DiscoStu

yes.

i don't see why everyone has such a problem with the historical person of "jesus of nazareth" existing. yes, there's been a lot of misery inflicted upon the world from the various organisational religions which hold jesus as their figurehead, but can't you separate an institution from a single individual (an example would be blaming the buddha for the 969 movement in burma)? the person "jesus of nazareth" had nothing to do with what the catholic church or etc. has done to the world,

thanks!

so just sitting in my loungeroom, and all of a sudden i notice a distinct echo (you know that tiny room reverb/echo which you usually get in empty rooms). it certainly doesn't happen usually and it started to manifest as the afternoon/evening sun came out for what would be one of the few times today. so the lounge lights up brilliant orange and this echo manifests off the room from the sound out of my stereo. anyway i'm wondering, why would it manifest at this particular time? is it the sun heating the surrounding air or slightly heating the room or something? you'll notice sound travels differently at night, i assume because the air density is less than during the day, any acoustical physics experts can tell me?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/obamas-pivot-to-asia-australia-central-to-american-war-plans-against-china/5357793

is it an afterlife, or a beforelife…..

hay does someone have some spare/cheap pereskiopsis they can bring? i'm keen to try grafting for a change….

i was born in a land called australia. as far as "ethnic origins" go i consider us all to be humans, we're all more similar than we care to recognise

as far as i know only the flowers can really tell different lophs apart. l. williamsii has pink flowers, l. diffusa has yellowish?

i have a yowie, and a sausage plant. and they are most definitely not the same plant.

*additionally not until 4 years after the final deal http://www.zdnet.com/tpp-ip-chapter-leak-reveals-us-global-copyright-plans-7000023172/ more summaries http://www.citizen.org/Wikileaks-publishes-TPP-IP-Chapter http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/14/us-renews-secret-push-to-impose-its-failed-copyright-regime/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/tpp-leak-confirms-worst-us-negotiators-still-trying-trade-away-internet-freedoms http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/abbott-open-for-business-and-multinational-lawsuits/700/ https://www.efa.org.au/2013/11/14/no-fair-no-share-leaked-tpp-ip-chapter-has-just-one-reference-to-fair-use/ http://keionline.org/node/1825 <-- efa recommends australians read this

you have to wonder just how paranoid the australian security forces/government are of actual armed conflict with china. it certainly looks at face value like they're preparing for it.

http://japanfocus.org/-Richard-Tanter/4025?utm_source=November+11%2C+2013&utm_campaign=China%27s+Connectivity+Revolution&utm_medium=email#sthash.7I34x2fo.dpuf

actually australia was the hot 21 year old but it wouldn't stop partying and now it's turned into the 35 year old crack whore blowing truckers in parking lots and exposing its crotch to passing cars all for a few scraps of rock thrown at it from a couple of rich pimps.

please do, just received some aztekium in the mail today your right you'd mistake it for dust if you didn't know what was in there. do you use anything special for aztekium or just the same as other mexican cacti (a rio and etc.)

and then vendors completely ignore it and implement their own because they think they can extort more money out of customers #yeahlookingatyouapple #rapists

^^ excellent. i desperately want some aztekium

The New York Times has a story today about gunshot location systems, which use microphones installed around a city to detect, and triangulate the location of, gunshots, so that police can be sent to the scene. We have been asked what we think of this technology from time to time since at least 2004. The technology is in place in almost 70 cities around the United States, according to the Times report. There are several competing manufacturers, and variations of the technology are also used overseas by the military to pinpoint the location of snipers. The domestic technology is claimed to be very accurate, correctly detecting 99.6 percent of gunshots in a National Institute of Justice testa very low false negative rate, though the Times does not report (and I could not locate online) the crucial other side of the coin: the false positive rate. The difficulty, of course, is distinguishing gunshots from car backfires, firecrackers and other loud noises. The Times did report in a 2009 article that an independent test of one such system found that it frequently sent the police on wild goose chases and had little impact on arrest rates. It is possible that the technology has improved, however, or that other systems are more effective than the one tested. Ive always been given to understand that this technology could detect gunshots, but not conversations, so I never objected to it, since gunshot detection in a city does not implicate any significant privacy interests. The Times has discovered that in at least one city, however, the system recorded a loud street argument. And the recording, which was made in New Bedford, Mass., is likely to be at issue in the case against two men charged with murder. It is not generally legal for law enforcement (or anyone else) to make audio recordings of conversations in which they are not a participant without a warrant. In addition to the apparently accidental eavesdropping reported by the Times, an important question is whether microphones can be remotely activated by police who want to listen to nearby conversations. Well be watching closely to ensure that these systems dont become the latest way for police to get around the Fourth Amendment. In New Bedford, the district attorney told the Times he thought the recording could be admissible as evidence. If the courts start allowing recordings of conversations picked up by these devices to be admitted as evidence, then it will provide an additional incentive to the police to install microphones in our public spaces, over and above what is justified by the level of effectiveness the technology proves to have in pinpointing gun shots. It will also reduce the incentive of the manufacturers to design these systems so that they only pick up gunshots and not the conversations of people walking down the street. Independent assessment and openness about the precise capabilities and operation of this technology is also needed to keep it focused on the unobjectionable goal of listening for and locating gunshots. https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security-criminal-law-reform/gunshot-detectors-aclus-view

thanks all, it's a really slow grower though, might pot it on to a bigger pot….

a bridgesii looking quite rosy:

thanks, thought it looked slightly bridgesioid but also not really,

from the sab store, which particular breed is it? both I and II

http://delimiter.com.au/2013/11/06/sa-police-buys-drone-fleet/ i hear the vic pso's are not achieving their aim, maybe if vicgov buys drones for every train station they'd be more effective? i for one would feel much safer with 15 or so nano-drones buzzing up and down the platforms

tyrannosaur - one of those movies where the characters have not many redeeming qualities, and definitely needs subtitles