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And yes, the stone fish is the world's most venomous.

Looking at Google, I'm seeing lots of conflicting stories about the good old stone fish. Most state that it is the most venomous, but "can often be deadly". I've definitely seen Aussie documentaries that are perhaps understating the dangers. This one states to immerse foot in hot water, which I have heard disables the venom.

This site suggests that death by heart failure can occur.

The deadly (female sydney) funnelweb is a fairly small spider though, and I'm pretty sure it's not very closely related to the tarantula

I saw something on TV recently that claimed that they were. This site suggests it, along with many others, are being incorrectly called tarantulas. Here's an interesting site, stating that they're not tarantulas.

A hard earned thirst needs a big cold beer!

That gives me hope. What would your average MetaFilistine do?

They can lose and win at the same time. Some history

What is in a name?

Dr Dobbs ran an article on this a point is though they won their court case, they lost their business and with court costs and business debt they didn't really win anything.
What is the total legal bill here?

This list is long and it isn't hurting microsoft or the lawyers on both sides currently. So they can lose and still win.

On your second very true. It is a case of which evil will you support today?

You sir "extrarice" [if that is your real name] are a complete moron. All you had to do to be ontopic was to say how many computers you sleep with, and whether or not they have Linux and Mozilla on them.
I sleep with 2 computers in my room, and one of them's a Dell. I only keep it because it makes my homebuilt computer look like a GOD next to it. If I had any more desk space, I would fill it too with computers, perhaps even a Commodore 64 to go with my colour Commodore monitor/TV that I have hooked to my VCR. I used to keep an 8086 Epson laptop around for emergency use with my UPS, but I ran out of floor space in my dorm room, so it is sitting at home with the parent's computer museum collection. [An unimpressive website currently, sorry.]

check out this link: cool article

Each shuttle engine can be and has been flown on many different shuttles. These numbers are sometimes given in the status reports. Check out this page to see a list of what engines flew on what shuttles. I would post the list here, but it won't get past the lameness filter.

Well, I was worried a little bit, since I don't remember the acid in the first place,.. but I did find the reference I remember.

It was in a popularized science book named The Road to teh Stars by Iain Nicolson (Copyright 1978, Morrow). It references the Daedalus Project pursued by the British Interplanetary Society.

As I remembered, the idea was to use small pellets of deuterium which would be exploded via bombardment of electron beams. See the link for more details about the project. As YuppieScum mentioned, there was also a similar design called Project Orion from the early 1960's, I think.

Now if I could only remember those acid trips everyone is positive I took.....

Well, I was worried a little bit, since I don't remember the acid in the first place,.. but I did find the reference I remember.

It was in a popularized science book named The Road to teh Stars by Iain Nicolson (Copyright 1978, Morrow). It references the Daedalus Project pursued by the British Interplanetary Society.

As I remembered, the idea was to use small pellets of deuterium which would be exploded via bombardment of electron beams. See the link for more details about the project. As YuppieScum mentioned, there was also a similar design called Project Orion from the early 1960's, I think.

Now if I could only remember those acid trips everyone is positive I took.....

Shirow's primarily a comics artist, not an animator. As far as I can tell, Black Magic M-66 is the only anime in which his involvement went much beyond allowing one of his manga to be adapted or providing character or concept designs. (See also this biography.) (Ghost in the Shell is Oshii Mamoru's adaptation of (part of) Shirow's manga of the same name.)

• some history for you.
• the US govt imprisons more of its own citizens per capita than any other country in the world, and the number of children in us prisons is on the rise. Many of these prisons would rate as "horrific", especially for kids.
• There are many documented instances of the US gassing their own people. here's just one and didn't the russians just gas their own people too? and for the record those kurds supposedly gassed by Iraq were actually gassed by Iran with US and british supplied weapons.
• actually the US does execute miltary officers by the hundreds. in fact the US executed thousands of retreating iraqi soldiers in 1991. Not onlty that but the US is guilty of political assasination, car bombing, torture, and general mayhem associated with their ongoing war of terror. I mean Nixon and Kissinger and Rumsfeld actually extended the vietnam war (95% civillian casualties) by years just to get Nixon elected.
• and finally to say the US doesn't repress free speech is too much of a joke. even google is staffed by NSA spooks. self censorship is at an all time high - wake up and smell what your are shovelling. If the press in the US were really free you'd probably know a bit more about your own evil soaked government and their clients.

- Demand regime change in the USA now.

yes, that Porsche notebook looks like some crap from the 80s. In fact, it looks more like a Delorian notebook.

I thought GHB was involved in setting up the Bay of Pigs invasion.

I just finished Kindergarten, where we learned our ABC's, and I've invented an alphabet that can be read 7 times as fast, with only one third the effort. Why didn't some PhD come up with this before?

There are alphabets that are better than Latin in some respect. Take Tengwar for instance. The script is designed along sound phonological principles (no pun intended): voiced consonants, fricatives, and nasals have a predictable change in shape from the basic voiceless stops (p, t, c, q). It's been adapted to at least English, Sindarin, Quenya, Polish, Lojban, Esperanto, and Toki Pona. On the other hand, some people have expressed increased dyslexia due to use of Tengwar.

Kids, next time when you want to find the meaning for the (presumably) Spanish word "hupia", don't google, don't click on the third link and no, don't download the page even through Google's cache. You'll be violating a couple of copyright laws, not the least of which is the Copyright extension thing.

I mean, we still haven't seen any "Michael Crichton is dead at 58" trolls, have we?

Holy shit, d00d! This chicks a phuK1N H000-AH! So does Andrew Dice Clay tip nicely when he's done j1zzin all over j00r fAc3 8eey4cH?

2: Using a large solenoid to magnetically rip apart an aluminum can (can is placed in the center of the circle of wires and large AC is momentarily applied)

sweet! i want to try that one. or any of these.

>Why does everybody want to vote on-line?

This is simple. Jean Chretien is straining to leave a "legacy" behind in this country after 3 terms of heavy-handed rule. He doesn't like what his opposition paints as his legacy -- A liar on the GST "The GST is history!", a thug with his shawinigan handshake, a bumbling moron infront of cameras, a person who can't even keep himself safe from break-ins no matter how much security he can pay for, a man who puts the lives of the Canadian military in jeopardy without them even being on a mission, a man who can't handle being wrong, a man who doesn't believe in your chartered right to free speech, a man who wrongfully invests your money, a man who supports things by doing nothing, such as the CD-Levy that assumes all Canadians are criminals, and the anti-piracy laws that leave at least 3 million Canadians with the inability to be multicultural in their television watching.

The rubber suit is wearing thin, finally.

1. Somebody tried to use a non-Roman god but couldn't remember the name of that winged Aztec creature...

Obviously, you don't google before posting. A quaoar is different from a Quetzalcóatl.

Interestingly there are a few problems with the name Persephone. All of the major planets are named for Roman gods; Persephone is the Greek name for the goddess in Latin called Proserpina.

Second, there is the suggestion that Clarke (or maybe Asimov) made before Charon was discovered: he suggested that Pluto's moon, if one were ever discovered, be named Persephone, and that the name Charon be given to any trans-Plutonian planet, with I think Cerberus being reserved for any moons of that planet. That way someone from outside the system would have to pass Charon and Cerberus (or maybe it was Styx) to get to Pluto and Persephone.

See the Space Telescope Institute's Press Release for more information about Quaoar; on the name, this link may be of use; it looks like Quaoar is a name from mythology, albeit indigenous American mythology, which makes it consistent with the names of the minor planets and moons (which do not need to be named after Roman gods; the moons of Uranus are even named after characters from Shakespeare : e.g., Oberon and Titania from Much Ado About Nothing, and Ariel and Miranda from The Tempest).

The convention seems to be deities but not necessarily Roman ones.

Quaoar seems to be a native american one. See here.

so says this site:
Quaoar: Their only god who "came down from heaven; and, after reducing chaos to order, out the world on the back of seven giants. He then created the lower animals," and then mankind. Los Angeles County Indians, California

For those who can't use Google:

Quaoar Their only god who "came down from heaven; and, after reducing chaos to order, out the world on the back of seven giants. He then created the lower animals," and then mankind. Los Angeles County Indians, California

http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Gods/Qg ods.html

[Sanskrit]...Is a written language. Nobody speaks it.

Not quite. Most Advaitists (as opposed to certain fundamentalist Hindus) start their day by reciting the Gayatri Mantra, which, you guessed it, is in Sanskrit. :-)

Ben Franklin warned us that, "He who gives up liberty for a little temporary security deserves neither liberty nor security."

It is amazing how far from the constitution America has wandered.

I ripped the following from the TAFA website but it is right on
Due Process:
DEFINITION: The legal process by which U.S. citizens are promised a fair trial in the U.S. Constitution Article XVI Paragraph 1. U.S. Citizens are promised "The Equal Protection of Law" in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. These rights have been reaffirmed in numerous federal court cases. A successful civil rights lawsuit against the "State" for unlawful deprivation of law was reaffirmed in "Gault vs Arizona," 87 SupCt 1428

1. The RIGHT to receive notice of charges.
2. The RIGHT of the assistance of Counsel.
3. The RIGHT to confront your accuser and to cross-examination of the complainants.
4. The RIGHT to exercise a privilege against self-incrimination.
5. The RIGHT to a transcript of the proceedings and,
6. The RIGHT to appellate review.
7. The RIGHT to subpoena witnesses and subpoena documentary evidence to support your position or contradict evidence presented against you.
8. The RIGHT to "Trial by Jury of Citizens at Common Law."
9. The RIGHT to receive Equal Protection of the Law.
10. The RIGHT to a "Presumption of Innocence" prior to trial.
11. The RIGHT to raise as an "Affirmative Defense" the protection of the U.S. and State Constitution Bill of Rights.
12. The RIGHT to raise as an "Affirmative Defense" any defense expressly created in statute and case law precedent.
13. The RIGHT to sue any U.S. citizen for "Unlawful Deprivation of any constitutional, statutory, or administrative right."
14. The RIGHT of access and use of any taxpayer-funded law library, government building, and courtroom.

P.S. can anyone show me where in teh constitution it says anything about seperation of church and state? There is that statement that congress shall make no law ....

A little Constitutional law will go a long way ......

my midi jukebox uses refresh, but to most people its useless. :)

Anti-cliche of a lone band of outlaws who are actually "good guys" and find a girl in a box who winds up being the most empowered woman in the universe is sooo cliche. All I want is good story telling, even if it is a rehashed fomula.

That being said, can anyone send me a VCD of it? I don't have Tivo, and I'll be away from my TV tonight attending a wedding.

Cats are the real evil... didn't you know that?

No good christian has a cat as a pet, and if they slipped up and got one by mistake, they should kill it. That is what the article says, and cites many bible references to support it.

read the history of automatons and youll be impressed. Plus, its a monkey smoking a hookah, how can you not want to see that?

Estes has been doing this since the sixties. :)
see.

Jehovah's Witnesses: The happiest people in the world

Unless they are cat owners

In which case, if they want to follow the word of God, they should "pelt him with stones, and he must die".

I'm not making this up! This isn't a satire site I linked to. This is a real JW advising other's to kill their cats, or face burning in hell forever.

How to speak Australian I personally nominate Kazaa!

And then read the reviews of that review here and here

I had no idea the band Tokio was so multi-talented!

I am an advocate of free speech, full disclosure etc., of course. But that's not all. The Internet wizards are watching this censorship movement overall and think they have it under control. They have built in low-level protocols (in very clever ways) which ensure that censorship cannot work . But, in my opinion, they have forgotten that most people don't have their skills or knowledge. Sure, unless a country 'cuts the wire' there are ways to bypass the censorship. Sure, if there's an information flow into and out of a country, you can always get information you want, in spite of any attempt at censorship - and do it undetected. BUT it requires skills. Very few sites on the Internet tell you how to do it. This site attempts to redress this deficiency.

• Angelfire mirror 1 of Wayne's
• Angelfire mirror 2 of Wayne's
• Arabhackers.org Mirror of Wayne's
• Rosinstruments Free Public Proxy Servers List
• Multiproxy

To the Chinese Government: don't think you can get away with this. We are watching you. Remember the IIS fuck China worm? Remember when Americans penetrated Chinese censorship sites. One particularly activist group is the Cult of The Dead Cow, as they are involved with a US-Canada-Europe anti-China-human-rights-abuses hacking group, the Hong Kong Blondes.

Its only a matter of time until the Internet disappears in China, and the Chinese government succumbs under its own agenda.

I am an advocate of free speech, full disclosure etc., of course. But that's not all. The Internet wizards are watching this censorship movement overall and think they have it under control. They have built in low-level protocols (in very clever ways) which ensure that censorship cannot work . But, in my opinion, they have forgotten that most people don't have their skills or knowledge. Sure, unless a country 'cuts the wire' there are ways to bypass the censorship. Sure, if there's an information flow into and out of a country, you can always get information you want, in spite of any attempt at censorship - and do it undetected. BUT it requires skills. Very few sites on the Internet tell you how to do it. This site attempts to redress this deficiency.

• Angelfire mirror 1 of Wayne's
• Angelfire mirror 2 of Wayne's
• Arabhackers.org Mirror of Wayne's
• Rosinstruments Free Public Proxy Servers List
• Multiproxy

To the Chinese Government: don't think you can get away with this. We are watching you. Remember the IIS fuck China worm? Remember when Americans penetrated Chinese censorship sites. One particularly activist group is the Cult of The Dead Cow, as they are involved with a US-Canada-Europe anti-China-human-rights-abuses hacking group, the Hong Kong Blondes.

Its only a matter of time until the Internet disappears in China, and the Chinese government succumbs under its own agenda.

Here is a link. Sorry, all I could find is an Angelfire site. I originally read about it in this book, I think.

http://www.angelfire.com/ar/SAMNMAX/grafjueg.html

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That is most certainly not true. There are plenty of great musicians and bands here. They are not RIAA members or getting air time, but the music is nonetheless great.

In Minneapolis, we've got A-Bomb Nation, Holding On, Dillinger Four(okay, they're St. Paul, but I can bike there anyways), Onward to Mayhem, home of Havoc Records, The Subversives, The Framed, Red Vendetta, Menstrual Tramps, and a hella lot more.

And that's just my city. There are great bands in EVERY major city. (assuming you live in/near a fairly large one.) You can't just turn on the radio and hear this, but you haven't done that to find those European bands. Look around your city. They're there. I can't imagine they'll be harder to find than those European bands were.

Even if you don't live in/near a big city, imagine all the bands in every US city. That's a hell of a lot. I'm still finding them every day.

Oh come on, the punk you see on Warped may suck, but there are thousands of good bands kicking out great rock and roll today. In every major city, there are plenty of decent local bands. All the ones you've named are signed to big labels anyways.

In Minneapolis, we've got A-Bomb Nation, Holding On, Dillinger Four(okay, they're St. Paul, but I can bike there anyways), Onward to Mayhem, home of Havoc Records, The Subversives, The Framed, Red Vendetta, Menstrual Tramps, and a hella lot more. And that's just my city.

Since you mentioned political, Aus-Rotten were the primier political band for a while. Crust is getting pretty big these days and is typically political.

Not a surprise, its another attempt by a Jewsih (Israeli based) company to keep tabs on what people do. Anything can be programmed into the central chip. Read about Comverse InfoSys, a company (again Israeli based) that "...is suspected of having built a "back door" into the equipment permanently installed into the phone system that allows instant eavesdropping by law enforcement agencies on any phone in America.". Dirt on Comverse Infosys

"Yes, I do believe that most people are honest and would pay a reasonable amount for convenience and quality. What I also believe is that it doesn't take much for people to justify not paying. If it's a major artist, they say "they're already rich enough." If it's an unknown artist, they say "I'm doing her a favor by promoting her work." But in the end, convenience will count for a lot; and security will count for even more (only now are the security flaws in P2P systems becoming known, not to mention the privacy risks). So I'm optimistic about the prospects for legitimate businesses online."

He makes some good points here. His justifications for not purchasing music are right on. I've encountered those very opinions here on /. and elsewhere. He also has a good point about convenience counting for a lot. I think that's where Emusic.com could really make a killing. Trying to find what you want on a P2P can be more trouble than its worth (time = money). Going to Emusic is easy as pie (when they actually have what you want, that is). I'm not so sure about his security concerns, though. I personally feel more insecure giving my personal information to Mp3.com before downloading or streaming.

"...record companies have been working very hard at getting music on the Internet legally. That happens to be difficult - because you need the permission of the songwriters and music publishers, and in many cases the artists as well, and those clearances aren't easy to get. (Everyone is nervous about piracy, and trying to figure out how much revenue they should earn, and what the business model is going to be, etc.) And then there are the technical infrastructures that have to be built to account for downloads and streams and pay royalties to rightsowners; the security for the content; and so on. It's a lot easier to do it illegally (just post it, don't worry about security, and don't pay anybody anything); doing it legally takes time. But the companies are getting there. There are a lot of subscription services that are up and running with lots of content; more companies are allowing more downloading, and burning; there's a lot of experimentation on pricing. In other words, a real market is emerging!"

He's got a point. They're trying to fit their old 70's marketing stragegy into the new market of cyberspace. That's no easy task! It's like trying to fit a Ford V8 into a 17th century horse cart. :)

I did come across this. I wonder what Osama would think...

When the Air Force builds one of these big, black triangular craft then I'll get excited. Until then this is just more fodder for Art Bell.

(name, address, date of birth, gender, possibly more data)

Armed with my new ideas about "free as in free speech" I decided to write a manifesto for Free Music. I shared an early draft of it with my brother and suggested to him that we release our recordings on a free music license. He did not like the idea at all, and was disturbed by the manifesto.

I went back to my computer, opened up the document in OpenOffice and read through it again. I realised that the arguments I had adapted from GNU were just too extreme to be embraced by the uninformed public, especially by the artist community. I wanted my manifesto to be persuasive to the average musician, not just to those who happen to have read all of the philosophy section of the GNU website. I think a more effective way to "evangelize" open source projects is to emphasize the superiority of the development model for human creativity projects.

So now I'm not sure what to think of RMS. His views are extreme, and they don't sell very well to the average person. But extremeism is needed, so let him do all that he can to further the cause.

A person could be tricked into thinking that God is speaking to them, for example. Depending on the targeted person's state of mind, he or she could be manipulated into doing something that he or she would not normally do.

Calling that a clone of the Mac case is like calling a Pontiac Firebird a clone of a Ferrari.

Dont' be ridiculous. Nobody would call a Pontiac Firebird a clone of a Ferrari. On the other hand, some people might try that with a Pontiac Fiero.

Here's another story on the 17 incher.

I hadn't known about hacking the Prius. That is way cool. With the information in your message, I found this page on the MP3/CD hack Thank you.