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Everyone's in a lather about outgoing chair of the Future Fund David Murray's comments on the carbon tax on Radio National this morning.
Specifically, the tax is "the worst piece of economic reform" he has every seen in his life. And that "the consequence of introducing that tax at that level in Australia today is very, very bad for this economy, particularly in terms of international competitiveness".
But are these sentiments at all surprising coming from a man who said this to The Australian Financial Review over lunch last year:
"'[Carbon dioxide] has got nothing to do with pollution … carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, it is colourless and odourless. It is not a pollutant … It is a tiny proportion of greenhouse gases. There is no correlation between warming and carbon dioxide …'
"Asked what should be done about climate change, he replied: 'Take measures to stop the effects of it.' Asked about glaciers, Murray rejects any suggestion of glacial melt. 'They're not. The amount of ice in the world is slightly increasing. It is not decreasing. It is just staggering, staggering.'"
Channel Ten's Paul Bongiorno tweeted this morning: "David Murray is on the record rejecting anthropogenic global warming. That makes his rejection of the CT logical but ill informed."
The government's carbon pricing plan is far from perfect policy, as we've outlined in our own pages. But it's hard to take the criticism of Murray seriously given he doesn't consider there is any correlation between warming and carbon dioxide. A price on carbon is inherently flawed if you don't believe it's a pollutant based on the, ahem, fact that it's "colourless and odourless".
The Future Fund board members have come under fire recently for sounding off about the government's chair appointment process. But what about the appropriateness of the then-chair professing these kinds of sentiments?
As Bernard Keane pointed out last year: "Fairfax revealed via FOI documents … that the Fund's Board of Guardians had not discussed climate change since 2007. But as a long-term investor with over $50 billion in assets under management, the Future Fund is even more exposed to the issues raised by climate change impacts, future carbon prices and the growth of renewables than most investors."
The Future Fund is one of the world's larger sovereign wealth funds and is a highly influential investor. The question was, and still is, whether Murray's climate stance had a direct impact on the long-term returns of the Future Fund. All eyes on incoming chairman David Gonski to see if he'll continue the legacy of apparent recalcitrance in an area that already commands well-established practices by most global investment funds.
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1klewsoPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 2:01 pm | Permalink
When did he see the GFC coming?
Then there's "Intelligent Design" - a dogma opposed to primate change?
2negativegearmiddleclasswelfarenow.comPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 2:24 pm | Permalink
Money changer becomes scientist and full-time tosser.
3DavidPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 2:33 pm | Permalink
I want some of what Murray is on, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee
4ArtyPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 3:49 pm | Permalink
Just another uppty bank-johnie in a small country town.
5New CassandraPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 4:17 pm | Permalink
Heretic - he must be burned to save us all !
6shanghaiPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 4:59 pm | Permalink
Whether or not he is correct in his view matters not and the jury is still out - some significant questions still to be answered re the relationship between CO2 and climate change.
The fact is that any moves made here in Australia equates to a flea trying to drive an elephant - given the CO2 output from the rest of the world.
The carbon credit model implemented here is really just another trading mechanism to make money.
If we were really serious about the problem we would have invested in alternative energy technologies years ago. We haven't and we probably won't.
7Steve777Posted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 5:03 pm | Permalink
For some reason Mr Murray believes that the 30% increase in a major greenhouse gas to date and greater increases in future will have no adverse impacts on humanity. We shouldn't burn him, but given that he has has no apparent expertise in climate science or any science, his opinions on whether or not anthropogenic global warming is happening shouldn't be given to much weight.
8rummelPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 5:06 pm | Permalink
Quick some more money must be payed to the climate "green" gods or we shall or burn alive. Now how much will Gillards Tax change the temp of the world again. Oh thats right zip…. zilch…. zero and not one .0000000000000 EVER. But the Climate Gods will be happy with our sacrifices. The Greens and lime Labor will be warm and fuzzy with climate action and we can all happily vote Bob Brown for president of the one world government he wants to subject us all to.
9JamesHPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 5:08 pm | Permalink
Shanghai - what "significant questions" would those be? There are no fundamental doubts left.
And get your analogies right: Australia emits about 1.32% of world carbon emissions (which doesn't include all the coal we export). An average elephant weighs about 6000 kg. 1.32% of that is about 80 kg. Your analogy should be "a full-grown man trying to drive an elephant".
10heysoosPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 5:27 pm | Permalink
It's a job application - Liberal style!
11michael crookPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 6:28 pm | Permalink
Cant believe that we still have climate sceptics, I was afraid of this, we now have to start all over again, it is getting very very late!
12Alexander BerkmanPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 6:58 pm | Permalink
@ Rummel, don't forget your GP told you not to opinionate while medicated!
Murray is certainly just another in the long line of economic 'rationalists' who worship the god of money and really couldn't give two sh1ts about future generations to come, quite ironic given the high paying job he just left.
Hi opinion on climate change is worth about as much as the respect the commonwealth bank has for it's customers… bugger all…good riddance.
13Warren JoffePosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 7:13 pm | Permalink
@ Michael Crook et al.
Just because David Murray overstates his case in saying there is no correlation between warming and carbon dioxide (*if he really did say that and not correct it*) it doesn't follow that he isn't otherwise dead right.
What possible good will Australia adding to its costs do when we export more than half of our coal, and, above all, nothing we can do will either affect future climate in any measurable way or, to advert to the most fantastic illusion, that we can influence the big emitters of CO2 by what we do or don't do or what we say. Gee whiz, China might punish us by importing and burning even more of our coal!
But I'm glad that Michael Crook is prepared to start all over again because this time the propagandists might bother about credibility. When the IPCC, said to be considering over 30 models for its fifth report, produces a single one that can stand empirical testing and when it can find a model which so effectively models the natural causes of climate change that it can retropredict, the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age, the drying up of the Great Lakes, the collapse of the first Indus Civilisation, the drying out of the Sahara and collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom then it might escape from the justified contempt that it is now widely held in by those who have digested the uncontradicted findings of Donna Laframboise's investigative journalism embodied in her "The Delinquent Teenager Who was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert".
14ARPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 8:42 pm | Permalink
My only surprise is that anyone is surprised that a bean counter knows SFA about anything else.
He wasn't even much crack at that, the FF fund having performed very poorly, compared with such well tested methods as throwing darts or letting a monkey do the investment 'decisions".
15heysoosPosted Friday, 30 March 2012 at 10:16 pm | Permalink
It's a poll driven job application
- Liberal style.
16Peter OrmondePosted Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 6:40 am | Permalink
Bankers - particularly Australian bankers - should be kept on a very short leash indeed. Their decisions should be subject to constant external scrutiny and regulation to ensure prudent management. And David Murray is the perfect illustration of why this is necessary. Playing around in all that money! money! money!!! gives them some extraordinary notions of omnipotence and omniscience. Magic Pudding economics.
17ArtyPosted Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 8:57 am | Permalink
I don't expect that the average banker would have a strong science background. But I would expect some experience in risk management.
18Mike FlanaganPosted Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 11:57 am | Permalink
Murray's performance as a chairman of a super fund has been at best mediocre. His performance as a chairman of a Sovereign Wealth Fund has been below par on a comparative basis. I suspect a lot of Public Servants that he was supposed to be performing for, will be glad to see his departing rear.
It has been interesting to note the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth fund is failing to have an impact on the increasing value of the Kroner that many economists have suggested would be a function of a similar fund established here with the proceeds of the MRRT.
19Peter OrmondePosted Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 12:27 pm | Permalink
Risk? Australian bankers? Risk? Erk. Not on your life. They don't get paid for taking risks. Good grief no. Houses, real estate, stuff we can dig up and flog … you bet. But risks? That's why they never make a loss and the GFC - which had the international banking business flat on its back twitching like a sprayed bug - saw Australian bank profits drop by a mere 20%. Shocking!
Here's a handy paper … HaVu_Profit_Efficiency_of_Australian_banks (stick that into google and it should turn up. I'm trying to dodge the swooping wings of the moderation machinery. If it doesn't work let me know and I'll post the link.
But if you can't be bothered reading that, just go and ask any bank for a business loan. After they've picked themselves up and wiped the tears of laughter from their eyes, they'll tell you to put your house on the line for collateral. Bricks and mortar, real estate….Risk? Not bloody likely.
Australian banks manage risk by avoiding it completely.
20Warren JoffePosted Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 3:17 pm | Permalink
@ Mike Flanagan
I am not sure how you can rate Murray's performance accurately after taking account of his being chairman of a board with senior executives under it and looking at the precise decisions made and the circumstances including the Fund's precise legal mandate (e.g. why did it take the Telstra holding that it did and deal with it as it did?). I am sceptical of almost all investment managers' claims as the stats over long periods show that outperformance is extremely rare, especially when investing largely in Australian shares since, unlike the big value investors in the US, they can't do thorough research on dozens of corporations competing in any given industry and then make superior stock picks (while others make inferior stock picks!). In the case of the Future Fund it has to be remembered that it is aimed at a 2020 beginning of disbursements. Nonetheless……
Murray can be more reliably be tagged as a lucky man with a very assertive personality (though I have never met him). He was aggressively angry with some writers of a thesis many years ago which promoted the idea that the Commonwealth Bank (of which he was already CEO) should be privatised. Then, after the worst of the shakeouts from the 1984-85 deregulations his bank was privatised and he sailed on to great applause for its performance which, to some extent at least, was based on the secure small depositor and home mortgage base which derived from its, and other state banks', original business.
Still, though he may (or may not) have said things which were plain wrong about CO2 and its tendency to warm the atmosphere, he is surely dead right on what a money man ought to be right about, namely the stupidity of the policy which Gillard disavowed and then enacted to keep office for "reforms" which give a bad name to reform.
21Warren JoffePosted Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 3:30 pm | Permalink
@ Peter Ormonde
My superannuation depends enough on the performance of banks to take notice of some of the matters you refer to. Unfortunately they have taken lots of risks over the years which have turned out badly. Even if you are too young to remember, and haven't read about, the disasters of the late 80s and early 90s, you might remember NAB's misbegotten UK investments, its even worse mortgage funding disaster in the US (under the sainted Don Argus but he didn't stay round for it to fall on his watch), the foreign exchange trading losses etc. Then there were the ANZ's well publicised problems with brokers promoting margin loans backed by the bank etc. The Commonwealth Bank is/was also being sued over some such problems. The ANZ also, going a fair way back, owned Grindlays Bank which had such problems in India that it got out.
Obviously the banks do give a lot of business loans but if you don't want to pay 13 or 14 per cent interest you need to give the bank adequate reason to suppose that it can recover the money you owe it without having to bill solvent customers for the losses it occurs in chasing you. If you give a guarantee because your private company is borrowing for business then, normally, your house will be on the line anyway and you would hardly expect a bank to allow you to effectually give priority to your financing customers of your business who were slow in paying you (for example).
I know plenty of cases of bank customers getting unsecured overdraft limits of $50,000 and much more, fwiw.
This is just in the interest of accuracy, not to justify multimillion dollar salaries (which, however, don't worry me as long as my super fund continues to get reliable and rising dividends).
22Harry RogersPosted Sunday, 1 April 2012 at 7:08 pm | Permalink
Warren Joffe
You make some excellent points and are totally correct about the disatrous history of the Australian banks or should I say most banks. Take a look at those boring notes at the back of the accounts of all the banks worldwide which regularly have loss provisions of 1 billion or so. Most of the large losses suffered by Australian banks over the years have been "big ticket" loans of $100 mill. or so viz. Alan Bond , Adelaide Steamship, and a long long list of others.
The ridiculous comments touted by the bank etc that they are some of the safest in the world relates principally to the fact that a large proportion of their loans is allocated to housing which is the backbone of consistent -read also safe- banking balance sheets. The amounts that they have written off through derivates, foreign exchange etc etc is many multiple times more than they have ever lost through housing and small business loans.Risks related to small business loans is an insulting furphy when compared to their historic losses.
I dont think any rational person has an argumaent for banks wanting security for a loan however it is their "two faced" persona that has diminished their standing in the past 20 years. Personally I have a big problem with their salaries! Not because I'm jealous just because I think this avarice ,not only in the banks , is a slow burn on personal and societal morality. I think they are blinded by their own inexperience or perhaps greed that they fail to understand that they are realistically seen as pigs at a trough and appear to have slime around their mouths when appearing on television…or maybe its a bad picture.
23Warren JoffePosted Sunday, 1 April 2012 at 7:52 pm | Permalink
Harry Rogers
I'm surprised you say "in the last 20 years". It was more than 20 years ago that I can remember vitriolic statements by people who, if not bankrupted, still felt they had been badly let down by the banks. My own family connections to banks at senior levels in the days before deregulation (as well as a desire to get cheap funding for some investments and acitivities) mean that I have paid quite a lot of attention to them. Now I come to think of it, however, I didn't start to invest much in our big four banks and their predecessor banks until after deregulation although, at the time, I am on record (if I wasn't using a pseudonym you could find it online) as having warned against the follies of the Victorian and South Australian governments wrt banking and associated financial services. You could say there was a Hawke-Keating push on banks to become more entrepreneurial (how about a Swiss franc loand Farmer Rogers?) and, as a consequence, given the size of the banks in relation to the whole Australian business world, and indeed absolutely, it was inevitable in an increasingly globalised world that large salaries would be paid. I can't remember much about the salaries paid to some of the clowns who ran banks in the late 1980s but that hasn't much bearing on today's state of affairs.
I am fairly confident that, apart from some follies within some banks (NAB's foreign exchange trading e.g.) there wasn't anything like the outrageous greed with the particular Wall Street twist of ripping people off with the help of the dumber people in the structured finance sections of the rating agencies and taking large rewards for e.g. schemes to allow Greek politicians to cheat on their Eurozone partners. Respectable brokers in the great old firm of JB Were got out of the misbegotten Goldman Sachs JB Were and formed their own firm before the remnant broke up and Goldman Sachs was left to run its course without preying on private clients (the "muppets" in Australia not being rich enough).
24linda domaschenzPosted Sunday, 1 April 2012 at 8:10 pm | Permalink
And to add to the banker, we now have Jeannie Pratt entering the debate. Damn obvious if you are in the packaging business that you'd oppose such a carbon price. The way many products are packaged these days is a blatant money making machine. For example- 3 layers for a couple of bars of soap, so no doubt you would be in denial or opposed. Companies such as those using finite resources willy nilly and with an irrational approach to CC are intended to be financially hurt by the CP and so they should!
If this price is to work we must embrace products and a lifestyle that does not overtly pollute, we will be rewarded and with not just a warm fuzzy feeling. But change is hard for the average punter and the greedy who'd prefer to ignore the science and continue with business as usual.
Makes you wonder why these "experts" are given the media oxygen they attract.
David Murray's comments are to be expected as are Pratt's, where the business of money is their sole goal. A conga line of deniers and greed driven will ensue.
25Peter OrmondePosted Sunday, 1 April 2012 at 8:32 pm | Permalink
Spot on.
26Mike FlanaganPosted Monday, 2 April 2012 at 10:19 am | Permalink
Warren Joffe;
Thanks for your comments and thoughts. I too have considerble scepticism towards the screen jocks of the industry. Indeed my sceptism and cynicism is about the structure of the whole superannuation industry model, but that is another discussion.
With regard to Murray's position I think one has to reflect on the opportunities and responsibilities of a board member and their chairman in any organisation. Firstly it is a given that membership of a board have responsibilities to the 'shareholders' or members to not only review the managements skills and application to the organisations mission and application, but to set the standards of intellectual vigor, ethics and innovative thinking in addressing the corporate bodies challenges. It is my contention that the board and it's chairman are the drivers of these parameters and the results of the Future Fund under Murray reflect on Murray's leadership in these areas.
It is interesting to note that Murray himself, in an interview on the ABC radio, used comaparatives to the other super funds to justify his personal perception of success and I doubt they stand up to an honest and critical comparison.
Linda Domaschenz;
You do have an important point that is rarely covered in our mainstream press. The Packaging Industry is the fourth largest industry in the developed world and is dominated by the ethics and standards of the PR and Advertising industry. And they are abysmal.
27Harry RogersPosted Monday, 2 April 2012 at 6:09 pm | Permalink
Warren Joffe
I guess it's a problem with age when the "20 years ago" rolls off our tongue so easily.
Yes I remember the pre Campbell enquiry days and also the ES&A and the Commercial Bank of Australia. I remain cautious of the often easy rhetoric of "thing were better then ".
Of course the superannuation funds private or public have taken full advantage of the franking of dividends that came in ..Ive forgotten when the franking word entered our languauge..was it Keating also? This is the main reason we all have these banking shares or to put it plainly what are the other practical choices. However this is another subject about super waiting to explode.
Returning to Murray and various boards.
I maintain that the boards of the banking sector have always run for cover in bad times viz. the forex scandal at NAB and taken praise and fed themselves from the trough during good times.
I was recently in Finland where most of the board of Finnair was sacked for what the government considered corrupt practices. What were these corrupt practices ? Giving blackmail bonuses to senior manager who threatened to leave.
Now the Finnish government is "shaking the rugs" of the Finnish corporate sector to see what else falls out. They are sick and tired of the "mates club" of boards in Finland which is called the "big brother" effect. They are finding it clearly filters down to their pension funds.
Bear in mind this has only happened since the change in balance of power in the recent Finland elections. This is endemic in Australia and has been as long as I have been alive. When was the last time you looked at the interrelated board member list of Australian public companies and worse still their auditors who became board members.
My question is why shouldn't we all be angry and parading in the streets abouts this outbreak of "me,myself I" at the most senior levels.
28Warren JoffePosted Monday, 2 April 2012 at 8:10 pm | Permalink
Harry Rogers
I am not disposed to disagree with your comparatively mild detection of imperfect altruism and disinterest at high corporate levels though I may be too inclined to give credit to those who are friends and to be optimistic despite having a wife who doesn't indulge in distributing too much easy credit. But I don't think we are yet afflicted by the personal greed which does seem to be prevalent on Wall Street. (Lack of opportunity perhaps, as well as being in a small pond where one is very visible and where one can't afford, socially anyway, to make too many enemies).
Still, I find it interesting to remember a senior mining executive turned chairman and himself a successful investor fulmiinating against the banks' demand that they be allowed to set their required return on equity at 20 per cent (or 18 or whatever it was). I think he made the point that it was quite out of kilter with the risks they ran (or should run). But he may have been affected by noticing that the head of the Reserve Bank was paid about a tenth of what the CEOs of the big four were/are paid!
29Warren JoffePosted Monday, 2 April 2012 at 8:23 pm | Permalink
I meant to add also, Harry Rogers, in sentimental tune with your Finnish experience, that I have been intermittently intrigued by Finnland for its educational successes, its efficient industries and sturdy independence. But it is a bit weird. A brief visit to Helsinki afforded me the opportunity to learn in the Athenaeum Museum (I think that was the name of it) just how profoundly provincial Finnland was when Australia was already, despite the residual colonial cringe, a proud example to the world of many social and political innovations. For example, in the Grand Duchy of Finland, part of the Czar's empire, it was possible for Moscow and St Petersburg art dealers to arrange exhibitions in July 1916 (!!! did the Somme keep things all quiet on the Eastern Front perhaps) of Kandinsky and Chagall. Not a single painting sold (though much later inspection of the dealers' holdings suggested one or two had gone missing). I don't suppose Picasso and Braque would have had great sales in Townsville come to think of it…. A point? Maybe. Perhaps Finnland still enjoys to pluses and minuses of small town life.
30Harry RogersPosted Monday, 2 April 2012 at 9:27 pm | Permalink
Warren Joffe
Appreciate your comments and yes I think you probably are too inclined to give credit where its not due in the corporate sector. I had this failing when I was "up and coming" but one day turned around to look back and saw the hippocracy of it all. Im sure that discussion is meant for other pseudo intellectual sites.
In humble defence of Finland (not sure why…no Im not a Finn ) but they have geographically been on the horns of a dilemna since the 12th century being situated between marauding Swedes in the west and Russians on the east.
I once read an Alamanac of World War 2 which gave a day by day account of 2 years before the war and also of course the official period 39 to 45. Finland was mentioned a number of times and of their invasion by Russia and Hitlers persistent request to use Finland as a gateway for his Russian invasion. I came away from the book thinking what a difficult life Finland has had and always will because of their unfortunate location.
Thats my history lesson for today and I will leave the column for others to meander in different directions.
31JohnfromplanetearthPosted Monday, 9 April 2012 at 3:47 pm | Permalink
Murray is spot on, it is the worst economic decision ever made by any Government of Australia, it is unnecessary and pure evil. Gillard has had her arm twisted by Alien seeking nutjob Bob Brown and the Australian people will cop it where no alien probe has gone before!


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Use cygcheck /usr/bin/[yourbinary] (example /usr/bin/curl) It will tell you anything it couldn't find. (It will say 'could not find [some.dll]'.) Just install the package that the dll names. For example - When I ran: $ curl It returned: /usr/bin/curl.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or ...
Try re-building libevent using ./configure --disable-shared I suspect this will fix your problem because the library will be linked against when building the binary and doesn't need to be searched for at runtime. Alternatively, if you have a need for a dynamically linked libevent, you can add the containing directory of libevent-2.0.so.5 to your ...
For a once-off, set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to a colon-separated list of directories to search. This is analogous to PATH for executables, except that the standard system directories are additionally searched after the ones specified through the environment. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64 ./cart5 If you have a program that keeps libraries in a ...
Try this (i have done this using a High Fidelity Album) Once you select the album you want to modify, choose File > Get Info, or use the Command-I keyboard shortcut. When you select more than one song to edit - in this case by selecting an entire album - iTunes checks to see if you really want to edit the settings for multiple tracks. Click the Yes button to ...
The other answers suppose you want to backup the content of the libraries, themselves having files stored eventually in several directories, maybe stored on different harddisks. I understood that you want to backup the list of folders that are defined in each library, not the content of these folders. Who is right? If I am, here is my answer: The ...
You need to change the grouping method for the library. Right-click on a blank area to the right of some files, select "Group By", and then select (None). If you want to go back to the way the library was arranged before, click the "Arrange by:" button in the top-right of the screen and choose "Clear changes".
There is a package libreadline5 in lenny: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libreadline5
You can do both with lsof. To see what processes have a library open or mapped do: lsof /path/to/lib.so and to see what files (including shared libraries) a process has open and/or mapped, do: lsof -p <pid>
Another way to see what's loaded in a process is by looking at the /proc/PID/maps file. This shows everything mapped into your address space, including shared objects mapped in.
You could also do: readelf -d executable | grep NEEDED But this probably doesn't do what you want. It shows the libs that executable links to, but not all the libs it needs (a library can require another library).
The output of file says "statically linked". ldd only works on dynamically linked executables. (Technically, all Linux ldd does is invoke the Linux executable loader, /lib/ld-linux.so.2, after setting an environment variable. So it should be the most reliable way.) Some programs might be using dlopen() to load libraries, in order to avoid making the ...
msvcr71.dll is Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library for Visual C++ .NET 2003. It comes as part of .NET Framework 1.1.
Are you talking about the Pictures folder when you open a new windows explorer window? If so, open the windows explorer and: Right click on Pictures Select Properties Click on Include a folder.. Add the folder you wish to be used Select that folder in the Library locations: box Click on Set save location You can also ...
You could also set the RPATH, which encodes the library search patch in the binary itself. Just add -R $DIR/lib to CFLAGS.
If you want to avoid LD_LIBRARY_PATH, you can also do this, during linking: gcc -o exename -L/path/to/dynamiclib/ -lnameofLib \ -Wl,-R/path/to/dynamiclib/ sourceCode1.c ... The -Wl,... is used to pass extra commands to the linker, and in this case, with -R you tell the linker to store this path as the "default search path" for the .so. I keep notes ...
According to the ID3 Specs, Album Artist is how they should be grouped. For most compilations you should have "Various Artists" as the album artist with the individual artists in the Artist field. Similarly, for long drum and bass mix CDs, the Album Artist will be "Dieselboy" whereas the Artist will be "J. Majk". ITunes will group things based on the ...
This really depends, but I don't think it can be done the way you want it. The 'supported' way You can disable iTunes from copying music to the iTunes folder for future imports by going iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > Uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library". This will add all future files to the library, but it will not copy ...
G Mixes is meant to offer you a never ending channel that plays songs that go well together, like a personal radio station. This means that if most of the music in the library is of just a few genres then the number of mixes will be limited. To help Genius see what music you have, make sure all the track information is as accurate as possible (Artist, ...
Yes Just plug the extra iPod's into your iTunes an it will recognise them as being entirely different. You can even have different syncing settings for each of the iPods (e.g. automatically sync only music to your iPod nano, and only movies to your iPod touch). iTunes is smart like that.
I believe the above response is quite simply incorrect. Below is a command line utility compiled by grimadmin based on MSDN code for just such purposes predating the aforementioned response. I should mention however that it doesn't support anything as convenient as a cd into a library though. http://www.grimadmin.com/filemgmt/index.php?id=5
Like Christopher explained, you should just move the entire iTunes directory. Importantly though there will be an XML file inside your iTunes folder named "iTunes Library.xml". This file contains references to every item stored inside your iTunes library. Make a copy of that XML file before messing about. Open the XML file in a text editor you're ...
They are different versions of the libraries. Different applications might need different versions so each file includes the version name, that way they can all be installed at the same time. You'll find that the ones without version numbers actually point to one of the ones that has a version number via a symlink, so that applications that don't need ...
Yes, but it is very different to the MSDN library in VS 2008. It is an optional install and you select which libraries you want (.net, web, informs etc.) it then checks for latest versions and installs. However, it is just a database and web server, to actually browse, you use a standard web browser. The library is automatically launched to the correct ...
You can find a lot of information about the Hiberfil.sys on the ForensicWiki page. Although most of the data structures required to parse the file format are available in the Microsoft Windows debug symbols, the compression used (Xpress) was undocumented until it was reverse engineered by Matthieu Suiche. He created with Nicolas Ruff a project called ...
A little late but I also ran into the same issue. One fix is to install the codecs via apt-get: sudo apt-get -y install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse This fixed it for me.
Windows 8 actually has a simpler method to change icons than Windows 7: Right-click the library whose icon you want to change. Click Change library icon... button. This button was not present in Windows 7. Select the icon that you want. Click OK button.
pyVenn is a python library that shoud help you: http://code.google.com/p/pyvenn/ an alternative would be matplotlib-venn, which the author describes here. It supports multiple sets, but depends on matplotlib.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib worked for me on Debian Squeeze.
To move the iPhoto Library folder or package to a new location: Quit iPhoto if open. Open your Pictures folder and select the iPhoto Library. Drag the iPhoto Library folder or package to its new location. Hold down the Option key on the keyboard and open iPhoto. Keep the Option key held down until you are prompted to create or choose an iPhoto library. ...
A simple way to point to sub-folders in libraries is to use the old environment variables, accessible through Control Panel -> System -> Advanced tab -> Environment Variables. To add an environment variable inside the User or System/All section, click the New button and define for example a variable named MUSIC having the value C:\Users\Public\Music, then ...
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Film Socialisme
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- By Jeremy Kirk
- June 3, 2011
And I hope they're teaching math. But this class is probably more about learning skills like flinging energy beams from your eyes or learning how to hone you telekinetic abilities. I kind of wish I had some of those right now. That way I'd know exactly how many audience members...
Review: Jean-Luc Godard's 'Film Socialisme' Seeks to End Language
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afilm a symphonie threemovements deathof language The above "sentence" would probably be the most appropriate way to describe French filmmaking legend Jean-Luc Godard's latest (and possibly his last) film, Film Socialisme. The fragmentary and strangely juxtaposed words above are not only an (unsuccessful) attempt to describe an incredibly abstruse film,...
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Much of Jean-Luc Godard's cinematic output is inaccessible to American audiences. His most prolific period, the 1960s (in which he made 18 feature films) is almost entirely available, due in no small part to the Criterion Collection's well-justified infatuation with the cineaste's important and influential work. The output of much...
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- May 23, 2011
I can't be sure, but they may have condensed at least half of Jean-Luc Godard's latest film into this minute-long trailer. The images flash by in typically enigmatic form, but at least we know what he was up to while he was snubbing Honorary Oscars. Since the trailer itself does...
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- December 28, 2010
It's that time of the year again: that brief span of time in between Christmas and New Year's when journalists, critics, and cultural commentators scramble to define an arbitrary block of time even before that block is over with. To speculate on what 2010 will be remembered for is purely...
Culture Warrior: Honorary Oscars are Bullsh*t and Godard Knows It
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- August 31, 2010
Last week, the recipients of the Honorary Oscars were announced, the awards ceremony taking place at the Academy Governor's Awards Dinner on November 13 (an evident pushback from the typical televised reception of the Honorary Oscar at the actual ceremony in the first quarter of the following calendar year). Honorary...


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How did you do that?!O.O
It like the actual one!O.o"
It like the actual one!O.o"
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Hey! this is cool man.. so cute..
i L-O-V-E your Disney icons !!!
Always beautiful work!
Totally cute - thanks for this awesome icon bro
nice work..
Nice and good details.
nice work, I love Lilo and stitch (h)
she looks so cute good work bro
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Stitch.. please? I LOVE him!
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Great work! As always
That is my favourite pose of Lilo and she's my favourite character out of L & S (and out of anything actually lol). What do you use Dockitems for?


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do you free request? cuz im looking for some to draw my oc in enclave amour
I do not do free requests. I do commissions when they are open, but I currently have mine closed. I appreciate your interest though.
Why are there so many pony enclaves
All of my support goes to the Enclave
epic, well done~!
Dyaaaaaaaaaam son!
Me gusta, si!
Me gusta, si!
I'd love to see what you'd do with my F:Eq story characters...
This looks a LOT like what I imagine Hondo looks like...
I'm adding you to Faves...drop me a line what commissions cost, please...
This looks a LOT like what I imagine Hondo looks like...
I'm adding you to Faves...drop me a line what commissions cost, please...
Sorry I didn't see this for the longest time. Commission information is here: vulpessentia.deviantart.com/jo...
Sorry about that ^^"
Badass, like all the Grand Pegasi Enclave troopers, but whether she's likeable depends on one thing: is this from post-Sunshine and Rainbows, and if so is she a rebel or a loyalist?
you would have to ask the commissioner about it
Sure. It'll be all the difference between me cheering her on or wishing someone put a bullet through her head.
Comet Kicker is basically a Dashite who nopony's got around to branding yet. She's my tabletop character, essentially a decent sort but rapidly losing her mind.
Who wouldn't lose her mind in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where everything's trying to kill you?
Nice character you made. Hope she got something good to hold onto.
Nice character you made. Hope she got something good to hold onto.
She does have something to hold onto! Problem is it's her senile griffin ghoul buddy. And she had to shoot him in the head in order to get out of a tight spot the other session (he was fine with it, she kicked his 'corpse' into a radioactive crater and he's not the sort to hold a grudge).
So y'know. It's better than nothing sorta I guess.
So y'know. It's better than nothing sorta I guess.
"What's that? I can't hear you over the sound of how bad ass I am!"
I am not too familiar with the fallout equestria series, but this is a very great piece nonetheless. I love the fine details put into the suit of armoe and it all contours very well with the awesome character design! The lighting and shading contrast is very subtle but adds so much depth! I also love the color work and the sketchy texture which adds motion and life to this! This is a wonderful piece and I would love to see more! Great work! Kind regards, Princess Luna
Well thank you Luna! It's actually a little ironic since this character is suppose to be related to you apparently lol. You'd have to ask the commissioner more about it. Anyways, thanks for the lovely comment, and don't worry, more is soon to come. ^^
Your faithful subject,
Your faithful subject,
Oooohhh. Pretty armor.
Excellent Enclave armor concept.
Damn this is nice! I like how you made the armour all sharp and edgy. Gives a nice contrast to the soft shapes of the pony!
Fantasstic armor concept! Fine art work!
Pretty cool design for the armor. Especially the chest/collar part still strongly resembles the original Enclave armor from Fallout. Good job
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"Waxman and Markey blithely set targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions without any serious analysis or even awareness of the colossal costs of energy rationing to American consumers, workers and industry," said Myron Ebell, director of energy and global-warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
"Beyond these enormous economic costs, Waxman-Markey would put big government in charge of how much energy people can use. It would be the biggest government intervention in people's lives since the Second World War, which was the last time people had to have rationing coupons in order to buy a gallon of gas," Ebell wrote in a CEI analysis of the bill.
But the deep damage Obama's cap-and-trade plan would inflict on our economy goes beyond its draconian carbon taxes. Now we learn that the plan could likely start a trade war.
"The bill as drafted clears the way for carbon protectionism," said CEI senior fellow Iain Murray. "It envisages 'rebates' to companies that have to pay higher costs than their international competitors, which amounts to illegal state aid under World Trade Organization rules."
Last month, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a House panel that the United States would likely have to raise trade tariffs on carbon-intensive imports as a "weapon" to protect American businesses to "level the playing field" with countries that do not impose similar greenhouse-gas restrictions that the Obama administration envisions here.
"If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage ... (and) we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost," Chu testified.
That provoked an immediate counter-threat from Li Gao, a top Chinese trade official, who told the Dow Jones news service that a carbon tariff would be a "disaster" that would lead to a trade war.
Obama already appears to have precipitated a trade war with Mexico, which announced it is raising tariffs on $2.4 billion of our exports to their country in retaliation to the administration's latest restrictions on Mexican trucking access to U.S. roads.
"Taken together, these provisions (in the cap-and-trade bill) represent the first shot in what is likely to prove a disastrous carbon trade war," CEI's Murray said.
Meanwhile, if the Johanns amendment survives in the budget resolution, which must be reconciled with the House version, cap-and-trade is all but dead in the Senate. Stay tuned.
Donald Lambro is chief political correspondent for The Washington Times.
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WAAPA Classical Voice and Opera student, Mr Ryan Sharp, received the prestigious Young Artist of 2011 Wesfarmers Scholarship
Congratulations to WAAPA student from the Classical Voice and Opera Program, Mr Ryan Sharp, who recently received the prestigious Young Artist of 2011 Wesfarmers Scholarship with the West Australian Opera Company.
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The AASECT board of directors approved the following individuals as members of the AASECT Public Relations, Media and Advocacy (PRMA) Committee: Logan Levkoff (New York, N. Y), Eric Sprankle (Liberty Township, Ohio), and Susan Wright (Baltimore, Md.). The committee is chaired by Mike McGee (New York, N.Y).
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Of all places in this world that should be in front of the Maker Movement, it should be Eugene, Oregon.
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Thanks also to Claim 52 Brewing and The Barn Light for their sponsorship of the Launch Party, and to the makers who brought just a small sample of what we expect to see at the Science Factory in June: Eugene Maker Space, Lumidax Electronics, LagerBot, South Eugene Robotics Team, and the eNABLE community.
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The revelations coming from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week were startling. On May 15, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified about the Bush administration's extraordinary efforts in March 2004 to gain legal approval for the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program by visiting Attorney General John Ashcroft's hospital room as he recovered from gall bladder surgery. The story is surprising, at the very least—but has so far attracted little media curiosity.
The incident was first reported in January 2006 by the New York Times (1/1/06) and Newsweek (1/9/06), to little notice. Comey's testimony fleshed out the details—that he refused to sign on to an extension of the program, at least in part because the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel argued that the program was illegal. Several Justice Department officials, including Comey and Ashcroft, were apparently ready to resign if they were overruled by the White House.
On March 10, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and chief of staff Andrew Card decided to go to Ashcroft's bedside to seek approval for the wiretapping program. When he learned of their plan, Comey—who was then acting attorney general due to Ashcroft's illness—and FBI Director Robert Mueller met them at the hospital, and Ashcroft dramatically rebuffed the attempt to get him to overrule his subordinate. Weeks later, unspecified changes were made to the wiretapping plan, and the Justice Department approved.
There are any number of important questions to ask regarding the behavior of the White House: What parts of the program did Justice Department officials think were illegal? Since the wiretapping had been underway for many months prior to March 2004, was the program violating the law up until the changes were made?
Many legal experts have long considered the administration's warrantless wiretapping program to be illegal and indeed unconstitutional (as U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled on August 17, 2006). But the fact that such views were shared by top officials at Bush's Justice Department is a very important development in the story.
Yet some media outlets seem to feel that there isn't a story here at all. As Media Matters noted (5/16/07), two of the three network newscasts (CBS Evening News and ABC World News with Charles Gibson) did not mention Comey's testimony. On May 20, ABC World News mentioned the story in a report about Alberto Gonzales' political future: "Adding to the drumbeat, revelations about a hospital visit Gonzales paid to former attorney general John Ashcroft to try to get approval for the administration's warrantless wiretapping program." Given that this was the first time the newscast had mentioned these "revelations," ABC viewers may have been at a loss about what this might add to the "drumbeat."
The story seemed to gain additional momentum on May 17, when George W. Bush refused to answer a question about the incident ("I'm not going to talk about it…. I will tell you, however, that the program was necessary"). Bush's stonewalling, however, elicited very little media follow-up. The New York Times' account of the press conference (5/18/07) did not even mention it, burying Bush's refusal to answer simple questions in another story the same day about Democrats' opinions of Alberto Gonzales.
The Washington Post editorial page (5/18/07) was unusually harsh in its criticism of Bush over what it called the "Wednesday Night Ambush," arguing that it "matters enormously… whether the president was willing to have his White House aides try to strong-arm the gravely ill attorney general into overruling the Justice Department's legal views. It matters enormously whether the president, once that mission failed, was willing nonetheless to proceed with a program whose legality had been called into question by the Justice Department."
The Sunday morning chat shows, usually obsessed with inside-the-Beltway dramas mostly steered clear of the controversy. ABC's This Week (5/20/07) was the notable exception, where conservative George Will likened the incident to something out of "a thriller set in a banana republic."
Perhaps Will's quip tells us something about the media's indifference to this scandal. After all, revealing White House malfeasance of this potential magnitude could have serious consequences; advocates for the impeachment of George W. Bush, for example, could point to the position taken by Ashcroft and Comey as evidence that Bush had authorized an illegal wiretapping program. The Washington Post's strong editorial concluded this way:
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