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Chat / General Chat Forum / Re: Guns
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on: December 23, 2005, 03:49:22 AM
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thats a real dilemha for me. i've always (couple o' years anyway) wanted a career as either a scientist, or archeologist (preferably a biologist, but i'm not too picky), but i want to be out of education by 25 at the very latest. still i may have to make some sacrifices 
It shouldn't take you as long as it did for me. University in Canada is a four year commitment usually. Take your time and for godsake don't go into archaeology. For the most part its a dead end career. Out of the 114 people who I graduated with only 3 of us actually worked in our field. You'd be better of taking a science based degree with a specilization you decide on in the later years of your degree. Biology is cool. Don't know what you'd do with it in Europe but there is lots of work in Canada for biologists. Money is good too. Keep ot up and don't lose track of what it is you really want in life. |
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Chat / General Chat Forum / Re: Guns
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on: December 23, 2005, 03:11:14 AM
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Not sure if I've seen a thread about this before. How would you go about obtaining a license for a gun? Do you just have to be a good citizen, have a place in your house it can be kept securely, and only use it at a firing range? How old do you have to be? or can you even do it in the UK at all? If you can, is there anyone on here that owns one? I'd love to own a gun, preferably a Desert Eagle. Ones I'd love but would have to move to America to purchase because your not allowed to ship anything from America over here for 750$ it says. Testa Mora - I can't help you regarding licensing a gun in the UK. However, in Canada hand guns, like ALL guns, are restricted to those who have taken the appropriate courses and background checks from the government and police agencies. I would assume that the same can be said in the UK. Carrying hand guns in Canada is restricted to professionals who need them (i.e police, military, surveyors and oddly enough geologists - of which I am one). The minimum age to carry a restricted weapon in Canada is 18 years of age. Again the UK is probably the same unless your age of adult consent is different. I own several fire arms - a 12 gauge defender, a pump action shotgun, a 410 gauge, a black powder shotgun, a .357 magnum handgun and a .45 Calibre Remington handgun. Shells (ammunition) and guns can be stored at home however they must be stored seperate from one another, preferably in locked metal cases. The police in Canada have accss to a registry which will tell them who has what and you are required to inform them if you change residence, transport your fire arm or buy ammunition. It is a very regulated procedure. Judging from your picture, you are a slim young lady probably no more than 100 pounds soaking wet. A Desert Eagle handgun is extremely powerful. It is doubtfull you could keep your arm and wrist still enough to handle the recoil and would probably break your arm. If you want to fire guns at a range go take your courses, join a Rod and Gun club and experiment with the right one that feels and fires right for you. These are lethal tools not to be taken for granted. I have seen guns hurt people who do not use them properly or do not respect the power behind them. Be careful, make yourself aware and try it out at a range before you make such an investment. Ask yourself why you want one. If you want one to play with, I would suggest you never ever ever touch one because you'll get hurt. Owning a gun is not cool, it is a nescessity for those who need to have one for protection. Period. I don't like them and would rather not ever carry one. However my career dictates that I need one in certain conditions. They are a responsibility not to be taken lightly. I hope this answered some of your questions. If you have anymore feeel free to PM me and I can help you out. whats it like being a geologist?
Its like anything else really. My specialization is in geoarchaeology so I am trained in archaeological analysis of how people use the environment in the past. You get to fly alot in helicopters, planes, see the world, access some of the most pristine and untouched areas of the planet. Money is great, I own my company so I pay myself well. Long, long hours 12-18 hours a day. My wife is an archaeologist as well so we have a great life living in the mountains. I work exclusively with industries that need access to resources and help them mitigate impacts to other communities like our First Nations peoples (aboriginals). I love the work, but it takes years of study and dedication. I started university at age 20 and didn't finish my schooling for 10 years. You work for slave wages during that time until you get on your own and finally you can be a part of the professional working class. It is a passion that ne needs to have in you from birth or developed through a life spent looking a your feet at the rocks and minerals. Worse yet you have to 'read' the layers of dirt like a book and know the most inane information that most peole will ook at you cross-eyed for.
fun work in th end however. |
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Chat / General Chat Forum / Re: Guns
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on: December 23, 2005, 02:49:12 AM
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Not sure if I've seen a thread about this before. How would you go about obtaining a license for a gun? Do you just have to be a good citizen, have a place in your house it can be kept securely, and only use it at a firing range? How old do you have to be? or can you even do it in the UK at all? If you can, is there anyone on here that owns one? I'd love to own a gun, preferably a Desert Eagle. Ones I'd love but would have to move to America to purchase because your not allowed to ship anything from America over here for 750$ it says.
Testa Mora - I can't help you regarding licensing a gun in the UK. However, in Canada hand guns, like ALL guns, are restricted to those who have taken the appropriate courses and background checks from the government and police agencies. I would assume that the same can be said in the UK. Carrying hand guns in Canada is restricted to professionals who need them (i.e police, military, surveyors and oddly enough geologists - of which I am one). The minimum age to carry a restricted weapon in Canada is 18 years of age. Again the UK is probably the same unless your age of adult consent is different.
I own several fire arms - a 12 gauge defender, a pump action shotgun, a 410 gauge, a black powder shotgun, a .357 magnum handgun and a .45 Calibre Remington handgun. Shells (ammunition) and guns can be stored at home however they must be stored seperate from one another, preferably in locked metal cases. The police in Canada have accss to a registry which will tell them who has what and you are required to inform them if you change residence, transport your fire arm or buy ammunition. It is a very regulated procedure.
Judging from your picture, you are a slim young lady probably no more than 100 pounds soaking wet. A Desert Eagle handgun is extremely powerful. It is doubtfull you could keep your arm and wrist still enough to handle the recoil and would probably break your arm. If you want to fire guns at a range go take your courses, join a Rod and Gun club and experiment with the right one that feels and fires right for you. These are lethal tools not to be taken for granted. I have seen guns hurt people who do not use them properly or do not respect the power behind them. Be careful, make yourself aware and try it out at a range before you make such an investment. Ask yourself why you want one. If you want one to play with, I would suggest you never ever ever touch one because you'll get hurt. Owning a gun is not cool, it is a nescessity for those who need to have one for protection. Period. I don't like them and would rather not ever carry one. However my career dictates that I need one in certain conditions. They are a responsibility not to be taken lightly.
I hope this answered some of your questions. If you have anymore feeel free to PM me and I can help you out. |
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Chat / General Chat Forum / Re: Proof God doesn't exist.
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on: December 19, 2005, 06:29:16 PM
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why is the fact that there is suffering in the world proof that God doesn't exist?
Buddhists would agree with you here as well... suffering is the goal for all Gods to help eliminate. |
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Chat / General Chat Forum / Re: Proof God doesn't exist.
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on: December 19, 2005, 01:40:45 PM
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...we are a product of the planet and the solar processes that created our little corner of the universe.
Right but where do the planet and the solar processes come from? Why are basic scientific principles consistently followed? Where do these rules come from? Bearing in mind that (certainly in my mind anyway) the idea of a universe that has existed forever is logically flawed, presumably, there must have been a starting point. Why did it start? If your questions go deep enough, science will never give an answer because that is not what it is there for.
I am not sure that science has been able to explain all phenomena. As humans we are righteous when we think we can understand everything, every scientific law. I think that we are limited in our thought processes and may never grasp the reality of the univerese, predicating our need to define the unknowable with a concept of god (someone or something that does know all).
The universe certainly has never existed forever (Plank time barrier). It is either a closed process falling into itself, an open process outwardly expanding or a random process which contracts and expands randomly in different areas at different times. These are basically the three explanations of a universe and its phenomena that we as scientists in the West believe.
You are right science will not be able to define completely all those scientific phenomena, however just because we can't define it doesn't mean they do not exist. We just do not have the capacity to understand it at this moment in our history. Given time we may glimpse into more of these principals and learn more about our universe (that is the purpose of science), until then most people will continue to insist that the unknown is a product of 'God'. |
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Chat / General Chat Forum / Re: When I wake up in the morning...
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on: December 19, 2005, 03:56:11 AM
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Ah HTT....what you need is a dose of a Canadian winter. I am so sick of snow its burning my ass.
Here's a little taste of what we got on Friday.
https://www.cbc.ca/montreal/story/qc-snow20051216.html
Quebec caught under blanket of snow
Last updated Dec 16 2005 05:50 PM EST
CBC News
Friday's storm was the storm of this century, as 40 centimetres of snow fell on southern Quebec.
The most snow ever to fall on Montreal was in 1971, when 43.2 centimetres hit the city. Although that record wasn't beaten on Friday, the record for the amount of snow to fall on Dec. 16 has been cracked, said André Cantin of Environment Canada.
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Chat / General Chat Forum / Re: Proof God doesn't exist.
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on: December 19, 2005, 03:29:33 AM
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God is a social construct which has been developed, modified and ultimately de-constructed by the minds of human beings. There are countless examples of the occurance of deities within the totality of the human experience throughout history. From animism and polythesim to re-incarnation and monotheism. In a real sense proof of God exists as a universal cultural constant born of the human experience and mind.
By contrast, physiologicaly we are species no different than those we currently share the planet with and have evolved throughout geological and cosmological time into the species we are today. Evolution does not account for 'God'. The two terms are mutually exclusive. From an evolutionary standpoint we are nothing but a product of a series of puncuated mutations which has developed as a species (anatomically modern homo sapiens) for the last 200,000 years.
In effect humans define God and therefore we qualify the existance of deities no matter what form we give them therefore the proof is on our stories oral histories and cultural images we have created. However as a species, culture put aside, we are a product of the planet and the solar processes that created our little corner of the universe.
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Newcastle-Online Forum / NUFC Forum / No January Transfer Funds for Souness?
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on: December 19, 2005, 02:43:05 AM
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I keep coming accross articles which state that Souness will have no funds for the January transfer window. I keep hearing us linked with players the likes of Joaquin, Bridge etc. With the majority of the transfer kitty spent this summer on Luque, Owen, Solano, Moore, Emre, Parker and associated contract renewals, where is NUFC going to find the funds to pay for these 'new' players?
example:
https://www.upthetoon.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=819
Newspaper reports today claim that Newcastle boss Graeme Souness will be handed a new year transfer ban by the board of directors.
It is claimed that no additional funds will be made available to Souness once the transfer window opens because of the uncertainty surrounding his future at the club following mixed results.
Souness is keen to sign Nicholas Anelka, Roberth Huth and Wayne Bridge but if today's reports are to be believed, chairman Freddy Shepherd has already informed the manager that only loan deals can be negotiated.
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Newcastle-Online Forum / NUFC Forum / Re: Westham vs Newcastle on Tele
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on: December 15, 2005, 02:28:06 PM
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Aha!! Its on two channels around these parts i.e south asia.
Supersport 1 and Star sports
Cant wait.
Supersport 1 the South African channel, with Gary Bailey and Terry Payne MBE hosting it? Is it that one? Yep, thats the one. But personally I prefer the StarsportsEspn coverage, they've had bobby robson, sir les, gavin peacock, ian rush and a few others on the show already. Besides, paul masefield is class  Wowwww. So they made it across the ocean and are now happily broadcasting in Asia. Good for them. Great network actually, always lotsa footie. I grew up watching those guys, and MNet and Supersport, etc., as I grew up in Africa. Legends in Africa, those two. A bit silly, though, I must say, at times. I also grew up watching Star Sports actually, funnily enough, when I was living in India before moving to Africa. So I'm aware of both networks' coverage. But as everyone who's ever lived in North America knows, nobody is more f*king annoying than Max Bretos. Howay Craig Forrest and Gerry Dobson, the Rogers Sportsnet team!
Yeah they are not too bad. A little too much emphasis on the Canadian under 17 girls squad if you take my meaning. But otherwise not too bad. |
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Newcastle-Online Forum / NUFC Forum / Westham vs Newcastle on Tele
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on: December 13, 2005, 11:44:50 PM
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in Canada you can see the Toon this weekend on the following channels.
Sat Dec 17
10:00AM Eastern - LIVE
Rogers Sportsnet - Canada
English Premier League
West Ham United vs Newcastle United
Sat Dec 17
10:00AM Eastern - LIVE
Setanta Sports - Selected Bars (US)
English Premier League
West Ham United vs Newcastle United |
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Newcastle-Online Forum / NUFC Forum / Re: Arsenal Fans view on Ameobi!!
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on: December 12, 2005, 03:54:43 AM
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After watching the game twice I have to agree that Shola was playing with his head up for a few minutes of the match. I got the feeling he was uncomfortable playing in that position and it showed. He's clumsy anywhere you put him and if Arsenal want him to plug the hole left by Viera they can have him for 4 million. Take him away please.
What gets me is that people are so apt to forgive him for previous displays of shite and gift him with a spot in the starting 11 or as a squad player. Shola would be a hero in the Coca Cola league and thats it. Same as Carl Cort. |
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