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Arwon Zora Level: 35  Posts: 246/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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Originally posted by ImajinOriginally posted by Arwon I don't care, he'll still be Chuckles, and will still do wonders for the Australian republican movement. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 247/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Nyah! We have more Abrams tanks than you! | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 248/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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Originally posted by Nebetsu If that's the case, why do we spend all our money on fucking anything else? |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 249/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| No-one should be allowed to answer this question until they have seen Manos: The Hands of Fate, and also Plan 9 From Outer Space. THESE are real bad movies. Seriously. Streetfighter? Event Horizon? Anacondas? The Village? Rollerball? Pfft. This is bush-league stuff, small-time bad! Come back when you've sat through the "Haunting Torgo theme". Without Mystery Science Theater accompaniment. (edited by Arwon on 01-28-05 12:39 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 250/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| I caught a bit of the broadcast at Sydney Big Day Out. Just before they had someone bluff their way on stage dressed as a member of Polyphonic Spree. Glad to see Billy Shatner so high on the list. Single most original release of the year, was Shatner's album 'Has Been'. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 251/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Sorry Ziff but the best band in Australia right now are Augie March. I agree though, we're utterly infested with metal.  |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 252/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Pot: It's different for different people. Imagine that! Feh. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 253/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Can I just point out that there are fascist-leaning groups other than Nazis and that just because Nazisim in particular isn't coming back doesn't mean that there's nothing to worry about with the fascists in general? | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 254/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Does it actually say anywhere what age group this is aimed at? | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 255/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| When people say "it's just a theory" they are wrong. They're using theory in the layman sense which is actually a "hypothesis". Theories in science are much better supported than mere hypotheses. We accept the princples of evolution (natural selection, change in allele frequencies over time) because without it, modern bioloy, modern genetics, are completely useless. And of course, since they work, the foundation they're built on must be a sound one. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 256/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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Originally posted by Dracoon No, I'm saying that the original ideas Darwin had about natural selection have been reinforced by everything we have learned since then in fields like biology and genetics. Evolutionary principles can be observed in bacteria cultures as they are being grown for specific purposes. Selective breeding is based on evolutionary processes. Evolution happening is as fundamental to modern science as the existence of atoms. There's still stuff that isn't entirely understood, but these are details... all that's in doubt are the specific mechanics of how evolution has occurred over the last few billion years. That's what scientists argue over now - the specific mechanics of evolution. That the process happens is taken pretty much for granted because it's been supported by 150 years of other science. (edited by Arwon on 02-12-05 04:36 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 257/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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Originally posted by Tarale When did this happen? |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 258/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Talking Heads straddled commercial and critical success like no other band then broke up at the right time, Pink Floyd did, and then became a joke because they didn't know when to break up. This Must Be The Place and Heaven beat Wish You Were Here in the shmaltz and sentiment stakes. Psycho Killer was darker and more interesting than anything Pink Floyd ever turned out. And you could dance to it. Actually, that's a good general delineation. Talking Heads songs are music you can analyse and geek out on, and dance to at the same time. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 259/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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Originally posted by Ziffski Can you expand on this a bit further? Are you saying that Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillipines, Thailand etc would attack us, or that they'd form a shield against the rest of the world? There is occasional talk of Indonesia as a military threat to Australia, but I don't buy it. As for the rest of the region... the countries are small and the region is very peaceful compared to the rest of the world. This goes double or triple for the Pacific island nations. Plus we have reasonable relations with all these countries... East Timor did a lot of damage to our relatonship with Indonesia but they're getting over it, and Malaysia's old PM was a constant critic of ours (he constantly mouthed off at everyone though), but yeah, decent relations. People feel vulnerable, I guess, due to Australia's isolation and the foreignness of its neighbours. The "Yellow Peril" fears of the past 150 years still linger. Also, our military isn't huge, but we are well armed. I think it's about 60 000 between the 3 branches. We have a sizable technological edge over Indonesia and the rest of the region, probably much better training and administration, and there's geographical defences as well - 3000 km of open sparsely populated country between our major cities and Asia. (edited by Arwon on 02-17-05 05:00 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 260/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| AND YOU MAY SAY TO YOURSELF THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE! AND YOU MAY SAY TO YOURSELF THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE! WELL, HOW DID I GET HERE? I just saw two David Byrne shows. God the man can still put on a show, and his voice is still crystal clear and very powerful. Amazing stuff. (edited by Arwon on 02-17-05 08:51 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 261/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| When you're an enormous island it's still considered kinda useful... | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 262/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| In my experience it doesn't so much slow the mind down, but accelerates it, causing confusion and introversion, it tends to cut off connections between the brain and the outside world. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 263/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| "There goes one of God's own prototypes...too weird to live, too rare to die." HST was one of my few true heroes. I suppose this is how normal people felt when JFK or Princess Di or Kurt Cobain died. I want to down a bottle of Wild Turkey and go out and shoot at rocks, I want to howl and rage and cause a crazy righteous shit-fight - fuck them, the god-damn brutal pigs, we are right and good and we will prevail! I won't, but that's the sort of feelings HST stirs. The world has lost one of its purest and most righteous beacons of righteous sanity. Like thousands or millions of others, I wanted to be like him. Fearless, angry, brilliant, iconic. I think we all secretly thought the mad bastard was immortal. But alas, even warriors have to die. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 264/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| I always assumed the ideal was something like the Barcelona described in George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Anarchism strikes me as one of those things that holds a simple ideal (in this case, devolution of power to a very decentralised level) as the cure-all of all society's ills but doesn't actually work too well. If nothing else, the problem of defending such a decentralised system lomng enough to firmly establish it, seems pretty insurmountable, as has been repeatedly shown from the 1871 Paris Commune onwards. If something works better in theory than in reality, it's probably not a good idea. But Homage to Catalonia seems a good place to start. (edited by Arwon on 02-22-05 11:59 PM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 265/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Besides, by staking out the edges of the spectrum of debate, extremists serve the useful function of enabling moderate activists to gain ground. "Tax men, they cause everything wrong in society!" "No! How about we just make sure women get paid equally for equal work?" "That could work..." ------------------------ "Stop exploiting workers! Get your factories out of Indonesia!" "How about we just let them unionise and treat them fairly?" "OK" ------------------------ "Black separatism! fight the white man!" "Hey, how about you settle for desegregation and some affirmative action?" "Yay comprimise!" ------------------------ So, to conclude: Extremists are extremists, but they serve a useful function in any given political debate. |
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