I would have to say the egg, since the ancestors of what we now know as a chicken would at some point not be chickens. However, said ancestors would have laid an egg containing a mutant offspring which we now know as a chicken. Therefore, the egg came first.
You have to remember the government put up this legislation to appease an old fart senator from Tasmania who happened to hold the balance of power in the Senate, so they could get his vote on a few other bits of contentious legislation.
Tasmania is physically separate from the rest of Australia, and it shows.
I agree that buggy drivers are a problem. Just look at all those Amish clogging up the roads with their horse drawn vehicles. Not to mention all the horse sh*t they leave everywhere.
Seriously, any bugs in a closed source driver will not only affect Linux users, but users of every system that implements UDI. HP, IBM, SUN, Compaq users are going to have the same problems, so there will be much more pressure on developers of the code to fix bugs. This would be even more significant if MS ever implemented UDI (maybe for NT/W2K given the problems there are in getting drivers for some hardware on NT) And the fix would only need to be done once.
Current plan is for it to re-enter over the east coast of Australia, run parallel to the coast, pass over New Zealand and finally splashdown somewhere in the South Pacific.
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What is brown and steaming and come backwards out of cowes? The Isle of Wight ferry.
Your argument may be valid if there was in fact only 2 choices. You conviently ignore the shitload of other religions and gods who have been postulated and worshipped throughout the ages.
I hear Zeus is not to be trifled with, and Wodin would have your balls as soon as spit on you. As for Quetzalcoatl....
So how can you be so sure YOU have made the right choice??? (Hint:the bible on its own is not a convincing argument. see http://www.sonic.net/~jhuger/kisshank.htm)
As soon as you can convince me why I should not beleive in all these other gods, then you will know why I don't believe in your's.
You obviously weren't watching last year's Sydney to Hobart ocean racing classic.
Several people died due to a large storm that ripped through the fleet. One of the crew on Sayonara (Ellison's boat) broke his leg (actually Oracle Australia's MD). Ellison said it was the worst he had ever sailed in, and at the time said he would never sail the race again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_3 54000/354646.stm A demo house in the UK (not known for its sunny days) which has produced 50% more electricity than it has used. http://www.pv.unsw.edu.au/ World record holders for PV cell efficiency - 25%
Generally the idea is that you remain connected to the grid and any excess energy produced (like during the day when you are at work and dont use lights or the TV etc) gets fed into the grid for 'storage' (actually used at places that need it) and then you suck it back out at night when you are at home and you need it. This means that power stations don't need to be as big and are mainly there to handle the peaks and the off hours.
Of course, having an energy efficient building and appliances goes a long way to help.
And PV cells just need light to operate - so even when it is cloudy, they are still generating, just not as much as with direct sunlight. .
The Matrix was shot entirely in Sydney, Australia, with bulk of the SFX by a local digital FX company. Hollywood is just plain too expensive these days.
I wonder if you can VIFF (vectoring in forward flight)?
That is one of the neat tricks a harrier can do, and since the nozzles actually rotate past vertical (110 degrees IIRC), it just stops dead in the air. Useful when you have a bogey on your tail. Of course, the decceleration can also give you whiplash.
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Not to forget Keenan Wynn as Major 'Bat' Guano (if that really is your name)
"You're going to have to answer to the Coca Cola Company!'
From the opening scene in 'Patton'
"No-one ever won a war by dying for their country. The way you win wars is by making the other dumb bastard die for his country"
reminds me of the Warner Bros cartoon, with Daffy and Porky doing 'Dragnet'
"Like all criminals, he had an elaborate alibi."
"I didn't do nuthin'. I didn't do nuthin'. Uh, like I said, I didn't do nuthin'"
Isn't this MicroSoft's standard operating procedure?
"but when those bastards released Java 2 they bloated Java to the size of that guy in "The Meaning of Life."
Hey, I resent that remark!
"How do you spell cat?"
"K-A-T"
"That's not how you spell cat"
"Well, what does it spell then?
Don't forget what happened to those who stayed behind.
They all died in an epidemic that originated from an unsanitised phone.
"Which came first, the chicken or the egg? ;) "
(Schoolchildren in Kansas, cover your eyes)
I would have to say the egg, since the ancestors of what we now know as a chicken would at some point not be chickens. However, said ancestors would have laid an egg containing a mutant offspring which we now know as a chicken. Therefore, the egg came first.
QED.
"Apostrophes are also used to indicate possession ("The book's cover art is impressive") "
Exception - possessive of 'it' does not get an apostrophe ("My widget broke its wizzo")
You have to remember the government put up this legislation to appease an old fart senator from Tasmania who happened to hold the balance of power in the Senate, so they could get his vote on a few other bits of contentious legislation.
Tasmania is physically separate from the rest of Australia, and it shows.
Australian foreplay: Nudge - "You awake?"
Tasmanian foreplay: Nudge - "You awake, mum?"
I agree that buggy drivers are a problem. Just look at all those Amish clogging up the roads with their horse drawn vehicles. Not to mention all the horse sh*t they leave everywhere.
Seriously, any bugs in a closed source driver will not only affect Linux users, but users of every system that implements UDI. HP, IBM, SUN, Compaq users are going to have the same problems, so there will be much more pressure on developers of the code to fix bugs.
This would be even more significant if MS ever implemented UDI (maybe for NT/W2K given the problems there are in getting drivers for some hardware on NT)
And the fix would only need to be done once.
Anyone dumb enough to rely on email to get porn deserves to get caught.
Anyone actively getting porn off the internet is downloading it from newsgroups, not via email.
Current plan is for it to re-enter over the east coast of Australia, run parallel to the coast, pass over New Zealand and finally splashdown somewhere in the South Pacific.
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What is brown and steaming and come backwards out of cowes?
The Isle of Wight ferry.
Boom! Boom!'
IIRC, they called them 'tapes'
Your argument may be valid if there was in fact only 2 choices. You conviently ignore the shitload of other religions and gods who have been postulated and worshipped throughout the ages.
I hear Zeus is not to be trifled with, and Wodin would have your balls as soon as spit on you. As for Quetzalcoatl....
So how can you be so sure YOU have made the right choice??? (Hint:the bible on its own is not a convincing argument. see http://www.sonic.net/~jhuger/kisshank.htm)
As soon as you can convince me why I should not beleive in all these other gods, then you will know why I don't believe in your's.
You obviously weren't watching last year's Sydney to Hobart ocean racing classic.
Several people died due to a large storm that ripped through the fleet. One of the crew on Sayonara (Ellison's boat) broke his leg (actually Oracle Australia's MD). Ellison said it was the worst he had ever sailed in, and at the time said he would never sail the race again.
"Do you get wafers with it?"
"Course you don't get fuckin' wafers with it!!!"
and, according to ST TOS, we will still be using them in the 24th century.
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Maybe you wouldn't be so worried about vegemite if you knew what it was made of.
Hint - It is described as a 'yeast extract', and yeast is a major component in brewing. It also contains heaps of vitamin B.
Just think of it as 'beer concentrate'. And you only have a little bit at a time - don't slap it on the bread like peanut butter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_3 54000/354646.stm
A demo house in the UK (not known for its sunny days) which has produced 50% more electricity than it has used.
http://www.pv.unsw.edu.au/
World record holders for PV cell efficiency - 25%
Generally the idea is that you remain connected to the grid and any excess energy produced (like during the day when you are at work and dont use lights or the TV etc) gets fed into the grid for 'storage' (actually used at places that need it) and then you suck it back out at night when you are at home and you need it. This means that power stations don't need to be as big and are mainly there to handle the peaks and the off hours.
Of course, having an energy efficient building and appliances goes a long way to help.
And PV cells just need light to operate - so even when it is cloudy, they are still generating, just not as much as with direct sunlight.
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The Matrix was shot entirely in Sydney, Australia, with bulk of the SFX by a local digital FX company.
Hollywood is just plain too expensive these days.
I wonder if you can VIFF (vectoring in forward flight)?
That is one of the neat tricks a harrier can do, and since the nozzles actually rotate past vertical (110 degrees IIRC), it just stops dead in the air. Useful when you have a bogey on your tail.
Of course, the decceleration can also give you whiplash.
Looks like the budget for episode 2 just went up about $20M.