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Posted 11 May 2011 - 08:49
BEEEEEES!
Sorry, but you telling me that your Law professor agrees with you isn't really any convincing argument for me. Nor do any of my arguments seem to be convincing to you, so let's just drop this discussion.
Chyros, on 9 May 2011, 0:00, said:
Dude, she threw coffee all over herself. What does McDonalds have to do with it?! 
And the fact she had to pay the medical bills herself... well, health care is a delicate thing in the US of course. Besides, I'd take the opinion of a senior professor in Law, who I got it from, over Cracked any day.
And the fact she had to pay the medical bills herself... well, health care is a delicate thing in the US of course. Besides, I'd take the opinion of a senior professor in Law, who I got it from, over Cracked any day.Sorry, but you telling me that your Law professor agrees with you isn't really any convincing argument for me. Nor do any of my arguments seem to be convincing to you, so let's just drop this discussion.
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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
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Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
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Posted 19 May 2011 - 20:43
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THINK your broadband internet connection is fast? Two separate research groups have just lapped the field, setting a world record by sending more than 100 terabits of information per second through a single optical fibre. That's enough to deliver three solid months of HD video- or the contents of 250 double-sided Blu-ray discs.
This marks "a critical milestone in fibre capacity", says Ting Wang at NEC Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey.
Such lab results are far beyond today's commercial needs. Total capacity between New York and Washington DC, one of the world's busiest routes, is only a few terabits per second, says Tim Strong, of Telegeography Research in Washington. But "traffic has been growing about 50 per cent a year for the last few years", he adds. With bandwidth-hungry video-streaming and social media growing relentlessly, network planners are always searching for ways to expand capacity.
Today's fibre optics use several tricks to enhance bandwidth. Like the radio band, the optical spectrum can be sliced into many distinct channels that can simultaneously carry information at different frequencies. The laser light is pulsed on and off rapidly, with each pulse further sliced up into different polarities, amplitudes and phases of light, each of which contains a bit of information. The trick is to pack all these signals together in one fibre so that they hit the receiver as one pulse without interference.
At the Optical Fiber Communications Conference in Los Angeles last month, Dayou Qian, also of NEC, reported a total data-sending rate of 101.7 terabits per second through 165 kilometres of fibre. He did this by squeezing light pulses from 370 separate lasers into the pulse received by the receiver. Each laser emitted its own narrow sliver of the infrared spectrum, and each contained several polarities, phases and amplitudes of light waves to code each packet of information.
At the same conference, Jun Sakaguchi of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Tokyo also reported reaching the 100-terabit benchmark, this time using a different method. Instead of using a fibre with only one light-guiding core, as happens now, Sakaguchi's team developed a fibre with seven. Each core carried 15.6 terabits per second, yielding a total of 109 terabits per second. "We introduced a new dimension, spatial multiplication, to increasing transmission capacity," Sakaguchi says.
Multi-core fibres are complex to make, as is amplifying signals for long-distance transmission in either technique. For this reason, Wang thinks the first application of 100-terabit transmission will be inside the giant data centres that power Google, Facebook and Amazon.
This marks "a critical milestone in fibre capacity", says Ting Wang at NEC Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey.
Such lab results are far beyond today's commercial needs. Total capacity between New York and Washington DC, one of the world's busiest routes, is only a few terabits per second, says Tim Strong, of Telegeography Research in Washington. But "traffic has been growing about 50 per cent a year for the last few years", he adds. With bandwidth-hungry video-streaming and social media growing relentlessly, network planners are always searching for ways to expand capacity.
Today's fibre optics use several tricks to enhance bandwidth. Like the radio band, the optical spectrum can be sliced into many distinct channels that can simultaneously carry information at different frequencies. The laser light is pulsed on and off rapidly, with each pulse further sliced up into different polarities, amplitudes and phases of light, each of which contains a bit of information. The trick is to pack all these signals together in one fibre so that they hit the receiver as one pulse without interference.
At the Optical Fiber Communications Conference in Los Angeles last month, Dayou Qian, also of NEC, reported a total data-sending rate of 101.7 terabits per second through 165 kilometres of fibre. He did this by squeezing light pulses from 370 separate lasers into the pulse received by the receiver. Each laser emitted its own narrow sliver of the infrared spectrum, and each contained several polarities, phases and amplitudes of light waves to code each packet of information.
At the same conference, Jun Sakaguchi of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Tokyo also reported reaching the 100-terabit benchmark, this time using a different method. Instead of using a fibre with only one light-guiding core, as happens now, Sakaguchi's team developed a fibre with seven. Each core carried 15.6 terabits per second, yielding a total of 109 terabits per second. "We introduced a new dimension, spatial multiplication, to increasing transmission capacity," Sakaguchi says.
Multi-core fibres are complex to make, as is amplifying signals for long-distance transmission in either technique. For this reason, Wang thinks the first application of 100-terabit transmission will be inside the giant data centres that power Google, Facebook and Amazon.
http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/05/wang...net-connection/
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Posted 19 May 2011 - 23:40
Holy carp. I need it.
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Posted 20 May 2011 - 01:08
*Sigh*
To think I still have to buffer 720p videos on Youtube for twice their duration, and leave my PC on for a good 15 hours to download a 10Gig game...
To think I still have to buffer 720p videos on Youtube for twice their duration, and leave my PC on for a good 15 hours to download a 10Gig game...
Chyros, on 11 November 2013 - 18:21, said:
I bet I could program an internet
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Posted 20 May 2011 - 08:40
This is why everyone should go to Japan 
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Posted 20 May 2011 - 08:48
Korea has better internet than Japan.
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Posted 20 May 2011 - 10:57
Yeah we'll get it when they stop castrating our internet connection, dont understand why the UK has such shitty internet for a first world country. I remember when we used to joke about 1 gig a second internet in school, and holy shit its a reality now.
Edited by Pav:3d, 20 May 2011 - 10:58.
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Posted 20 May 2011 - 11:33
Pav:3d, on 20 May 2011, 11:57, said:
Yeah we'll get it when they stop castrating our internet connection, dont understand why the UK has such shitty internet for a first world country. I remember when we used to joke about 1 gig a second internet in school, and holy shit its a reality now.
The problem is most of the companys still run their internet through old phonelines, which where never designed to be used for broadband in the first place.
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Posted 22 May 2011 - 07:38
Pav:3d, on 20 May 2011, 18:57, said:
Yeah we'll get it when they stop castrating our internet connection, dont understand why the UK has such shitty internet for a first world country. I remember when we used to joke about 1 gig a second internet in school, and holy shit its a reality now.
And yet my internet still runs at 200kbps at max D:
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Posted 24 May 2011 - 12:24
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Budget tourists turn Noosa's Hastings Street precinct from 'boutique to bogan'
DOWNMARKET: Some feel Noosa's trendy Hastings Street precinct is under siege from budget tourists.
UPMARKET Noosa is being swamped by budget tourists in a trend some locals claim is changing Hastings St from boutique to bogan.
Low-cost airlines Virgin, Jetstar and Tiger are blamed for flying in hordes of cheap travellers who "bring their own packed lunch" instead of dining out.
Shopkeepers and business identities complain that Hastings St, which used to be on par with the exclusive southern suburbs of Double Bay and Toorak, is being spoiled.
As a result, the once-pricey boutiques of Hastings St have been replaced with budget chain stores and surf shops.
One shopkeeper said she was "sick to the eye teeth" of the cheap chain stores lowering the precinct's status.
Another retail landlord said the tourist strip needed shops like Versace and Tiffany & Co but that wouldn't happen while budget airlines were bringing in mark-down tourists.
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"We really need Qantas to fly into the Sunshine Coast and a real five-star resort that will attract the kind of visitors we want," the landlord said.
Tourism Noosa CEO Steve Cooper said the market had shifted, with Noosa now attracting a younger demographic of budget families.
Last year the beach haven drew record visitors 920,000 domestic and 149,000 international but they had shorter stays and spent less.
"It's the lingering effects of the global financial crisis and, with the rise of the dollar, it poses a lot of problems for Noosa and Australia in how we combat that," Mr Cooper said.
High retail rents in Noosa, among the most expensive in the country, have also contributed to the ousting of small businesses by chain stores.
Noosa Chamber of Commerce president Carl Beck admitted Hastings St was becoming "just like any other street in the suburbs".
"But there's nothing we can do about it. We can't dictate who goes in or not. It's just business," he said.
New Zealand tourist Angela Byers has been visiting Noosa for six years and said the area's changing face was not so bad.
DOWNMARKET: Some feel Noosa's trendy Hastings Street precinct is under siege from budget tourists.
UPMARKET Noosa is being swamped by budget tourists in a trend some locals claim is changing Hastings St from boutique to bogan.
Low-cost airlines Virgin, Jetstar and Tiger are blamed for flying in hordes of cheap travellers who "bring their own packed lunch" instead of dining out.
Shopkeepers and business identities complain that Hastings St, which used to be on par with the exclusive southern suburbs of Double Bay and Toorak, is being spoiled.
As a result, the once-pricey boutiques of Hastings St have been replaced with budget chain stores and surf shops.
One shopkeeper said she was "sick to the eye teeth" of the cheap chain stores lowering the precinct's status.
Another retail landlord said the tourist strip needed shops like Versace and Tiffany & Co but that wouldn't happen while budget airlines were bringing in mark-down tourists.
Surfers Hilton: Sun, sand, surf ... and full service
End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar.
"We really need Qantas to fly into the Sunshine Coast and a real five-star resort that will attract the kind of visitors we want," the landlord said.
Tourism Noosa CEO Steve Cooper said the market had shifted, with Noosa now attracting a younger demographic of budget families.
Last year the beach haven drew record visitors 920,000 domestic and 149,000 international but they had shorter stays and spent less.
"It's the lingering effects of the global financial crisis and, with the rise of the dollar, it poses a lot of problems for Noosa and Australia in how we combat that," Mr Cooper said.
High retail rents in Noosa, among the most expensive in the country, have also contributed to the ousting of small businesses by chain stores.
Noosa Chamber of Commerce president Carl Beck admitted Hastings St was becoming "just like any other street in the suburbs".
"But there's nothing we can do about it. We can't dictate who goes in or not. It's just business," he said.
New Zealand tourist Angela Byers has been visiting Noosa for six years and said the area's changing face was not so bad.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/travel/budge...f-1226060223074
DEAL WITH IT !Related http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion...f-1226061361605
Those articles gave me a good laugh.
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Posted 24 May 2011 - 12:55
I prefer the southern end of the Sunshine Coast anyway. Better beaches.
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Posted 25 May 2011 - 11:32
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Porn videos found in bin Laden's computer files
The enormous cache of computer files taken from Osama bin Laden's compound contained a considerable quantity of pornographic videos, U.S. officials said Friday, adding a discordant note to the public image of the Islamist militant who long denounced the West for its lax sexual mores.
The enormous cache of computer files taken from Osama bin Laden's compound contained a considerable quantity of pornographic videos, U.S. officials said Friday, adding a discordant note to the public image of the Islamist militant who long denounced the West for its lax sexual mores.
LOL FAP FAP FAP
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Posted 26 May 2011 - 22:03
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Facebook inspires Israeli couple to name baby 'Like'
An Israeli couple have named their baby daughter Like, taking inspiration from the Facebook social networking site, Israeli media say.
Lior Adler and his wife Vardit said they were looking for a name that was "modern and innovative".
Facebook allows users to "like" their friends' statuses, pictures and posts.
Like Adler's father said originality was a key factor in the choice and said he had checked no-one else in Israel had the same name.
"In our opinion it's the modern equivalent of the name Ahava [Love]," he said, according to Israeli newspaper Maariv.
"It's just my way of saying to my fantastic daughter, 'Love'."
According to the Haaretz newspaper, the most popular names for girls in Israel currently are Noa, Maya and Tamar.
Like, however, will not be alone within her family with her unusual name.
Both parents enjoy cooking and named one of their daughters Pie - using the English word for the name - and Dvash, Hebrew for Honey, according to Maariv.
Like's father said that when he announced her arrival on Facebook she was very popular.
"When I posted her picture and name on Facebook I got 40 'likes'," he told the newspaper.
"Considering that I have only a little more than 100 friends on the network that's a lot."
An Israeli couple have named their baby daughter Like, taking inspiration from the Facebook social networking site, Israeli media say.
Lior Adler and his wife Vardit said they were looking for a name that was "modern and innovative".
Facebook allows users to "like" their friends' statuses, pictures and posts.
Like Adler's father said originality was a key factor in the choice and said he had checked no-one else in Israel had the same name.
"In our opinion it's the modern equivalent of the name Ahava [Love]," he said, according to Israeli newspaper Maariv.
"It's just my way of saying to my fantastic daughter, 'Love'."
According to the Haaretz newspaper, the most popular names for girls in Israel currently are Noa, Maya and Tamar.
Like, however, will not be alone within her family with her unusual name.
Both parents enjoy cooking and named one of their daughters Pie - using the English word for the name - and Dvash, Hebrew for Honey, according to Maariv.
Like's father said that when he announced her arrival on Facebook she was very popular.
"When I posted her picture and name on Facebook I got 40 'likes'," he told the newspaper.
"Considering that I have only a little more than 100 friends on the network that's a lot."
http://www.bbc.co.uk...e-east-13417930
'Like' was bad enough, but 'Pie'...?
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Posted 27 May 2011 - 06:04
Bob, on 27 May 2011, 0:03, said:
'Like' was bad enough, but 'Pie'...?
Unless you put 'Squig' in front of it
I read about this on Failbook, cute baby, but stupid parents.
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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov
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Posted 27 May 2011 - 17:27
Well look at the parents' names, "Lior" and "Vardit," those are worse than the name Like! 
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Posted 27 May 2011 - 17:34
Like as a name? How can you like, like Like, like?
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Posted 28 May 2011 - 16:19
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Officers were deployed and a helicopter was scrambled to a field close to junction seven of the M27, near Hedge End, Hampshire, on Saturday.
The scare even stopped play at the Rose Bowl cricket ground and golfers were escorted from County Golf Club.
Police realised it was a toy when it blew over in the helicopter down draft.
Hampshire Constabulary is investigating whether the incident was a hoax and wants to trace the owner.
A concerned member of the public had raised the alarm after spotting what they thought was an escaped white tiger.
Animal specialists at nearby Marwell Zoo were enlisted by police to offer advice and were prepared to send a team with tranquiliser darts to overcome the tiger.
The stuffed toy is being treated as lost property
Officers said they did not know how the toy got there but it was similar to one that would be won at a fair.
Saturday's cricket game between Hampshire Academy and South Wilts was suspended for about half an hour when police cleared the area.
They were later give the all clear to continue.
Contingency plans were also put in place to close the motorway, but that proved unnecessary.
A Hampshire Constabulary spokeswoman said it became "obvious it was a stuffed life-size toy" when it rolled over in the down draft of the Sussex Police helicopter, which had been scrambled to assist the Hampshire force.
She added: "Police are keen to reiterate that they have a duty to protect the public and therefore take calls of this nature as serious as any other calls reporting potential dangers to members of the public."
The scare even stopped play at the Rose Bowl cricket ground and golfers were escorted from County Golf Club.
Police realised it was a toy when it blew over in the helicopter down draft.
Hampshire Constabulary is investigating whether the incident was a hoax and wants to trace the owner.
A concerned member of the public had raised the alarm after spotting what they thought was an escaped white tiger.
Animal specialists at nearby Marwell Zoo were enlisted by police to offer advice and were prepared to send a team with tranquiliser darts to overcome the tiger.
The stuffed toy is being treated as lost property
Officers said they did not know how the toy got there but it was similar to one that would be won at a fair.
Saturday's cricket game between Hampshire Academy and South Wilts was suspended for about half an hour when police cleared the area.
They were later give the all clear to continue.
Contingency plans were also put in place to close the motorway, but that proved unnecessary.
A Hampshire Constabulary spokeswoman said it became "obvious it was a stuffed life-size toy" when it rolled over in the down draft of the Sussex Police helicopter, which had been scrambled to assist the Hampshire force.
She added: "Police are keen to reiterate that they have a duty to protect the public and therefore take calls of this nature as serious as any other calls reporting potential dangers to members of the public."
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Posted 28 May 2011 - 20:08
I love that news story, wonder where you can buy lifesize tiger toys from...
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Posted 28 May 2011 - 20:16
Saw that on South West news a few days ago... classic.
Edited by Bob, 28 May 2011 - 20:17.
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Posted 29 May 2011 - 10:37
He should buy a lotto ticket!
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Posted 29 May 2011 - 13:24
God bless that man, inches away from a terrible accident. You didn't happen to be driving that road train, were you Fuckup?
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Queen decorates Nepali for Afghanistan heroics
Corporal Dipprasad Pun, 31, said he thought he was going to die and so had nothing to lose in taking on the attackers who overran his checkpoint.
He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC), which is given in recognition of acts of conspicuous gallantry during active operations against the enemy.
Pun fired more than 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine to repel the Taliban assault on his checkpoint near Babaji in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, last September.
Corporal Dipprasad Pun, 31, said he thought he was going to die and so had nothing to lose in taking on the attackers who overran his checkpoint.
He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC), which is given in recognition of acts of conspicuous gallantry during active operations against the enemy.
Pun fired more than 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine to repel the Taliban assault on his checkpoint near Babaji in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, last September.
The Gurkhas are just... born to kill really.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110602/wl_uk...istannepalaward
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Posted 04 June 2011 - 07:26
Especially with their kukris Apparently this guy didn't use his, but...what the hell. He survived, that's that.
Apparently this guy didn't use his, but...what the hell. He survived, that's that.
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Posted 04 June 2011 - 10:43
Wow, that guy is a true One Man Army .
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