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I was surprised to learn how timid a cats life can actually be, I now totally disbelieve the notion of cats having 9 lives. It seems to be better to have a dog but to be honest they don't really grab my attention like a good cat does. My brother has a Chinese crested which looks much like this one - https://s.yimg.com/pw/images/photo_unavailable.gif Its a nice dog, its name is "Jabu" but im not sure where the name is sourced from, Africa, Japan maybe? Its not like other normal dogs, when my brother leaves the house it will howl very loud!. I then cuddle it and soon after it calms down. It then proceeds to go into my brothers bedroom, hop on the bed and wait (stationary) for 7 or so hours until it hears the squeaking brakes of my brothers car arriving home!

I guess with copyright laws matters aren't as clear cut as every one would like. Australia is much like the UK in the way it handles copyright, once you have created some form of artistic work it is protected, but it also helps you if you have a copyright statement (much as rvalkass mentioned). However, copyright isn't so clear cut in the fact that you have to "prove" that you are the original creator of a work.The best way (other than search out professional legal assistance) is to research previous copyright law cases pertaining to duplicated web site content.

Russian (based on Sanskrit i believe) is another difficult one. You'll find when you begin going through the grammar, the details you need to remember quickly multiply. Admittedly i didn't bother learning it too much, actually i should give it another go when i get some extra time. To speak it properly isn't an easy undertaking for the newly initiated, either.

Dont you just hate it when people who sit at the back of the cinema cause a fuss while you try to watch the movie. They chuck their popcorn around with no regard for anyone else!It kinda makes wanna get your own back right? and i thought of the perfect solution for that (we'll at least for me). As they gain their momentum chucking popcorn and candy about, you wait for a scene where the room goes to black. You pull out a shallow container of your own concoction and fling it up towards the back of the cinema. You wait for 10 seconds, the retching up will begin with the cries of "eww.. smelly cat poo balls....".?So you see?, you "can" get those people back.Just make sure before you enter the cinema and the attendant checks your bag for prohibited munchee's and proceeds to ask whats in the container, you tell them its your lunch.What other way's can people get their own back on these nasty douche bags?

I cant really mention any other services other than Google's Analytics. All their tools are very useful here. Not just for web design but for market research for businesses as well. For instance, Google Insight is excellent, it tells you what keywords a being searched for most, depending on the "main" keyword you enter. For instance you enter "dog breeds", it will most likely show other keywords of what dog breed is being searched most. You can determine what keywords (or products) people are most interested in and a decline for products people aren't so interested in anymore. It gives a neat graph demonstrating the number of searches for each day, month, year and the country locations that search these keywords (of course shaded so you know "who" searches the most). Regarding Google Analytics, that is an excellent tool. I haven't delved too deeply with it, but i can say the amount of information you collect from it to analyze, is much.

@ TS's post 10,Yeah routine can seem difficult after a while. For my college course some years ago "at first" it was excellent because we were studying design and it was an enriching cultural experience. However, after the first year and half it was more focused on arranging your time and making sure you arrive to class "exactly" on time, otherwise you'd miss critical information, even if you were 1 minute late.The pace in later years was intense!, inevitably i found it challenging to experience my original enthusiasm. But in some ways you develop important skills at that time which will help you in life, like perseverance.Its like a test to let those through the door who truly want to succeed.

Has anyone been for a joyride in the cockpit of a small Cessna or helicopter? Its actually not too bad. I used to be in a youth air league where we would learn about aircraft, we'd have marches, etc. On my first joy ride i went in a Cessna for 30 minutes, not a bad experience the motor was buzzing away while we flew over a few suburbs in Adelaide. My second experience was better, i accompanied a pilot in a motorized glider. That was great, the height was probably maybe 2/3's of a typical sky dive. The pilot let me hold on the wheel for a few seconds, but to be honest I gave control back to him too shortly. I really would like to have a joyride in a helicopter, you know, the ones the allow for a large amount of visibility. I reckon those small ultralights would be good fun, here is a pick - https://justinohms.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/mosquito.jpg Depending on which location you pick, hand gliding would be quite exhilarating. Beats having your head loped off by a bungee cord!

Mmm... not totally sure about that one. Its likely we will have new composite materials to build from. When a robot does go out of commission you could simply take out its memory and place it into another one. Technology has made some large leaps and bounds particularly in the last 150 years, some of it would be unimaginable for people 100 or so years ago. Think about the modern CPU chips we make today the scale which they are made (both the scale in terms of production and size of the internals).In the future we will come across many other surprises which will result from human innovation. Production processes will become increasingly sophisticated. If we do have a planet temperature shift in the next 50 or so years like some scientists suggest, then that will motivate us to push sophisticated robot technology further.

Yeah i kinda agree, ambition and determination are powerful forces. Personality is a huge factor, if you are naturally striven to better your knowledge and skills, then you are more likely to keep that momentum up no matter what. You have to be prepared to ''truly" work and sometimes without any immediate or mid term rewards. You have to have faith that it will give you what you want, or at least set you on a good path. Come on T.S, make an excuse to your buddies and go to the library, seriously!

For sure robots do many things for us already, but technology will advance further to the point where robots (or droids) will quite literally take over "all" the operations of the factory, or the farm, etc. We couldn't work in these situations as we'd just be wasting our time. That would push society towards more intellectual endeavors and focused on administration tasks (perhaps). Unless AI becomes so advanced that the judgment of a machine can match, or even surpass our own.Will we have the foresight to get things right? Considering the competitive world we live in, whats "right" doesn't always come into the picture. Agreed, cloning and genetic modification is gonna be a huge issue in the future. Many people "want" to create improved humans, but seem to disregard the fact that by creating super humans we will make the original people (us) partially redundant to society. If we went down a path of mass biological warfare, i believe "that" would be a very scary prospect also. Mistakes and unforeseeable affects could easily see results go out of control. I guess we will eventually "need" to come to an "Age of Wisdom", for the human species to make it to the next millennium. In some areas of human advancement, we will have to decide that we have reached a level where we should go no further.

As the title mentions, what would humans do if we designed capable droids that took our physical jobs away from us? I guess you can form two main ways of seeing it. One is we could give away all the unpleasant jobs which we'd prefer not to do, but how far would we go? The other way would be a concern that we would be voluntarily giving away purpose and meaning in life by assigning our tasks to these droids.?It raises critical questions, such as how would this affect employment as a whole? In what way would it change the world economy? Who would loose out and who would win? Could we use it to create mostly "positive" outcomes.The likely hood that we will encounter these issues in the future are high. Do you believe we might innovate these droids into socially beneficial technology for the human race? much like we have the Internet? Would we try to create feeling, conscious robot beings? Or would we try to steer away from these moral issues.?Lastly, would we ever go to the extent of relying on machines to "think" and learn on "our" behalf ?

No reward? We'll that doesn't motivate me much. Time to sit back in my chair, rest my feet on the desk and light up another cigar. I might think about what to put into my next best seller entitled "In Bed With A Smelly Mud Monster".

They don't make em like they use to !. Imagine that, 10' s or 100' s of employees put on hold because a bomber bird had dropped its precious bread crumb. Thats very funny!Like bani boy mentioned, you'd think they would have constructed adequate protection around all of their machinery. I wonder how many total months of operation the Hadron Collider has managed since it began (and how much it has missed). I also wonder what kind of monetary cost such a small, but also large incident would incur.

Actually its kinda strange because this is actually true, "some" girls do start puberty much earlier then they did say a decade and a half ago. Also some kids are getting arthritis before they even reach their teens, for no other reason then environmental factors and intake of genetically modified foods. Admittedly I was a bit astonished to learn this, but apparently its true.

Hi Misanthrope!, i can sympathize!Yeah, i had a timid fluffy cat... it was kinda super smart. It did things like fed it self by hand (paw) and indicated to something when it wanted it. The thing was, it LOVED to always go outside. It just relished that stimulation and would quickly get bored otherwise. My cat had been poisoned in our recent winter season (southern hemisphere). It happened under strange circumstances, it got ammonia (but not due to the cold as i let it out only for 2 hour's usually). I've got a neighbor that has big "issues" just doesn't like the look of me for whatever reason and has "real" bad issues in general. As there is no other clear explanation... gotta wonder. It's for that reason i will never have a pet again by choice. Does anyone have any more stories, there must be many! Has any one been confronted by an angry elephant? I've been told a story by someone who had done, but maybe someone could mention their first hand experience?

@ jlhaslip Hey thats kinda funny, your there watching sport on T.V, your attention slowly drifts to a form slightly moving in the window. You turn your head to see what it is and its a great black bear watching you, chewing on a rabbits head! @ rob86 Yeah i do that, whenever i have a bad day i head off to the local creek where i punch a few Croc's heads in, thats what they recommend for anger management in Australia. My favorite move is the "pile driver", but they don't consider that fair play, "they're a bunch of fairies". As for snakes, we bite their heads off and use their tails to whip our women into an aroused state. Yeah, Australia "is" supposed to be very wild (in the way of animals) but it depends where you go. For instance we have a lot emu's and bouncer Kangaroo's in some major areas in the Australian outback. I'm thinking more towards the East, inland 200 Kms. If you come across an aggressive one of these out bush they will use their claws (on their feet) to rip a hole in your stomach and spill your insides out. Apparently the Emu's (birds) do this one legged, the big bouncer kangaroo's balance on its tail and use both feet, nasty! I haven't seen these animals in their "natural" habitat, which i was hoping people would keep this topic about, i'm the first one diverging!. I have seen many jelly fish washed ashore, but they are always dead and i'm not sure if we have the deadly variety or the ones that just give a nasty sting.

Wow thats "is" some nice wildlife scenery. I presume they are Canadian animals that can be found just outside of suburbia? Or do you need to travel into the wilderness to see them. Personally i'd stay well away from all those listed animals. Although you didn't emphasize cougars much, would'nt they be a bit territorial so you'd need to be carefull where you were treading? Coyote's from what i've seen on T.V documentaries seem unpredictable. Which would suggest if you actually encountered a hungry pack, you could be in for a very scary time. People beware of humans too, they get hungry - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I thought i'd ask people what kind of deadly animals you have "seen" in your part of the world? I live in South Australia, apparently in Australia we have some of the deadliest animals in the world. Maybe in the centers of one of our deserts, as i don't see them much. I've seen a large green centipede (i think) at about 12 cms (4 inches 3 quarters) it had a red underbelly and bright red spikes on its top. The only picture i could find that looks remotely like it is this catterpillar - http://www.jennifermarohasy.com//archives/Euphorion.jpg We do see a lot of snakes in South Australia however and probably the biggest i've seen so far is one of our poisonous brown snakes. Look this one is smiling - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Heres a better picture - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ The one i saw as part of a class excursion about 17 years ago was very long and fat it was curled into 5 rungs. Our class walked two meters past it as no one noticed it till that point. During the time i lived in Melbourne we found plenty of examples of blue ringed octupus in water crevises on the beach, here is an example - http ://resources3.news.com.au/images/2009/...us-6459161.jpg However, the ones we would discover usually didn't have rings that were so "luminous". We get many, many redback spiders in South Austrlalia here is an example - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ The largest example i have seen so far had a back almost an inch long, that was a scary looking one. Recently i squashed one, the back is actually quite strong. I did it with the blunt end of a pen and applied about the same amount of pressure as you would to pierce the side of an egg! Here is another picture of it - http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200804/r243413_990506.jpg However, they dont just come with red on their backs but also white. I have been told that the white ones are more deadly but im not sure on that one. So what deadly animals have you "seen" in your part of the world?

That is funny and quite entertaining as well, still 13 meg uploaded every ten minutes is'nt so bad... (well at least in my opinion). I use a wireless dongle and easily average a speed of about 120 kbps upload, so a 13 meg file would take... a bit under 1 minute and 50 seconds.However, I have seen my wireless dongle "download" a file at a rate of over a meg a second (300 kbps is the average what service provider estimates it to be, but over a 1 meg second is VERY fast for average consumer wireless internet!).

It all started in the morning 7 days ago. I had awoken to the harsh tone of my alarm clock jerking me out of my deep slumber. My fingers fumbling meekly over the face of my alarm clock searching to turn its wretched clamor off. Today is the day, I thought. I paused, my mind fixed on that thought. An ill feeling of excitement and dread began brewing inside me. We were scheduled to test Project D8-13 half a year ago, but were consequently delayed by some unanticipated problems with the device's Nano Architecture not operating 100 %. It wasnt shape shifting as expected, after a reworked design and construction of the nano bots organic power source, we had managed to get the Nano Architecture doing what it was intending to do. This will be the most important human endeavor ever undertaken since 2062, I thought. After today, mankind's critical understanding will surely be brought to its utmost level ever, as every possible puzzle piece comes together the ultimate truth of our existence will be revealed.With eager anticipation for the day I get out of bed....

Hey thanks T.S, i might come up with another alternative. On reflection that one looks a little odd to me.Ah yes did another one, much better. What do people think? Any suggestions?

Sorry TS, i meant posted threads (topics) when i typed posts. Must have been half a sleep (posted morning time) .

Actually Saint Michael has done some posts. I know Jlhaslip did one on providing tips for Cabinet Making, if i recall correctly. Admittedly i haven't seen many more than that. I bet rvalkass has put in a few. Most seem too busy, understandable.

Although i cant give you a direct answer on question 4. It reminds me of "Micheal Carneal", a teenager who followed out a scene in a movie called "The Basketbball Diaries". In the movie, a kid has dream of gunning down classmates in a school. This is one of the most extreme cases of entertainment media influencing young adults in a very bad way. Of course you would probably surmise that individuals such as Michael Carneal have strong dispositions towards homocidal tendancies before being exposed to movies/games. I'd be inclined to think that they are only "set off" by media influences, but the likelyhood of them of commiting murderous acts "without media influence" are quite probable. I can't really cite any specific examples of this occuring in computer games. But if you objectively analyse the "interactivity" aspect of computer games and compared these to cases of murderers watching a movie, you may come to some informed guesses.

One of my favorite actor comedians turned serious actor is Eric Bana. He is an Australian actor you may recognize in films such as "Troy", "The Hulk" (1st one) and "Chopper". He did some comedy sketches on Full Frontal Australia about ten years ago and thats what gave him his big break into film. His portrail of a hypothetical bogun character named "Poida" was great. "Bogun" is a derogatory Australian term for a typecasted group of unemployed lower class people who speak, act and look a certain way (more so in the 80's and 90's not so much now). Here is a link to a definition for this - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bogun Here is a link with some videos of him and his portrail of Poida (meaning peter) - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ If that link doesnt work, youtube "poida eric bana".