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  2. Posted

    Umm, The story you have posted is about methane release in areas where there are methane hydrates becoming disturbed due to permafrost melt

    Similar hydrates exist in deep ocean and could be disturbed by warming ocean temperatures

    But nothing about volcanoes, and I don't believe anyone will be considering dumping radioactive material into volcanoes :scratchhead:

    That would be a recipe for disaster

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    I'm not proposing anything, but I believe that this is not a step in the right direction unless the underlyeing problem of illegal drug availablilty is tackled as well, but a move to look politically correct by the local government in the face of national and international pressure.

    If I were to take action, I would clean up the dealing and improve the environment.

    The red light district is just street upon street of prostitution, where each window displays a naked woman for hire. The closer you get to the port, the closer you get to the heroin district and the worse the environment becomes, I mean its really scary. like I said there are thousands of dealers, and the cops do not even enter the area.

    Even in less dodgy areas (but still in the red light district) the cops just walk straight past dealers and the dealers make no attempt at evading the cops. Its only out of the red light district they enforce the law it seems

    Vondelpark was reffered to as needle park, beacause of its similarities to the zurich park, lots of dealing and no enforcement

    I wonder if its just a clever ploy to increase the length of tourists stay by several days?

    Banning shrooms completely would have had too much opposition and been an administrative nightmare, not to mention probably decreasing tourist numbers somewhat

    What they have done is take action that doesn't make everyone happy or completely pissed off. Very PC, its obviously worked on you Sina :), but without cleaning up the availablilty of all the other, and potentially more harmful drugs what has it actually achieved?

  6. Posted

    I dunno, if anyone had seen the track record of tourists on shrooms in Amsterdam (incl a few deaths and underage incidents!), and also the fact that they actually put this idea through a 'process' rather than irrational banning (which is actually one of the other options they had considered), I am pretty happy with the outcome.
    I rekon it's a great idea. If we had laws like this in Oz, I'd be very happy indeed.

    Have you guys been there?

    I have, many times, 95% of my family lives there

    And the shrooms is the second safest option after the buds for someone going there on a mind expanding journey. This will push people straight to the black market dealers, and there are thousands of them, sometimes you will find 10-20 of them on one corner

    "psss psss charlie coke H" you hear it every where you go

    If they were really trying to minimise harm to tourists, I think they should first tackle the rampant dealing thats going on. You will probably pick up a supply of E from the taxi driver that picks you up from the airport. I know several people who have

    Me and my mate got followed around by a dealer for two hours with non stop harassment completely lost in the red light district (where cops do not venture). This was not much fun (specially on a gut full of shrooms). He eventually gave us a hand full of free stuff and told us to come back if we were interested in more

    As I said Amsterdam is a Three day or less stopover for most people (which is almost too long). With this new idea, you will either have to intend to stay longer if you want to try the shrooms, But more than likely you will just end up going to the dealers (who will no doubt start selling shrooms too)

    I think this is solely aimed at drastically reducing the shroom sales in Amsterdam and cleaning up their political image

    If this law is accepted, my advise would be to spend the first day in Amsterdam, book up your shrooms, check out the museums and the heineken factory, take off to a beach side city for a few days smoke some fine herb and then go back and grab your shrooms. Rent a nice hotel room, it will probably cost you 200-300 euro a night, but its worth it. The hostels are full of noisy people spewing and fucked up on drugs. Go check out the red light district when your peaking, you won't believe the depravity till you see it. Then get the fuck out of there!

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    All in all the mixed alkaloids of the herb are best for enjoyment and for the cold symptoms I think (though I only use it to treat colds, and I got a real nasty one now :( ). I have a couple of medium sized majors that get me through my colds. Just a couple of grams seems to do the trick well and leaves you feeling less jangly. This would have probably 20-30mg of mixed alkaloids

    They are pretty easy to grow and can survive in cold, hot, dry and sub-tropical environments

    I can't stand the look chemists give you when trying to get some effective medicine for a cold, at which point you pipe up and say "well that the other shit you're trying to sell me is completely ineffective", which they then begrudgingly agree too :BANGHEAD2:

    Catha can be effective against colds too, but less so

    I have also found that zinc can dramatically reduce the symptoms of a cold, try it, but you need the forte variety (high zinc)

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    I had one in a pot outside during winter

    It lived through a -16 a -13 and a couple -9's with the rest of winter being between -7 and -3, some of the frosts were so hard you could see the frost 3m up trees, no snow here during winter, its not really the climate, but we get the odd one in spring and autumn. Our day temps would get up to 10degrees + during those days however. This was last winter, this winter the nights have not been as cold, but the days have been cooler.

    I suspect snow can have a insulating effect in some cases, and being in the ground would dramatically increase survival chances over potted.

  9. Posted

    ephedrine is better, but not much

    I hate pseudoephedrine, just makes you feel wired with no nice feelings, anxiety, palpitations, a cold lonely feeling etc. These effects are less noticed when you are actually sick cause you already have low blood pressure, and you already feel so shitty, the lift it gives is a relief.

    I personally would not recommend this drug as fun to anyone

    There are several horror reports on erowid from less than what Nabraxas has taken for his cold symptoms, can be bad when combined with alcohol too.

  11. Posted

    Bloody stupid idea

    Sure, hand out the pamphlets, but there is plenty of info available in the smart shops already, delaying the purchase for three days won't change anything.

    Problem is Amsterdam is usually a short stopover. It's not actually a real nice place and I wouldn't want to spend longer than three days there if I was staying in the city only

    By doing this they will push the tourists seeking a quick high into the red light district and to the all too numerous dealers who will happily supply you with just about anything and in doing so increase the risk of personal harm

  12. Posted

    LOL

    He's just in a Mediterranean climate Auxin, most likely South Australia

    Hot dry summer, Wet mild winter, It actually is a good growing climate for a lot of plants and probably the best cacti climate in Oz is the coastal fringes around SA

    Nice work Strangebrew! and congrats on your 1000 posts!

  14. Posted

    There is a sake producer in australia, but I don't know about NZ, they could probably do a culture. I can find out who it is if you want, I have the info here somewhere, I just have to find it,

    Failing that contact lallemand or lalvin, companies involved in the biotech side of winemakeing. I know a couple of winemakers who have gone into lallemand and work in the fields of yeast, mold and bacterias for use in the beverage market

    Give me a PM if you want more info IB

  18. Posted

    I would say most definitely

    It could just be the way the concept was delivered to a young and impressionable mind during my first 3 years of a science degree, but the evidence is IMO overwhelming

    I mean the Galapagos finches are the ultimate example where adaptive radiation has occurred through very real changes in habitat. The time period in which natural selection is seen in this example is only a fraction of earths 4.5 billion year life span.

    The Galapagos islands were turbulent in nature during the evolution of these finches with storms, temperature changes, volcanic activity and relative isolation increasing the rate at which natural selection occurred, but the earth in its entirety has been through many similar periods of large disturbance which would have sped up and slowed down the rate of natural selection at varying periods in the earths history

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    I'd clean it up with a sterilised blade if the damage is pretty ragged and large in area.

    This will make a much neater and faster forming callus, plus if it was bird/rodent they may well carry microorganisms on them that may increase chances of infection. I would probably bring inside at night and probably reduce light a bit and keep out of extremes while healing initially

    Some of my lophs got sprayed by an overzealous pest sprayer a few years back and most rotted away completely. 2 survived, 1 of which was more than 50% damaged and is slowly growing out the damage, but was probably set back 3 years. its 5 now and only 1.5cm diameteter

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    Woop's! Little Johnny Howard has been caught at it too :o

    STAFF in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet have been editing Wikipedia to remove details that might be damaging to the Government.

    A new website, WikiScanner - which traces the digital fingerprints of those who make changes to entries in the online encyclopedia - points to the department as the source of 126 edits on subjects ranging from the children overboard affair to the Treasurer, Peter Costello.

    On June 28 an employee of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet modified Mr Costello's entry to remove a reference to the nickname "Captain Smirk".

    WikiScanner also identifies employees of another department, Defence, as the most prolific Wikipedia contributors in Australia. After the Herald made inquiries yesterday, the department said it would ban Defence staff from accessing the encyclopedia, which is billed as the "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit".

    Defence computers were found to have made more than 5000 edits to Wikipedia entries, including to articles on the "9/11 Truth Movement", the Australian Defence Force Academy and even the Vietnam War-era Pentagon Papers.

    The only Australian organisations responsible for more edits than Defence were internet service providers. But their numbers are inflated because they include edits made by the providers' thousands of users, in addition to staff members.

    In the Prime Minister's department on June 29 last year, an employee edited the entry on "Mandatory detention in Australia" to add the word "allegedly" to a sentence claiming immigration detainees were subject to inhumane conditions. Modifications were also made to blunt claims that mandatory detention of asylum seekers helped John Howard win the 2001 election.

    Another edit was made to the children overboard affair entry on November 26, 2004. A government employee added a link to a Senate inquiry report which criticised claims by a former government adviser, Michael Scrafton, that Mr Howard misled the public before the 2001 election.

    Other curious - though apparently non-political - edits by department employees include adding sentences on various sites, including the additions "Freemasonry is the work of Satan", "Mormonism is the work of Satan" and "Jesus is god".

    Although most of the edits made by employees of Defence and Prime Minister and Cabinet were legitimate additions to articles that did not involve the Government, a Defence spokeswoman said action was needed because the edits could be interpreted as official comments.

    Link

  25. Posted

    Thought It would be good to have a thread on who's going to EGA

    I think I am, and will make up my mind for sure in the next day or two so I can get my earlybird ticket, but living up here in northern NSW the travel proves a bit tricky :unsure:

    Anyways thought it might be good for people to register their interests so people can sort out transport. I could drive, but if I drive by myself, it would probably be cheaper to fly, but if I fly I'm sort of limited to what I can take with and I'd still have to hire a car, but I'd save two days of traveling and 2 days of work, which would pay for the flight and car rental :rolleyes:

    Either way its only 3 months away and time will fly!

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