
Unroped aid soloist is a bit of a special niche.
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is all the gear anyone should need.
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slings? People always leave slings for abseiling, why bother?
I briefly climbed with someone who was more interested in scavenging gear from cracks than finishing the route. He had many nuts and and quite a few friends, which even back in those days might have been in place for a looong time. It was actually the fucking waiting that put me off him, not the safety aspect. Although I never let him use his rope.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 22:24, Reply)

vimeo.com/106265007
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but Tom Randall is a lovely guy. Perfectly happy to talk to a bumbly like me!
Talking of dodgy old fixed gear I went looking for the ring piton at paviland a couple of years ago. For my sins I found it, and decided to do the walk around instead of abseiling.
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drilled, pegged and lashed by his own hand. Fred never trusted putting his peg into a hole made by another man.
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Vincent and Jules crack the decades old mystery!
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The EU Parliment is voting on this tomorow and there's some heavy lobbying going on to get it passed.
If the M.E.Ps are fans of the Beatles or Blunt the internet is fucked.
www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sir-paul-mccartney-tells-european-parliament-vote-through-article-13-to-ensure-a-sustainable-future-for-music/
www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/07/01/article-13-james-blunt-copyright-directive/
Blah, blah, EU is lully, never will happen etc but just note that the people who invented and pretty much run the whole internet are shitting bricks about this right now.
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Just in case anyones got benny of ignore and can't see my post below it's just been rejected in parliament.
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/european-copyright-laws-memes-link-tax-article-13-11-a8432486.html
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Or maybe not
"In practice, the vote only delays the final decision on the rules and gives the European Parliament more time to deliberate on them. Another decision will be taken in September."
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 11:53, Reply)

twitter.com/EmporersNewC/status/1014431972662358021
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 14:54, Reply)

You have no opinion on the proposed changes? Good or bad?
Come on it's your beloved EU, can't you defend them on this topic?
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 15:39, Reply)

I refer the honorable gentleman to his previous post on this subject where I said that it's pretty much a non-starter and impossible to enforce.
So, although it's bad (tm) it doesn't matter.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 16:19, Reply)

Article 11 and 13 are about as precisely written and enforceable as GDPR.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 16:27, Reply)

I would argue that vague laws are very dangerous.
And as for being unenforceable the EU is making that the problem of the hosts to solve.
Rather than go over old arguments here's one of them wide eyed EU optimists that's put together everything that's bad about it.
juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/censorship-machines/
Anyway, just thought I would share with the class that the next stage of this law is being voted on tomorrow.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 16:51, Reply)

"should only be expected to expeditiously remove specific unauthorised works and other subject matter upon notification by rightholders"... unless you're Google or Facebook? Given the love the EU has for Google it wouldn't be surprising if this is aimed more squarely at them. Genuinely interested in your thoughts.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 17:27, Reply)

Here's the full text for that section.
"(38e) The measures taken by the online content sharing service providers to prevent the availability of unauthorised works or other subject-matter should be effective but remain proportionate, in particular with regard to the size of the online content sharing service provider. While this
Directive is expected to foster the development of effective technologies on the market, the availability of the measures may differ according to the type of content for which the measures are applied. Having regard to the technological developments in line with industry best practices, those measures should consequently ensure a level of efficiency appropriate to the amount and the type of works or other subject matter uploaded by the users of the services. For the purposes of assessing the proportionality of measures to be taken by the online content sharing service providers, the state of the art of existing technologies for the different types of content as well as the size of the services should be taken into account notably whether they are small and micro enterprises. Different measures may be appropriate and proportionate per type of content and itIt is therefore not excluded that in some cases unauthorised content may only be avoided upon notification of rightholders. The measures should be proportionate in order to avoid imposing disproportionately complicated or costly obligations on certain online content sharing service providers, taking into account notably their small size. In particular, small and micro enterprises as defined in Title I of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC, should be expected to be subject to less burdensome obligations than larger service providers. Therefore, taking into account the state of the art and the availability of technologies and their costs, in specific cases it may not be proportionate to expect small and micro enterprises to apply preventive measures and that therefore in such cases these enterprises should only be expected to expeditiously remove specific unauthorised works and other subject matter upon notification by rightholders."
If I could understand all of the above I would have chosen a different career path. But as far as I can make out from people a lot smarter than me in this regards it's still pretty bad news and becomes a startup killer. Depending on where the bar is set if you start to become competition you get this burden regulation slapped on you. So rather than being against Google and facebook it stops a competitor growing.
But say you are small fry. Is you work hosted on imgr, wordpress, Adobe, facebook, instagram etc? They'll be filtering all your uploads of images, text, audio for possible breaches. So it will still kill your site.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 17:48, Reply)

I don't think it's a good idea in any shape or form.
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Paul McCartney is down to his last 820 million quid so if we could all just change the law in his favour to extend his copyright (not for the first time), that'd be great. Peg leg turned out to be a real gold digger and the maintenance is killing him.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 16:28, Reply)

You:
- this decision is bad
- the legislature is evil
- the forrins are all against us
People who understand:
- I disagree with this legislation, this has happened many times in my life, but understand that I am not the only person on the planet and some people think differently to me
- the concept of intra-national cooperation is sound and generally results in better outcomes for us all than narrow nationalistic self-interest
- I would prefer not to experience a 10 year recession
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( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 10:56, Reply)

Anyway I thought you were all for listening to experts?
www.eff.org/files/2018/06/13/article13letter.pdf
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 11:05, Reply)

You know that pretty much every person who's signed that letter thinks the UK leaving the EU is a stupid idea. Because nearly everyone with a professional qualification does, nearly everyone who has to attend international seminars does, nearly everyone who talks or thinks about things for a living or knows anything about how the world around them works does.
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 11:15, Reply)

Anyway you're free to say it's a bad law now without upsetting the eu's feelings because it's just been rejected.
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/european-copyright-laws-memes-link-tax-article-13-11-a8432486.html
Now if we can only get out before they try something like this again that would be nice.
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 11:29, Reply)

the decision went your way and you still feel persecuted. There is literally nothing they could do that would convince you that this otherness you feel is all in your head
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 11:36, Reply)

Well yes because it was a close thing.
And sadly it looks like it's not over.
"In practice, the vote only delays the final decision on the rules and gives the European Parliament more time to deliberate on them. Another decision will be taken in September."
Shall we pick this up in a couple of months?
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 11:49, Reply)

Get back to the newt thing again, I preferred all that
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 11:57, Reply)

I like the internet, I take offence when people try to fuck it over.
Btw 278 for it 318 against 31 abstaining and they get to vote again in September. What is it about the EU that makes people want to keep voting on the same thing until people vote the right way?
Anyway tata for now benny!
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 12:00, Reply)

Could you quantify it? How many millions unemployed? How many quarters of negative growth? That sort of thing
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 12:17, Reply)

where the bill is passed to and from lower and upper house, you know, democracy. Except the upper house in the EU is elected.
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 14:15, Reply)

I'll just have to keep being a boring sod complaining about it until they stop trying to pass it.
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 14:31, Reply)

You:
- patronising cunt
People who understand:
- yes he is
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 18:21, Reply)

( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 19:03, Reply)

When did everyone start talking like children?
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He didn't invent infinite scroll. What utter utter shite. It's been around since the 90s.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 16:16, Reply)

that's why my anti-social media network failed, I designed it specifically for lonely middle-aged men to pour out their frustrations to the empty void. The first funding round went well, because all the VCs were target audience. It just didn't grow as I hoped. Still, the original VCs are still writing some lovely stuff about sheds.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 21:29, Reply)

Oh Putin you scamp...
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 7:20, Reply)

Thousands of footballs cascading on to the pitch.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 16:45, Reply)

( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 13:12, Reply)

Ok here's mine for shits n giggles.
These two are actually the Russian agents that poisoned the Skripals and have been dosed by MI5 as part of a wetwork op.
It could just be bad skag but you don't normally get Porton Down involved in those cases.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 15:45, Reply)

I ask for a friend....
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 16:53, Reply)

Could be botulism.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 16:40, Reply)

Edit: it is being reported as the same chemical agent as the last time out.
Thankfully I don't believe in conspiracy theories, so am waiting for the official spin on things so I can sleep at night.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 20:46, Reply)

The depressing crip life not the gangster crip life.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 5:23, Reply)

I sometimes think you need to go a bit broader than just making jokes about yourself, but then I remember there's quite a few successful comedians that have made a career out of doing exactly that. So don't listen to me
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 6:00, Reply)

"Keighley Avenue's street signs were
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 0:25, Reply)

pedants who complain about changing an e to an n and adding a t.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 6:02, Reply)

Baz and some pissed off German hooligans get into some mischief...
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 15:15, Reply)

due another posting.
I've got a rat-tle.
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 14:50, Reply)

G.C from 6 years ago, I think we can afford a repost.
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 14:16, Reply)

I reckon it is Jean Boht.
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 14:06, Reply)

( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 18:00, Reply)

3/12
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 1:53, Reply)

I'd lay Kerry (arrf) It's so obviously Katie:
www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6687136/katie-price-children-celebrity-mum-foster-care/
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 23:21, Reply)

So it's to be expected.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 9:08, Reply)

Bit bored this morning so I did this daft thing. NSFW mild swearies.
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 13:27, Reply)

Synth noodling and whatever like kraftwerk only British
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 13:21, Reply)

Still very nice though.
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 23:17, Reply)


A significant advance in cockney technology that'll allow you generate Dyerisms from your phone or desktop or phablet.
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 9:35, Reply)

the mad riddle button is handy for when the wife is ranting
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 9:49, Reply)

You should tweet and ask if he'll record you a "Xylophone Buggery!" for old time's sake.
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 10:15, Reply)

i like to swipe my hand across the keyboard for that pub full of Dyer feeling
( , Tue 3 Jul 2018, 18:30, Reply)

having making my own techno loop of bongo christs with a twat backbeat
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 8:02, Reply)
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