Shuzak - Social Network for Geeks

Interesting: Poss: Live from the Belly of the Earth Dragon

poss

Hey guys, I played my first gig in two years the other weekend, I recorded it, and here for your listening pleasure is the whole set in its entirety

Poss: Live from the Belly of the Earth Dragon

Interesting: Euthenasia

Eclipse, Yue

I was browsing digg a few days ago, and I came across
this article when I realized:
I'm pretty sure we've never had a discussion on this topic (topic being Euthenasia) so. you know. start discussing it!

Interesting: SHUZAK IS ALIVE AGAIN!

poss

We can now post topics more easily, no more of that crazy formatting, no more detroying embeded links. I think this is a really major step forward for shuzak, because posting is the lifeblood of any social site.

Here's what was fixed:
1. comma's and quotation marks don't turn into back slashes anymore
2. related terms arent a required field, but the radio buttons are.
3 commas in the related terms aren't required.

So now, you just type your text, enter some related terms. and pick a topic from the list. Which is how it should have worked from the start.

Maybe its time to take a fresh look at what you CAN post on shuzak.

you can embed youtube videos

and pictures

add code

[code=php]

 
 
 

 
 echo "hello shuzak!";
?>

[/code]

and math

and links

as well as formatting your text

if you need to know how, just hit the (formatting text) link

one tip, make sure you hit "instantly preview" before hitting submit!

So now that we CAN post again, we should! So go forth and post!!

everything you find, everything you think about. just do it!

SHUZAK IS ALIVE AGAIN!!

Interesting: Where the romping jesus is the Shuzak IRC Channel?

QuantumBeep

Seriously, where is it? I can't find it.

Interesting: About Shuzak

poss

How is shuzak different to every other social network?

is there a difference?

What do you want it to be?

I am especially interested in what Jawad has to say on this.

Interesting: New Feature: Chat History

Eclipse, Yue

New Feature: Check out the chat history by visiting this link.
and so what are your lots opinion.

Interesting: Does an ambulance leave with no sirens if the patient is dead?

poss

Last night there was a horrific accident outside my house. literally directly outside my front door. A motor bike rider did not stop at an intersection and was hit side on by an oncoming car. his helmet was not strapped on and was thrown off by the impact. He was dragged 30 meters up the road with the bike on top of him. Bystanders had to drag the still running bike off him, put a blanket over him and comfort him until the ambulance arrived. There was lots of blood, particularly around his head. He was groaning imcomprehensibly and twitching. When the ambulance arrived he was still responding to stimulus, groaning/screaming when they touched him. The medics got him onto a stretcher with a neck brace and put him the ambulance.

The ambulance did not leave. It stayed there and they worked on him for five or ten minutes. I heard a medic tell a police officer that he had sustained \"mutiple serious wounds\". through the window we could see them using the electric paddles(diffibrulator?). After ten minutes the ambulance turned off its lights and left. slowly.

Did I just see someone die?

Interesting: Eclipse,Yue can't post

Zenmonk

Srsly, he can't

Interesting: Last person to post in this topic wins

poss

its that simple

Interesting: Non-english music

Eclipse, Yue

I'd prefer something like french or something a la Noir Desir, but anything is fine. Some artists in my library:
Dir en Grey
Indochine
MC Solaar
Miyavi
Moi Dix Mois
Noir D�sir
Yelle
X-Japan

Interesting: The real cure for climate change.

poss

As many of you know, I have worked for various environmentaly focused organisations, including the Australian department of the Environment, and my current position at Land & Water Australia. As a result, I have become increasingly disillusioned with the nature of the debate around climate change.
All of this came to a head while watching last nights episode of qanda. It became increasingly apparent that even the most vocal and passionate proponents of battling climate Change don\'t actually realise the root of the problem, and therefore do not understand what is required to fix it.

Thsi is what i mean:

I am sure you know that our use of fossil fuels has resulted in the production of massive ammounts of greenhouse gasses, and this has been compounded by other issues like the huge quantities of livestock we harvest, and by our destruction of global ecosystems. Any one of these issues could be held up as the culprit for the problem we face, but in reality they are all just symptoms of a greater illness.

The illness i speak of is at the very heart of our civilisation, so very central to our way of life is it, that the very rise of man would not have been possible without it. It is the bedrock of our economy, it is what makes the American dream possible. It is responsible for our spread out of Africa, and it is responsible for the colonisation of the Americas. So what is this epic leviahan that spans history and our conciousnesses? what is this creator turned destroyer?

It is the concept of infinite expansion.

Here is a series of videos that explain it better than i ever could.

Humanity evolved in the open savannas and vast forrests, this expanse is planted deep in our phsyche, it drives us to surge ever onward, expanding and advancing. And yet now we are reaching a barrier. A limit which we have never encountered before. We are reaching the limits of earth. We have run out of land to explore and colonise, we have run out of new elements and plants to fuel our rise. Most importantly we are running out of some very key resources at an astounding rate, and we are fundamentally unprepared for the moment when we do.

All our industries and economies are dependant upon growth. If a corporation is not returning an increase then it is seen as a failure, if the economy isn\'t growing then we are doing something wrong. We are totally fully geared toward expansion. indeed, it may well be the one thing that has kept capitalism alive this long. Because as long as there are untapped resources, then the little guy still has a chance, as long as there is the possibility of some new industry, then monopolies are stifled.

There is a set ammount of energy that reaches earth each year. There is a set ammount of water on earth. There is a set ammount of any resource your care to name, and once we\'ve divided it all up, once its all owned or used by someone, then we are forced into a state of equilibrium.

So then the problem we face is not just a matter of producing clean energy, nor is it a matter of reducing our pollution. It is actually a matter of reforming our entire economic system, so that it becomes static and sustainable. We have to start seeing 0% overall growth as a good thing, We have to find the balance point and stay there.

But doing so is going to require and unparralled effort on our part, it means putting the brakes on everything, it could very well mean a total economic collapse. For this reason it has powerful opposition from the very highest levels, the one solution that can save us all, will disproportionately effect those of us who are best off (didn\'t you allways kinda know it would?), and that is why we havent heard anything about it.

The thing is, it is not a matter of wether we should do this or not. It is merely a matter of when. regardless of wether you \"believe\" in climate change (and really, what kind of fool ignores his thermometer out of spite?), or wether you believe it is man made, the fact remains that we are running out of resources.

Assuming we can get every last gram of every resource out of the ground, and that we dont use any more than we are now, then this is where we stand.

there is about 20-40 years of oil
there is about 100-200 years of coal
there is a maximum of 2500 years of uranium, the minimum is as low as 140 years.

And its not just fuel sources, other things are running out too.

there is about 40-80 years of un-mined Silver left.
there is about 50 years of Helium left.

It doesn\'t even matter if you believe the numbers, because no matter which way you twist it, within the next hundred years or so, we are going to start running out of some really important resources.

We are living in a fishbowl, and no matter where we go, your shit ends up in my drinking water.

When we peer into the future, and that is what humans do best. There are very clearly only three likely scenarios.

1. we develop cheaper space travel (perhaps an orbital elevator) and we spread out through the solar system mining and harvesting what we can
.
2. There is a massive natural correction in the numbers and influence of the human race. The decline of man, against our will.

3. There is a massive self imposed reduction of population and resource consumption, until we reach a sustainable equilibrium.

Right now we have a choice, but pretty soon we won\'t.

If we do nothing, then one way or another we end up with option 2.

If we divert a large percentage of the worlds gdp toward research and development, we might end up with option 1. This does not solve the problem, it merely delays the other two options until we have reached the limits of the solar system, or we find another way to expand.

If we manage to abandon the concept of infinite expansion, and transform into a sustainable economy, we can have option 3, and maybe option 1 as well.

This is a critical time, not just in terms of saving our own skins, it is the moment in time when we define humanity. Will we become a ceaselessly expanding race, spreading where ever there are resources, depleting them and moving on? or will we develope a measure of true conservatism, by conserving the things we have.

One thing is sure, unless we shift the debate, and actually start talking about the real cause and the real cure, then we will end up with option one. Wether we like it or not.

Interesting: Karma love redux

Zenmonk

Everybody who posts in this thread gets karma from me, as soon as I get around to it. If you're reading this thread, I compel you to make those karma stars solid! Give karma to everyone and it will come back to you. Karma is love.

Sorry, I'm bored...and trying to start a fire.

Interesting: The Future according to the prophet Poss

poss

Obama is hog tied, the united States can no longer stay solvent without the backing of the military industrial complex and the banks that fund it. If he actually tried to change anything significant, the US would collapse. Overnight.

When Obama is elected, it will maintain the illusion of choice in the eyes of the American public. The wind will be taken from the sails of the american dissidents. When obama goes to war it will be with words strong enough to convince you it needs doing.

In a few years things will be bad for the american people, the cost of living will have raised massively. The price of the energy will have reduced the average standard of living, police will have even more sweeping powers, food will be expensive, so poor people will get fatter, less able to resist.

after a term or two, people will be ready for \"change\" again, big change. Anything will be justifiable to bring back cheap energy and food. And so they will elect another republican, one who believes in god, who knows how hard it is for the common man, one who knows who to blame, one who is prepared to fight for the survival of the American way of life. Prepared to fight a war in the holy land, and to the ends of the world of the world, for the last of God\'s black gold.

So it is predicted, so it shall be. you have been warned.

They are called the left and the right wings, but they belong to the same war hawk.

Interesting: Read This before you switch to Chrome!

poss

I don\'t suppose many people read eula\'s, but i do. And I REALLY don\'t like this one. Check out section 11.1

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services

So, in essence, by using chrome you give google the ability to do whatever the hell it wants with whatever you put online, anywhere, anyhow through any of its services without ever having to pay you or acknowledge you. You still \"retain copyright\", but that is essentially meaningless becase you waive everything your copyright gives you. This is even if you don\'t tick the \"yes, please do monitor everything i do\" box.

Chrome may be fast, but the price of admission is everything you make and do.

Interesting: The Dark Knight (Whose seeing it thread)

Eclipse, Yue

so it comes out (here) the eighteenth. I am curious to see who all will be seeing it.