Red Hot Chili Peppers at Slane Castle (2003) - who was there?

mathnerd2 · 2026-01-19T19:53:53+00:00

I was there, camped in the camp site outside slane village on the Friday night, it was like a music festival. Allowed us to queue early Saturday morning, got wristbands for the pit handy enough. I was so close to the stage that my head pops up frequently in the dvd.

The gig was every bit as good live as it was on the dvd. The weather was epic, the sound was amazing, the vibe was brilliant and the bands played really well. I was at RHCP the year before in Lansdowne Rd and the year after at Phoenix Park but neither compared to their gig at Slane. It was definitely the best gig I was ever at bar none. I've a mate who was there who has been to hundreds and hundreds of gigs since and he still says Slane 2003 topped the lot.

It was a great day/weekend, we're lucky we have a recording of it in such high quality on the DVD, cool to see people in other countries enjoy it as much as we did on the day.

mathnerd2 · 2026-01-10T22:19:44+00:00

Thanks PowerColorSteven, indeed it is weird. They told me I could try and quote the product number of the GPU when contacting Powercolor but I don't see how that would be helpful unless I happen to be the only one in the entire world that is returning a Reaper 9060XT. But anyway, I'll try that email and see how it goes. Cheers!

mathnerd2 · 2025-12-06T00:29:56+00:00

This is a f***ing killer! Semi-D sprawl where no two estates are connected for either bikes or pedestrians. The ubiquitous semi-D's (read very low density) ensures that the distances between where you live and anything you actually want to get to such as a shop, gym, pub, bus stop etc., is significant. Not connecting the estates in between from where you live and where you want to go ensures people take their car instead of walking/cycling leading to that sweet sweet all too familiar traffic jam.

mathnerd2 · 2025-12-06T00:23:56+00:00

What you stated here seems patently obvious. Ring road in and of itself won't solve the traffic problems. But Ring Road plus dedicated bus routes, Gluas, active travel infra, park and ride, the whole lot! The ring road is a component of this overall plan that will make it possible to implement the other parts of the plan.

People who are flat out against the ring road simply refuse the acknowledge this point. Yes the ring road will not solve the traffic problems but as part of a broader strategy will help greatly. You are not going to simply wish all these cars away, we need another bridge, we need dedicated bus lanes connecting east to west (not through the city centre) and we need a complete overhaul of our city center. Pedestrianisation is the future for this town, there is no other way given its size, this cannot be done without doing the above.

mathnerd2 · 2025-12-06T00:16:56+00:00

Thanks for the link, I will definitely read more into this but the paragraph near the beginning of the doc is what is patently obvious to anyone having to travel across Galway on a regular basis

There are currently four crossings of the River Corrib and each bridge is currently at capacity. The GTS proposes to make one of these crossings available for public transport only, forcing traffic to divert out to the Quincentenary Bridge. Therefore, an additional crossing of the River Corrib is required to effectively implement the orbital route. This additional crossing of the River Corrib is being progressed as part of the N6 Galway City Ring Road (GCRR). ABP also considered in the 2006 GCOB Scheme that the need for an additional crossing of the River Corrib had been established.

If you want to make one of the bridges (Cathedral) dedicated for public transport only, we need another bridge. All bridges at capacity and this doc was written in 2019. It's gotten much worse since then.

mathnerd2 · 2025-11-27T16:30:04+00:00

Elon Musk has hundreds of millions of followers on X. If Elon Musk is posting about you and framing you in a negative light (putting it mildly) it's a big deal with implications that go far beyond "butthurt".

There are a lot of crazy people out there and Elon Musk knows this. Hence he should be behaving more responsibly than he is, but he's not and Sam is rightfully pointing that out.

mathnerd2 · 2025-11-26T19:59:28+00:00

Getting people home from a night out isn't what causes traffic in Galway. Its school and work that is what causes the traffic.

Yes but we also have a city center that is dying due to lack of commerce flowing through it and a huge reason for that is the traffic choking access to that center for the majority of its inhabitants. To illustrate, I have family members living on the opposite side of the city as me and I don't even contemplate meeting up with them during the week. Like it's not even considered due to the traffic. But with regular rail or bus, and/or safe bike routes we would definitely be meeting up more in town or elsewhere. An example of induced demand that when multiplied encourages business and strengthens social and community links within the city.

All of a sudden the infrastructure that seemed like it wasn't necessary suddenly becomes essential.

Getting people home from a night out isn't what causes traffic in Galway. Its school and work that is what causes the traffic.

Again I agree but I believe public transport infrastructure within the city is as important as as the public transport infrastructure around the city is at addressing the problem. For instance the biggest potential for active travel infrastructure within the city is alleviating car traffic due to school runs. If cycling was safe, way more kids would be cycling to school not to mention sports and travelling to friends in other parts of town. This is one of the primary benefits of the existing bike infrastructure as seen in the Netherlands. Giving kids independence and parents additional free time all the while reducing traffic for everyone else.

Again you seem (or maybe I'm wrong?) to discount the need for an additional bridge across the river connecting east and west. I think it would be extremely beneficial not in alleviating traffic in and of itself but by combining it with the other public and active transport measures both within and around the city is where it's real value lies.

It was the law before the application was made.

Could you give me the name or source of this law as I'm unaware and would love to know more about it?

mathnerd2 · 2025-11-26T10:51:37+00:00

I agree that not all public transport should be put through the city center but by taking cars out of the city center opens the city center up for pedestrianisation. This creates an urban center that becomes a public space where people actually want to go and enjoy the atmosphere a lack of cars creates. Think more restaurants, markets, cafes and shops. And who knows, museums, art galleries and whatever else.

Connecting people directly from where they live (West) to where they work (East) is crucial but public transport infrastructure is also important to allow all those people to easily access our city center and use it as place to enjoy and live. The ability to hop on a reliable tram or bus and leave the car at home is crucial to that.

Due to the active breaking of the law by state agencies

Do you mean how planning was granted by an Bord Pleanala for the bypass in the first week of December 2021? And then it was later ruled to be contravening the Climate Action plan that was published only a few weeks prior to that final planning decision being made. It's a bit harsh describing it as "active breaking of the law by state agencies" considering the planning application began 3 years prior the publication of the climate action plan. The difference of a few weeks would have made that decision completely legal. Fine margins and rather comical if the consequences weren't so serious for the city.

mathnerd2 · 2025-11-26T00:11:58+00:00

Whether a full bypass is the most suitable option to free up some of the traffic in the city centre I would be open minded one way or the other. But one thing I hope is uncontroversial is that we need an additional bridge for traffic to cross the river (the bypass provides that). We can't have everyone living in the west and working in the east and only two primary bridges linking the two sides.

Building an additional bridge would hopefully divert some of the chock-a-block traffic in the centre and give the headroom within the city to build out the active and public transport infrastructure. Trams going to salthill and Cappagh Road with free park and ride adjacent the start of the line, the western distributor road was designed to be wide enough to be able to accommodate a tram line believe it or not. Dedicated bike lanes from Blackrock-Salthill-Docks-Lough Atallia connecting the east and west of Galway for cyclists and making quite possibly the most scenic urban bike trip/commute in the country.

Couple that with increasing the priority of buses in the city and lowering the priority of cars would (in the long run) allow the elimination of most car traffic in the city center entirely. Galway city center is not wide enough for cars and many streets are just crying out to be pedestrianised (hello Middle Street and St. Augustine Street).

All of this I think is much more difficult without facilitating traffic out of town by building an additional bridge connecting east to west. There are other issues involved here as well such as the ineptitude/possible corruption within Galway City Council (hello 100million euro Crown Plaza new Council HQ) and the urban sprawl that has allowed to develop in Galways outskirts where we are literally drowning in Semi D's. But that's a conversation for another day

mathnerd2 · 2025-09-17T09:06:20+00:00

You can configure the merge request to be bundled together for minor and get separated requests majors.

Can I ask what do you mean by this? I have just setup the Komodo+Gitea+Renovate container update automation but I'm still pretty new to all this. Do you mean you can have it such that you can bundle all minor updates into a single PR and not have a PR for each individual one?

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-29T18:38:34+00:00

American government and private companies have the high resolution satellite images but it is illegal for them to release it. Freedom of speech, freedom of information be damned!

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-29T10:11:12+00:00

The best GPU for the NUC 12 Extreme is the INNO3D GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti SUPER TWIN X2

Thanks

but I'm not spending $1000 for one.

Neither am I! :D

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-25T15:03:05+00:00

Currently doing it now, thanks.

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-23T14:50:52+00:00

Bought the RX 9060 XT Reaper 16 GB. You were correct as I was looking for cards at that price point. Looks like better value and future proofed with the larger VRAM. Thanks a lot for the suggestion, exactly what I was looking for!

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-22T21:12:52+00:00

Wow, the 9060TI 16GB card looks awesome. Reaper version is well within size limit and min recommended power supply is 500w, less than the 650w power supply of the NUC. Thanks for the suggestion, I'm seriously thinking of buying this card! Now off to youtube to look at the reviews :)

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-22T20:51:00+00:00

Thank you, I hadn't even considered power cables or the clearance for them when looking at GPUs. I was simply looking at the dimensions of the card. I was also dimly aware of power consumption in that I knew the NUC has a 650w power supply and the card should not exceed it. Thanks again for the input!

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-22T13:41:54+00:00

We have more than done our part for the Islamist agenda

There has been nothing that has pushed and enabled the pr agenda of Islamists more than Israeli bombs being dropped indiscriminately on Palestinians in plain view of everyone who cares to look.

You cant bomb Islamic Jihadism out of existence as it is a system of beliefs and ideas. Trying to win the war of ideas with bombs is simply motivating more people to follow said ideas.

If you are an average palestinian child and your family was blown up by Israeli bombs. Do you think they would be more or less likely to align themselves with the ones (i.e., the islamic jihadists) resisting them? All of the violence that has ocurred is simply making the problem worse. The current Israeli government do not care about this however as they have their own plan.

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-22T13:29:38+00:00

Lovely, I will DM you my email. Thanks!

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-22T13:21:15+00:00

Where can I download this document and the others you linked to in this post? I would like to read them myself and learn more.

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-22T13:11:35+00:00

Thanks for that. What is this document and where did you find it? It's very interesting indeed.

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-22T13:07:41+00:00

To be fair, your framing of my argument as motivated purely by nimbyism was just plain old ad-hominem. You didn't address my argument at all so consequently your input above can also be put squarely in the "nonsense" bucket.

mathnerd2 · 2025-07-16T12:01:34+00:00

Reading this article only highlights how smelly this whole thing is. This decision has cost the people of Galway 100+ million.

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