For this policy and the web snooping laws, Labor must be voted out.
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being misquoted, and that is watching the Twilight movies" - Oscar Wilde (1891)
From Vodafone you can get 6Gig per month for $20 on their 3G network.
Telstra want to charge $2 per Meg on mobile phones via their 3G network, which is $12,000 for 6Gig.
All of the Australian telco companies apparently have no way to shape or cut off your 3G access once you reach your limit. They all insist that you pay their disgusting excess charges due to their inability to properly account for your usage. They are purposely entrapping you into their charging scheme. This practice MUST BE STOPPED.
Disparity and rorts like this make Telstra and other mobile telcos a disgusting set of companies.
The road to Caloundra is beset on all sides with the pressure of tail gaters and the tyranny of trucks in the fast lane. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, leaves adequate space for merging, for he is truly the reducer of accidents and the receiver of friendly waves. And I will strike down upon thee with high beam and wild gesticulation, those who would attempt to push in or drive in the break down lane. And you will know my car has a horn, when I blast my displeasure upon thee.
The climate scientists at CRU have had their confidential emails (and some documents) stolen and exposed to the world. Blogosphere goes nuts.
My opinion? I'm glad you asked : most of this is nothing but will provide fuel for people to extract out of context quotes for quite a long time. There is enough here that will require explanation, and there are a couple items that are very serious, and will require careful, full and rapid responses. I predict that there will be some sackings because of this. None of this looks really unusual for private emails, rather mundane actually. *sigh*. Additionally I think all of the fuss will be enough for the deniers to gain the inaction that they are so desperate for. We are all going to take part in the great greenhouse gas experiment.The following links are provided in no particular order and are from sources of all persuasions. Make of them what you will.===
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR20091120040...
http://www.dailytech.com/Climategate+Stunning+Deception+and+Misconduct+at+UK+...
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-f...
http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d1...
http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d2...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576009,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8370282.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8371597.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/cru_climate_hack/
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/11/20/hacked-sensitive-documen...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/20/climate-sceptics-email-hacking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/20/climate-sceptics-hackers-le...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/climate-hack
http://snurl.com/completecrap
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/11/20/hack-attack-global-warming...
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091120/full/news.2009.1101.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/emails_cru_east_anglia_climate.html
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/ha...
http://www.alternet.org/rss/the_wire_provided_by_huffington_post/98440/climat...
http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2008/07/photoshop-velvia.htm
After you have watched this and created the action, I suggest making additional action with everything set to 50% of suggested for those times when you just want a little velvia.
* Lighten shadows / dark areas
Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight
Set lighten shadows about 30%
Make into an action
* Reduce red level
For the occasional time that the velvia action overdoes the red
Image > Adjustments > Curves
Channel: Red
Reduce red similar to action above
Ideally make this action only when you spot an over red image
Make into an action
* Action Blue Filter
For indoor over yellow light source
Image > Adjustments > Photo Filter ...
Filter: “Cooling Filter (82)”
Density ~ 50%
Make into an action
* Noise Ninja
Removes camera noise that you get in low light / high ISO photography
Costs money.
Comes in stand alone software or a photoshop plug-in
Make sure you get your camera profile (or you can profile every time – sometimes works better)
http://www.picturecode.com/
* Reduce saturation
When the colour manipulation goes wrong, just reduce the colour, gives an arty feel.
Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation
Mess with the Saturation slide
Don’t use lightness here, use “Image > Adjustments > Brightness contrast” instead if you have to
Don’t mess with Hue ... bad things
* Explore free actions available
Fun!
http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm
or google free photoshop actions
The literature is littered with many ways to improve your psychological outlook without resorting to chemical therapy.
Seligman et al identified at least two interventions that they compared against control groups that appeared to have lasting positive effects on depressed subjects. One of the interventions was identifying and using your signature strengths. Another intervention was having each subject identify three good things that happened to them every day."Participants were asked to write down three things that went well each day and their causes every night for one week. In addition, they were asked to provide a causal explanation for each good thing."
Seligman M., Steen T., Park N., Peterson C. 2005. Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions. American Psychologist. Vol. 60, No. 5, 410 – 421.
A little while back Penn & Teller created an episode of their classy television show that tried to debunk some issues around climate change. Unfortunately, the production was quite substandard.
What did they expose? Nothing much. They exposed that they didn't know anything about climate change. They exposed themselves as rip off artists, taking money off people under the pretence of saving the environment. They exposed some a lady who made you feel better about yourself and a guy who figured out a diet. They highlighted the shonky organisations like Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon Environment Council and the Tennessee Centre for Policy Research. They exposed the fact that they will never sacrifice their quality of life if it was for the sake of saving the planet.
Finally, they exposed that people who run carbon credit companies, use it themselves. BIG DEAL.
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/advocacy/global_climate_change_triggered_by_global_warming/
Penn : ... someone asked us about global warming ... I said I didn't know ... I said that Al Gore was so annoying that I really wanted to doubt anything he was hyping, but I just didn't know ... Teller chimed in with something about Gore's selling of "indulgences" being BS, and then said he didn't know either. Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
So in effect, Penn confirms Begley's report.
Begley : Someone asked Penn whether he still believed that man-made climate change is bunk, as he has said more than once. Penn's basic answer was: I loathe everything about Al Gore, so since Gore has been crusading against climate change it must be garbage.
Sheppard : I thought it was good for members of the press to have a healthy skepticism. I guess this isn't the case when they're acting as an advocate for their own political beliefs, right Sharon?
I've read the article twice now and can't see how Sheppard comes to that criticism of Begley by providing evidence to support Begley. Or why Penn is upset with what seems to me to be an adequate paraphrasing.
Bare with me, if you can. Penn & Teller said they don't know. However their aptly titled show contained a number counter claims to anthropogenic causation of climate change; they start with the illustrious Time Magazine, show case John Coleman and John Charles among others. Why show these guys then add, "Oh we don't know". If you're going to pretend not to have an opinion then why wouldn't you show the readily available research that shows that Coleman and Charles are full of crap. Pour some of the Ad Hominem on Coleman and Charles as they are soft targets for it. Penn & Teller didn't. The only people they interviewed directly about global warming either deny carbon causation or anthropogenic causation. So Penn & Teller ARE promoting the denial of global warming with their show.
Penn : ... someone asked us about global warming ... I said I didn't know ... I said that Al Gore was so annoying that I really wanted to doubt anything he was hyping, but I just didn't know ... Teller chimed in with something about Gore's selling of "indulgences" being BS, and then said he didn't know either. Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
So they don't know, but they are going ahead with their denial filled show because why now? Penn: "I really wanted to doubt anything he [Gore] was hyping"
Begley's summation is correct despite the additional contradictory "I don't know" of Penn & Teller. They can't have it both ways.
