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Gutnick has a reputation in Australia of always wanting everything. Last time he was in the news here was because of the rift he created in the Melbourne football club as CEO and was booted out. Melbourne were playing in the grand final and he didn't attend because it was the sabbath. The guy has got money and he never backs down.

I can see the headlines now, Gutnic vs Anonymous Coward.

See also abc.net.au news

The US press is strangely silent on this issue. Perhaps they're puppets of the Bush Regime. So enlighten me. Can you name one person executed in the US under the age of 18 in the past fifty years?

Here's a couple of references for you.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/s264021.htm

http://www.ncadp.org/html/juvenile_case_-_10_20.ht ml

And a quote from http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/1998/25109298.htm

The USA has executed nine juvenile offenders since 1990, half the known world total in the same period. The other nine executions were carried out in five countries -- Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Over 70 prisoners remain on death row in the USA for crimes committed when they were 16 or 17 years old.

Maybe you should be asking why the US press is so quiet. Most of the results a quick Google search turned up are from Australian sites.

HDTV is designed to distract the average consumer from the fact that the government has legislated away the possibility of using the spectrum much more efficiently allowing a lot more competition.

From the CNNNN website,

"Bringing you other people's pain"
"We report the news, you believe".

I did some searching and apparently the Australian Broadcasting Company is also running the same story. Its not exactly the same, but there are direct quotes between the two.

Does anyone know if SMH is a partner company? Same company?

Does anyone know who had the story first?

-- AcquaCow

I did some searching and apparently the Australian Broadcasting Company is also running the same story. Its not exactly the same, but there are direct quotes between the two.

Does anyone know if SMH is a partner company? Same company?

Does anyone know who had the story first?

-- AcquaCow

The ABC reports that anti-World Trade Organisation activists say they have been vindicated by an official investigation into two protest web sites.

The Australian Broadcasting Authority has given the Melbourne Indymedia and S11 sites the all-clear after complaints they were inciting violence against police.

The ABC reports that anti-World Trade Organisation activists say they have been vindicated by an official investigation into two protest web sites.

The Australian Broadcasting Authority has given the Melbourne Indymedia and S11 sites the all-clear after complaints they were inciting violence against police.

Because Americans, by and large, are morons.

Not so. This video clip (by Australians) show that the average American know a number of interesting things;

- Hiroshima and Nagasaki are famous for judo wrestling
- the major religion in Israel is islam
- the "Axis of Evil" countries are Mississippi, Florida, and Jerusalem
- Tony Blair is an actor and a skater
- the West Bank is located in New York
- Star Wars is based on a true story

We'd never know this if it weren't for Americans.

Link to the clip (RealMedia)

A few years back someone found they could get other people's details from the Australian Tax Office's site by manipulating the URL (that's the impression I got anyway). An ultra-quick googling turned this up. What happened to this guy? I can't remember. All I can remember is that he sounded really embarrassed when he was being interviewed and was referred to as a "hacker".

I believe Australia also banned handguns a few years ago

No, Australia did not ban handguns. The guns used in yesterday's shootings were legally registered to the shooter.

I'm pretty sure that real LN2 cooling systems (i.e. not a cardboard tube :-p) use a recirculating arrangement, so a single resevoir of LN2 is used to cool the chip. You can use a compressor to rechill it, or there are other methods. Personally, my favorite method of cooling is the Peltier effect. Basically, a voltage applied across a loop of two dissimilar materials will create a temperature gradient, i.e. one junction will get hot and the other will get cold. The result is a solid-state cooler with no moving parts that you could probably build on chip. The drawbacks are that Peltier coolers aren't super powerful, but to someone who is interested in unusual physical phenomena, that doesn't diminish their coolness factor. (no pun intended)

Surely you jest. LIbraries are the oldest and ultimate repository of geek-ness. WHat could be more 31337.

Interestingly, the world's first library just reopened a couple of days ago.

Or you could visit this extraordinary place.

Seriously, how do people defend Bush? Clinton was a crappy president in a lot of ways (DMCA, weapons treaties, etc) and so is Bush.

You do realise that your country is holding people prisoner in Cuba in violation of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of Prisoners of War (and don't be nice to them!), right? And that your country has decided that doing something about the Greenhouse Effect is too expensive? Or that letting other countries try your soldiers on war crimes is too hard? And that getting rid of weapons of mass destruction is good, unless they're yours

Not that my country is innocent; Little Johnny locks up kids in the desert and uses the navy to storm refugee ships and then pays other countries to take the refugees of our hands.

Som writers don't seem to mind their name all over toilet paper poems and novels.

Funny quote:
"We want our books to be used," he said. "That's our philosophy."

Gives a whole new meaning to pulp fiction.

Need more evidence? Then find it yourself.

For those of you curious enough to listen to the best radio station in the world, you can hear it over the web; go to JJJ and follow the links. No Ads!! Great Variety of Music!! Free Steak Knives...

US market slumps sees Dow Jones hit four-year low.

Dow Industrials Plunge to Near Five-Year Low at Midmorning

Dow Falls 162 in Morning Trading

U.S. stocks tumble after weak economic news

U.S. Stock Markets [all down]

NASDAQ STOCK MKT

While scientists only recently started promising getting bigger penises in a serious way, they have been announcing get rich quick schemes and a cure for cancer for a century, and people keep falling for it. Science even has its tabloid press, of which The New Scientist and certain section of Nature are a good example (but Nature at least also contains a lot of good science).

good lord... where were these guys when john bobbit was in need?

I would like to know how the doctors measured the "stiffness" of the bunny member after the procedure. What exactly is the "unit' of measurment used? I suppose they could use torque to see at what point the angle of the dangle ceases to remain static. Here are a few other methods of really measuring stiffness.

I'm glad that I didn't go into the medical field -- how do you explain to your wife or husband that you were playing with erectile tissue all day at the office.

This
interview with Ralph Bodenstein, who worked with him on a universoty project in Hamburg, gives an interesting look at Atta's mindset. See also
Hamburg's Cauldron of Terror.

The more they cap usage, the less people will use (obviously). Then content providers such as streaming radio stations will start to drop off as it becomes more expensive for users to access them.

After that it becomes a vicious circle, with fewer content providers, there's no reason for users to keep their service. Then the ISPs go broke.

Take a look at the Australian example. Almost all broadband providers have a 3Gb monthly cap. The ABC has just started an internet-only radio station, but I really wonder why. It wouldn't take too many days of listening to it for a user to totally max out their cap. I predict the station will be closed due to lack of interest, within a year.

> "A dingo ate my project" is a play on the phrase "maybe a dingo ate your baby" which was used as a joke in an episode of Seinfeld. That's based on the line "The dingo's got my baby!" from "A Cry in the Dark [imdb.com]" and was said by Meryl Streep.

an american might see it that way but here in australia that is seen as a very low joke as there was a major investigation after a women claimed her child was attacked by a dingo in central australia

1980 Aug 19 Northern Territory: Police kill 2 dingoes after 10-week old baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a camp at Ayers Rock, believed taken by dingoes linky

Pothos are plants they do great on neglect- they do fine in low light and not-so frequent watering.

As always, Google gives us some good articles.

You can grow just about everything if you buy a small florescent bulb- you can get them pretty cheap. Mount it under a cabinet/shelf on your desk, and leave it on when you're at work. No need to buy a more expensive "grow lamp" either, unless you really want to encourage flowering. The only diff between grow lamps and regular florescent lamps is that grow lamps output more than regulars on the red band, which encourages flowering. (think end-of-summertime sun)

I enjoy a good drink like any late night nerd does. But it is too easy to "OD" on caffeine without knowing it. I have some links to provide food for thought;

An interesting page about liquid candy

Some deaths associated with red bull/energy drinks

Another caffeine death

I am not saying give up your drinks. But I am saying be smart about it. Don't drink/eat so much caffeine that you make yourself feel miserable with the symptoms of too much caffeine. while it is thought that 10 grams is a fatal overdose, I would be willing to bet that a fraction of that can make you feel pretty miserable and is very easily reached with some of the caffeinated drinks/candies/pills out there. A couple liters of mountain dew, four red bulls, and a handful of penguine mints or any combination thereof places you at about 1 gram.

It goes without saying drinking alcohol at the same time exacerbates things.

Also, caffeine is not a substitute for sleep. There are reasons that the body needs to sleep. So if you are depriving your body of sleep for whatever reason you need to start asking yourself what your priorities are. Sleep "binging" where you go without sleep all week and catch up on the weekends is also unhealthy, but this is another topic in itself.

This post is not intended to be medical advice. See your doctor if you have any questions/symptoms. Yada yada yada.

Well, if you have access to the bandwidth, try streaming Triple J.

It's an Australian station, free-to-air (but internet streamed as well), and government funded, with a mandate to service the "youth" market. In it's FM, free-to-air form, it generally holds between 5% and 15% of market share in the 15-30 age bracket (depending on location).

Don't let the government funding discourage you - the only notable side effect is the fact that there are no ads (other than station ID's, and the occasional concert/competition promo). There is a reasonable current affairs show that runs 9am-12am (AEDT, GMT+10), and it is often critical of government policy.

It's very indy-centric (you won't _ever_ hear Brittney or N'Sync), so the playlist contains lots of Aussie independent bands with a history of putting on good gigs, and they only rarely step into the 80's, and then only for some Stranglers or Violent Femmes - don't expect to hear any Ultravox.

The DJ's are also very refreshing - very low key, laid back, not afraid to get down, dirty and swear, or get intellectual just for a change. None of that "All top 40 rock, all the time" overproduced, overhyped BS that seems to overflow on commercial stations.

Unfortunately, they only stream RealPlayer or Windows Media Player - but IHMO they're well worth the listen. Or, if you're in Australia, turn on the radio, and pick it up on the old transistor...

Russ %-)

At least according to this book. There is also an interesting interview with the author here.

When it comes to deep, conceptual signs, I totally agree though -- it ain't got a chance. The ultimate goal is to make day-to-day things easier, not to replace skilled interpreters. I don't think you're ever going to see a Deaf person get on stage with some automated gloves and talk to an audience. But just as -- in English -- the average person's daily vocabulary is a few thousand words, this system may still be useful enough to level the playing field for the Deaf.

The Deaf I've spoken to are eager to see the technology mature. They raise questions like cost, reliability, etc. They like the idea, the issue seems to be the implementation.

Right now, of course, it only works in Signed English mode: one sign == one word. But the hope is to move to translation. BTW, I really don't like the CNN story -- it's probably too sensationalised. A much better article can be found at ABC online.

Why don't hearing people learn to sign? Because learning sign language is hard: I know English, French, Arabic, and a little bit of Auslan. By far Auslan is the hardest language to learn -- mainly because you're using your hands and eyes. When I was learning, I used to have signing dreams and I'd sometimes wake up finding my hands moving. Perhaps this is some kind of indication of how mentally demanding that is.

To start off - try JJJ which is an Australian alternativish station. For cool beats try Xanu FM.

This story discusses an Australian shoe company putting up sexually provocative billboards in the expectation of provoking complaints from the various wowser groups and thus getting themselves a bunch of free publicity. Cheap and effective.

Alternately, try ABC Aust news story here.
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Looks like it has changed to http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/07/item20020731071 211_1.htm

Enjoy.

The hyperlink into Mama appears to be broken, try this one instead.

If you go here to see video...really cool footage.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/07/30/video/2002 07 30pm_rocket.ram

As much as we all hate Goatse links there is quite a strange link between Goatse and this article.

Goatse is hosted on the cx domain. Christmas Island, which may one day be a space port It also another part of Austalia's dirty "Illegal immigrant" refugee handling system of which Woomera is another part.

Just remember you are not Australian if you can remember the words to the national anthem and know who the first prime minister was.

As much as we all hate Goatse links there is quite a strange link between Goatse and this article.

Goatse is hosted on the cx domain. Christmas Island, which may one day be a space port It also another part of Austalia's dirty "Illegal immigrant" refugee handling system of which Woomera is another part.

Just remember you are not Australian if you can remember the words to the national anthem and know who the first prime minister was.

I spent some time looking for the origional crash report. Mentioned in this page
ABC News Space
At the moment I can't get the report maybe later

[1] Yes I know its not really a rocket.

Another route to what would seem to be the right page is here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/07/item20020730140 728_1.htm

Here's a URL for the ABC that should work.

http://abc.net.au/news/australia/qld/metqld-30jul2 002-15.htm

It doesn't really say much that the UQ page hasn't already but at least it confirms where those /. editors got their headline.

First link doesn't work for me... this appears to be correct.

This
Follow Up story again on thaABC is about the ACCC (Australian Compitition and Consumer Commision0 looking at this ruling and Sony to see if region coding is illegal in Australia.

Original link didn't seem to work for me. Try this.

The correct ABC link is here.

http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s603070.htm
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/10/045020 3&mode=nested&tid=153

If you want to know more about life in antarctica, and the realities of being a doctor, a friend of mine resigned a top surgeon's job to spend a year in antartica as medical officer (plus dentist, plus hairdresser).

Great diary, the real issues of life at the south pole, great photos... have a read of Ingrid On Ice

All the news I want to see I get online or on JJJ (Australia's national alternative radio station - ad-free).

I actively filter ads with my squid proxy so I don't get them online either.

Life is good, ad-free.

I have difficulty understanding how the idea of interrupting programs at all was ever thought to be acceptable. In Australia, the public broadcaster has no ads, and the next best thing is limited by its charter to five minutes' ads per hour, strictly between programs. These channels are my staples, and I find the commercial networks totally infuriating as they are. (Channel Nine is doing more and more scrolly-ads on top of prime time shows now, too...)

Here's the correct link, but there's not THAT much to learn.

The story has moved off teh main page and is now archived in the weekly section here

The URL doesn't seem to work. this one does.

As it seems speaking your mind is less and less accepted. Ones again the church is at the frontier of squelzing ideas and expressions they don't like.
And more and more I get the idea the world is on a one-way road to new dark-ages..