I live in Melbourne. If you look at the piccies of the hole, you'll see it nowhere near approaches Melbourne.
I have to use sunscreen when I go outside. I've got fair complexion and I burn up in the sun. Yet when I visit Sydney, I can spend 2 hours in the sun without as much getting a lick from sunburn.
You have to wonder what the situation is like in Hobart or Antartica.
The attacks happened around 11pm our time. Our Channel 9 took the ABC coverage. My original comment was kamikazes.
The scenes were horrific. The images of the buildings collapsing will stay with me the rest of my life. I alternated between CNN live, BBC World Service and ABC the rest of the night.
Our Prime Minister, John Howard, was at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C. at the time. He was transferred to a safe room.
Your former President Clinton was holidaying at remote Port Douglas, Queensland at the time. Security was increased and a plane provided at Cairns for him.
An Australian company recently acquired a stakehold in the World Trade Centres. Refer to
The Age and the SMH
May I say that America is the greatest country in the world? The incredible tolerance shown by Americans in the wake of the tragedy is remarkable and displays exactly why America is what it is.
Condolences to the friends and families of the victims.
I spoke with a bloke who attended a briefing by the solicitors for the AVCC (Australian Vice Chancellor's Council - the AVCC control AARNET, the internet 'backbone' across the universities here).
The solicitors have advised a 'wait and see' approach, and this seems an even-handed way to go about things.
The keyword is 'deliberate'. www.slashdot.org is probably one of the most popular pages at Monash university and is always in the cache.
But if anyone were to *deliberately* place www.slashdot.org in the cache, they might have some explaining to do, if:
o Anybody at/. can be bothered to complain to the authorities here.
o Anybody can actually figure out what's in the cache from the US (from anywhere outside Monash, actually).
o/. can prove the front page was placed there deliberately.
We *still* have this around the house. Every now and then I'll crack it open and play the old classics - Spy Hunter, Kane (I love that game) California Games, Paperboy.. and what was that build-a-car-up-and-beat-the-King one called? That last game was a classic in strategy. Carefully select a car (Pontiac Silver Streak) assemble all the best parts, tune the engine for either drag or road racing. To beat the King on the drag, you had to bump him all over the strip. To beat him on the road, you had to stay in 3rd, let him get ahead of you, then with about 1k left, hit the gas, shift into 4th then roar by him with about 50m left. Fucking awesome. Which game today resembles that one? I love Doom, Quake is good but the older games bring a tear to my eye.
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I live in Melbourne. If you look at the piccies of the hole, you'll see it nowhere near approaches Melbourne.
I have to use sunscreen when I go outside. I've got fair complexion and I burn up in the sun. Yet when I visit Sydney, I can spend 2 hours in the sun without as much getting a lick from sunburn.
You have to wonder what the situation is like in Hobart or Antartica.
The attacks happened around 11pm our time. Our Channel 9 took the ABC coverage. My original comment was kamikazes.
The scenes were horrific. The images of the buildings collapsing will stay with me the rest of my life. I alternated between CNN live, BBC World Service and ABC the rest of the night.
Our Prime Minister, John Howard, was at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C. at the time. He was transferred to a safe room.
Your former President Clinton was holidaying at remote Port Douglas, Queensland at the time. Security was increased and a plane provided at Cairns for him.
An Australian company recently acquired a stakehold in the World Trade Centres. Refer to
The Age and the SMH
May I say that America is the greatest country in the world? The incredible tolerance shown by Americans in the wake of the tragedy is remarkable and displays exactly why America is what it is.
Condolences to the friends and families of the victims.
I spoke with a bloke who attended a briefing by the solicitors for the AVCC (Australian Vice Chancellor's Council - the AVCC control AARNET, the internet 'backbone' across the universities here).
/. can be bothered to complain to the authorities here.
/. can prove the front page was placed there deliberately.
The solicitors have advised a 'wait and see' approach, and this seems an even-handed way to go about things.
The keyword is 'deliberate'. www.slashdot.org is probably one of the most popular pages at Monash university and is always in the cache.
But if anyone were to *deliberately* place www.slashdot.org in the cache, they might have some explaining to do, if:
o Anybody at
o Anybody can actually figure out what's in the cache from the US (from anywhere outside Monash, actually).
o
Socceroo
We *still* have this around the house. Every now and then I'll crack it open and play the old classics - Spy Hunter, Kane (I love that game) California Games, Paperboy.. and what was that build-a-car-up-and-beat-the-King one called? That last game was a classic in strategy. Carefully select a car (Pontiac Silver Streak) assemble all the best parts, tune the engine for either drag or road racing. To beat the King on the drag, you had to bump him all over the strip. To beat him on the road, you had to stay in 3rd, let him get ahead of you, then with about 1k left, hit the gas, shift into 4th then roar by him with about 50m left. Fucking awesome. Which game today resembles that one? I love Doom, Quake is good but the older games bring a tear to my eye.