waterfront/water... back

[Cochise]

This is anyway related to an other thread
http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29066

Are they planning for a larger swimming pool... or what??
http://www.fairworks.eu/waterfront.html

[Cochise]

It happened on Monday
[EDITED] It actually was on Tuesday (1 March 2011)... these are confusing days... [/EDITED]

http://www.fairworks.eu/files/waves.wmv

I'm sorry for Mac users... I'll encode DivX or something once I'll find right settings..

It should be probably better even reducing bitrate

[siriusbliss]

It happened on Monday

http://www.fairworks.eu/files/waves.wmv

I'm sorry for Mac users... I'll encode DivX or something once I'll find right settings..

It should be probably better even reducing bitrate

FYI... the video is viewable on Macs using VLC player.

Anyways, it looks like maybe the waves will wipe out their 'business'?
The guy digging out of the hole is hilarious because it's futile getting sand out of a hole while the ocean is dumping more sand in

Anyways, you should get some directional speakers like these and blast them (they won't know where the sound is coming from):
http://www.lradx.com/site/content/view/15/110/

OR, put microphones outside your window and RECORD the ambient audio and run it through Scope and invert the phase of the incoming sound and then playback the canceled out-of-phase sound inside your house.

Greg

[Cochise]

FYI... the video is viewable on Macs using VLC player.

Anyways, it looks like maybe the waves will wipe out their 'business'?
The guy digging out of the hole is hilarious because it's futile getting sand out of a hole while the ocean is dumping more sand in

Anyways, you should get some directional speakers like these and blast them (they won't know where the sound is coming from):
http://www.lradx.com/site/content/view/15/110/

OR, put microphones outside your window and RECORD the ambient audio and run it through Scope and invert the phase of the incoming sound and then playback the canceled out-of-phase sound inside your house.

Greg

It probably won't be the waves to make them give up; this is the first year they let lot of stuff on the beach in winter... cause they've been permitted to do so at the end of this summer.
They used to mount (and partially renew the dressing) every spring.
It looks like they've never been permitted for any work at the mouth of the torrent, though; they should stay 5 meters off each side. They've been charged for this in early August days this summer, after we had been aware of that pipe they put there; it definitely looks like nothing has been done -about- by central and local police till now. A strange coincidence is: engineer that signed projects for them has a name sounding almost like the italian word for police. This is quite paranoia, though, nothing tangible.

Yeah the guy digging is funny, but it should be really fun seeing the "boss" in person dealing with that. Unluckily that's likely just a poor boy that has to work for foolish people, having got few, or quite no civil rights. Probably he's the same Mahgreb boy I met when I took the pipe-end pic at the mouth of the torrent; he (kindly) asked me what I was photographing and I said the torrent; he asked why and I just said cause there's a torrent there; he asked again why and I said again ...the torrent, then I swiftly left the area; I guess now he knows what I was talking about.

Directional speakers? Sometimes I think I'm being attacked myself anyway like that... this is becoming a very noisy place in winter too; it's more than two months I've got low frequencies issues (a continous tone in the 60Hz frenquency zone) almost 24 hours a day, and I don't know from where it comes from... Feel like I need to move.. I'm hearing it now and feel my ears bad

In the first beach thread Neutron posted a link to a video showing an esacopter... It should be very usefull to me at now, for taking pics.

[Cochise]

This was on 1 March 2011 (same day of the waves) straight at 13 Km/8 Miles from here

http://www.ilmattino.it/video.php?id=9753

alternative link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao7wu7R-7DI

[garyb]

wow.

[Cochise]

There's some homeless people cause of that, but luckily noone's dead this time.
It was different on 1 October 2009 when the flood reaped 31 plus 6 missing persons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Messi ... _mudslides
Just after that, in november 2009, I saw them unload pipe sections on the beach; pipe has then been grounded in spring.

Other similar disastrous events were in 2007 and 1996; the '96 one particularly hit the town area where I live.

wow.

Do you like to surf?


At now listening at Jimi Hendrix "if 6 was 9" is almost kind of an Holy Bible's passage to me.
Looks like f*ing spoil system is highly involved here. "Bunga bunga" politics rules while people.........
and... no, it's not a right/left wing issue imho, though. People in charge are just shamelessly making it extreme and highly visible.

[garyb]

yeah, power doesn't really know right/left....

[Cochise]

Here we go again. Rain season is coming and still nobody seems to hear about this.
Even if the thing should look clear for people living here, I realize I could have been vague for everyone else.

Works had been done here in the 90s, and these grilles

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had been put to avoid the water to flood houses beyond the elbow of the little street.

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The grilles collect the water that passes in a tunnel under the large street and then on the beach.
The drain digged in the sand by the water was large enough to fit a car inside it, as you can see in the sat pics taken in late autumn months.

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The works had been done since the torrent used to flood the street beyond the elbow several times along a decade.
Now beach keepers put a (narrow) pipe there to have all the space for their aims, further narrowing what already was kind of a funnel pipe... where the rain events trend of the last years requires an enlargement instead. Moreover, their pipe is under the sand level and the end is easily closed by sea waves.



Guys, how much time does it takes to have this loaded for you?
http://www.fairworks.eu/waterfront.html
Here it needs simply too much. I've to consider to enlight the file or change host... Any advice?

[garyb]

it loads very quickly here.

yep, the folks in charge don't care about you. if they did, it would be different.

[Cochise]

They don't care, yes. But they are gonna pretend now the 1% more on anything I buy (exept the most of foods and basics necessities goods). I mean they are increasing VAT from 20 to 21%! (and they're even gonna cut services to the citizens)
Just... They use to squand the money digging mud and rebuilding things where, often, few money would be needed to avoid this (or to reduce fateful effects, at least); and similar things.
That wall holding the street on the sea will probably not ever be repaired; they will use the money to rebuild the whole street once it fall down; the way they're used to do; cause they've got things working in a different way.
They do know, cause I've pointed this all out to them, but... which is the result??
What should I do? Buy a hull faster than theirs and go smuggling? There's people doing that... I'm confused now... Who are the criminals?

[Cochise]

...cause they've got things working in a different way...

There should be really more to say about.
One point is: they've more power of discretion in the assignment of contracts when they're in emergency; often there's no need to make tenders.
It's very likely that this power of discretion contributes in feeding their votes basin; and other things anyone can easily guess.

[garyb]

yes, mafias are not new.

[Cochise]

yes, mafias are not new.

Of course, it's an old story we can't get rid of yet, and that rather spread along the years as a modus operandi at lower levels (or maybe it was the opposite: it started lower and spread higher... who knows?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due

A quite extended 'elite' list that includes government, army, polices, intelligences, economy and mafia people.
The following page hasn't been translated, so titles of the components couldn't be clearly interpreted......
though... http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_degl ... ti_alla_P2

Berlusconi had the registration number 1816

Really feel like I'm sick of all this 'circlecracy' and so few meritocracy...

[garyb]

the problem is that people generally get what they want, even if they don't understand the mechanism that makes them ask for it. where do your ideas come from? you've synthesized them from what limited information about this world you have been shown. if you don't know what the other choice is, then you can't make it. 30 or 40 years isn't enough time to gather the required data, 50, 60 or 70 years might be enough time to know the difference, but people that old rarely have enough energy to start things. this power is mostly in the hands of 20 year olds, who naturally only know what they have seen, which is not much. old systems tend to stay in place. the youth only know what their idols have told them, which is organised by whomever is in charge.

the idea of the mafia is basic to business and government. it's the basis of all organised crime, in other words. in many ways, it's a good thing, for lazy weak people who can't take care of themselves(they always sell "protection", be it insurance, banking, government, a local gang, whatever). it's the reason why there are shopping zones and trade and public parks and nature preserves, not to mention water standards, freedom from the need for arms in public, and neighborhood protection, both property and commerce. the only catch is that if those in the mafia, a brotherhood of like-minded individuals who organise for mutual benefit who make a blood pledge of fellowship, love all the people that they use for power, then life is grand. but if they have no regard for human life, then it's just too bad.

since most mafias are formed in pursuit of power, they're generally run by those who thirst for power. these people are known as psychopaths and sociopaths. since it is well known that psychopaths and sociopaths don't have feelings for others, it's pretty obvious what kind of treatment should be expected from your local mafia, cable company, electric company, stockbroker, etc. it's not that the rank and file are necessarily bad people, everyone neeeds a legitimate source of regular income. a job is a job. it's that the very systems involved WILL roll over whomever gets in the way, just because that's how it all works, since the power hungry are the ones who had the motive and initiative to put the system into motion, and the system needs to be a reflection of them.

it might or it might not be a worse experience if hippys ran the power, sewers and beaches, i don't know. i'm thinking the damn hippys might be worse...

[Cochise]

...it's that the very systems involved WILL roll over whomever gets in the way, just because that's how it all works...

It's a point that's not covered in the Wikipedia page but, if I remember right, it had been discussed in Courts and media at the time. Looks like some of the components had been enlisted using almost coercively ways: they had to choose between advantages of the membership and disadvantages of decline the offer... disadvantages that should had easily compromised their rank...
That's not true exactly for whomever gets in the way, though imho. Otherwise the thing shouldn't be disclosed to the masses.
But the masses can be easily manipulated using media power and other more or less hidden power...
Meritocracy then here is f*cked up, so we're all just keep on breaking this country

[garyb]

don't feel bad.
it's a world-wide system.
some of the bosses are nicer to be under than others.....

[Cochise]

Probably you already saw...
Latest updates here around


Liguria - 5 Terre, 25 Oct 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GgnXMpMZw8 (Monterosso)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPtVoqCU ... r_embedded (Vernazza)



Liguria - Genova, 4 Nov 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNSDVTn1 ... re=related

http://www.youreporter.it/video_Alluvio ... _4_11_2011

http://tg24.sky.it/tg24/cronaca/2011/11 ... degna.html



Sicilia - county of Messina, 22 Nov 2011

http://www.youreporter.it/video_Torrent ... ni_video_2 (Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto)

http://www.youreporter.it/video_Barcell ... e_in_piena (Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjLLcIROV_A (Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2C24GVeAQc (Saponara)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4EORQn95MI

[Cochise]

And... another night afraid here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvs9Nmz_Qvg&hd=1

Just hope I'm not in copyright violation.
Since at last I've drawn the conclusion that I'm not able to make decent music all alone in reasonable times, then I used a Slayer' song as background.
IMO the noise from the camcorder mic is mixed high enough to avoid copyright violation...

[Cochise]

And... another night afraid here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvs9Nmz_Qvg&hd=1

Just hope I'm not in copyright violation.
Since at last I've drawn the conclusion that I'm not able to make decent music all alone in reasonable times, then I used a Slayer' song as background.
IMO the noise from the camcorder mic is mixed high enough to avoid copyright violation...

I was wrong:

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What are the rules? Do I have mixed it too high, or I can't use copyrighted music at all?

They were fast to find it, though... I uploaded it yesterday