It's worth looking at the cost of getting a printer in South Africa. Email them some PDFs of the books and get them to print and ship the order for you.
Though, I suspect it may be cheaper to find a 2nd book dealer (in South Africa) with the titles your friend is after.
My source, was the "Skeptics Guide to the Paranormal" by Lynne Kelly, which referenced several issues of the Skeptical Inquirer. The weaving technique is produced on several skeptical and humanist sites, as proof of a medieval forgery, eg
http://www.csicop.org/list/listarchive/msg00455.ht ml
but also, trotted out by several believers as evidence of ancient provinance.
So, I'm not sure who is telling the truth, but I'd certainly appreciate more information from someone with a little more knowledge.
The best evidence that it is a medieval fake is that it that the fabric is in a "herringbone-twill weave". This weave was common in Europe in the middle ages, but unknown in Roman Palestine.
I don't know the specific details, but from memory I think computer games are classified much more harshly for sexual content because of their interactivity.
To be honest, I don't think Australians would be willing to sacrifice the reigning monarch's "Jus Primae Noctis" just for the sake of being able to make their own laws.
A few years ago I met a seemingly worldly American in Australia (while the country was engaged in constitutional debate over getting rid of a foreign monarchy). He eanestly asked me, "Do you think Democracy would work here?"
Yes, this is why extortion never works, because the extorter never figures out an anonymous way of having money transferred.
But, if the extorter is trying to achieve a behavioural response, such as a political concession, extortion can be higly effective. I guess, though, we refer to in these instances as 'blackmail' rather than 'extortion'.
No joke. I've lived in a lot of dodgy places and only ever been beaten up twice (both times when I didn't have a beard).
Everybody body knows people with beards are outsiders, poor and usually crazy.
No one ever mugged Charles Manson, did they?
I wonder if in instances, like this what was really behind the award. Nobel Literature and Peace Prizes have often been rewarded to shame and cajole the nations of their awardee into action.
I suspect, there might have been a similar motive here, to embarass the US by awarding the prize to a movie which has been muzzled by a protracted distribution saga. It's also payback from Europeans that resent American foreign policy and hawkish postering against 'old Europe'.
Without wanting to bang a rather tedious drum, I would suggest that cars perhaps predominate in the US due to the hidden subsidies that are given to oil industry, such as the enormous military expenditure needed to maintain a stability of oil producing states.
Yes, it's quite true it would require a change of mindset to move people toward public transport, but I suppose that's no different to the paradigmatic change needed to move to open source.
Though I've never been to the United States, it sounds like public transport infrastructure is less than desirable from the second hand reports I get.
Isn't this sufficient grounds to be an advocate and lobbyist for more public transport.
Why look to new technology for alternatives, when the real problem is the underutilation of existant technology.
I was involved in lobbying for a train station to be built at the University of Newcastle in Australia. It was built the year I left, but it opened up public transport as a viable means of transport for thousands of students who lived further up the valley and were filling the roads with cars.
When I was working for a large publishing company in 1997, the staff received a dire warning regarding the GoodTimes virus from the IT support manager. This was the one that lived in an email called GoodTimes and would trap your computer in an 'n-binary loop' until it was physically destroyed. We were warned not to open it, but to leave it to the IT support professionals immediately. Of course, this occurred some 18 months after the 'Goodtimes virus' had been exposed as an email hoax.
700+ pages
tears apart our notions of causality with irregular outbursts of chemistry, mathematics, physics and psychology.
you have no idea what's happening for the first 50 pages... ... and little wiser for the remainder of the book.
Author: RIG Hughes
Book : The Structure & Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Exceptionally clear explication of Quantum Mechanics (with a brief introduction to the fundamental maths needed). The author is a philosopher, so he goes beyond the mathematics and delves into the implications of quantum theory.
I've read a lot of other crap on QM (van Fraasen comes to mind), but I strongly recommend this book.
Michael Costa (a state police minister) has been mouthing off about websites lately, but the Australian Broadcasting Authority hasn't felt his claims warrant action.
The article refers to the opinions of Police Ministers and an Attorney General (or two). It doesn't reflect the political will of any major party to draft legislation, nor does it an already embattled Communication Minister to risk a "Free Speech" confrontation. So at the end of the day this is a political talkfest, where a few twits can let off steam about an area that is largely outside of their control.
By dismissing the case by saying that there was not enough evidence, the judge has avoided making a ruling into whether these types of claims are merited.
A greater victory would be if a judge ruled that spammers were a public nuisance with no legitimate business interests.
Future anti-spammers may still be faced with the prospect of legal action, if their is sufficient evidence to demonstrate their involvement in blocking spam.
You probably want to right a script to do:
(1) scan the composite image,
(2) copy 4 rectangular regions into 4 new images.
(3) save 4 images as imagename_[1,2,3,4].png
You could then go back and crop to perfection afterwards. There are with filehandling in ScriptFu (Gimp) but maybe the PhotoShop scripting can handle this kind of thing.
Yes, I noticed this strange turn of events at Adequacy. Could the site's disappearance all be over the "Is your child a hacker story" that warned parents to be suspicious of them buying AMD chips?
Any further information appreciated.
Personally I'd recommend the live album, "Ziggy Stardust - The Original Soundtrack" over the studio album.
It features Ronson doing some very raw guitar work, innovative medleys of Bowie songs, as well as covers of Jacque Brel, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones.
The Faustian "Width of a Circle" is exceptional on this release.
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damn .... you beat me to it.
Serbian irregular forces could have used it to undermine Clinton's air superiority.
It's worth looking at the cost of getting a printer in South Africa. Email them some PDFs of the books and get them to print and ship the order for you.
Though, I suspect it may be cheaper to find a 2nd book dealer (in South Africa) with the titles your friend is after.
My source, was the "Skeptics Guide to the Paranormal" by Lynne Kelly, which referenced several issues of the Skeptical Inquirer. The weaving technique is produced on several skeptical and humanist sites, as proof of a medieval forgery, eg http://www.csicop.org/list/listarchive/msg00455.ht ml
but also, trotted out by several believers as evidence of ancient provinance.
So, I'm not sure who is telling the truth, but I'd certainly appreciate more information from someone with a little more knowledge.
The best evidence that it is a medieval fake is that it that the fabric is in a "herringbone-twill weave". This weave was common in Europe in the middle ages, but unknown in Roman Palestine.
I don't know the specific details, but from memory I think computer games are classified much more harshly for sexual content because of their interactivity.
To be honest, I don't think Australians would be willing to sacrifice the reigning monarch's "Jus Primae Noctis" just for the sake of being able to make their own laws.
A few years ago I met a seemingly worldly American in Australia (while the country was engaged in constitutional debate over getting rid of a foreign monarchy). He eanestly asked me, "Do you think Democracy would work here?"
Yes, this is why extortion never works, because the extorter never figures out an anonymous way of having money transferred.
But, if the extorter is trying to achieve a behavioural response, such as a political concession, extortion can be higly effective. I guess, though, we refer to in these instances as 'blackmail' rather than 'extortion'.
Many years ago I wanted to have my own Orac too, so I customised my Pentium 1 with some of these sound bites.
When my machine was shutting down it said, "I am closing down, I have much to do, you engaged my circuits on your petty affairs for far too long!"
No joke. I've lived in a lot of dodgy places and only ever been beaten up twice (both times when I didn't have a beard).
Everybody body knows people with beards are outsiders, poor and usually crazy.
No one ever mugged Charles Manson, did they?
I wonder if in instances, like this what was really behind the award. Nobel Literature and Peace Prizes have often been rewarded to shame and cajole the nations of their awardee into action.
I suspect, there might have been a similar motive here, to embarass the US by awarding the prize to a movie which has been muzzled by a protracted distribution saga. It's also payback from Europeans that resent American foreign policy and hawkish postering against 'old Europe'.
Without wanting to bang a rather tedious drum, I would suggest that cars perhaps predominate in the US due to the hidden subsidies that are given to oil industry, such as the enormous military expenditure needed to maintain a stability of oil producing states.
Yes, it's quite true it would require a change of mindset to move people toward public transport, but I suppose that's no different to the paradigmatic change needed to move to open source.
Though I've never been to the United States, it sounds like public transport infrastructure is less than desirable from the second hand reports I get.
Isn't this sufficient grounds to be an advocate and lobbyist for more public transport.
Why look to new technology for alternatives, when the real problem is the underutilation of existant technology.
I was involved in lobbying for a train station to be built at the University of Newcastle in Australia. It was built the year I left, but it opened up public transport as a viable means of transport for thousands of students who lived further up the valley and were filling the roads with cars.
When I was working for a large publishing company in 1997, the staff received a dire warning regarding the GoodTimes virus from the IT support manager. This was the one that lived in an email called GoodTimes and would trap your computer in an 'n-binary loop' until it was physically destroyed. We were warned not to open it, but to leave it to the IT support professionals immediately. Of course, this occurred some 18 months after the 'Goodtimes virus' had been exposed as an email hoax.
700+ pages
... and little wiser for the remainder of the book.
tears apart our notions of causality with irregular outbursts of chemistry, mathematics, physics and psychology.
you have no idea what's happening for the first 50 pages...
Author: RIG Hughes Book : The Structure & Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Exceptionally clear explication of Quantum Mechanics (with a brief introduction to the fundamental maths needed). The author is a philosopher, so he goes beyond the mathematics and delves into the implications of quantum theory. I've read a lot of other crap on QM (van Fraasen comes to mind), but I strongly recommend this book.
They've all gone there to meet Gnome Chomsky.
Wasn't this the library of Persepolis?
they were the ones who really got into painting things black.
Michael Costa (a state police minister) has been mouthing off about websites lately, but the Australian Broadcasting Authority hasn't felt his claims warrant action. The article refers to the opinions of Police Ministers and an Attorney General (or two). It doesn't reflect the political will of any major party to draft legislation, nor does it an already embattled Communication Minister to risk a "Free Speech" confrontation. So at the end of the day this is a political talkfest, where a few twits can let off steam about an area that is largely outside of their control.
By dismissing the case by saying that there was not enough evidence, the judge has avoided making a ruling into whether these types of claims are merited.
A greater victory would be if a judge ruled that spammers were a public nuisance with no legitimate business interests.
Future anti-spammers may still be faced with the prospect of legal action, if their is sufficient evidence to demonstrate their involvement in blocking spam.
You probably want to right a script to do:
(1) scan the composite image,
(2) copy 4 rectangular regions into 4 new images.
(3) save 4 images as imagename_[1,2,3,4].png
You could then go back and crop to perfection afterwards. There are with filehandling in ScriptFu (Gimp) but maybe the PhotoShop scripting can handle this kind of thing.
Yes, I noticed this strange turn of events at Adequacy. Could the site's disappearance all be over the "Is your child a hacker story" that warned parents to be suspicious of them buying AMD chips? Any further information appreciated.
Personally I'd recommend the live album, "Ziggy Stardust - The Original Soundtrack" over the studio album. It features Ronson doing some very raw guitar work, innovative medleys of Bowie songs, as well as covers of Jacque Brel, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones. The Faustian "Width of a Circle" is exceptional on this release.