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xcidium said:
In area's where there are problems with fresh water and dam levels (ie: Most of Australia), why aren't there water catchments in the high rainfall area's that store/pump water to the low-level dams?

Or are there, but I'm not aware of them?
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Every city currently does this to a certain degree to fill their reservoirs, but in order to do it on a scale big enough to irrigate the huge portions of Australia that suffer from low water levels would cost a fortune.

You would either need to divert existing rivers, or essentially create new ones (although they could just be in monstrous pipes so you don't lose any in the transfer). Once you do this, you would be drastically changing the ecology, (and and everything that goes with it) of the areas where that water would have otherwise gone. Click here to read a case study that discusses the environmenttal impact of river diversion from the Snowy River Scheme.

An alternative solution that I would lean towards would be to send a special team down to Antarctica with plasma cutters and long range siege weaponry. The basic plan would be to cut out huge balls of ice and fire them (by way of giant pea-shooter, trebuchet or something similar) in the general direction of the desert areas that you want to irrigate. Sure, you wouldn't want to be there when it lands, but you have the advantage of slow release irrigation as the ice melts, a slight (if temporary) lowering of the oppressive desert temperatures, and all those penguins get a fun park made up of giant curved halfpipe kind of icebergs that are left over from the ice-mining. :)
 
MoeBro said:
you'd rather play ntsc games?
odd fellow.
If the hardware is capable of running 24 frames comfortably at a higher resolution, then give me PAL anyday.
In fact, on that note, I'd much prefer a computer. Nothing quite like 100Hz at outrageous resolutions.
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Might help if you read what I said :) "This coming from consoles come and gone, not sure of modern stuff. Haven't been into gaming for a few years". PAL might be good these days for gaming/consoles but in my era of consoles, it SUCKED (Up to Playstation 1)
 
Pop Popavich said:
An alternative solution that I would lean towards would be to send a special team down to Antarctica with plasma cutters and long range siege weaponry. The basic plan would be to cut out huge balls of ice and fire them (by way of giant pea-shooter, trebuchet or something similar) in the general direction of the desert areas that you want to irrigate. Sure, you wouldn't want to be there when it lands, but you have the advantage of slow release irrigation as the ice melts, a slight (if temporary) lowering of the oppressive desert temperatures, and all those penguins get a fun park made up of giant curved halfpipe kind of icebergs that are left over from the ice-mining. :)
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Oh yes I would. You've just given me something else to ad to my list of things I want to see before I die, A giant chunk of Ice, catupulting through the air and kablooming into the desert.
 
xcidium said:
In area's where there are problems with fresh water and dam levels (ie: Most of Australia), why aren't there water catchments in the high rainfall area's that store/pump water to the low-level dams?

Or are there, but I'm not aware of them?
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Yer Xcidium, there is one dam down here that i know of "Stirling Dam" it's water is pumped up to perth dams.

Also Another Dam, in close Proximity of "stirling dam" "Louge Brook Dam" is Apparently Being Re-Instated as a drinking water dam, and all of its contence will also be Pumped to perth.

Previously "Louge brook Dam" Was a Ski dam. But for the last 5 years its been closed to boats, in fact ive never seen it full to the brim.

Infact heres a link to WA dams, although they dont have Pic's or wether or not they are drinking water dams, is unfortinate. http://www.watercorporation.com.au/dams/dams_all.cfm
 
sux2 said:
Might help if you read what I said :) "This coming from consoles come and gone, not sure of modern stuff.
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Good point: I never had the privilege of playing on ntsc based older school nintendo and sega equipment, only pal. Tis an interesting point though.
For reference I've only had GCNs side by side and the image quality on both is nigh on identical. Nothing I could distinguish.
 
What physiologically causes PMS?
Are there any herbs/drugs to cut down the (emotional) symptoms?
Why do PMS'ing females find comments like 'you're just being emotional' a challenge to the death?
 
joannie_mhm said:
^they haven't been before and don't realise how packed it is?
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Partially that and it looked like a bigger ver of Poser Day (aka Field Day).

the Stand selling Von Dutch fakes might of had something to do with that too.
 
m4dd0g said:
What physiologically causes PMS?
Are there any herbs/drugs to cut down the (emotional) symptoms?
Why do PMS'ing females find comments like 'you're just being emotional' a challenge to the death?
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It's basically a hormone rollercoaster, and hormones are involved in moods. So for those 5 days, the rollercoaster could be said to be in the dip. It's really way more complicated than that, but I'm tired...

Q: How do you make a hormone?
A: Don't pay her. =D
 
Why doesn't bread packaging need to be sealed?

Is bottled water really from underground springs/wherever? Or is it just tap water put through a series of filters?
 
Having worked at a spring water bottling plant I can confirm that the water does actually come from underground springs. I also worked at a Plant Farm at another time a bit further along the ridge and the water in the staff room was taken via bore straight from the same spring, no filtering or anything. And it tasted fucking unreal - as far as water can anyways.

As an interesting side note the plant is owned by Coca-cola who are now suing the local council because the council said they can't expand their operations - for the reason that it would put the water supply of the community at risk (being that the spring is one that feeds a dam that water is taken from). Really community minded that company. Fucking jack offskies.

Coca Cola takes spring-water fight to court

Coca Cola Amatil says it has begun legal action to force a NSW central coast council to approve almost tripling the quantity of water to be extracted from the Peats Ridge spring.

Gosford City Council has refused an application to extract 66 million litres a year from the Peats Ridge springs.

Development director Colleen Worthy-Jennings says with current water restrictions, council wants to be sure it is sustainable.

"The Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources (DIPNR) was doing a water study and we wanted that information to see how it would impact on our water supply," Ms Worth-Jennings said.

Coca Cola Amatil's Alec Wagstaff says the expansion is only 2.5 per cent of DIPNR's extraction limit.

"The terms of the licence granted to us by the Department of Infrastructure give them the right to reduce that should there be an adverse impact on the environment," Mr Wagstaff said.

The department says the study will take another six months but has denied already approving increased water extraction.

Taken from here
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There's an interesting debate on the issue here.
 
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lostpunk5545 said:
As an interesting side note the plant is owned by Coca-cola who are now suing the local council because the council said they can't expand their operations - for the reason that it would put the water supply of the community at risk (being that the spring is one that feeds a dam that water is taken from). Really community minded that company. Fucking jack offskies.[/URL]
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hahahaha
you work for CCA.
thats fucking hilarious :D
 
MoeBro said:
hahahaha
you work for CCA.
thats fucking hilarious :D
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Hey it was a temp. factory job that I worked at for a week before finding out that Peats Ridge Springs was owned by Coke :)

I now actually work at a small nursery for probably the nicest bosses I've ever had... :)
 
^^very good of you :)

Heres one: Since I got my laptop a few months ago, I've noticed that it has this annoying habit of throttling its CPU speed to 500 or 800 odd mhz as opposed to its full speed. Now, setting power management to minimal, or to home/office use doesn't increase it (it does if i reboot the machine, but why the hell do I want to do that?)

The laptop is a Dell Latitude X1 if it makes any difference.
 
might be an intel thing, coz it use to do it on mums laptop (p3-m 1ghz. dunno why it doesnt anymore)
 
Moe, look in the bios for "Speedstep" settings.

Not sure if your laptop would have it, but I know mine does. It was one of the first things I turned off. I'd far prefer my laptop to go hard and fast and burn itself out than be frustrating and annoyingly slow for up to twice as long!
 
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