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jooka

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I thought the part where they were standing next to the prop was, to capture the reflex reaction.
 
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Australia Wants to Use Facial Recognition Scheme to Restrict Porn Online
Australia’s domestic security agency has suggested using face scans to confirm people’s age before they watch online pornography. The Department of Home Affairs has also raised using the technology to restrict access to gambling sites. The proposal would piggyback off a separate facial recognition scheme being pursued by the federal government. The government wants agencies, banks, and phone companies to be able to use the technology.

However, a bipartisan committee recently shot down the proposal over fears it could lead to ‘mass surveillance,’ telling the government to redraft its plans. Sex industry lobby group Eros Association suggested stronger parental controls be made available by internet service providers, pointing to Telstra allowing a filter of websites.

The University of New South Wales’ Law Society said in countries where age verification for porn was enforced, effectiveness was limited with over four million domains and internet tools allowing users to circumvent controls. But the society did say Italy, Denmark, and Spain had successful government-run age verification schemes for online gambling. The society said the UK’s scheme was unable to guarantee the anonymity of users and would have potentially forced them to use multiple third-party age verification systems.
 
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Their big brother ID system is going to only include jerkin it faces.
 
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Aaron

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This is something that always gets me, so how do they define what a "porn" site is? There's plenty of porn on these forums? So would our Ozzy bros need to have their face scanned in order to shitpost on these forums? How about Reddit? Or Imgur, or giffy or any of these image hosting sites?
 
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This is something that always gets me, so how do they define what a "porn" site is? There's plenty of porn on these forums? So would our Ozzy bros need to have their face scanned in order to shitpost on these forums? How about Reddit? Or Imgur, or giffy or any of these image hosting sites?

This was one of the massive problems with the now scrapped UK age verification system. When they realized that the system would have to include every social media site in the world it quickly threw a spanner in the works.

In the end in was scrapped partially as they have absolutely no fucking way of keeping that data secure. But yeah, who the fuck comes up with these ideas?
 
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Brahma

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Fuck that. I want neon signs with an inflatable tube man that has child sex offender written on it.


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Apparently the guy above died, pretty sad as they couldn't get him free with a chopper due to the downdraft and the cherrypicker they eventually used had to be driven from Glasgow.
what'd he die from, doesn't say
 
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what'd he die from, doesn't say

Nowhere seems to say how he died. Locals heard him shouting for help at 10pm, he wasn't bought down until 16.00 by which time he had died. In this image you can see he was trapped by his left leg which appears to be caught on the ladder. 18 hours upside down is long enough to cause heart failure or death by asphyxia, that coupled with the sheer stress of the situation and his heart probably gave out. It must have been painful as fuck and terrifying.

There will probably be a Coroners' inquiry as to how and why he was up there, they should release the postmortem findings.

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Nowhere seems to say how he died. Locals heard him shouting for help at 10pm, he wasn't bought down until 16.00 by which time he had died. In this image you can see he was trapped by his left leg which appears to be caught on the ladder. 18 hours upside down is long enough to cause heart failure or death by asphyxia, that coupled with the sheer stress of the situation and his heart probably gave out. It must have been painful as fuck and terrifying.

There will probably be a Coroners' inquiry as to how and why he was up there, they should release the postmortem findings.

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Unless he was a worker with some genuine business being up there i will have some really hard time scraping up some sympathy for his dumb ass. Play stupid games, win Darwin awards!
Edit: Of course i will take itall back if it turns out he was the local 2AM chimney inspector.
 
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dizzie

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Local forums seem to think it was a drunken bet to climb it. The ladder that is on the side of the chimney is temporary while they do some work on the brickwork and it was due to be taken down this week.
 
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Lanx

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Aaaand this is why you get a cat...

if only
native to southeast Asia and is considered to be the longest snake in the world.
 
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Gavinmad

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Or...here's an idea...don't fucking put an 8 foot constrictor on your shoulders.
 
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