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    We never have enough of new friends! Welcome on board, please have a look at our rules

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/forum-21/announcement-2-rules-of-the-cyberphoenix-community-a-must-read

    peruse our newbies section below

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/forum/111-newbie-zone/

    have a look at the ways to find what you need

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/topic/211201-how-to-search-cyberphoenix-forums-for-content/

    and enjoy our company! Cheers :D

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    Bangladesh? I've never thought about it, but now that I have found a 'contact' I'll make a serious thought on it.

     

    Thanks for telling us about it, and please, provide some more info and perks that may interest us so much to raise our desire to visit your Country.

     

    Why do you advice us to come and visit Bangladesh? What there is to do and to watch there? Please, tell us more...

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    Welcome on board new friend! Glad to find you here! Please, have a look at our rules

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/forum-21/announcement-2-rules-of-the-cyberphoenix-community-a-must-read

    and, please peruse our Newbie section below to better get acquainted with our interface and our community

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/forum/111-newbie-zone/

    but most of all..... ibkiUJQTQ5SEg6.gif                             imcM7VWBrrqx.gif

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    For sure you have hit a dimensional gateway that transferred you from the damp basement of yours to our bright and shining dimension. But behold, perhaps we are like Fairies, and as between the Tuatha Dé Danann, we have rules that you must comply with

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/forum-21/announcement-2-rules-of-the-cyberphoenix-community-a-must-read

    and, even drunk, if you get bored and want to learn a bit about our marvelous realm, please peruse our Newbie section below

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/forum/111-newbie-zone/

    ... but beware, if you eat something, you will stay with us forever! That's the rule.... so,

     

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    Nice to have you here with us. Pls, have a look at the rules

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/forum-21/announcement-2-rules-of-the-cyberphoenix-community-a-must-read

    peruse our newbies section below

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/forum/111-newbie-zone/

    but most of all, please....

     

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    Twenty-five years ago this week, the action movie Die Hard opened and Bruce Willis uttered that famous line.
    But where does the yippee-ki-yay part come from? Let's break it down.

     

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    The yip part of yippee is old. It originated in the 15th century and meant "to cheep, as a young bird," according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The more well-known meaning, to emit a high-pitched bark, came about around 1907, as per the OED, and gained the figurative meaning "to shout; to complain."
    Yip is imitative in origin but probably also influenced by the 16th century yelp, which has an even older meaning of "boasting, vainglorious speaking." Yawp is even older, coming about in the 14th century, but now is primarily associated with Walt Whitman's late 19th century "barbaric yawp."

    The yips are "nervousness or tension that causes an athlete to fail to perform effectively, especially in missing short putts in golf." As we mentioned in a Word Soup column back in November, some sources, including the OED, cite the first known use of the yips as 1962. However, we found a citation from 1941: "The match consumed three hours and thirty minutes, most of it because Cobb, the tingling-nerved old baseball Tiger, got the 'yips' on many greens and would step back and line up his putts several times per putt."

    Yippee came about after yip. The earliest record of this exclamation of delight is from 1920 in Sinclair Lewis's novel, Main Street: "She galloped down a block and as she jumped from a curb across a welter of slush, she gave a student 'Yippee!'" Yippee beans, by the way, are amphetamines.
    Yippie with an -ie refers to "a member of a group of politically radical hippies, active especially during the late 1960s." The word, which originated in 1968, stands for Youth International Party and was modeled after hippie.

    Now how about the whole phrase, yippee-ki-yay? It seems to be a play on "yippie yi yo kayah," a refrain from a 1930s Bing Crosby song, "I'm An Old Cowhand."

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jo-pApe1Kd0

    Do cowboys really say this? We're guessing probably not, unless of course they're single-handedly (and shoelessly) defeating a gang of bank robbers on Christmas Eve.

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    ...continued from http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/topic/212226-the-alien-backstory-you-didnt-see-in-the-after-earth-trailers-part-i/?do=findComment&comment=292855

     

    243 AE - The Skrel attack Nova Prime for reasons unknown. Nova Prime was allegedly uninhabited when they landed, so this is a big WTF. The Rangers manage to protect the civillians. The Primus zealots have a field day. Note these are NOT the same aliens that crash landed on Earth.
     

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    350 AE - The Skrel return with a new look (see picture). No one has actually seen a real Skrel body yet — just the ships and Skrel drones.
     

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    576 AE - The Skrel return again, but this time to drop off the Ursa, a genetically engineered creature who's designed to kill humans. How the people of Nova Prime know that, since they have never met or spoke to a Skrel and this is the only other alien they've met, remains to be seen. Anyway, this Ursa creature evolves into an a better killing machine with each new generation. Think Resident Evil monsters, only not as fast. Ursa can only see humans based on our secretions caused by fear. Because that's how the Skrel made them — without eyes. But they can smell our fear.
     

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    651 AE - More Ursa are dumped on Nova Prime. Once an Ursa "imprints" on a human, it will hunt them until its prey has been killed. Which is basically the same thing that happens in Twilight. They have secret a black venom that paralyses victims.
     

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    726, 876, 951, 997 AE - Even MORE Ursa are unleashed, now mutated into super-fast killing machines. The Rangers struggle to save what remains of humanity. The Rangers' best defense is "ghosting," in which a Ranger becomes fearless, and thus can fight the Ursa without being smelled. 980 AE Is the first "official" Ghosting.
     

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    OOOOOOH NOW those After Earth ads make sense!

    1000 AE - Will Smith and his son are traveling somewhere with a Ursa who's been captured, in a big pod (pictured above). They crash land on Earth and NOW we are where the trailer starts. PHEW.
     

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    Apart from explaining this wildly detailed and yet pretty vague backstory, the Rangers Manual has a bunch of images of their tech and doo dadery. Most of it was your usual scifi gadgetry (hologram maps, hologram instructions, but the LUNG GEL jumped out at me the most. Here is a shot of the Universal Air Filtration Gel, which coats the lungs, so they can breathe on the now fairly toxic Earth. It looks like hair treatment.
     

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    And finally, here are a few shots of the more civilized parts of Nova Prime, a few decades after they first arrived. Along with a few shots of the Rangers' air base. It's actually pretty gorgeous.
     

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    So there you have it — the secret behind M. Night's new world has been revealed. Does it make you want to see the movie now? Is anyone surprised there's a overly complicated backstory tied to this? Hey at least it's not a twist, unless... WE ARE THE SKRELS!

    Honestly we could be into a movie just about this backstory.

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    Think After Earth is just about Will Smith reconnecting with his son on a dangerous future Earth? WRONG. There's a whole baffling alien backstory, that you don't even know about. It's just not in the trailers. Journey with us as we attempt to untangle M Night Shyamalan's ridiculously complicated movie. And meet the Skrels, who kill humans! For unknown reasons!

     

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    Spoilers ahead...

     

    Thanks to the movie companion book the United Rangers Corps Survival Manual, we now (kind of) understand the wickedly overcomplicated plot behind After Earth. Turns out, there are aliens in this movie — lots of them. Different species, in fact, which sound infinitely more interesting than a boy with a spear in the woods.

     

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UdDWHOshKhI

     

    I've not been able to download it from here, perhaps due to my location

    http://kebisone.edublogs.org/2013/07/05/after-earth-united-ranger-corps-survival-manual-book-downloads/

    but someone else will be maybe more lucky and make it available for all of us :D

     

    In order to fully explain it we're going to need to break down what leads up to the jungle adventure, year by year.

    1908 - An alien ship crash lands in Russia. All collective world governments then keep this discovery a secret basically forever. (But they let smarties like Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein play with the remains).

    2012 - NASA announces that they've invented WARP ENGINES. By secretly tapping into the alien spaceships knowledge of the universe's "dark energy." Tah Dah!

    2071 - 2072 - Earth is all GTFO, humans. No one can live here any more, because it's poison for us, so 750,000 survivors leave on ARKS (one is named the Asimov). The Arks were created thanks to additional information pulled (over the years) from the downed spacecraft.


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    32 AFTER EARTH - The Rangers (who are basically the super militarized government now) invent a religion while on board the Arks. Because you gotta have faith. It's called Primus, after the band. This backfires horribly.

    67 AE - Primus makes its own religious army, because of course they do. And they also decide to rewrite their rules, to make the head of Primus (also called Primus) the ruler indefinitely, until death. A few of the remaining Arks (some die out) start adopting the office of Primus.
     

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    100 AE - Only three out of the six Arks survive. But the rest of the folks land on their new planet Nova Prime.
     

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    222 AE - A Primus leader starts speaking out against science and industrialization on their new planet, because that's what got them all in this mess in the first place. Of Course They Do. After "much debate" the role of Savant is created to oversee the science side of the human race on Nova Prime.

     

    ...to be continued... see the second part @ http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/topic/212226-the-alien-backstory-you-didnt-see-in-the-after-earth-trailers-part-i/?p=292855

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    mmmhhh.... first off, I'll point you to this topic...

     

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/topic/211201-how-to-search-cyberphoenix-forums-for-content/

     

    then, I may start with this,

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/topic/57763-poll-which-file-hosting-sites-do-you-prefer-uploaddownload/page-3?hl=%2Bbest+%2Bfile+%2Bhosts&do=findComment&comment=104583

     

    but I've performed for you this search on this forum

    http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/index.php?app=core&module=search&section=search&do=search&fromsearch=1

     

    try and see if you find something... AutoCAD is a really generic term and there is a lot to choose from

     

    Let me know if this helps :)

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    In looking at the way that the internet is performing across the world in 2013, it’s very clear that many countries are hitting their stride and growing in terms of their adoption of broadband. However, that growth comes at a cost:

    the progression of the internet is signaling the beginning of the end of United States’ place in the top tiers of performance

    according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report for the second quarter of 2013.


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    Overall, the number of unique IPv4 addresses has swollen to over 752 million — approximately 18 million more than the first quarter to create a 2 percent increase overall quarter-over-quarter. While it sounds like a small number in the grand scheme of things, Akamai noted that the number of unique IPv4 addresses is slowly dwindling. As major gains continue in developing nations like Tanzania and Mozambique, the IPv4 address pool is quickly becoming exhausted.

     

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    While the size of the web is getting bigger, internet connections are also becoming faster. The global average connection speed saw a 5.2 percent increase quarter-over-quarter to 3.3 Mbps. Even more important is the number of countries that have a connection speed of less than 1 Mpbs, which has dwindled to just 11 from 18 in the fourth quarter of 2012. Overall, this indicates that developing companies are increasing their average internet connection speeds, and already-developed nations are improving their infrastructure. The Global average peak connection speed increased just 0.1 percent to 18.9 Mbps, but more countries than ever are passing the 10 Mbps connection speed mark.

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    However, the increased sophistication of global internet networks has lead to the U.S. becoming outmoded in the top tiers of connectivity. While the U.S. remains eighth in average connection speeds, it no longer registers in the top 10 for peak connection speeds (which it has been left out of all year) and now rests at 10th in overall high broadband speeds. America is lodged in a flat period for broadband growth while smaller, developing countries to reach better connectivity. It’s high time to get gigabit networks deployed, or risk being left in the dust.

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    Last year, we heard the amazing story of Saroo Brierley, the Indian "lost child" who used Google Earth to find his way home after 25 years. This stirring video produced by Google features Brierley telling the story in his own words. It's pretty crushing.


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    In the video, Brierly recounts how 1987, after a day of begging for money on the street, he boarded a train for home, but he never got there because he fell asleep and missed his stop. Instead, he ended up on the other end of the country. He was labeled lost, adopted and shipped off to Australia. But thanks to the Google, he found his way home—as if you needed another reason to love Google Maps.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UXEvZ8B04bE

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