Sleek and mirrory with floor to ceiling windows... until you see the wheelhouse. Seriously, WTF?!
It looks like Steve Jobs took the designs of the black ship that Zaphod Beeblebrox stole from the restaurant at the end of the universe, built it in white, then jammed a old corrugated iron shack on the top for a wheelhouse!
IRRC the biggest unknown with these chargers is that it's effects on a small animal that chooses to sit right in the path of the inductance loop is largely unknown.
It's a bigger issue than you would think, since it does put out some heat, it is extremely likely that your family cat will find a new favorite sleeping place under the car.
Granted the biggest risk might be that of a 'squashing' incident when you park or drive off without first checking for your loved one; but the effects on living tissue of spending hours sitting on top of a giant electromagnet are not exactly known.
We know that running a 60 watt TV from across the room via inductance has zero effect on human health - but running 12.5kW through a cat is a slightly different equation.
1. A van der graaf generator 2. A very powerful degaussing Coil 3. A glass still
1. Because if you're spending heaps of time in an electronics lab, you're sometimes going to have visitors and it never hurts to show them something theatrical. 2. Because you never know when you need to destroy information. 3. Because if you're testing and doing R&D on electronics stuff for any length of time, you will know it doesn't always work the way it should, and for those instances a home-made stiff drink never goes astray.
You misinterpreted the heading - Facebook has the hardest information technology problem on the planet.
That information technology problem has nothing to do with servers and storage.
The hardest information technology problem on the planet is: How do the Facebook exec's stop the company going the way of Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) - oh wait, no, (DELISTED by NYSE because the share price couldn't stay above $1: SGI); since the company creates no real value, and has done nothing but drop it's price since IPO.
Reasons why I think there is not, and will never be an antitrust lawsuit over this: 1. Antivirus should be part of the operating system. It is a critical aspect of a stable system. 2. Nobody cares about Microsoft anymore, they are loosing so much market share to Apple etc. Microsoft have good grounds to say 'not a monopoly' 3. Antivirus is an industry that has peaked - not a growing, sexy industry like the dotcom was. 4. (Conspiracy warning) Prior to viruses having economic benefit in themselves as botnets and state-sponsored attacks, they were all written by the AV vendors anyway to sell their software. The AV industry has it coming. 5. As per 4. The whole business model of AV vendors is to pray on people who don't know better and sell them crap they don't need. None of the AV vendors wants their business model put under a supreme court microscope - so nobody is 'clean' enough to lodge an antitrust case.
You can learn more about how Coursera works here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html - It is far more than just "study groups".
Now, I'm not sure what it was like at your university, but doing a science course at Monash, I realized there is a huge difference in people who can teach vs. people who can research. And universities love getting researchers who publish stuff so the university looks good. The end result - every one of our maths or CS teachers spent their time talking in a thick Indian accent while scribbling nonsense on the board which you frantically copied down without learning a DAMN THING.
As for the TA's - well, they aren't exactly experts or authorities in themselves, usually your first year TA was a second year student; your second year TA is a third year student; your third year TA is a fourth year student...
Lecturer interaction at most universities doesn't live up to the promise.
So how do people learn? Well the studies say it isn't by sitting in a room listening. Nor, is it about talking to an expert about the material and asking interesting questions. And importantly - nor is it by memorizing stuff by wrote, then regurgitating it for an exam. You learn best by USING what you've been taught (in fact studies* say one of the best ways of learning something is to try to teach it to others).
What does that mean?
Most of what you learn at university actually comes from you doing assignments (or using what you have read or have been told in a practical way).
How does Coursera stack up?
Well, they did research that showed that peer-marked assignments hold an extremely strong correlation to teacher marked assignments - so as a student of Coursera, once you've finished an assignment, you then get assignments from other students to mark. They send the same assignment to a second student who also marks it (cross marking) - so you do assignments (when you learn), they get marked, and you get a grade.
Also, There is an "official answer" to questions - when they do exams, they don't just tell you what answers you got wrong, because they have hundreds of thousands of people doing the same exam, they offer reasons why you got that wrong answer. Thus giving personalized learning via machine.
It's all circumstantial until they take your PC, and if you haven't encrypted, that's usually got all the _real_ evidence they need, regardless of your VPN provider.
Buy a Virtual Server from a cheap provider in Europe, install linux on it if you're savvy, and windows if you're not.
Set it up to be an encrypted VPN endpoint and do all your browsing from there.
It's about as cheap as getting a VPN service provider, your IP address in destination logs will just look like a standard data center in Europe (rather than a suspicious VPN provider), you get massive data allowances for almost nothing.
Yes, the AFP can still pressure the foreign virtual server provider to give up logs etc, but if you're browsing is all encrypted and seeming to come from a European data center, they would only start looking if you were a person of interest for non-browsing reasons. If that is the case, you probably shouldn't be getting law avoidance advice from slashdot.
Sorry to burst your little bubble there, but America has spiralling debt, high unemployment and a stagnating economy because it is no longer productive on a global stage.
For many years we got fat and rich with merchant bankers who added pseudo value by moving money about in the global economy, and by being the central world bank thanks to the convenience of the rest of the world using US dollars as an intermediary currency.
But we fucked that up. We didn't know, or didn't care while the rest of the world pissed their money up against the wall lending it to us so we could buy McMansions. Now, without an ever increasing credit market, there is no money coming in. We've lost the last couple of real export industries we had.
America just isn't any better than anyone else in the world at doing anything of value. We used to be innovators, now China, India and Ireland innovate. We used to be a finance hub, now London, Hong Kong and Singapore are too. We used to make stuff. Now you can't even make an iPad without China's help.
The only reason why we aren't as fucked up as Europe is because we can print money and inflate ourselves out of debt.
Our leaders are pointing the finger at Europe to distract the masses from the fact that we are in almost as bad a position as them. And good on them, we need all the positive sentiment we can get in your markets at the moment. Even if it is just ignorant optimism.
You can blame Obama, but, as you saw when you elected him - changing our leader won't solve the structural problems that exists. Only by waking the fuck up and either lowering our standard of living to match the lower national income - or swallowing our pride, learning to become good at something, and WORKING for a living will we increase our employment figures.
You want to know the really dirty little secret about Indian outsourcing? If I could hire an Indian for exactly the same price as an American, I'd hire the Indian. They are more passionate, more driven and have a better work ethic than the fat lazy, self-entitled locals.
Just look at Australia. Anyone on a half decent income in Australia pays about 38% tax. That's after a 30% company tax, a 10% sales tax and payroll taxes. They have huge healthcare costs, huge social policies, but they're richer than us - why? Because they're still exporting something.
The cost base isn't our issue, and our 'socialist' policies are nothing compared with the rest of the western world.
The problem is, if America were a potential employee, we'd be that fat lazy bum who used to be great at college football, but is now, basically, unemployable.
The rest of the world loves Obama, he's the best leader we've had in years - he knows America needs to be aware of it's place on the world stage. You guys hate him, because he oversold himself - but if you've learnt anything (and oh how obvious it is that you haven't) learn this - Our leader ain't your problem mate - you are.
Anonymous is releasing some "historic" data files with "limited personal customer information" that came from a web server of an outsourced company hosting the website for Australia's third or fourth largest ISP... in protest against the Australian Government's data retention policies?
Now AFIK AAPT hasn't exactly been an advocate of the government's policies... nor are they a particularly prominent ISP now they've sold their residential customer base to iiNet - It's not like they would have been targeted specifically. Seems to me either someone has an axe to grind, or these guys are just releasing what they've got - which isn't much.
What next? They'll release some hacked data found from old hard drives stolen from the IT firm that ran the computers of the marketing company that the Howard government used when they were introducing the GST in protest for... umm... the mistreatment of wikileaks founder Julian Assange by the current government.
Seriously, this is supposed to be an elite group of hackers.... Is this the best they can do?
I make shitty little iOS apps that apple users spend heaps of money on but now people are taking my shitty games and using them for free!!
I don't want to earn a real living, I like it on this gravy train where I just look at the last popular game and pump out a barely different clone that gets marketed and makes me and my cheap-arse Indian software developers a living.
WAAAAA!!!! It's all Android's fault, if they had made a locked down phone in the first place that made sure these idiots kept spending money on my worthless me-too games I could be living the good life.
Unless Google fix this problem where people are getting lots of stuff for free I won't be able to make a fat living, and if I can't make a living, NOBODY can make a living, and even though Google are selling these phones like hotcakes and the users are getting what they want - trust me, it'll all dry up!
Look... The way most sysadmins run their local servers, the way most users have crappy passwords, and the fact that even in 2012, social engineering works just as well as it did in 1992, your data isn't that bloody confidential anyway.
You would be one of 100,000 customers of any given "evil cloud provider", unless you are involved in something that your government or it's allies finds distasteful - YOU ARE JUST NOT THAT IMPORTANT.
Most of the terms and conditions you sign with cloud providers boil down to "we will have robots read your information so we can better target advertising to you, and sell aggregated figures about our customers habits to anybody who wants to buy them".
Before you get all spooked out about taking your data offsite, it might pay to ask: 1. Who are these "wrong people", and why do they want what I have? 2. Is my cloud provider likely to just freely hand over my data to them? 2a. if it's so easy - why don't I beat them to the punch and asking their cloud provider to hand over their information to me!
In actual fact you probably have the illusion of security with onsite data, and actual security with offsite data.
I have adored UAC since it's release, because of exactly that reason - it forces developers to develop properly.
The amount of times I was on the phone to software companies who were flabbergasted that I wasn't running their software (and didn't see it as an acceptable solution to their software failures) as administrator.
It was just discraseful.
Thank you Microsoft for releasing vista. - Now mod me to hell for saying that!
Nice - First contact is made by an American lawyer who serves a DMCA violation to the aliens because they illegally copied the gold record to a digital format so they could play it in their spaceship.
The lawyer tries to explain the violation to the alien - but the alien is unable to understand how even though it has returned the gold record, it has still 'stolen' a copy.... And we're off to a great start!
Let me preface this with the statement that I actually support the NBN. It's like building railways in the 1800's or highways in the 1900's. It just makes sense.
And considering we spend about $4,000 per taxpayer per year on cardiac health-services - I don't give a rats arse what it costs - it makes more sense to spend the money on the NBN than it does to spend it on general government waste (health/military/elections etc.)
But don't believe everything you read about the Labour government's estimations of finances - they are based on the following "facts": 1. NBN Co. will have a (compounding) Internal Rate of Return of 7% in an industry that has been declining for the past 10 years. A statement that is predicated on the following assumptions:
2. Most consumers will he happy to get 12M/1M fibre services.
3. Consumers will keep buying a voice service to go with their data service!
4. Everybody who buys ADSL or ADSL2+ now will be happy to spend at least as much on NBN services (even though the NBN is effeciently being overbuilt by Telstra 4G that meets the needs of most consumers today).
5. Even though NBN Co only made $356,000 of their estimated $3,000,000 profit in 2012, the finances are still right on track.
And finally the last MOTHER of an assumption: 6. The NBN will only cost $27bn.
So to answer your question of: How on earth can you describe 3% profit as sending Australia into debt?
Well, I think our current Labour government are a lying sack of bastards, and the only person in that party who could organise a root in a brothel is no longer a member of the party because that's exactly what they did!
I agree, but we shouldn't use the name "completely safe" until it's tested and proven to be safe.
Why don't we just all agree to call all these technologies "Mostly Harmless" until proven otherwise.
Then there will be no confusion.
And if there is confusion, the idiots who are confused need to learn to read, then read a good book. A good book written by Douglas Adams. Then they will understand. They will understand in exactly the same way that bricks don't.
What leap of logic could possibly lead people to believe that just because the server is in the US that the US Feds have access to it, or even care?
Give the closeness of the Aussie and American governments, and the long history of governments getting around their "we will not spy on our citizens" decree is by having their allies spy on their citzens instead,I think the more accurate question is:
What makes you think the american government doesn't have access to your data just because it never leaves australia?
That is, of course, if America doesn't label him a terrorist and have him extradited to spend the rest of his life in a rather uncomfortable military prison with no trial.
But the US government would NEVER do that. They handle embarrassment with GREAT HUMILITY.
There is absolutely no correlation, nor has there every been any findings of a correlation between owning a gun and shooting someone with it; compared with not owning a gun, and not shooting someone with it.
Not a shred of evidence.
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But how far does the protection of your 2nd amendment go?
Does it just cover "Bear Arms" ( http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001063269/bear_arms_xlarge.jpeg )
Or does every citizen have the right to join in on the fun of flying predator drones?
Or does it just stop at the right to collect AK-47's, uzi 9mm's and Motorcycle mounted Chain-Guns? ( http://i902.photobucket.com/albums/ac227/drdubbya/machete_060-535x327.jpg )
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You and your *science*.
Consider me re-educated.
Here's two news articles saying that the systems shut down if they detect an animal (or a fork) in the way:
http://www.techradar.com/au/news/car-tech/wireless-electric-vehicle-charging-explained-1094646
http://www.treehugger.com/cars/wireless-car-charging-action.html
So I'm not sure if they don't believe your science; or if they are just placating the ignorant masses. (Probably the latter)
Sleek and mirrory with floor to ceiling windows... until you see the wheelhouse. Seriously, WTF?!
It looks like Steve Jobs took the designs of the black ship that Zaphod Beeblebrox stole from the restaurant at the end of the universe, built it in white, then jammed a old corrugated iron shack on the top for a wheelhouse!
IRRC the biggest unknown with these chargers is that it's effects on a small animal that chooses to sit right in the path of the inductance loop is largely unknown.
It's a bigger issue than you would think, since it does put out some heat, it is extremely likely that your family cat will find a new favorite sleeping place under the car.
Granted the biggest risk might be that of a 'squashing' incident when you park or drive off without first checking for your loved one; but the effects on living tissue of spending hours sitting on top of a giant electromagnet are not exactly known.
We know that running a 60 watt TV from across the room via inductance has zero effect on human health - but running 12.5kW through a cat is a slightly different equation.
You also will need the following:
1. A van der graaf generator
2. A very powerful degaussing Coil
3. A glass still
1. Because if you're spending heaps of time in an electronics lab, you're sometimes going to have visitors and it never hurts to show them something theatrical.
2. Because you never know when you need to destroy information.
3. Because if you're testing and doing R&D on electronics stuff for any length of time, you will know it doesn't always work the way it should, and for those instances a home-made stiff drink never goes astray.
You misinterpreted the heading - Facebook has the hardest information technology problem on the planet.
That information technology problem has nothing to do with servers and storage.
The hardest information technology problem on the planet is: How do the Facebook exec's stop the company going the way of Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) - oh wait, no, (DELISTED by NYSE because the share price couldn't stay above $1: SGI); since the company creates no real value, and has done nothing but drop it's price since IPO.
*THAT* is the problem that Google isn't facing.
Reasons why I think there is not, and will never be an antitrust lawsuit over this:
1. Antivirus should be part of the operating system. It is a critical aspect of a stable system.
2. Nobody cares about Microsoft anymore, they are loosing so much market share to Apple etc. Microsoft have good grounds to say 'not a monopoly'
3. Antivirus is an industry that has peaked - not a growing, sexy industry like the dotcom was.
4. (Conspiracy warning) Prior to viruses having economic benefit in themselves as botnets and state-sponsored attacks, they were all written by the AV vendors anyway to sell their software. The AV industry has it coming.
5. As per 4. The whole business model of AV vendors is to pray on people who don't know better and sell them crap they don't need. None of the AV vendors wants their business model put under a supreme court microscope - so nobody is 'clean' enough to lodge an antitrust case.
You can learn more about how Coursera works here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html - It is far more than just "study groups".
...
Now, I'm not sure what it was like at your university, but doing a science course at Monash, I realized there is a huge difference in people who can teach vs. people who can research. And universities love getting researchers who publish stuff so the university looks good. The end result - every one of our maths or CS teachers spent their time talking in a thick Indian accent while scribbling nonsense on the board which you frantically copied down without learning a DAMN THING.
As for the TA's - well, they aren't exactly experts or authorities in themselves, usually your first year TA was a second year student; your second year TA is a third year student; your third year TA is a fourth year student
Lecturer interaction at most universities doesn't live up to the promise.
So how do people learn? Well the studies say it isn't by sitting in a room listening. Nor, is it about talking to an expert about the material and asking interesting questions. And importantly - nor is it by memorizing stuff by wrote, then regurgitating it for an exam.
You learn best by USING what you've been taught (in fact studies* say one of the best ways of learning something is to try to teach it to others).
What does that mean?
Most of what you learn at university actually comes from you doing assignments (or using what you have read or have been told in a practical way).
How does Coursera stack up?
Well, they did research that showed that peer-marked assignments hold an extremely strong correlation to teacher marked assignments - so as a student of Coursera, once you've finished an assignment, you then get assignments from other students to mark. They send the same assignment to a second student who also marks it (cross marking) - so you do assignments (when you learn), they get marked, and you get a grade.
Also, There is an "official answer" to questions - when they do exams, they don't just tell you what answers you got wrong, because they have hundreds of thousands of people doing the same exam, they offer reasons why you got that wrong answer. Thus giving personalized learning via machine.
Okay, you got me.
Don't go to the pub this *weeknight*.
Oh, and remember to Truecrypt.
It's all circumstantial until they take your PC, and if you haven't encrypted, that's usually got all the _real_ evidence they need, regardless of your VPN provider.
Buy a Virtual Server from a cheap provider in Europe, install linux on it if you're savvy, and windows if you're not.
Set it up to be an encrypted VPN endpoint and do all your browsing from there.
It's about as cheap as getting a VPN service provider, your IP address in destination logs will just look like a standard data center in Europe (rather than a suspicious VPN provider), you get massive data allowances for almost nothing.
Yes, the AFP can still pressure the foreign virtual server provider to give up logs etc, but if you're browsing is all encrypted and seeming to come from a European data center, they would only start looking if you were a person of interest for non-browsing reasons. If that is the case, you probably shouldn't be getting law avoidance advice from slashdot.
Sorry to burst your little bubble there, but America has spiralling debt, high unemployment and a stagnating economy because it is no longer productive on a global stage.
For many years we got fat and rich with merchant bankers who added pseudo value by moving money about in the global economy, and by being the central world bank thanks to the convenience of the rest of the world using US dollars as an intermediary currency.
But we fucked that up. We didn't know, or didn't care while the rest of the world pissed their money up against the wall lending it to us so we could buy McMansions. Now, without an ever increasing credit market, there is no money coming in. We've lost the last couple of real export industries we had.
America just isn't any better than anyone else in the world at doing anything of value. We used to be innovators, now China, India and Ireland innovate. We used to be a finance hub, now London, Hong Kong and Singapore are too. We used to make stuff. Now you can't even make an iPad without China's help.
The only reason why we aren't as fucked up as Europe is because we can print money and inflate ourselves out of debt.
Our leaders are pointing the finger at Europe to distract the masses from the fact that we are in almost as bad a position as them. And good on them, we need all the positive sentiment we can get in your markets at the moment. Even if it is just ignorant optimism.
You can blame Obama, but, as you saw when you elected him - changing our leader won't solve the structural problems that exists. Only by waking the fuck up and either lowering our standard of living to match the lower national income - or swallowing our pride, learning to become good at something, and WORKING for a living will we increase our employment figures.
You want to know the really dirty little secret about Indian outsourcing? If I could hire an Indian for exactly the same price as an American, I'd hire the Indian. They are more passionate, more driven and have a better work ethic than the fat lazy, self-entitled locals.
Just look at Australia. Anyone on a half decent income in Australia pays about 38% tax. That's after a 30% company tax, a 10% sales tax and payroll taxes.
They have huge healthcare costs, huge social policies, but they're richer than us - why? Because they're still exporting something.
The cost base isn't our issue, and our 'socialist' policies are nothing compared with the rest of the western world.
The problem is, if America were a potential employee, we'd be that fat lazy bum who used to be great at college football, but is now, basically, unemployable.
The rest of the world loves Obama, he's the best leader we've had in years - he knows America needs to be aware of it's place on the world stage. You guys hate him, because he oversold himself - but if you've learnt anything (and oh how obvious it is that you haven't) learn this - Our leader ain't your problem mate - you are.
Anonymous is releasing some "historic" data files with "limited personal customer information" that came from a web server of an outsourced company hosting the website for Australia's third or fourth largest ISP ... in protest against the Australian Government's data retention policies?
... umm... the mistreatment of wikileaks founder Julian Assange by the current government.
Now AFIK AAPT hasn't exactly been an advocate of the government's policies... nor are they a particularly prominent ISP now they've sold their residential customer base to iiNet - It's not like they would have been targeted specifically. Seems to me either someone has an axe to grind, or these guys are just releasing what they've got - which isn't much.
What next? They'll release some hacked data found from old hard drives stolen from the IT firm that ran the computers of the marketing company that the Howard government used when they were introducing the GST in protest for
Seriously, this is supposed to be an elite group of hackers.... Is this the best they can do?
I make shitty little iOS apps that apple users spend heaps of money on but now people are taking my shitty games and using them for free!!
I don't want to earn a real living, I like it on this gravy train where I just look at the last popular game and pump out a barely different clone that gets marketed and makes me and my cheap-arse Indian software developers a living.
WAAAAA!!!! It's all Android's fault, if they had made a locked down phone in the first place that made sure these idiots kept spending money on my worthless me-too games I could be living the good life.
Unless Google fix this problem where people are getting lots of stuff for free I won't be able to make a fat living, and if I can't make a living, NOBODY can make a living, and even though Google are selling these phones like hotcakes and the users are getting what they want - trust me, it'll all dry up!
NOBODY WILL GET PAID!
Or time to redefine "stealing" so it's in line with public perception.
Isn't that what a democracy is supposed to be about?
Look... The way most sysadmins run their local servers, the way most users have crappy passwords, and the fact that even in 2012, social engineering works just as well as it did in 1992, your data isn't that bloody confidential anyway.
You would be one of 100,000 customers of any given "evil cloud provider", unless you are involved in something that your government or it's allies finds distasteful - YOU ARE JUST NOT THAT IMPORTANT.
Most of the terms and conditions you sign with cloud providers boil down to "we will have robots read your information so we can better target advertising to you, and sell aggregated figures about our customers habits to anybody who wants to buy them".
Before you get all spooked out about taking your data offsite, it might pay to ask:
1. Who are these "wrong people", and why do they want what I have?
2. Is my cloud provider likely to just freely hand over my data to them?
2a. if it's so easy - why don't I beat them to the punch and asking their cloud provider to hand over their information to me!
In actual fact you probably have the illusion of security with onsite data, and actual security with offsite data.
I worked at a school in the nt4 days.
I have adored UAC since it's release, because of exactly that reason - it forces developers to develop properly.
The amount of times I was on the phone to software companies who were flabbergasted that I wasn't running their software (and didn't see it as an acceptable solution to their software failures) as administrator.
It was just discraseful.
Thank you Microsoft for releasing vista. - Now mod me to hell for saying that!
FYI. It says 10% here in Australia too.
I guess the grandparent just wanted us to know that it is 10% accurate to +- 0.0004%
Nice - First contact is made by an American lawyer who serves a DMCA violation to the aliens because they illegally copied the gold record to a digital format so they could play it in their spaceship.
... And we're off to a great start!
The lawyer tries to explain the violation to the alien - but the alien is unable to understand how even though it has returned the gold record, it has still 'stolen' a copy.
Let me preface this with the statement that I actually support the NBN. It's like building railways in the 1800's or highways in the 1900's. It just makes sense.
And considering we spend about $4,000 per taxpayer per year on cardiac health-services - I don't give a rats arse what it costs - it makes more sense to spend the money on the NBN than it does to spend it on general government waste (health/military/elections etc.)
But don't believe everything you read about the Labour government's estimations of finances - they are based on the following "facts":
1. NBN Co. will have a (compounding) Internal Rate of Return of 7% in an industry that has been declining for the past 10 years.
A statement that is predicated on the following assumptions:
2. Most consumers will he happy to get 12M/1M fibre services.
3. Consumers will keep buying a voice service to go with their data service!
4. Everybody who buys ADSL or ADSL2+ now will be happy to spend at least as much on NBN services (even though the NBN is effeciently being overbuilt by Telstra 4G that meets the needs of most consumers today).
5. Even though NBN Co only made $356,000 of their estimated $3,000,000 profit in 2012, the finances are still right on track.
And finally the last MOTHER of an assumption:
6. The NBN will only cost $27bn.
So to answer your question of: How on earth can you describe 3% profit as sending Australia into debt?
Well, I think our current Labour government are a lying sack of bastards, and the only person in that party who could organise a root in a brothel is no longer a member of the party because that's exactly what they did!
Stephen Conroy is a douche.
Never trust an Australian who doesn't drink.
But we do thank him for the NBN (even if it might mean we will soon have a national debt to rival greece to pay for it).
I agree, but we shouldn't use the name "completely safe" until it's tested and proven to be safe.
Why don't we just all agree to call all these technologies "Mostly Harmless" until proven otherwise.
Then there will be no confusion.
And if there is confusion, the idiots who are confused need to learn to read, then read a good book. A good book written by Douglas Adams. Then they will understand. They will understand in exactly the same way that bricks don't.
What leap of logic could possibly lead people to believe that just because the server is in the US that the US Feds have access to it, or even care?
Give the closeness of the Aussie and American governments, and the long history of governments getting around their "we will not spy on our citizens" decree is by having their allies spy on their citzens instead,I think the more accurate question is:
What makes you think the american government doesn't have access to your data just because it never leaves australia?
That is, of course, if America doesn't label him a terrorist and have him extradited to spend the rest of his life in a rather uncomfortable military prison with no trial.
But the US government would NEVER do that. They handle embarrassment with GREAT HUMILITY.
In the Government we trust.
No. You are incorrect.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
There is absolutely no correlation, nor has there every been any findings of a correlation between owning a gun and shooting someone with it; compared with not owning a gun, and not shooting someone with it.
Not a shred of evidence.
[This message brought to you by GOA, who would much prefer that you never listen to Bill Hicks]
Sorry, I'm not American...
But how far does the protection of your 2nd amendment go?
Does it just cover "Bear Arms" ( http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001063269/bear_arms_xlarge.jpeg )
Or does every citizen have the right to join in on the fun of flying predator drones?
Or does it just stop at the right to collect AK-47's, uzi 9mm's and Motorcycle mounted Chain-Guns? ( http://i902.photobucket.com/albums/ac227/drdubbya/machete_060-535x327.jpg )