If you really want people to attend the lectures, then just give out chocolate frogs.
I had a lecturer who would give out chocolate frogs to people answering his questions
correctly. The hundred sleeping students would quickly wake up and start participating
with the mention of a Freddo Frog.
I think it would make it a little more fun if the feedback did interfere with the motion sensors.
I mean, if your plane gets hit, rumble kicks in, makes it more difficult to fly for a second. No idea if
this would work or not, but it sure sounds like fun.
In Australia, we already have this.
Village Cinemas have a 'Gold Class' section, which costs more,
but you get a cinema with about 30 seats (all reclining chairs),
can buy decent food and alcoholic beverages, and have them
brought to you at specific times during the film.
Was great booking out a cinema and having a heap of friends/family
come see each of the Lord of the Rings movies in style.
The other major cinema chain, Hoyts, has a not-quite-so-good
option, 'La Premiere', with larger chairs, free popcorn/drinks,
but you are placed in a section above, but in the same cinema as
the standard tickets, so you get all the standard problems.
GTA: SA was banned in Australia after the whole Hot Coffee debacle. There is now
a modified version which is perfectly legal for sale in Australia. GTA3 is also a
modified version. I'm not sure whether the others are modified or not, but they
certainly aren't banned.
Umm... Okay? So I fail to see the problem (or rather, I fail to see why your government doesn't just implement the trivially obvious solution to the problem)... Allow adult-only ratings to apply to games.
AU already has higher ratings for movies, or so I've inferred from other comments on this topic. Just extend them to apply to games, and you have no problem. No more need to outright ban games.
Well yes, that would be the obvious solution. But this is government we're talking about.
There have in fact been many reviews of the ratings system for games, and some time last year
even decided to bring game ratings in line with movie ratings. Yet they still managed
to leave out an R rating.
You mean like Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Doom 3, GTA: SA.
Almost all the huge hits from last year were just what you said. As much as it sucks, thats exactly what sells.
Your point aside, there are many practical mathematical operations that are easier in the standard system than in the metric. How much, in whole measurements, is 1/3 of a meter, 2/3s of a meter, 1/64th of a meter. For everyday uses like construction or cooking the metric system can be difficult to work with.
33cm, 66cm, 16mm.
What's 1/1760 of a mile, 1/3 of a yard, 1/12 of a foot?
What's 1/1000 of a kilometer, 1/1000 of a meter?
Metric is simpler to calculate and convert. That's all. There is no reason that construction or cooking is made any harder by switching to metric. Just the values are different. Plenty of other countries have managed just fine, there is no reason the US can't as well.
Because dead bodies of large animals that look like those of endangered species don't exactly pass through Customs at Schiphol airport.
Not disagreeing with you, just wondering why, out of all the places you could choose to try get a big cat's tail from, you would try Holland? I'd've thought the Americas would be a better place to look.
There are plenty of other _known_ predators in Australia. I for one would not want to drag 200 pounds of fresh meat through the outback...
Gippsland is not the outback. It is mostly farmland, with bushy scrubs and plantation forests. The only really dangerous animals in the area are snakes.
We certainly have had the most impact on the environment.
I don't see any reason to continue this tradition however.
I really don't think there's going to be any extermination
attempt on them if they are actually there, but I definitely
don't agree that an introduced species should be classified
as endangered.
They shouldn't be there to begin with anyway.
We have enough problems with feral cats, dogs,
foxes, rabbits etc without encouraging even
more non-native wildlife, especially
carnivores, since Australian fauna have been
largely without natural predators for thousands
of years.
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If you really want people to attend the lectures, then just give out chocolate frogs. I had a lecturer who would give out chocolate frogs to people answering his questions correctly. The hundred sleeping students would quickly wake up and start participating with the mention of a Freddo Frog.
Not sure, but the translaters kept translating it as double-you double-eye
Well that will make two of us.
I think it would make it a little more fun if the feedback did interfere with the motion sensors. I mean, if your plane gets hit, rumble kicks in, makes it more difficult to fly for a second. No idea if this would work or not, but it sure sounds like fun.
What? Western Australia definiteley had convicts. In fact, they were the last to stop taking shipments, in 1868.n _Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convictism_in_Wester
In Australia, we already have this. Village Cinemas have a 'Gold Class' section, which costs more, but you get a cinema with about 30 seats (all reclining chairs), can buy decent food and alcoholic beverages, and have them brought to you at specific times during the film. Was great booking out a cinema and having a heap of friends/family come see each of the Lord of the Rings movies in style. The other major cinema chain, Hoyts, has a not-quite-so-good option, 'La Premiere', with larger chairs, free popcorn/drinks, but you are placed in a section above, but in the same cinema as the standard tickets, so you get all the standard problems.
GTA: SA was banned in Australia after the whole Hot Coffee debacle. There is now a modified version which is perfectly legal for sale in Australia. GTA3 is also a modified version. I'm not sure whether the others are modified or not, but they certainly aren't banned.
Umm... Okay? So I fail to see the problem (or rather, I fail to see why your government doesn't just implement the trivially obvious solution to the problem)... Allow adult-only ratings to apply to games. AU already has higher ratings for movies, or so I've inferred from other comments on this topic. Just extend them to apply to games, and you have no problem. No more need to outright ban games.
Well yes, that would be the obvious solution. But this is government we're talking about.
There have in fact been many reviews of the ratings system for games, and some time last year even decided to bring game ratings in line with movie ratings. Yet they still managed to leave out an R rating.
I've seen some external hardrives that use 2 USB connectors - One for some extra power.
Can't think of anything else though.
Well that depends on whether you consider it a bug or a feature :D
Miniature giant space hamsters!!!!
Well, not at the bottom of that glass, but maybe the next one...
Well, he couldn't in good conscience give the profits to charity. Such dirty money would surely damage its reputation!
You mean like Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Doom 3, GTA: SA.
Almost all the huge hits from last year were just what you said. As much as it sucks, thats exactly what sells.
According to acronym finder, Not Good Enough. Seems somewhat appropriate.
33cm, 66cm, 16mm.
What's 1/1760 of a mile, 1/3 of a yard, 1/12 of a foot?
What's 1/1000 of a kilometer, 1/1000 of a meter?
Metric is simpler to calculate and convert. That's all. There is no reason that construction or cooking is made any harder by switching to metric. Just the values are different. Plenty of other countries have managed just fine, there is no reason the US can't as well.
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They sure must have gone out of their way to make that thing big.
No, that would make him tall. For a little guy.
Because dead bodies of large animals that look like those of endangered species don't exactly pass through Customs at Schiphol airport.
Not disagreeing with you, just wondering why, out of all the places you could choose to try get a big cat's tail from, you would try Holland? I'd've thought the Americas would be a better place to look.
There are plenty of other _known_ predators in Australia. I for one would not want to drag 200 pounds of fresh meat through the outback...
Gippsland is not the outback. It is mostly farmland, with bushy scrubs and plantation forests. The only really dangerous animals in the area are snakes.
I agree with the rest of your post though
We certainly have had the most impact on the environment. I don't see any reason to continue this tradition however. I really don't think there's going to be any extermination attempt on them if they are actually there, but I definitely don't agree that an introduced species should be classified as endangered.
They shouldn't be there to begin with anyway. We have enough problems with feral cats, dogs, foxes, rabbits etc without encouraging even more non-native wildlife, especially carnivores, since Australian fauna have been largely without natural predators for thousands of years.