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  1. Posted

    oh, and with all the promises I've seen parties make over the years if they win, then they never ever materialise, with no answering why not, even when they were key points for winning the election, that I doubt this would ever get implimented anyhows. They talk lots and do fuck all, they are lazzy and just pretend to work. there only real concern is there pay check and retirment slush funds.

    As Howard taught us, it's all to do with whether they are 'core' or 'non-core' promises.

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    What do you guys reckon we (super mods) do with mod preview posts in other mods' forums? My inclination would be to just approve the post if it doesn't look suspect and hasn't been reported. If a post looks borderline as far as forum rules are concerned, I would just leave it in case its been intentionally unapproved by another mod, but if it's a completely innocent post, especially if it's the person's first or second post, I think it would be reasonable to assume that it's just been caught by mod preview and can be approved.

    Just wanted to check what everyone else's thoughts are on this before interfering in others' forums.

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    Most Aussies just don't have the attention span to stand there and fill it all in below the line either, so that's another "abnormality"

    I reckon if you get in the door without choking on a how-to-vote card, the hard part's over. Counting writing down consecutive numbers starting at 1 is a fairly simple task, but I'd be quite happy if they got rid of the "above the line", and changed it so you could add as few preferences as you like (I think most people think they are just voting for a single party when they vote above the line anyway). That way a lot of people would just put one candidate, or every candidate from their favourite party. Others would also do their second and third party. And some of us would do all of them just to make sure that the half a dozen white nationalist parties stand less of a chance. Seems a lot more fair and democratic than all the political bullshit from preference deals.

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    Anybody do it?

    Are you any good?

    Any tips or tricks?

    Im currently doing it :)

    Develop a 'stage' presence...easier said than done though. I used to busk a bit, and I'd happily just do my thing with a hat full of money and make a good $30-$40 an hour. But I'm fairly quiet and not very good a building excitement for an audience and would only have half a dozen people watching at a given time. I had a friend who was much better at rounding up a crowd and when we'd go busking together he'd often spruik for me while I was busking, gathering (I'd estimate) close to 100 people, and the most we ever made was about $300 in a couple of hours. That was during the Commonwealth games though, so there were heaps of people willing to part with their money.

    Permits are technically required, and I wouldn't suggest you to busk without one, but they really only exist to stop beggars from pretending they're busking. So if you're good, you don't really need one. I've never had one, and I've never been asked if I have one.

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    Modern physics is a totally empirical science. It has many good models of "what" happens but no good explanations for

    "why" it happens.

    There is no explanation for gravity, magnetism or electrostatics.

    It depends on how you define "why". There are very solid explanations all the things you mentioned, and they end up going to a very fundamental point. But there has to be a limit to any sort of explanation. When you keep on asking "why?", which is what physicists do, there is always a point you reach where you don't know the answer. If you find out the answer, you get another "why?". So it is seems logically impossible to have every answer, but it's a lot better to have some answers than no answers. This is what physics does, it provides some answers, and the number of these answers increases every time a new discovery is made, but it is never complete.

     

    So if you have a group of people who are fundamentally ignorant on the basic precepts who claim to know everything

    If you only respond to one thing, I'd like you to provide a quote and source of a physicist who claims to know everything.

    ...or are you talking about church leaders? :wink:

  13. Posted

    I tried so hard not to take the bait...I swear :o

     

    I think atheists are easier to control.

    lol

     

    Modern physics is a blatant attempt to limit the minds perception of the infinite universe.

    The irony here is that an overwhelming number of religious zealots think they are so important in 'God's plan', that the universe is diminished in size relative to their own ego. Not to mention that, before 'modern' astronomy, humans from many different cultures thought the stars were very close, for example, in Western thought they were assumed to be on the inside of a sphere that surrounds our (flat) planet. It's been less than a hundred years since we learnt that there are galaxies outside our own, and this understanding is only due to the revolution of modern science. Anyone interested in science knows that they are a drop in a cosmic ocean. That's not to say that there aren't religious people with a level of humility, but I hardly think it's the norm.

     

    It is cheap and cheesey religion with a jellyfish in a wheelchair as the supreme deity.

    Are you referring to Hawking? That is offensive on so many levels. Just the fact that you would refer to anyone with a disability as a "jellyfish" is beyond belief. But you are talking about someone with such an incredible gift of insight that he has been able to solve some of the most difficult problems presented by the natural world without the ability to put pen to paper. He has, against all odds, managed to overcome an illness that leaves most people dead in just a few years, to continue working tirelessly, and found meaning living with an illness that most people would think was torture.

    In addition to that, your ignorance betrays you when you pick the 'public face' of physics as a supposed "deity". Truth be told, while he would make many physicists' top ten lists, there are many others for whom Hawking wouldn't even rate a mention on a top ten.

     

    Would anybody have a smart phone if it were not for zen?

    Yes. Would anyone have a smart phone if it were not for physics?

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    I haven't been this excited about a new technology since I was about 15. Seems like the future we were promised is finally here. So tempted to get the dev kit, but I'm doing my best to hold off for the consumer version. Definitely gonna spend a fair bit on a new gaming rig when this thing comes out.

     

     

    The dev kit is 720p, but because it's split between both eyes and fills your entire field of view, the screen door effect is apparently pretty bad. It also has no translational tracking. But the consumer version will be at least 1080p and should include translational tracking. No solid release date as of yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if they try to get it ready for christmas next year. The dev kit is only $300, and the consumer version is projected to be about the same price

    :drool2:

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  17. Posted

    happy day! don't squander your juicy brain on hobbies man!@#$!

    if you must squander it then answer my simple question which i can't word properly for google.

    if you travel a light year at say half the speed of light, how much do you age eg how much earth time passes on your spaceship? just a short answer will do i can contemplate the rest myself.

    cuz i'm wondering precisely how much awesomeness it would be to commence some time-consuming work on a slow-moving rock like earth, for instance, ask a computer to solve a riddle. on earth you would die of old age before the riddle is ever solved, or before the brain-immortality-machine can be manufactured, etc, so you life a highly eventful (heh. sarcasm.) life zipping around space and come back to earth 200 years later.

    seems like a good way to get the better of time.

    Just realised I didn't actually answer the question, lol. So... I'm assuming you mean 1 light year proper distance. i.e. 1 light year between two points from a frame of reference in which those points are stationary. At half the speed of light, you would travel this distance in two Earth years, and would age 1.73 years on the ship.

    Just for interest's sake, if you travel for 1.73 years at half the speed of light, you travel 0.86 light years, so the distance traveled that you measure from onboard the ship is shorter than that measured from Earth.

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    happy day! don't squander your juicy brain on hobbies man!@#$!

    if you must squander it then answer my simple question which i can't word properly for google.

    if you travel a light year at say half the speed of light, how much do you age eg how much earth time passes on your spaceship? just a short answer will do i can contemplate the rest myself.

    cuz i'm wondering precisely how much awesomeness it would be to commence some time-consuming work on a slow-moving rock like earth, for instance, ask a computer to solve a riddle. on earth you would die of old age before the riddle is ever solved, or before the brain-immortality-machine can be manufactured, etc, so you life a highly eventful (heh. sarcasm.) life zipping around space and come back to earth 200 years later.

    seems like a good way to get the better of time.

    (Ship time)/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) = Earth Time

    For half the speed of light

    1 Ship year ~= 1.155 Earth years

    so you'd have to zip around space for about 173 years for 200 years to pass on Earth. But, this increases significantly as you increase speed, so at 90% the speed of light, you would only wait 87 years. At 99% light speed, it's 28 years. At 99.99% the speed of light, it's 2.8 years. Better build a faster ship :wink:

    Happy Birthday brother. Hope you had a good day and are well! Peace

    Cheers, I'd say we should catch up soon, but we never get around to it :blush:

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  23. Posted

    It's unlikely to be a surprise to anyone that I have a thing for hot chicks made out of plastic... :blush:

    So I've recently gotten into collecting these bishoujo figures. I'm going to have to try to avoid building up a whole collection of these, because they're fairly exxy. It's also difficult to find ones that really mean something to me because I'm not really into anime or visual novels, which is where most of the characters used are from. I have a couple of other ones, but this is the first one that I really love. Firstly because she's from a game that I love (Soul Calibur) and also because she's a good size (~30cm) and really nicely sculpted and painted.

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    Now, if only they made a decent Sophitia figure ... :drool2:

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  24. Posted

    It's a really interesting question, and one I hadn't thought too much about until now. I've always thought of "body load" as being about a physical sensation of being "high". This could be positive, like tactile sensations on MDMA or physical euphoria on opiates, or it could be negative, like the physical tention from a high dose of stimulants. But I've never really associated the term "body load" with purely physiological things like sweating or cramps.

    I have no idea where my interpretation of it came from. I guess it's one of those things that means different things to different people.

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