...they will manage to stuff up at some stage. I have no doubts that this will exceed the $37.5 billion allocated. Seriously, when was the last an Australian government (state or federal) has managed to maintain their promises on costs of any project.
No really, I couldn't feel any more sorry for you. I understand how hard it is not being able to probe through peoples' personal lives and information without consulting them. Stay strong, FBI, we can make it through this together.
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Well, that certainly was uneventful
Incorrect. Turning up to vote and receiving a ballot paper is compulsory. You can pretty much do whatever you want with it though. You could use it as toilet paper if you wish. There is nothing to say that actually voting for any particular party or candidate is compulsory and many people refuse to. You could even scribble all over your vote and write quotes from Hitler on it if you wanted without actually numbering any of the boxes
Damn, kids nowadays are so lucky. Can you imagine how many pranks you could play with this one?
Put it in a watertight bag and throw it in the river.
Mail it to another country.
Leave it outside a strip club.
The list goes on...
These people really trust misbehaving kids an awful lot.
Of course, the benefits of piracy is a double-edged sword--if there were no pirates to begin with, we wouldn't have DRM.
Really, that sounds exactly like saying "if there were no criminals, we wouldn't need police".
There will always be criminals. There will always be pirates. Just because someone might try to steal from a shop doesn't mean everyone should be strip-searched upon leaving. As always, the criminals (pirates) will find a way around it and it will just become a nuisance for the people doing the right thing. I'm not saying there is one clear-cut answer to these things, especially for the companies. But DRM is really the lazy way to go around it that shows little respect for the average consumer.
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We all know everything Anonymous says should clearly be taken as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
On another note, I'm confused how Anonymous can be in possession of the Stuxnet worm. Does this mean everyone who has ever affiliated themselves with Anonymous is in possession? Or just a few people going by the name? Maybe that was the point, maybe this was meant to confuse use. I don't know any more...
Now I can freely criticise my boss and everything he does within the comfort and familiarity of Facebook.
But really, would I be allowed to say this to his face? People don't seem to realise that posting a status update is pretty much the same as sending an Email to everyone who you have allowed to view your profile (which in some cases could be the whole world). Facebook status updates are not private conversation. If my boss overheard me constantly complaining to my fellow co-workers about how much of a dick he is, he would probably fire me and tell me to find a new boss. I would also feel like a bit of an idiot.
Seriously? How many times is the media going to call Anonymous a group? Calling Anonymous a group is like calling all customers of a certain shopping centre or clothing brand a group.
For the last time, they do not have leaders. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. They do not have "senior members". Can we all stop referring to them as any sort of organised group? Anyone can go by the name Anonymous. Anyone can participate in their raids. Anyone can start their own raid; it is just a question of whether other people who decide they are part of Anonymous decide to participate. Hell, even if you did start the idea of a raid as Anonymous, you do not become a senior member; you do not get any credit; you are just Anonymous. You can be a member of Anonymous one day, and not the next. Hopefully more people might start understanding this, and finally stop referring to Anonymous as an organised group with "leaders". The sooner we do that, the sooner we can all realise what makes Anonymous tick.
What ever happened to just reading maps? I don't know what the US equivalent is, but in Melbourne we have the Melways. Basically, it's a road map of pretty much the whole state. It is updated every year, so it's almost always accurate. Sure, it might actually require using your brain a little (that sounds pretty scary) to figure out the best route but I don't think It has ever lead me the wrong direction or sent me into a desert.
Why is that idea so hard for people to grasp? Just read the god-damn map, and as long as you aren't an idiot about it, you will get to your destination. Bam, problem solved. No more driving through narrow unsealed roads or into rivers. When did people stop thinking for themselves?
Apart from being slightly under-featured, I have found chrome to be a good deal faster than firefox and I see much more of the page than I would with firefox.
That is one TV show that annoys me an incredible amount.
Not because of the show itself so much, but the fact that everyone I know now thinks of themselves as 'geeks' after watching it. These are the same people that wouldn't know what a CPU was. The worst part is when I have to explain to someone what a particular joke on BBT was about. Sometimes I wish being a geek wasn't seen as cool, just so I wouldn't have to watch my completely un-geeky friends try to be geeks.
How is this an invasion of privacy?
Not letting your car run doesn't sound at all like an invasion of privacy.
Maybe if the car started yelling out that I am drunk and my home address.
But seriously, in what way does your car not letting you drive because you are drunk, thus not allowing you to possibly kill or injure other people invade your privacy?
Believe me, I live in Australia. There is little to no actual news at the moment. News companies have all decided it's much easier to bumble away full hour-long segments about statistics they pulled off the bureau of meteorology website. This is something that I would be more concerned about at the moment, as everyone already knows if their house is underwater or if it will be in the near future; but how many would have known they might have a shark in the front yard?
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...they will manage to stuff up at some stage. I have no doubts that this will exceed the $37.5 billion allocated. Seriously, when was the last an Australian government (state or federal) has managed to maintain their promises on costs of any project.
No really, I couldn't feel any more sorry for you. I understand how hard it is not being able to probe through peoples' personal lives and information without consulting them. Stay strong, FBI, we can make it through this together.
Oh right, because regular people are allowed to do what the people with money running the military are allowed to do. Get your head out of your ass.
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...I though he WAS cancer. How can cancer have cancer?
Incorrect. Turning up to vote and receiving a ballot paper is compulsory. You can pretty much do whatever you want with it though. You could use it as toilet paper if you wish. There is nothing to say that actually voting for any particular party or candidate is compulsory and many people refuse to. You could even scribble all over your vote and write quotes from Hitler on it if you wanted without actually numbering any of the boxes
Damn, kids nowadays are so lucky. Can you imagine how many pranks you could play with this one? Put it in a watertight bag and throw it in the river. Mail it to another country. Leave it outside a strip club. The list goes on... These people really trust misbehaving kids an awful lot.
Of course, the benefits of piracy is a double-edged sword--if there were no pirates to begin with, we wouldn't have DRM.
Really, that sounds exactly like saying "if there were no criminals, we wouldn't need police". There will always be criminals. There will always be pirates. Just because someone might try to steal from a shop doesn't mean everyone should be strip-searched upon leaving. As always, the criminals (pirates) will find a way around it and it will just become a nuisance for the people doing the right thing. I'm not saying there is one clear-cut answer to these things, especially for the companies. But DRM is really the lazy way to go around it that shows little respect for the average consumer.
I'm Brian! No I'm Brian! We all know everything Anonymous says should clearly be taken as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. On another note, I'm confused how Anonymous can be in possession of the Stuxnet worm. Does this mean everyone who has ever affiliated themselves with Anonymous is in possession? Or just a few people going by the name? Maybe that was the point, maybe this was meant to confuse use. I don't know any more...
Even better. WITH OUT MINDS!
That scared me. I thought it was said "Dead people scientists". That turned out to be thankfully less eventful than I expected.
Great. My LEAST favourite period of music.
So what? Even the Australian dollar is doing better than the U.S. dollar. It's not exactly hard these days.
Is this supposed to be a disguised plot to eventually create a master race of humans? If so, I'm in.
Now I can freely criticise my boss and everything he does within the comfort and familiarity of Facebook. But really, would I be allowed to say this to his face? People don't seem to realise that posting a status update is pretty much the same as sending an Email to everyone who you have allowed to view your profile (which in some cases could be the whole world). Facebook status updates are not private conversation. If my boss overheard me constantly complaining to my fellow co-workers about how much of a dick he is, he would probably fire me and tell me to find a new boss. I would also feel like a bit of an idiot.
Seriously? How many times is the media going to call Anonymous a group? Calling Anonymous a group is like calling all customers of a certain shopping centre or clothing brand a group. For the last time, they do not have leaders. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. They do not have "senior members". Can we all stop referring to them as any sort of organised group? Anyone can go by the name Anonymous. Anyone can participate in their raids. Anyone can start their own raid; it is just a question of whether other people who decide they are part of Anonymous decide to participate. Hell, even if you did start the idea of a raid as Anonymous, you do not become a senior member; you do not get any credit; you are just Anonymous. You can be a member of Anonymous one day, and not the next. Hopefully more people might start understanding this, and finally stop referring to Anonymous as an organised group with "leaders". The sooner we do that, the sooner we can all realise what makes Anonymous tick.
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What ever happened to just reading maps? I don't know what the US equivalent is, but in Melbourne we have the Melways. Basically, it's a road map of pretty much the whole state. It is updated every year, so it's almost always accurate. Sure, it might actually require using your brain a little (that sounds pretty scary) to figure out the best route but I don't think It has ever lead me the wrong direction or sent me into a desert. Why is that idea so hard for people to grasp? Just read the god-damn map, and as long as you aren't an idiot about it, you will get to your destination. Bam, problem solved. No more driving through narrow unsealed roads or into rivers. When did people stop thinking for themselves?
China hasn't been much of a communism for quite a long time now.
Apart from being slightly under-featured, I have found chrome to be a good deal faster than firefox and I see much more of the page than I would with firefox.
That is one TV show that annoys me an incredible amount. Not because of the show itself so much, but the fact that everyone I know now thinks of themselves as 'geeks' after watching it. These are the same people that wouldn't know what a CPU was. The worst part is when I have to explain to someone what a particular joke on BBT was about. Sometimes I wish being a geek wasn't seen as cool, just so I wouldn't have to watch my completely un-geeky friends try to be geeks.
How is this an invasion of privacy? Not letting your car run doesn't sound at all like an invasion of privacy. Maybe if the car started yelling out that I am drunk and my home address. But seriously, in what way does your car not letting you drive because you are drunk, thus not allowing you to possibly kill or injure other people invade your privacy?
Believe me, I live in Australia. There is little to no actual news at the moment. News companies have all decided it's much easier to bumble away full hour-long segments about statistics they pulled off the bureau of meteorology website. This is something that I would be more concerned about at the moment, as everyone already knows if their house is underwater or if it will be in the near future; but how many would have known they might have a shark in the front yard?