the reason for this does not seem logical.. almost as if they would like to keep dark areas of the world.. so they can still have wars armies etc that most people are not aware of.. i cannot see the release of information leading to more conflict / suspicion / paranoia etc. but the restriction of these new sources of information would help perpetuate old prejudices and fear of others. how do i mistrust mistrusting Arabs / Chinese/Americans when i look into their lives and see that their struggles are the same as mine. so the restriction of information can only benefit those who thrive in the dark and who will loose power or income if we know what they are doing (if it is not legitimate).. so more power to google earth i say. m
.. i watched the video and read around a bit.. i really really wish i had some intelligent and piercing comment to make about this post, but i don't... like in the cube.. infinite human stupidity..
but if i were to say something it would probably be.. the navy is the best place for this guy, i hope they take him back..
You can get ambulance/dental/extras/gap insurance in Australia, at fairly reasonable rates, but the folks who most need it are the ones who aren't going to have the extra money to pay for it.
good point.. but for the poor people the gap is usually smaller or if they have a health care card (eligibility determined by income) there are cash incentives for doctors to bulk bill even if it is not usually their policy... the only real problem here (actually there are others but they are more glitches)is dental.. not sure how they are gonna fix that but poor people need better dental access.
hee hee... have you not read any scientific literature (especially medical) in the last 20 years.. the only thing that not having statistically valid results confirms is that they are trying to use statistics in the spirit they were created... shit you can make statistics say anything... read any standard meta analysis.. something like "30 articles published and 15 considered of adequate quality for meta-analysis" either 15 papers published in respected journals are shite or that is some selective ass meta analysis.
it is an impressive gizmo but i have to wonder what apple were thinking.. what i wanted was a neat small good looking device that integrates my simple nokia and my ipod mini.. great if it had a nice camera but not essential.. would have been willing to pay US$300 - $400. this is way too much.. perhaps for enthusiasts it is ok but it will not be a major entry to the mobile market.. sony and nokia are way ahead.it is a shame because i think apple would have done it better than either of these companies... i think this will be another newton.. technically advanced and practically too big and cumbersome to be useful.i would rather a treo and access to all the cool palm pda applications. damn . have been waiting but this is not what i want.
couple of things here; one is that lucas later prequels kinda had a sucky factor BECAUSE he stuck to the story (also cause of some casting probs and actors having to do the whole thing in front of greenscreen). two - there is scope for luke to have adventures. if you read the original starwars novel he is involved with a group of frinds trying to battle the empire but joining the aliance; he does have previous limited contact with obi wan (and lets face it - he is a little thick so there is plenty of room for forgotten subtle training); obi wan does mention he has become quite a pilot. there are plenty of gaps to fill here. hope it rocks!
there will probably be a place for physcial media for a long time; but it is the technology that is out of date. The 44.1khz sample rate is simply not good enough for modern recording and playback technology. Anyone who spends over 1k on a system will be able to hear the weakness of the signal - harsh, cold etc. In fact even from inception it has been inadequate - many people kept their record players and still use them. I think it is time to move on to 96k 24 bit technology. In the market i am talking about there is no real space for compression technology in the audiophile market.
Yeah i got annoyed with it and tried opera but it is just not as intuitive, so i tried IE7 with tabs but it does not seem to let me make it behave the way i want. So i put up with firefox and shut it down once in a while - it is worth it for the intuitive way they use tabs/right click/bookmarks.
The way they speak about it, tapping is just a matter of law. I thought my skype calls were safe.. is the encryption that easy to work around? Has anybody here done it?
Ya - it just reminded me of a simpsons episode they ran again last nite in sydney.. where France sends a neutron bomb to springfield with an "intel inside" sticker on the nosecone...hee hee.. how do you spell intel inside in chinamaneses
I was working at the Aust Tech Park in the mid 90's and there was a guy there with a prototype tablet and a stack of great possible applications.. he never got out of the incubator. I didnt think it particularly innovative at the time, just obvious. I guess innovative does not mean groundbreaking invention (like, say, the invention of calculus) but rather ingenuity, slow development and streamlining of ideas that are already there. Microsoft does this, so it is fair to call them innovative; although perhaps not "as" innovative as Apple - and definately not as creative as your friendly neighbourhood Bipolar inventor.
Well, the benefits have to be weighed up next the side effects. In this case it is an elegant solution. It is relativly easy to isolate helicobacta infection as the cause of the ulcer or stenosis (either gastrocopy-biopsy or or a simple urease breath test) and treat it through tripple drug therapy : amoxicillin plus clarithromycin plus omeprazole(proton pump inhibitor). One might ask why some people are effected worse than others (for example in poor countries childhood infection seems to lead to greater adult ulcer and cancer rates) but these guys found an important solution to a real life problem.
Last night, I was booked to play an event about an hour outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The hype behind this show was huge, they presold 700 tickets and they expected up to 3,000 people total. The promoters did an amazing job with the show.. they even made slipmats with the flyers on them to promote in local shops.
So, we got to the show around 11:15 or so and it was really cool. It was all outdoors, in a valley surrounded by huge mountains. They had an amazing light show flashing on to a mountain behind the site, the sound was booming, the crowd was about 1500 people thick and everything just seemed too good to be true really. Well...
At about 11:30 or so, I was standing behind the stage talking with someone when I noticed a helicopter pulling over one of the mountain tops. I jokingly said "Oh look, here comes big brother" to the person I was with. I wasn't far off.
The helicopter dipped lower and lower and started shining its lights on the crowd. I was kind of in awe and just sat and watched this thing circle us for a minute. As I looked back towards the crowd I saw a guy dressed in camoflauge walking by, toting an assault rifle. At this point, everyone was fully aware of what was going on . A few "troops" rushed the stage and cut the sound off and started yelling that everyone "get the fuck out of here or go to jail". This is where it got really sticky.
No one resisted. That's for sure. They had police dogs raiding the crowd of people and I saw a dog signal out a guy who obviously had some drugs on him. The soldiers attacked the guy (4 of them on 1), and kicked him a few times in the ribs and had their knees in his back and sides. As they were cuffing him, there was about 1000 kids trying to leave in the backdrop, peacefully. Next thing I know, A can of fucking TEAR GAS is launched into the crowd. People are running and screaming at this point. Girls are crying, guys are cussing... bad scene.
Now, this is all I saw with my own eyes, but I heard plenty of other accounts of the night. Now this isnt gossip I heard from some candy raver, these are instances cited straight out of the promoters mouth..
- One of the promoters friends (a very small female) was attacked by one of the police dogs. As she struggled to get away from it, the police tackled her. 3 grown men proceeded to KICK HER IN THE STOMACH.
- The police confiscated 3 video tapes in total. People were trying to document what was happening out there. The police saw one guy filming and ran after him, tackled him and his camera fell, and luckily.. his friend grabbed it and ran and got away. priceless footage. That's not all though. Out of 1,500 people, there's sure to be more footage.
- The police were rounding up the staff of the party and the main promoter went up to them with the permit for the show and said "here, I have the permit." The police then said, "no you don't" and ripped the permit out of his hand. Then, they put an assault rifle to his forehead and said "get the fuck out of here right now."
Now.. let's get the facts straight here.
This event was 100% legal. They had every permit the city told them they needed. They had a 2 MILLION DOLLAR insurance policy for the event. They had liscenced security guards at the gates confiscating any alcohol or drugs found upon entry (yes, they searched every car on the way in). Oh, I suppose I should mention that they arrested all the security guards for possession.
Oh another interesting fact.. the police did not have a warrant. The owner of the land already has a lawsuit against the city for something similar. A few months ago, she rented her land for a party and the police raided that as well. And catch this, the police forced her to LEAVE HER OWN PERSONAL PROPERTY. That's
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There is something very clan of the cave bear about this
the best firefly episode was the last one ... serenity is a movie which is different
the best buffy is season 6
angel got better after season 2
that was frickin funny .. thankyou
the reason for this does not seem logical.. almost as if they would like to keep dark areas of the world .. so they can still have wars armies etc that most people are not aware of .. i cannot see the release of information leading to more conflict / suspicion / paranoia etc. but the restriction of these new sources of information would help perpetuate old prejudices and fear of others. how do i mistrust mistrusting Arabs / Chinese /Americans when i look into their lives and see that their struggles are the same as mine. so the restriction of information can only benefit those who thrive in the dark and who will loose power or income if we know what they are doing (if it is not legitimate) .. so more power to google earth i say.
m
.. i watched the video and read around a bit .. i really really wish i had some intelligent and piercing comment to make about this post, but i don't ... like in the cube .. infinite human stupidity ..
.. the navy is the best place for this guy, i hope they take him back..
but if i were to say something it would probably be
if not then branson or google or germany
You can get ambulance/dental/extras/gap insurance in Australia, at fairly reasonable rates, but the folks who most need it are the ones who aren't going to have the extra money to pay for it.
.. but for the poor people the gap is usually smaller or if they have a health care card (eligibility determined by income) there are cash incentives for doctors to bulk bill even if it is not usually their policy... the only real problem here (actually there are others but they are more glitches)is dental .. not sure how they are gonna fix that but poor people need better dental access.
good point
hee hee ... have you not read any scientific literature (especially medical) in the last 20 years.. the only thing that not having statistically valid results confirms is that they are trying to use statistics in the spirit they were created... shit you can make statistics say anything ... read any standard meta analysis .. something like "30 articles published and 15 considered of adequate quality for meta-analysis" either 15 papers published in respected journals are shite or that is some selective ass meta analysis.
no idea if esp is possible but either do you..
actually in Australia at least, the administrative overhead of the private sector is significantly greater than the public sector
it is an impressive gizmo but i have to wonder what apple were thinking .. what i wanted was a neat small good looking device that integrates my simple nokia and my ipod mini .. great if it had a nice camera but not essential.. would have been willing to pay US$300 - $400. .. sony and nokia are way ahead.it is a shame because i think apple would have done it better than either of these companies ... i think this will be another newton .. technically advanced and practically too big and cumbersome to be useful.i would rather a treo and access to all the cool palm pda applications. damn . have been waiting but this is not what i want.
this is way too much.. perhaps for enthusiasts it is ok but it will not be a major entry to the mobile market
"quit your fucking bitching already".
... and slashdot posters become a bigger bunch of whiney anakins evey day ..
oh yeah - thats what im talkin about
not a star wars fanboy - just reakon the films are a blast
couple of things here;
one is that lucas later prequels kinda had a sucky factor BECAUSE he stuck to the story (also cause of some casting probs and actors having to do the whole thing in front of greenscreen).
two - there is scope for luke to have adventures. if you read the original starwars novel he is involved with a group of frinds trying to battle the empire but joining the aliance; he does have previous limited contact with obi wan (and lets face it - he is a little thick so there is plenty of room for forgotten subtle training); obi wan does mention he has become quite a pilot. there are plenty of gaps to fill here.
hope it rocks!
there will probably be a place for physcial media for a long time; but it is the technology that is out of date. The 44.1khz sample rate is simply not good enough for modern recording and playback technology. Anyone who spends over 1k on a system will be able to hear the weakness of the signal - harsh, cold etc. In fact even from inception it has been inadequate - many people kept their record players and still use them.
I think it is time to move on to 96k 24 bit technology. In the market i am talking about there is no real space for compression technology in the audiophile market.
this is cool ... everyone was sooo certain they knew ... the dude abides
well contact may not have been the intellectual masterpiece of, say, startreck (puke!) - but it was a shit load better ride
Yeah i got annoyed with it and tried opera but it is just not as intuitive, so i tried IE7 with tabs but it does not seem to let me make it behave the way i want. So i put up with firefox and shut it down once in a while - it is worth it for the intuitive way they use tabs/right click/bookmarks.
The way they speak about it, tapping is just a matter of law. I thought my skype calls were safe .. is the encryption that easy to work around? Has anybody here done it?
Ya - it just reminded me of a simpsons episode they ran again last nite in sydney .. where France sends a neutron bomb to springfield with an "intel inside" sticker on the nosecone...hee hee .. how do you spell intel inside in chinamaneses
I was working at the Aust Tech Park in the mid 90's and there was a guy there with a prototype tablet and a stack of great possible applications .. he never got out of the incubator. I didnt think it particularly innovative at the time, just obvious. I guess innovative does not mean groundbreaking invention (like, say, the invention of calculus) but rather ingenuity, slow development and streamlining of ideas that are already there. Microsoft does this, so it is fair to call them innovative; although perhaps not "as" innovative as Apple - and definately not as creative as your friendly neighbourhood Bipolar inventor.
Well, the benefits have to be weighed up next the side effects. In this case it is an elegant solution. It is relativly easy to isolate helicobacta infection as the cause of the ulcer or stenosis (either gastrocopy-biopsy or or a simple urease breath test) and treat it through tripple drug therapy : amoxicillin plus clarithromycin plus omeprazole(proton pump inhibitor).
One might ask why some people are effected worse than others (for example in poor countries childhood infection seems to lead to greater adult ulcer and cancer rates) but these guys found an important solution to a real life problem.
i reakon there is a larson comic in this one...
They were going against over a thousand angry people by themselves.
... oh well, i guess it is just a bit shocking ... yeah, just a bit shocking... ill get over it.
Ya
m
I just read this article ... man you have one scary ass country ... read on:
From http://www.404audio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1481 4
Last night, I was booked to play an event about an hour outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The hype behind this show was huge, they presold 700 tickets and they expected up to 3,000 people total. The promoters did an amazing job with the show.. they even made slipmats with the flyers on them to promote in local shops.
So, we got to the show around 11:15 or so and it was really cool. It was all outdoors, in a valley surrounded by huge mountains. They had an amazing light show flashing on to a mountain behind the site, the sound was booming, the crowd was about 1500 people thick and everything just seemed too good to be true really. Well...
At about 11:30 or so, I was standing behind the stage talking with someone when I noticed a helicopter pulling over one of the mountain tops. I jokingly said "Oh look, here comes big brother" to the person I was with. I wasn't far off.
The helicopter dipped lower and lower and started shining its lights on the crowd. I was kind of in awe and just sat and watched this thing circle us for a minute. As I looked back towards the crowd I saw a guy dressed in camoflauge walking by, toting an assault rifle. At this point, everyone was fully aware of what was going on . A few "troops" rushed the stage and cut the sound off and started yelling that everyone "get the fuck out of here or go to jail". This is where it got really sticky.
No one resisted. That's for sure. They had police dogs raiding the crowd of people and I saw a dog signal out a guy who obviously had some drugs on him. The soldiers attacked the guy (4 of them on 1), and kicked him a few times in the ribs and had their knees in his back and sides. As they were cuffing him, there was about 1000 kids trying to leave in the backdrop, peacefully. Next thing I know, A can of fucking TEAR GAS is launched into the crowd. People are running and screaming at this point. Girls are crying, guys are cussing... bad scene.
Now, this is all I saw with my own eyes, but I heard plenty of other accounts of the night. Now this isnt gossip I heard from some candy raver, these are instances cited straight out of the promoters mouth..
- One of the promoters friends (a very small female) was attacked by one of the police dogs. As she struggled to get away from it, the police tackled her. 3 grown men proceeded to KICK HER IN THE STOMACH.
- The police confiscated 3 video tapes in total. People were trying to document what was happening out there. The police saw one guy filming and ran after him, tackled him and his camera fell, and luckily.. his friend grabbed it and ran and got away. priceless footage. That's not all though. Out of 1,500 people, there's sure to be more footage.
- The police were rounding up the staff of the party and the main promoter went up to them with the permit for the show and said "here, I have the permit." The police then said, "no you don't" and ripped the permit out of his hand. Then, they put an assault rifle to his forehead and said "get the fuck out of here right now."
Now.. let's get the facts straight here.
This event was 100% legal. They had every permit the city told them they needed. They had a 2 MILLION DOLLAR insurance policy for the event. They had liscenced security guards at the gates confiscating any alcohol or drugs found upon entry (yes, they searched every car on the way in). Oh, I suppose I should mention that they arrested all the security guards for possession.
Oh another interesting fact.. the police did not have a warrant. The owner of the land already has a lawsuit against the city for something similar. A few months ago, she rented her land for a party and the police raided that as well. And catch this, the police forced her to LEAVE HER OWN PERSONAL PROPERTY. That's
well fuckhead poobrain smellyparttongue to you too - i spit on your capitalist shoes!
Idiot!! RTFA
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