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this doesnt apply to melting ice caps because that is fresh ice floating on salt water. if the arctic melts, the sea level WILL rise. plus, i may be completely wrong anyway.

heh, i've actually heard that the melting of floating ice does not change the water level. precise changes would depend on temperatures but remember ice does not displace it's entire volume, only about 90% of it (some ice is above water level).

way to go journeyer, i'm gonna grab a lot of that when i figure out how to use rapidshare. palm pilot sounds like a good idea, or a projector. i probably have one of the largest non-fiction ebook collections in history, but i hate to read on a computer screen. searching emule or soulseek (or torrent sites, to a lesser extent) with terms like 'horticulture' and 'gardening' produces heaps of results, otherwise just search 'ebook' and start trawling. given time to prepare i could share some of mine on soulseek if anybody contacts me.

hold up there ajna... first you need to be able to dig at least 40cm down without encountering rock!

definitely mile-a-minute.. stay on top of that stuff, the name isn't much of an exageration.

... what was his debut called? very cool for a small budget film. nationalistic but i like thai values anyway. tony jaa definitely shows alot of promise.. has he made any movies since? i know that those filmmakers have done a second film. i've seen both and what really stands out is the stunt work!!! virtually all of it is real, except for the stuff that is far too dangerous to be real. tony jaa: a bit over the top but what movie martial artist isn't? he embodies muay thai beautifully, like the scene where somebody tries to punch him in the head, and he just headbutts the guys fist on purpose hahahaha.

i think it's just a basic principle of aikido... not to resist your opponent but to take advantage of their own strife. another principle is circular movement and generally moving in the most efficient, least contrived way, like water. if somebody tried to attack me i don't know that i'd be too concerned about how much i hurt them, but i must admit it is a beautiful notion.. aikido is the only martial art (to my knowledge) whose objective is to overcome an opponent with an absolute minimum of harm. i don't know if the stories are true but they say that the japanese guy who came up with this before world war two was never defeated by anybody. .... the mad max / abo hair thing.. i'm completely lost yet intrigued

just chasing the cash i think, after all, who could earn the kind of bucks they do now by making psytrance? where are the reviews anyway? how was franny? i think he was two sets before mushroom.

i'm afraid i'd be feeding it to thin-air, but thanks for the proposition. edit: seeds/plants for sale?

bill mollison, the primary founder of permaculture, said that this was probably the most efficient and effective system of dryland watering he had ever encountered. he was in hyperabad, india, so presumably they invented it, and the mouth of the pot was aboveground to be filled with watering-cans. i've never seen them but anyone know how you could make a porous ceramic pot?

i wonder does that effectively reduce the odds of post natal depression? is post natal depression linked to oxytocin as one might guess? ... and can couples have some of that herb and then just be loved-out for a while?

wow, pretty weird, how it pops out like that!! it says "basket fungus" also grows around the south coast of australia.

probably, i couldn't find anything on the subject.. but the assertion that fungal spores are up to the task is purely McKenna's. the ability of bacteria to withstand re-entry has been proven.

there's an australian group that is kind of hiphop mixed with other styles who hinted at this years ago in the middle of a song with a voice going KICK SNARE KICK, KICK SNARE KIKIKICK SNARE KICK KICK SNARE etc. took a long time for the novelty to wear off on me.

here i was thinking that most of the beautiful fungi was in the northern hemisphere. score one for new zealand! i wouldn't know where to begin searching for an ID, it's such an unusual fruiting body. where do you suppose the spores are? modern fungus taxonomy is very micro-oriented so you might want to take a much closer look and describe the hyphae.

can you make the meaning of that statement any clearer?

wow. check out some new zealand fungus sites. they have so many impressive speciments! far more impressive than anything growing in queensland. we have several glow-in-the-dark mushrooms but nothing nearly as appealling in daylight.

McKenna has a good argument for all fungus being a case of panspermia (in The Archaic Revival). Something along the lines of it's total feasibility and if i didn't make this part up, the lack of any ancient fossil record of fungus. You see spores could easily survive cosmic radiation, space-faring and planetary re-entry, and for a spore 500 million years adrift is nothing. Their coating is among the hardest substances in nature and space is ideal for their preservation. Plus, fungus looks really weird. That one you have there is a definite candidate for interstellar introduction, much like the kiwi accent. Never seen anything like it and eager to hear it's explanation. Try this page under 'jelly fungi' to ID your gelatinous stuff. http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/fungi/index.htm

i checked out the link... it's sad to hear that the legendary story of thermopylae has been perverted so. ahh well, big films tend to do that to great stories. i notice one major difference from these posts - if i'm not wrong, the other greek armies weren't too afraid to fight, they were too far away!! the role of the tiny spartan outfit was to keep the persians out until the larger greek army could arrive and carry on the fight. on the homosexual note, it's surprising how many cultures have viewed homosexuality as a warriors virtue when modern military policy holds an opposite view. the ancient reason being twofold: greater bonding between soldier/lovers, and less homesickness. pretty handy if you think about some of the campaigns that lasted several decades.

hmmmm you asked for subgenre descriptions. quite an ask but i'll take a crack. these are some of the subgenres as i have been led to understand them in my tiny grasp of trance music. i'm not going to recommend anything but if you pm me i will. morning is played when the sun is new and it's vibrant, uplifting, ethereal maybe. can be corny but can also be amazing, and probably helps you cope with the aftermath of the chems you may have munched last night. full on is full on i guess, it isn't what you'd call minimal or laid back, it has big lead synths that get in your face. dark is kinda gloomy and glitchy, it's hard and fast so it might be the one you're looking for but it's more machine than soul ;) seems to get played after midnight but before sunrise, and is avoided by many, loved by others... also seems to be the trance refuge of the metalhead then you have progressive trance which i can't quite describe but to me it's very formulaic and digestible, which is weird because it goes by the name progressive (which traditionally means non-formulaic and hard to digest) check them all out, i think you will find that trance in general goes well with the psychadelic experience, especially coming from giant speakers <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_devil.gif anyway these are the major distinctions as i currently see them but it certainly doesn't cover everything you hear at a doof edit: broadly speaking, psytrance simultaneously goes DOOF DOOF and chuggalug chuggalug, and has crazy samples, synths and effects that blow your mind. jeez do i have to explain everything?

psy psy psy which includes classical mushroom, any recent infected mushroom is full of vocals. the tricky part is finding which psytrance you love, and advice won't help you much there. another thing that doesn't help is that you will hear songs at doofs and probably never find out which artist was responsible. i'd like to say that dark is where it's at but that's too narrow an opinion, and the most impressive songs i've heard (or *thought* i've heard...) were not dark.

those things are so putrid. even the digital images stink. just thinking about it.....

or a complex and sacred molecule? before today, my only exposure to the word 'oxytocin' was a bbc segment.

i've been shown a few aikido moves. to be more accurate a few were demonstrated on me. i was surprised how easily i could be manipulated when he had me by the throat. aikido only uses strikes to cause pain and shock so i won't disagree with you about how useful boxing could be, but aikido seems like very powerful stuff. everything is practised on a partner, so i guess half the time you are being thrown around etc, the other half you are throwing somebody around, so it may not cover every situation but i'd consider it "real" practise. one thing that has changed over the years is that they no longer do most of their training on their knees.

oxytocin definitely seems to be the love-molecule. mothers who even think about breastfeeding raise their level of oxytocin, and when it was blocked in a lioness (why did they test on lions?) she stopped caring for her cubs. info from BBC neurotransmitters radio series.