I agree with you about Australians being apathetic: so apathetic we can't be bothered taking guns to school, can't be bothered with massacres, serial killers, hate crimes and crack whores.
Sydney has had more than its fair share of non-sober prostitutes, serial killers, hate crimes (e.g. by the police). There was a massacre in tasmania also. I've not been to the schools there but I would guess that also applies. Also note that australia generally supports the US whenever there is a UN resolution against pollution of some kind that needs to be scuppered (Australia has an influential mining industry).
So while australia is a fantastic place to live, don't think that whatever happens in the US doesn't happen there; it does, just slightly less often.
I even saw a homeless person there once.
The problem with London's travelcards
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(from London Transport's point of view) is that they are generally anonymous. So illegal immigrants/junkies hang around outside stations asking for your travelcard for free (once you have finished using it) to sell on (at a cheap rate) to a subsequent passenger.
Capitalism in action (a secondary market):-). However the train companies obviously don't like this.
The cards themselves are machine (magnetic strip) and human readable and work seamlessly on trains, underground, trams, busses and apparently some boats (river busses).
Obviously the authorities in HK want to use a technological means to solve a social problem (dishonesty) (which is what all tickets are in the first place).
But you could load a full size game off the 1541 in 6 seconds. (You had to use Warp 25 as a fast-loader though, included as the first program on the disk).
"...can you hear me major tom..." is coming out of my television! Space Oddity providing part of the soundtrack for a Renault ad. So he must still be collecting reasonable royalties.
Which must piss off the people who live in the next country over, also called Congo.
Almost as cheeky as the Indonesian maps which showed Australia as Greater Irian (i.e. to be conquered:-)
What was that scifi short story?
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where the USA passes an equality law - all people are equal, leveled down to the average:-) so strong people get weights wired to their limbs, people with good eyesight get wonky glasses and smart people get buzzers in their ears to stop them from thinking clearly...
uses a plug-in DSP board - to emulate that you would need a considerable amount of grunt... possible these days but not practical when it was most popular.
I noticed a few French tunes I heard sounded familiar... it was an English pop song dubbed into French (by some middle-aged sounding man)!
Where are the modern versions of France Gall etc. ?
That's almost as bad as Germans dubbing pr0n films (like "aah, ooh" really needs to be translated from young czech voice into middle-aged german voice!). The French don't need to do that since they make their own pr0n;-)
is in a small section in the corner of the music shop marked "Non US section" (well, "Deutsche" actually). And that's in a big german city.
I don't know how you define "influence", but localism doesn't seem to have much effect on what is played in bars/nightclubs or in the shops. Some traditional pubs play older german music perhaps.
Of course live music is a different thing altogether. I do have a CD of Rosenstaltz (sp?) somewhere, and they gave a good performance.
For proper use of tax dollars, goto university
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And book out a lecture hall with some biiig speakers and a big projection screen. You may have to fill out some forms first.
tell people to not buy cocaine, since it helps fund the CIA which is an organisation that overthrows (Australia, latin america) or tries to overthrow (venuzuala recently) democratically elected governments that don't offer US corporations generous deals.
Many rich men in "wild-west" capitalist countries such as Russia cannot walk down the street without a posse of bodyguards. I don't consider that to be freedom.
shake hands with programmers. Of course my preferred method of greeting people (kissing them on the cheeks) has its own obvious disadvantages here also! Maybe I should move to Japan and just bow a lot...
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I'm glad you make the distinction. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Digital television? :-)
Sydney has had more than its fair share of non-sober prostitutes, serial killers, hate crimes (e.g. by the police). There was a massacre in tasmania also. I've not been to the schools there but I would guess that also applies. Also note that australia generally supports the US whenever there is a UN resolution against pollution of some kind that needs to be scuppered (Australia has an influential mining industry).
So while australia is a fantastic place to live, don't think that whatever happens in the US doesn't happen there; it does, just slightly less often.
I even saw a homeless person there once.
Capitalism in action (a secondary market) :-). However the train companies obviously don't like this.
The cards themselves are machine (magnetic strip) and human readable and work seamlessly on trains, underground, trams, busses and apparently some boats (river busses).
Obviously the authorities in HK want to use a technological means to solve a social problem (dishonesty) (which is what all tickets are in the first place).
Nah, the C64 took nearly a second to boot up!
But you could load a full size game off the 1541 in 6 seconds. (You had to use Warp 25 as a fast-loader though, included as the first program on the disk).
"...can you hear me major tom..." is coming out of my television! Space Oddity providing part of the soundtrack for a Renault ad. So he must still be collecting reasonable royalties.
Have you ever been to Ibiza to see what happens when English people and alcohol mix?
In theory alcohol is banned in the USA until you're too old to have any energy left to do anything naughty...
When did this change over? In old movies the UN ambassador has the nameplate "Great Britain". In news these days, the nameplate says "United Kingdom".
just has one police officer. So it's man with gun instead of men with guns :-)
A machine where a misplaced POKE could cause the machine to catch fire :-)
It took years for other computer manufacturers to catch up and make the BIOS reprogrammable in order to give virus writers something to aim at.
And years more before Sony could create a CD that freezes a Mac.
Gossips nightclub, Soho. See www.c64audio.com for details.
That gives you plenty of time :-)
Time to get to ready prompt: a fraction of a second. It beats C64, ZX Spectrum etc. dead. I think perhaps it didn't test its RAM very thoroughly :-)
Almost as cheeky as the Indonesian maps which showed Australia as Greater Irian (i.e. to be conquered :-)
where the USA passes an equality law - all people are equal, leveled down to the average :-) so strong people get weights wired to their limbs, people with good eyesight get wonky glasses and smart people get buzzers in their ears to stop them from thinking clearly...
uses a plug-in DSP board - to emulate that you would need a considerable amount of grunt... possible these days but not practical when it was most popular.
I noticed a few French tunes I heard sounded familiar... it was an English pop song dubbed into French (by some middle-aged sounding man)!
Where are the modern versions of France Gall etc. ?
That's almost as bad as Germans dubbing pr0n films (like "aah, ooh" really needs to be translated from young czech voice into middle-aged german voice!). The French don't need to do that since they make their own pr0n ;-)
I don't know how you define "influence", but localism doesn't seem to have much effect on what is played in bars/nightclubs or in the shops. Some traditional pubs play older german music perhaps.
Of course live music is a different thing altogether. I do have a CD of Rosenstaltz (sp?) somewhere, and they gave a good performance.
And book out a lecture hall with some biiig speakers and a big projection screen. You may have to fill out some forms first.
Less violent than real surfing - no localism for a start. And quite fun two-player.
Ah, CBM 4016, how we miss your monochrome screen :-)
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tell people to not buy cocaine, since it helps fund the CIA which is an organisation that overthrows (Australia, latin america) or tries to overthrow (venuzuala recently) democratically elected governments that don't offer US corporations generous deals.
Many rich men in "wild-west" capitalist countries such as Russia cannot walk down the street without a posse of bodyguards. I don't consider that to be freedom.
their fire brigade (started by Crassus) was accused of various things.
shake hands with programmers. Of course my preferred method of greeting people (kissing them on the cheeks) has its own obvious disadvantages here also! Maybe I should move to Japan and just bow a lot...
the mouse and keyboard before you start work each morning - bring a mousse spray can of anti-static anti-bacterial gloop with you.