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@gozilla

Sooo true mate

BSW-17
QLD-16

for those interested in the result

Bring on the football... Go the Aussies

 

damn, QLD is giving it to NSW.

[bold]EDIT[/bold]

QLD : [bold]30[/bold]
NSW : feable [bold]6[/bold]

 

HaHA, How does 30-6 sound, !all Now off to Victoria for a 2-1 qld win.

 

I always wanted to go just to watch the toilet flush in the opposite direction...but what does the water do at the equator ... just goes straight down and doesn't spin around at all?

 

i think in the equator the water instead of going down the drain, actually comes up when you flush the toilet (damn, thats one ugly mental image i just created in my head)

 

damn, it just get's worse.

 

Man i never thought the thread i would start would go down the toilet

 

New Aussie Net porn laws

p2p news / p2pnet: New Australian laws will soon be introduced to, "limit harmful material emerging on content services like 3G mobile telephony and subscription-based internet portals," says Australian IT.

"The new capabilities of mobile devices to receive and display audiovisual services means that some of these platforms - and thus regulatory - distinctions are being broken down," communications minister Helen Coonan is quoted as saying. "These developments raise the question of the way traditionally distinct content regulatory systems should apply to a single converged device."

The immediate concern is, "the fast growing number of premium adult services being offered over 3G phones," says the story.

Coonan says converged technologies will "similarly blur the regulatory lines between broadcast televisions and internet TV (IPTV)" and, ""I will soon introduce to the Parliament legislation to provide content safeguards comparable to those in place for traditional media platforms."

The new laws would extend existing legislation covering TV and the Net and would, "include the prohibition of content rated X-18 or above, and will require companies to offer consumer advice and age restrictions on access to adult content," says Australian IT.

But Coonan, "poured cold water on a push from Coalition backbenchers to force internet service providers to filter all content coming into Australia to reduce the problems of pornography".

Also See:
Australian IT - Coonan details porn laws, June 14, 2006

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haha, 3G is going the way of the internet. started off with good intentions and then just turn into one big pornography depository.

 

Last nights Friday night football was the best St George beat manly 28-0

Here is the article
http://my.afterdawn.com/borhan9/blog_entry.cfm/1218/dragonswin

I hope we go all the way

 

gozilla and all



First off, we need to be clear on something: this idea that water drains in a bathtub (or sink or toilet or whatever) one way in the northern hemisphere and the other way in the southern hemisphere isn't true! It's what's called an urban myth, or modern legend; an idea that gets propagated and never seems to die, even though it's wrong!

The coriolis effect is what makes this legend so tenacious. Picture the rotating Earth: at the Equator, you travel about 40,000 kilometers in a single day as the Earth turns. At the poles, you simply spin in place with no movement at all. If you shoot a projectile from the Equator towards the pole, the projectile will try to keep that sideways motion, and so it actually moves sideways faster than the ground beneath it as it moves toward the pole. Whether you shoot the projectile north or south, the projectile tends to move east as it heads toward the pole, outracing the ground underneath it.

This effect is what causes hurricanes to spin, and why they spin in opposite senses in the two hemispheres. Pretend you are on the equator facing north. Wind moving north (away from you) tends to turn east (right), while wind heading south (towards you) tends to head west (left). This gives the hurricane a counterclockwise spin. Now face south, towards the southern hemisphere. Wind moving south (away from you) tends to head east (left), while wind heading north (towards you) tends to head west (right). This makes the hurricane spin clockwise.
Note (1/10/99): I originally said northern hemisphere hurricanes move clockwise; that has been corrected here.

But this only works over distances where the spin of the Earth makes a difference when you head north or south. Your bathtub is simply not big enough to make a difference. Random currents in the water completely overwhelm any tiny coriolis effect going on. Imperfections in the drain also have a larger effect.

Now, if you could somehow completely dampen the random currents, you might be able to see the effect. So, assuming you can, and the drain is a perfect circle, the answer to your first question is that on the equator, it should simply drain straight out, with water coming in from all sides equally.

On a space station with no gravity*, the water won't drain at all! After all, it's gravity that pulls the water out of the basin in the first place. However, imagine you are on a rotating space station, like the one in "2001: A Space Odyssey". The coriolis effects can be very large, because the station spins once every minute or so! As you head "down", away from the central axis, the station is moving faster-- this is analogous to moving towards the equator on Earth. If you were in a tube and let yourself fall from the center, you would feel yourself pushed against the tube as you moved down, in a direction opposite the spin direction. If you dropped a rock from the station axis (which would no doubt get you a free ticket back to Earth from an angry commander!) it would appear to arc strongly in the anti-spin direction as it fell, and the station rotated underneath it. Anybody building a plumbing system on a space station would have to keep that in mind!

*Oops! (August 7, 2002): there is gravity in orbit! Gravity goes on forever, and in fact the Earth's gravity in low Earth orbit is about 90% what it is on the surface. What I meant here is that in orbit, the astronauts on board the space station feel as if there is no gravity because they are in free-fall. I didn't mean to propagate Bad Science here!


Bad Meteorology:
The water in a sink (or toilet) rotates one way as it drains in the
northern hemisphere and the other way in the southern hemisphere.
Called the Coriolis Effect, it is caused by the rotation of the Earth.

I did find an article that states what your answer is:
READ IT HERE
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html

 

@borhan9, If you thought friday nights results were good then the Bronco's thrashing (50-6) of Newcastle was great, my tips for next week...Broncos to beat Bullwogs and Melbourne to beat St George with Broncos to take out the Title.

 

@gwendolin

what happened to newcastle? they just disintegrated.

my personal tips, i think the dogs will account for the broncos, and assuming(hoping) melbourne plays like they did against paramatta (in week 1 of finals) dragons over storm.

 

Well I want a St George Vs Bronco Final. It will be sweet revenge for the dragons. Cause i remember the early 90's the bronco beat us twice in a row.

 

@borhan9, I didnt know you were a fellow Aussie, obviously from N.S.W, I dont mind if we (Broncos) play St George.

 

umm...i love 'roos.

 

@gwendolin

You may have got confused because of my sig

have a look at my profile page and it will show u how aussie i am

 

what? no comments on how wootasstacular roos are? i wanna hear about roos! =^.^=

 

@Ausslander

What are you talking about mate??