Islamic Terrorists Take Hostages in Sydney

[The Brain]

Where's the beef??!

[dps]

From the latest BBC updates:

Police have stormed the cafe where the gunman has been holding a number of people hostage, AP and Reuters news agencies say.

Police say they believe the man who seized hostages is Man Haron Monis - an Iranian-born cleric who has been granted asylum in Australia.
He is well known to the Australian police. The cleric is currently on bail for being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife and is facing more than 40 sexual and indecent assault charges. Man Haron Monis is currently on bail for a string of violent offences and has a conviction for sending offensive letters to the families of deceased Australian soldiers.


Sounds like a real charmer 

How the hell did he get convicted of being obnoxious by mail but not for murder, sexual assault and indecent assault?

Sending offensive letters shouldn't be a crime anyway.

[Razgovory]

How the hell did he get convicted of being obnoxious by mail but not for murder, sexual assault and indecent assault?

Because proving he sent something in the mail is easier then proving indecent assault.

[CountDeMoney]

How the hell did he get convicted of being obnoxious by mail but not for murder, sexual assault and indecent assault?

Probably because he wasn't convicted yet, just awaiting trial and out on bail.  Seems like a pretty light pre-trial release system down there.  Must be guilt from that whole penal colony thing back in the day.

[The Brain]

lol penal

[Caliga]

That must have been an interesting FB conversation, and alarming.

Not to mention monstrous.

I was talking to him again just now and he's telling me how everyone is calling this Australia's 9/11, but since he was in America for the real 9/11 he's pretty jaded and feels bad about that fact.

[CountDeMoney]

I was talking to him again just now and he's telling me how everyone is calling this Australia's 9/11, but since he was in America for the real 9/11 he's pretty jaded and feels bad about that fact.

Oh, please.  This isn't even Australia's Port Arthur.  Hell, this isn't even Australia's Last Weekend in Chicago.

[Jacob]

Uber - in yet another PR coup - turns on surge pricing for people trying to get away from the area with the gunman.



... and yeah, they knew what was going on:



http://gawker.com/uber-turned-on-surge-pricing-for-people-fleeing-sydney-1671193132?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

[CountDeMoney]

It's simply the demands of the market, Jacob.  Let it work its magic.

[Caliga]

There's this giant pile of flowers outside the cafe and he keeps taking pictures of it from his office window as it gets bigger and bigger.  It's like blobbing out or something.  I expect to see Matt Dillon show up soon and drive a truck of liquid nitrogen into it.

[Ideologue]

Uber - in yet another PR coup - turns on surge pricing for people trying to get away from the area with the gunman.



... and yeah, they knew what was going on:



http://gawker.com/uber-turned-on-surge-pricing-for-people-fleeing-sydney-1671193132?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

...Golly.

[garbon]

I wonder how is it that Uber is so tone deaf? Where are their marketing and PR people?

[Jacob]

I wonder how is it that Uber is so tone deaf? Where are their marketing and PR people?

I know you're not fond of Seedy's socio-economic analysis, but I do think there's some truth to his contention that Silicon Valley is full of dumbass nerd-bros in love with their own egos and shallow randist libertarianism.

They've never been outside their bubble before they were validated with millions of dollars through the start-up bonanza, so they assume the world actually functions the way they envisioned when having profound stoned conversations in first year uni after taking Econ 101.

[viper37]

I wonder how is it that Uber is so tone deaf? Where are their marketing and PR people?

they're geeks.  They don't do marketing, only coding.

[garbon]

I wonder how is it that Uber is so tone deaf? Where are their marketing and PR people?

they're geeks.  They don't do marketing, only coding.

Because, geeks can't hire staff to perform functions that they can't handle?

@Jacob - I guess so. It is harder for me to wrap my head around as those that I knew never struck me as so offensive(?) / seemed that they had enough sense to know where their talents lay and their limits.