we cried out, "Is this one he who has served you well and faithfully?" The hangman smiled, "It's a clever scheme to try the strength of the gallows beam." The fourth man's dark accusing song had scratched our comfort hard and long. "And what concern," he gave us back, "Have you ... for the doomed and black?" The fifth, the sixth, and we cried again, "Hangman, hangman, is this the man?" "It's a trick", said he, "that we hangman know for easing the trap when the trap springs slow." And so we ceased and asked now more as the hangman tallied his bloody score. And sun by sun, and night by night the gallows grew to monstrous height. The wings of the scaffold opened wide until they covered the square from side to side. And the monster cross beam looking down, cast its shadow across the town. Then through the town the hangman came and called through the empy streets...my name. I looked at the gallows soaring tall and thought ... there's no one left at all for hanging ... and so he called to me to help take down the gallows-tree. And I went out with right good hope to the hangmans tree and the hangmans rope. He smiled at me as I came down to the courthouse square...through the silent town. Supple and stretched in his busy hand, was the yellow twist of hempen strand. He whistled his tune as he tried the trap and it sprang down with a ready snap. Then with a smile of awful command, He laid his hand upon my hand. "You tricked me Hangman." I shouted then, "That your scaffold was built for other men, and I'm no henchman of yours." I cried. "You lied to me Hangman, foully lied." Then a twinkle grew in his buckshot eye, "Lied to you...tricked you?" He said "Not I... for I answered straight and told you true. The scaffold was raised for none but you." "For who has served more faithfully? With your coward's hope." said He, "And where are the others that might have stood side by your side, in the common good?" "Dead!" I answered, and amiably "Murdered," the Hangman corrected me. "First the alien ... then the Jew. I did no more than you let me do." Beneath the beam that blocked the sky none before stood so alone as I. The Hangman then strapped me...with no voice there to cry "Stay!" ... for me in the empty square.

I wonder what's going to happen to Zero Punctuation now that Yahtzee's rapidly running out of games to bash.

[QUOTE=cardboard_panda;15733426]What is Australia trying to accomplish?[/QUOTE] The complete alienation of it's citizen. The cold feeling you get from staring at slavery when you live in a completely free nation. Leaving you in the desert with no water, and breaking all your fingers and toes.

This is SPECTACULAR.

Dear lord, as much as I hate second life, it doesn't change the fact that out of all the games one could ban, second life is perhaps the most ominous. Second life is completely made up of USER CONTENT. This isn't some game developer putting massive amounts of sex and in gore into their game, this is just ordinary people making stuff and sharing it with others. How on earth is this different than telling people what they can and can't talk about in private?

[QUOTE=tarkio;15733231]In Australia, they came first for Second Life, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like Second Life; And then they came for GTA Hot Coffee, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like GTA Hot Coffee; And then they came for the Postal 2, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like Postal 2; And then... they came for me... and by that time there was no one left to speak up.[/QUOTE] It's like that one Sci-Fi short story where there was a war and some people found the American Dream and to replicate it they needed a poet but by the time they needed one everyone has become experts in one thing or another holy shit.

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;15734204]World of Warcraft on the other hand... Just imagine, if they try to ban that, eleven million angry nerds with torches and pitchforks descending on the Australian Capitol to rip apart Rudd with their bare sweaty hands...[/QUOTE] Don't be silly, 90% of that 11 million can barely get off their arses to go to the toilet, let alone attack a city. [editline]03:58PM[/editline] I also find it ironic that the countries with the worst pasts are now the most pussified. "Hey! Look! You know we were all Nazis? Well now we don't like violence at all!" - Germany. "Hey! You know how we were all criminals that were sent as far away from Britain as possible? Well now we don't even like the idea of committing crimes!" - Australia.

Well this will just lead to me pirating shit and importing crap good job i got my proxies. [editline]11:53PM[/editline] Also this is why i really hate Australia slow ass internet banned games and shitty T.V

Oh god.. I feel bad for those second life fgts over in Australia. They didn't deserve this... This whole thing is pretty stupid though. Australians and their darn crazy conclusions..

[QUOTE=Lankist;15734637]I'm pretty sure a bunch of WoW nerds have never mounted anything in their lives.[/QUOTE] [img]http://content.ytmnd.com/content/b/9/e/b9e7fe1cc6b1549fbf1a5f88053b6a65.png[/img] Also [IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/52jrr7.jpg[/IMG] I'm starting to hate Australia more an more. (Besides Zero Punctuation)