adsense & sponsors I've added some adsense banners which will display only to users who aren't subscribers or staff, and only at the bottom of thread pages excluding certain forums which google's t&c's prohibit (ie: drugs & dating / sex). It's an experiment so let me know what you think.
I've also found a sponsor (enjoy party pills) willing pay to have their logo at the bottom of the forum home page and mentioned in our outgoing email. Again this is an experiment...
And banners are now refreshing every two minutes as well without having to reload the page although we only have 3 running at the moment.12
bumpkin bus…. because of the snow and ice I had to get on one of these to get to work....
I hadn't been on a "country" bus for years, as normally I would cycle to anywhere withing 16-20 miles of where I am....
Everyone at the bus stand seemed to know and talk to one another (including the driver) (I'm not used to this, coming from London/SE England! where everyone just has minimal social interaction), is this normal for round here?
The vehicle itself was probably older than many people on this forum; it wouldn't start (diesel waxing up?) and some grumpy looking "blakey" type character with a peaked hat was called out from a shed and had to poke about in the engine compartment..
it was like being a young teenager again.... :laugh_at:(don't worry, I didn't spit out the window or tag the vehicle though, I have matured a bit)
I reckon one of these vehicles would make a good party bus :groucho:
"Media centre" devices I'm looking for one of those things that is like a hi-fi but links to your WLAN and plays out streaming media files..
I want one so when I want to listen to partyvibe radio I don't always have to play it through the PC (such as when I am half knackered/spangled and can't be arsed with computers)
can anyone recommend a good one?
Allergies? I have been smoking weed for about two months straight everyday. But just this week I stopped and everynight I break out in hives. Do you think there is any relation to this?
manchester ravers any one know any big manchester raves cummin up? got loads party lines but there all gettin shut down? so any lines would be mint if u could get in touch sumhow.
Going for an interview…. ...but they request I bring:
Drivers License
Passport or Birth Certificate
Proof of Qualifications
Problem is, I don't drive, I've lost my passport and birth certificate and I never picked up my A-Level certificates (I just have my GCSE certs)
I've got no choice but to go because I want the job but do you think it will look really bad and a little unorganised or can I blag my way out of it somehow?12
truly awful jokes Virginity is like a bubble, one prick and its all gone.
:weee: :weee: :weee:
A man who runs in front of the car gets tired.
:you_crazy :you_crazy
A man who runs behind the car gets exhausted.
:groucho:
A man with his hand in his pocket feels cocky all day.
:groucho:
A man who scratches his ass should not bite his fingernails.
:yakk:
A man who eats many prunes gets a good run for his money.
:yakk:
Baseball is wrong: a man with four balls cannot walk.
:laugh_at::laugh_at:
War does not determines who is right, war determines who is left.
:hopeless:
A wife who puts her husband in the doghouse will soon find him in the cat house.
:laugh_at:
It take many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it.
:groucho:
A man who drive likes hell is bound to get there.
:you_crazy
A man who stands on a toilet is high on pot
:weee:
A man who lives in a glass house should change clothes in the basement.
:weee:
A man who fishes in another man's well often catches crabs.
:yakk:
Crowded elevators smell different to midgets.
:yakk:
Stop the war coalition ALL LONDON RALLY: Troops Out Of Iraq, Thursday 15 February 7.00pm
Speakers: Tony Benn, George Galloway MP, John Mcdonnell MP, Lindsey German (StWC), Sophie Bolt (CND). Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, WC1. FULL DETAILS: www.stopwar.org.uk
IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
1) IRAQ: CAN IT GET ANY WORSE?
2) COACHES FROM 100 TOWNS AND CITIES
3) FINANCIAL APPEAL FROM TONY BENN
4) ALL-SCOTLAND DEMONSTRATION: 24 FEBRUARY
5) PEACE CAMP IN DOWNING STREET
6) BRIAN HAW MEETS TONY BLAIR
7) WAR – WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
8) THE DEBATE PARLIAMENT REFUSES TO HAVE
9) THE US MASSACRE THAT NEVER WAS
10) MUSIC, ART AND WAR
1) IRAQ: CAN IT GET ANY WORSE?
Month by month in Iraq, the scale of death and destruction reaches new levels of horror, with the slaughter of thousands of Iraqi civilians and US and British casualties now higher than at almost any time since the 2003 invasion.
George Bush's response is to escalate the war with his troop "surge", which Tony Blair says "makes sense." Virtually everyone else thinks it is madness. In Britain, the Liberal Democrats have become the first of the three major parties to call for the complete withdrawal of British troops by the end of 2007. In America, much of the establishment which supported Bush's war crimes in the past can now see the game is up. Calls for the troops to come home are heard across the political spectrum and Barack Obama, the latest media sensation in the US, has put ending the Iraq war at the centre of his bid to become US president in 2008.
Even Russia's President Putin – no slouch himself when it comes to war crimes in Chechnya – says that the biggest threat to world peace is a "wolf-like" American foreign policy, that "eats and listens to no one".
Bush's only answer to this tidal wave of condemnation is more war in Iraq, the intensification of the nuclear arms race and the threat of an attack on Iran (see John Pilger: http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-02/03pilger.cfm. A massive expansion of the US military budget will mean that in 2007 the cost of the Iraq war alone will be 800 dollars for every American man, woman and child, paid for by draconian cuts in welfare services for the poor and elderly.
Can it get any worse in Iraq? The answer is, yes, it can, if we let it. The response to the escalation of the Bush-Blair wars must be to do all we can to make our elected representatives act in accordance with the wishes of their electorates. The US anti-war movement has responded magnificently to the challenge. Its demonstrations across America on 27 January brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets for the largest protest since the war began. Campaigns are now running in localities across America to make the US Congress stop Bush in his tracks by withholding the funding he needs to escalate the war.
We in Britain on Saturday 24 February will have our opportunity to give voice to the view of most people in this country that the war must end and all British troops must be removed from Iraq. Everyone who has opposed Tony Blair's warmongering and the spineless connivance of parliament which has allowed him to get away with it, should do all they can to help make as big as possible the TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ - NO TRIDENT demonstration in London on 24 February. Please publicise the demonstration as widely as you can and encourage your friends, family, work colleagues, fellow students etc to join us.
If you require leaflets, posters, stickers, postcards, badges etc to help publicise the demonstration, please contact the Stop the War national office on 020 7278 6694 or by email at office@stopwar,org,uk.
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
Organised by Stop the War, CND and BMI
TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ – NO TRIDENT
SATURDAY 24 FEBRUARY
ASSEMBLE HYDE PARK 12 NOON
MARCH TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE
See for full details: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/_Current/24Feb07Demo.htm
2) COACHES FROM 100 TOWNS AND CITIES
All the signs are that the national demonstration on Saturday 24 February will be very big, with coaches organised to bring protestors from over 100 towns and cities in England and Wales (Scotland has its own TROOPS OUT demonstration on the same day: see below). There are twelve coach locations in Wales alone, the highest number since 2003.
FOR FULL DETAILS OF COACHES AROUND THE COUNTRY, GO TO: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/_Current/24Feb07Demo.htm#COACHES
3) FINANCIAL APPEAL FROM TONY BENN
PRESIDENT OF STOP THE WAR COALITION:
The Stop the War Coalition is unable to sell honours or favours to help pay for our work and campaigning. We depend entirely on your donations. With Parliament seemingly incapable of even debating Iraq, with the vital Trident vote only weeks away and with the looming threat of the war spreading to Iran, it is important to get as many people as possible onto the streets on Saturday 24 February, at both the London and Glasgow national demonstrations. We are producing hundreds of thousands of leaflets, posters, postcards, stickers etc. Coaches are being booked and rallies held up and down the country. Press conferences are being organised. We have to fund the staging and efficient running of the demonstration. All of this and much more has to be funded. However large or small a donation you can make will be much appreciated and is very necessary.
Yours in peace, Tony Benn
THERE ARE THREE WAYS TO DONATE TO STOP THE WAR:
* Donate online by credit or debit card
* Donate by phone 020 7278 6694 to make a credit or debit card donation
* Donate by cheque made payable to 'Stop the War Coalition'. Send to Stop the War Coalition, 27 Britannia Street, London WC1X 9JP
4) ALL-SCOTLAND DEMONSTRATION: 24 FEBRUARY
After the highly successful Scottish Stop the War Conference on 10 February, attended by 500 delegates, Scotland's anti-war movement is anticipating a big turnout for the its BIN THE BOMB demonstration in Glasgow on 24 February. FOR DETAILS GO TO: http://www.scotland4peace.org/
5) PEACE CAMP IN DOWNING STREET
The myth of Basra as a beacon of hope for the rest of Iraq has been shattered beyond repair. Five British soldiers have been killed in the last four weeks. Many more have suffered serious injury. Daily attacks against the British army, whether they are in or out of barracks, have made life as dangerous for the occupying military as it is in Baghdad.
Military Families Against the War will hold a peace camp outside 10 Downing Street over the weekend of the 24 February demonstration, to demand that all British troops are withdrawn and that Blair meet with the military families who have suffered so tragically from his war policies. FULL DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE MILITARY FAMILIES WEBSITE: http://www.mfaw.org.uk/
6) BRIAN HAW MEETS TONY BLAIR
Congratulations to Brian Haw, who won the Channel 4 News Most Inspiring Political Figure Award with 54 percent of the vote (Tony Blair got just 8 percent). Brian has been protesting against the Bush-Blair wars day-in day-out for five years. He is still there, despite MPs passing a ludicrous law aimed specifically at getting him removed (See http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/ ).
Winning this award is a testament to Brian's tenacity and demonstrates the depth of anti-war feeling in Britain. Before the Channel 4 award was announced, Brian had a chance encounter with Tony Blair and their historic meeting was captured on video which you can watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah_rxnrzMws
7) WAR – WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
Here's another way to support Stop the War's financial appeal. A version of the classic anti-war song WAR is about to be released by Tony Blair's "re-formed" university band Ugly Rumours. The producers of the record say: "We need your help to embarrass Tony Blair. If Blair is in the charts, the media will have to report the success of "his" anti-war hit. To have a top 20 hit in the UK you need only approximately 5000 sales. The track costs £1.50 and we will donate all profits to Stop the War Coalition."
* FOR FULL DETAILS OF HOW TO BUY TONY BLAIR'S WAR, SEE: http://www.uglyrumours.com
* OR ALTERNATIVELY, YOU CAN ORDER BY TEXTING THE WORD “PEACE1” TO 78789
8) THE DEBATE PARLIAMENT REFUSES TO HAVE
The refusal of MPs to end Tony Blair war policies – apart from the usual honourable exceptions, -- has been one of the British parliament's most shameful features over the past five years. On March 20, the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the anti-war movement will hold a People's Assembly at Westminster Central Hall -- opposite the House of Commons -- at which MPs who have consistently opposed Blair's warmongering and delegates from political parties, trade unions, faith and community groups etc will be represented in THE DEBATE PARLIAMENT REFUSES TO HAVE: Why Britain went to war and why the war must end now.
This will be the fourth People's Assembly organised by Stop the War, which reflects the "democratic deficit" we suffer in this country, due to the refusal of MPs to reflect the majority opinion in this country which opposes the disastrous war in Iraq. Full details of the Assembly will be available soon on the Stop the War website.
9) THE US MASSACRE THAT NEVER WAS
On 28 January, the world's media reported that the US military had killed over 200 members of an Iraqi militia from a group called "Soldiers of Heaven" and injured many more. Since then, but largely unreported by the same media, it has been revealed that what took place was not a military operation to prevent a large-scale attack on Najaf, as the Bush administration and it's puppet Iraqi government claimed, but a massacre by the US army that slaughtered hundreds of Muslim pilgrims on their way to Najaf for a religious ceremony.
Once again we see the mainstream media's inexhaustible capacity for publishing US government lies as unchallenged facts. And we can be sure that the Najaf massacre was not a unique event but was typical of the carnage which has characterised the Iraq war since its first days of "shock and awe". FOR A FULL REPORT OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT NAJAF, GO TO: http://www.counterpunch.org/hallinan02092007.html
10) MUSIC, ART AND WAR
Mark Wallinger's powerful art installation at Tate Britain, inspired by peace campaigner Brian Haw's five year protest outside parliament (see above) has received widespread acclaim. Details of this exhibition and other anti-war artists now exhibiting in London's galleries can be found on Stop the War's ART AND WAR webpage: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/_Current/ArtandWar.htm
Musician Damon Albern has a new anti-war album – The Good, the Bad and the Queen – which is already one of the fastest selling cds of the year. It will be followed by a much anticipated anti-Bush album from the Canadian band Arcade Fire, which even before its official release has many critics naming it potential cd of the year.
There is a must-see video for Bruce Springsteen's live performance of "Bring 'Em Home", calling for troops out of Iraq, which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3pD9xJWoIk The Stop the War MUSIC AND WAR webpage has more anti war performances, which range from Eminem to James Blunt: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/_Current/AntiWarMusic.htm
Suffolk Police Spend Over £160,000 / Year Stopping Raves This week the local news ran an article claiming cops were "stopping pro-active policing of illegal raves". I thought this was too good to be true (particularly if the cops were prepared to let the press realise this) so thought I'd delve a bit deeper..
This is from an official Suffolk Police Authority document (its on the web if you can be bothered to look for it) which sets out the proposed efficiency savings..
but if you look at the actual planned budget cut (in the middle of that list) its a mere 18% of the actual anti-rave budget, which is over £160,000!
So the big question is - WTF happened in this county to make the cops feel justified in spending so much money on stopping unlicensed raves? (it looks like they have even prepared for such incidents such as "riots" at least in cash terms...)
but even a personal vendetta by one or more cops against the rave scene can't usually get cold hard cash funding of that sort of level ; and no other place I've lived in has had cops that put that much money and effort into anti-rave ops...
not even Thames Valley which is supposed to be a harsh area.
have ravers in Suffolk now got such a bad name and image that the rest of the wider community feels justified in paying their council tax towards these clampdowns?
More great Engrish.. The Chinese translators do it again!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330080278201&ru=http://search.ebay.co.uk:80/330080278201_W0QQfromZR40QQfviZ1
Not safe for some workplaces as ebay advert contains a sex toy
Keeping secrets from web spies How safe do you think your internet passwords are ?
Scary stuff :hopeless:
Quote:
Picking a password is a tricky business. And the temptation is to go for something that is easy to remember like our partner's birthday, a pet's name, or a film star.
The trouble is, given just a few attempts it also makes it pretty easy to crack.
"Hackers today will often use a dictionary style attack. This means they can very quickly use all of the words in the dictionary as well as common celebrity or sports names," explained McAfee security analyst Greg Day.
"For example, many people still use what they think is a smart technique of switching out some of those characters for numbers, for example changing an A into a 4. But that's a very commonly known technique."
Read the rest of the article here :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6345629.stm
rebalancing karma post rave? I'm not that much of a "hippy" type but recently everytime after I've had a really excellent party I try to do other positive stuff once I've recovered..
Its simple things like trying to still do my best at work despite being a bit broken, being friendly to people or animals (I tend to befriend random cats I meet in the countryside), being consderate on my bike (like not riding on pavements and forcing grannies to take evasive action), or supporting places like charity shops and community organisationn
I try my best to avoid mood swings and being angry (its not that I don't get them, I am not superman) but I try not to take them out on others...
it might seem strange but I think its important to do this in some way as its payback for getting away with all the "naughty" stuff you do at parties :groucho: - drugs, rinsing tat out of warehouses etc...
amazingly I've found (although its probably some psychological thing) it actually seems to minimise the negative effect midweek :)
Big Brother goes bananas Mmmmmmm..why not..
Maybe they'll behave better :laugh_at::laugh_at:
Quote:
The rows and fighting in the Celebrity Big house will seem like nothing to contestants taking part in a Chinese version of the show.
A zoo is running the BB-style competition - where the contestants have to live in a monkey enclosure.
Six people will live with the monkeys in the zoo in the northwestern province of Shaanxi "to experience the lack of freedom the animals have".
The China Daily newspaper says the last person remaining will win 11,888 yuan (£780) and the title of "Honorary Animal Lover".
"It is the first such activity in China, and any Chinese from 18 to 60 years old, in good psychological condition with wild animal protection and survival knowledge may participate," the report added.
It is not yet known what type of monkey the contestants will be living with.
:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1250663,00.html
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