i think that this will prove to be an interesting test of the new US government and it's foreign policy.
im interested to see how it will handle this crisis; will it bring down mass-retaliation against suspected middle eastern countries/terrorist groups etc? or will it take a more reasonable approach.
basically this is going to be formative of the non-US public's opinion of the US government, including mine. so yeah i'll be very interested to see what comes of all this, and how the bush administration takes on what i think may be its first big test:)
i was watching the news today, and there was a section on this concerning some british scientist who reckons he invented the shields, and he's filing a law suit or some such a thing.
He was saying that he likens the whole mobile phone radiation thing to the smoking-is-harmfull and asbestos-etc law suits, saying it'll take a while to develop since the science and public awareness has to catch up.
I couldnt be bothered finding a link since it was on tv, but you'll hear more about this no doubt.
"made from a high-temperature superconducting material called BSCCO (pronounced bisco)."
Most of the energy lost from transmitting electricity is through heat loss, so, if its a "high temperature" cable wouldnt that imply that it is actually losing more energy than it was before?
wow... i could finally be fucked contributing. anyway, im in perth, western australia, where its summer, and nice and warm.
anyway, this was how my night went:
a lady friend dragged my mate and i to a party way up north in perth, which was boring, though i got quite drunk... anyway we left that, walked around 4 k's to the train station at around 10.
went into the cbd, that was boring too, it was mainly families and shit, so we had some more to drink (using a key as a bottle opener, subsequently ruining it).
anyway we decided to go to scarborough beach, so hopped on the train and had new years on that. during our ride, we flashed our manly nipples at various cars driving alongside us, and laughed our asses off.
Got to stirling train station, where no buses were going from, so we ran to an obscure busstop, where we missed the bus to the beach. so spent around 45mins trying to flag down cars, calling friends for lifts, and trying for taxis.
The bus ended up finally coming, so we got on that, went to scarb, where i saw the most amount of broken glass in my entire sorry life. we wandered around, found some friends, dodged the police, looked at a crime scene, enjoyed the spectacle of helicopters searching for a drowned, naked english tourist. fucking poms... j/k.
anyway, we didnt pick up, so got bored. found out at 3:30 that the trains stopped at 3. so the next logical step was to go to the train station on a free bus trip. got there, talked to other drunks, i went to sleep in a corner, the concrete was comfy.
anyway a train finally came, we caught it back up north to the party. we were walking back, the sun was rising behind us, and we were happy.
then we slept. how was your night?
I'm just finishing school at an all boy's institution in perth, western australia, my first TEE exam is tommorow. Anyway its interesting to note the differences in australian and american teen culture in the context of highschools. at my school i am in the 'geek' bunch, or at least partly, i dont play mainstream sport (here that would be cricket and Aussie rules football, footy) but we dont have a strong jock faction at the school, we dont have such evident divisions between different groups, and as a result the persecution of the 'dud' groups isnt that severe.
when i read your comments it seems as though whatever divisions and differences we have here are magnified 100X in american schools... i guess resulting in these sorts of situations.
im not sure what the point of what im saying IS, im just interested in what people think about US teen culture and the differences between that and other teen cultures from various places- particularly australia.
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i think that this will prove to be an interesting test of the new US government and it's foreign policy.
:)
im interested to see how it will handle this crisis; will it bring down mass-retaliation against suspected middle eastern countries/terrorist groups etc? or will it take a more reasonable approach.
basically this is going to be formative of the non-US public's opinion of the US government, including mine. so yeah i'll be very interested to see what comes of all this, and how the bush administration takes on what i think may be its first big test
i was watching the news today, and there was a section on this concerning some british scientist who reckons he invented the shields, and he's filing a law suit or some such a thing.
He was saying that he likens the whole mobile phone radiation thing to the smoking-is-harmfull and asbestos-etc law suits, saying it'll take a while to develop since the science and public awareness has to catch up.
I couldnt be bothered finding a link since it was on tv, but you'll hear more about this no doubt.
there ya go... now go find that link for me heh
Most of the energy lost from transmitting electricity is through heat loss, so, if its a "high temperature" cable wouldnt that imply that it is actually losing more energy than it was before?
how do they know its a youth, of 16-19 yrs? maybe its just an iraqi soldier, with his new, uber-deadly playstation console :>
wow... i could finally be fucked contributing. anyway, im in perth, western australia, where its summer, and nice and warm. anyway, this was how my night went: a lady friend dragged my mate and i to a party way up north in perth, which was boring, though i got quite drunk... anyway we left that, walked around 4 k's to the train station at around 10. went into the cbd, that was boring too, it was mainly families and shit, so we had some more to drink (using a key as a bottle opener, subsequently ruining it). anyway we decided to go to scarborough beach, so hopped on the train and had new years on that. during our ride, we flashed our manly nipples at various cars driving alongside us, and laughed our asses off. Got to stirling train station, where no buses were going from, so we ran to an obscure busstop, where we missed the bus to the beach. so spent around 45mins trying to flag down cars, calling friends for lifts, and trying for taxis. The bus ended up finally coming, so we got on that, went to scarb, where i saw the most amount of broken glass in my entire sorry life. we wandered around, found some friends, dodged the police, looked at a crime scene, enjoyed the spectacle of helicopters searching for a drowned, naked english tourist. fucking poms... j/k. anyway, we didnt pick up, so got bored. found out at 3:30 that the trains stopped at 3. so the next logical step was to go to the train station on a free bus trip. got there, talked to other drunks, i went to sleep in a corner, the concrete was comfy. anyway a train finally came, we caught it back up north to the party. we were walking back, the sun was rising behind us, and we were happy. then we slept. how was your night?
I'm just finishing school at an all boy's institution in perth, western australia, my first TEE exam is tommorow. Anyway its interesting to note the differences in australian and american teen culture in the context of highschools. at my school i am in the 'geek' bunch, or at least partly, i dont play mainstream sport (here that would be cricket and Aussie rules football, footy) but we dont have a strong jock faction at the school, we dont have such evident divisions between different groups, and as a result the persecution of the 'dud' groups isnt that severe. when i read your comments it seems as though whatever divisions and differences we have here are magnified 100X in american schools... i guess resulting in these sorts of situations. im not sure what the point of what im saying IS, im just interested in what people think about US teen culture and the differences between that and other teen cultures from various places- particularly australia.