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Bruce Lung

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  1. Rabbit-hunting is allowed without a license in the UK (but you may not hunt hares). You can also hunt grey squirrels, grey/black or brown/white (but not all-white) pigeon, rats (ughh, I wouldn't bother and too hard to find anyway), crows (avoid because they carry diseases) and grey squirrels. You don't need anyone's permission to go ahead and hunt these beasts. Provided you have the landowner's permission (or are discrete but I wouldn't advise lawbreaking) you're free to hunt, kill and eat as many as you want. It's worth mentioning that these creatures are everywhere.

    Not everyone's a committed townie all the time, you know. I have twice hunted varmint successfully. There's no point making a fuss about it when there's a great big problem with groups of organised criminals (non-Sikh) doing far worse such as stealing sheep and halaling them to make smokies.

  2. There are many good reasons for jagir other than eating the beast. For instance, sport, exercise, the experience of making the finish, trophy, hide/furs, preparation and planning, teamwork, physical skills, etc. It's socially acceptable in most places to go hunting, depending on the method used and the species of beast.

  3. I saw this program. Those people seem to be in a very pure natural state of noble savagery. Their stick fights were particularly interesting because it was clear that their philosophy was to just go for the opponent - the "hows" and methods being much less relevant than the level of aggression. There was absolutely no jabbing with the stick (which seemed to be flexible and designed for non-serious injury)- just whacking. They stood within range exchanging blows with full force - it didn't look clean and sharp. I've seen some south Indian stick fighting and the Suri fighting shown in comparison seems a lot slower.

    I was also struck by just how rational they seemed to be. Drinking cow blood is an excellent way to top up on key nutrients which are hard to obtain from vegetables or cooked meat. Making love before fighting could conceivably relax and de-stress and be good for morale. They drummed up their courage using songs just before the fight (called donga), and chanted insults and threats directed at the enemy.

  4. This is to do with the level one can attain. The conch is not so much an instrument as a harmonic resonator. You know the scene in Enter The Dragon with the hall of mirrors causing Bruce Lee's confusion? He was caught off guard. The images in the mirrors stretch to infinity in a constant pattern depending on the shape of the environ. The shape of the inside of the conch shell can be thought of as an acoustic echo-chamber environ in a fractal pattern. The fractal emerges from and extends to infinity. The pockets of harmonic resonance (parts of the shell that vibrate) range from small to large, taking the oscillation and reproducing the same harmonic resonation in as wide a frequency range as possible (high to low), following the strictly defined rules of the fractal. The combined vibration is one clean harmonic sound made up of high to low clean harmonic sounds.

    Distilling the essence of this, the rule that seems to be represented by the ancients' use of the conch shell is the shaping of vibration. If that is indeed the principle, then in this age of electronic amplifiers we are not limited to using this primitive device.

    "The level one can attain": the original script for the never-filmed Game of Death is relevant, as well as the hall of mirrors scene in Enter the Dragon. Increasing the size of the conch shell will only increase the amplitude and can never change the frequency range of the harmonics . The tone/pitch is controlled by the human being's lips.

    N30 says that this represents the level of attainment of the trikurti, which is a level of understanding not limited by time or space.

  5. I wouldn't call a maximum 320Kbps top notch. In my book it's crappy. Also, a 320Kbps MP3 is a 320Kbps MP3 on ANY cheapo MP3 player, and the sound quality of the player itself wouldn't be any different depending on which player you're using. There is hardly any difference between the preamps in headphone units such as Walkman, CD players or MP3 players. The main thing affecting the sound quality of any MP3 player is the headphones.

    If you had invested £300 on Sennheisers and £30 on the MP3 player the sound quality would have left the Iriver for dust.

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