Friday, April 23, 2010

FAKE msoPHATS Alert

msoPHATS has just been advised of fake msoPHATS being sold online and through retail outlets. Some will even have the msoPHATS label (see above pic) sewn into them.

The only way you can legally buy new msoPHATS is by direct contact with me personally, via a series of emails and paypal transactions.

I have the list of all legitimate customers, so they do not need to worry.

But if you have purchased a pair of new msoPHATS from anyone other than me directly, you have bought fake msoPHATS.

If you are concerned about this, please get in touch with me

msoPHATS is considering legal action against those making and selling fake msoPHATS.

UPDATE 24 April 2010

msoPHATS formally announces the termination of a business contract with Alternate Gear (Sydney) www.alternategear.com.au  who have until today been making msoPHATS.

Alternate Gear have been ripping off not only msoPHATS but other phats designers.

UPDATE 25 April 2010

msoPHATS has received complaints from Alternate Gear customers regarding ‘knock-offs’.

Alternate Gear customers who have already paid money or placed orders with Alternate Gear, who want protection or assistance are advised to immediately report Alternate Gear or whoever sold you the phats, to the ACCC - The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

They are an independent Australian statutory authority formed in 1995 to administer the Trade Practices Act 1974.

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Fashion industry design thefts, ‘knock-offs’, are a billion dollar pirating black market that robs legitimate artists and designers of their fair pay and creative product.

A counterfeit (knock-off) is an imitation, usually one that is made with the intent of fraudulently passing it off as genuine. Counterfeit products are often produced with the intent to take advantage of the established worth of the imitated product.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit

Even if you are from outside of Australia, you can still report this to the ACCC. The ACCC also works with other countries authorities to stamp out these frauds.

 

REPORT DIRECT TO THE TRADE POLICE:

ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission)

http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/142

 

ACCC SCAM WATCH

http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/index.phtml/tag/reportascam

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Melbourne Shuffle 1990:2010

Happy New Year everyone and happy 20th birthday to the Melbourne Shuffle !

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I'm working on the Global Shuffle documentary at the moment. It will be released later this year 2010, check back to MSO for updates.

The documentary will be featuring the very earliest videos of the shuffle done by the original creators of the Melbourne Shuffle.

New shufflers today I'm sure will be surprised at the dozens of shuffle steps they have never heard about, mainly because they are not on youtube.

Most will not be aware that there were actually 3 main genre's of shuffling at the beginning (1990-96),

  • Dance Party
  • Rock
  • Goth

Only 2 steps have survived in mainstream shuffling, stomping (hardstyle) and shuffling (T step).

But as regular MSO readers will know, there are heaps more and you'll see them done by original shufflers for the first time ever !! on the Global Shuffle 1990:2010 documentary.

There will be limited cinema screenings and an international dvd release. There'll be plenty of Global Shuffle webclips and online extra's, bio's, free music downloads, online competitions and more...

It's taken 2 years of editing and preparation so far. The biggest challenge has been salvaging the original footage. Most of it on 20 year old video tape, which degrades with time, moisture and dust. Then degrades further with each playing and copy.

Just that concept alone will be unknown to most new shufflers who have grown up with digital everything.

In 1990 we were still firmly in the analog era. Digital was 8bit and only available in specialist areas, music, games and private online networks known as bbs - bulletin boards, the same as todays forums.

There was no internet/www, email was like having your own space shuttle and phones were hard wired into your house and used for talking ! text ? WTF?

Most people were still getting to grips with vinyl records being replaced by 'digital' CD's. There were lots of arguments about which format was better. Though everyone agreed they were better than audiotape cassettes. But nothing beat the Sony Walkman for personal mobile sound. It even took another decade from 1990 for Apple to digitise the Walkman into an ipod. That's how far back the shuffle started.

Melbourne in 1990 like the rest of the world was in recession, just as were are today. Times were very tough, the future was scary and nobody seemed to be in control anymore.

Just the year before 1989, Wall Street had crashed, the Berlin Wall had been torn down and we'd watched lone protestors face off with tanks in China.

The 'Cold War' we'd lived with for all our lives was over, because ordinary people decided we'd had enough of that.

We wanted to have some fun now. We were tired of all the pain, the politics, the corruption, the bullshit. We could do what ever we wanted to now. We, just ordinary people, were in control for a change.

So in Melbourne, we danced a new dance. We kept what we liked from the past, added our own stuff and shuffled them around to suit our mood.

There were no rules, no limits. We wanted to explore and find out what else there was to life.

And so began and still goes, the Melbourne Shuffle...

Have a great year everyone

 

 

Sunday, December 6, 2009

David Bowie: Fashion 1980

"Fashion" is a track from David Bowie's 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).

I was never much of an early Bowie fan, a bit too daytime-soap-opera for me. Bowie suffered a nasty case of over-exposure at the time, a time when the electronic underground was starting to lay the foundation for life as we know it ;)

But his 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) album did it for me.

Fashion is a work of art and poetry, with Bowie at his insightful best. Well done ol' son.

Friday, December 4, 2009

CLIMATEGATE: an inconvenient truth

Jon Stewart Talks Climategate

UPDATE 10 December 2009

At last some of the real scientists are being heard above the clammer of politicians and climate $peculators trying to save their collective arses from the impending doom.

Once respected scientist has a solution...

From Australia's ABC

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2764827.htm

Kill the IPCC

Bob Carter is a geologist from James Cook University, Queensland. He is a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than thirty years professional experience.

...the study of climate change, under the aegis of "dangerous global warming caused by human carbon dioxide emissions," has long since been captured by the small group of well connected, well networked and well funded atmospheric scientists and computer modellers who advise the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and whose nearly every utterance confirms their ignorance of the true course of climate history and change on our planet - a topic that is the domain of geologists, not meteorologists and computer jockeys.

However, the stately progress that the IPCC was making towards achieving international action at the COP15 climate conference against carbon dioxide, an environmentally beneficial trace gas, has been shattered by the Climategate affair.

The Climategate files have demonstrated the scientific malfeasance of an influential and internationally well networked segment of the climate research community. A small group of scientists and computer modellers - with the aid of an enormous supporting cast of environmental activists and organisations, self-interested business groups, and crusading journalists - have managed to turn the global warming issue (which in 1990 was an entirely sensible matter to have raised) into the scientific scam of the century, if not the biggest ever.

UPDATE 8 December 2009

Wow, mainstream media is really starting to pick up on Climategate, far more interesting and important that who Tiger Woods penis has been entertaining.

These UN crooks have also censored any other climate scientist who wanted to publish research that disagreed with the CRU. That's a criminal offence in many countries and those who have been harmed by the crooks are getting lawyered up.

You can be sure the Politicians in the Copenhagen climate talkfest the next 2 weeks will achieve absolutely nothing, that's what they do best.

Except agree that there needs to be more taxes from everybody else, so they can do it again.

Get your Climategate files make up your own mind, this file site is searchable

http://www.eastangliaemails.com/index.php

UPDATE 7 December 2009

Hockey Stick over Time

Throughout the history of the Earth it has been unusual to have one polar ice-cap; it is unique for us now to have two of them.

Yet, in the context of the history of the planet, this is not a normal period.

More average conditions would be significantly warmer, producing lush vegetation and hot conditions - BBC (UK)

more here >>>

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/understanding/iceage_01.shtml

  • The Earth is currently in the middle of an ice epoch.
  • Within an ice epoch there are ice ages, which alternate with shorter warmer periods known as interglacials.
  • In Earths history it has been unusual to have one polar ice-cap; it is unique for us now to have two of them.

We are currently in the middle of an ice epoch (longer than an ice age) which has lasted millions of years and is likely to continue for millions more.

Yet, in the context of the history of the planet, this is not a normal period.

More average conditions would be significantly warmer, producing the lush vegetation and hot conditions that prevailed aeons ago, when dinosaurs walked the Earth for millions of years.

The reason why we are in the middle of such a cold epoch has a great deal to do with the positioning of the land masses. Almost imperceptibly, the great continents are constantly moving and changing location.

Throughout the history of the Earth it has been unusual to have one polar ice-cap; it is unique for us now to have two of them.

The Milankovitch model states that variations in the Earth's orbit can account for our weather pattern during the present ice epoch.

The reasons behind what may trigger an ice age, or cause the mini-cycles of optima and little ice ages is likely to be down to a complex combination of factors including the Earth's magnetism.

AUSTRALIA GUILTY OF DODGY DATA

Well finally the Australian mainstream media is taking notice, and no wonder they didn't want to look. They call it Climate-gate. How about that I wonder were they heard that from ? ;)

Seems Australian scientists are part of the con - very bad indeed seeing the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd flatly refuses to discuss any of this in public, has refused public debate, and answering public questions, so he can railroad a new mega tax-on-everything to...well he won't tell us what the new tax will do. Thankfully it's an election year in 2010, we can answer him at the only poll that counts, the election, then perhaps jail him for fraud afterwards.

Quit the cover up Kev, we'll find out sooner or later.

Here's what experts say about Australian Weather stats [The Age]

The programmer found the Australian weather data to be riddled with entry errors, duplication and inaccuracies and described as a ''bloody mess'' attempts to homogenise information and entries.

In his text file, the programmer documents his attempts to make sense of the reams of raw historical data that was used by the CRU. He railed that the global information he has to work with has ''no uniform integrity''.

UPDATE 5 December 2009

At last mainstream news is picking up CLIMATEGATE

**** ABC Australia
ELIZABETH JACKSON: Hundreds of pages of correspondence between climate scientists in Britain and America have caused outrage at the United Nations as it prepares for the biggest international gathering in its history.

The University of East Anglia is now being investigated by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over claims that its leading professors fudged data and suppressed evidence that contradicted its theories on manmade global warming.

Our Europe correspondent Emma Alberici.

EMMA ALBERICI: They're calling it Climategate and it threatens to derail next week's negotiations in Copenhagen.

A string of emails sent from the University of East Anglia's climate research unit, mostly from Professor Phil Jones, who has stood down while the investigation runs its course.

In some of the leaked correspondence Professor Jones is asking for all emails from one certain scientist to be deleted.
In others he's asking for some research papers to be excluded from the UN's next report by its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

But one of the most troubling lines was this one. It reads, “I've just completed Mike's nature trick of adding in the real temperature to each series for the last 20 years and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline”. [see complete email below]
more: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2009/s2762904.htm

**** There's only about 100 posts so far, compared to 50,000,000 by bloggers. Here's the latest

Things are hotting up.

**** Al's now returned because he looked like a coward and he's under contract to promote his new book called 'Our Choice' perhaps 'Poor Choice' is more appropriate ;) But he won't be doing any public appearances where he could be asked inconvenient questions like how much of this scandal did he know about, it'll be just a safe photo op waving his book in the air while smiling.

**** Palin has called on Obama to boycott Copenhagen in protest because of the Climategate scandal

...and I'm sure there'll be more to come ;)

As MSO readers will know, I'm skeptical about everything lol, I've seen so many scams over the years, I need a lot to convince me of anything.

But this is looking like the real deal and it'll probably trigger another financial collapse in our already stressed world with all the green stocks bombing out.

My advice: Duck and cover.

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SEE AL RUN

Al Gore has done a chicken run and pulled out of the Climate fest next week in Copenhagen, where guests have paid $1200 per handshake with big AL. He says it's because of a scheduling problem, we think it's because of over 50,000,000 Climategate posts in just 2 weeks !!!

And the mainstream media still hasn't said anything, not even the word appears. What does that tell us about the mainstream media ? COVER-UP BIG TIME. Why would you trust them again, if they won't tell you about Climategate now?

Why are the mainstream media moguls so shy, why does Google - self proclaimed champion of free speech restrict alerts for Climategate ? They are restricting search results or Bing is a better search engine. Naturally they'd deny both ;)

See for yourself.

Latest search Google CLIMATEGATE 31,000,000

Latest search Bing CLIMATEGATE 51,000,000

3 hours later it's 57,400,000 for Bing and still 31,000,000 for google.

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UPDATE 4 December 2009

About 2 weeks ago 1000's of emails and documents from the world authority on climate science in the UK, were released online by an inside whistle-blower, exposing the Global Warming scam.

World leading scientists have been deliberately cooking the books because there is no global warming, the earth has been getting colder. The 'trick' is 'to hide the decline' says one crook to another as they discuss how to commit fraud...and commit it.

The biggest question is why the mainstream media has not said anything about this. It even involves a British Lord and Head science adviser to the UK govt, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarding dodgy science, well not really science at all, just a con job.

Aren't we all supposed to be happy we won't be burnt to a cinder now that Global Warming is a con job, just like the Weapons of Mass Destruction ?

I mean why are they silent ?

In shuffle culture, we encourage people to be informed and make educated decisions about everything. Whether we agree or not afterwards, we are still friends and always shufflers.

I mean, when I buy a computer, I want to know it's capabilities good and bad, because I'll find out easy enough when I get it home and switch it on. So what's the point in lying ? What else is going on ?

Why pretend CLIMATEGATE doesn't exist, why not call out the bad scientists and throw them in jail ? Why not have transparent proper government inquiries into it and help preserve peoples respect in the scientific process?

Why just duck for cover at the first mention of FRAUD hmmmm?

Here is what they don't want you to know...

Here's my source: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/#more-12937

Here's the original released files: Link valid at 4 December 2009 65 meg of files, no virus/Trojans, all legit looking text and charts. Freedom Of Information FOI2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XD050VKY

Here's one of crooks emails:

From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@xxxxx.xxx, mhughes@xxxx.xxx
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@xxx.xx.xx,t.osborn@xxxx.xxx

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow.

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) xxxxx
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) xxxx
University of East Anglia
Norwich Email p.jones@xxxx.xxx
NR4 7TJ
UK

Friday, October 9, 2009

My Latest Vid

Here's some of the latest posts in My Latest Vid section of the MSO forum. Anyone can post their shuffle vids on the MSO Forum.

Anah

Pleaase comment in my video..im a shuffle beginner...but please..can u comment?

http://mso1.cultureforum.net/my-latest-vid-f7/beginner-girl-shuffle-t326.htm

 

IBD/ShiroX Rawk! 

Hey Mates  For a week i have a new video and i want to
show u my video
Hope u enjoy and give meh critism in a comment and rating
(: Maybeh u want subscribe meh ?

http://mso1.cultureforum.net/post.forum?mode=editpost&p=1857

 

THA Anip and Aiai

 

http://mso1.cultureforum.net/my-latest-vid-f7/the-hardstyle-agentz-videos-t279.htm

 

KHS Shuffling vid :)


Hey my shuffle vid only been shuffling for 3 weeks

http://mso1.cultureforum.net/post.forum?mode=editpost&p=1768

 

RoH// Pure

me and Fluro shuffling, im the one in the phats mainly. lawl. i use my left foot wayyyyyyy to much, but im better now

xD

http://mso1.cultureforum.net/my-latest-vid-f7/roh-pure-vid-t309.htm

 

PHS//Dr3kar

My new video. Tell me what you think
I filmed the middle part with a toe infection!
For some reason on here it does not give you the HD option. sorry.

yes i know the running man is not as good as it should i have already fixed that. no use commenting on it.

http://mso1.cultureforum.net/my-latest-vid-f7/phs-dr3kar-shuffle-t301.htm#1677

 

PHS// Koty

Bored on a stormy day. What better to do than shuffle?
Shuffling to Spuerstar DJ and Paxi Fixi
How original...

http://mso1.cultureforum.net/my-latest-vid-f7/phs-koty-new-shuffle-video-t306.htm#1728

 

LilCee

Advice? Tips?

http://mso1.cultureforum.net/my-latest-vid-f7/my-first-noobie-video-t298.htm

Sunday, October 4, 2009

2nd Russian Melbourne Shuffle Championship

4MR - For Mother Russia have been busy with the Second Russian Melbourne Shuffle Championship held a few weeks back. Here's their promo and you can find lots more video and pics of the event: More details here

Second Russian Melbourne Shuffle Championship/ Второй Андеграунд Melbourne Shuffle Чемпионат 13.09.09 @ "Dub club"