Last I heard, the Australian government owns approx. 49% of Telstra, a major telco. I believe the previous poster is correct in that the AU gov is looking to liquidate some of its shares.
More correctly, the Australian people owned 100% of Telstra, but the Government sold half of it without our permission(no referrendum was held) to bring a really bad budget deficit into surplus.
Remember, the people own the country's assets, not the government. The government serves the people, and manages their assets for the term of their office.
BTW, before it was sold, it was one of the best telcos in the world. The faults which did happen, and expecially a few people falling between cracks in the paperwork, were blown out of all proportion to make it seem inefficient and that a selloff would get a better and more efficient service.
The key word here is "service". Being a service, it was mandated to provide the service to all(within very broad reason) at an affordable price, same as power, water, sewage, roads, etc. And like all these services which have been privatized for "efficiency", prices have risen, quality has dropped, and people at the edges have been shafted.
You'd be amazed where payphones with solar panels and satellite dishes used to appear. Cable runs to tiny towns and distant properties. Because it was a service, not a business. Now, if you're not profitable, you don't matter.
i mean, if all wal-mart does is implement this system and guarantees that the tags will be disabled
One of the main reasons this is being seriously looked at is that a returned item is straight back into the inventory system. Take that away(kill the tag) and you've removed a significant portion of the functionality.
...just think of all the research it took to get there. All those gecko amputees, hobbling around with no feet.
How did you think they found what they were made of? A magnifying glass? Invite a gecko into a scanning electron microscope, and ask it to place it's foot on the sample platform and hold still? They don't make pressure suits that small, anyway.
I particularly like the way he wraps the nice warm batteries around the container he's cooling.
Oh, and the metal wire wrapping the series connected batteries to the metal support is a nice touch. When the thin plastic insulation/label around the batteries melts or wears through, all but one of them will be shorted.
Neither do embolisms - both were examples of failures of the human body. Unfortunately, when I wrote and edited my message, I mixed up several points which are unrelated.
He forgot to mention that the divemaster manually checks everyone's calculations after each dive - and that's after each buddy pair checks each other's calculations first.
You have to remember that it doesn't matter why you're diving - sport, recreation, pro sport, commercial/industrial - it's all happening in a hazardous environment which the human body has no defences against.
What the dive tables[1] represent is a boundary to which most humans can push their bodies and not suffer a critical failure(embolism/bends/nitrogen narcosis[2]). Past that boundary, bad things happen. Some people don't reach that boundary before they happen. An identical stress applied to two people may not affect one person, but kill the other.
[1] Originally created by trial and error(diving and bending) by the US Navy, then becoming more accurate and conservative over time.
[2] NN is akin to getting high - and getting high is *NOT* a good idea when you're at 20m and breathing through a regulator! People who offer their regulators to passing fish, or loose track of time/depth die.
Ummm, just highlight the text of the site name, and middle button click into a mozilla window/tab. Site opens. http:// not required, and paths/filenames work fine.
Try highlighting www.google.com then middle-click. Don't copy/paste or anything, just highlight and click.
Of course, there is a threshold to everything - a cracked plastic cover over a working brake light is illegal, but not worthy of a call to the police. A long-term non-operational set of lights (in a situation where it is dangrous) is worthy of a quiet word to the operator, then a call to the DMV is it's ignored.
Your first example - This is a drug-free neighborhood. - Well, I hate to break it to you, but by your own admission it isn't. So, if your attitude is the same as the rest of the people who voted to create a DFN in your area, you are all hypocrites. You obviously have passed a local resolution(is it law?) and are choosing to apply it selectively. That is ILLEGAL in the US, and immoral everywhere. You don't decide who the law applies to, the legal system does. If there are mitigating circumstances, they will be weighed by an authority(legal/social), not by the mob.
Your second example is completely contrived, and I can only say they you should probably stop watching CSI/L&A/etc for a while - at least until you can live in the real world without transposing onto it fictional court cases which are developed by a team of writers and psychiatrists whose aim is exactly what you have succumed to.
PS, as the person who is modded down said - Do you really think that someone could get away with having those pictures with no consequences? Bullshit.
You're missing the point. Read my post. I explicitly said "early failure". At no time did I ask how to destroy a CD in an obvious and recognisable manner.
Read other people's posts. The main thrust of the discussion involving how the technology works is questioning the method, accuracy and repeatability of the technique.
I was suggesting a method to cause early failure of the media which (should) be indistinguishable from a normal 48 hour oxidization time.
If you don't have something constructive to add, SHUT THE HELL UP.
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Modding them is a fairly straightforward process, if rather messy. The hardest part is getting them to hold still while you cut the window. Assuming you're still alive afterwards, the rest is a piece of cake!
If you color code the CCFL tubes, you can tell which ones are closest as they chase you through a maze of twisty little passages, all alike - at least until the batteries run out.
By the way, how can a chip in your car make the engine blow up?
Just off the top of my head - there exists electronic transmissions which can be either run in auto mode or step-through with buttons on the steering wheel. There also exist ignition systems which don't use a key, or the key is just a sensor switch for the engine management system.
EMS goes nuts(or freaky hardware fault) and pushes the engine to maximum revs, and ignores the ignition key/kill button.
At this point you have a choice:
1. Slip into neutral and watch your engine rev itself to death.
2. Stay in gear and be going slow enough to nudge against a wall or something and hope the engine stalls.
3. Find the electronic transmission is locked in drive and bail out at a hopefully reasonable speed.
You can download an updated firmware for the MN-100 from Microsoft. Go to the page and select the MN-100 from the second pulldown box and download the self-extracting exe.
Other than the readme.html, there's a MN100_runtime_v1.08.003.dlf file. DLF is a downloadable firmware format used by several embedded device manufacturers, but I can't find any info on it's format.
There's no visible strings, so I assume it's compressed, but neither file(1) or I have any idea.
Could someone with some file format skills please have a look at it and post instructions for extracting the image?
As most of you don't know, Australia has no "fair use" rights for the copying of music or video for personal use or archiving.
This method of selling the content, if it is indeed sold under the explicit condition of allowing duplication to different media for personal use, satisfies the Australian Copyright Act in that the license holder of the content is selling us that right along with the content.
Finally, we Australians will have the (in my opinion) reasonable right to protect ourselves against the loss of content through damage to the media it is sold on!
Of course, that means re-purchasing all your songs, and accepting the quality of the downloaded content - we won't have the right to rip a copy from CD of the same song we bought, just duplicate the downloaded copy.
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Last I heard, the Australian government owns approx. 49% of Telstra, a major telco. I believe the previous poster is correct in that the AU gov is looking to liquidate some of its shares.
More correctly, the Australian people owned 100% of Telstra, but the Government sold half of it without our permission(no referrendum was held) to bring a really bad budget deficit into surplus.
Remember, the people own the country's assets, not the government. The government serves the people, and manages their assets for the term of their office.
BTW, before it was sold, it was one of the best telcos in the world. The faults which did happen, and expecially a few people falling between cracks in the paperwork, were blown out of all proportion to make it seem inefficient and that a selloff would get a better and more efficient service.
The key word here is "service". Being a service, it was mandated to provide the service to all(within very broad reason) at an affordable price, same as power, water, sewage, roads, etc. And like all these services which have been privatized for "efficiency", prices have risen, quality has dropped, and people at the edges have been shafted.
You'd be amazed where payphones with solar panels and satellite dishes used to appear. Cable runs to tiny towns and distant properties. Because it was a service, not a business. Now, if you're not profitable, you don't matter.
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i mean, if all wal-mart does is implement this system and guarantees that the tags will be disabled
One of the main reasons this is being seriously looked at is that a returned item is straight back into the inventory system. Take that away(kill the tag) and you've removed a significant portion of the functionality.
...just think of all the research it took to get there. All those gecko amputees, hobbling around with no feet.
How did you think they found what they were made of? A magnifying glass? Invite a gecko into a scanning electron microscope, and ask it to place it's foot on the sample platform and hold still? They don't make pressure suits that small, anyway.
I particularly like the way he wraps the nice warm batteries around the container he's cooling.
Oh, and the metal wire wrapping the series connected batteries to the metal support is a nice touch. When the thin plastic insulation/label around the batteries melts or wears through, all but one of them will be shorted.
Ahhh. I usually grab the AONE avi.
Unfortunately, with the outrageous prices being charged by licensees, it pretty much boils down to "If you can afford it, it's bootlegged".
ever-memorable "Mass naked child events" of stand alone complex
Huh? I've seen up to episode 16 and I can't recall that one.
Neither do embolisms - both were examples of failures of the human body. Unfortunately, when I wrote and edited my message, I mixed up several points which are unrelated.
Oh well, c'est la vie.
He forgot to mention that the divemaster manually checks everyone's calculations after each dive - and that's after each buddy pair checks each other's calculations first.
You have to remember that it doesn't matter why you're diving - sport, recreation, pro sport, commercial/industrial - it's all happening in a hazardous environment which the human body has no defences against.
What the dive tables[1] represent is a boundary to which most humans can push their bodies and not suffer a critical failure(embolism/bends/nitrogen narcosis[2]). Past that boundary, bad things happen. Some people don't reach that boundary before they happen. An identical stress applied to two people may not affect one person, but kill the other.
[1] Originally created by trial and error(diving and bending) by the US Navy, then becoming more accurate and conservative over time.
[2] NN is akin to getting high - and getting high is *NOT* a good idea when you're at 20m and breathing through a regulator! People who offer their regulators to passing fish, or loose track of time/depth die.
It's only appropriate if there's eight of you there, she's the only female, and she's significantly taller than anyone else.
I, and many others I have heard, use the greeting "Hi guys" in a mixed group.
Language evolves.
Selected US as the destination country, the shipping charge is $42.15. Only Europe gets the $5 shipping charge - it's mailed there, not sent by UPS.
Thank you! I was too lazy to type out the link...
Ummm, just highlight the text of the site name, and middle button click into a mozilla window/tab. Site opens. http:// not required, and paths/filenames work fine.
Try highlighting www.google.com then middle-click. Don't copy/paste or anything, just highlight and click.
What to? The Ratrix?
Hamstrix?
Asterix?
Obelix?
Cacophonix?
Vitalstatistix?
(OK, now I'm being silly)
Of course, there is a threshold to everything - a cracked plastic cover over a working brake light is illegal, but not worthy of a call to the police. A long-term non-operational set of lights (in a situation where it is dangrous) is worthy of a quiet word to the operator, then a call to the DMV is it's ignored.
Your first example - This is a drug-free neighborhood. - Well, I hate to break it to you, but by your own admission it isn't. So, if your attitude is the same as the rest of the people who voted to create a DFN in your area, you are all hypocrites. You obviously have passed a local resolution(is it law?) and are choosing to apply it selectively. That is ILLEGAL in the US, and immoral everywhere. You don't decide who the law applies to, the legal system does. If there are mitigating circumstances, they will be weighed by an authority(legal/social), not by the mob.
Your second example is completely contrived, and I can only say they you should probably stop watching CSI/L&A/etc for a while - at least until you can live in the real world without transposing onto it fictional court cases which are developed by a team of writers and psychiatrists whose aim is exactly what you have succumed to.
PS, as the person who is modded down said - Do you really think that someone could get away with having those pictures with no consequences? Bullshit.
You're missing the point. Read my post. I explicitly said "early failure". At no time did I ask how to destroy a CD in an obvious and recognisable manner.
Read other people's posts. The main thrust of the discussion involving how the technology works is questioning the method, accuracy and repeatability of the technique.
I was suggesting a method to cause early failure of the media which (should) be indistinguishable from a normal 48 hour oxidization time.
If you don't have something constructive to add, SHUT THE HELL UP.
> > so you condone the explotation of children?
>Since when is choosing not to rat someone out to the cops the same as condoning their behavior?
Every single time.
...then you have to stand still, or you'll be eater by a Grue!
(Sorry, I couldn't resist!)
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Modding them is a fairly straightforward process, if rather messy. The hardest part is getting them to hold still while you cut the window. Assuming you're still alive afterwards, the rest is a piece of cake!
If you color code the CCFL tubes, you can tell which ones are closest as they chase you through a maze of twisty little passages, all alike - at least until the batteries run out.
OK, it seems to be a process of oxidization which renders the disk unreadable.
How about making it fail early by placing it in a vessel of pure O2?
Under pressure.
And warm it up a bit, just for kicks.
How fast could you make this thing fail? 24h? 12h? 2h?
Tip: Don't get it too warm, and avoid using a flame as your heat source!
By the way, how can a chip in your car make the engine blow up?
Just off the top of my head - there exists electronic transmissions which can be either run in auto mode or step-through with buttons on the steering wheel. There also exist ignition systems which don't use a key, or the key is just a sensor switch for the engine management system.
EMS goes nuts(or freaky hardware fault) and pushes the engine to maximum revs, and ignores the ignition key/kill button.
At this point you have a choice:
1. Slip into neutral and watch your engine rev itself to death.
2. Stay in gear and be going slow enough to nudge against a wall or something and hope the engine stalls.
3. Find the electronic transmission is locked in drive and bail out at a hopefully reasonable speed.
They also tend to last a long time without proper maintainance and upgrades to key systems.
That's what makes flying in today's cut-price marketplace such an exciting proposition.!
You can download an updated firmware for the MN-100 from Microsoft. Go to the page and select the MN-100 from the second pulldown box and download the self-extracting exe.
Other than the readme.html, there's a MN100_runtime_v1.08.003.dlf file. DLF is a downloadable firmware format used by several embedded device manufacturers, but I can't find any info on it's format.
There's no visible strings, so I assume it's compressed, but neither file(1) or I have any idea.
Could someone with some file format skills please have a look at it and post instructions for extracting the image?
As most of you don't know, Australia has no "fair use" rights for the copying of music or video for personal use or archiving.
This method of selling the content, if it is indeed sold under the explicit condition of allowing duplication to different media for personal use, satisfies the Australian Copyright Act in that the license holder of the content is selling us that right along with the content.
Finally, we Australians will have the (in my opinion) reasonable right to protect ourselves against the loss of content through damage to the media it is sold on!
Of course, that means re-purchasing all your songs, and accepting the quality of the downloaded content - we won't have the right to rip a copy from CD of the same song we bought, just duplicate the downloaded copy.
(sigh)