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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-30485355[^]
Australian commandos stormed the cafe, hostage taker (plus one) dead.
Good riddance! Well done Australia - you can't negotiate with hostage takers. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Unfortunately, sacrificing the few to save the many is always a reality to deal with in these situations.
Now I expect to hear chatter on why did the police have to use force. ugh.
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Slacker007 wrote: Now I expect to hear chatter on why did the police have to use force. ugh.
Even more important, did they hurt anyone's feelings or offend anyone.
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There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Slacker007 wrote: Now I expect to hear chatter on why did the police have to use force. ugh.
Hmm.
I suppose it's true that you wouldn't chatter about it if the police bullet were fired into your brain.
There's little point in speculating "what ifs", though. The decisions had to be taken by the people on the ground.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I am all for police killing the bad guy, especially when innocent lives are at risk. However, the socialist cry babies in my country would protest this, and condemn the police for using violence.
Can't we all just get a long. 
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I wonder how many pictures were taken to get the ones where the police look like robocop?
I wish the US would grow a pair and deal with issues.
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It's important to note that the terrorists accomplished nothing.
(except causing people to hate and loath them.)
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Steve Wellens wrote: It's important to note that the terrorists accomplished nothing.
Yes, they cause terror, and by their action have bystanders killed.
Some people will feel distressed because of actions like that, and the way we collectively react to them should be more important than the act itself.
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I'd rather be phishing!
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They accomplish nothing.
They are worse than evil. They are stupid.
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Was watching live at the time.
The bloke who did it fled Iran after his family were imprisoned for his liberal views, given asylum in Australia.
Became a spiritual healer specialising in black magic, he was facing nearly 50 sexual assault charges from that time.
Called himself a Muslim cleric and started writing to the families of dead servicemen, claiming to help them but was convicted of malicious mailings.
Was out on bail for murder of his ex wife.
Had been appealing the letter writing convictions, and his final appeal failed in the Australian high court last week when only 6 judges were sitting instead of the normal 7 and a split decision meant the conviction stood.
Self radicalised, this fella was so out there other Muslim extremists wanted nothing to do with him.
People like this always have the potential for this kind of thing, what they hang the ideals onto is irrelevant.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It's also fair to say the authorities, who had a long and detailed relationship with him, had been negotiating for a long time and hoped to conclude it by negotiation.
It hasn't been made public yet why the moved in when they did.
They had been carefully controlling the release of information through the media.
The police had delivered the IS flag to him, because he didn't have one of his own.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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he describes himself as a Shia Muslim who converted to Sunni Islam.
I will say something that:
1) proably shouldn't be said in a public, traceable forum.
2) probably shouldn't be said here
3) and ought to be said by everybody
I am so sick of these religious fanatics. Elephant them all, I say.
Actually, what I wanted to say was a whole heck of a lot more, prejudiced but I held back at the last second.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: but I held back at the last second.
Probably for the best - that's not a discussion for the lounge.
But I think that is becoming the "normal" opinion, and Muslims appear to do little or nothing to dispel it, even if they personally find it repugnant. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you believe you have no-one to answer to than God (whichever god you choose) then there is no reason for you not to do whatever you imagine your God wants you to do.
That is why the religious are so dangerous, particularly when they imagine a reward in the next life which removes any fear of death.
Personally I'd start to question what God has been smoking when he starts telling me what to eat and how to eat it, how to dress, how to have me hair, how to mutilate my genitals. I guess if you can accept all that nonsense then the really dangerous sh*t gets swallowed up quite easily.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: If you believe you have no-one to answer to than God
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chriselst wrote: That is why the religious are so dangerous
Most religious are probably more law abiding citizens than most regular people. Just being clear.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Most religious are probably just as law abiding as most no religious people.
The most dangerous people are almost always acting on some belief, however distorted from religious teaching, of some higher power.
Tony Blair for example, believed he only had to answer to God and was a proper evil bastard who caused untold damage to the world.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: The most dangerous people are almost always acting on some belief, however distorted from religious teaching, of some higher power.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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chriselst wrote: The most dangerous people are almost always acting on some belief
True, but whether that belief is in a god, in their bank balance, or simply in their own megalomaniacal godliness is immaterial.
Whatever it is, they believe that they are somehow better than others, and have the right to exert power over them.
It's worth noting, though, that almost all of the horrific massacres (and an unbelievably high percentage of the most horrific murders) over the last 2000 years have occurred as a result of either:
a: Subservience to one African god or another.
b: The desire to eradicate beliefs in gods.
A quote from E. C. Segar comes to mind.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Marc Clifton wrote: I am so sick of these religious fanatics.
FTFY.
Unless of course, there are fanatics you are OK with?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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A fanatic is just a person with an obsessive enthusiasm for something, like sport or stamp collecting or playing computer games.
Mostly they're fairly non dangerous.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Mostly they're fairly non dangerous.
Have you ever met a stamp collector in a dark alley? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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NASA[^] do Meghan Trainor - # All about that space / bout that space / space travel #
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I like the NASA version, better.
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Them little buggers run faster than you'd think!
Seriously though, three films on one day, quite a sit. Great movies nonetheless. Not as good as the original LOTR trilogy, but still pretty awesome.
But what's perhaps my favourite part of any Tolkien movie is the soundtrack. Howards Shore sure did an awesome job on this one
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