Hiro Protagonist

In other news, Family sued by person walking in a park from inhaling smoke from a BBQ. BBQs are now banned in public places. And children are at harm with BBQs by their parents in their own backyard.

Same here. I grew up in a country town and a lot of people smoked. Uncle smoked, next door neighbours smoked. It was everywhere. I didn't smoke because I didn't get it. I agree with Pidesco, it isn't psychotropic so I never understood why you would want to spend money on something that I couldn't get any perceptible feeling from - other than looking 'cool'. Interesting enough, when I moved to the big smoke (Sydney) it took me months to climatise to the smoke and pollution and had to go to hospital and be put on a ventilator machine which did nothing. Doctors couldn't understand what was wrong with me and why I couldn't breathe properly. After 3 months, I was okay again. If I had children, I wouldn't bring them up in a city.

That's nice. Violence is not the answer. That's why they never learn. They just want to kill each other.

Sounds more like series/season end thing. I read somewhere, could have been Lostpedia, that they were going to merge the two times lines at around the 6th episode.

split screen comparison of the opening scene from the pilot ep and LAX

There was a really good interview with Michael Malone from iiNet on the ABC. Here's a link to the transcript. Interesting to note is this little bit: WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: Michael Malone, can you tell me what percentage of iiNet's traffic goes through BitTorrent? MICHAEL MALONE: We don't know. WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: But didn't you say in the case that it's at least 50 per cent, if not more? MICHAEL MALONE: No. We've got statistics from global sources that say that that's what's suggested across US networks. That's dropped, by the way. Again, looking back to the (inaudible) - since legitimate versions were made available in the US, that's dropped from 50 per cent down to about 30 per cent. So as long as you give customers an alternative which is legitimate, they take advantage of it. WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: So you have no way of telling how much of your traffic is going through BitTorrent? MICHAEL MALONE: We could look at what's being used by BitTorrent, which we haven't done, but we could, however that still wouldn't tell us what's illegitimate. WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: But it would suggest that a large amount is illegal because a lot of people use BitTorrent to illegally download. MICHAEL MALONE: But a lot of people use BitTorrent for legitimate purposes. There's applications such as World of Warcraft, which you're probably familiar with, that uses BitTorrent. Now that's transparent to World of Warcraft users, but it's a perfectly legal usage of it. If you're looking at things like using Linux to do your updates through, that uses BitTorrent. Democracy for IPTV uses BitTorrent. These are perfectly legitimate versions of BitTorrent, and we can't look into those packets and say what was legal and what was not. WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS: So, are you sensing some sort of reluctance from the entertainment providers that they're unwilling to come to the table and do some sort of deal with you? MICHAEL MALONE: Most of the issue

I had a look at the new DCU movies coming up and that isn't listed. I'm guessing it's a fan made film. It would be good to see something like that though.

I think they will merge them and we'll see it over the next few episodes.

Yeah I think it's pretty straight forward. This courtcase is Not like the flood gates have now opened and it's open slather to pirate. Nothing has changed here in Australia. If you download you can still be prosecuted. All this court case does is the ISP can't turn off your internet connection because of allegations from an industry lobby body like AFACT saying that you are pirating. AFACT wanted to be the police and go to ISPs and say Person A has been downloading pirated stuff, now turn their internet connection off. The ISPs argued that any copyright infringement that is going on will be forwarded to the Police and they'll let the police follow it up with due process. The ISPs weren't going to go off allegations made by a lobby group and start turning off internet connections left, right and centre.

Setting off the bomb had two possibilities, it either sent them from 1977 to the present or sunk the island. They're just showing the two possibities. I just don't know why they're showing two alternate universe's at the moment. I would have been happy for them to come back to the present and leave it at that. There must be a reason why they're showing another alternate universe and showing the island sunk.

I didn't think there was any doubt for me that Nemesis = Flocke = Smokey. I always thought it was the case. However, I don't really see the point of the thing. They could have finished the story without it but I'm sure all will be explained. It just seems they are making it even more confusing with doing it. And it seems that only Jack could see Desmond on the plane and nobody else.

It's interesting to see the commercial TV stations in Sydney didn't have anything about this case but ABC and SBS did. It was the second news story on SBS. I mentioned this case to a couple of colleagues at work and they were like... huh? They knew nothing about this. Clearly, it isn

Exactly. Or suing Ford because a car they sold was used in a Robbery.

It's a landmark case and first trial of its kind in the world. I've heard quite a few international people were used in the trial so it appears this may set a precedence in other countries. Here's a short but interesting link showing what happened in court this morning. Full Judgement including summary. Long but very interesting. It includes some interesting chapters on internet protocols and how things work. Also included at the bottom of the judgement are all the films and tv shows that must have been used in the trial. examples: Chapter 61. .torrent file The term

It'll never take off. Planes still rule the airways.

There are a lot more unanswered questions than ever before.

You really need to do a bit of history if you're going to use analogies when comparing China and Taiwan to other countries like Australia. Here's a hint, Australia and Norfolk Island. Not a good analogy but there are some similarities. eg. Taiwan and Norfolk Island have their own elected Governments and Norfolk Island is not represented in the Commonwealth Parliament of Australia even though Australia 'owns' Norfolk Island. Also, Norfolk Island doesn't have the same taxes as Australia does. eg. When goods are imported to Australia with a final destination Norfolk Island, those goods don't pay any Duty/Taxes and are transhipped (usually from Sydney) to Norfolk Island where the local Government runs their own Duty/Tax system. Norfolk Island isn't an independant country even though it 'sort of' acts like one.

According to Wikipedia, Lindelof has also indicated that Walt's unusual abilities may be explained, although this may not necessarily require the character's direct involvement. not according to Wikipedia. But then Wikipedia could be wrong.

For some reason I thought that was a girl monkey. but in one of the cartoons he says he's a boy.

I had one of those in my shoe one morning about three years ago. Drove to work and thought there was a bit of cardboard near my toes. When I got to work, I sat at my desk, took off my shoe and one of those fell out. I screamed like a little girl and nearly had a heart attack. They're actually quite harmless but they will give you one heck of a shock when you see one. A friend had one drop from his sun visor, while driving through the Sydney Harbour Tunnel and nearly crashed into the side wall. Nearly gave him a heart attack and he says he's lucky to be alive that he didn't hit the tunnel wall.

What is the story about anyway? I've been watching it and I have no idea where it's going.

Downloading solves the problem of the censors.

yeah especially with a soldier from Earth's future is sent back in time and materializes on a city street in the present. Same with a robot which looks like a man but has a robotic hand going back into the past to find out he is not a man but a robot.