So I just googled the guy. The entire first page of results (and several subsequent pages) are about one of two things:
1) Guy Hingston sued Google because of the term 'bankrupt' appearing in the auto-complete 2) Guy Hingston saved a bus load of children from a burning building
Sadly, now that's he's filed the lawsuit, he'll forever be known as the bankrupt douche doctor who sued Google. Well, at least those children will remember him for the true hero he really is.
I used to live in Taiwan back in the 90s and discovered these balls at the local night market. They were marketed as kids toys back then. But I discovered they rapidly increased the strength in my wrists and fingers and decreased my carpal tunnel symptoms substantially. I bought half a dozen and keep a couple around my house and still keep the others packed up in case one breaks/dies. I had no idea these balls were still around, let alone being used for curing symptoms which I had independently discovered a long time ago. So yeah, I 100% recommend these things.
...thanks to this page.
I live in Thailand, and it's not so bad as what you might think. But... I have to use one of those private VPN services in order to get halfway decent speed on my connection because all int'l data is throttled, and bittorrents are almost entirely blocked on some ISPs. My former ISP had a faulty censorship proxy and it would regularly serve up random "blocked" pages on legit sites for no reason. But even with a 8mps ADSL connection, I still find faster internet service when tethering my iphone to 3G (which still isn't officially allowed here), so Thailand still has a long way to go.
There are also an amazing number of people who are transferring old Quad albums and tapes from the 70s. They digitize them and then re-release them on Bittorrent as DTS encoded.wav files which can playback with any CD player and any standard 5.1 surround sound system.
I personally possess nearly a terabyte of such albums, and I've hardly scratched the surface of what's out there. It's amazing to listen these old quad albums because most of them were professionally mixed and they enable the listener to appreciate the music more than any stereo recording can, often you get entirely different takes than the stereo release.
Check out http://groups.google.com/group/SurroundSound/ or Demonoid torrent site.
...Australia.
On the very day that Bush was "appointed" to office I purchased my one-way ticket from Seattle to Sydney. After a few years and a few dollars I got my citizenship, and am now in the process of revoking my US citizenship. I could not be prouder to be a citizen of Australia, and it's amusing to watch the US self-destruct from a distance.
Ironically, I'm living and working in Thailand at the moment, which is not a bad place to be.
I'll only be going back to the US for weddings and funerals.
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Taiwanese receive a lot of spam and many of them appreciate it. There is a growing backlash against spam recently, but it's still the norm. Taiwan has something like 97% IE usage, which would also account for so many bots. Most users here have no interest in switching to FF or other browsers because so many websites here only work in IE. It's a vicious circle.
I got my referral code and have been testing it for the past half hour. Creating spreadsheets from scratch is painless and it has a full selection of functions to satisfy the average number cruncher.
I tried importing a few of my Excel sheets and had mixed success. Seems like anything other than my basic '=A1*F5' type formulas were discarded. It failed to open a fairly large but not complex spreadsheet, and had one occaision where something I did caused the Firefox web browser to just lock up completely and I had to kill the process.
I like how you can share spreadsheets, much like sharing Google Calendars.
Ok, it's beta, I suppose I shouldn't be so critical, but what isn't these days?
How depressing it is to read about Speakeasy... I live in Thailand where my ADSL provider, http://www.truecorp.co.th/, offers a maximum of 4096/512, yet I on average get only 20Kbps ftp downloads!!! Plus they block Bittorrent traffic. Plus they force filter all web traffic through a proxy server (for my protection from nasty sites) which is of course overloaded and often stops altogether. All this for only $50 per month. Well at least I don't live in Australia anymore where ADSL is 3 to 4 times that price.
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So I just googled the guy. The entire first page of results (and several subsequent pages) are about one of two things:
1) Guy Hingston sued Google because of the term 'bankrupt' appearing in the auto-complete
2) Guy Hingston saved a bus load of children from a burning building
Sadly, now that's he's filed the lawsuit, he'll forever be known as the bankrupt douche doctor who sued Google. Well, at least those children will remember him for the true hero he really is.
I used to live in Taiwan back in the 90s and discovered these balls at the local night market. They were marketed as kids toys back then. But I discovered they rapidly increased the strength in my wrists and fingers and decreased my carpal tunnel symptoms substantially. I bought half a dozen and keep a couple around my house and still keep the others packed up in case one breaks/dies. I had no idea these balls were still around, let alone being used for curing symptoms which I had independently discovered a long time ago. So yeah, I 100% recommend these things.
I wonder, how fast would this space ball need to be going in order to dig all the way through Namibia and land in South Africa?
...thanks to this page. I live in Thailand, and it's not so bad as what you might think. But... I have to use one of those private VPN services in order to get halfway decent speed on my connection because all int'l data is throttled, and bittorrents are almost entirely blocked on some ISPs. My former ISP had a faulty censorship proxy and it would regularly serve up random "blocked" pages on legit sites for no reason. But even with a 8mps ADSL connection, I still find faster internet service when tethering my iphone to 3G (which still isn't officially allowed here), so Thailand still has a long way to go.
There are also an amazing number of people who are transferring old Quad albums and tapes from the 70s. They digitize them and then re-release them on Bittorrent as DTS encoded .wav files which can playback with any CD player and any standard 5.1 surround sound system.
I personally possess nearly a terabyte of such albums, and I've hardly scratched the surface of what's out there. It's amazing to listen these old quad albums because most of them were professionally mixed and they enable the listener to appreciate the music more than any stereo recording can, often you get entirely different takes than the stereo release.
Check out http://groups.google.com/group/SurroundSound/ or Demonoid torrent site.
...Australia. On the very day that Bush was "appointed" to office I purchased my one-way ticket from Seattle to Sydney. After a few years and a few dollars I got my citizenship, and am now in the process of revoking my US citizenship. I could not be prouder to be a citizen of Australia, and it's amusing to watch the US self-destruct from a distance. Ironically, I'm living and working in Thailand at the moment, which is not a bad place to be. I'll only be going back to the US for weddings and funerals.
Taiwanese receive a lot of spam and many of them appreciate it. There is a growing backlash against spam recently, but it's still the norm. Taiwan has something like 97% IE usage, which would also account for so many bots. Most users here have no interest in switching to FF or other browsers because so many websites here only work in IE. It's a vicious circle.
I got my referral code and have been testing it for the past half hour. Creating spreadsheets from scratch is painless and it has a full selection of functions to satisfy the average number cruncher. I tried importing a few of my Excel sheets and had mixed success. Seems like anything other than my basic '=A1*F5' type formulas were discarded. It failed to open a fairly large but not complex spreadsheet, and had one occaision where something I did caused the Firefox web browser to just lock up completely and I had to kill the process. I like how you can share spreadsheets, much like sharing Google Calendars. Ok, it's beta, I suppose I shouldn't be so critical, but what isn't these days?
How depressing it is to read about Speakeasy... I live in Thailand where my ADSL provider, http://www.truecorp.co.th/, offers a maximum of 4096/512, yet I on average get only 20Kbps ftp downloads!!! Plus they block Bittorrent traffic. Plus they force filter all web traffic through a proxy server (for my protection from nasty sites) which is of course overloaded and often stops altogether. All this for only $50 per month. Well at least I don't live in Australia anymore where ADSL is 3 to 4 times that price.