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Life - Posted By 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 Ear...

Music - Posted By poss

Just a couple of little lines from the bill, that are really worth considering. If you know anyone who can still understand sentances, tell them this: Under section 8 it says: ...

world current affairs - Posted By 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, ...

Politics - Posted By 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 helm...

Life - Posted By 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 res...

Politics - Posted By 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 ...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

Here are the Chrome Test results i just sent around my department. Hi All, As you may know, Google has released a new browser called “Chrome”. I have just completed a s...

Internet - Posted By 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...

Internet - Posted By poss

its that simple...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

I made this picture to explain my feelings about the US electoral system ...

Politics - Posted By poss

I've always said what we really need is an alternet, a mesh network that can function without the need for traditional isps and dns. Well guess what, it exists!! ...

Internet - Posted By 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 ...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

Ok, I\'m finally doing it. The big jump. Vista to Linux. I know windows. I started on Dos, I\'ve worked my way up through 3.1, 95, 98,NT, 2000 and 2003 I had fi...

Linux - Posted By poss

Here is a flickr photoset of classic art reworked for maximum geek appreciations, some of them are pure gold http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulthe...

Art - Posted By poss

Ringing any bells? an Ekranoplan ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekranoplan ) is a plane that flies at just a couple of meters above the ground/water/ice/whatever, it uses the g...

Advanced Tech - Posted By poss

You can take two items (carryable size and weight) and one person (perferablly alive) So what are you taking?...

Life - Posted By poss

http://buglabs.net/products this is a very cool gadget assembly system, and I am eager to see how many components they come up with. it seems to be right down the alley...

Gadgets - Posted By poss

If someone you knew, told you they believed that you and everyone you had ever known or loved should die. Would you still be friends with them? ...

Philosophy - Posted By poss

What would you do if you met an alien? SETI has its protocols http://www.setileague.org/general/protocol.htm but what would you say or do?...

UFO - Posted By poss

Ringing any bells? no.. it wasn't vs the mexicans.. or the confederates.. and its certainly not the writers strike.. It was the USA vs UFOs Sounds ridicu...

UFO - Posted By poss

Ok, so I've been thinking of making the switch to Linux for a long time. I've tried many live cd's, all my software is open source and I really hate Microsoft. The problem is, games. ...

Linux - Posted By poss

Seeing as we have such smart people here, i figured we would have to come up with some very good quotes once in a while. So if you invent a quote you would like to share, feel free to post it here....

Poetry - Posted By poss

If you encountered a Supreme Being, either holy or alien (who could really tell anyway?), and they allowed you 5 questions for which you would get completely true answers. What would you ask? and why?...

Philosophy - Posted By poss

Will Shuzak ever make it out of Beta? or are we destined to live in limbo, halfway between alpha and release? ...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

In case you havent heard, the small town of Jena Lousiana, with a population of 3000 has been flooded by tens of thousands of protestors after a series of events culminating in the beating of a white ...

Law - Posted By poss

What do you think of Digg\'s new features? Your profile now has a pictures section, a bio and links to other social networks. are they a good addittion? Will you use them? ...

Digg - Posted By poss

have we run out of things to talk about or what? There are stil leasily ten of us here, just because there arent 50 doesn't mean we can't still talk. so, think of somet...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

Here is a ...

Gadgets - Posted By poss

Since shuzak got quiet, i was just wondering where everyone spends their time now? and why? How does your new place compare with shuzak? What could shuzak do to win you back? ...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

I have spoken at length with Jawad about the purpose of shuzak, and he frequently mentioned collaborative intelligence, After seeing this article, i knew it belonged here. Its al labout intell...

Cognitive Science - Posted By poss

Truly an epic clash for the ages, Two juggernaughts of theoretical Physics entwined in an inevitable grudge match. So, who wins? only you can decide with your votes!...

Epic Hero Battles! - Posted By poss

If humanity was wiped out tomorrow, or within the next thousand years. What will be left in 65 million years time? What traces of our civilisation will remain?...

History - Posted By poss

I thought these facts were incredibly interesting ...

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By poss

Topic post has been deleted by the author....

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

Fibs started a thread, but as always it didn't go into new topics, please leave your best wishes on the orginal thread ...

Life - Posted By poss

now if there was ever an epic battle of the memes, this is it. The man, the legend, the roundhouse kick of doom vs the unstoppable power of the terminator slinky. Who's meme will reign supreme?...

Epic Hero Battles! - Posted By poss

Hey guys, this is a song of mine. It really suits my mood right now, i was just wonder what others thought of it its goes: I sit on the edge of my life a...

Poetry - Posted By poss

Happy birthday baby We\'re about to go out and celebrate, i just know you\'ll have a great night!! *hugs and love*...

Life - Posted By poss

which ones have you played, what did you think of them? gameplay graphics community req sys specs lag...

Massive free multiplayer games - Posted By poss

It has come to my attention that quite a few people are completely unable to post topics. I'm just wondering how many people are having this problem. If you are, post your problem here, and we'll see ...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

How is your relationship with your parents? how were your school years? or how ARE your school years? Any tips you'd like to share about how to stay friends with your parents while still doing what yo...

Life - Posted By poss

Do you play Magic the gathering? how long have you been playing for? What is your best deck? Have you entered in tournaments? ...

Magic The Gathering - Posted By poss

How many of you play DnD? what was your favourite character? ...

DnD - Posted By poss

As ...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

Is any sport geekier than any other?...

Sport - Posted By poss

who is your favourite artist of all time? why?...

Art - Posted By poss

Hayao Miyazaki is my favourite anime director, I absolutely adore his quirky and meaningful films. Have you any watched any, if so what did you think of them, do you have a favourite?...

Anime - Posted By poss

Test...

Test Community - Posted By poss

An Australian guy has made a crude game out...

Games - Posted By poss

how do you feel about the death penalty? this thread evolved out of the "...

Politics - Posted By poss

with all these ...

Law - Posted By poss

What do you think? Is pot as bad as they say? if it isn't, why is it illegal? and if it is, why do so many people smoke it? ...

Drugs - Posted By poss

LG has developed a new form of ...

Gadgets - Posted By poss

Muds are Multi user dungeon/dimensions, essentially a kind of multiplayer text based adventure. Have you ever played one, for how long? and what did you think?...

Games - Posted By poss

ok, so jawad just took down shuzak for some updates, its come back up and these are the changes i can see Browse has been replaced by post, and it doesn't work. Chat is d...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

Nasa has revealed the James Webb Space Telescope. The new telescope is much bigger, much shinier and provides a huge improvement over Hubble. A combination of its much bigger primary mirror, its place...

Astronomical - Posted By poss

It looks like Hubble has found dark matter! ...

the physical world - Posted By poss

apparently production will begin immediately, with a release date for terminator 4 currently set as 2009. Read more ...

Movies and Film - Posted By poss

where are you mate? everyone misses you! Your never on chat and you dont reply to any threads. Between Fibs and I, we are on here 24/7 and we never see you. We dont care if you being here makes updat...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

a group of scientists have put forward the idea of ...

Astronomical - Posted By poss

who is your favourite comedian? perhaps you could give us an example of their work, maybe a quote or a video. ...

Comedy - Posted By poss

Is he funny, or is just that i am tired that i keep watching. *straitens his tie* *ba dum ching!*...

Late Night TV :D - Posted By poss

No holds barred cage fight to the death! whos belief system takes a kickin? and which faith takes the cake? ...

Epic Hero Battles! - Posted By poss

what are we going today brain? The same we do every day pinky.. TRY TO TAKE OVER THE EARTH!! so, any ideas on how to attain total global domminance? ...

Mad Scientists - Posted By poss

I am looking for a way to destroy the entire planet. None of these pie in the sky futuristic possibilities. I want it to be achievable with current or near term (50 yrs) tech. I dont care if the piece...

Mad Scientists - Posted By poss

It has come to my attention that americans prounance herbs in funny ways.. for instance, i've heard some americans drop the "h" from herbs, to make erbs I pronounce ore...

Linguistics - Posted By poss

just that....

Random Stuff - Posted By poss

What is the age of consent where you are? and what do you think it should be?...

Sex - Posted By poss

We were up to: Rye Gye You pretty much just countered every one of my arguments with "nurture". First of all I happen to think that is complete BS, so I w...

Politics - Posted By poss

Mercy or murder?...

Philosophy - Posted By poss

Do you fold or scrunch your toilet paper?...

Life - Posted By poss

so, i've had this game for more than a month now and have only played it three times, it is terrible. I got a freind to play a few hours of it to see if it got any better, he demanded more payment aft...

Wii like it :p - Posted By poss

who would domminate? ...

Epic Hero Battles! - Posted By poss

who would win?...

Cartoons - Posted By poss

I have heard Jawad speak of the wisdom of crowds, but what do you think? is a crowd as brutish and dull witted as its lowliest member, or can a crowd be wiser than the sum total of its parts?...

Social Sciences - Posted By poss

missionary, doggy or maybe something tantric.....

Sex - Posted By poss

We as consumers are programmed to focus on ourselves, so what if the neighbour has waffle iron? we have to have one of our own! everybody these days seem very focused on being an individual and on fur...

I Am Special - Posted By poss

An idiot or an actor? how much power does he really have? Do you support him? Is he a good president?...

Politics - Posted By poss

Has womens lib gone too far? or not far enough? Are men and women actually equal? ...

Politics - Posted By poss

Fibbs and I recently drove through Wagga Wagga, Gundagai, Junee, Goulbourn and Yass, we saw farmland parched into dust, carried by the winds over endless hills of dirt. Every town we passed through wa...

Australia - Posted By poss

what cool slang words do you use?...

Linguistics - Posted By poss

are you Pro-choice or Pro-Life? or do you have your own opinion on this issue? (btw, mad props to pulledteeth for suggesting this thread)...

Politics - Posted By poss

just that...

Philosophy - Posted By poss

any questions for redstar?...

Redstar - Posted By poss

I was just thinking, I have been on shuzak for about 2 months, and have amassed 1600 karma, i spend about 4 hours a day here, so on average, i have made almost 7 karma an hour. I charge about $30 an h...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

please prove to me that something exists. ...

Philosophy - Posted By poss

what are geek clothes? are any of them fashionable? i have heard the term "geek chic" but are geeks actually fashionable? ...

Fashion - Posted By poss

why does it appear that the left wing is divided while the right wing stand united on most issues?...

Liberals with attitude! - Posted By poss

if i have been idling in chat for four hours and someone finally says something, it would be great if chat could alert me. anyone agreed or disagree?...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

happy easter everyone! i wish you all chocalatey goodies galore!...

Life - Posted By poss

Geeks are often described as lacking social skills, perhaps we can share advice on how to get through life and other people. Is there anything you have learnt about people or society that you wish you...

Social Sciences - Posted By poss

who would you call the greatest scientist of all time? and who is the greatest scientist alive today? ...

Science - Posted By poss

we are surrounded by conflicting views on everything, scientists and pseudo scientists all competing for validity. So what does it take for you to accept a finding as correct? ...

Science - Posted By poss

what is your favourite branch of science, and why?...

Science - Posted By poss

just had an idea, and i had a look at the old threads, i couldn't see a suggestion that covered this, so sorry if someone else mentioned this first. I think that each community page s...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

what drugs have you taken?...

Entheogens - Posted By poss

all the nerds in the house tonight, make some noise!...

Nerds - Posted By poss

what fads did you get into?...

Social Sciences - Posted By poss

Do they exist? Are they here? What is your view on them?...

UFO - Posted By poss

do you have any tips you have picked up to help out newer members? ...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

am i right or what?...

News - Posted By poss

i have now tried to create the same thread 5 times, lucky i copied it the first time.. I can create communities fine, but topics are screwed. this isn't the "related terms" glitch eith...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

I am hanging out in the conspiracy theory communtiy, but in the place where a community owners name should be, all i can see is "Become owner" If i click on become owner i get this message ...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

groups of people developed shared perspectives, could a perspective become and independant being? is this possible? can it be achieved? If we had developed sufficent com...

Philosophy - Posted By poss

I have had my wii for a couple of months, and while zelda and rayman held my attention, i am not playing as much as i used to. I think it has something to do with the effort involved....

Wii like it :p - Posted By poss

Australia is the best place ever, sucks to be the rest of you! ...

Australia - Posted By poss

Are some people too ingrained in their views and idiologies to ever be swayed in another direction? or can anyone be convinced? ...

Politics - Posted By poss

i have heard the line that wherever you have two people in a room you have politics, but is it truly a fundamental part of existence? Can humans communicate without politics?...

Politics - Posted By poss

If you could hold control of one decission in history, which one would you change?...

History - Posted By poss

What is the most disgusting thing you have ever eaten?...

Food - Posted By poss

what is your geekiest moment?...

Geeks - Posted By poss

I have a brand new laptop, it came with vista bundled (yes, i asked, they wouldn't sell it without), at the same time i bought an edirol UA-25 external audio capture card. The two do not work well tog...

Windows Troubleshoot - Posted By poss

is karma dead? no one gives it out anymore, is everyone disillusioned? When i first joined, karma for me was a good incentive to write meaningfull posts. Then Karma = L...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

incest or masturbation?...

Sex - Posted By poss

it means no worries, for the rest of your days.. its a problem free philosophy....

Philosophy - Posted By poss

Why are we here?...

Philosophy - Posted By poss

How is it coming along? how far off are we? any recent advancements?...

Quantum Mechanics - Posted By poss

with all the talk of rigged and riggable voting machines, with the lack of voter turnout, and given the relatively small influence of a single government on the global economy, are our elections still...

Politics - Posted By poss

do we need it? will it come to the western world? in what form? how? when? ...

Politics - Posted By poss

Does it exist? How pervasive is it? Could it ever be overthrown?...

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By poss

Do you believe the official line? Who masterminded the attrocity? for what end? ...

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By poss

anyone here heard of the reptoids? It's a conspiracy theory thats been around for a while. Basically they are supposed to be 12 ft high lizard men who live in underground cave and control our minds an...

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By poss

I'm going out to get drunk! yay for guiness!...

Life - Posted By poss

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/mars-20070315.html Nasa Announces they have confirmed enough Ice at the Martian south pole to cover the entire planet with water 11 meters de...

Science - Posted By poss

i just dugg up this article, very interesting, apparently there may be another state apart from solid, liquid and gas. What is it? it is a string net. http://www.newscientist.com/articl...

the physical world - Posted By poss

what is your favourite game and why? i suppose you can have one from each category, i'm in a generous mood ...

Games - Posted By poss

I miss him, he has been gone for ages, can i start a fund to get him back on shuzak or something?...

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By poss

any ideas on how to make the contest better?...

The Contest - Posted By poss

Who here is addicted? ...

Internet - Posted By poss

My sister once got 101% on a test, because she completed a bonus answer, wo what was your best test score?...

Students - Posted By poss

Welcome back to The Contest ladies and gentlemen, an epic competition staged on this hallowed html.The titans of shuzak, gathered as sportsman here, are to be pitted against each other in an awesome f...

The Contest - Posted By poss

anyone have any recomendations? what are the essentials?...

OSS - Posted By poss

An art, a hobby, a job, an impression, an instinct.. What does flirting mean to you? how do you tell if you are being flirted with? how do you tell if you are flirting?...

Sex - Posted By poss

Is there one? Could there be one? do the rules of our universe allow for the possibility of an afterlife?...

Supernatural - Posted By poss

Is there anything that science will never be able to understand and explain? ...

Supernatural - Posted By poss

what is the best thing you ever made? be it a cofee table or computer, hammock or house, lets hear them all?...

Work - Posted By poss

should we have a page showing all the threads which were never answered?...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

do you think the community owner should recieve some karma everytime someone joins their community?...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

what is the best thing you have ever done?...

Life - Posted By poss

should there be?...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

should community owners be allowed to adopt threads they think are relevant to their communities? ...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

what effect if any is the chat feature having on threads?...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

who thinks its time to have big communities that all the little ones fit under. For instance, one science community(, one computer community, one life community, one art community, one shuzak c...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

how about we put a limit on the ammount of karma you can give out to any one person in one day? This has the dual function of reducing possible duplicate account exploits, and limitin...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

what would need to happen before you bought one? would they need to be cheaper? more fuel efficient? faster? sexier?...

Cars - Posted By poss

Hey guys, i am thinking of buying an alpha romeo 98 GTV 3.0 litre. Does anyone know of any problems with them?...

Cars - Posted By poss

is it yours? if so, when did you buy it and for how much? are you happy with it?...

Cars - Posted By poss

This community is certainly pushing the bounds of what is acceptable on shuzak, i always knew it would. But I saw that it would happen eventually, and so i though it would be best done by someone who ...

Sex - Posted By poss

I'm certainly pushing the boundaries of acceptability today but surely this has to be one of the hottest topics amongst geeks. So, will you admit to liking porn...

Sex - Posted By poss

Has you, or anybody you know, had a truly terrible experience? perhaps something hillarious happened, or a particularly bad case of coitus interuptus?...

Sex - Posted By poss

good or bad? no need for too much detail, but was it somewhere strange? or with someone unexpected? Maybe your friends have had some strange experiences....

Sex - Posted By poss

The obligitory thread, you know how it goes ...

Star Trek - Posted By poss

What things would you like to be able to spend your karma on?...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

Who is the geekiest person on Shuzak? and who is/was the geekiest person ever? ...

Geeks - Posted By poss

Our brains respond to the frequencies produced by instruments, we relate to the sound ofthe human voice more than anything else. Is it possible to create an instument that apealed to us more than we a...

Musicians - Posted By poss

I have heard that the omega 3 in fish can help cognitive function, is this true? and are there any other brain foods?...

Food - Posted By poss

of all time... Is there one that really moves you?...

Photography - Posted By poss

Has anyone here ever been unempoyeed? What was it like? what is the welfare system like where you come from?...

Work - Posted By poss

If you could Teach everybody in the world one thing, what would it be?...

Students - Posted By poss

if you could do ANYTHING what would it be?...

Work - Posted By poss

what do you do for a living? ...

Work - Posted By poss

what is your particular passion? what have been learning?...

Students - Posted By poss

If a bad workman blames his tools, shouldn't a good one do the same? Have you ever made a camera, what is the strangest camera you've ever seen, or owned, and what camera do you use now?...

Photography - Posted By poss

Everyday our every action is effecting the world around us, most people continue on as if nothing will come of their choices. We are in a rapidly changing world, the climate has gone haywire, but we c...

Green Geeks - Posted By poss

It may not be the geekiest pass time, but who here will own up to it?...

Sport - Posted By poss

is there still a place in human society for organised spirituality? Do we need to be told what to believe? Is faith still meaningful? ...

Religious Theory - Posted By poss

Is there one moment that is more important than all the others? is there one that stands out? which moment defines the world for you, or even just defines your world?...

History - Posted By poss

We might not be able to prove we see the colours the same as the people around us, but we still have favourites, what is yours?...

Life - Posted By poss

Any questions about the contest? Rules need clarifying, suggestions or any off topic conversation should be kept here. ...

The Contest - Posted By poss

two thirds of the ...

Politics - Posted By poss

I turn on the news, but it won't turn on nothings true the stories gone they distill all of reality into a sound bite and all of me into the t...

Poetry - Posted By poss

In the beggining, the internet used to be entirely composed of geeks, but it was violated, by the evil ...

Geeks - Posted By poss

is hope essential to a fullfilling life? are we born with a prepdisposition to hope? are we justified in being hopeful? is hope dangerous? is hope free? where could someone without hope find it? are ...

Philosophy - Posted By poss

is it energy drinks? maybe noodles? or is it some super scientific concept food, entirely made out of buckeyballs or some such thing? i suspect ramen is going to be a strong contender ...

Food - Posted By poss

or is it all the result of being observed? Does our collective subjective perspective define the limit of reality or does it extend beyond the limits of our perception? is the universe just a ...

Philosophy - Posted By poss

it just seems to me that looks slightly angry, i think it might be the eyebrows, it certainly look liek the broad smile i think of when i type it, i have this...

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By poss

a link between all humans that we are not conciously aware of, wether it be inhereted instincts or a psycic link, are our minds all connected?...

Philosophy - Posted By poss

the vibrations move us, the harmonies enchant us, lyrics speak our feelings, but everyone likes different music, so why do you like music? What defines a good song for you? and what makes a good s...

Music - Posted By poss