Coss

Cos I am a cheap Coss, I've been watching Kodi these last years and have been subscription free. Not from expense issues mind, but from a refusal to pay for substandard services. Take for example Sky Sport, the only reason to watch such, is the All Blacks and adjacent teams. When Sky Sport experiences streaming glitches and lies about kick off times, so they can fill an hour with brain dead "presenters" prior to the real kick off time, one wonders why more people don't use Kodi. I guess there is a barrier to entry for Kodi, that is the time and the ability to set it up and run it.

he might be offering transport, to aid in mobility

tells me, that since the Aus government kept various classes of guns away from Munters and Malcontents, not so many mass shootings.

Not something you'll see in our respective wastelands... Highway Star.

13 in previous 18 years

A monk wielding a sword caused a commotion in the Lad Ya area, Bangkok, late last night. Residents alerted the police, leading to a tense situation before the individual was taken into custody for questioning. A startling incident unfolded yesterday, September 22, when a man dressed as a monk was seen walking in the middle of Lad Ya Road, brandishing a sword... https://thethaiger.com/news/national/monk-with-sword-causes-stir-in-bangkoks-lad-ya-area Strange...

Thai government aims to create a welfare system for freelancers or self-employed people such as tour guides, Grab drivers, content creators (YouTubers, TikTokers), and sex workers (those working in the sex trade).... ... As far as social benefits for freelancers are concerned, initial discussions have taken place with the SWING foundation, particularly with regard to sex workers. In these discussions, the group emphasized that they do not want sex work to become a legal profession or for their identity and profession to be registered in the system.... อ่านข่าวต้นฉบับได้ที่ : https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2024/09/23/thai-government-plans-welfare-expansion-for-freelancers-including-sex-workers/ Very interesting, in the 30+ years I've been flitting in and out of Thailand, this could be seen as genuine social change for the better. OTOH, it might lessen certain ladies' keenness .

Ditto - I don't know if anyone has seen, the Ai "treatments" of some of our cultural favourites from times gone by, no doubt racking up the views on youtube. vis The Jetsons

Too much effort, unless someone gets red-faced about it, it can stay, normal programming will no doubt, resume shortly.

Not at all, this is interesting stuff, that for which we are collectively well known. An aside, the reason I ended up in Laos, not Thailand, were the difficulties associated with Visas in Thailand. I had set my sights on Thailand, but when I got to the stage of wanting to do the paperwork, it was so hard, I thought I'd look at Laos, Cambodia, and Burma, even Mayalsia and Indonesia. Laos happily gave me a win in the form of MLG, that swayed my decision.

I'll be quiet now. I'll direct interested minds to: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33070481/reviews/?ref_=tt_ov_urv

The revealing conversation between Hunter Biden and Lev Parnas is an eye popper. Seeing more and more of this docco, I'm starting to wonder if Donald is indeed an arch villain with a superior, machiavellian, genius for evil. But my original opinion of Donald stands, he's just a blowhard, grifting, big noter, constantly clawing his way to the top of the heap. And anyway, we only know, of one, arch villain with a superior, machiavellian, genius for evil, Mr Putin. I'm thinking that Putin doesn't love Trump anymore. Or Trump would be, better propped up, than he is now.

Gentlefolk, if you have the time and can do so, seek out Rachel Maddow's - "From Russia with Lev". MSNBC Films. I haven't seen the whole thing yet, but I am convinced and will put good money on, the content of this docco, ensuring the next President of the good 'ol USA will be Kamala Harris. "From Russia with Lev" details, with evidence, Trump's and his gang of shysters', actions and grifting in regard to Russia and Ukraine. ----- IMDB: A documentary exploring Lev Parnas' involvement in the Trump-Ukraine scandal that resulted in the former president's impeachment, detailing Parnas' unexpected entanglement with Trump and Giuliani, leading to his incarceration. ----- If one has wondered what brought about Giuliani's precipitous downfall, the expression "Shit flows uphill..." springs to mind, and the little orange Donald is tap dancing around great swamps of the stuff now.

Cake Tin - Sky Stadium, Wellington

I thought both teams could have done better. Next week

see how I haven't mentioned the ABs in the context of Sth Africa or Argentina...

ABs 28 Wallabies 14 half time.

I can see it now - Vote Old Hippie, a wise man, free beer for all* * limited to personal consumption, 1 x 12 pack per hour.

Found this, reminds me of my wanderings around Laos. Bad people at work in Laos. An American and his Indonesian GF visit the Special Economic zone in the Ton Pheung District of Bokeo Province. He speaks seemingly fluent Chinese and has a way of getting people to chat.

I saw some Trump supporters being interviewed, in a Trump Boat Parade, hundreds of overweight above 40 yr olds, in bathing costumes with their not cheap, boats, moaning how badly off they are. When they listened to the reporter pointing out, that Trump was lying about the Haitians eating dogs and cats and the Police Chief and Mayor of Springfield said so, they believed Trump and said of the mayor, "easy way to pass the buck", "what would he know?" These people are as stupid as tent pegs.

Twice this past summer, Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J. has featured speeches from a rioter convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, who has a well-documented history of extreme antisemitic and racist rants. One of those events — a fundraiser for a controversial nonprofit group that supports Capitol riot defendants — was personally endorsed by Trump himself in a video message that was played for the room. “All of the people there, you’re amazing patriots,” Trump said in the video. “Have a great time at Bedminster.” As part of his criminal case over Jan. 6, federal prosecutors described the rioter, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, as a “white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer,” who told his coworkers at a naval weapons station that “Hitler should have finished the job” and “babies born with any deformities or disabilities should be shot in the forehead.”... https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2024-09-12/trumps-bedminster-club-hosted-an-alleged-nazi-sympathizer-who-stormed-the-capitol

Isn't everything made n China these days?

I echo, concur and support this view. I prolly said this before, when Google etc started out, their Algorithms were easier to examine and were based on the "Wisdom of the masses" or "Popularity = Truth". I said then and say now - "this'll end badly" It's not just, teens and young'uns, but all ages who depend on these networks. And then there's the Advertising and Marketing foofs with no moral compass. Wot about bad actors getting involved in other countries affairs? Related perhaps, a cunning plot, pagers are not necessarily what we're talking about, but if you can get a whole lot of them where you want them, you could explode them ? See the news today. Do smart phone batteries contain the raw ingredients for a good boom? I think so. My school chemistry involved exposing bit of lithium to oxygen and then running away a bit, but turning to see it go up.

Yeah but who does idanalyzer sell the data to?