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your use of that phrase is suscribing to the idea of Orientalism as outlined by many, notably Said (almost- but in a more complicated way that truthfully i do not fully understand).
back to genetics and race:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/gill.htmlit is true that all humans are genotypically incredibly close, but there are inherent inherited characteristics that people of the same race- and I suscribe to tynan's description just written- which are significant.
I've read (and I'll find the reference) that viewed from a purely genetic standpoint, the only meaningful way of categorising humans into different races is to say that there are basically two races: pale skinned northern European gingers, and everyone else. There's more actual measurable difference between gingers and other white Europeans, for example, than there is between white Europeans and black Africans.
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This is THE book on modern techniques for making stuff out of laminated wood:
Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction: Wood and West System Materials: Amazon.co.uk: Meade Gougeon: Books
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Here's a a fairly full account:
http://ofepicproportions.blogspot.com/
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No but he wears green, from a Finnish pagan myth I think. The reindeer eat Fly Agarics (whose wee the reindeer herders allegedly drank in order to have visions) and that's what makes em 'fly'.
He actually wears red even in Finland - he's the old European midwinter wildman, and in midwinter the Sami reindeer herders slaughter the oldest reindeer who aren't going to make it through winter. So Santa is wearing a freshly-prepared reindeer skin, bloody-side out, and neatly turned back at the cuffs to reveal the furry lining... True fact.
The reindeer are keen on the fly algrics too, but their livers are a bit hardier than ours. So the Sami shamen would let the reindeer eat them then drink their piss to get a healthier, filtered version with plenty of psychoactive goodness left in it but a bit less harsh on the system. -
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I had a bit of rusty metal get lodged in my eye whilst out on the roads. At the A&E, watching the needle the doctor used, as it approached my eye, and as she picked away at my eye with it, was 'interesting' .
I had the exact same experience - what turned out to be a tiny flake of rusty steel embedded in my eye. Off to the eye hospital, where they gripped my head in a special frame so that I couldn't accidently jerk forwards when the needle was probing away at the surface of my eyeball...
I also had a terrible experience years ago when I was riding down a very long, very steep, twisty road - the Mendips somewhere - and a big fucking insect whacked into my eye at what might have been 40 or 50mph relative (my 30-35 plus its 10-15). A half-blind emergency stop left me halfway through a hedge. Only minor injuries, but my bike shorts were ripped, leaving me facing a long ride back into Bristol with my knob in severe danger of popping out. I had to hold them together while I went into a little village shop which luckily had one of those needle and thread kits - Spar Essentials or somesuch. I found a stile and climbed into a field; stripped off and did emergency repair work on the shorts, and just about got away with it... -
The power things totally work but they're only really reliable if the two sockets are on the same ring, ie on the same circuit breaker, even though in theory they work between different rings coming off the same consumer unit. You can obviously test for this by plugging lights into both sockets and flipping the appropriate tripswitch to see if they both go off.
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You want sources that you are living in a media steered society thats obsessed with consumerism at the detriment of all life.
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I'm out of this thread, you can continue to talk about anarchy without breaking any windows.With you on the first bit... But it's an internet discussion - no windows are going to get broken however radical you are.
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But there's a problem - what happened was that someone met someone that they weren't expecting to that day. As it happened, it was a certain set of people in a certain location, but actually, if you meet anyone you haven't seen for ages somewhere where you didn't know they were going to be, you think - wow, what a coincidence. But how many people have you met in your life that you'd recognise and chat to if you bumped into them? Hundreds? Thousands?
A more realistic way to approach the problem is to say:
How many people were there out and about in London that day? Say, 3 million?
And how many of them were people who you would think it a coincidence to meet? Maybe 20?
So you're walking through a crowd of people of whom 1 in 150,000 is soneone who you would say - wow, fancy meeting you here.
Now, how many people's faces did you see that day, clearly enough to recognise them? On a busy day in London, say 5000 as a wild random guess. That would make the odds of meeting someone unexpected 1 in 30. Does it happen about once a month? If so, the numbers must be about right... If not, tweak until the odds are close to the number of days on average between highly unexpected chance meetings... -
So... Anarchism-related discussion, anyone? I would probably describe myself as a species of green anarchist, in that I think we should be aiming for a political set-up that has the protection of the biosphere as its highest priority (the green bit) and I don't believe that governments, being the elected servants of the public, have the right to use force or coercion to make people comply with their political objectives (the anarchist bit).
But I'm aware that there's a huge problem with that combination of beliefs. How do you persuade people who care more about their own short-term wants to change their lives in ways that they won't like? How does an anarchist resolve their own dislike of government force with the existence of powerful opponents who are more than happy to use force?
The Spanish civil war was a good example - how can you fight your way to (local) power and then expect to run things without coercion, when your enemies remain all around you and within your own territory? Or, more pertinantly, how is it right for anarchists to use violence against property (the windows of every Tesco in central Bristol right now, for example) but wrong for the BNP to use violence against property (eg a mosque)? -
On anarchism, one way that you can look at it is to imagine that rather than having one axis (left to right), politics has two axes: left to right (goods and services produced through central government planning to the left, by private enterprise to the right) and an axis of freedom - anarchy on one end, totalitarianism on the other.
The left-right axis essentially represents someone's views on how big the state should be, with a proper old-school communist viewpoint being that the state should encompass all activity, while a full-on free-market loony like Milton Friedman basically believes that the state should disppear altogether.
The second axis represents your views on how much force and control the state should use to ensure that people comply with whatever arrangements are going on. So Stalin was far left but also way over to the totalitarian end; some anarchists believe in collective provision of everything (far left) but no control of the individual by the state whatsoever (anarchy). Your US Libertarian believes in no state and no control; your US Republican believes in a small state but plenty of control. And so on.
In this analysis, anarchism is not the desire for absolute anarchy, but a feeling that it's important to keep the pressure on society not to slip towards totalitarianism - to move towards anarchy, but not neccessarily all the way there.
On the bee issue, you can leave the little guys enough honey to live on all winter and still have loads for yourself, and they're much healthier that way. A hive only needs maybe a pound or two to keep them going through a winter, and they'll make you a hundred pounds a year if you look after them. So if you're keeping bees, let them keep a bit, eh? Our relationship with them can be very mutually rewarding if we don't take the piss. -
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So using the handgun analogy, has there banning stopped people being shot/killed or injured by handguns?
Well, actually, yes - compare statistics on death by shooting in the UK and in the US. But given the current state of the British press I don't think that there's much hope of changing the law regarding driver liability. The tabloids would have an absolute shit-fit and whoever was in government would lie down and fawn at their feet like they always do.
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YouTube- Danny McAskill filming in Chamonix for "Perfect Moment - Instant"
Supernatural ability... but very irritating editing indeed, especially at about 1.24.
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If you are selling amps then the transport costs may be prohibitive. Offer a delivery/pickup service if anyone close to the storage area wins the auction.
As Snowy said try the fan club first.
Yes - you've got to offer delivery to have any chance of getting a decent price. Scout around for good deals on transport before you list. Weight everything carefully so that you won't pay over the odds when you do send it.
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I've found that music equipment gets good prices on eBay without too much special attention, but I have to say that I'd be surprised if the band name got you that much of a premium over market value. In the past I've got good results by running a regular eBay listing then once it's up, posting a link to it all over every appropriate forum and blog I can find.
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Astonishing--was this added post-publication (and consequently didn't appear in the paper on the day), or did it appear on the day? If the former, why didn't they check factual accuracy in the first place, and if the latter, why did they publish it?
Because that's what sections of the wonderful British press do - publish a load of shite about some individual or section of society that they are prejudiced against (eg cyclists) then print a little retraction on page 23 two weeks later. Especially the Daily Mail.
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I've resorted to the multiple bike technique - basically I never leave a nice bike locked up and unattended if I can possibly help it. I've got an old Claud Butler set up as a single speed beer bike for when I go out and have to leave the bike locked in some shady urban spot. It looks like shite with a certain amount of real (non-structural) rust on show and plenty of dirt. But I actually love riding it - the relaxed frame geometry and big tatty saddle give a ride as soft, silent and comfortable as a well-worn pair of slippers.
El Parador on Eversholt St! An absolutely lovely Spanish place, great for vegetarians too, not especially expensive either.