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You're joking, right? We export that crap so we don't have to drink it.

Given that Fosters has something like a 45% share of the Australian market, some combination of this must be true: it still has fans, remains a guilty pleasure that isn't admitted to, or nobody can find enough export victims. At least it has some snappy advertising to help.

Frankly, I have no idea what can be done about vegemite. People have been warned.

Vegemite rules. It is far superior to Marmite. However, with enough cheese the two are equivalent.

Yep your spot on here and I did make that point that when it comes to business I didn't think that working with canadians would matter. What I think I was trying to point out was that despite the geographic closeness the cultures of North America and Canadian are pretty different. I can't help smirking as I eat my Strong & Bitey cheese and vegemite sandwich that if you where from Canada we would be swapping monty python cheese shop sketch jibes :)

more like 'taking the piss' out of the comment americans are like canadians and have a lot in common. ps: read the link carefully to see what I mean.

now for this I'd agree. In Diamond Age there's a line that really rings true here ... something about people are the same the whole world over but cultures are totally different.

Ahhh number 2 business as it's called. I'll give you an example of this from and Indian mate who fronted customs in India and was told in no uncertain terms ...this is not your face on you pasport as he was to board a plane. The inference being I'll let you board if you pay me. Charming. But guess what it's there culture and if they don't want to play the Marquess of Queensberry of business in their country so be it; Not much you can do about it.

outsourcing is a serious problem for technical staff this side of the pacific,across the Atlantic in the UK and back in the US. Ff you read tofler for instance you will see that in his powershift ~ knowledge, wealth at the edge of the 21st century you can see that he proposes that less workers will be able to do more. This is a trend is likely to continue. So more to use the ugly phrase *e-workers* (knowledge, meta, creative, digilog workers). Outsourcing could be seen as a way for business to be more efficeint. But why isn't business offshoring to cheap, easy to understand Canada, taking advantage of the stable, legal economy for instance? .... (though I think the revenge of English Raj was the fluency of Indians with english.) The time difference is minimal (maybe whey take advantage of 24 day processing) or is it for some kind of tax minimisation reasons? Have you any opinion on this?

And when you get them back you can use them to make Vegemite

Okay...BSD comment aside-

Nobody is posting here because the original story is about two incongrous subjects.

Xbox

Japan

If you care about one, you probably don't care about the other. (Reason for crappy sales?)

It's like opening a Vegemite shop in the US. We have peanut-butter...we don't want vegemite.

For us geeks down under, we DO have to worry about about 'brutal levels of ultraviolet radiation'. It's not so bad now in winter (see here), but mid summer will see extream UV between 10:00 and 15:00, which will easily toast us pastey geeks on our way to the local store for the latest CPU/GPU/RAM/HDD/etc.

Now the question remains: how much coffee do I need to drink so that I start sweating caffeine?

...and will smearing oneself with Vegemite work as effectively?

Vegemite is a traditional aussie sandwich spread extracted from the yeasty remains left over from making beer.

some people love it, some people hate it.

...your post has stirred the desire for Vegemite, perhaps I'll buy some tomorrow if I still feel this way.

So Australians actually enjoy consuming Vegemite? The web site seems to imply that Vegemite should be appriciated more for its health benefits, as opposed to its taste or colo(u)r.

What exactly is in Vegemite, anyway? It seems to be some sort of bizarre yeast-extract brown toast paste, that doesn't look at all appitizing, even in the publicity photos. Even more bothering is the fact that Vegemite is produced by Kraft, a company that we in America still trust to make edible food products, despite the fact that they're pushing cancer sticks on us, and what appears to be toxic waste in their Austrailian market.

Hmmmmmm...

That's it! It's cigarette tar!

If I have seemed pedantic with you it is because I am being pedantic.

* Shrug *

If you're looking for something wrong with my posts, you're bound to find it. Nothing new...

No it isn't, you said "The GPL allows" which would suggest to someone who doesn't know better that there is a clause in the GPL that allows authors to change their licencing. This is not the case, they have that right simply because they are the copyright holder(s).

The GPL doesn't explicitly deny changing the license, therefore "the GPL allows..." is a perfectly correct thing to say, even if it's not 100% clear to you.

Why don't you go eat a Vegemite sandwich, you daft Aussie?