I've was reading a thread last week were some bloke said about how when his dog died, he buried it wearing a paid of swimming googles and a towel wrapped around the dogs neck like a cape. He then went to his shed and got a whole pile of assorted metal pieces and welded them together in a few different collections of strange shapes and parts. Then he buried them around his dog.
In the future when the dune moves and this city is uncovered, hopefully we could really screw with some archaeologists head!
When you get the platinum medal, it also unlocks new countries to fight in and new and improved drone weapons
Not only do you have to kill a certain amount of people (civilians, enemies, womp rats, whatever), you also have to do pointless tasks like do 15 barrel rolls in a row with a drone to earn certain medals.
NSW in Australia has just survived a heat wave where there was recorded 50 degree Celsius in some of the bush towns. Where I lived, it hit 46 degree which is the highest temperature ever recorded
There was a town in the centre of NSW yesterday that had to shut down it's petrol station because the petrol had vaporized and couldn't be pumped from the tank into the cars. Wish I could find the link.
My cousin had a brown snake in his yard yesterday, and he lives in the western suburbs of Sydney, which is fairly suburbanized. Thankfully, his two sons were OK as the dog managed to kill it, but not before copping a dose of venom. They had to put the dog down last night because of this.
I was thinking it would be good to help catch the bastards who light these fires, then I realized that you'd have to be pretty lucky to catch someone in a state the size of NSW in the act of starting a fire. So hopefully, they don't try and justify this as a reason to spy.
The greater Sydney area had rather extensive backburning a few months back. Problem is, NSW is a large place. Looking at the map that Jeremy Lee posted below, the fires are fairly well spread out.
To be honest with you, I'm also amused and also a bit over it. Dunno why I need the media to tell me it's hot let alone constantly bombarding me about it.
It wouldn't be too bad if it was stuff like fire updates (Just found out there is one nearby) but they think it's important enough for me to constantly know how the animals at Taronga Zoo cooled down today, and that people went to the beach to escape the heat. That crap always seems to be talked about whenever I've walked within earshot of a radio or looked at a TV today.
Live from Sydney, sweating through 39 degree Celsius heat (Still not the 43 degree heat they promised us, but it's 4:30 in the afternoon so we still have a few hours for it to heat up).
What happens when the other survivalists come a-knockin.
What can you do? Run into the woods with your friends? Call yourselves The Wolverines? Put twigs in your hair and beat back the survivalists? No... You hightail it to Pastor Richards Salvation Statue and blast off into space!
In 1955, it was the first computer in the world to play music. Coincidentally, 1955 was the first time the RIAA tried suing a university.... for 1 million dollars!
I'd be careful calling him a monkey if I was you. The Librarian is an orangutan, and will show his displeasure at being called a monkey by unscrewing your head!
This is going to be interesting. Considering how the US has been handling these file sharing cases, do you think they would willingly hand over the evidence (anyone know what the evidence is exactly?) or not hand it over, but keep making noise about it being illegal (maybe throw out the IP argument).
As cynical as I am, I reckon they would hand it over. The US lawmakers would be frothing at the bit to get him to the States, and I doubt they'd try and stuff it up.
Sorry about that last bit, I didn't really explain it well.
I didn't mean that there will be an all out assault on the White House. To me it seems the American people (excluding politicians, lawyers and people in the security industries who seem to be pushing most of the laws) are starting to get fed up with the way things are. I don't know how true this, as I am not in the US and can't comment on what it is like to be a US citizen. I'm going of everything I have read and seen. Losing jobs in greater numbers, losing their homes etc. Things that are affecting them personally. People will start to get desperate and upset.
Hopefully, these people will start to try and change things for the better peacefully. The problem is, they will be working against a stacked deck. It seems to me that most of the laws that have been enacted lately are more to do with keeping the US population from gaining power. If the ordinary people can't take the politicians on in a political battle, what else is there left for them to do?
Maybe I am being cynical, but I can imagine these groups of people trying to challenge the 'political and corporate elite' being charged with terrorism and being sent off God knows where without a trial using the laws already brought into effect
To me, it seems that 1984 genuinely is starting to become a reality in the US (and other places on earth) and that given another 10 years it will be in set in concrete. And most people would have accepted it. Look at the changes that have already come about in the last 10 years (well, 12 years to be precise) due to September 11th.
To my eyes, this is just another sign about how desperate America is in preventing it's inevitable slide as a world power. I honestly can't remember any other US pact that was so blatant in its goals. Anyone can look at this pact and tell it's not about terrorism and national threats (both Aus and US), it's mostly about file sharing and America trying to spread it's onerous copyright laws to protect its exports. The bit about the US monitoring Aussie citizens is very worrying at the very least when we consider the MPAA/RIAA lawsuits I've seen in America.
I don't really know what America exports these days apart from war, patents and entertainment. It would look too bad if American invaded Australia at this point in time (although some people have taken the sign of US Marines being based in Darwin as the sign this has started) so I suppose the only other thing for America to spread it's tentacles is by dodgy pacts like this. Anything to try and stay on top (apart from fixing the underlying issues with the government and legal system in the USA and stop bullying the world, turning everyone on the face of the planet against you).
Americans, please stand up and do something about this. I'll do what I can from this side, but I'll stop there. Really, I should have no power as to how Americans rule and legislate in your own country, and that is the way it should be.
Quite frankly, after everything I have seen, I'm starting to think that there will be an armed uprising in America within the next 10 years against the US government. Guaranteed. Maybe the US government foresaw the same thing. It would explain why so much leeway the US government has given to internal security forces like the FBI and possibly the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security, and how the shift in America has gone from looking for external threats to internal threats.
Really? I would have thought a couple of copies of Dean's Electronics and the Big Book of Science would be handy to have stored somewhere safe.
Everyone should buy as many copies as they can lay their hands on, and leave them scattered around your home towns to maximise the amount of books that will survive.
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He also said "forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza!"
I've was reading a thread last week were some bloke said about how when his dog died, he buried it wearing a paid of swimming googles and a towel wrapped around the dogs neck like a cape. He then went to his shed and got a whole pile of assorted metal pieces and welded them together in a few different collections of strange shapes and parts. Then he buried them around his dog.
In the future when the dune moves and this city is uncovered, hopefully we could really screw with some archaeologists head!
I started thinking of Colossus and Guardian when they first started talking to each other.
When you get the platinum medal, it also unlocks new countries to fight in and new and improved drone weapons
Not only do you have to kill a certain amount of people (civilians, enemies, womp rats, whatever), you also have to do pointless tasks like do 15 barrel rolls in a row with a drone to earn certain medals.
Anyone else?
NSW in Australia has just survived a heat wave where there was recorded 50 degree Celsius in some of the bush towns. Where I lived, it hit 46 degree which is the highest temperature ever recorded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJtYmNpINI
Will I need to bring jelly babies?
Forgot to add to prevent the inevitable WHOOSH. Yea, I know, MIB reference.
It wouldn't have the code-name "Yellow Onion" would it?
There was a town in the centre of NSW yesterday that had to shut down it's petrol station because the petrol had vaporized and couldn't be pumped from the tank into the cars. Wish I could find the link.
My cousin had a brown snake in his yard yesterday, and he lives in the western suburbs of Sydney, which is fairly suburbanized. Thankfully, his two sons were OK as the dog managed to kill it, but not before copping a dose of venom. They had to put the dog down last night because of this.
I was thinking it would be good to help catch the bastards who light these fires, then I realized that you'd have to be pretty lucky to catch someone in a state the size of NSW in the act of starting a fire. So hopefully, they don't try and justify this as a reason to spy.
In Aus, we call them bushfires. To me, brushfire sounds similiar to what we would call a grass fire. Nothing too concerning about them.
If you hear that a bushfire is coming, get your gear and get the hell out of town.
The greater Sydney area had rather extensive backburning a few months back. Problem is, NSW is a large place. Looking at the map that Jeremy Lee posted below, the fires are fairly well spread out.
To be honest with you, I'm also amused and also a bit over it. Dunno why I need the media to tell me it's hot let alone constantly bombarding me about it.
It wouldn't be too bad if it was stuff like fire updates (Just found out there is one nearby) but they think it's important enough for me to constantly know how the animals at Taronga Zoo cooled down today, and that people went to the beach to escape the heat. That crap always seems to be talked about whenever I've walked within earshot of a radio or looked at a TV today.
We've just updated our temperature maps with new colors to indicate the higher temperatures
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/temperatures-off-the-charts-as-australia-turns-deep-purple-20130108-2ce33.html
Live from Sydney, sweating through 39 degree Celsius heat (Still not the 43 degree heat they promised us, but it's 4:30 in the afternoon so we still have a few hours for it to heat up).
Who'd want to hack a malicious calculator? That is, unless you are changing it from "Evil" to "Good".
Most modern calculators have a switch on the back for that these days.
What happens when the other survivalists come a-knockin.
What can you do? Run into the woods with your friends? Call yourselves The Wolverines? Put twigs in your hair and beat back the survivalists? No... You hightail it to Pastor Richards Salvation Statue and blast off into space!
The movie was only released in 2010. Are you saying that Slashdot users are younger than 2 years old?
In 1955, it was the first computer in the world to play music. Coincidentally, 1955 was the first time the RIAA tried suing a university.... for 1 million dollars!
I'd be careful calling him a monkey if I was you. The Librarian is an orangutan, and will show his displeasure at being called a monkey by unscrewing your head!
This is going to be interesting. Considering how the US has been handling these file sharing cases, do you think they would willingly hand over the evidence (anyone know what the evidence is exactly?) or not hand it over, but keep making noise about it being illegal (maybe throw out the IP argument).
As cynical as I am, I reckon they would hand it over. The US lawmakers would be frothing at the bit to get him to the States, and I doubt they'd try and stuff it up.
Didn't you say his name was Herbert?
Sorry about that last bit, I didn't really explain it well.
I didn't mean that there will be an all out assault on the White House. To me it seems the American people (excluding politicians, lawyers and people in the security industries who seem to be pushing most of the laws) are starting to get fed up with the way things are. I don't know how true this, as I am not in the US and can't comment on what it is like to be a US citizen. I'm going of everything I have read and seen. Losing jobs in greater numbers, losing their homes etc. Things that are affecting them personally. People will start to get desperate and upset.
Hopefully, these people will start to try and change things for the better peacefully. The problem is, they will be working against a stacked deck. It seems to me that most of the laws that have been enacted lately are more to do with keeping the US population from gaining power. If the ordinary people can't take the politicians on in a political battle, what else is there left for them to do?
Maybe I am being cynical, but I can imagine these groups of people trying to challenge the 'political and corporate elite' being charged with terrorism and being sent off God knows where without a trial using the laws already brought into effect
To me, it seems that 1984 genuinely is starting to become a reality in the US (and other places on earth) and that given another 10 years it will be in set in concrete. And most people would have accepted it. Look at the changes that have already come about in the last 10 years (well, 12 years to be precise) due to September 11th.
To my eyes, this is just another sign about how desperate America is in preventing it's inevitable slide as a world power. I honestly can't remember any other US pact that was so blatant in its goals. Anyone can look at this pact and tell it's not about terrorism and national threats (both Aus and US), it's mostly about file sharing and America trying to spread it's onerous copyright laws to protect its exports. The bit about the US monitoring Aussie citizens is very worrying at the very least when we consider the MPAA/RIAA lawsuits I've seen in America.
I don't really know what America exports these days apart from war, patents and entertainment. It would look too bad if American invaded Australia at this point in time (although some people have taken the sign of US Marines being based in Darwin as the sign this has started) so I suppose the only other thing for America to spread it's tentacles is by dodgy pacts like this. Anything to try and stay on top (apart from fixing the underlying issues with the government and legal system in the USA and stop bullying the world, turning everyone on the face of the planet against you).
Americans, please stand up and do something about this. I'll do what I can from this side, but I'll stop there. Really, I should have no power as to how Americans rule and legislate in your own country, and that is the way it should be.
Quite frankly, after everything I have seen, I'm starting to think that there will be an armed uprising in America within the next 10 years against the US government. Guaranteed. Maybe the US government foresaw the same thing. It would explain why so much leeway the US government has given to internal security forces like the FBI and possibly the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security, and how the shift in America has gone from looking for external threats to internal threats.
Really? I would have thought a couple of copies of Dean's Electronics and the Big Book of Science would be handy to have stored somewhere safe. Everyone should buy as many copies as they can lay their hands on, and leave them scattered around your home towns to maximise the amount of books that will survive.