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  1. Re:Personal Experience: Fiero on Worst Cars Of All Time Rated · · Score: 1

    don't put the fuel tank behind the rear axle

    What is it with americans and the deathly fear of rear fuel tanks??? Australia's number one selling cars have fuel tanks the US won't stand for (hence there's no boot in the pontiac, but plenty in the monaro), and you don't see monaros and commodores on fire or hear about horror exploding boots....

  2. Re:English/Metric on Another English/Metric "Spacecraft" Problem · · Score: 1

    Ah, but you forget.... For americans, "doing it are way" and "they won't tell us what to do" is much more important than using sensible measurements, or being able to share information with the rest of the world and not crashing probes into mars.

  3. Re:Old car radios? Where can I find one? on Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s · · Score: 1

    Erm, no. Some systems can be converted simply by swapping the wires, but a lot need replacing. A radio needs a fair amount of internal work to convert to positive ground, and so do some engine components such as the coils, and some (not all) guages.

  4. Re:Will it be easier to get region-free players? on DVD CCA Drops Case; DeCSS Not a Trade Secret · · Score: 1

    For me personally, about 50%. Balls to buying australian discs with less extra content, and more censorship.

  5. Re:Digital watch a step backwards on Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the old ones, that needed one hand to hold the watch, one hand to wind it, one hand to point at the minutes, one hand to point at the hours, and one hand to point to the seconds?

    Tho personally I'm well over digital watches, and it'd have to be "one charmingmotherfucking pig^d^d^d^d watch" for me to wear another.

  6. Re:Why two screens? on Nintendo's Mystery DS Portable Revealed · · Score: 1

    Of course in NSW and victoria, if you like to keep your license (and your paycheck, you concentrate on the speedo and occasionally glance at the road... But you know, it's all done in the interest of safety, and there's just _heaps_ of evidence showing it works!

  7. Re:Seizure seizures on FBI Conducts Raids Over Half-Life 2 Source Theft · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps you should ssh into 127.0.0.1 and restart your humour daemon.

  8. Re:Windows RMS on Digital Rights Managment Year in Review · · Score: 1

    Windows RMS? That's GNU/Windows to you, thankyou!

  9. Re:I have just one comment on Sims free speech on Freedom of Expression in Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain this one for us non-simmers?

  10. Re:Liquid Metal on Scientists Create Supersolid From Helium · · Score: 1

    Ah, that's cos over here, we don't really call riding in the passenger seat "riding shotgun" but we still yell "SHOTGUN!" when we call dibs on the front seat... so it's kinda become just a way of calling dibs on something.

  11. Re:Episode III better rock on Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rumors · · Score: 1

    Actually, those changes all sounded pretty decent to me, so long as they're done well and there's no shiny cartoon aliens amongst the good old make-up aliens. And han better shoot first.

  12. Re:Windows XP was a complete rewrite? on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the core like 30% ported from VMS or some such?

  13. Re:Australia? on Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    Coz it's flamin tops! Crikey! What kind of galah would you have to be to want to move to Ostraya? It's bonza. Sure we're a bit spread out, but you can always get on the al capone when you need to have your weekly earbashing from the rellos. Besides, over in yankie-town you can't get a pavlova, a lamington, or even a nice dead dog's eye with a bit of dead horse! Strewth - how can you trust a nation of people who can't stomach vegemite, and think beer should taste like bud light? You can play the pokies down the local, bet on the fairy league without going to gaol, it's the bestest place on earth - fair dinkum!

  14. Re:Liquid Metal on Scientists Create Supersolid From Helium · · Score: 1

    Ok, you can have robert patrick, I call shotgun on kristanna loken.

  15. Re:Slightly OT on Scientists Create Supersolid From Helium · · Score: 1

    How zen.

  16. Re:and bush says... on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    Done. I can't remember what it's called (oh god i wish i could, so I could find it again) but somebody did it, and I _have_ seen it, not just heard about it from a guy who's mate saw it.... It's pretty cool, tho there's only very brief periods of zero g due to the fact they're in a vomit comet instead of space.... but zero g money shots ROCK!

  17. Re:Orwellian, don't you think? on Passenger Risk Database to be Implemented in U.S. · · Score: 1

    A stupid mistake given most of them are. Just because you don't like the fact, or you don't like thinking it, doesn't make it any less true.

  18. Re:So what if I'm a student? on Passenger Risk Database to be Implemented in U.S. · · Score: 1

    "You'll have to speak up I'm wearing a towel"

    *sounds of beat-down*

  19. Re:No radiation == Nuclear war on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1

    Erm, what exactly is the difference between a small, clean nuclear blast, and a big conventional explosion? Apart from the nuclear device being smaller, and less likely to detonate in case of an accident?

  20. Re:Hopes for Zaphod on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 1

    Man I don't know about the rest of you nerds, but of the things I want to do with the Olsen twins, CGI is way way way way down the list.

  21. Re:Prof Wilker - SCORE! on Chemists Crack Secrets of Mussels' Super Glue · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly.... also the one on the far left crouching is kinda cute too, but the rest are moles. Not that I'm an oil odonis, but hey, I can still be a superficial prick :)

  22. Re:Sandra Boynton RULES! on Lego Goes Back to the Basics: Building Blocks · · Score: 1

    ...and of course, Scott Bakula singing...

    Thanks.... Now I'm going to have nightmares for weeks. Didn't we learn the lesson about enterprise captains singing? <comicbookguy>I have here the only working phaser ever built. It was fired only once, to keep William Shatner from releasing another album</comicbookguy>

  23. Re:Hmm... on OQO Ultra-Portable Impresses At CES · · Score: 1

    No no no no no, Hyper Personal Computer is the one where ryu can throw a fireball in mid-air.

  24. Re:Just the guys? on Linus Sighted At LCA2004 · · Score: 1

    So you've never been to south australia, right? Adelaide is about as interesting as Mt Isa if it had a beach. It's about as remote as Perth, without all the perks of being in Perth (cute chick capital of the universe).

  25. Re:Sore wa ikura desu ka? on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 1

    The cheese is old and mouldy. Where is the bathroom please?

    That's some lousy japanese you've got there buddy.