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  1. Re:Nitpicking (karma to burn) on eDimensional Wired 3D Glasses Review · · Score: 1

    How about:
    this revamped version of the glass bring more value and compatability to the table.

    I found most of the article on the borderline of readability due to the appalling miss-use of English.

  2. Re:maybe... on Salon, Nearly No Money and Ultramercials · · Score: 1

    That would be great if all you want to produce is populist drivel - we already have a market for that, it's the mainstream media.

    If you were being ironic it certainly didn't show.

  3. Re:Too bad... on Stargate SG-1 Gets A Seventh Season · · Score: 1

    In Australia it happened about a month ago. Was a nicely done episode for killing off a major character.

  4. Re:Terry Gilliam on More on "Good Omens" the Movie and Coraline · · Score: 1

    If Brazil is sci-fi so is Franz Kafkas "The Castle".

    Gilliam is an excellent choice for director but a hard sell to the ent ind. When sequels cost so little (relatively) in money and ideas it will be a brave executive who invests in this project.

  5. Re:No on David Bowie on Music, Copyrights, Distribution · · Score: 1

    You're pretty unimaginative. First, they could actually have day jobs. Robert Burns was a farmer and excise collector. Who knows what Lewis Carroll's day job was?

    Surely you're joking about Carrol - it's pretty common knowledge he was a Mathmatics Lecturer at Christ Church College Oxford.

  6. Re:Ugh-Simply. on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 1

    You wrote: "The U.S., however, doesn't have chemical or biological weapons..."
    The US has the largest stocks in the world of chemical and Biological weapons - where do you think the Anthrax came from? US research facilities.
    It's also important to note that the US is also the only nation to have ever used a nuclear weapon in battle.

  7. Re:power-to-weight on AMD To Hide MHz Rating From Consumers · · Score: 1

    He makes far more sense than you ... Power to weight ratio is exactly why a motorbike will out accelerate anything short of a drag car or serious formula racing car.
    Talking about mechanical engines merely obfuscates the topic anyway. This analogy is bankrupt - the processes of a modern CPU and it's accompanying architecture are far more complex than a 4 stroke engine.

  8. Re:motherboard flambe on Lawsuit Alleges That Palms Damage Motherboards · · Score: 1

    And yet there are millions of palms otu there which are not frying other motherboards. <br>Maybe it's not the Palms you should be looking at but rather the motherboard.<br>

  9. Re:It Could be worse.... on 'Big Media' Set to Get Even Bigger · · Score: 1

    Murdoch uses his news papers as a vanity publishing empire. The 'journalists' spend a great deal of the paper pushing his interests and views on what should be changed in an effort to steer public opinion in that direction. Most of the view expressed are Conservative, with one or two left wing columnists to promote the idea that there is 'balance' in the reporting.
    With the increasing importance of digital television his newspapers have been agitating for him to be able to enter the market - he is currently blocked due to cross ownership laws and the fact that he is now a foreign national.

  10. Re:It Could be worse.... on 'Big Media' Set to Get Even Bigger · · Score: 2

    Obviously he's referring to print media and your rebbutal is uninformed.

    TV breakdown:

    9 & Optus Pay + Half of the print media (And interestingly a majority of major farms and Casinos) - Kerry Packer

    7 - Kerry Stokes

    10 - not sure

    Foxtel & the rest of the Print Media - Rupert Murdoch

    Effectively the bulk of the Australian media market is controlled by Packer & Murdoch (A foreigner now). And they have had the rules changed by governments for the last 30 years to enable them to take a bigger and bigger slice of the pie. We are now effectively in a position where the media moguls decide who will be the next government through selective reportage.

    The Government is in the act of hobbling the ABC and SBS through budget cuts and right wing managemnet appointments, further diminishing the range of opinions expressed within the mainstream media.

    This is the antithisis of democracy - for a democracy to work effectively the citizens of it must be well informed. As ownership of media contracts, so does freedom.