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Tommy Robinson is the co-founder and former spokesman and leader of the English Defence League (EDL) "street protest" movement, and also founded the European Defence League. For a short time in 2012 Robinson was joint Party Vice Chairman of the British Freedom Party. He led the EDL from 2009 until 8 October 2013, when he was persuaded to quit the organisation and to discuss alternative ways of tackling extremism with the think tank Quilliam. ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Union is the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 189 years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just in Oxford University, but across the globe. The Oxford Union is deeply grateful and encouraged by the messages of support in response to our determination to uphold free speech. During our 200 year history, many have tried to shut us down. As the effects of self-imposed censorship on university campuses, social media and the arts show no signs of dissipating, the importance of upholding free speech remains as critical today as it did when we were founded in 1823.

Tommy Robinson’s Panodrama documentary on BBC Panorama which had over one million views on Facebook before it was BANNED along with his entire Facebook profile and Instagram account after midday on 23rd February 2019. (MIRROR COPY)

Tommy catalogues the long train of abuses levied against him, by the Met Police and the British Establishment, from 2005 to 2015.

A Pseudo-Documentary about the competition between Sinclair and Acorn over the contract with the BBC for a new microcomputer. It's amped up for dramatic entertainment's sake, and seem to have invented a rivalry between Curry and Clive Sinclair, but the basic idea of the history is all still there. The guy they got to play Clive Sinclair is terribly cartoonish, and the bald-cap is ridiculous. But if you can look past that, it's not bad.

Delve into the historical significance of the UNIX operating system through this archival footage from AT&T, showcasing the development and features of this pioneering technology. Let Brian Kernighan explain the UNIX OS to you, and it's many uses.

This is what really attracted me to computers originally. I almost became a game composer because of it.

Shortly after the release of Pong for the home market, Atari (ever the insecure startup) launched "Project Mood" trying to get into other areas of home entertainment, before committing to game machines fully. The result of that project was the "Atari Video Music" system, released in late 1977. It was a $900 (in current money) bit of stereo kit that would pump psychedelic visuals to your television set, driven by the audio from your stereo system. The company first pitched the device to Sears. The Sears representative asked what the developers were smoking when they invented it. With that, a technician stepped forward **holding up a lit joint**. And with that, Atari became the very first company ever in history, to Drop The Bass.

So, I'm reposting here, the demo I posted a few days ago. Only this time, it's re-captured using a different device. The original capture was done with a $200 device that was supposed to be capable of 4K (although I don't own any 4K devices), and had multiple HDMI input capability. This capture was done with $14 Amazon dongle. It's WAY BETTER, both in terms of video resolution and color, AND in terms of audio capture: better frequency range and better dynamic response. This video is proof that price isn't necessarily an indicator of anything.

This is also a pretty dope chiptune! I got jealous of the SID chiptune I posted, and decided to offset it with this POKEY chiptune. This has some pretty amazing graphics, as well, thanks to the ANTIC and the GTIA. If someone were to combine the SID, the ANTIC, and the G/CTIA into one 6502 machine, I think you'd have the perfect 8 bit machine.

This music was so similar to the original Moon Patrol music that I couldn't help myself! Thanks To: * hirudov2d for the masterful gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mESUbgU_Pg * beeble for the absolutely amazing chiptune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsOvdrnBYA

How to transfer text data to and from your Tandy 100/102

Wherein I do a very quick thumbnail sketch examination of 4 terminal editors, and evaluate them in comparison to each other

I put FreeDOS 1.3 on my Lenovo T460 Laptop, and outfitted it with a wide array of excellent applications, which I pulled from WinWorldPC.com.

Some remarkable, and hilarious, predictions in this video. Especially interesting from a socio-economic perspective.

This is a demonstration of the keyboard on the Tandy Model 100/102. The travel is slightly spongy, but the action is very smooth, and the response on the display is instantaneous. The key caps are smooth-topped rather than cupped, which is slightly problematic, but otherwise, it's a great keyboard! The previous version had misaligned audio/video. I also cropped this a bit, to save on video size. If you're looking for an Atari video, not everything on this channel is about Atari. Just most of it ;) Also, pardon the laundry washing machine noises. Things have to get done!

Finnish-made documentary about GNU/Linux, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software (FOSS) movement.

In 1996, PBS aired a documentary of Accidental Empires called Triumph of the Nerds, and on camera, the players who had previously whispered their secrets to Cringely began to shout them. An IBM lifer, Sam Albert, sang a hearty IBM company fight song in duet with Cringely - and, famously, Steve Jobs bluntly declared that he thought Microsoft made mediocre products, a salvo that caused a rift between Jobs and Gates. By last year, the two men had mended fence. Gates gave Apple $150 million, and Apple and Microsoft shook on a joint licensing agreement. Yet in Cringely's new PBS documentary, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet, which premieres November 25, Jobs again spoils for trouble, saying the Web is "exciting" chiefly because "Microsoft doesn't own it, so there's an incredible amount of innovation going on." Why do they all open up to a man who concedes that he is "just a little bit dangerous"? Cringely knows why. "I've been on the periphery of the room in every room they've ever been in, and I've been asking questions for 20 years," he says. Besides, he explains, "Bill likes our interviews because I don't bore him, and that probably is true for Steve as well." This is not to say that Cringely doesn't sometimes get on people's nerves. He has been flamed by WebTV grannies who resent his dismissal of their high tech toy, and by "very, very fervent" Macintosh users who resent any criticism at all. Cringely was thrilled when Gates tried to disprove an anecdote from Accidental Empires. In the book, Gates goes to a convenience store in 1990 (net worth at the time: $3 billion) to get a tub of butter pecan ice cream. At the checkout counter, he can't find a 50-cents-off coupon he had brought, and as he searches and searches, a frustrated customer farther back in line finally tosses him two quarters, which Gates takes. The customer calls out, "Pay me back when you earn your first million." Gates told Cringely the story couldn't be true because coupons come in the daily newspaper, and he doesn't get a daily newspaper. "He wanted me to buy it!" Cringely marvels. "Why? Who am I to him?" As it happens, Bob Cringely is not really Robert X. Cringely - or rather, he is not the only Robert X. Cringely. He was born Mark Stephens, and grew up in Apple Creek, Ohio. His mother was a librarian, his father was a labor union organizer, and he has an older brother and a younger sister, who both work in the computer industry today. Cringely built two small planes with his father before he was 14, and as a teenager, he decided he wanted to study in England, and found himself a scholarship to a tony old boarding school near Liverpool called the Merchant Taylors' School. He got his pilot's license there as part of the school's compulsory military training. "British tax dollars paid to teach me to fly," he gloats.

Robert X. Cringely (formerly of InfoWorld), produced this documentary for PBS after leaving the magazine.

LOL. "We don't want our faces on camera!" Then walk the fuck away, idiot! According to Brendan, the idiot apparatchik Met Police have now cordoned off the piano, and posted guards by it.

In memorial of Dr. Sugrue, who passed away this week. I have no other details, than that he was very sick, and succumbed to his illness. This man's YouTube channel is a goldmine of philosophical training. His lectures are orders of magnitude better than most classroom lectures I've actually paid for. To seem more, go to his channel, here: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.michaelsugrue/videos

A re-evaluation of the political circumstances that lead to the secession of the southern states

Immediately after Allan Bloom published The Closing Of The American Mind, everyone wanted a piece of him. Especially TV pundits on the right. Though Bloom himself was a deeply liberal (and gay) author, scholar, and educator, he could see the writing on the wall: the fixation that his "team" had on "democratising" higher education, and its obsession with unworkable notions of abstract "equality" were destroying the culture. And he wanted to stop it.

A two-part lecture delivered at Gonzaga College in 2011. I have stitched them together into a single presentation here.