You know how much nuclear waste that would generate? What do you suggest the world does with that?
In comparison to burning coal... hardly any. What do we do with it? Reprocess it, solidify the waste and bury it where it came from - at the bottom of Olympic Dam. We can use breeder reactors as well to further reduce waste.
Perhaps a more pertinent question is what do we do with all the toxic chemicals used in the manufacturing of solar panels?
And where does the enormous amount of energy needed to manufacture them come from?
That's because the main cost in making calls is the billing. Here in Australia, the incumbent telco Telstra has been rising monthly line 'rental' charges from about $15/month a few years ago to about $30/month now. At the same time, the cost of making a call has dropped, and continues to do so.
This is because packet-switched networks are cheap. It costs too much to try and meter and bill the data (though Telstra persists) so now we're seeing a move towards a monthly access/subscription charge to use the network, with the data essentially being free because there is essentially unlimited capacity in the fibre traversing the country.
My ISP no longer charges for excess data, they just throttle my 512Kbps connection to 64Kbps after I've chewed through 16GB... which truth be told I've yet to come anywhere near in using up. This is because they don't pay their upstream suppliers per unit of data, they pay per unit of capacity.
Telstra gets about 50% of their revenue from calls, and they're shitting themselves because VoIP is going to annihlate that in the next five years, hence the raising of the line rental to try and offset that decline.
I'm not really sure what policy you are refering to - but, for example, the Greens environmental policy embraces new technology that is environmentally friendly..
The Greens are a bunch of kooks. They're at the opposite end of the spectrum of Family First.
$1B on solar power? $1B on nuclear power would be orders of magnitude better for reducing greenhouse emissions. But of course, since The Greens are hysterically anti-nuclear anything and everything, we can't have that!
We have the school of the air for kids living on remote stations. It used to be 2-way radios, but now it's all 2-way satellites with video conferencing and stuff.
My family has friends who run a sheep station up in the north of SA, and I can remember when we used to go up camping there we'd stop in to say hello, etc. and seeing where their 'kids went to school'. It was a small hut separate from the homestead with a 2-way radio running off a car battery, because they'd only run their diesel generator for about 6 hours per day or something. (I'd imagine they'd have a solar system installed now though.) Talk about isolation!
But still, to show how much their parents valued the education of their children, when their kids were older they bought a house in the closest city - some 500KM away - and the kids would go down with their mum for a few weeks at a time to go to school. Many parents on stations send their kids to boarding schools in the cities when they reach high-school age.
As for a space program... bwahahahaha.... come on! Just today the Prime Minister announced 10 million for a loser footy club whilst the scientists that want a bit more than that for that telescope in Antartica are still begging for money! Yep, the clever country indeed.
I don't know about you, but if I've got a boris that won't flush after a few full-flushes I go and grab a 10L bucket from the shed, fill it with water and pour it all in the bowl from a standing height. Never fails, and is certainly nicer than mashing it up with a plunger.
Fortunately though, the need to do so is a rare event.
I've heard also that lack of B12 is one of the main causes of hangovers - to this day, I've never had a (bad) hangover drinking my own beer.
Hangovers are actually caused by dehydration. Alcohol is a diuretic like caffiene - it makes you piss. If you don't have a glass of water every now and then whilst drinking you dehyrdate, but don't notice it because you're drunk. =]
Whenever I have a session I try to drink as much water or cordial as I can before going to sleep and I never have a hangover.
Puking your guts up before drinking water will also help, since you won't be absorbing alcohol into your bloodstream whilst you sleep, so drink up! =]
I hope to high heaven that they don't arm these little bastards with chainsaws and set them loose in the outback.
God knows it's dangerous enough out there as it is, what with all the venomous snakes, spiders and insects and searing heat, lack of water, backpacker murderers and all.
The last thing you need is a bloody fly powered killer robot chasing you down when you're 500km from nowhere!
I wholeheartedly agree with you, as do many educated people I know.
Mike Rann and all his pinko mates need to be publically shot down over this by intelligent people. He and all who opposed nuclear power need to be exposed for the absolute fools that they are. I just wish the Liberals would get their shit together and take a stance.
I'm interested in starting a pro-nuclear (and desalination an overhauled road and rail system) political party and a letters to the editor campaign.
There'll never be a universal standard for 3D because it's so application-specific. Some applications work with polygons and some work with parametric objects. It's the reason why only 3ds max can read.max files - objects and modifiers are represented parametrically, and only the plugins that generated them know how to create them.
Then of course, the rendering applications like to have their own formatting of data for speed and efficiency issues. A DirectX game will have data stored in an optimal format that's different from say how a PS2 game will.
Using XML is ridiculous, it's a terrible waste of space and introduces a large processing overhead before the data is ready for rendering. There's a reason games often store 3D data in the format the platform directly processes - so it can be read off disk and immediately blasted to the screen.
4. There are more than 2 choices, and the increasing swing to the Greens is indicative of this.
God help us is all that can be said about The Greens getting power. Could you imagine how much this country would go down the shitter if Bob Brown was running the show? Christ, he's more of an arsehole than Latham.
The average small business owner is crushed by the weight of ever increasing government reporting requirements and he thinks that small business is the future of the country.
The only people who complain about the GST adding more paperwork are the ones who give their accountant a box full of receipts at the end of the year. Managing the GST is a piece of piss, moreso if you computerise your books - MYOB can automagically generate your BAS.
Really, a flat 10% tax is a lot simpler than the old varying % sales tax system. You record how much GST you pay on inputs (A), and how much you collect on outputs (B). The GST you owe the government can then be calculated simply by tallying up the A and B columns and subtracting A from B. I really fail to see how it makes paperwork and red-tape more complicated for business. Plus as an added bonus you get to hold onto that GST money and earn interest on it until it comes time to hand it over!
A lot of businesses that fell over during the introduction period were not keeping up-to-date on their bookwork and consequently, they weren't managing their financials properly and weren't setting aside the GST money they owed.
If anything, the GST has helped businesses to improve their financial management and security.
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You know how much nuclear waste that would generate? What do you suggest the world does with that?
In comparison to burning coal... hardly any. What do we do with it? Reprocess it, solidify the waste and bury it where it came from - at the bottom of Olympic Dam. We can use breeder reactors as well to further reduce waste.
Perhaps a more pertinent question is what do we do with all the toxic chemicals used in the manufacturing of solar panels?
And where does the enormous amount of energy needed to manufacture them come from?
That's because the main cost in making calls is the billing. Here in Australia, the incumbent telco Telstra has been rising monthly line 'rental' charges from about $15/month a few years ago to about $30/month now. At the same time, the cost of making a call has dropped, and continues to do so.
This is because packet-switched networks are cheap. It costs too much to try and meter and bill the data (though Telstra persists) so now we're seeing a move towards a monthly access/subscription charge to use the network, with the data essentially being free because there is essentially unlimited capacity in the fibre traversing the country.
My ISP no longer charges for excess data, they just throttle my 512Kbps connection to 64Kbps after I've chewed through 16GB... which truth be told I've yet to come anywhere near in using up. This is because they don't pay their upstream suppliers per unit of data, they pay per unit of capacity.
Telstra gets about 50% of their revenue from calls, and they're shitting themselves because VoIP is going to annihlate that in the next five years, hence the raising of the line rental to try and offset that decline.
I'm not really sure what policy you are refering to - but, for example, the Greens environmental policy embraces new technology that is environmentally friendly..
The Greens are a bunch of kooks. They're at the opposite end of the spectrum of Family First.
$1B on solar power? $1B on nuclear power would be orders of magnitude better for reducing greenhouse emissions. But of course, since The Greens are hysterically anti-nuclear anything and everything, we can't have that!
We have the school of the air for kids living on remote stations. It used to be 2-way radios, but now it's all 2-way satellites with video conferencing and stuff.
My family has friends who run a sheep station up in the north of SA, and I can remember when we used to go up camping there we'd stop in to say hello, etc. and seeing where their 'kids went to school'. It was a small hut separate from the homestead with a 2-way radio running off a car battery, because they'd only run their diesel generator for about 6 hours per day or something. (I'd imagine they'd have a solar system installed now though.) Talk about isolation!
But still, to show how much their parents valued the education of their children, when their kids were older they bought a house in the closest city - some 500KM away - and the kids would go down with their mum for a few weeks at a time to go to school. Many parents on stations send their kids to boarding schools in the cities when they reach high-school age.
As for a space program... bwahahahaha.... come on! Just today the Prime Minister announced 10 million for a loser footy club whilst the scientists that want a bit more than that for that telescope in Antartica are still begging for money! Yep, the clever country indeed.
Adelaide, By the midcoast. The last one I saw said something like "I wish I had an oakley sticker like all those other wankers."
I thought Oakley was all about thermonuclear protection stickers for cars?
I don't know about you, but if I've got a boris that won't flush after a few full-flushes I go and grab a 10L bucket from the shed, fill it with water and pour it all in the bowl from a standing height. Never fails, and is certainly nicer than mashing it up with a plunger.
Fortunately though, the need to do so is a rare event.
Down here in Australia it already is the Blue Sky of Death, what with that ozone hole and all.
Remember to slip, slop, slap kiddies:
Slip on a shirt.
Slop on some sunscreen.
Slap on a hat.
I've heard also that lack of B12 is one of the main causes of hangovers - to this day, I've never had a (bad) hangover drinking my own beer.
Hangovers are actually caused by dehydration. Alcohol is a diuretic like caffiene - it makes you piss. If you don't have a glass of water every now and then whilst drinking you dehyrdate, but don't notice it because you're drunk. =]
Whenever I have a session I try to drink as much water or cordial as I can before going to sleep and I never have a hangover.
Puking your guts up before drinking water will also help, since you won't be absorbing alcohol into your bloodstream whilst you sleep, so drink up! =]
They could very well be real.
After all, they're so ugly and tacky they just have Microsoft Design Department written all over. =]
Germans are definately the master race. I mean, they've got freakin' laws that make it illegal to brew crappy beer!
Jeez, way to not get the joke.
I hope to high heaven that they don't arm these little bastards with chainsaws and set them loose in the outback.
God knows it's dangerous enough out there as it is, what with all the venomous snakes, spiders and insects and searing heat, lack of water, backpacker murderers and all.
The last thing you need is a bloody fly powered killer robot chasing you down when you're 500km from nowhere!
Last Ninja 2, for me is the definitive C64 audio experience - I recorded the whole soundtrack to CD =]
For all sorts of SID goodness check out the High-Voltage SID Collection, though you probably already know about it if you can name SID composers =]
I wholeheartedly agree with you, as do many educated people I know.
Mike Rann and all his pinko mates need to be publically shot down over this by intelligent people. He and all who opposed nuclear power need to be exposed for the absolute fools that they are. I just wish the Liberals would get their shit together and take a stance.
I'm interested in starting a pro-nuclear (and desalination an overhauled road and rail system) political party and a letters to the editor campaign.
he should be in the loo giving perl to the ladies
Well, no shit.
Enthusiast buys PowerMac. Average joe buys iMac.
Just like with your muscles, if you don't use your brain you lose it.
But the whole point of the format was so that they could make web-games or whatever. Clearly, they were and still are barking up the wrong tree.
The point is, a universal format is a stupid idea because graphics is a constantly evolving, application specific field.
There'll never be a universal standard for 3D because it's so application-specific. Some applications work with polygons and some work with parametric objects. It's the reason why only 3ds max can read .max files - objects and modifiers are represented parametrically, and only the plugins that generated them know how to create them.
Then of course, the rendering applications like to have their own formatting of data for speed and efficiency issues. A DirectX game will have data stored in an optimal format that's different from say how a PS2 game will.
Using XML is ridiculous, it's a terrible waste of space and introduces a large processing overhead before the data is ready for rendering. There's a reason games often store 3D data in the format the platform directly processes - so it can be read off disk and immediately blasted to the screen.
4. There are more than 2 choices, and the increasing swing to the Greens is indicative of this.
God help us is all that can be said about The Greens getting power. Could you imagine how much this country would go down the shitter if Bob Brown was running the show? Christ, he's more of an arsehole than Latham.
John Howard has shown through example he is very capable of leading this country.
Yeah, right up gee dubya's ass.
Only John Howard has the balls to lead Australia =]
The average small business owner is crushed by the weight of ever increasing government reporting requirements and he thinks that small business is the future of the country.
The only people who complain about the GST adding more paperwork are the ones who give their accountant a box full of receipts at the end of the year. Managing the GST is a piece of piss, moreso if you computerise your books - MYOB can automagically generate your BAS.
Really, a flat 10% tax is a lot simpler than the old varying % sales tax system. You record how much GST you pay on inputs (A), and how much you collect on outputs (B). The GST you owe the government can then be calculated simply by tallying up the A and B columns and subtracting A from B. I really fail to see how it makes paperwork and red-tape more complicated for business. Plus as an added bonus you get to hold onto that GST money and earn interest on it until it comes time to hand it over!
A lot of businesses that fell over during the introduction period were not keeping up-to-date on their bookwork and consequently, they weren't managing their financials properly and weren't setting aside the GST money they owed.
If anything, the GST has helped businesses to improve their financial management and security.
Ahh... but you see, the emails only went out to his ELECTORATE. Electorates typically have 50,000 voters in them. This is a storm in a teacup.
Yes, Minister.
I'm with you there on "jail".
I apologise if I insulted you by calling you a yank. =] Canadians are our friends, seeing as you're in the Commonwealth and all =]