My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

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Confirming my existance to playful.lifelinescenter.net by opting out was a bad idea.

I agree entirely with Mr Lindsay. Corby has a poor legal defense team, mainly because it is a case that is a dime a dozen, and it shouldn't really be getting all this attention. I still think either one of two things has happened, however, either she's really stupid and smuggled drugs into the country or she's really stupid and got poor defense - either way it's not been a good decision on her part.

ELEANOR HALL: Joining us now with an opposing view is the Director of the University of Melbourne's Asian Law Centre, Professor Tim Lindsay, a specialist in Indonesia law and society, who teaches both here in Australia and in Indonesia.

Dr Lindsay is on the phone from Singapore.

Dr Lindsay, what do you make of the concerns that have been raised in Australia recently about the Indonesian justice system?

TIM LINDSAY: Well, the Indonesian justice system is part of the European or continental group of legal systems. These are actually the most common legal system in the world.

The British common law system that exists in Australia is a minority of systems in the world. The Indonesian system is very close to the Dutch and the French models. It is very different, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad.

Nobody would criticise the French, German, Italian systems because they are different. The question is not systemic difference, but how it is actually implemented in practice.

And in reality these systems, whilst they have different procedures and different processes, the outcomes are not radically different. And of course our civil law systems are quite capable of delivering very good outcomes for litigation with a criminal or civil in some respects, you can argue that they're better.

Many people criticise the jury system in common law countries, including senior lawyers, and the civil law system doesn't have one.

I'm not expressing a view for or against, but you simply cannot cast aside the major legal system in the world just because it's different to the British common law model.

ELEANOR HALL: Is it the case that the Indonesian legal system is based on the presumption of guilt?

TIM LINDSAY: No, that is completely false. As a matter of fact it is completely the opposite. The system in Indonesia is the same as the system in Australia, and our Commonwealth system. Article 66 of the Criminal Procedure Code specifically states that the burden of proof to prove guilt in a criminal case lies with the prosecution.

In other words, that unless the prosecution can prove guilt, the person is innocent. So the common furphy that is being circulated in Australia in the media at the moment that people in the Indonesian system are presumed guilty until proven innocent is totally false.

ELEANOR HALL: Where does this idea come from?

TIM LINDSAY: Well, it used to be a view held about civil law systems… initially under Napoleon there was a certain point an assumption along those lines, but it's been a long time since that assumption applied in most civil law countries, and a long time, certainly, since it applied in Indonesia.

The Code of Criminal Procedure is quite clear. The prosecution bears the burden of proof to prove guilt. It is a common furphy about civil law systems that doesn't apply in the modern era.

ELEANOR HALL: So in your view has Schapelle Corby, for example, had a fair trial?

TIM LINDSAY: The Indonesian system does have significant problems of corruption and it's openly acknowledged in Indonesia. It does have institutional weaknesses and incompetence in the system, because it's emerging from a dictatorship that deliberately ran down the court system.

But that does not mean that all trials will necessarily be influenced by corruption, or that all judges and prosecutors are incompetent. Now, you have to look at each case on its merits.

The Bali bombers cases, for example, were run impeccably. There's been no serious criticism of the way those cases were run, in the same court in Bali as the court in which Schapelle Corby's trial has been conducted.

Now, to date her trial has complied pretty closely with the normal sort of procedures. The problem that Schapelle Corby faces, whether guilty or innocent, is that her defence team has put virtually no serious evidence before the court that would tend to suggest, or it would tend to support any hypothesis that would support her innocence.

ELEANOR HALL: How damaging do you think it's been, or has it been at all damaging, to relations between Australia and Indonesia that there has been such criticism of the Indonesian justice system in the media, and as you say, if it's as false as you say?

TIM LINDSAY: Well, mature countries with a strong bilateral relationship can stand a bit of upset over issues such as this. And I really don't think either the Schapelle Corby case or the Bali Nine is going to pull down what has become a particularly strong relationship following Australian support for the victims of the Aceh tsunami and so forth.

But the problem, I think, is, and you can understand that this would cause some problems in Indonesia, although not as major as people suggest, is that much of the criticism's simply inaccurate.

What's happened in Schapelle Corby's trial is standard procedure. Drugs cases are very common in Bali, it's one of the major centres for narcotics cases in Indonesia – Jakarta, and Surabaya are the others. The young judges and prosecutors are sent to Bali to cut their teeth on narcotics and prostitution cases, much of this because it's a major tourist centre.

This case is not an unusual case. It's a standard case. Her defence team has been weak, it has not put a good case before the court. It's really nothing controversial.

ELEANOR HALL: Dr Tim Lindsay we'll have to leave it there, but thanks very much for joining us.

TIM LINDSAY: It's a pleasure.

ELEANOR HALL: Dr Tim Lindasy from Melbourne's Asian Law Centre, speaking to us on the phone from Singapore

starkist infidelic:
erm
getting certified as a master professional dog groomer ...

ÅÐÅM___:
wtf? r u drunk?

starkist infidelic:
no
haha
I know
ya
weird
there's a lot of money to be made in it and I can put myself through
real school with it
the army's paying for it ....

ÅÐÅM___:
the army? what good is a pro-dog brusher for the army? bizarre...so they will pay for u to do anything and u chose brushing dogs?
michelle...michelle...michelle...again...r u drunk?

starkist infidelic:
well
the way I saw it is that it brings in a lot of money
so like
I need to work while I go to
school so I can pay the bills
they'll still help me with reg school too
but this way, I'll have a
cert so that I can do something I can wake up & feel good about and be able to dress as I like
in the meantime


starkist infidelic:
sadly, I must go to sleep though
the wedding festivities start early tomorrow, and I have to wake
up earlier than most

ÅÐÅM___:
good night my friend the dog groomer

starkist infidelic:
we'll have to see how it all goes before you can call me that
starts mon!

ÅÐÅM___:
:) if u fail the course i'm disowning u as a friend...

starkist infidelic:
bah
you wouldn't believe all you have to learn for it
these are the ppl who groom for like the
westminster dog show & the akc & the big stuff

ÅÐÅM___:
pfft...it's combing dog hair...u can't possibly fail

starkist infidelic:
you'd be surprised how involved it is
I have to learn things like the chemical properties of diff
stuff to be able to mix shampoos & such depending on the type of dog, type of hair, any allergies &
probs, etc
like we make the shampoo for each dog, it's not already mixed
then you have to
memorize what the show coat & such for each dog breed are
so that anyone can come in with any dog
and you should be able to do the right cut

ÅÐÅM___:
u sound like u're trying to make excuses for when u fail...it's combing dog hair dammit! and i
won't hear it any other way! :P

starkist infidelic:
bah
we'll see
well it's going to be about two nights before 'm back due to wedding
but I'll
catch you then

ÅÐÅM___:
c u later...g'night

Again: why in the hell is the US Army paying for Ms Infidelic to become a dog groomer?

Are pampered pooches their next secret weapon? They deliver little cute well brushed and shampooed dogs to the door with red ribbons...then *BAM* they explode and people start losing arms!

Maybe I should write a will and send copies of what i know to my solicitor - ooh, and I could make one of those cool videos "if you are seeing this, it means that I am dead..." only mine is going to start like..."if u are watching this then it means that i am dead...or you've stolen it from my private collection in which case you should have grabbed the XXX one next to it because it'll be more exciting"

or...i should mix the two so there's hardcore porn that comes up subliminally throughout it or some other crazy thing like "kill your pet dog..."kill your pet dog"...and everyone would be going away thinking..."damn - i don't even have a pet dog but i damn well have to get one so i can kill it" or something more playful and yet sinister at the same time like "suck cock" - suddenly all the husbands get the night of their lives from their wives and everyone else goes in heterosexual and leaves starting a new sexual revolution.

God bless double shots of espresso, apples, and steak.

OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism.

The 31-year-old man fell asleep on a sofa at a party in January last year and told the court in the western city of Bergen he woke to find the 23-year-old woman was having oral sex with him.

What's he complaining about?

i got this new "clearasil" shaving cream with built-in pimple remover. I was sort of annoyed because they stole my idea - but now I'm annoyed because I never actually had a pimple on my face until I started using it. Presumably I'm meant to keep using it because I've got a pimple and it will help to remove the pimples that it gave me and the cycle will continue. Duped again.

Apparently I missed the lesbian episode. Lies! Lies I tell you! I bet there never was a lesbian episode it was all smoke and mirrors! Damn it!

All this talk of drug mules on tv news lately keeps making me think of francis the talking mule: he was funny;he was a mule; and he talked. Although I've heard they were quite cruel in making him talk. Not unlike the police in the real life situation - the "bali 9" can't be complaining too much - they were caught red handed.

I should just go to bed earlier.

Premature ejaculation occurs in just under two minutes, as opposed to about seven minutes for men able to stay the course, according to a U.S. study aimed at setting some standards for the disorder. (www.reuters.com)

I'm getting a stop watch out next time - now i have a 7-minute goal to beat (or a two minute one - whichever comes first)

I've got mult-sports, the local multiple sports competition i'm entered into, tonight. The only trouble is that we don't play until 8pm. 8pm! Do i have my dinner first and play on a full stomach and then vomit afterwards? Do i wait until afterwards to eat and then be so worn out I just want to sleep? Do I not eat at all? Why? Why did they make it start at such a dodgy time! :|

I'm going to a friends graduation on Tuesday - but I just can't get excited about it. To me it seems more like a day of visiting her family as I sit there and watch 200 hundred people's names be read out that I don't know nor care about. I wasn't even excited at my own graduation - I was more saddened. Saddened that I never made more of the opportunity to study and learn and saddened that it was the end of a chapter of my life. Any feeling I had of excitement about graduating university had long gone because I had been working for six (6) months before I graduated - I have no idea why my university did graduations that way. They always said it was because of overseas students or something - sounds crazy to me.

I'm almost $6000 in front of my car repayments - i kick arse!

The next few phrases should never be uttered in the same few sentences:

"I know"
"I'm an architect"
"crack propagation in concrete"
"stormwater pipes"
"drought"
"retaining wall design"
"retaining wall construction"

This guy rings up to complain about a stormwater pipe leaking in his backyard that was investigated by Council and shown to have been caused by the homeowner (or previous homeowner) puting the retaining wall through the middle of the stormwater pipe. Apparently because he's an architect he:

"know[s] all about retaining wall design and retaining wall construction" and he

"know[s] that if a pipe is cracked it will leak straight away!"

Despite the fact that it hasn't significantly rained since the retaining wall was put in until now.

I tried to settle the disgruntled person down by attempting to make him see commonsense:

"Firstly, we have been in a drought since the retaining wall was put in. Secondly, crack propagation in a concrete pipe takes time when there is sporadic flows through the concrete pipe due to it being merely stormwater which is not underpressure. And thirdly, as I had said in the beginning of our conversation, we have been advised not to say anything until we have discussed the matter further with our lawyer"

To which he again insisted:

"I'm an architect - I know these things! What you're saying is a bunch of crap"

In all honesty - what does he know about any of this because he's an architect? He's not qualified to know about any of this as an architect. He very well could know about it, but being an architect doesn't qualify him to know about it! Being an architect may well be purely coincidental - he may be an architect that knows about crack propagation in concrete and retaining walls but he was so insistant that because he's an architect he knows these things.


First year Architecture Course ARCH111 and 112:

Sketching
Diagramming
Architectural Drawings
Presentation Drawings
Modeling
Media
Technical Drawings

Design is Creative Problem Solving, in the Realm of Culture
Inspirational Design
Oracles and Dialecticians
Taming the Bush
The Global and the Local
An Urban Vision of Australian Design
Design as Frozen Culture
Design Rhetoric
The Canon of Gurus
Prospects for Design Professionals

Site Studies
Living in NSW. The "Tocal" setting
Australian Sites & landscapes
Landscapes of Humankind
Human, nature, landscape and site
Site Description & Analysis
Drawing Site and Climate
Surveying Skills

Room wall door window: design for eye, body, emotions
Edges and Entries
Sitting the Site

Sun angles and Orientation
Water: the essential resource
Ethics: Green and Sustainable Design

Design Studies:
Form and function
Planning strategies
Problem solving models

Design Integration:
An introduction to the theoretical and practical concepts and terms of architecture;
An understanding of architectural design processes and related techniques and outcomes;
Perceive and communicate existing and imagined architectural conditions;
Work singly and within small groups on architectural design tasks;
An understanding of professional architectural roles, relationships and activities.


Information Literacy:
PBL - what is it?
Endnote Training
Working in Teams
Academic Writing Skills
How to Assess Creativity
Reflective Writing
Facilitation of Teams
Presentation Styles
Reflective Journals in Design
Executive Summary of Reflection

Basic Construction:
Materials and Structural Principle
Grounding of Structures and Floor Framing
Wall Framing and Linings
Concrete Slabs
Masonry Walls
Detailing of Opening in Walls
Composite Construction
Introduction to Detailing
Architect in Focus

Communication Skills: Electronic Communication
CAD software
2D modelling
3D modelling
CAD conventions
CAD presentation skills
Printing and Troubleshooting

Second Year Architecture ARCH211 and 212
Design Integration:
Introduce house building type
House: Brief and site analysis
House: Developing the concept design
House: Concept presentation
House: Developing the schematic design
Introduce "extreme" student competition
Presenting the submission
Developed Design: Drawings
Developed Design: Presentation
Developed Design: Feedback

Historical Studies: History of Western Architecture
Egypt
Greece
Rome
Byzantine
Romanesque
Gothic
Renaissance
Baroque
18th Century
19th Century
Pre-Modern

Environmental Studies:
Site Analysis for the domestic brief

The human group and the living site
Inside/ Outside: Room and Site
Living in the Australian house and landscape
Historic & emerging ideas in landscape

Dwelling, light and sunlight
Architectural acoustics
NatHERS, BASIX + council guidelines

ESD: Ecology and accountability
A sustainable landscape: Newcastle University campus tour
Environmental Health: theories, strategies and outcomes

Design Studies:
Conceptual design
Proportion
Aestehtics of materials

Design Integration:
Threshold, clay: Introduce threshold, privacy gradient
Group housing building type
Housing: Concept, stormwater, solar, shadow principles
Housing: Privacy gradient, concept
Housing: Schematic, DA issues
Housing: Presentation of the schematic
Fast House
Detail Design
Working Drawings

Historical Studies: 20th Century Movements in Architecture
Futurism
Constructivism
Functionalism
Brutalism
Rationalism
Metabolism
Eclecticism
Classicism
Regionalism
High-Tech
Deconstructionism
Complexitism

Technical Studies: Domestic Construction
Overview of domestic construction
The framed house
The masonry Veneer and solid masonry house
Houses constructed of earth and concrete
Walls and roofs - special linings and details
Detailing of stairs, balustrades and the outdoor room
Working drawings
Kitchens, bathrooms, laundries and cabinets
Detailing

Communication Skills: Electronic Communication
CAD software
2D modelling
3D modelling
CAD conventions
CAD presentation skills
Printing and Troubleshooting

Third year architecture ARCH311 and 312:

Design Integration:
Issues relating to public building types
New scale of public, institutional clients and a wider diversity of building users
Range of historical models from Australian and overseas relating to the formal and cultural issues present
Presentation of technical information

Historical Studies: History of Western Architecture
Egypt
Greece
Rome
Byzantine
Romanesque
Gothic
Renaissance
Baroque
18th Century
19th Century
Pre-Modern

Technical Studies: Commercial Buildings
Historical overview of structures
Timber concepts/detailing
Steel concepts
Sub-structure/footings
Concrete concepts
Structural synergy and stability
Services
Air-conditioning
Cost Planning
Specifications
Detailing
Documentation

Design Studies:
Conceptual design of larger buildings
Symbolism
Architectre: Art and science

Design Integration:
Issues relating to public building types
New scale of public, institutional clients and a wider diversity of building users
Range of historical models from Australian and overseas relating to the formal and cultural issues present
Presentation of technical information including lighting and acoustics

Historical Studies: 20th Century Movements in Architecture
Futurism
Constructivism
Functionalism
Brutalism
Rationalism
Metabolism
Eclecticism
Classicism
Regionalism
High-Tech
Deconstructionism
Complexitism

Environmental Studies: Architecture and the Environmental Context
Understanding and describing the civic site
Achitectural science and technology
Planning, ecology and landscape design
Sustainable detail and materials
Case studies

So if "Concrete Concepts" and "Materials and Structural Principle" is the best we can come up with - I repeat - how does being an architect make him know these things?

The lesbian episode is now - NEXT WEEK! Ugh! Will I never learn?

I'm not up on the exact proposed EPA study, however, call me crazy if you will (and you most probably will) - but if the EPA has scrapped the planned testing program of household pesticides under normal household conditions in normal houses due to safety worries for the people who would be exposed during these recommended uses of these pesticides - what the fuck hope do the rest of us have of surviving? Any why in the hell has it taken until now for anyone to even decide to check to see if these household pesticides are even safe for use in houses?

Have we just been hoping for all this time that everything will be hunky dory? I keep thinking of all of the advertisements they used to show trying to prove that DDT was safe by blasting water canons of DDT at children swimming in a pool. I'd like to think we've come a little further than those days - but alas - it seems we may have not.

My unit is a pig-sty at the moment. There's food wrappers everywhere and papers all over the floor. At least the cockroach carcasses have been removed - or decayed whichever happened first.

I either need to get a house keeper or invite the queer-eye guys over to make me over once a month - the only problem with htat would be is that they seem to do a lot of running around screaming like a girl and throwing stuff everywhere. I'd damn well lose my bond if they ever got anywhere near my unit!

I left my steak in the freezer overnight without packaging it up - I completely forgot about freezer burn.

Q: Does "freezer burn" make food unsafe?

A:Freezer burn is a food-quality issue, not a food safety issue. It appears as grayish-brown leathery spots on frozen food. It occurs when air reaches the food's surface and dries out the product. This can happen when food is not securely wrapped in air-tight packaging. Color changes result from chemical changes in the food's pigment. Although undesirable, freezer burn does not make the food unsafe. It merely causes dry spots in foods. Cut away these areas either before or after cooking the food. When freezing food in plastic bags, push all the air out before sealing.

(www.fda.gov)

So basically if I have freezer burnt my entire steak I have to chop off my entire steak or it will taste funny. May as well throw it out - or continue the burn and turn it into jerky. Now there's an idea.

Does anyone have any freezer-jerky recipes?

In last weeks Port Macquarie News the headlines were all about this woman who got sacked from a certain business with a boss who said to her "go outside and sit with the dogs in the rain". The certain business had to pay her out around $25,000 for wrongful dismissal and a few other things here and there they had to appologise for that they did wrongly. This week - the same employer who told this lady to "go out side and sit with the dogs in the rain" was handed an employer of the year award.

How quickly people forget.

Still no lesbian three-some! Damn the channel ten advertisements for the OC!

i applied for a job today. I was up late last night updating my resume and filling in the last three (3) years of blanks with my current job and projects I've worked on. I spelt my own name incorrectly on the application and forgot to specifically mention i was addressing the key criteria when I was addressing the key criteria.

Proof reading of documents is a must for anything written after 2am.

All I have to show for my absence is the realization that without the net I have a hell of a lot of time on my hands for cleaning the house, cooking elaborate meals, and getting a junk email box filled with letters from lawyers in Nigeria representing the deceased estate of a relative I never knew I had who left me a million dollars that for only $100 I can have access to...Oh and my typing skills have slowed :|

I'm back! (I know you never actually noticed I was gone - but that's not the point)

My computer now has an additional three (3) fans and sounds like a harrier jet coming into land - but on the upside it shouldn't overheat anymore!