You stole that line from Helen Clarke, Prime Minister of New Zealand. When asked her opinion of the migration of New Zealanders to Australia, she remarked that "it would raise the collective IQ of both countries!"
I am an Aussie, and when I was a kid I tried many times in vain to convince the water in my bathtub and basin to drain out counter-clockwise. In fact I don't recall ever seeing water drain counter-clockwise. If the coriolis effect does not impact the direction that water spins in as it drains, then I can only postulate that it must have an effect on the way that tubs and basins are manufactured!
Well thank the Goddess Shiva that all the jobs that require thinking went to India, China and South America. And the only people left in the States who still work in IT aren't even code crunching monkeys talented enough to fuck your systems up.
Hint: Shiva is male, thus not a goddess. Maybe you were thinking of Parvati?
My advice: push him out of the car one day while you are flying down the interstate. If he survives he will learn a valuable lesson. As you may have guessed, IANAP (I am not a parent)!
>> There's hardly any information about the person
>> William Shakespeare.
>That's just totally wrong
It's true, there is hardly any information about the person William Shakespeare. Oh, I'm not talking about the playwright, I'm talking about the other William Shakespeare: he worked as a baker in London in the 1660s. I defy you to find more information about him!
Generally "survivor" is used to mean a situation in which ones death could easily have been foreseen. For instance. "I'm a survivor of the Iraq War" or "I'm a survivor of a horrible car accident", "I survived cancer" etc. People generally don't use survivor like this: "I'm a survivor of driving to work", "I survivor of my dad's heart attack", etc
How about this: "I survived Heaven's Gate and all I got was this lousy purple t-shirt!"
Do not criticise a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes....I suggest that you should try committing suicide before you criticise others for doing the same~!
My superannuation fund (or pension fund as you may call it) allows me some flexibility in choosing how my money gets invested. I could have it all invested in cash, or local property, or high risk stocks etc. Thus it is up to me to determine how much risk I am comfortable with.
For all we know people in ancient cultures did have gigantic penises as a matter of course, and now our obsession is more to do with trying to catch up to how things were in the "good old days"!
But what are you going to do with a pound of aluminium in LEO? You could use it as a doorstop maybe, but I'm not so sure that building a smithy in space is going to be cost effective. The anvils alone will cost a fortune to send up there!
Why not have two giant sheet magnets joined in a V shape, travelling point first? Debris will hit the metal at an angle and either bounce or slide along until friction slows it to the point where magnetism is stronger.
In Australia everyone has access to Medicare, which is the "free" system. Medicare will pay 100% of costs for general checkups at some doctor's offices (doctor's who "bulk bill", which is at the discretion of the doctor), and something like 85% of costs for general checkups if you see a doctor who chooses not to bulk bill. Medicare also pays for staying in public hospital, eye checkups, and basic things like that. If you are a little bit more financially well-off, you can also purchase private health insurance. You are still covered by Medicare, but the private insurance entitles you to go to private hospitals (which are better than public ones), shorter waiting lists for non-critical surgery, and dental and optical cover. Presumably all of the politicians would have private health insurance as well!
I live in Melbourne, and whilst I can't speak for all local councils, the local council where I live has laws regarding trees - you are not allowed to cut down or do any major lopping off any trees on your private property without council permission. Naturally there is a ~$50 fee to apply for permission, and another ~$50 to actually get the permit if it is approved. With regards to lawns, Melbourne is currently on water restrictions which limits when and how often you can water your garden (every second day and only in the mornings I believe), so good luck even getting the grass to grow too long here! Especially with Summar just around the corner...
More people die from drowning every year than were killed on 9/11; to claim that we face a terrorist danger necessitating that we abandon our civil liberties is ridiculous
Don't you understand what the war on terror really is about? It's not about the terror, it is a practise war to prepare for the war on water! No more shall innocent children drown in the ocean! No more shall elderly people without umbrellas get wet in the rain! No more shall evil floatational device manufacturers employ child labour in third world countries! No more shall the weak and infirm get splashed with water from taps when they misjudge how tight the faucet is and turn it on too hard causing a high volume spray to mercilessly erupt into the sink and spreading water across several tenths of their kitchens! United we stand, divided we drown!
I pay for almost everything by credit card. When a bill arrives, I pay it via BPay using my credit card account. Some bills are automatically deducted, but mostly I receive a statement. I can even schedule each bill as it arrives so that it gets paid automatically just before the due date. My CC card has no fees, and I get 55 days interest free. So every weekend I log in to the CC website and check the statement to make sure there is nothing suspicious. If there are any suspicious charges, they are on a CC account so I can easily get them reversed by my CC provider. Then I use BPay to pay off the credit card from my bank account. If something were to ever go wrong and I found myself without enough funds to cover the CC bill, I still have a couple of weeks of breathing space to rustle up the money before I get hit with any fees.
A few years back I bought a used four-drawer filing cabinet, which came complete with a whole lot of folders inside. Most of them were empty, but there were still quite a few that had customer information including addresses, phone numbers and some sort of financial info (I don't recall exactly what). I was tempted to call a few customers and let them know about that company's security policies (or lack thereof) but in the end I was too lazy and just tossed out the papers.
Why not just carve a message in giant letters on the moon? A future civilisation then only has to invent a telescope in order to discover that "Kilroy waz here!" and "Rosco rulez, ok!"
The voice is a lot more complicated. It comes not just from the vocal chords, but also the shape of the mouth, the length/shape of the neck and the shape of the chest.
I object to your charecterisation of public school teachers as stupid and greedy. I can't speak for every school in Australia, but the majority of the public school teachers that I encountered in my 13 years of public education at 7 different schools were quite intelligent, and taught for the love of their jobs first, money second.
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You stole that line from Helen Clarke, Prime Minister of New Zealand. When asked her opinion of the migration of New Zealanders to Australia, she remarked that "it would raise the collective IQ of both countries!"
I am an Aussie, and when I was a kid I tried many times in vain to convince the water in my bathtub and basin to drain out counter-clockwise. In fact I don't recall ever seeing water drain counter-clockwise. If the coriolis effect does not impact the direction that water spins in as it drains, then I can only postulate that it must have an effect on the way that tubs and basins are manufactured!
Macguyver already did this with an old coke can, a pin and a flashlight!
Hint: Shiva is male, thus not a goddess. Maybe you were thinking of Parvati?
Reminds me of that guy who could tell you which classical music piece was stored on a record just by recognising the patterns in the grooves.
My advice: push him out of the car one day while you are flying down the interstate. If he survives he will learn a valuable lesson. As you may have guessed, IANAP (I am not a parent)!
They never stopped me!
>> There's hardly any information about the person >> William Shakespeare. >That's just totally wrong It's true, there is hardly any information about the person William Shakespeare. Oh, I'm not talking about the playwright, I'm talking about the other William Shakespeare: he worked as a baker in London in the 1660s. I defy you to find more information about him!
How about this: "I survived Heaven's Gate and all I got was this lousy purple t-shirt!"
Do not criticise a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes....I suggest that you should try committing suicide before you criticise others for doing the same~!
My superannuation fund (or pension fund as you may call it) allows me some flexibility in choosing how my money gets invested. I could have it all invested in cash, or local property, or high risk stocks etc. Thus it is up to me to determine how much risk I am comfortable with.
Commit a felony thrice
To earn the dreaded third strike
You lose! Epic fail!
It's straight off to jail
I just hope the cookies were nice!
For all we know people in ancient cultures did have gigantic penises as a matter of course, and now our obsession is more to do with trying to catch up to how things were in the "good old days"!
But what are you going to do with a pound of aluminium in LEO? You could use it as a doorstop maybe, but I'm not so sure that building a smithy in space is going to be cost effective. The anvils alone will cost a fortune to send up there!
Why not have two giant sheet magnets joined in a V shape, travelling point first? Debris will hit the metal at an angle and either bounce or slide along until friction slows it to the point where magnetism is stronger.
In Australia everyone has access to Medicare, which is the "free" system. Medicare will pay 100% of costs for general checkups at some doctor's offices (doctor's who "bulk bill", which is at the discretion of the doctor), and something like 85% of costs for general checkups if you see a doctor who chooses not to bulk bill. Medicare also pays for staying in public hospital, eye checkups, and basic things like that. If you are a little bit more financially well-off, you can also purchase private health insurance. You are still covered by Medicare, but the private insurance entitles you to go to private hospitals (which are better than public ones), shorter waiting lists for non-critical surgery, and dental and optical cover. Presumably all of the politicians would have private health insurance as well!
I live in Melbourne, and whilst I can't speak for all local councils, the local council where I live has laws regarding trees - you are not allowed to cut down or do any major lopping off any trees on your private property without council permission. Naturally there is a ~$50 fee to apply for permission, and another ~$50 to actually get the permit if it is approved. With regards to lawns, Melbourne is currently on water restrictions which limits when and how often you can water your garden (every second day and only in the mornings I believe), so good luck even getting the grass to grow too long here! Especially with Summar just around the corner...
Don't you understand what the war on terror really is about? It's not about the terror, it is a practise war to prepare for the war on water! No more shall innocent children drown in the ocean! No more shall elderly people without umbrellas get wet in the rain! No more shall evil floatational device manufacturers employ child labour in third world countries! No more shall the weak and infirm get splashed with water from taps when they misjudge how tight the faucet is and turn it on too hard causing a high volume spray to mercilessly erupt into the sink and spreading water across several tenths of their kitchens! United we stand, divided we drown!
The reason zebras get less spam is because the spammers know that they are already hung like a horse!
I pay for almost everything by credit card. When a bill arrives, I pay it via BPay using my credit card account. Some bills are automatically deducted, but mostly I receive a statement. I can even schedule each bill as it arrives so that it gets paid automatically just before the due date. My CC card has no fees, and I get 55 days interest free. So every weekend I log in to the CC website and check the statement to make sure there is nothing suspicious. If there are any suspicious charges, they are on a CC account so I can easily get them reversed by my CC provider. Then I use BPay to pay off the credit card from my bank account. If something were to ever go wrong and I found myself without enough funds to cover the CC bill, I still have a couple of weeks of breathing space to rustle up the money before I get hit with any fees.
A few years back I bought a used four-drawer filing cabinet, which came complete with a whole lot of folders inside. Most of them were empty, but there were still quite a few that had customer information including addresses, phone numbers and some sort of financial info (I don't recall exactly what). I was tempted to call a few customers and let them know about that company's security policies (or lack thereof) but in the end I was too lazy and just tossed out the papers.
Why not just carve a message in giant letters on the moon? A future civilisation then only has to invent a telescope in order to discover that "Kilroy waz here!" and "Rosco rulez, ok!"
Well, that explains the cow that is stuck on my fridge!
Of course, if the magnet had a part to play in this issue, then there would surely be an even distribution of cows facing north and south.
The voice is a lot more complicated. It comes not just from the vocal chords, but also the shape of the mouth, the length/shape of the neck and the shape of the chest.
I object to your charecterisation of public school teachers as stupid and greedy. I can't speak for every school in Australia, but the majority of the public school teachers that I encountered in my 13 years of public education at 7 different schools were quite intelligent, and taught for the love of their jobs first, money second.