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Dunno whether it has been mentioned already, but Obama knows about so many things and just acts like they didn't exist. Let's forget about the Iran travesty, but for example he has been urged to support official R&D in the field of new energy technologies and nothing happens. Oh well... unnecessary to mention actually. Those who look, already see.

You have to add your client as a tracker. The trackers list of that torrent is empty. As far as I understand this: http://utorrent.com/documentation/make-a-torrent if your IP adress is changed by your provider every 24 hours or so, it would make the whole thing near impossible. But that could be solved by using a DynDNS account and using its domain name for the tracker. But if you use a router, you have to comfigure it for DynDNS. I could do that, but I don't have the files, and currently no Webserver and no DynDNS. I think the easiest way (if your IP adress varies) would be to use e.g. eMule and share them there (in a zip archive) and every participant sets the priority to high.

A quick comment off-topic... ( ) I've watched the last episode now. Oh my god! Now I remember another thing about BSG that drove me crazy! Tell me, was the camera man jerking off all the time? The show really must be a low budget production, because they couldn't afford a tripod! Storywise it looks pretty complex and very interesting, but worth to be spread over four seasons of shaky camera? I don't think I could stand it. If I could just download the plot to my brain and go through it in a millisecond, that would be convenient.

Someone then please make a torrent out of them all. I will then DL and help seeding for a while.

A comic? Wow! The series is still mandatory, though. It's available on DVD, and I've seen all the extras, which are worth it, too. And your forum name and the captain's nickname are the same! How cool is that!!! Mal, let's stop this Galactica-BS tragedy and capture the thread for Firefly! YAAARRRRR!

And it stayed on your hand? Quite a risk to suppose the spider understood you. ... Oh well, in the end it would have been bad for the spider. Some days ago I cut the withered pitchers of the Sarracenia and a little spider was very upset about me destroying its hideout. In the end it marched around the border of the flower bucket and then took an aggressive stance towards me. Pretty bold! But when I slowly put a leaf under its raised feet, it got the idea and I was able to relocate it.

I need to clarify some details that you might know from your own experience, because they aren't in the book and also seem to not be in the forum. Because I don't feel bliss, yet, the smiling can't occur naturally, so I have to do it with intent. But when I do this, it makes letting go more difficult. What is the essential part of smiling in order to open the crown? Can the necessary downward flow through the crown be sufficiently established by just an inner smile, that has no outward effect? Or are there some features in the facial tissue that activate something?

Though you must feel a bit down under sometimes.

Please try to explain what it is that makes it that good. EDIT: Just noticed on IMDB that they seem to have re-done the thing because older reviews are low and newer ones are higher, but still many very negative ones, that sound like the older reviews. And the IMDB rating is 9.1 ... How did that happen? What's up with that show?!

I watched the first season and couldn't stand it any longer. It was like I was starving for at least a tiny bit of solving of unanswered mysteries, and at the end of the season, nothing clear. And the whole thing is way to psycho for me ... and for using the name of the old series. I don't like it when old, revered names are re-used for making big bucks, especially when the result is totally different from the original. And the choice of the characters (same old names with totally different, 'trendy' persons), somehow didn't work for me at all. And to be nitpicking, the nervous-camera-zoom-effect was invented by the makers of Firefly, and in BSG they had no clue about how to use it artistically. But I'm especially censorious about these things; I also find lens-flares stupid, because they suggest that there is a camera man who's part of the story. Or those disc-shaped pressure waves from explosions: They were a huge trend for quite some time and everybody just had to use them. Stupid. A much better replacement for "BS Galactica" would be Babylon 5 in my opinion. And Firefly is totally awesome and should be especially appealing to Taoists.

Hm, somehow when I smile externally only, it feels like a grimace and no internal smile ensues. Chad, sorry, I don't really understand what you wrote.

KDE is said to be slow, and I think it's too much wanting to be a Windows imitation, but what I'm missing very often in GNOME is the "Apply"-button! In Windows I would miss it sometimes, but many GUI elements in Linux are made in a way that you really could use this button. I still haven't found a distribution that is totally focused on usability without any junk, but designed for Linux newbs. What the Linux GUIs could take over from Windows is the 'feel' of it, though. Linux GUIs are somehow a pain in the ass, hindering quick, fluid work. Things just don't work the way you would intuitively expect them to do. But I must say I was REALLY impressed when I learned that you can install Ubuntu on any USB drive. I don't mean like the guides out there for adapting a Live CD! It treats a USB drive like any other install target. This means you could take a USB stick with you, plug it in on a foreign PC, boot from it and you have your own personalized Linux there. (Though it won't work on any system, but as long as the PnP can deal with the hardware present, it works.) I wonder how many more decades Microsoft needs to add this feature to Windows. Hell... yesterday I was reminded again how totally ridiculous somesting as simple as the Windows (at least up to XP) printer spooler is. Who hasn't at least once experienced the impossibility of deleting a print job from the queue?! At the end I had to reboot the PC and the first job was moved over to the second printer and printed there, but only after the second job had been done, so I got it twice. This simple task became so messed up that even a spider was >accidentally< killed.

Well, just a lame wordplay. You could say, this thing is a joke! I always try to show people the importance of mastering your language, to be accurate, and most importantly, to LISTEN CAREFULLY! I mean, if you don't, if you are careless about your language, imagine what would have happened during World War II if they had confused german tanks with Sherman tanks!

What I often find amazing is how the human mind of some scientists can worship Einstein's theory of relativity as still rock-solid and valid and at the same time acknowledge that the light speed is not constant. That light is slowed by water has been known for so long now. To recognize a genius, you have to be a genius yourself. Or: Genius lies in the eye of the beholder. Einstein himself said that everybody likes him, but nobody understands him. If people would just drop the misunderstanding of relativity, they would have a purely mechanical explanation for a lot of things. They would see energy as matter in motion, and the speed of light would be no more special than the speed of sound. Light speed is the speed of common radiation, but this just means that the physical process that creates radiation accelerated it to that speed. Two hundred years from now scientist may be using machines to accelerate various particles to 2, 5, or 100x light speed by using a force that can supply this speed and laugh about the quackery of our time. There are no mysteries in science.

Well, no matter what you say about all the material out there, when it comes to Kunlun, I think it's safe to say, although the movie is not out yet, THE BOOK IS BETTER! On the other hand ... Imagine the movie's gonna carry a powerful transmission!

I did. Tastes like chicken.

Now I had a theoretical thought that might be interesting to examine: Imagine all over this planet there would be enough orgonite capable of reaching the clouds. What would happen? Would there be no more clouds, or would it create a violent backlash? If not... so no more clouds. It gets very warm during the day, cold during the night, and all the water vapor can't form clouds but is still there, so maybe air humidity would increase a lot. Maybe vegetation would adapt to get its water more from dew instead of the earth through roots, and the earth would still get watered by the enormous amounts of dew. These thoughts go very far, I admit, but that's where it becomes really interesting. The basic thought behind it is whether it makes sense to think about a possible >catastrophe< being caused by something so intrinsically positive. Maybe in there lies only fear of the great changes that would occur because our world today is so much influenced by negativity. On the other hand, making and placing orgonite is of course a kind of meddling with natural processes, too.

Well... one beautifully leads to the other: Was out today watching the hole in the clouds above the house (suspecting the orgonite, but need to watch some more) and then enjoyed the warm sun and then remembered your advice and did sungazing (with slitted eyes). I was surprised how well my eyes handled the energy input, especially considering that I usually wear pinhole glasses that reduce the light input and am indoors a lot. With internal alchemy It all makes sense: As long as the body can channel and dissipate all the heat and the chemical reaction for the seeing process is fast enough, there's no problem. And it's obvious what a great tool for absorbing electro-chemical energy the eyes are.

Wax... it also contracts during cooling ... but I'm still not sure about how important the pressure on the crystals is. Wax is not very hard, so maybe it creates less pressure. It's a great thing, though. It would be the first stage of development where "orgonite" acutally is a 'homogenous' substance. The cheapest crystal ingredient would be crystalline quarz sand. Normal quarz sand for glass making seems to me "amorphous" ... non-crystalline. I'm not sure whether the quarz sand for sandblasting is crystalline. Combining this with powdered silver should be quite affordable. Do you know anything about grounding HHGs? I saw one with a copper wire spiral going from top to bottom and at the end there was a copper wire. It was said that when you connect that to your house's grounding, the effect is ten- to twentyfold.

On the Wikipedia I read that Reiki practitioners can and should also treat themselves, but I heard from someone who does Reiki (more hobby-like, has a stressful workday) that this was not true, at least if you do no other practice besides Reiki. What do you say?

Doping for a Reiki practitioner; That sounds so perverse. He could get used to it and drop Reiki altogether. But of course one could counter by saying that sometimes you have to do one step backwards to be able to do two steps forward.

What do you mean?

I got my HHG and TBs today. I'm a total beginner, but I'll explain in a moment. Could it be that what the orgonite emits, the POR, can be sensed as slightly cool air? Would make sense as the force of nature that creates, contracts, cools. (But might be possible that this effect occurs with other types of matter, too.) A few weeks ago I occasionally did an improvised practice: Standing, close eyes, arms hanging down. Then trying so sense in what direction my hands would move with the least effort necessary, like they're drawn to it, and doing that motion, adjusting my position when necessary. And this practice often created this cool feeling around my hands, that I could not explain by air flow, blood flow or sweating. Is it possible that I'd been creating Yin Chi there? BTW I just had a funny idea for an orgonite design: cubic, and the type of metal chips selected in a way that in the end, the thing looks like a Borg starship from Star Trek.

Healing not the main purpose? That would explain why self-application is a basic aspect of it. With "master" I meant the third degree. I now got some more information from him, and even more will come later. He said he talked with many other Reiki practitioners at a meeting here in Germany and alledgedly they were all saying that in praxis, the self-application didn't work for them - although it seems to have been taught to them. I wonder whether there might be a huge 'community' of total Reiki-laymen who learned the technique but never managed to generate Chi and are now working with placebo effect and the body warmth of their hands. What would be an easy, unproblematic and foolproof test for a Reiki practitioner's abilities? Should they for example be able to go with their hand over my arm and make the hairs move, or cause significant heat in an area without touching?