I’ve dropped my laptop Basically i dropped my lap top tonight and now have an inch long line along the screen where all text is indeciferable, can i get this fixed at the it depatment or do i nedd to get a new lap top? (the line on the screen has a 3mm part that is a moving zig zag line) please could all replys be at leat an inch away from the edge of the posting screen. Thanx from owain:crazy_diz
Do Red Rockets work? Anyone tried these?
A friend swears they are the best stuff ever and legal.
I'm thinking if they are legal...they probably suck.
Anyone have any experience?
Red Rockets are made from - Sida Cordifolia extract, Kola nut extract, Acorus Calamus, piperine blend
So if anyone knows about that stuff, please lemme know.
Thanks
Censorship Closes Down YouTube :you_crazy :you_crazy :you_crazy that sucks..
Guess they don't want the population to know what happens in the rest of the world
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Censorship fears rise as Iran blocks access to top websites[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]
[/FONT]Iran yesterday shut down access to some of the world's most popular websites. Users were unable to open popular sites including Amazon.com and YouTube following instructions to service providers to filter them.
Similar edicts have been issued against Wikipedia, the internet encyclopaedia, IMDB.com, an online film database, and the New York times site. Attempts to open the sites are met with a page reading: "The requested page is forbidden."
The clampdown was ordered by senior judiciary officials in the latest phase of a campaign that has seen high-speed broadband facilities banned in an attempt to impede "corrupting" foreign films and music.
It is in line with a campaign by Iran's Islamist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to purge the country of western cultural influences.
Read the article here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1963166,00.html#article_continue
Sitting up straight Wish that something like this had been tested when I went to school,instead of me going home every day with a pain in my back!!
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Not sitting straight
Sitting Up Is A Real Pain
Updated: 08:40, Wednesday November 29, 2006
Slouching at your desk is not as bad for your back as first thought, new research suggests.
A study claims that sitting up straight at your desk can do your back more damage.
The tests at Woodend Hospital, in Aberdeen, were carried out on 22 healthy people who have never suffered from back problems.
They were asked to sit in three positions: hunched over a desk or video console; perfectly upright at 90 degrees; and reclining back at 135 degrees with their feet on the floor.
Disc movement, which happens when strain is put on the back, was biggest in the upright position.
The results were studied by experts in in Canada.
Dr Wasim Amir Bashir, of Alberta Hospital, said: "We were not created to sit down for long hours.
"A 135-degree body-thigh sitting position was demonstrated to be the best bio-mechanical sitting position, as opposed to a 90 degree sitting position that most people consider normal."
Living on the moon? I have often wondered about the moon landing!!!!
Think most of us have seen programs in the television about why it's not possible that it have happend..
Heat shields on the rocket wasnt strong enough,to prevent the rocket in burning up when it entered the atmosphere..
Shadows on the moon,the flagg,footprints..ect..ect.
Do you believe that we have been on the moon ?
Home sweet home?
Now they want us to live up there!
Green Light For Moon Base
Nasa is planning to build a permanently occupied base on the moon.
It is being described as the first step towards creating settlements in space.
Building work will start after a new series of flights to the moon begins in 2020.
Experts say they hope it will eventually become a stepping stone for future missions to Mars and other planets.
The habitat, most likely at the lunar north pole, will serve as a science outpost as well as a testbed for technologies needed for future travel to planets.
"We're going for a base on the moon," Scott 'Doc' Horowitz, Nasa's associate administrator for exploration, said.
Plans for what the base will look like and what astronauts would do there have yet to be determined.
Nasa has also not projected a date when the base would go into operation.
The moon's polar sites are preferred to equatorial regions because of more moderate temperatures and longer periods of sunlight.
This is critical for the solar-powered electrical systems Nasa plans to develop.
Scientists also suspect the poles have resources such as hydrogen, ice and other materials that could be used for life support.
"It's exciting," said Nasa deputy administrator Shana Dale. "We don't know as much about the polar regions."
The US had already announced plans to develop new spacecraft to travel to the moon and land on its surface for the first time since the last Apollo flight there in 1972.
It also plans to provide a communications system linking Earth and the moon.
Worthwhile Scientific Study OR Dangerous Experiment?? Giant machine to recreate conditions of big bang
Collider may create miniature black holes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1952288,00.html
Seems they are a bit unsure exactly what will happen.12
Christmas around the world I like this. I'm thinking about using it in a lesson plan.
So if your wondering how they celebrate christmas in Greece, this is for you.:wink:
http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm
BRITISH Government plans for the surveillance of all children
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Spend the money on lunch programs at local schools and hiring more child services workers, instead of having to little of them with to big of case loads....that when abused kids fall through the cracks. How come there is always a "new Plan", what about putting money into the system we already have and make it better.
Because that would be
a) An intelligent thing to do, and
b) Doesn't make good headlines for them to say "look what we've been doing for people while we have been in government" at the next election... [evil]Whoring for the media again[/evil]. If you are going to try and "fix" something after all, you have to do it in a way no one thought of before so it's a "good idea" you had. Otherwise someone else might grab the headlines if it works...:you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy
I'm fascinated to know who will be deciding what a "positive" role model is, and if they will get the natty uniform, complete with jack boots and insignia (maybe a special red version of the swastika...)
I'm all for protecting children, and making this world a place where they all get a good start in life. I fail to see how collecting information with a view to destroying their most important relationship (which is what the purpose of this surveillance boils down to essentially), using fairly nebulous definitions to decide who's will, and who's won't be judged unhealthy is going to help any children whatsoever. Growing up in an atmosphere of uncertainty and paranoia isn't going to help anyone.
Another one of those laws put through in the "but we're protecting the children. Nobody can object to that" school of fascist human rights erosion... Add the various new "anti terrorist" laws, and this country is starting to become a very scary place to live... The idea that my sons life is going to be scrutinised and documented "for his safety" leaves me with a serious case of itchy emigration feet - not just because the "positive role model" idea worries me, but also because I am extremly unhappy allowing his life to be invaded and documented in this way. He has rights too, and one of the most basic rights this country has believed in, and fought to protect over the years is the right to freedom and privacy.
Doubtless the usual answer to objections over this invasion of privacy will be trotted out, as is generally the case when a government tries to do something (else) morally abhorrent under the banner of "protecting" us. Only the guilty need fear, as the "innocent" have nothing to hide....:you_crazy Either the answer of the hopelessly naive, or the truly evil - any sane person knows that every human being has things that they wish to be kept secret, or private, for various reasons (which are probably private too, and only a few of which are in any way nefarious)....
Save us from people who are trying to do things "for the good of all". At least your average tyrant is predictable and honest - you know that the only comfort he cares for is his own.
Aldous Huxley wrote a novel that was (IMO) much scarier than anything in 1984 - it was called "Brave new world", and was set in a world where everybody was happy, and nobody rebelled or upset the system (apart from the main character). All was kept controlled with surveillance that citizens were happy with, because it had "always been there". They were fed a diet of "happy chemicals", and "wholesome TV", and nobody ever went hungry etc...Such a cheerfully anaesthetized living hell...:hopeless::hopeless::hopeless::hopeless::hopeless::hopeless::hopeless:
BRITISH Government plans for the surveillance of all children
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BRITISH Government plans for the surveillance of all children
including information on whether they eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, have been condemned as a Big Brother system.
Experts say it is the biggest state intrusion into the role of parents in history.
Changes are being introduced after the death of a girl from abuse. They include a database tracking all 12 million children in England and Wales from birth.
The Government expects the program to be operating within two years.
But critics say the electronic files will undermine family privacy and destroy the confidentiality of medical, social work and legal records.
Doctors, schools and the police will have to alert the database to a wide range of "concerns". Two warning flags on a child's record could start an investigation.
There will also be a system of targets and performance indicators for children's development. Children's services have been told to work together to make sure targets are met.
Child-care academics, practitioners and policy experts attending a conference at the London School of Economics will express concern about how the system will work.
Dr Eileen Munro, an expert on child protection, said that if a child caused concern by failing to make progress towards state targets, detailed information would be gathered.
That would include subjective judgements such as "is the parent providing a positive role model?", as well as sensitive information such as a parent's mental health.
"They include consuming five portions of fruit and veg a day, which I am baffled how they will measure," she said. "The country is moving from the traditional 'parents are free to bring children up as they think best as long as they are not abusive or neglectful' to a more coercive 'parents must bring children up to conform to the state's views of what is best'."
The Children Act 2004 gave the Government the powers to create the database.
The potential for investigations by social services or the police into thousands of children and their families for "innocuous" reasons has alarmed many experts.
"When you are looking for a needle in a haystack, is it necessary to keep building bigger haystacks?" said Jonathan Bamford, the assistant commissioner at the Information Commissioner's office.
Keeping check on 12 million children, when the justification for the database was that 3 million or 4 million were in some way "at risk", was "not proportionate", he said.
We got off lightly up here - they normally trial this kind of stuff in Scotland and they havent :weee:
Its crazy to have this kind of surveillance - these kids will grow up having beeen snooped on everyday of their lives :you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy
[Oh wait - I see a possible reason - if you are used to having no civil liberties you think its normal - come back the Stazi: all is forgiven and you didnt go far enough for these people:you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy]
The "blonde jokes" thread Well i'm blond so I dare to poste these!
[FONT=times new roman,helvetica]Shortage of parachutes
A blonde, a brunette, a movie star, the pope, and a pilot were on a plane.
The plane was going down fast, and there were only four parachutes for all five of them.
The pilot took one and jumped, then the movie star took one and jumped, and then the blonde took one and jumped.
The pope told the brunette to take the last one.
The brunette said, "There are still 2 parachutes left! The blonde took my backpack!"
Add your own!
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bleepfunk 1/12/06 Newbury, Berks free Friday 1st December bi-monthly club night Bleep_Funk returns to the top floor of the Late Lounge, Newbury.
Music: Tech house/electronica/dubstep/broken beat/techno/minimal and electro.......nothing too banging ......more on the underground deep tip tip with plenty o' pump.....check the downloads........Following the visit of DJ Mat Carter at the last party in October (who regularly features on the decks at such venues as London's Fabric night club) Resident DJ Graham Fletcher (Checkpoint Charlie) is joined by Paul Avery from www.blast1386.com's weds eve 'Organic Electronica' radio show and Alex Martin and Matt Sever from Den One to supply Newbury with a 5 1/2 hour helping of deep electronic funk. Matt is fresh from a successful gig at London's Ministry of Sound playing on the same bill as DJ legends such as Derrick May, Francois K and Metro Area and will go back to back with Alex on a Vinyl versus Final Scratch and Gadgets set.
Further info and DJ mix downloads can be found at www.myspace.com/grahamfletcher.
VJ Eye Fidelity will also be mixing up eclectic visual's on the night ensuring Bleep_Funk continues to be a refreshingly different addition to Newbury's music scene...
entrance is free before 11pm, £3 till 11.30pm then £5 after. Relaxed dress policy on the door.
Do you have a superhero (the ? from myspace) I was thinking about this important ??? today and I figured it out
so mine is the cookie monster.:wink:
Anyone who eats cookies that fast deserves respect.( should I have put this in jokes and humor)
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