"No, your completely wrong..com,.net,.org are, and always have been, US domains" I suggest you update your knowledge on the subject. It used to be true, but it hasn't been for some time.
I'd like a citation for that because according to TFA
The ramifications of this are no less than chilling and every single organization branded or operating under.com,.net,.org,.biz etc needs to ask themselves about their vulnerability to the whims of US federal and state lawmakers (not exactly known their cluefulness nor even-handedness, especially with regard to matters of the internet).
it's not the case. I don't know but are country codes like.ca.uk.au etc controlled by DNS entries in the US?
Don't forget that Telstra's internet branch - Bigpond, doesn't count downloads off their own servers. It's free. So if they retain that policy, you can stream stuff for nothing and doesn't add to the plan. Uploads are NOT free and are counted towards the plan. Bigpond competitors have much bigger cap plans as a response, so you're more likely to get a 1T plan to cater for video streaming which will become the defacto standard when the NBN is finished. It is crazy though as here we have Satellite for video, copper for phone and ADSL and Towers for mobiles (Cell phones) - soon Fibre. So an average household would have all or a combination of these.
I love your paranoia. Unfortunately no organization has the forethought, skills and determination to carry this through for longer than a few years. I think the East German Stasi needs special mention as they kept millions of jars containing smells of their population. What is actually happening is a direct result of the 'War against terror'. It is the governments of the world spying on their populace to root out terrorists. From there every government is becoming more and more paranoid and is casting their nets in private lives.
The dumbed down TV/Celeb/Politico shit is just that. All it takes is a news organisation to focus on some subjective grub of matter and it floods the consciousness of the public. How can this happen??? Simple - the secret is that humans are highly susceptible to suggestion. That's why so powerful ideologies like religion, nazism, communism, dictatorships, advertising and (add your own) take root so easily, cause wars, degeneration of thought and rationality. We're all convinced too easily; we fall into one camp or the other, whichever has the greatest pull on our sensibilities. It is a disaster. For the general public, it is hard to cure them of this suggestible susceptibility. For the individual, it is much easier. What I would like to see is an advertising campaign and maybe school curricula that teaches freedom of thinking and suggestibility.
I do this one-on-one with my kids. I point this stuff out to them in ads, TV shows etc. For example: There is a laugh track on 'That 70's Show'. If you ignore the laugh track, then the show stops being funny. Ads are the same. Instead of an ad stating the product/price/availability, it is mostly always linked to sex and security. Educate your kids/friends etc and that will wake them up and maybe give them freedom of thought and critical thinking will arise in them.
The problem in Australian politics is that they can't see the wood for the trees and pretty much no-one in Australia gives a shit - typically an Australian characteristic.
Which brings to mind the very best divorce notification ever: An older family couple (retired in their 60s), George and Mildred, lived close by. Both have been our friends for decades. George was a bit weird however. One day Mildred came back from a shopping trip and checked her mail. One letter was from social security stating that her benefits had increased due to her change of status and she should contact the local office asap. She immediately got back into the car, drove to town and found out that she was now single. So she asked for a review. She got back home and found George slaughtering a rabbit in the shed out back. (He bred rabbits for food). He politely informed her that he'd had enough of her spending ways and he was divorcing her. Eventually they sold their house and split the money. She blew all of her's on poker machines and he died of brain cancer about 5 years later.
Agree. Similar things happened with the Birds;), but it was worse in Romania. However I can't accept the fact that a lot of the Eastern block countries are finding it so hard to create a democratic government. I think a lot of the older population still yearn for the security of the old system - so my aunt tells me.
I actually agree with that. I'm old enough to see that the malaise that has infected Australia has taken a few decades and is not the result of just one election. Gillard is ok and as a Prime Minister, she's held her own as you say. Voting informal is pretty much the only choice, but I think next time I'll vote LDP or some other fringe libertarian party. They probably won't get representation, but if enough vote, then it'll give the major parties something to think about.
there's definitely something indefinable about him.
I can define it. He's bat-shit crazy. The problem isn't Abbot or Gillard. Everyone forgets that in Australia you don't vote for the individual, you vote for the party behind the individual. I think Oz needs an equivalent Ron Paul for about a term just to shake things up. I'm sure after we tell everyone to piss orf and get out of the country, things will settle down a bit, normalcy will occur and we can get back to BBQs and pubs owned by women.
Just another protectionist move by the government. It's not a conspiracy, just normal procedure nowadays as the citizens of that fine country have little say and are sheep that have no idea that they have already lost their freedom.
Not singling you out, just a comment on a principle. One can hypothesise a future time where what is ethically correct today would be immoral and illegal. That's the point of the judgement. We have been apologetic for past events because of current PC and here are lots of examples of this. The law wasn't morally wrong for the time, just the ethics of it as we see it today. The general trend for apologia of past decisions and resulting actions is a process of removing guilt. Saying sorry doesn't change the facts. Government actions at the time were unethical and I'd rather have them live with the guilt.
Bill Maher unbaptised him a few days ago. http://billmaher.com/ Also he's wrong about aethism not being a religion. Any aethist claiming that aethism is not a religion is actually maintaining that as part of the belief system of aethism and therefore it is a religion.
Yes. What is not spoken about in Western history was the role of the Axis allies and the battles they fought. In particular, there is a huge concentration of focus on the German front lines in France and Belgium during WWI and very little on the other fronts. There is a presumption that Germany = Axis and Axis = Germany and that is not true.
Actually I've seen trees set alight by underground fires. It works like this: A forest fire burns a tree, setting old roots smouldering and can survive underground for months. This can travel a hundred metres or so and strike another tree.
Slashdot Mirror
"No, your completely wrong. .com, .net, .org are, and always have been, US domains"
I suggest you update your knowledge on the subject. It used to be true, but it hasn't been for some time.
I'd like a citation for that because according to TFA
The ramifications of this are no less than chilling and every single organization branded or operating under .com, .net, .org, .biz etc needs to ask themselves about their vulnerability to the whims of US federal and state lawmakers (not exactly known their cluefulness nor even-handedness, especially with regard to matters of the internet).
it's not the case. .ca .uk .au etc controlled by DNS entries in the US?
I don't know but are country codes like
This one is good! Originally from Avenue Q muppets but I like this version better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo
It has taken me decades (for I am a slow thinker), to finally solve the missing sock problem.
The way to do it my friends, is to go Total Mono-Sock© (TMS®).
* Throw all your socks away, use them for landfill, insulation etc.
* Buy about 20 pairs of socks, all of the same colour and manufacturer.
* Laugh as the sock pixies steal or genetically re-engineer one of them with biros, usb sticks, staples, thumbtacks and other stuff you know you have but have mysteriously dissappeared as it just doesn't matter anymore. You will always find another sock.
There are other advantages. You don't need to pair the socks anymore. You can just toss one away if it gets holed.
Don't forget that Telstra's internet branch - Bigpond, doesn't count downloads off their own servers. It's free. So if they retain that policy, you can stream stuff for nothing and doesn't add to the plan. Uploads are NOT free and are counted towards the plan.
Bigpond competitors have much bigger cap plans as a response, so you're more likely to get a 1T plan to cater for video streaming which will become the defacto standard when the NBN is finished.
It is crazy though as here we have Satellite for video, copper for phone and ADSL and Towers for mobiles (Cell phones) - soon Fibre. So an average household would have all or a combination of these.
Just when you thought it was all over, he goes into a refrain.
OK You win.
A Walk in the Black Forest?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS15ACUhTww
I love your paranoia. Unfortunately no organization has the forethought, skills and determination to carry this through for longer than a few years. I think the East German Stasi needs special mention as they kept millions of jars containing smells of their population.
What is actually happening is a direct result of the 'War against terror'. It is the governments of the world spying on their populace to root out terrorists. From there every government is becoming more and more paranoid and is casting their nets in private lives.
The dumbed down TV/Celeb/Politico shit is just that. All it takes is a news organisation to focus on some subjective grub of matter and it floods the consciousness of the public.
How can this happen???
Simple - the secret is that humans are highly susceptible to suggestion. That's why so powerful ideologies like religion, nazism, communism, dictatorships, advertising and (add your own) take root so easily, cause wars, degeneration of thought and rationality.
We're all convinced too easily; we fall into one camp or the other, whichever has the greatest pull on our sensibilities. It is a disaster.
For the general public, it is hard to cure them of this suggestible susceptibility. For the individual, it is much easier.
What I would like to see is an advertising campaign and maybe school curricula that teaches freedom of thinking and suggestibility.
I do this one-on-one with my kids. I point this stuff out to them in ads, TV shows etc.
For example: There is a laugh track on 'That 70's Show'. If you ignore the laugh track, then the show stops being funny. Ads are the same. Instead of an ad stating the product/price/availability, it is mostly always linked to sex and security.
Educate your kids/friends etc and that will wake them up and maybe give them freedom of thought and critical thinking will arise in them.
The problem in Australian politics is that they can't see the wood for the trees and pretty much no-one in Australia gives a shit - typically an Australian characteristic.
Damn Sri Lankans!
Which brings to mind the very best divorce notification ever:
An older family couple (retired in their 60s), George and Mildred, lived close by. Both have been our friends for decades. George was a bit weird however.
One day Mildred came back from a shopping trip and checked her mail. One letter was from social security stating that her benefits had increased due to her change of status and she should contact the local office asap. She immediately got back into the car, drove to town and found out that she was now single. So she asked for a review.
She got back home and found George slaughtering a rabbit in the shed out back. (He bred rabbits for food). He politely informed her that he'd had enough of her spending ways and he was divorcing her.
Eventually they sold their house and split the money.
She blew all of her's on poker machines and he died of brain cancer about 5 years later.
Let me know when we get to Pizmo beach.
Agree. Similar things happened with the Birds ;), but it was worse in Romania.
However I can't accept the fact that a lot of the Eastern block countries are finding it so hard to create a democratic government. I think a lot of the older population still yearn for the security of the old system - so my aunt tells me.
Yes! If it were me, I'd just walk up to the control panel, turn the dial to 4 and hit the ON button.
do souls have mass?
Currently there is research on that very question.
Also, does data have mass? Also being measured!
I actually agree with that. I'm old enough to see that the malaise that has infected Australia has taken a few decades and is not the result of just one election. Gillard is ok and as a Prime Minister, she's held her own as you say.
Voting informal is pretty much the only choice, but I think next time I'll vote LDP or some other fringe libertarian party. They probably won't get representation, but if enough vote, then it'll give the major parties something to think about.
there's definitely something indefinable about him.
I can define it. He's bat-shit crazy.
The problem isn't Abbot or Gillard. Everyone forgets that in Australia you don't vote for the individual, you vote for the party behind the individual.
I think Oz needs an equivalent Ron Paul for about a term just to shake things up.
I'm sure after we tell everyone to piss orf and get out of the country, things will settle down a bit, normalcy will occur and we can get back to BBQs and pubs owned by women.
Just another protectionist move by the government. It's not a conspiracy, just normal procedure nowadays as the citizens of that fine country have little say and are sheep that have no idea that they have already lost their freedom.
it's no reason not to right a historic wrong
Not singling you out, just a comment on a principle.
One can hypothesise a future time where what is ethically correct today would be immoral and illegal.
That's the point of the judgement. We have been apologetic for past events because of current PC and here are lots of examples of this.
The law wasn't morally wrong for the time, just the ethics of it as we see it today. The general trend for apologia of past decisions and resulting actions is a process of removing guilt. Saying sorry doesn't change the facts. Government actions at the time were unethical and I'd rather have them live with the guilt.
Bill Maher unbaptised him a few days ago. http://billmaher.com/
Also he's wrong about aethism not being a religion.
Any aethist claiming that aethism is not a religion is actually maintaining that as part of the belief system of aethism and therefore it is a religion.
Maybe. But I think they lost to commercial gain:
http://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments/flags_of_the_united_states_and_british_east_india_company/
Yes. What is not spoken about in Western history was the role of the Axis allies and the battles they fought.
In particular, there is a huge concentration of focus on the German front lines in France and Belgium during WWI and very little on the other fronts.
There is a presumption that Germany = Axis and Axis = Germany and that is not true.
I'd rather remember this version:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064417/
Tree ring music:
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/record-play-adapted-play-music-tree-rings.html
WTF? A female ship? Ahhh pull the other one.
Actually I've seen trees set alight by underground fires. It works like this: A forest fire burns a tree, setting old roots smouldering and can survive underground for months. This can travel a hundred metres or so and strike another tree.
No BB means Bulletin Board. They still exist ... somewhere.... out there....