This is perhaps the one thing I enjoy about Australia's isolation - the whole northern hemisphere could blow up/get wiped out by a super-virus and we'd be alright just so long as we set up a naval blockade. We are the Madagascar of the Pacific!
A part of this I think stems from the ideas expressed in the above comments about successive generations of parents being all up in arms about 'the new rock and roll', but I think it might just be that children are just getting stupider and people are latching onto technology as an excuse. I'm a child of the early 90's, (yes, a whippersnapper) and the amount of stupidity displayed by my generation never ceases to amaze and depress. I graduated from high school this year, and I can tell you as a statistical fact that half of the year failed mathematics and English miserably - and in the medium level classes too, not just the hard ones. As I have passed through high school I have assessed it's methods of teaching (because I want to learn dammit) and I judged it to be far below par. The culture amongst the students is of mutual congratulatory failure and the vast majority of the teachers are simply riding it out until they hit retirement. Instead of latching onto technology as a scapegoat, it would be far better to tear down the existing system and restructure education from the ground up.
Ugh. Anyone who knows anything about genetics has the understanding that we do not know nearly enough what genes or combinations of make anything a dead cert. Yes, they can be indicators, but it all should be taken with all the grains of salt in the Dead Sea.
But I will applaud the fact that someone, yet again, is making money off idiots. Good luck to them.
Back in the day of screeching phone lines, I trawled through mound and mounds of freeware games. As Sturgeon's Law dictated, 95% of them were crap, however I found a fair few gems in the steaming piles of software. First stop should be vertigogaming.net, where you will find the most delightful puzzler Acidbomb - all of his other free stuff is good, but that is by far the best. Also, have a search for a brilliant game-maker called Darthlupi at http://db.tigsource.com/developers/darthlupi Then stop by fullyramblomatic.com and download 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Sacrifice, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice - best adventure series I have ever played. Also there is the delightful stealth platformer The Art of Theft on that site as well. THIS also. http://www.reloaded.org/download/A-Blurred-Line/269/ There are more but I will stop here. Happy gaming!
I'm not a physicist and this might be a stupid question, but how do we generate 100,000 times the Earth's power generation to work the darn thing even for the smallest moment? Is there something I'm missing?
Oh no. They hate the bastards. CP'ers DO use 4chan, but only to be met with a hailstorm of shit. They even got a guy a while ago, got his details and put the cops on his arse. So this I guess is a continuation on that theme of internet vigilante-ism. Hell, Pedo bear was created to MOCK CP'ers. 4chan and anon is responsible for a lot of things, good and bad, but CP is not one of them. I am not a channer by the way; I'm just sayin'.
Well in any case, effective education is a huge problem, especially with No Child Left Behind screwing things up even more, and something needs to be done. That something should be to stop passing everyone and making tests so easy a rhesus monkey could come out with a HD. This is a rather misguided way to address the problem. Rather than humiliating every kid who doesn't do terribly well, what about providing more support and time? Did they consider that?
"The court heard Mr Faherty had been found lying on his back with his head closest to an open fireplace."...
"He said Professor Bernard Knight, in his book on forensic pathology, had written about spontaneous combustion and noted that such reported cases were almost always near an open fireplace or chimney."...
""There is a source of ignition somewhere, but because the body is so badly destroyed the source can't be found," he said."
The obvious solution is that his hair caught on fire; perhaps with some sort of flammable substance in his hair like an aerosol or hair gel and the damage was too great for forensics to pick it up.
Point taken. However I refer to the appalling conditions in which they must exist. We're throwing money at the problem and it's not working; which is generally the way things go when you get out the money cannon.
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No more lolcats in my inbox? I has a sad.
This is perhaps the one thing I enjoy about Australia's isolation - the whole northern hemisphere could blow up/get wiped out by a super-virus and we'd be alright just so long as we set up a naval blockade. We are the Madagascar of the Pacific!
A part of this I think stems from the ideas expressed in the above comments about successive generations of parents being all up in arms about 'the new rock and roll', but I think it might just be that children are just getting stupider and people are latching onto technology as an excuse. I'm a child of the early 90's, (yes, a whippersnapper) and the amount of stupidity displayed by my generation never ceases to amaze and depress. I graduated from high school this year, and I can tell you as a statistical fact that half of the year failed mathematics and English miserably - and in the medium level classes too, not just the hard ones. As I have passed through high school I have assessed it's methods of teaching (because I want to learn dammit) and I judged it to be far below par. The culture amongst the students is of mutual congratulatory failure and the vast majority of the teachers are simply riding it out until they hit retirement. Instead of latching onto technology as a scapegoat, it would be far better to tear down the existing system and restructure education from the ground up.
Ugh. Anyone who knows anything about genetics has the understanding that we do not know nearly enough what genes or combinations of make anything a dead cert. Yes, they can be indicators, but it all should be taken with all the grains of salt in the Dead Sea. But I will applaud the fact that someone, yet again, is making money off idiots. Good luck to them.
Back in the day of screeching phone lines, I trawled through mound and mounds of freeware games. As Sturgeon's Law dictated, 95% of them were crap, however I found a fair few gems in the steaming piles of software. First stop should be vertigogaming.net, where you will find the most delightful puzzler Acidbomb - all of his other free stuff is good, but that is by far the best. Also, have a search for a brilliant game-maker called Darthlupi at http://db.tigsource.com/developers/darthlupi Then stop by fullyramblomatic.com and download 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Sacrifice, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice - best adventure series I have ever played. Also there is the delightful stealth platformer The Art of Theft on that site as well. THIS also. http://www.reloaded.org/download/A-Blurred-Line/269/ There are more but I will stop here. Happy gaming!
Thank you all very much. I've always wondered about that, and the solution is obvious now. Thanks for putting up with me.
I'm not a physicist and this might be a stupid question, but how do we generate 100,000 times the Earth's power generation to work the darn thing even for the smallest moment? Is there something I'm missing?
These will be in public circulation next year. All Australians are advised to purchase a flatbed truck for the currency switch.
Oh no. They hate the bastards. CP'ers DO use 4chan, but only to be met with a hailstorm of shit. They even got a guy a while ago, got his details and put the cops on his arse. So this I guess is a continuation on that theme of internet vigilante-ism. Hell, Pedo bear was created to MOCK CP'ers. 4chan and anon is responsible for a lot of things, good and bad, but CP is not one of them. I am not a channer by the way; I'm just sayin'.
The real question remains- can it be used for porn? Bam. Millions of sales... and the world grows slightly sadder.
Silly less than and greater than signs messing with my gag! The *synonym of large* Array
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This could be very interesting for HIV. There seems to be a genetic link between HIV resistance and the plague. A study of the Black Death's DNA from way back could perhaps shed more light on this phenomenon and how we can use it for potential gene therapy. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239.htm http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/99/8/497.full
Well in any case, effective education is a huge problem, especially with No Child Left Behind screwing things up even more, and something needs to be done. That something should be to stop passing everyone and making tests so easy a rhesus monkey could come out with a HD. This is a rather misguided way to address the problem. Rather than humiliating every kid who doesn't do terribly well, what about providing more support and time? Did they consider that?
I must have a crazy microwave then... the only metal I've found that affects it is foil.
I personally use a microwave. Fries the damn thing into oblivion. Fun too. CDs are also very pretty!
Found it buried beneath several links. http://www.accc.gov.au/content/maintain/create/index.phtml?contentTypeItemId=9133&informationSpaceItemId=268347&inPop=1&returnUrl=.&type=Other
I'm hunting, but I can't seem to find exactly where to sign the petition in any of these links...
And still it can't run Crysis...
"The court heard Mr Faherty had been found lying on his back with his head closest to an open fireplace." ...
"He said Professor Bernard Knight, in his book on forensic pathology, had written about spontaneous combustion and noted that such reported cases were almost always near an open fireplace or chimney." ...
""There is a source of ignition somewhere, but because the body is so badly destroyed the source can't be found," he said."
The obvious solution is that his hair caught on fire; perhaps with some sort of flammable substance in his hair like an aerosol or hair gel and the damage was too great for forensics to pick it up.
Point taken. However I refer to the appalling conditions in which they must exist. We're throwing money at the problem and it's not working; which is generally the way things go when you get out the money cannon.
Great! Now if us Australians can stop treating them like second class citizens...