Since we missed comic 60000, this will have to do.

There's always 70000.

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Recursive forum post topics make me very, very angry. I shall now have to use the R-232 Space Demodulator. Oooh. I am so very, very angry.

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I know this sounds stupid, but I don't get it.

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I know this sounds stupid, but I don't get it.

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65536 = 2^16 = 64k

I don't remember exactly why the computer industry refers to 65536 as 64k or to 1024 KB as 1 MB rather than 1.024 MB.

(By the way, while 1 megabyte does not equal 1,000,000 bytes, 1 megabit does equal 1,000,000 bits. Go figure.)

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Actually, I considered continuing on but I thought better of it.

But what the hell...

It should be noted that "kilobytes" and "megabytes" are used to refer to storage while "kilobits" and "megabits" are used to refer to transfer rates. Data tends to be stored and moved around inside a machine in byte-sized pieces. 8 bits or multiples of 8 bits are stored, retrieved, and transmitted in parallel inside the CPU, RAM, system bus, etc. On the other hand, not all information being passed across a medium from one machine to another is in the form of byte-sized pieces, so it makes some sense to count the individual bits.

Furthermore, one only need blah at blah industry blah blah recognize blah blah blah intrinsic blah blah socks blah when I was four blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

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...just wanted to be somewhere in the 1000th topic...

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...just wanted to be somewhere in the 1000th topic...

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To help celebrate the 1000th topic, here is a fun song about Australian tourism. It's about 1.2MB, and hosted on my ISPs webspace, so don't expect a wonderful download rate. It's by a couple of Aussie musical comedians called the Scared Weird Little Guys. If you're ever at an international comedy festival anywhere and they are performing, I highly recommend them. The song's very funny, and worth the download.

That's very funny !

and to think that I was going to move to Australia to finish my degree in August.

Although, at least it's a more interesting way to go than having a Stroke, Cancer or Heart Disease....assuming I don't get my legs cut off when I'm still alive and have the rest of my corpse dumped around various tourist attractions in Scotland.

Just to make you feel better, funnelwebs are only found around Sydney, and you _don't_ want to live in Sydney. I have been on more holidays to places with beaches and rockpools than you can shake a snorkel at, but I have never seen a blue-ringed octopus. I've seen two snakes and three redback spiders in my whole life, and the only sharks I have seen were little white-tipped reef sharks on the barrier reef, which were small enough that you could feed them and pat them.

Still, the song's a cack. :)

Ive got a redback spider nest under my house. and I got attacked by a starfish once.

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Just to make you feel better, funnelwebs are only found around Sydney, and you _don't_ want to live in Sydney. I have been on more holidays to places with beaches and rockpools than you can shake a snorkel at, but I have never seen a blue-ringed octopus. I've seen two snakes and three redback spiders in my whole life, and the only sharks I have seen were little white-tipped reef sharks on the barrier reef, which were small enough that you could feed them and pat them.

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Recommendations from you Aussies would be appreciated, I'd rather stay somewhere interesting, with a good night life

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Okay, quick guide to the cities listed on that site:

Adelaide: Famous for being one of the most quiet and dull places in Oz. It's really quite a large city, about a million and a half people, but it has no night life to speak of (except for a very nice casino). Still, very pleasant, lots of parks, but not a party town by any stretch of the imagination. For some odd reason, Adelaide and its surrounds harbour more serial killers than any other place in Australia.

Auckland: Not in Australia. Ignore.

Brisbane: Northerly, relatively warm, famous for its beaches. Once a year, at the end of high school classes, it (and nearby Surfers Paradise) fill up with literally thousands upon thousands of students on the school holiday (called Schoolies Week). Personally, I think Brisbane sucks, but I can't really explain why... I just don't like the place.

Hobart: Australia's little capital, down in Tasmania. I've never been there, but I know that it is very quiet, the kind of place where the shops close at 5pm and don't open at all on Sundays. It's also quite cold, and is the only Australian capital city which gets snow most winters. Tasmania itself is jammed full of gorgeous scenery, but Hobart is not a very happening place.

Melbourne: I have had mixed feelings about Melbourne for quite a few years. This wasn't always the case - when I first moved here in 1994, I fucking hated it. I now hate it and love it in almost equal measure. The weather is freakish and utterly unpredictable. The TV weather man might as well use a dowsing rod for a pointer. Even so, it has great culture (three international film festivals, a comedy festival, at least two major arts festivals, etc) and really good restaurants, cafes and bars. That said, it is an expensive fucker to live in, though far cheaper than Sydney.

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65536 = 2^16 = 64k

I don't remember exactly why the computer industry refers to 65536 as 64k or to 1024 KB as 1 MB rather than 1.024 MB.

(By the way, while 1 megabyte does not equal 1,000,000 bytes, 1 megabit does equal 1,000,000 bits. Go figure.)

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dont go to Perth.

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This coming from a guy who lives in fucking Frankston...

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Okay, quick guide to the cities listed on that site:

Melbourne: I have had mixed feelings about Melbourne for quite a few years. This wasn't always the case - when I first moved here in 1994, I fucking hated it. I now hate it and love it in almost equal measure. The weather is freakish and utterly unpredictable. The TV weather man might as well use a dowsing rod for a pointer. Even so, it has great culture (three international film festivals, a comedy festival, at least two major arts festivals, etc) and really good restaurants, cafes and bars. That said, it is an expensive fucker to live in, though far cheaper than Sydney.

Sydney: Well... it's a great place, lots of fun, with a great night life. Then there are its flaws - high pollution, overcrowding, overloaded road system, and a ludicrously high cost of living. Then again, great beaches, close access to a lot of wonderful coastline, and the beautiful Great Dividing Range... I hate driving in Sydney, and the polluted air gives me a sore throat, but it is a great place to visit.

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Hobart: Australia's little capital, down in Tasmania. I've never been there, but I know that it is very quiet, the kind of place where the shops close at 5pm and don't open at all on Sundays. It's also quite cold, and is the only Australian capital city which gets snow most winters. Tasmania itself is jammed full of gorgeous scenery, but Hobart is not a very happening place.

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the WWF is going to Glasgow! i just found that out then. when are they coming to Australia damnit? oops, this is a comic site, not a wrestling site.

a comic I did a while ago.
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Yeah, I can imagine Steve Austin showing off by pouring a couple of beers on himself and the Scottish crowd just staring at him like "what?", then all throwing bottles of Buckfast into the ring.

I love the way the "heels" try to rile up the crowd by insulting local football teams and calling the locals morons, it'll certainly be interesting to see what they do when the whole arena just start beating each other up and the wrestlers just sort of hang around in the ring, confused.

If you smell-ll-ll-ll-lll-llll, what The Firefly, is cookin'

there confused because they dont know what you lepers are saying.

Can you smelllll... what the Firefly was drinkin'... Aye, I can, cuz it's all over the floor o' the bog!

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I love the way the "heels" try to rile up the crowd by insulting local football teams and calling the locals morons

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there confused because they dont know what you lepers are saying.

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Actually darling, I think you mean "they're", this moron passed his Higher English. ;-)

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OK, I know the "rule" with mixing beer and liquor is
"Liquor before beer, never fear; beer before liquor, never sicker," but what is the rule for mixing beer and wine? I was hoping one of the Scots or Aussies would help answer this important question.

So far tonight, I have only mixed a Killian's with a half-dozen more Killianseses, but I am wondering if it would be a bad idea to crack open the Riunite. (I only like wine that comes with a screw cap.)

drink the beer as fast as you can. get one of those big five litre wine things take the bladder out and try to scull the hole thing. then weere the box the wine came in on your head.

then tequila.

I have no idea. As far as I am concerned, you drink them in strength order - beer first, then wine, then spirits, then radiator antifreeze. Okay, maybe skip the last one...

I do, however, know the one about beer and marijuana (although, unfortunately, I learned it _after_ finding out the hard way): "Grass then beer, you're in the clear. Beer then grass, you're on your arse." In my case, however, it was Opel Nera black sambuca, which is one of the least attractive beverages in the world when it comes back up. Vomiting what appears to be tar is an unpleasant experience.

if you get really despearate mix metholated spirits with milk and drink that.

You can't - in Australia, and most other countries, methylated spirits is mixed with some chemical or other which induces sudden and uncontrollable vomiting. Your stomach has to be the strongest of the strong to drink it. I doubt even one person in a thousand could manage it without a lot of practice.

you can still drink it, after all that other shit you drank sudden and uncontrollable vomiting should have alredy started.

or if you dont want to drink it, put the metho in your mouth light something on fire and spit the metho at it like in the circus. it has no taste at all wich is good and it is very flammable.

hmm, maybe my geek post shoulda gone here. ill just sort that out:

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does anybody know the dangers of inhaling ether?

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also adds to that the dangers of snorting lines of banana nesquik milkshake powder

Once, in high school chemistry, a bloke I knew did the 15-year-old equivalent of eating worms - we made sherbert, and he snorted it like cocaine. What a wanker. The cool thing was that the whites of his eyes turned almost blood-red... a sort of lurid pink... the fact that he was an utter cockspank made it all the more enjoyable.

I used to go to school with a guy who smoked paper.

I'm not sure I understand any of this, I drink beer, then spirits, then more beer, without worrying about anything. I smoke a lot of weed, before, during, and after a large bevvie session. Perhaps I've just got an iron stomache, I haven't been sick since I was 16 and even then it was because I had swallowed too much blood.

was it your own blood?

I don't know, I've only been told this story, I can't remember experiencing it. I woke up the next day with stitches in my face and those pads that they put on you when they plug you into a heart monitor. I was at home, but they'd left the little connectors stuck to me.

I got a blood sample taken, I still have the report that just says "INTOXICATED".