Scarecrow

I'd love to contribute, but I barely have enough money to afford lunch right now. I'll have to wait until I actually have money to spend. I'll spread the word some though, facebook is always good for spreading things like this.

sounds like a fantastic idea, but it wouldn't get far unless it actually becomes popular.

Sounds great worowa! Best of luck to you.

Oh, believe me, I'd love to start my own community. Given the opportunity, I'd do so without hesitation. But I also have no delusions regarding how likely that is to happen AND be allowed to continue. I'm also aware that it's not going to be easy to completely secede from society. It's probably effectively impossible, in fact (which is also astoundingly depressing). I'll just have to do the best I can to gain as much freedom as I can in the prison I was born into. as i'll mention below, good policies are a means to keep the masses from becoming riotous, as well as part of the voting game (how many promised policies actually get delivered?). and, as below, things need to be at stake for people to have any interest in voting (and feeling like they've been part of a democratic process!) whatsoever. i can't comment on this, i actually know very little about politics and economics because i tend to avoid them like the plague. you're right. of course they aren't completely useless, but i'm sure you understand what i'm getting at; they don't really hold any more sway over decisions than anyone else involved. obviously people need to be kept happy, placated just enough to prevent too much questioning. our governments are assholes, but they aren't stupid. they are perfectly aware that if they push their luck too much (too quickly) they'll end up facing rebellion. based on what i've seen, i think it's perfectly reasonable to assume that this is their only motive in making these sorts of reforms and infrastructure improvements. intellectual laziness is one good way to look at it, but i'd argue that the real problem is that people are in such a state of stuporous exhaustion from their nine to five jobs that they've become completely subversive to whoever is in power, and television brainwashing. the result is that they've straight up forgotten how to be think for themselves. no, i think that's part of the popularity contest. if nothing is at stake in the elections, people would lose interest. at least, i'd hope so. unfortunately, if we look at history, we can see freedoms slowly being stripped away one by one. and we've all observed attempts to further this in our own lifetimes (for example drug laws, attempts towards internet censorship and monitoring, etc). as far as i can tell, things will only go downhill unless there are some drastic changes. it's not a cop out man, it's more of a resignation of defeat. unless people get mad enough to start a revolution (which may or may not happen in my lifetime), there's basically absolutely nothing i can do. becoming an activist or what have you isn't going to change anything, and i'm no public speaker or politician.

i really don't understand why everyone's making such a big deal about who's the head assclown of australia. the IMPORTANT thing to realize from this whole fiasco is that the people you vote for are simply puppets, and have absolutely no say in what happens. that means it doesn't matter who you vote for, because even if they have the best policies ever conceived, they're still just a figurehead with next to no real power. a disposable cardboard face stuck on to "the machine" that we have all been made into cogs for. people think the old face is getting ugly? better replace it with a new one! (and then keep doing the same shit) it doesn't matter who we vote for, nothing will change. the people we vote for are part of parties which just want more power, and, given the opportunity, they're going to take more power by slowly sucking our rights (and wallets) out of us like leeches. the heads of parties just create a smokescreen, bickering and creating a whole big drama, just to distract people from what's really going on. we have other parties that aren't so compromised, but it's actually entirely impossible for them to win, because it's a two party system. these parties are allowed to exist because they give the impression that we have the option to choose a better party, but really we don't. the fact that this is all blindingly obvious is even more depressing. people go around sucking television's dick so much that they just let it tell them what to think, instead of looking at things critically for themselves. ...and this is why i intend to secede from society as soon as i can, fuck everything

Yikes, those are a bit out of my price range. I don't exactly need food-grade oils here.

all right, i still haven't done the oils thing yet. struggling to find a good essential oils supplier in australia, with reasonable prices, that takes payment via paypal... anybody know of any?

I love flash, it's what I've been using also I eventually moved more towards the scripting side of things though, I'm more of an ActionScript expert now than anything else. I'll have to check out TV Paint though, I've never heard of it before.

Neat, I was studying animation last year also. But because I already knew everything they were teaching (after self-teaching myself for several years), I dropped it. What program do you use?

try the combination i mentioned above mate

congratulations interbeing!

Well that's encouraging. Maybe I'll try and go on a trip this weekend or something then.

i've had nothing but sun and cold with no rain for over a week now

a combination of Spybot Search and Destroy and Super Anti Spyware tends to be perfectly capable of cleaning out 99% of viruses. second best to Kaspersky.

It's possible someone's gone and linked an infected image or something, but Kaspersky Internet Security has always picked up on those kinds of things in the past for me. But Kaspersky isn't picking up or blocking anything for me, so I'm inclined to believe it's a false positive from Avast.

Avast, ye scurvy dog! Get yer shit together!

Great info, I'll definitely look in to some of those. Thanks for contributing! [edit] Can you comment on whether these books have information regarding psychoactive species as well? It's information that seems to be often omitted

Oh jeez, i don't know if I have the time or the tools (or the money to acquire said tools). But I am genuinely interested in trying this some time. Maybe once I've got my shit together regarding accomodation, study, etc. Thanks though! I may take you up on this in the future

hey i don't suppose you feel like carving 7 jade tuning pegs for a guqin...

scorpions! you guys are crazy haha

it's looking like I also have some aphids all up in my poor caapi cuttings.... and some spider mites seem to be taking over my echinacea. so i've done some research on essential oils, here's what i've found out: - spider mites: -> rosemary, capsiacin - aphids: -> Cedarwood, peppermint - sciarid flies/fungus gnats: -> peppermint, clove - slugs/snails: -> cedarwood, pine - general: -> garlic, soap, orange insect genocide formula: - soak 1 crushed garlic clove and 1 crushed chilli in 2 cups of water for a few days. - add 5 drops each of rosemary, cedarwood, peppermint, and orange essential oils. - any thoughts on this? i can't spend too much money so i have to pick and choose a bit, but from what i've read, if this doesn't kill the bastards it'll at least make their lives hell

yes! i forgot about it. it's low budget, but it's more the game diablo 3 should have been. really great passive tree

i've played many games haha. the witcher games were great, dragon age origins was great. dragon age 2 was booooring... so much politics. all of bethesda's recent games have been great, including the fallout series and elder scrolls series. the assassin's creed games were fun, but repetitive. i've avoided WoW on principle (paying to play a game you already payed for???), but i was in to guild wars 2 for a while. diablo 2 was my favourite game for many years. i've spent a large portion of my life playing that game. but diablo 3 crushed my hopes and dreams. huge disappointment, gg blizzard you ruined the best game ever made also nintendo rpgs were awesome, ex. super mario, zelda series, etc

Try these: This may simply be lack of available RAM. Try this: - Open notepad to create a new text file. - In the textfile, you should write the following line: java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar "Minecraft.exe"- Save this as anything you like, but the file name must end in ".bat" instead of ".txt". For example you might save it as "minecraft_1gb_memory.bat". You're going to move this file so you can just save it on your desktop or something for now. - Go to the same folder where you downloaded and execute minecraft.exe (the launcher, not the jar file!). You might be able to do this by right clicking on the minecraft shortcut on the desktop and choosing "open file location", or by looking at the shortcut's properties to find where the file is located. - Move the .bat file you created in to this folder. - Try running the .bat file. Hopefully it will run minecraft and fix your problem. If this is the case you can right click > send to desktop on the .bat file, and use the shortcut that creates to run minecraft. If it gives you a new error, post it here. But if you're still getting the same error as before, consider the following: Are you sure you've updated to the latest drivers for your video card? Do you know how to do this? Please post a dxdiag report.