Completely agree. I spent 18 months in Ireland and by the end of that time I had almost convinced my boss to give me addresses for jobs rather than pages and pages of directions, most of which made no sense to me, as a foreigner.
Oddly, while most of the Irish I met don't, and never have had, maps in their cars (and couldn't really explain why not) they were completely happy to get and blindly follow GPS devices. (Often up dead-end streets, if my experience is anything to go by.)
In Australia we tend to call everyone Australian if they've been here for a few years and have citizenship. In America I'd probably be Irish-American or some such thing, despite the fact I'm five generations out of Ireland. Australians tend to find that pretty weird.
I watched my grandfather die from alzheimers, I can relate to a lot of what you say, unfortunately - even though I was not his primary carer. All I can say is that you still have to laugh, never at the person, but I think it's ok to laugh at something they do, or say, or have forgotten.
My family watched granddad try to construct a tractor (he was a farmer) from a talcum powder bottle and a slipper. We all laughed because it was either that or cry; I don't know what crying would have achieved. And to be honest, I think the grandfather of 10 years previously would have much preferred to see us laughing.
Some might say that I'm being trite, but I believe you have to keep smiling.
But given that there is already enough food produced for every individual on the planet, perhaps we should be looking elsewhere for a solution to hunger?
I don't have a choice about whether or not the guys I employ use drugs, I'd say well over 50% of my workers are at least social drug takers. Often some of my best technicians are pot heads. If I wanted to use only clean people I wouldn't have many workers left.
Maybe that's because most people using an OSS based OS don't download directly from sourceforge. I would think for most people sourceforge would only be used after the packages that came with the distribution fail to work, a pretty rare ocurrence.
I'm not going to say that the windows install base is smaller than it is but you maybe need to look deeper.
Petrol vapour on the other hand is very explosive so even an empty petrol tank can explode.
Actually, if you want a petrol tank to explode it pretty much has to be empty. Liquid petrol does not burn, drop a match in a completely full tank and it'll go out.
Drop one in a tank of a petrol vapour/oxygen mix and you'd better be running...
I don't think the wind'll be too much of an issue, I've done a fair bit of push bike touring on major highways and have coped alright. Even with big semi trailers screaming past, you learn how to deal with the wind.
My bike doesn't weigh anything near 80kg (I should bloody hope not). It's just a matter of being aware of what you are riding.
Here in Aus we have no free use provisions in copyright law. This means if you run a business (or for that matter you are simply playing to the public, as a private citizen) and you want to play music for your customers, you pay for a permit to do so. End of story.
It doesn't matter what your business is or whether or not you use the radio or your own collection of recorded music. You have to buy a permit. And if you are in a shopping strip etc, they do check.
One of the main reasons NiCd batteries are still around is their current handling ability. They perform much better with delivering high current than NiMH. Other than that, go with NiMH
I've never worked on a LAN party, but I've worked on a lot of corporate gigs in hotels and function centres that need POWER.
1200+ Amps anyone?
99% of these places have 3 phase feeds into their auditoriums, from which you should be able to draw anything from 100 amps up.
Talk to AV hire companies in your area, most of them will have loads of equipment to distribute said power around the venue and feed it to people in single phase form.
And most importantly make sure you have someone on hand all the time who knows what they are doing with serious amounts of power, get a qualified electrician if you can. I'm not kidding...
The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
True perhaps officially, but US interests are the most pervasive on the planet, be they military, financial or cultural. A lot of people don't like that fact and it matters little that the US does not own their land, it seems the US wants to own everything else.
Personally, I don't think the US is fighting for freedom, this fight is much more about security.
To paraphrase Kenneth Davidson: Americans don't yet understand or care that absolute security can only be achieved by making everybody else absolutely insecure.
It's this puritanical stance that has really started to get me over the last few years. "Just because it's legal, doesn't make it right", true
and the flip side of the coin; just because its illegal, doesn't make it wrong.
its illegal to smoke dope here in australia, but not in some parts of europe, does that mean it is wrong here and right there? How could that be possible, I'm the same person in either place but if I travel right and wrong change places?
There are many reasons for laws in all places to exist, pressure from high placed corporations/people, public pressure, whatever else.
In the end the dominant culture determines what is legal and what is not. Not some absolute grand high being saying what is right and wrong.
There is a growing culture that says its ok to illegaly trade music. The record companies better hope it is never the dominant one, or ever gets enough clout to change laws.
This has been termed the largest natural disaster in Australian History (or so I've been told).
Not even close. 20 years ago was ash wednesday, which I still remember despite being four at the time. Then we lost over 2000 properties and nearly 100 lives, in one day, across fires burning in 3 states.
Yes, this is horrible, but we must keep things in perspective.
seems much of humanity thinks like a teenage boy with his first car.
We can kill ourselves people, and individualy we can help or hinder that process, there is no innate mechanism within humanity towards avoiding extinction any more than there was in the dodo.
We are not invincible and neither is the planet. We cannot possibly deny that the world is less healthy than it once was, largely through human activity. The earth will not suddenly one day stop supporting life, it is gradual and it is already happening. Whether it happens in fifty years or not is not really the issue and almost impossible to accurately say anyway.
The issue is that it is happening and will continue to unless we change the way we live.
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To put it even more simply, as someone who has been to Burning Man:
What happens on the playa, stays on the playa.
This media policy works well to enforce that.
Because different rules apply to monopolies, that's the law, sorry.
Completely agree. I spent 18 months in Ireland and by the end of that time I had almost convinced my boss to give me addresses for jobs rather than pages and pages of directions, most of which made no sense to me, as a foreigner.
Oddly, while most of the Irish I met don't, and never have had, maps in their cars (and couldn't really explain why not) they were completely happy to get and blindly follow GPS devices. (Often up dead-end streets, if my experience is anything to go by.)
...like rain on your wedding day...
There is an immediate intoxication test. It is used widely by police on the roadside in Victoria, Australia.
Latency.
In Australia we tend to call everyone Australian if they've been here for a few years and have citizenship. In America I'd probably be Irish-American or some such thing, despite the fact I'm five generations out of Ireland. Australians tend to find that pretty weird.
I watched my grandfather die from alzheimers, I can relate to a lot of what you say, unfortunately - even though I was not his primary carer. All I can say is that you still have to laugh, never at the person, but I think it's ok to laugh at something they do, or say, or have forgotten.
My family watched granddad try to construct a tractor (he was a farmer) from a talcum powder bottle and a slipper. We all laughed because it was either that or cry; I don't know what crying would have achieved. And to be honest, I think the grandfather of 10 years previously would have much preferred to see us laughing.
Some might say that I'm being trite, but I believe you have to keep smiling.
I'm pretty sure your comment's tongue-in-cheek...
You are not sure???
But given that there is already enough food produced for every individual on the planet, perhaps we should be looking elsewhere for a solution to hunger?
IUD's? Intra Uterine Devices?
I wouldn't like to see one of them blow...
I don't have a choice about whether or not the guys I employ use drugs, I'd say well over 50% of my workers are at least social drug takers. Often some of my best technicians are pot heads. If I wanted to use only clean people I wouldn't have many workers left.
So you don't always get a choice.
Maybe that's because most people using an OSS based OS don't download directly from sourceforge. I would think for most people sourceforge would only be used after the packages that came with the distribution fail to work, a pretty rare ocurrence.
I'm not going to say that the windows install base is smaller than it is but you maybe need to look deeper.
For that kind of industrial strength goodness you need gaffer tape.
I've seen doors hinged on that stuff alone, it leaves duct tape for dead.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but the satelite image certainly isn't showing Australia in any great detail...
Petrol vapour on the other hand is very explosive so even an empty petrol tank can explode.
Actually, if you want a petrol tank to explode it pretty much has to be empty. Liquid petrol does not burn, drop a match in a completely full tank and it'll go out. Drop one in a tank of a petrol vapour/oxygen mix and you'd better be running...
I don't think the wind'll be too much of an issue, I've done a fair bit of push bike touring on major highways and have coped alright. Even with big semi trailers screaming past, you learn how to deal with the wind.
My bike doesn't weigh anything near 80kg (I should bloody hope not). It's just a matter of being aware of what you are riding.
Here in Aus we have no free use provisions in copyright law. This means if you run a business (or for that matter you are simply playing to the public, as a private citizen) and you want to play music for your customers, you pay for a permit to do so. End of story.
It doesn't matter what your business is or whether or not you use the radio or your own collection of recorded music. You have to buy a permit. And if you are in a shopping strip etc, they do check.
Welcome to our world.
One of the main reasons NiCd batteries are still around is their current handling ability. They perform much better with delivering high current than NiMH. Other than that, go with NiMH
I've never worked on a LAN party, but I've worked on a lot of corporate gigs in hotels and function centres that need POWER.
1200+ Amps anyone?
99% of these places have 3 phase feeds into their auditoriums, from which you should be able to draw anything from 100 amps up.
Talk to AV hire companies in your area, most of them will have loads of equipment to distribute said power around the venue and feed it to people in single phase form.
And most importantly make sure you have someone on hand all the time who knows what they are doing with serious amounts of power, get a qualified electrician if you can. I'm not kidding...
The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
True perhaps officially, but US interests are the most pervasive on the planet, be they military, financial or cultural. A lot of people don't like that fact and it matters little that the US does not own their land, it seems the US wants to own everything else.
Personally, I don't think the US is fighting for freedom, this fight is much more about security.
To paraphrase Kenneth Davidson: Americans don't yet understand or care that absolute security can only be achieved by making everybody else absolutely insecure.
I believe the frequency needed to cause humans to lose bowel control is somewhere around 14 hz. It helps if it is of a high amplitude.
It, perhaps, could be said, that there is no good excuse for knowing this...
It's this puritanical stance that has really started to get me over the last few years. "Just because it's legal, doesn't make it right", true
and the flip side of the coin; just because its illegal, doesn't make it wrong.
its illegal to smoke dope here in australia, but not in some parts of europe, does that mean it is wrong here and right there? How could that be possible, I'm the same person in either place but if I travel right and wrong change places?
There are many reasons for laws in all places to exist, pressure from high placed corporations/people, public pressure, whatever else.
In the end the dominant culture determines what is legal and what is not. Not some absolute grand high being saying what is right and wrong.
There is a growing culture that says its ok to illegaly trade music. The record companies better hope it is never the dominant one, or ever gets enough clout to change laws.
This has been termed the largest natural disaster in Australian History (or so I've been told).
Not even close. 20 years ago was ash wednesday, which I still remember despite being four at the time. Then we lost over 2000 properties and nearly 100 lives, in one day, across fires burning in 3 states.
Yes, this is horrible, but we must keep things in perspective.
seems much of humanity thinks like a teenage boy with his first car.
We can kill ourselves people, and individualy we can help or hinder that process, there is no innate mechanism within humanity towards avoiding extinction any more than there was in the dodo.
We are not invincible and neither is the planet. We cannot possibly deny that the world is less healthy than it once was, largely through human activity. The earth will not suddenly one day stop supporting life, it is gradual and it is already happening. Whether it happens in fifty years or not is not really the issue and almost impossible to accurately say anyway.
The issue is that it is happening and will continue to unless we change the way we live.