Sounds great tom. But what the hell is a wawa?

At 3/20/05 05:53 AM, fredthefro wrote: your all lucky the uk has only 5 channels for the tv..
(and one of them is just full of b-movies and crappy censered porn)

doesn't the bbc have like 10 digital channels? our abc just launched a new channel on digital...

Nobody has really clearly explained how free to air television works. and to that extent how does cable work.

In australia there are free to air channels that have broadcasts that are soley supported by advertising revenue. They carry the major shows. 3 commercial 2 government sponsored. Anyone with an antenna can pick them up.

For cable (im simplifying it here a little) there is practically one cable provider in the whole country. That provider arranges all of the content. they buy shows of teh us and produce a bit of content as well. Channels are not companies but simply places for the cable provider to put the content they have bought or made.

In america there seems to be something different. Each of the cable channels seem to compete? are each of the channels companies within themselves?

A nice intelligent explanation would be nice :)

At 3/20/05 04:29 AM, nXXt wrote:

At 3/20/05 04:28 AM, the_unknown_soldier wrote: so there is no free to air tv, as in with aerials and such in the us???

I believe there is, but I could be mistaking.

if there is no broadcast tv then why does teh fcc have any power? Im sure there must be free to air tv..... does someone know how it all works?

so there is no free to air tv, as in with aerials and such in the us???

Why not ehhh!

It seems confusing really... In a country like Australia cabe is seen as an uneeded luxury... It has barely any content that isn't on free to air, just lots and lots of simpsons repeats! Whats it like in your country?

In Australia where I live there are 3 commercial free to air channels and 2 government sponsored ones. Since cable infiltration is so high in america i cannot seem to find this information.... Do you have set channels on free to air across the whole country or some kind of syndication system whereby local broadcasters can buy any content they like from producers? I'm not sure. How does free to air tv work over there in the US?

At 8/14/04 11:50 AM, Heaz wrote: All of you guys are fucking warped. What if he's actually serious about this?

he isn't

if someoen was really depressed enought o kill themselves they wouldn't post saying they were going to kill themselves. much less say "im going to do it in a few weeks/months.

this person is nothing but an attention seeker

At 8/14/04 11:42 AM, JafitMan wrote: thish thread is like SO 2003

i was going to say that. nothing has changed around here has it!

i hate america. once a comedian said something along these lines:

americans are great individuals! i love having a chat to an american. but nce you get more than 3 americans together in the same room they become wankers.

its true.. as a collective people you guys really do suck. i mean.. who the heck voted for bush (im looking at you, texans) nice job on that one. and to think they are about to do it again!

im considering buying one, for no other reason than to get my username without numbers. its pretty cheap i reckon, a couple dollars on ebay, well worth it.

I know plenty of new users on websites that arn't idiots. a N00b is someone who is a stupid new person. people who don't read faqs or are incapable of using google deserve all the insults we can throw at them, n00b.

At 4/7/04 01:01 AM, DeathScythe440 wrote: So
assuming
girls=evil
you=hate girls
so
you=gay

does explain the satanist movement though doesn't it

the whole pledge thing astounds me, i would never pledge my allegaince to australia. and i have nfi what it has to do with shit in a free thinking societytake under god, and everything before that out of the pledge

the moment i saw this i thought of the onion.

Bush Urges Iraqis To Pass Amendment Banning
Gay Marriage
BAGHDAD—In a private meeting with Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum, President Bush urged the Iraqi Governing Council president to amend the recently ratified Iraqi constitution to protect the sanctity of heterosexual marriage. "The Iraqi constitution, signed just a few short weeks ago, will usher in a new era of democratic freedom in Iraq," Bush said. "But there are some unlawful and unholy acts that the constitution's original drafters could not have possibly intended to protect." Bush then told al-Ulloum he must act quickly and decisively to preserve his country's most sacred tradition.

lol..

At 3/27/04 06:01 AM, darkphantom wrote: Im abit vauge on american polotics... so could you clean up for me what do the supream court actually do? Iv heard nothing but insults for them, do they have some sort of overidding control over the majority? casue if they do thats not much of a democracy.

there was a huge contraversy in florida.... basically teh law says "the voters intention must be taken into account" so, for instance if someone clicks the wrong box for any reason... or does something that is technically not what was asked, but you can obviously see who they wanted to vtoe for, then that vote is counted.

that wasn't done. anything that was strictly not right was considered a dummy vote.

several circumstances which will cause an argument here resulted in the supreme court ruling that the votes should not be recounted.

the (nyt??) counted the votes, and put it as gore won, which would mean that gore would be president.

At 3/9/04 09:42 AM, TomFulp wrote: This UK cellphone commercial features a babe with a REALLY BIG FLAMETHROWER. I gotta get one of those! (I mean the flamethrower...)

i bet someone is being paid by virgin. you have tonnes of their ads on here

At 3/8/04 12:41 AM, XxCoLdxX wrote: Mine's 5 and I'm 13...that normal?

nothing is normal, on the same note, everything is normal. its like teh height of a person.... its normal to be 5"1 and its normal to be 6"3... don't worry about it.

as for me..... i havn't measured in ages, and can't find a ruler. i think im about 5 1/2 though.

havn't read this whole post but would jsut like to put in my $.02

this is coming from an agnostic, so biases are asumed...

atheists say they believe there is nothing out there. that is a belief, a faith.
and then they say how stupid christians are for having a faith!

atheism is a religion. and most atheism take the stance that religion is stupid.

hypocritical, and flawed in every way.

someone has never played ms flight simulator

At 2/28/04 12:18 AM, JudgeFUNK wrote: do you have any idea how rich Bill Gates is?

Anything Osama can do, Bill Gates can double. What's the difference between the two? Bill Gates already HAS control over the west (guess what type of computer this is?). He crushed the leading computer company (apple) to get it. Osama wants control over the west too, only instead of software, he wants religion. And he's just as willing to crush the infidels to do it.

who wants to tell me what the ideolistic aims of osama bin laden are. when alqaeda started, what was it for.

planning terrorsit attacks costs a lot of money. thats why alaeda has a billionare as its head, tehy need the money. there is a lot of planning involved in getting it to work.

**not so much for palestine, but they don't really run a terrorist group, that would assume its a cultish minority who are killing people instead of a whole country hating another

At 2/22/04 10:29 PM, -redskunk- wrote: Alot of ppl addressed this well enough, but browsing through I'd just like to add acouple things...

At 2/21/04 03:54 AM, the_unknown_soldier wrote: cut off the oil supply thjat runs americas economy.

We get most of our oil from North America. You were talking about the Middle East.

we don't use saudi arabia for oil? saudi arabia is teh second biggest imprter for america, and this is going to be increased as time goes on because other countries can't keep oil supply for as long as sadi arabia can

dpesn't china have a pretty kickass army?

At 2/22/04 01:18 AM, Xion-Fox wrote:

and its not impossible for them to create CD's that simply cannot be copied,

yes it is. if it comes down to it, i can plug my cd player into the mic port of my computer and record it that way. it only takes one person to do that till everybody has that song. copy protection is a joke

the new coldplay album...moby...enya

At 2/21/04 11:11 PM, Dr_Arbitrary wrote:

At 2/21/04 09:41 PM, the_unknown_soldier wrote: uhuhuhuhuh. if the columbine kids had knives.... how many people do you think would be dead.

Man, they could have done all sorts of damage, adding a close range attack to their long range one would have increased their lethality tenfold. After all, any video game fan knows that Hand to Hand is one of the best ways to take out crowds when you're low on ammo. It's a good thing they only had guns.

i love the "only" i meant if they had knives instead of guns. can you imagine, a bunch of buff football players going "yea ok ill let this wekling goth stab me? no! they'd get the shit beaten out of them. anyway, columbine wasn't caused by guns, it just wasn't helped by it

name a superpower change that hasn't resulted in bloodshed. and as far as alaska goes.
alaska. pft. sif that will last anyway

world war is pretty irrelevant since i don't think it would hapen, it was just sort of put there because it is **possible** not probable though
no just saying nobody gives a rats ass about saudis dying.

the "gun totting psychos" are quite efficient when they have a decent army.
yes
i know!

in my opinion dubaya is stupid, but he has a very intelligent staff.

case closed.

At 2/21/04 09:56 PM, NumberClock wrote: That's old.

A couple of my older brother friends and I tried that, I didn't even realize I was knocked out until I was consious.

But I heard that it can cause brain damage :(

at my school for a whole week thats all kids did at recess and lunch. it is a relaly amazing feeling. it trul;y fucks up your short term memory for that day though, and i assume you lose braincells. its a great feeling though. worth trying

At 2/21/04 07:04 PM, Jimsween wrote:

At 2/21/04 11:08 AM, whatty wrote:

It's wasn't guts, they were protecting thier own interests in Iraq. What the French did not only was not admirable, it was selfish, because thanks to thier blocking of a coalition invasion the invasion that did take place was doubtlessly innefficient, and caused more deaths than would have been caused with the entire UN's support. France knew we were going to go in, everyone did, it was inevitable,

So what you are saying was "we were right... therefore. you are swaying "we wanted to invade iraq and they had to use their democratic right!

what bastards.
the selfish people going into iraq were the americans.

nothing they could have said would have stopped it, so not trying to minimize civilian casualties is just selfish.

america did nothing to try and reduce civillian casualtys in iraq. remember the "kill anything that move" and the soldiers that said "look, if civillians are alone we usually leave them alone, but if they are anywhere near insurgents they are dead meat. remember http://www.indymedia.org.uk/med...04/01/284085.avi

my rule of thumb is the inavding force is innocent. you should have said "hey, the un said no maybe this is wrong. not "its the un's fault, not ours.

And, considering that the American War of Independence was one of the reasons that the French had to raise taxes, the Americans pretty much started the French Revolution. So, the Americans got King Louis's head chopped off by the guillotine. Nice.

Yes it was, King Louis was running the country without the consent of the people. If anything they should be happy we provoked democracy in thier country.

bush could learn something here.

nice to see that the average intelligence of an american is still that of your average monkey.
you people make me sick.