A lot of the comments have been hating on hip-hop, and well, I can't say I blame them. Most of the stuff you hear is just the same old shit. Some boring harmony over a lifeless beat and some lyrics that are so dishonest that it's almost offensive. But then you get some people who take hip-hop and turn it into something wonderful.
There are/were quite a few jazz guys who are taking the chill groove of hip-hop and fusing it with jazz, adding beautiful harmonies and some honest expression. In the 90's there was Branford Marsalis and his group Buckshot LeFonque who mixed jazz, funk, hip-hop, rock and pop. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band fuse the New Orleans brass band sound with just about everything they encounter, including hip-hop (probably best heard on their album What's Going On?). Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has The RH Factor, who deal in a dirty club type of groove.
Then there are guys like Robert Glasper or Jason Lindner who seem to play a more modern jazz with a heavy hip-hop influence. More adventurous harmonic and rhythmic devices, more of an improvised nature, generally smaller groups, but still with that same spacious and cool feel, played in a way that someone could rap over top.
If you think you hate hip-hop but love beautiful, honest music then I implore you to check out some of these groups. They may spark an interest in the genre that will lead you to search for more... of course, when you come across some guy singing about his drugs, money and women, it's perfectly fine to politely tell him to fuck off. Just don't let those arseholes stop you from listening to good music, whatever genre they happen to be polluting.
In my experience, the Australian notes have gone through the dryer and come out without any noticeable damage. They don't hold up so well to ironing though... I was putting some fundraiser money I'd collected into an envelope and my OCD side got the better of me... wanted to flatten out a terribly crumpled $5 note so that it would sit nicely in the envelope. I put the iron on a low setting, and went to work, only to find my $5 not ending up a good 10% or so smaller than the others...
Yet almost 50% of their elected representatives, and probably media outlets, supported it.
I recall someone busting Conroy's chops on the ABC radio show Media Watch a short while back. I also remember another ABC radio announcer slipping in some filter related questions to one of the people involved in a child porn ring bust. Something to the effect of:
interviewer: "What about filtering, does that help the problem?" police guy dude: "Oh, they don't do anything."
I should really try and find a source for that. There were a few other radio shows talking about it as well (I think "Spoonman" on Tripple M dedicated an evening to the subject).
There were a few TV spots on morning chat show type programs, as well as a nice little piece on the 7:30 report. They all (and rather surprisingly for the morning shows) seemed to convey a nice message of "While childporn is bad, and it would be awesome to be able to get rid of it, this filter thing is just stupid." There were also various newspapers who had people blogging about the subject on their websites. I don't remember seeing a whole lot make it to print though.
Since the filtering is done at the ISP level, how are you supposed to bypass the filter so you can read that Wikipedia article?
Well, you have a number of options really. You can always use one of those proxies the kids at school use to access whatever social networking site they use. Sure, they'll attempt to block them all, but it's quite an impossible task, what with new ones popping up every couple of minuets or so.
You can always set up a VPN or tunnel through with SSH. I believe you can get access to an offshore server for a couple of dollars a month.
I guess you could always get a friend overseas to email you the page as well, and while I'm not sure if the filter will filter email content, they could always chuck it in a.rar or something and encrypt it. There's also nothing to stop them printing it out, putting it in an envelope and mailing it to you (at least, not yet anyway).
Okay, so the last two options are a bit shit in terms of convenience, but the point is that if you want the blocked content bad enough then there will still be a way for you to get it.
I wasn't aware that those countries had filters. Their internet isn't so horrible, is it?
That's just the thing. Some of them don't. And none of them have a mandatory government controlled filter system. Obviously some ISPs provide filtering for their customers, but they're opt in. The only mandatory filter systems in place are in countries like China or Iran.
When the minister was asked why he lied out his arse he just dodged the question by prattling on about the trials until his time was up. Bastard.
Lastly, how is this any different than what China is doing? I'm surprised nobody has made this connection and accused the government of being no better than anti-free-speech China.
It has before been alluded that it is just like what China have implemented, even in the senate. To quote Senator Conroy (the nut in charge of the department for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy).
I was wondering if I could get the questions without being accused of being the Great Wall of China.
There was a short ~5 minute interview with Mark Newton on one of the morning TV programmes (the one on Nine... don't recall the name), and there have been a couple of radio shows about it here and there (a few on the ABC, there was a great discussion on a Triple M show the other night too).
So word should hopefully be starting to spread around the general public about how bad this plan really is.
Didn't they really only take away semi-automatics? You know, the one's that can kill a lot of people in a very short amount of time? Admittedly, I was only about 8 at the time of the Port Arthur massacre, so my understanding of what took place following is a little hazy, but from what I remember, they put a ban on semi-automatic weapons, and it was made mandatory that you have a firearms license and register each firearm you own.
So, we still have guns, but in order to get them, you must be at least 18 years of age, licensed, and the weapons must be registered and kept in secure storage.
Cowboy Bebop anyone? It's one of the few english dubbed anime I can bear to watch. I nearly couldn't believe it. The voices actually suited the characters, and they only sounded dopey when the mood called for it (mostly). It also has an awesome soundtrack.
One of the guys I work with has a little mac network set up at home (he's a bit of a mac-head). Anyway, he basically laid down some rules with his kids, and to enforce it, he enabled remote desktop on all the machines. Now, this dude is almost never without his macbook pro, and so his kids know that at any time, he could check up on them. It also gives him the power to lock the machine (I think. Pretty sure he said something about that).
It seems to be pretty effective. He's never had a problem with his kids looking up things they shouldn't, or playing games until 3 in the morning.
A few years ago, a friend directed me to http://johnhoward.blogspot.com/. It's one of the few web pages I've actually laughed out loud at. It's written in a great style.
I have enjoyed reading the books and can't wait to finish the last one, but there are a few things that really bothered me.
It was all basically centred around Britain. All the wizarding history and what not. Then, in book four, all of a sudden there are other wizarding schools out there. And a few are friendly with Hogwarts. There are suddenly wizards in Egypt and China, and other areas of the world. With a whole world of wizards, why didn't any of the come to aid them in their struggle?
I know the latest book says Dumbledore didn't get a chance to travel abroad after he left school, but surely a wizard of his stature would have in later years at least communicated with and shared bonds with other great wizards from around the world. Why hadn't he formed friendships with other great wizards? Surely there would be some as skilled as he, or even more so. It just seems that Voldemort was strong enough to be a threat to the entire world. Why didn't Albus send word to other great witches and wizards, telling them he was back, and that they should form a gang to kick the snot out of him?
Just some of my thoughts after reading the first hundred pages of the last book...
Our cyber bullying stories seem to be a lot more rough, or so the stories run on the news say...
Basically, a kid will come along and kick the crap out of you while one of his/her cronies record it on a phone. Or they try to set your hair alight, hit you and then pee on you. It's really quite horrific... I'd love to knock some sense into these delinquents.
Then they upload the vids to youtube so everyone can watch. Seems these kids are getting it easy...
I disagree. Technology is a great thing if you can get your hands on it.
For example, one year our Genetics class went to the CSIRO (Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) to have a look at their equipment and do some simple experiments with DNA extraction. Their guide was telling them about a new centrifuge the government had just bought them, and how they always got the bleeding edge technology to work with. So the teacher on this excursion begged the question about what they do with their "old" equipment. It turns out they just leave it in a store room to gather dust.
So anyway, a few days after the excursion, the guide called the teacher and told him that he got the guys together, and they had a stack of equipment there if the school wanted it (for free). The teacher practically raced back to Melbourne and picked it up.
Now, instead of our genetics class taking a day and going to Melbourne, they extract some of their own DNA, and test for a genetic mutation that about 50% of the population has, all at school.
I never thought this little story would ever be useful to me...
In Rome, there used to be a celebrated 9 part piece called Miserere, which could only be heard in Rome during Holy Week. By papal decree, it was forbidden to sing the song elsewhere, or at any other time. The only existing copy was held by the papal choir, and guarded heavily. It was even forbidden to sing or whistle it outside of Rome.
Anyway, when Mozart was 14, he travelled to Rome to attend a performance of this piece. When he returned to his lodgings that day, after only hearing it once, he reproduced the entire thing on paper. It is said he attended again a few days later to fix any errors he may have had. And in this way, Mozart stole the Miserere from the Vatican and gave it to the world.
Eventually, word spread, and the Pope learned of Mozart's feat. However, instead of punishing Mozart, the Pope praised him, and gave him gifts. He even bestowed upon him the Cross of the Order of the Golden Spur.
Why does everyone else get punished for trying to spread music to the world?
Last year (my final year of school) I found that if you yanked out the network cable when it said "applying security settings", it wouldn't apply the group policy. It was rather handy, because one of the things we had disabled was right clicking... nearly drove me mad that did...
I've been waiting till I've saved up double what I need to get a macbook pro (I'm a trainee who get's paid peanuts and am going to university next year. Don't wanna feel like I blow it all on one thing). I'd estimated by the time I have that much, 10.5 would be out. Now I'm gonna need to wait a little longer.
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A lot of the comments have been hating on hip-hop, and well, I can't say I blame them. Most of the stuff you hear is just the same old shit. Some boring harmony over a lifeless beat and some lyrics that are so dishonest that it's almost offensive. But then you get some people who take hip-hop and turn it into something wonderful.
There are/were quite a few jazz guys who are taking the chill groove of hip-hop and fusing it with jazz, adding beautiful harmonies and some honest expression. In the 90's there was Branford Marsalis and his group Buckshot LeFonque who mixed jazz, funk, hip-hop, rock and pop. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band fuse the New Orleans brass band sound with just about everything they encounter, including hip-hop (probably best heard on their album What's Going On?). Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has The RH Factor, who deal in a dirty club type of groove.
Then there are guys like Robert Glasper or Jason Lindner who seem to play a more modern jazz with a heavy hip-hop influence. More adventurous harmonic and rhythmic devices, more of an improvised nature, generally smaller groups, but still with that same spacious and cool feel, played in a way that someone could rap over top.
If you think you hate hip-hop but love beautiful, honest music then I implore you to check out some of these groups. They may spark an interest in the genre that will lead you to search for more... of course, when you come across some guy singing about his drugs, money and women, it's perfectly fine to politely tell him to fuck off. Just don't let those arseholes stop you from listening to good music, whatever genre they happen to be polluting.
In my experience, the Australian notes have gone through the dryer and come out without any noticeable damage. They don't hold up so well to ironing though... I was putting some fundraiser money I'd collected into an envelope and my OCD side got the better of me... wanted to flatten out a terribly crumpled $5 note so that it would sit nicely in the envelope. I put the iron on a low setting, and went to work, only to find my $5 not ending up a good 10% or so smaller than the others...
I'm having trouble finding any reference to a 100mb/s plan on either Optus' site or whirlpool.net
As for throttling once you've used a set amount of data, that's pretty much standard practice... it's not like they hide it.
...demand that the senator provides a very good explanation.
Easier said than done... even in parliament question time all he does is waffle on about crap until his time is up.
I did like the little "I thank the senator for his attempt to answer the question" quip Ludlam threw in...
My 10.5.7 update was significantly smaller than what's listed in the summary. It was about 290mb for my third generation macbook pro. Why is it so?
I knew there was something familiar about this. I stumbled upon it on a slow day at work a couple of years ago. The video is dated 2007 at the end.
Yet almost 50% of their elected representatives, and probably media outlets, supported it.
I recall someone busting Conroy's chops on the ABC radio show Media Watch a short while back. I also remember another ABC radio announcer slipping in some filter related questions to one of the people involved in a child porn ring bust. Something to the effect of:
interviewer: "What about filtering, does that help the problem?"
police guy dude: "Oh, they don't do anything."
I should really try and find a source for that. There were a few other radio shows talking about it as well (I think "Spoonman" on Tripple M dedicated an evening to the subject).
There were a few TV spots on morning chat show type programs, as well as a nice little piece on the 7:30 report. They all (and rather surprisingly for the morning shows) seemed to convey a nice message of "While childporn is bad, and it would be awesome to be able to get rid of it, this filter thing is just stupid." There were also various newspapers who had people blogging about the subject on their websites. I don't remember seeing a whole lot make it to print though.
Since the filtering is done at the ISP level, how are you supposed to bypass the filter so you can read that Wikipedia article?
Well, you have a number of options really. You can always use one of those proxies the kids at school use to access whatever social networking site they use. Sure, they'll attempt to block them all, but it's quite an impossible task, what with new ones popping up every couple of minuets or so.
You can always set up a VPN or tunnel through with SSH. I believe you can get access to an offshore server for a couple of dollars a month.
I guess you could always get a friend overseas to email you the page as well, and while I'm not sure if the filter will filter email content, they could always chuck it in a .rar or something and encrypt it. There's also nothing to stop them printing it out, putting it in an envelope and mailing it to you (at least, not yet anyway).
Okay, so the last two options are a bit shit in terms of convenience, but the point is that if you want the blocked content bad enough then there will still be a way for you to get it.
I wasn't aware that those countries had filters. Their internet isn't so horrible, is it?
That's just the thing. Some of them don't. And none of them have a mandatory government controlled filter system. Obviously some ISPs provide filtering for their customers, but they're opt in. The only mandatory filter systems in place are in countries like China or Iran.
When the minister was asked why he lied out his arse he just dodged the question by prattling on about the trials until his time was up. Bastard.
Lastly, how is this any different than what China is doing? I'm surprised nobody has made this connection and accused the government of being no better than anti-free-speech China.
It has before been alluded that it is just like what China have implemented, even in the senate. To quote Senator Conroy (the nut in charge of the department for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy).
I was wondering if I could get the questions without being accused of being the Great Wall of China.
From http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/S11346.pdf.
No, you great twat, you can't, not when what you're proposing is so damn much like it.
There was a short ~5 minute interview with Mark Newton on one of the morning TV programmes (the one on Nine... don't recall the name), and there have been a couple of radio shows about it here and there (a few on the ABC, there was a great discussion on a Triple M show the other night too).
So word should hopefully be starting to spread around the general public about how bad this plan really is.
Amicroe always pop a few little chocolates in the box whenever we order ram from them.
Didn't they really only take away semi-automatics? You know, the one's that can kill a lot of people in a very short amount of time? Admittedly, I was only about 8 at the time of the Port Arthur massacre, so my understanding of what took place following is a little hazy, but from what I remember, they put a ban on semi-automatic weapons, and it was made mandatory that you have a firearms license and register each firearm you own.
So, we still have guns, but in order to get them, you must be at least 18 years of age, licensed, and the weapons must be registered and kept in secure storage.
Cowboy Bebop anyone? It's one of the few english dubbed anime I can bear to watch. I nearly couldn't believe it. The voices actually suited the characters, and they only sounded dopey when the mood called for it (mostly). It also has an awesome soundtrack.
I would always pry the thing apart with a knife and reassemble it. It was all well and good until I forced it a little too hard broke it.
What if the kids are using a limited user account? Does the hack require you to have admin privileges or not?
C major!
Nice and easy. No sharps or flats.
One of the guys I work with has a little mac network set up at home (he's a bit of a mac-head). Anyway, he basically laid down some rules with his kids, and to enforce it, he enabled remote desktop on all the machines. Now, this dude is almost never without his macbook pro, and so his kids know that at any time, he could check up on them. It also gives him the power to lock the machine (I think. Pretty sure he said something about that).
It seems to be pretty effective. He's never had a problem with his kids looking up things they shouldn't, or playing games until 3 in the morning.
A few years ago, a friend directed me to http://johnhoward.blogspot.com/. It's one of the few web pages I've actually laughed out loud at. It's written in a great style.
I have enjoyed reading the books and can't wait to finish the last one, but there are a few things that really bothered me.
It was all basically centred around Britain. All the wizarding history and what not. Then, in book four, all of a sudden there are other wizarding schools out there. And a few are friendly with Hogwarts. There are suddenly wizards in Egypt and China, and other areas of the world. With a whole world of wizards, why didn't any of the come to aid them in their struggle?
I know the latest book says Dumbledore didn't get a chance to travel abroad after he left school, but surely a wizard of his stature would have in later years at least communicated with and shared bonds with other great wizards from around the world. Why hadn't he formed friendships with other great wizards? Surely there would be some as skilled as he, or even more so. It just seems that Voldemort was strong enough to be a threat to the entire world. Why didn't Albus send word to other great witches and wizards, telling them he was back, and that they should form a gang to kick the snot out of him?
Just some of my thoughts after reading the first hundred pages of the last book...
Our cyber bullying stories seem to be a lot more rough, or so the stories run on the news say...
Basically, a kid will come along and kick the crap out of you while one of his/her cronies record it on a phone. Or they try to set your hair alight, hit you and then pee on you. It's really quite horrific... I'd love to knock some sense into these delinquents.
Then they upload the vids to youtube so everyone can watch. Seems these kids are getting it easy...
I disagree. Technology is a great thing if you can get your hands on it.
For example, one year our Genetics class went to the CSIRO (Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) to have a look at their equipment and do some simple experiments with DNA extraction. Their guide was telling them about a new centrifuge the government had just bought them, and how they always got the bleeding edge technology to work with. So the teacher on this excursion begged the question about what they do with their "old" equipment. It turns out they just leave it in a store room to gather dust.
So anyway, a few days after the excursion, the guide called the teacher and told him that he got the guys together, and they had a stack of equipment there if the school wanted it (for free). The teacher practically raced back to Melbourne and picked it up.
Now, instead of our genetics class taking a day and going to Melbourne, they extract some of their own DNA, and test for a genetic mutation that about 50% of the population has, all at school.
I never thought this little story would ever be useful to me...
In Rome, there used to be a celebrated 9 part piece called Miserere, which could only be heard in Rome during Holy Week. By papal decree, it was forbidden to sing the song elsewhere, or at any other time. The only existing copy was held by the papal choir, and guarded heavily. It was even forbidden to sing or whistle it outside of Rome.
Anyway, when Mozart was 14, he travelled to Rome to attend a performance of this piece. When he returned to his lodgings that day, after only hearing it once, he reproduced the entire thing on paper. It is said he attended again a few days later to fix any errors he may have had. And in this way, Mozart stole the Miserere from the Vatican and gave it to the world.
Eventually, word spread, and the Pope learned of Mozart's feat. However, instead of punishing Mozart, the Pope praised him, and gave him gifts. He even bestowed upon him the Cross of the Order of the Golden Spur.
Why does everyone else get punished for trying to spread music to the world?
Last year (my final year of school) I found that if you yanked out the network cable when it said "applying security settings", it wouldn't apply the group policy. It was rather handy, because one of the things we had disabled was right clicking... nearly drove me mad that did...
I've been waiting till I've saved up double what I need to get a macbook pro (I'm a trainee who get's paid peanuts and am going to university next year. Don't wanna feel like I blow it all on one thing). I'd estimated by the time I have that much, 10.5 would be out. Now I'm gonna need to wait a little longer.