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  1. Re:Atkins on Geeks and Weight-loss? · · Score: 1

    without wanting to just sound like a yes man, I
    can actually vouch for all that was said above
    about Atkins. I lost 20kg in about 3-4 months,
    and found the interesting effects mentioned to
    indeed exist.
    I also found a week at the snow doing some snowboarding caused a heap of weight to be lost -
    no doubt due to the exercising whilst in fat burning mode...
    I dunno, as people have said, each to their own, but I can certainly recommend this one..

  2. Re:Union Coverage on Dial U for Union · · Score: 1

    but the australian it industry is so damn full of incompetant people that it is dragging the industry down. i am an employee. perhaps not getting what i could, coz i'm young, unqualified, only now getting to what could be called experienced. But I know that if i want more, all i have to do is leave my current job. I can get the high paidness once my qualification comes through (in 6 months time). If I were an employer, i can think of no worse way for my business to go bankrupt than by being forced to pay employess who CAN NOT do their jobs! But of course I wouldn't be able to sack them until they'd done sufficient damage that a small company probably couldn't recover from. I consider myself good at what I want to do. I consider it my unalienable right to be paid more than someone who has been here longer than me if i am better than them. Were I an employer, I'd find it pretty stupid to pay a 10 year veteran who can't do squat $100k, whilst i pay a young genius $20k..... that would be stupid! unions these days have past their used by dates. Yes they got us the 40 hour week, etc, but most if not all of the basic rights of workers have indeed been met.

  3. Re:Telstra (Aussie Telco) only support M'soft & Ma on OS-Independent Web Banking? · · Score: 1

    but really, Telstra is the Microsoft of Australia. Big, uncompetetive, will to do *ANYTHING* to protect its monopoly... at the moment their product manager for ADSL doesn't even know what RADIUS is, and will not even attempt to understand it, even though they are using it to authenticate. You can bet that as soon as there is a competitor in the marketplace that they will drop prices like nothing else and know exactly how the product works.