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  1. Re:Oh please, enough with the ads! on Google's New Patent on Commercial Breaks · · Score: 1

    What country is this? I want to move there. Our subscription TV here in Australia is horribly riddled with ads, and we still pay for the service. On top of that, our shows are generally a season or two behind (This is slowly being fixed, I think the Internet is making them understand that they need to get the shows out earlier.) Our free to air TV is even worse ...

  2. Re:RTFA on NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    V for Vendetta anyone?

  3. Re:Easy... on How to Say Goodbye to Old Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    I live on the coast of Australia, so there are plenty of beaches to go down onto. Nothing to catch alight, and if you have something that burns hot enough, you get a nice glob of glass at the bottom of your fires where all the sand has melted together. :)

  4. Re:Easy... on How to Say Goodbye to Old Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Oops, my bad :) thats the one. Burning stuff is fun!

  5. Re:Easy... on How to Say Goodbye to Old Hard Drives? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to use the sledgehammer method, until i found a more fun way. Mix 1 part aluminium oxide to 2 parts iron oxide, put in a hard disk sized container, and place on a stack a disks. Shove a sparkler in the top of the mixture, light, and run :D instant glob of metal on the ground! Yay for thermite!