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  1. How 'good' is your computer?

    on a scale of one to ten I'd say its about a 6

    Lower the preview quality? Get a better graphics card?

    Maybe try saving it off to an AVI then bringing that back in, some things have trouble playing certain formats.

    Tried both of those, graphics card maybe be my last option, I guess i was hoping for some kind of magical solution

  2. I'm using sony vegas 7 and adobe premier pro 3 with some footage from a lil hd cam, problem isn when I play the footage in the preview box in both programs its really jerky. I don't want to convert the footage and rape the quality so it plays properly in preview so I'm a bit stumped as to what to do... any ideas anyone?

  3. Night life is pretty good but if you go in some clubs youll get alot of shit if your white, I wouldn't go out riding there, salford's probably the 2nd worst place Ive ever been. really really horrible, bullet holes in my friends house, stabbings, muggings ect all the time. Last time i went up my friends car was stolen crashed then burnt out and a few houses on the street were trashed, I went for 2 days.

  4. yeah agreed, tbf i think there is just too many people like that on earth for that kind of shit to carry on.

    So many governments are all about equality and giving everyone long lives ect.. it will lead to greater overpopulation and the need to take so much from the environment that it loses the capability to sustain itself to levels that can provide for the whole population. There are examples of this in so many countries, it may not hit home really cos England doesn't suffer the effects of this because we're rich and live in favorable conditions. but The problem will only get worse... its something that will not be changed until it is too late, not alot of people are willing to do anything about it...

    sounds totally immoral but about right to me

    If you want to do somthing go tell people that need to hear it about what you think, a pretty big cause of things like this is just not having the right information and at the end of the day this is a trials forum aha

    btw I think global warming the way 'the press' reports it pretty much bullshit eg daily mail and all that

  5. So the stereotype has it. In fact, most of the people queueing for the bus to go on the tuition fee protests in London back in 02 or whenever it was, were wearing nothing but 'designer' clothing, and those that I knew probably went out drinking about 4 times a week. From my experience most students seem to have cash to burn - to be fair I blew a lot on f'ck knows what.

    In this case though it depends how much you want it. If you can accept that life won't always mean disposable income, lots of films, drink, expensive weekends, etc, then you'll find a sh'te house-share or live in a tent and live off value food. For a while after university I was employed for f'all pay, and my weekly food budget was £10, which was spent almost entirely on Tesco Value food. It was grim, but now it's nice when I go into the supermarket and can buy whatever I want.

    Maybe the trouble is that uni is thought of as one big long Club 1830 holiday, instead of an opportunity to gain some credentials. If you require university as a 'best years of your life' experience, then doing it on a budget may not be worthwhile. But, on the other hand, you can sweat it out, and then ensure that subsequent years are even better than university could possibly have been (unless of course you then decide to blow your hard-earned cash on a mortgage or some sh't like that...).

    tbf i could not buy clothes for years and stil not have £5000, or the £15000 that in total i need. Im gonna need like 2 jobs to do this. but i think youre very right

  6. I've been quoted a student loan, it matches up to the cost of my course and maintenance for food/drink for the year however accommodation is another 5 grand ontop of that. I really dont know where to get this from!

    Anyone been in a similar situation? what did you do?

    it doesnt help that the student loans website is f**ked and i get an error on most pages

  7. He's good but i didn't see anything progressive, or unique that i haven't seen from other vids. Camerawork was awesome, specifically the panning and tracking shots (Y)

    Are you talking from the standpoint of a sponsor?...

    That was mesmerising! like a piece of f**king art not just a bmx video

  8. Hey I've had an offer on my bike in the for sale section from a guy in Romania ;), I'm real busy atm so I don't have time to go through pages and pages of google results to find the best way to send a bike there.

    Does anyone know what company to go with ect.. and roughly how much it would cost?

  9. I think that we typically are under the control of our egos, which essentially leads to the desire of this or that end; "I want a chocolate cake", "I want to be the best trials rider in the world", "I don't want to think of the world in a way that makes me less materialistic because I like materials" or even, "I can utilize the idea of the world as perfect as an excuse to rob old ladies and for it to be acceptable". If we shut down or simply see past this ego process, that we are normally slave to, I think we begin to see the world more clearly. There is a lot to gain for the ego by distorting our view of things. I've not had the pleasure of viewing the world without ego in any substantial sense but I have stepped out of ego and experienced a gap between 'myself' and it. Ego is a bit crazy when you watch it from the sidelines although I think it can be appropriately used in terms of psychological health - it's just we overuse it and are slave to what it wants. But yeh, consciousness is not ego and it's ego that tends to break down through drug usage. That's probably what's meant when we talk of leaving the grasp of consciousness?

    Thats cool, I've always thought ego's to be us and what we have learn't though, as psychological studies indicate that they mostly consist ofschemas ect. knowledge, and knowledge of how to and when to apply that knowledge. So a change in the chemistry of your brain through the use of psychedelics, Doesn't appear to be a way of looking at life without your ego, moreso a jumble of unnatural experience produced and changing according to the substance you use. In gaining knowledge about the universe ect. it seems a more valid approach in thinking about these things without the use of drugs. Perhaps you need to adopt the perfect schemas to achieve the end product of that goal?.

  10. Is that type of discussion best discussed when you're free from the grips of a controlling consciousness? I.e; drink, drugs, laughing gas, mushrooms or a cake?

    But Without knowledge of a controlling consciousness could you see past it to a free consciousness?, you couldn't see past what is there because whatever is past what is not there would be directly in front of you.

    man you'd be a genius if you could discuss this stuff when pissed

  11. Sorry my posts aren't more succinct. I'm just making efforts to ensure my point is understood as I'm often criticised for being unclear :)

    I used to share the attitude that this realisation meant morals didn't mean anything. However viewing existence in the "first instance" doesn't have to negate the validity of morality. It certainly means that morality is a human construct but what's important is that moral behaviour can be considered as arising from the psychological needs of humans in the same way that the act of breathing and eating are the needs of human physiology. Morals make sense for humans because they can act as guiding principles for human health, on the individual and social level. We wouldn't deny that it makes sense to eat and breath but we all seem a bit confused over psychological needs = morals when doing their proper job should lead to a greater human health.

    It's certainly a choice to be moral but isn't it that way regardless of how we consider the universe or a potential god? I guess it's less of a choice if we fear the consequence of our actions because of a big scary judging universe or God but even people that do believe in those, especially the latter, still act in amoral fashions.

    Regarding pain there are many ways we can adjust our response to that type of experience. By realising pain in its most fundamental nature, in a purely non-conceptual way as 'pure experience' (so to speak), aside from the typical human response we have of reacting to pain with pain and that pain with more pain, etc. Although I can't do it with a great deal of pain, in meditation I've experienced what we normally call (muscular/head) pain in a purely observational and not unpleasant fashion - it was simply an event such as watching a leaf float by - it didn't mean suffering or being unhappy. This ties in to the broader act of seeing the universe more as it is in opposition to through our ideas, habits and instincts that otherwise normally define the way we experience life.

    ;

    It is a choice to be moral, however many people know they don't have a full enough understanding or whatever it maybe to form considerations of the universe. What I'm saying is if those people that fit this group, if they tend to be amoral, this psychological tendency when coupled with logical statements derived from 'everything is perfect cos is happens' is a 'do what you like'

    the thinking being: Everything I do is right(perfect). I want That womans handbag, because everything I do is right, the action of stealing that handbag is right.

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