oh sure, because that will not cause a massive surge in retaliatory attacks... people from the mideast are our neighbours and fellow citizens... nothing like nuking all of their relatives and hoping that ends the violence
my first reaction to this was i hope they hunt down the bastards that did this and kill them
but thats not what i really want, maybe the "war on terror" will be forced to get back on track...
it was of course perverted into an attack on a "contained" iraq, killing multitudes of civilians (100 000 according to the lancet), and dragging us into a quagmire that has distracted us from dealing with the terrorists that were actually attacking us... anyone remember that most of the 9/11 hijackers were saudi?
i dont know, its all been said before... all i really wanted to say is that I have sympathy for the victims of this attack and I hope our leaders unite and get on to the task of fighting terror instead of creating it
Back when I saw my first full scale console war there were playstation fanboys and nintendo fanboys.
The ps1 had terrible graphics (I literally couldn't stand all the jagged edges and rough textures....felt like some horrible VR arcade game), slow loading times and in my own opinion crap games.
The n64 by contrast had the best looking games I had ever seen, goldeneye, mario 64, even diddy kong racing. Zelda Ocarina of Time was a massive game with almost no loading time (when you put it next to a ps1 at any rate).
I cant say I know much about the dreamcast but I do know that its graphics were a good few notches above the n64... and it died.
Sony still captured the market (with more violent games?) and I believe it was sony's sucess with the ps1 that got it where it is today. Which just goes to show its not quite about graphics and hardware, or even game quality...
I can definately say that a lot of people on the "dole" are getting more per week in than I am (after tax). The way the system is geared here in Australia there's very little incentive to go out there and "have a go" because all that happens is that you end up with less money in your pocket and you have less time in your life to do the things you like.
thats rediculous, last year I unfortunately ended up on the dole (moved cities and didn't find a job as quick as I hoped to)
My payment, as a 21 year old living with a partner and no other dependants (ie children) was $360 a fortnight. That included rent assistance. I also had to attend job search sessions at 8:30am every morning under threat of having my payment cut. (thus preventing bludging and sleeping in all day)
I got job the very week my payments started (thank god) but I still had to attend that dreaded place for a week until I actually started working. According to the ACTU http://www.actu.asn.au/public/about/minimumwage.ht ml The minimum wage payable in Australia is $467.40 per week or $12.30 per hour. thats over twice what you get while taking part in mutual obligation (ie jobsearch activities). It sure encouraged me to start working as soon as I could.
Interestingly the Howard government is hinting at "reforming" (conservative for "taking away")the minimum wage so who knows maybe dole bludging will start to become more attractive...
hmmmm... well i am in australia so i dont know if that applies, it probably does though with the "free trade" agreement (we are free to trade our laws with US laws) and all
I recently switched banks and got a visa card - instead of having my card sent to me I actually had to go into the branch, show photo ID and sign for the card.
How is this inconvenient? I had to go into the branch to open the account anyway, going back a week later to pick up my card wasn't that bad.
Before thinking of expensive new ideas like this people should really sit back and think do people really need this technology?
But the easiest way of fixing up IE is to go to set program access and defaults and disable access to IE completely.
I used to have IE enabled so if a site didn't work with firefox (far more common in the pre 1.0 versions) I had a backup plan but that has not happened in the last 6 months now.
Car electronics are a lot simpler than that. As long as the device is not fitted by the manufacturer (who could incorporate it into the cars electronics/computers) it will be easy to disable.
Third party devices in cars need a power source, simply wire up a hidden switch that interupts the power when you want it to be disabled and turn it back on when the device is being inspected.
We used a similar method to disable the handbrake switch for in car video screens (required by law) but re-enable it when cops are checking the car out.
i once got a bill for downloading 6 gig on a 3gig plan
it was like $360 or something - solution? get irate parents to insist there was no way we used that much, telstra eventually admitted someone may have been able to hack our account and gave us a nice credit
of course it had noting to do with a little program called kazaa
I bought the game in the first week of release and for various reasons my primary character is still only at level 36...
Every so often my subscription runs out and i leave the game be for a few weeks but I do keep getting drawn back mainly because of friends on the other side of the country and my guild
I read TFA and its a load of horseshit, WoW is not "doomed" and to say that it is too simple a game is rediculous - he is forgetting that battlegrounds is on its way and I am pretty sure that anyone who lets their subscription lapse in the meantime will definately pick it up again just to see battlegrounds
Europe has hosted a few genocides in very recent history. Is that "justice"? At least the United States hasn't hosted any of those for close to 100 years.
US bashing mode *on*
Your right, you havn't exactly hosted them - you've exported them! Propping up dictators like Saddam, Pinochet, Pol Pot, countless oppressive south american and asian regimes (such as indonesia).
US bashing mode *off*
But I guess the rest of the world are just as guilty for letting these people get away with what they did - its just too much fun to point the finger at america these days.
No wait, wasn't the topic copyright and sweden - I hope this guy gets off, copyright infringement is not a violent crime, its not stealing and it certainly isn't the equivalent of piracy (murder on the high seas). Unlike speeding or drink driving it cant endanger anyone... Jail just doesn't fit the crime. A $100 fine for non-profit copyright infringement would be far more reasonable.
More appropriately, putting up a web page where one advocates the assasination of George W. Bush is a crime in the Land Of The Free.. I wonder who the first Australian to be extradited for that will be?
I call shotgun!
Actually I think the chaser newspaper (satire) wrote an article on how to assasinate the president of the united states during bushes last visit, but its not available online...
http://www.chaser.com.au/
...look for patterns, to at least internally provide an explanation. (whether it's true or accurate is irrelevant.) go to craps table - unless you are neurotic, everyone develops a pattern to how they roll the dice. no reasons, no explanations. we are just made to take emotional comfort in attributing some pattern, real or otherwise.
and that pretty much explains humanities facination with religion
I'm sorry. But whats fair enough for other destabilising countries such as say Israel (holds match to karma). Or even for that matter the USA (karma is now flames). Should be fair enough for all nations. Just because a country is branded "an outpost of tyranny" doesn't mean it does not have the right to defend itself.
I mean you Americans can hardly gush about non-proliferation when you have enough nukes to turn the entire world to glass several hundred times over. And dont try and tell me that you are any more responsible and the world is much safer with them in your hands... to date you are the only country that has used them to kill people.
Nuclear weapons are a problem the entire of humanity faces not just the Asian area.
I never new that a copyright owner could benefit from a copyright for 70 years after his/her death. How can anyone benefit from something for 70 years after their death?
Well we all know that Disney were quite keen on having the copyrights extended... you're forgetting that Walt Disney had his body frozen in liquid nitrogen till such a time as he can come back...
Disney's current mission therefor is to make sure he can continue making money when he comes back... see it all makes sense
Had the same thing happen to us flying into Hawaii (with Hawaiian Airlines) on an Australian Passport
It was probably the same arrangement as Canadian Passports (ie no visa required unless you "are a member of a terrorist organisation" (in which case you are required to contact a US embassy to apply for a visa)
I had to list the exact addresses of each hotel I was staying in (which I didn't actually know and had to use the inflight magazine to find out) I also had to give them both of my index fingerprints and allow them to take a picture of my face without smiling (probably for biometrics - which were built into my passport anyway).
The last thing I had to do (after I said I wanted to declare some fruit) was promise an immigration official I was not coming into the country to commit a terrorist act or other crime.
So that was great after 24 hours of travelling without sleep. Even better was when I returned to Australia and was required to wait in the Aircraft while the flight attendants emptied 4 cans of flyspray in my part of the cabin alone. Sig Hail King Johnny Howard!
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my first reaction to this was i hope they hunt down the bastards that did this and kill them
but thats not what i really want, maybe the "war on terror" will be forced to get back on track...
it was of course perverted into an attack on a "contained" iraq, killing multitudes of civilians (100 000 according to the lancet), and dragging us into a quagmire that has distracted us from dealing with the terrorists that were actually attacking us... anyone remember that most of the 9/11 hijackers were saudi?
i dont know, its all been said before... all i really wanted to say is that I have sympathy for the victims of this attack and I hope our leaders unite and get on to the task of fighting terror instead of creating it
The ps1 had terrible graphics (I literally couldn't stand all the jagged edges and rough textures....felt like some horrible VR arcade game), slow loading times and in my own opinion crap games.
The n64 by contrast had the best looking games I had ever seen, goldeneye, mario 64, even diddy kong racing. Zelda Ocarina of Time was a massive game with almost no loading time (when you put it next to a ps1 at any rate).
I cant say I know much about the dreamcast but I do know that its graphics were a good few notches above the n64... and it died.
Sony still captured the market (with more violent games?) and I believe it was sony's sucess with the ps1 that got it where it is today. Which just goes to show its not quite about graphics and hardware, or even game quality...
what do you mean accidentally!? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
You are absolutely right.
That case is much better than this fish tank! Love the lighting too.
thats rediculous, last year I unfortunately ended up on the dole (moved cities and didn't find a job as quick as I hoped to)
My payment, as a 21 year old living with a partner and no other dependants (ie children) was $360 a fortnight. That included rent assistance. I also had to attend job search sessions at 8:30am every morning under threat of having my payment cut. (thus preventing bludging and sleeping in all day) I got job the very week my payments started (thank god) but I still had to attend that dreaded place for a week until I actually started working. According to the ACTU http://www.actu.asn.au/public/about/minimumwage.ht ml The minimum wage payable in Australia is $467.40 per week or $12.30 per hour. thats over twice what you get while taking part in mutual obligation (ie jobsearch activities). It sure encouraged me to start working as soon as I could.
Interestingly the Howard government is hinting at "reforming" (conservative for "taking away")the minimum wage so who knows maybe dole bludging will start to become more attractive...
Meesa sorry, meesa was hungry
what about fleeing the country?
Remind me to put everything I own in my partners name
How is this inconvenient? I had to go into the branch to open the account anyway, going back a week later to pick up my card wasn't that bad.
Before thinking of expensive new ideas like this people should really sit back and think do people really need this technology?
But the easiest way of fixing up IE is to go to set program access and defaults and disable access to IE completely.
I used to have IE enabled so if a site didn't work with firefox (far more common in the pre 1.0 versions) I had a backup plan but that has not happened in the last 6 months now.
Third party devices in cars need a power source, simply wire up a hidden switch that interupts the power when you want it to be disabled and turn it back on when the device is being inspected.
We used a similar method to disable the handbrake switch for in car video screens (required by law) but re-enable it when cops are checking the car out.
I had this image of a polar bear sitting on a laptop stealing bandwidth...
it was like $360 or something - solution? get irate parents to insist there was no way we used that much, telstra eventually admitted someone may have been able to hack our account and gave us a nice credit
of course it had noting to do with a little program called kazaa
Checking your email via web or pop now takes seconds not minutes for your email to download (as it used to for dialup).
So people are less annoyed (than they used to be) about waiting for 50 messages to download and most of them being spam.
Filtering has got a lot better too, I have not recieved a single spam with my gmail account.
Every so often my subscription runs out and i leave the game be for a few weeks but I do keep getting drawn back mainly because of friends on the other side of the country and my guild
I read TFA and its a load of horseshit, WoW is not "doomed" and to say that it is too simple a game is rediculous - he is forgetting that battlegrounds is on its way and I am pretty sure that anyone who lets their subscription lapse in the meantime will definately pick it up again just to see battlegrounds
Your right, you havn't exactly hosted them - you've exported them! Propping up dictators like Saddam, Pinochet, Pol Pot, countless oppressive south american and asian regimes (such as indonesia).
US bashing mode *off*
But I guess the rest of the world are just as guilty for letting these people get away with what they did - its just too much fun to point the finger at america these days.
No wait, wasn't the topic copyright and sweden - I hope this guy gets off, copyright infringement is not a violent crime, its not stealing and it certainly isn't the equivalent of piracy (murder on the high seas). Unlike speeding or drink driving it cant endanger anyone... Jail just doesn't fit the crime. A $100 fine for non-profit copyright infringement would be far more reasonable.
I believe the phrase was "a congo line of arse-lickers"
I call shotgun!
Actually I think the chaser newspaper (satire) wrote an article on how to assasinate the president of the united states during bushes last visit, but its not available online... http://www.chaser.com.au/
So much for being protected by the queen... Now the poor guy will end up in a US Fedral Pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
ACCC website: http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/ 288585/fromItemId/340639
Has some nice info on MIPI (including phone number) in case anyone wants to give them a call :)
and that pretty much explains humanities facination with religion
I mean you Americans can hardly gush about non-proliferation when you have enough nukes to turn the entire world to glass several hundred times over. And dont try and tell me that you are any more responsible and the world is much safer with them in your hands... to date you are the only country that has used them to kill people.
Nuclear weapons are a problem the entire of humanity faces not just the Asian area.
Well we all know that Disney were quite keen on having the copyrights extended... you're forgetting that Walt Disney had his body frozen in liquid nitrogen till such a time as he can come back...
Disney's current mission therefor is to make sure he can continue making money when he comes back... see it all makes sense
It was probably the same arrangement as Canadian Passports (ie no visa required unless you "are a member of a terrorist organisation" (in which case you are required to contact a US embassy to apply for a visa)
I had to list the exact addresses of each hotel I was staying in (which I didn't actually know and had to use the inflight magazine to find out) I also had to give them both of my index fingerprints and allow them to take a picture of my face without smiling (probably for biometrics - which were built into my passport anyway).
The last thing I had to do (after I said I wanted to declare some fruit) was promise an immigration official I was not coming into the country to commit a terrorist act or other crime.
So that was great after 24 hours of travelling without sleep. Even better was when I returned to Australia and was required to wait in the Aircraft while the flight attendants emptied 4 cans of flyspray in my part of the cabin alone. Sig Hail King Johnny Howard!
Is essential because thats a hell of a long way to go to pull the plug out and put it back in when your ADSL stops working...