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  1. Re:Compared to Australian Money... on US Paper Money Discriminates Against the Blind · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is NOT to stop counterfeiting....

    They made Australian notes plastic to be waterproof. So you can swim up to the bar in the middle of the pool and still pay for a beer :-)

  2. Re:You've been working for 12 years, right? on Disillusioned With IT? · · Score: 1

    And if you aren't disciplined in money management, you'll blow it on loose women, cars, computers or beer as a single guy anyways. And you will just waste the rest!

  3. hypothetically - like Mathematician Dating formula on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 1

    hypothetically, if they could get a date!

    Just like the Mathematician Dating Formula

    A group of Mathematicians got together on a Saturday night and worked out that if they could actually get a date they would go for a girl who is:

    'Age of perfect girl' = 'Own Age'/2 + 7

  4. Re:What about Quicktime? on Mac Hack Contest Redux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, I too have lost count of the number of times I have seen the Quicktime Firefox jump over the lazy dog

  5. Re:Took long enough... on Microsoft Finally Bows to EU Antitrust Measures · · Score: 1

    American (from USA, not Canadians etc): Where are you from?
    Austrian: Austria
    American: Austria! I have always wanted to go there. I just love those koala bears and kangaroos.
    Austrian: No, Austria is in EUROPE

    Lots of good points about not having a lot of unity. But the question was 'what do you call someone from the EU?' The answer is still 'European' no EUien or whatever was proposed.

  6. Re:Took long enough... on Microsoft Finally Bows to EU Antitrust Measures · · Score: 1

    I can't believe you asked that

    European!

  7. Re:Wasted chance - no more torture? on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 1

    Not sure about the 'no more torture' bit.

    http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/12/21/usint9925.h tm
    http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/17606prs20050 307.html

    The latest round of investigative files released to the American Civil Liberties Union document an ongoing pattern of widespread abuses of detainees by military forces in Iraq, and describe shootings of unarmed civilians at checkpoints, the ACLU said today.

  8. Re:Darn - dramatization is a bit strong on Enigma Machine for Sale on eBay · · Score: 0, Troll

    The fact that the US hadn't even entered the war at the time of the Enigma capture depicted in the movie is one little over dramatization!

  9. Virtualization - for the OS that can't multitask on Microsoft Flip-flopping on Virtualization License · · Score: 2, Informative

    VMWare is great - you create all these little servers running one app each. OR you could run an OS that multitasks properly like one of the fine UNIX OS's from Sun, IBM or HP.

    Yes, I know it has other uses, but the main one is to replace the hundreds of shitty little 1RU Windows boxen in the computer room

  10. Change Countries, not your job on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 1

    How about staying in IT and changing countries?

    A background in IT can open doors to work in pretty much every country. There are companies willing to sponsor your work visa if you contract through them (I use http://www.myitg.com/)

    Base yourself in London and spend your time seeing Europe (what I am doing for a couple of years.)

    Move to Australia or France and discover how life should be lived!

    You will be amazed how your perspective on live can change by seeing other places and cultures. Take yourself out of the American 'bubble'.

  11. Re:Great Firewall of Oz on Australian Teachers Try To Shut Down Website · · Score: 1

    What do you mean could happen here??? Our Prime Minister is John Howard

  12. best math model - attractive_girl = my_age / 2 + 7 on Mathematics and Sex · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't know where this comes from, but the best mathematical model is the one where the age that you find girls most attractive is half your age plus 7 years. So a 10 yo boy thinks 12 yo girls are hot (10/2 + 7) A 20yo thinks 17yo girls are good, 30yo goes for 22yo, 40 for 27 etc. It works out pretty accurate.

    Probably developed by mathamatitions on a Saturday night "If I could get a date on a Saturday night, what age would I go for?"

  13. A radical thought - release it at the same time! on Night Vision Goggles vs Pirates · · Score: 1

    If they released movies/dvd's/games/tv programs at the same time you will stop the people getting pirate versions just to see it when the rest of the world does. So the movie/"last episode of x-files" etc does not get ruined by some idiot posting to some forum without a spoiler alert!

  14. But the Wright Bros were NOT the first to fly!!! on Wright Brothers vs. Glenn Curtiss · · Score: 1

    As much as it hurts me to say it, a New Zealander, Richard Pearse, actually flew about 9 months before the Wright Brothers. http://www.auckland-airport.co.nz/aviate.html
    No one knows about it because the Wright Brothers had the benefit of the US media. Richard Pearse had a couple of sheep.