http://www.pipeinternational.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=65&limitstart=290

This is the link for a recent international fibre link from Sydney Australia, to Guam. Page 30 (the first page of the blog). If you go to the bottom, you can see the page numbers. This blog details every single step of a cable lay from day 1, right up to lighting the fibre.

Pretty cool.

If anyone is interested this is from 'Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House'.

This was, of course, taken in Sydney.

Grammar Nazi Attack!

Where is it you say they're playing?

>> ^pmkierst:

Proving yet again that just because your a dick doesn't mean you can't have incredible talent.
Or indulge in a lot of guitar playing masturbation



And who's "a dick" is it?

>> ^Gallowflak:

>> ^Psychologic:
>> ^Gallowflak:
Oh, come on, dude. The issue here is making people almost deliberately uncomfortable, claustrophobic and immobile for the sake of some extra profit. It's not a matter of taste, or people thinking every design should suit them/their physiology, it's just fundamentally horrible design.
I was relieved to hear that it's only for flights of two hours or less in duration. The idea of being in that position for 22 hours on the Birmingham/Sydney route is almost as terrifying as a waterboarding session.

It's optional. As far as I can tell, no one is being put in that situation against their will (that would be fairly dishonest).
Bicycles aren't exactly comfortable either, but people choose to spend hours on those. You may not want to, and that's fine, but I'm glad the option exists.

With the condition that it's optional, then there's surely no problem. However, an important consideration is what percentage of seats will be comprised of these new designs in the airlines that install them.
I should also say that I have no idea what bicycles have to do with anything.


Unless every single plane installs this and only this - that's still optional.

I *can* fit in one of these seats, i don't *want* to sit on one, so i won't. Where's the beef? No one's forcing anyone to use them, so why the fuck would anyone complain?

If you're too fat to fit on a rollercoaster, you find another ride that you can fit on. That rollercoaster is not mandatory.

>> ^Psychologic:

>> ^Gallowflak:
Oh, come on, dude. The issue here is making people almost deliberately uncomfortable, claustrophobic and immobile for the sake of some extra profit. It's not a matter of taste, or people thinking every design should suit them/their physiology, it's just fundamentally horrible design.
I was relieved to hear that it's only for flights of two hours or less in duration. The idea of being in that position for 22 hours on the Birmingham/Sydney route is almost as terrifying as a waterboarding session.

It's optional. As far as I can tell, no one is being put in that situation against their will (that would be fairly dishonest).
Bicycles aren't exactly comfortable either, but people choose to spend hours on those. You may not want to, and that's fine, but I'm glad the option exists.


With the condition that it's optional, then there's surely no problem. However, an important consideration is what percentage of seats will be comprised of these new designs in the airlines that install them.

I should also say that I have no idea what bicycles have to do with anything.

>> ^Gallowflak:

Oh, come on, dude. The issue here is making people almost deliberately uncomfortable, claustrophobic and immobile for the sake of some extra profit. It's not a matter of taste, or people thinking every design should suit them/their physiology, it's just fundamentally horrible design.
I was relieved to hear that it's only for flights of two hours or less in duration. The idea of being in that position for 22 hours on the Birmingham/Sydney route is almost as terrifying as a waterboarding session.


It's optional. As far as I can tell, no one is being put in that situation against their will (that would be fairly dishonest).

Bicycles aren't exactly comfortable either, but people choose to spend hours on those. You may not want to, and that's fine, but I'm glad the option exists.

Oh, come on, dude. The issue here is making people almost deliberately uncomfortable, claustrophobic and immobile for the sake of some extra profit. It's not a matter of taste, or people thinking every design should suit them/their physiology, it's just fundamentally horrible design.

I was relieved to hear that it's only for flights of two hours or less in duration. The idea of being in that position for 22 hours on the Birmingham/Sydney route is almost as terrifying as a waterboarding session.

Ok, weird tangent. I used to work in a fine dining restaurant here in Australia. On the night of the opening of the Sydney Olympics, I was working in the private dining room of the restaurant, serving a group of 20-odd rich white people. There was much debate about who would light the o;ympic flame that night, and I was coming in and out of the room giving updates of who was holding the torch etc. Each prominent (white) Australian athlete who held the flame met with grand approval from the room, until I came in announcing that Cathy Freeman, an Aboriginal athlete and most prominent Australian track star at the time (and since, to be fair) had lit the flame. The announcement was met with cold shock, and a number of "I'm not racist, but she's not appropriate etc etc..." sentences.

I can't put words in their mouths, but I'm confident they would all argue that they don't believe one race has a moral right to dominate another. However, it seemed to me that the main reason for their displeasure was the race of the athlete, and that they were indeed racist.

Where does this fit within your consciousness argument?

The boxer who took the dive was found unfit to fight in Sydney by the New South Wales Combat Sports Authority.

On 21 July 2010 Briggs returned to the ring in Perth to take on Danny Green for the IBO cruiserweight title. Before the bout Green labelled Briggs "unprofessional" after the latter weighed in nearly 4kgs over the agreed-upon weight. The ensuing fight was seen as a "farce",[4] with Briggs collapsing after 29 seconds following an innocuous left jab by Green, his first in the fight, which appears to have at most brushed the top of Briggs' head. Briggs was subsequently booed out of the stadium by irate fans, and had to be protected by management from projected missiles being thrown at him. In a post-bout interview Green labelled Briggs a "less than canine" and claimed he would not be getting paid for the fight, while also apologising to fans who had paid to attend.[4] Speculation has arisen as to whether Briggs threw the fight, as online bookmaker Centrebet labelled the bout "highly, highly dubious" following a massive betting plunge shortly before the fight.[5] The fight had been due to be held in Sydney but was moved at the last minute after the New South Wales Combat Sports Authority refused to commission the bout claiming Briggs was "unfit" to fight.[6]

Boxing is known to cause damage to the sense of balance. I thought it was the left jab to the body, a late pain in the lower stomach that caused him to give up. He could have gotten up. This statement is in hopes that he was physically unfit for fighting.

According to the Article that @kymbos posted, he was knocked out while sparring two weeks prior to the fight. Who the hell get's knocked out whilst sparring. Unless they do some different sparring down under.

Paul Briggs came out looking good, but I think he was just spent mentally. His trainers should have never let him fight.

Edit: This fight looks like shit.

"‘We equate this leap in engine technology as equivalent to the post-World War II jump from propeller-driven aircraft to jet engines,’ Mr Brink said.

A passenger plane traveling at Mach 6 would cut the flight time from London to Sydney to little more than two hours.

Dr Andrew Coates, of the Mullard Space Science Lab at University College London, said the effects for passengers aboard a scramjet-powered plane would be 'more akin to space travel than airline travel'.

They would need protective clothing to counteract the effects of the G-forces pressing on the body during acceleration to 5,000mph."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1283078/Experimental-scramjet-hits-Mach-6.html

>> ^spawnflagger:
that's Natalie (communitychannel).
She's ethnically Vietnamese, but grew up and lives in Sydney Australia.
one of the funniest people on youtube, IMHO.


Being from North America, my exotic appreciation subroutines are melting down.

that's Natalie (communitychannel).
She's ethnically Vietnamese, but grew up and lives in Sydney Australia.
one of the funniest people on youtube, IMHO.

How many were paid actors... What assholes.

[EDIT] my suspicions were correct.

Actual photographs, it was raining. I can't find any photographs where the public was using this IRL ad campaign.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4478348424_dc0e72439e.jpg

Quiet on the set...
http://www.justinfocus.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/maccas-2.jpg

"The Playland was opened up for play to more than 300 Australians on March 29 and also today (Tuesday March 30) as a part of the filming of a McDonald’s TVC"

http://mumbrella.com.au/mcdonalds-targets-inner-child-with-giant-playground-21717
"McDonald’s has taken over the forecourt of Customs House at Sydney’s Circular Quay, with office workers this morning met with the sight of an adult-sized playground constructed as part of the filming of the burger chain’s latest TV commercial."

Why do retarded gov't turn over public spaces to corporations for this crap.

I've had a couple of big spidies come inside since i've been in Aus, 1 in Sydney and 3 since i've been in QLD. It's scary as hell, especially when they start moving. None were quite as big as this one though, poor chap.