ThunderIdeal

not sure when this took place but the story of easter island has some parallels, though it is also a microcosm of what we are doing and what may happen to this planet. as you know the easter islanders erected stone monuments to glorify the chiefs of their various tribes. easter island was a small wooded island and from atop the hill you can see the entire place. the people survived mainly on the many sea-birds which flocked to the isolated island. lumber was used to to move and erect the stone heads and the chiefs always sought greater glory with larger heads. i believe the largest are incomplete! can you guess why? on an island where you can see everything, somebody knowingly chopped down the VERY LAST TREE, in the persuit of senseless glory. this subsequently decreased their bird visitors and devastated their way of life, requiring an overhaul of their society. they began what was called the cult of the bird-man, whereby each tribe sent representatives to swim to a rock outcrop where birds laid eggs at a certain time. the first representative to succeed in the perilous task won for his tribe the right to dictate how the islands scant resources would be allocated. edit: the successful bird-man was the one who could bring an egg back to the mainland.

why would you give them that sort of information? so they can find you and bust you more easily?

some facts for ya's few magpies actually swoop, most do not. it's just that the ones that do swoop are such malevolent fuckers that they give the entire species a bad name. i'm not aware of the cause. in my experience, any nesting plover will swoop, and of course they have those barbs on their wings, but they aren't formidable compared with a vicious magpie. the only time they'll even make a serious attempt to get you is when plover mum has faked you so you are looking away when plover dad comes in to get you. plus they just do a big straight-on run. a vicious magpie is more than formidable. that is, unless you have a 4L icecream tub with eyes drawn on the back :D if you're just an innocent aussie kid, a vicious magpie can land on your head and really fuck you over, pecking your eyes and such. this is cruel but if you put a split in their toungue, they are excellent speakers. they can be tamed, which becomes obvious when you feed them twice and they start walking into your house. some butcher birds and peewees (magpie larks) are also known to swoop. one of the australian crows has the most intricate of all bird calls in the world. also, that's where the predator noise came from.

i don't have the experience you're after, but i have read this book introduction to permaculture and recommend it for your perusal. perhaps mainly just the section on house design for your climate. fairly basic but sensible stuff that should serve as a starting point for house layout.

well, let's hope they don't get big enough to overtake coastal areas, as he implies...

hedgehogs, like, introduced by pommies??

i really liked both of those rants there. they pose a lot of questions, which i don't suppose are meant to be answered in kind, but they are thought-provoking and it's good to hear the views of others when their mind is really plumbing the depths of possibility. i just want to comment that "the hindu pantheon" gets more attention that i think was intended, even by hindus (mostly by hindus?). forgive me if the following seems dogmatic - i am also prone to endless speculation on the nature of "things", but i have a fixed belief in god. yoga is seen as polytheistic but this is utterly wrong, because deities are not gods, they are beings who serve gods will and none are intended as the ultimate object of worship. if you define god in the way that i do, or in the way defined by yoga, then the plural term 'gods' does not even make sense. even the idea of isolated gods, lords of their own creations, does not befit the term. god encompasses everything, like when the dude said: "The thing with our dimension of time is that it is seemingly linear but in the next degree of freedom (dimension above) we can imagine our timeline as moving on a single squigly line which is but a part of the fractal(or holographic??) image on that, so in this higher dimensional perspective all possible timelines of this slice of our universe are seen. Then again theres the dimesnion above this where there are infintie variations OF the infinte. infinity x infinity i suppose, as weird as that sounds." i had typed up a whole tirade but this beautiful belief system is too intricate for my memory, and i don't want to do it any injustice. i'd be more than happy to do so if only i had the bhagavad-ghita on hand, in fact it would be perfectly suited to this discussion.

give her time indigo. if i could see myself seven years ago, i'd be thinking "look at that champion bong-puller go!"

that poor fucken turtle. six times more tiny bits of plastic in the gyre than there are plankton! you said it tepa.

ok. i don't know if this comes under the term 'photosynthesis' but under the influence of ionising radiation, the melanin (apparently present in most fungi) changes chemical structure. the article doesn't mention any other molecules involved in the process, but confirms that this increases the growth of the fungi, so it is providing 'food' in the same way that plants produce carbohydrate food. since this radiation is abundant in space, this could be used to feed space-farers. the article says it's even possible that the melanin in human skin is producing minute amounts of energy (moreso for a kenyan than a swede, i guess). ok. so fungi are not merely decomposers and symbiotes, they actually manufacture food.

i've finally discovered a use for my several outfits worth of fire-resistant workwear.

really? it looked really cruel to me. here you go crabby, we'll fold you in half and prop you into this niche here, and jab a tube into your something-or-other and just drain you for a while.

what's brown and lumpy and hangs in a tree? a monkey's miscarriage.

seems pretty far from ideal to me, but are we any better? i think our ideal is better, but is our reality?

i'm always scratching dandruff from my head. i actually have to STOP scratching my head if i'm to make sense of most of your posts devance. i love them but they are puzzling. i really respect this. while these revelations about warrior-sage copying-and-pasting on a wide range of forums is worrying, there has to be a better way of dealing with people than just attacking them. ------------------------------ back to the topic though, i've had plenty of experiences where my first thought has been how to tell people about it... most of the time it's actually for things that i don't bother to share. immediately thinking about posting stuff on the internet has only ever been a symptom of using forums for several hours a day. if you live on the internet it really does take over, to the extent that you dream about it constantly. best not to be more than 50% absorbed in cyberspace i reckon, preferably much less, although there is so much to do on here.

all those teenage years of sitting at a computer on my lower back with my feet up, i never thought my back would be half-rooted before my mid twenties.

"and some insects can see UV" that's a bit misleading, actually lots of things can, including many bird, mammals, and probably most insects. even the human retina is capable of picking up near-UV.... but unfortunately human cornea prevents it from reaching the back of the eye. edit: here is an interesting point: "There's a reasonably well-accepted sixth sense (or fifth and a half, at least) called proprioception. A network of nerves, in conjunction with the inner ear, tells the brain where the body and all its parts are and how they're oriented. This is how you know when you're upside down, or how you can tell the car you're riding in is turning, even with your eyes closed." first time i've heard that referred to as one of the senses, but surely it is. it should get a laypersons name for better identification as one of the six senses ;) i forget the term they used but the talk of prosthetic sense input is interesting. this is already done with artificial ears and i believe artificial eyes are already useable to some extent. if the brain, even the adult brain, is capable of changing to cope with new sensory inputs then what are we waiting for? even his vibrating 'which way is north' belt can be counted as a prosthetic sense which his brain learned to use... it just happened to enter his brain through his tactile senses.

i'm not trying to make light of your situation, it sounds pretty shitty, but at least you're not on nursery award which is 12 bucks something full time before tax. i operate a herbicide rig for 17 bucks full time before tax, but i could have been on less than 15. yet the council bludgers (i've worked for them too) in brisbane city get 22 bucks an hour plus bonuses, and they don't do shit half the time. it's wrong to compare council with commercial but even talking strictly commercial, the disparity in wages is hard for me to explain. you can get award one place then go somewhere else and get 22 bucks, for no obvious reason.

now that would be unnatural ws.

you can do a much simpler design, eg the main fuselage is 3 cans glued end to end, the wings are rectangular ie cans with the ends removed and then flattened the problem i had was figuring out how to extract the useable parts of the can eg cutting the ends of the can off neatly.

i can't understand why it i used recreationally, i don't find it pleasant in the least.

i believe that the celebrity scientology experience is different. it's an entirely different club and whatever treatment they get, it isn't the same as what the peons get. the south park episode where chef dies, paraphrased: "we're the super adventure club and we travel the world seeking new tribes then we sodomise their children. our great founder was the first person to sodomise the nepalese highlanders and heres a photo of him after sodomising some australian aborigines" "i thought the super adventure club went around hiking and stuff" "no that's the adventure club, we're the super adventure club"

they're pretty nasty IMHO. step 1. freeze a can of red bull step 2. drink the stuff that won't freeze step 3. come to the conclusion that they are nasty. strongbow white, that's a broke teenagers drink one or two steps up from goon.

have you seen cheech & chong up in smoke? take as much acid as you need to reach your desired level and if you accidentally eat a massive stash, hilarity will ensue. just kidding, i don't endorse eating any massive stashes. i don't like the 'cold universe' feeling that dominates me after about 4 hours so i don't even like taking it but it certainly takes more than 3 good tabs to do yourself in.

or you could download cubase nuendo cracked by h20........