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tcpipWhat he said...
"I couldn't justify on its own a military invasion of Iraq to change the regime."
"Its possession of chemical and biological weapons and its pursuit of a nuclear capability poses a real and unacceptable threat to the stability and security of our world,"
"The Australian Government knows that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons and that Iraq wants to develop nuclear weapons."
"We believe that so far from our action in Iraq increasing the terrorist threat it will, by stopping the spread of chemical and biological weapons, make it less likely that a devastating terrorist attack will be carried out against Australia."
"We did not distort that intelligence, I did not manipulate."
That's why we need a Royal Commission...
Eight articles in The Age today.
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364883.html
PM's Iraq claims 'not supported'
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364061.html
Hard to explain ONA changing advice
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364090.html
Advice not 'sexed up', but ignored: Beazley
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364064.html
Doubt cast on Howard's reasons for Iraq war
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364084.html
Report backs Age revelations
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364093.html
Tough questions remain unanswered
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364087.html
Weaknesses to be found from the start to the end
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117361592.html
Why we now need a full inquiry
One of my favourite hobbies - and occassional profession - is cooking. I've had great fortune recently in my op-shop searches on this matter. Recent discoveries include that classic invention The Swift Whip (good enough to be on display at the Wellington Museum), a Moulinette and a 16 volume Time-Life Recipes of the World. Needless to say, I've been making full use of said items.
I am considering combining the current project that I have with the language translation programme with Peter and Cromwell with a cooking programme. A google-like interface, plug a few keywords (e.g., "French" "Chicken" "Onion" "Garlic") and it will return a stack of recipes for you.
I even have a name for the programme. "Open Sauce". ;-)
Whilst on-topic with the translation programme, although I have found plenty of academic papers on problems relating to the subject, do you think I can find any source code? Fourty years research on the topic and the best I can find is a failed English-Russian programme that translated "The spirit is willing, but the body is weak" to "The vodka is strong, but the meat is rotten".
Memeage...
From usekh, via lederhosen..
So, say you were meeting a new person--blind date, new friend, who knows. And you wanted them to have some idea of what kind of person you are, and who you are. But you can't actually tell them in so many words. Instead, you have to give them a box, with a dozen things in it for them to look at/read/listen to/taste/whatever. What would you put in the box? And a copy of your journal or a link to your LJ would be the same thing as just telling them directly, yourself, so that's not allowed.
1. Two birth certicates, same place, same date, different names. One without a surname.
2. A copy of Francios Truffaut's 400 Blows
3. A copy of Sandanista! by The Clash
4. A copy of Rolemaster Companion VI
5. A copy of Neon-Komputadador
6. A copy of my PhD, A Social Theory of the Internet
7. A copy of The Beacon, magazine of the Melbourne Unitarian Church.
8. A black beret.
7. A bicycle.
9. A passport.
10. A parrot (named 'Poly').
11. A spirit-level (it's also a metaphor).
12. Some shit and a stick to stir it with.
Slowlight reveals on why going to ANU may not be such a good thing.
Whilst searching for historical standards for measurement (for my thesis) I discovered this little link on collective nouns for animals.
Interesting event coming up: The Australian Fabian Society Autumn Lectures
'And the Truth Shall Set You Free: Public and Community Television and Radio and the Public Interest'.
Mondays 22 and 29 March and 5 April. 6pm for 6:30pm to 8:30pm, at the Assembly Hall, 156 Collins Street, Melbourne (Next to Georges). Speakers ABC Chairman Donald McDonald, ABC historian Ken Inglis, media studies teacher and 'Age' columnist Catharine Lumby, Film, Television and Radio School Director Malcolm Long; Swinburne Institute Research Fellow Jock Given; 3RRR station manager Kath Letch, ALP Communications and Community Relationships Shadow Minister Lindsay Tanner, MHR (ALP Shadow Minister for Communications), outspoken cultural affairs commentator Tony Moore and writer Guy Rundle. Chaired by Phillip Adams, June Factor and Terry Laidler. 'Early Bird' Advance Saver Booking Season Ticket $40, or $25 concession for Australian Fabian Society and Friends of the ABC members, community radio subscribers, students and Health Card holders. Door Price season tickets $45 or $30 concession, single entry admissions $15, or $10 concession.
Off to Adelaide next week, for a week. My ol chum Paula has a role in a play and I need the week to finish editing my thesis. Wow. It's like, almost done.
Now what do I do?
"I couldn't justify on its own a military invasion of Iraq to change the regime."
"Its possession of chemical and biological weapons and its pursuit of a nuclear capability poses a real and unacceptable threat to the stability and security of our world,"
"The Australian Government knows that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons and that Iraq wants to develop nuclear weapons."
"We believe that so far from our action in Iraq increasing the terrorist threat it will, by stopping the spread of chemical and biological weapons, make it less likely that a devastating terrorist attack will be carried out against Australia."
"We did not distort that intelligence, I did not manipulate."
That's why we need a Royal Commission...
Eight articles in The Age today.
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364883.html
PM's Iraq claims 'not supported'
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364061.html
Hard to explain ONA changing advice
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364090.html
Advice not 'sexed up', but ignored: Beazley
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364064.html
Doubt cast on Howard's reasons for Iraq war
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364084.html
Report backs Age revelations
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364093.html
Tough questions remain unanswered
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117364087.html
Weaknesses to be found from the start to the end
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/03/01/1078117361592.html
Why we now need a full inquiry
One of my favourite hobbies - and occassional profession - is cooking. I've had great fortune recently in my op-shop searches on this matter. Recent discoveries include that classic invention The Swift Whip (good enough to be on display at the Wellington Museum), a Moulinette and a 16 volume Time-Life Recipes of the World. Needless to say, I've been making full use of said items.
I am considering combining the current project that I have with the language translation programme with Peter and Cromwell with a cooking programme. A google-like interface, plug a few keywords (e.g., "French" "Chicken" "Onion" "Garlic") and it will return a stack of recipes for you.
I even have a name for the programme. "Open Sauce". ;-)
Whilst on-topic with the translation programme, although I have found plenty of academic papers on problems relating to the subject, do you think I can find any source code? Fourty years research on the topic and the best I can find is a failed English-Russian programme that translated "The spirit is willing, but the body is weak" to "The vodka is strong, but the meat is rotten".
Memeage...
From usekh, via lederhosen..
So, say you were meeting a new person--blind date, new friend, who knows. And you wanted them to have some idea of what kind of person you are, and who you are. But you can't actually tell them in so many words. Instead, you have to give them a box, with a dozen things in it for them to look at/read/listen to/taste/whatever. What would you put in the box? And a copy of your journal or a link to your LJ would be the same thing as just telling them directly, yourself, so that's not allowed.
1. Two birth certicates, same place, same date, different names. One without a surname.
2. A copy of Francios Truffaut's 400 Blows
3. A copy of Sandanista! by The Clash
4. A copy of Rolemaster Companion VI
5. A copy of Neon-Komputadador
6. A copy of my PhD, A Social Theory of the Internet
7. A copy of The Beacon, magazine of the Melbourne Unitarian Church.
8. A black beret.
7. A bicycle.
9. A passport.
10. A parrot (named 'Poly').
11. A spirit-level (it's also a metaphor).
12. Some shit and a stick to stir it with.
Slowlight reveals on why going to ANU may not be such a good thing.
Whilst searching for historical standards for measurement (for my thesis) I discovered this little link on collective nouns for animals.
Interesting event coming up: The Australian Fabian Society Autumn Lectures
'And the Truth Shall Set You Free: Public and Community Television and Radio and the Public Interest'.
Mondays 22 and 29 March and 5 April. 6pm for 6:30pm to 8:30pm, at the Assembly Hall, 156 Collins Street, Melbourne (Next to Georges). Speakers ABC Chairman Donald McDonald, ABC historian Ken Inglis, media studies teacher and 'Age' columnist Catharine Lumby, Film, Television and Radio School Director Malcolm Long; Swinburne Institute Research Fellow Jock Given; 3RRR station manager Kath Letch, ALP Communications and Community Relationships Shadow Minister Lindsay Tanner, MHR (ALP Shadow Minister for Communications), outspoken cultural affairs commentator Tony Moore and writer Guy Rundle. Chaired by Phillip Adams, June Factor and Terry Laidler. 'Early Bird' Advance Saver Booking Season Ticket $40, or $25 concession for Australian Fabian Society and Friends of the ABC members, community radio subscribers, students and Health Card holders. Door Price season tickets $45 or $30 concession, single entry admissions $15, or $10 concession.
Off to Adelaide next week, for a week. My ol chum Paula has a role in a play and I need the week to finish editing my thesis. Wow. It's like, almost done.
Now what do I do?
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Date: 2004-03-01 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-01 07:30 pm (UTC)It's interesting. The more prestigious a university seems to be, the worse the administration standards.
Beckons the question on where one goes for post-doctoral research for a D.Soc.Sci, tho'..
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Date: 2004-03-01 08:33 pm (UTC)Hope not, my parents moved from ANU to Oxford :-)
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Date: 2004-03-01 04:19 pm (UTC)'And the Truth Shall Set You Free: Public and Community Television and Radio and the Public Interest'.
Sounds very interseting actually.
As for your thesis - you knew you would get it done eventually. I'm sure you will find something else to do next as well... write another book perhaps?? More "Open Sauce" programmes? ;)
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Date: 2004-03-01 07:34 pm (UTC)Yeah, the Fabians have been advertising this one for months, but without a specific speaker list and location.
Come to think of it, their website is very out of date...
As for "doing something else" I was thinking more on a academic level. Perhaps a PhD in computer science on machine translation.
After all, if it works it would be as important as the development of the tcp/ip suite itself.
Although, I'm not sure I'm that smart...
no subject
Date: 2004-03-01 07:49 pm (UTC)Machine translation = translation of languages by computers sort of like the one you are doing for Tetun??
I guess you will find out if you are smart enough.
no subject
Date: 2004-03-01 05:49 pm (UTC)They left out crows.
Apparently, it is a murder of crows.
BTW, my own take on this is that if Howard says okay to a further commission, it's only because he knows he can work it to his advantage somehow....
I guess it's a side issue, but I know that we sent over a huge proportion of our armed forces in order to be (I think) about 1% or less of the total force. I'm curious as to what proportion of our armed forces went to Iraq, when compared to the US and UK. Er, I probably should go and look it up. Pardon me.
Good luck with the last week of thesisising.
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Date: 2004-03-01 07:39 pm (UTC)Crows A murder, horde
I seem to recall a conversion on aus.culture.gothic for a collective noun for goths. I think "gloom" was the best.
After the findings of the parliamentary committee, I doubt whether Howard will support a Royal Commission - unless there's sufficient public pressure for one and it is worse for him politically not to hold one.
This could become quite an election issue. As it is doing so in the US and as it is doing so (internally for Labour) in the UK.
Personally, I don't think invading Iraq was justified even if the regime did have weapons of mass destruction.
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Date: 2004-03-01 09:56 pm (UTC)Crows A murder, horde
Whoops, sorry. A momentary vague out.
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Date: 2004-03-01 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-01 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-01 10:53 pm (UTC)I stand corrected. Thorfy is right in all respects.
http://www.usefulreference.com/l/li/list_of_collective_nouns_for_people.html
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Date: 2004-03-03 02:18 am (UTC)Personally, I don't think invading Iraq was justified even if the regime did have weapons of mass destruction.
I was one of the deluded fools who was frightened *just enough* by the WMD argument not to wholeheartedly oppose the war, even where I could see things that made me suspicious, like an apparent willingness to claim Al Quaeda and Saddam Hussein were in cahoots when it really didn't look like that to me...(not to mention the fact that personally, I would have thought N.Korea was far less stable and more likely to go crazy).
The fact that I think they were aiming to do this to me and millions like me, and that they succeeded, is really pissing me off.
I would love to know the real reason for the war.
Given what is happening in Iraq now, do you think the invading forces should remain?
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Date: 2004-03-03 09:37 pm (UTC)Real reason?
It's hard to ignore this:
http://www.crikey.com.au/business/2003/01/31-oilandiraq.html
(No, this one is not satire...)
I think the UN should take over the US led coalition.. If the US wants to hang around, fine. But under the command of the blue berets.
no subject
Date: 2004-03-04 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-01 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-01 05:56 pm (UTC)sell your thesis on ebay and retire on the royalties??
;)
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Date: 2004-03-01 07:50 pm (UTC)Ahhh, if only I believed in royalties!
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Date: 2004-03-02 05:21 am (UTC)It's a win-win situation methinks!
Adelaide?
Date: 2004-03-01 07:02 pm (UTC)http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au
... or you could cook me dinner? I am feeling largely uninspired in the kitchen lately.
BTW What play is 'chum' performing in? Also I like the idea of your item 11!! :)
Re: Adelaide?
Date: 2004-03-01 07:49 pm (UTC)The play is called 'Bugger Me Dead'. It's part of the Fringe and is being shown at the Adelaide Bowling Club March 3-7 at 8pm..
Happy to help out in the kitchen... My box of tricks should have included a cookbook! Speaking of which #11 does not necessarily imply that I'm that keen on DIY maintenance!
Re: Adelaide?
Date: 2004-03-01 10:20 pm (UTC)I will try time to go see the play me thinks (I like the title) as long as it's not about necromancy, not keen on Cold Ethel but a good laugh would be most welcome .. and my housemate needs to get out more - a good night (usually following a bad day) consists of a shot of comfort flavoured with a bottle of chardonnay - I am inclined to assist but it's getting expensive on the kidneys! I digress, let me know what night you may be attending the aforementioned and we could form a "gloom" (not many around here and I so like the image)??!!
Re: Adelaide?
Date: 2004-03-01 10:57 pm (UTC)OK consider all this a date!
Now all you have to do is send me an email to work out the finer details ;-)
Re: Adelaide?
Date: 2004-03-02 04:57 pm (UTC)However, agreed. Will drop something in your in-box shortly and introduce details.
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Date: 2004-03-01 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-01 10:52 pm (UTC)Nicked from: http://mailformat.dan.info/attachments/viruses.html
NOTE: Viruses is the proper plural of virus... some "pedant wannabes" like to use forms like viri or virii, but there's no support for them in classical Latin. It seems that in ancient Rome, "virus" was a collective noun for a mass of pestilence, and had no plural. If it did, it probably wouldn't have ended in -i, since the word was not in the part of the complex structure of Latin word classes that took such a suffix, even though many other -us nouns were. Anyway, viri is Latin for "men", so it would have been very confusing to use it also as the plural of "virus"!
Good god... It's a herp! Eww! Creepy!
http://www.anapsid.org/ighv1.html
For those of you who don't already know or haven't figured it out yet, the word herpes and herps (the collective noun for reptiles and amphibians) both come from the same root word, the Greek herpeton, meaning things that creep and crawl. In the case of herpes, the virus crawls along nerves; in the case of herps, well, whoever named herps herps has obviously never seen an iguana leap from his basking shelf to the floor rather than scurry down his climber!
That reminds me of a witty jape...
Date: 2004-03-03 02:10 am (UTC)pardon me.
Re: That reminds me of a witty jape...
Date: 2004-03-03 02:09 pm (UTC)OK, that's funny... Offal lor... I mean really..
I am going to have to steal that meme sometime
Date: 2004-03-01 09:10 pm (UTC)oh come on! I can't be the only one simple enough to find that funny! :P
Re: I am going to have to steal that meme sometime
Date: 2004-03-01 10:40 pm (UTC)http://opensauce.org/
Dammit, they're in Carlton!
http://opensauce.org/contact.html