KiwiCoromandel

he`s a real nailbiter!!

fucking A!!! :D :rotfl:

seems like the music business is pretty high risk these days..... :(

not a bad little browser....very fast.......

and then there`s this to top it off... REDNECK CHRISTMAS TREE TOPPER......

Redneck Christmas Lights......... :rolleyes:

on the same subject...... Rudolph's safe flying over US air space America's anti-missile system is stuck on the launch pad, writes Jay Bookman. There is no such thing as Santa Claus. There are no elves at the North Pole, no flying reindeer, and most assuredly, no reindeer with a nose so bright it can guide a sleigh at night. And - brace yourself - there's also no missile defence system that can shoot down missiles before they reach the United States. It'd be nice if there were, but there isn't. The US does have missile interceptors, radars and gear that makes it look as though it has a missile defence system. America has spent tens of billions of dollars on the system but it's about as real as that Santa at the shopping centre. He looks like the real thing but he sure won't be sliding down any chimneys on Christmas Eve. Just like that missile defence system won't be shooting down any missiles. Nonetheless, the US President, George Bush, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and others still claim such a system exists, and say it's almost operational. "We have no intention of deploying something that doesn't work," Rumsfeld said a few years ago, "but what the definition of 'work' is, is terribly important." It certainly is. In fact, the alleged missile defence system in Alaska will be about as effective as sticking painted plywood on Humvees and telling US soldiers in Iraq that their vehicles are now fully armoured. While both strategies create the illusion of protection, the plywood approach would be a lot cheaper than the missile defence system. The sad thing is, if the US hadn't wasted about $US100 billion ($130 billion) so far on a missile defence system that's not even close to operational, it might have had enough resources to give its troops the real-life protection they need in a real-life war. But there's not much money or glamour in Humvee armour. Lockheed and Boeing aren't going to lobby congressmen to appropriate money for that kind of thing. In previous tests of the missile-intercept technology, run under perfect conditions and with target missiles equipped with beacons so the "kill vehicles" could find them easily, the system failed almost half the time. And you can bet the North Koreans or the Chinese won't be putting homing devices on their missiles. It is conceivable that after a lot more testing and many more billions of dollars, the US could, some day, field a workable system. But even if it succeeds in the extraordinarily complicated interplay of hugely complex systems that must work together with absolute perfection every time under a variety of unpredictable conditions the system could be defeated by the simple step of putting a warhead on a speedboat and sending it into New York Harbour. In a test just this month, the interceptor rocket couldn't even get off the ground. The only previous test of this specific interceptor rocket was two years ago, and it, too, was a dismal failure. Since then, tests have been delayed over and over again, for a variety of reasons. Computer failures. Design problems. Radar problems. Battery problems. For a long stretch this month, it couldn't be tested because, well, the weather was bad. I guess they didn't think of getting Rudolph to help them. I hear that with that nose of his, he's very good at flying through fog and snow....... :rolleyes:

very cool....

...oh well..try this...or this ..both the same url.... http://www.bi-torrent.com/ http://www.donvitorrent.com/43.ht

pretty rugged alright...checked your blog slum goddess....very cool....very smart....well done.. :good job: :good job:

is that graham bonnett in that slideshow????

good one!!! alternating (as i do) between netscape 7.2, mozilla firefox and opera 7.6 preview i feel that i`m doing my bit..... check out some of the crappy Fileforum/Betanews reviews on firefox by the microsoft hacks , and Mr Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of product management for Windows, who says that he uses maxthon......my god, have you tried it..its more bloated than a week old dead whale stranded on a beach!!! here`s one example if you don`t want to read them all... " It's buggy and most of the extensions don't work. If Firebird becomes to only Mozilla available, I'm going back to Opera. The community is non-responsive to the features that people want, bugs rarely get fixed. This is nothing but an amatuerish version of Mozilla with a few pretty icons. It's the dumb, blonde, bimbo of browsers." and this gem from "jimpypimpy" .... "After reading all the glowing reviews, I downloaded Firebird. There is no installer, you have to manually unzip this and make your own directory. The "built-in" popup stopper blocks ALL POPUPS so you cannot navigate normally. The download manager is poor. All in all this is a bad joke. " and i can`t resist this beauty.... " This thing is a digital turd. If I'd open a bookmark drop-down list, then click on the browser window to dismiss the menu, part of the menu would disappear, while part of it would stay--and would NOT go away until I closed the entire application. Other times, if the menu went away, I could not access the same menu again--for NO apparent reason. You can't configure it to close tabs when double clicked, which to me seems like an obvious function to have. And if you open lots of tabs, well, they just keep getting smaller and smaller, until they are so tiny as to be inscrutable and essentially useless. The search bar sucks (and don't even tell me I should install some extension; I am rating the browser itself, not Joe Blow's Happy Slappy Search Bar Extension). The toolbar isn't configurable enough (no "Stop all", "Refresh all", or "Close all" buttons, for example--and yeah, I know "Reload all tabs" is available on the tab bar context menu). And I know it's beta, but I don't care: It makes no difference. The software is available in its current form, and I'm rating it in its current form. This thing is for people who enjoy getting a senseless "stick it to da man!" feeling. I find Opera 7.2 and MyIE2 much, much, MUCH better. I know it's heresy to say so, but this thing is just plain awful. Deal with it, Sparky. "

didn`t know much about elliot smith...but a very nice sound..

hard case stuff...no thank you....

if i was santa i`d be very careful about whose airspace i strayed into this christmas........

pantera...." cowboys from hell " title track from the album " cowboys from hell "....never really got into pantera but after the untimely death of dimebag darrell i`ve been having another look at them...just watched the video version of the track " cowboys from hell " from the ozzfest 2000 concert....fucking incredible..what a monster riff....what a lead guitarist..so many influences in there...what a waste.......

very funny......

not any more.....i`m not sure about santa either....

don`t forget the screamer " just like me "....

i refuse to be guided by lines!!!!

interesting news item...b 52`s were really good.....

saucy......

horses for courses eh...ride em cowboy...sorry..i mean ride em kathy...

MDC...MC5??....hmmmmmmm