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  1. Re:How many states? on California Takes A Last Swing At VoIP · · Score: 1

    I think he means the new state of Australia, who's current administration is so far up the US's arse they can see the tonsils.

  2. Re:Background checkl? on Soldiers Call for Engineering Tech Support · · Score: 1

    Sorry just to reply to your sig, option 1 is like trying to bail out a boat with a vegetable strainer, it just ain't going to work, being that by killing terrorists you generally create more. Now discrediting the terrorists with their core support groups would work a hell of a lot better and would generally be more well recieved than pounding a town into dust.

  3. Re:"Home invasion" on Australian Counter Strike Shooters · · Score: 1

    Its legal speak for a violent break and enter. It carries harsher penalties than a break and enter where no one is home.

  4. Re:Interesting on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 1

    Okay just a couple of points

    FDR declared war on Germany because a) It was part of the Axis powers, very closely allied with the Japanese, b) Britain - America's major ally in the East (Why yes other countries fought in Asia aside from the US, I know it must come as a shock), needed to get the german threat under control before it could turn its attention properly to Japan.

    On North v South Korea, that was a UN operation aimed specifically at telling China to pull its head in and avoid having China gobble up the battered remains of the Japanese occupation.

    It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!

    Finally the above comment tells me you have no idea about the real world. Iraq has not been taken by any stretch of the imagination, there is still major pockets of resistance, not the least being the city of Fallujah. Iraq is a country still at war with both the invaders and itself, and I get the feeling that its not going to settle down for a long time to come.

    Also a couple of minor points, the Taliban are on the rise again in Afghanistan as are the other warlords, heroin production is on the rise as the same warlords paid mucho dinero by the US return to their usual habits, the Chief of the US (not UN) Weapons inspections team has stated Iraq had NO WMD at all after the first Iraq war and Clinton went to war in Bosnia to stop a genocide.

    Try reading some books, might help you out a little with your history there.

  5. Re:This classic has darwin purists easier on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1

    There is no way what-so-ever that a something like this could evolve using 100% pure so-called darwinisim.

    Heres an important question? Why not? Why couldn't have evolution led to the development of these traits? What objective evidence do you have that supports your hypothesis. and no just because something is truly bizarre doesn't make it evidence of a higher intelligence.

    I'm not trying to be an arsehole I am just asking the question that any good philosophy/biology/physics lecturer would.

  6. Re:Let me get this straight on Flattening Out The Linux Cluster Learning Curve · · Score: 1

    I'm not (much whispering of Shut up)

  7. Re:FTA on Project Gutenberg Threatened Over PG Australia · · Score: 1

    Yup there used to be this concept to prevent abusive laws being enacted just to get at a person or group of people, however recently australian law makers have developed a taste for retrospective law making and it is getting to be quite scarey.

  8. Re:Rosen's view of copyright.. on Hilary Rosen Loves Creative Commons · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Copyright is not designed to be a legacy to be passed down from generation. Intellectual Property is not the same as physical property. Ever since the idea of Copyright and IP was born it has always been made quite clear that eventually it goes to the community, this is why there are limits on the amount of time you get a copyright for(even if they are obscenely long).

    Ideas should be treated differently from physical possessions, its the only way a culture can truly advance.

  9. You Bastards on Verizon Taking FTTP Installation Orders · · Score: 1

    Okay for all of you people with the obscene ADSL/DSL connections all I can say is "You Bastards". Try living in Australia and having to pay out a minimum $80 a month for 1500/256 connection.

    Mutter mutter grumble grumble

  10. Re:Litigous == good?! on Amazing Things Your Automobile Can't Do · · Score: 1

    As a non USian I might answer this one...

    Learn a new concept - Personal Responsibilty. This means if you as the driver fuck up then you have to take the responsibility. Just because the car has in built web browsing doesn't mean you have to use it. Hell most cars can do well over the speed limit but you don't see people trying to sue the car companies when they get speeding tickets (Well maybe you do in the States).

    This is what really bugs me, here in Australia we are starting to get US style "I Fucked Up But Its Someone Elses Fault" law suits and it really is giving me the shits.

    As to your specific case, so long as I think the driver got what I think is a fair sentence for being a fuckwit then fine, but the car companies weren't the one driving the fucking car.

  11. Re:Do we need it? on GForge 4.0 Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Umm GForge is a fork of the old source forge code, they haven't touched CVS or subversion.

    GForge is a project management system. The reason it was forked was because VA took the Source Forge code base closed source in order to try and make a buck.

  12. Re:Loads faster then IE? on Firefox - The Platform · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They may actually be refering to page load times not start up.

  13. Linux - Where the malware comes with the source on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dammit why does Linux have to be so complicated, I mean damn you have to compile your own viruses and everything!!!!

  14. Re:failure compared to what? on How Technology Failed in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Okay lets review, the Iraqi Armed Forces, filed mainly with conscripts and using severely out of date weaponry and equipment vs the might of the US military budget.

    Most of the Iraqi army folded on the first day, just like back in 1990, the only real resistance during the invasion was from a couple of Republican guard units and the Paramilitary units loyal to Saddam.

    The real shit hit the fan when the insurgency started. Over the years various countries have learnt that the US armed forces suck at combating non convential warfare. Sure in a set piece battle the US will come out on top against any force on the planet, but when it comes to urban warfare and guerilla(sp?) warfare time and time again the US has been left battered and bruised because enemy wont play by the rules.

  15. Re:Your insane! on How Technology Failed in Iraq · · Score: 1

    But hey, I guess you would rather have Saddam in power filling up mass graves and finding other places to hide the bodies in que. And N. Korea is ok too. I mean, Kim is such a NICE guy.

    Saddam Hussien and Kim are both murderous dictators responsible for thousands of deaths amongst both their own people and others.

    One big difference between Saddam and Kim that really show whether the US has any testicular fortitude when it comes to confronting tyrants, Saddam was in charge of a fractured nation barely held together by brutality. Kim is in charge of a country built on fanatical loyalty to their leader, a massive cohesive military force and nukes, given the choice between knocking over a paper house and one of bricks the US chose the one of paper.

  16. Re:Who cares? on How Technology Failed in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Umm , please remember that old saying "One Mans Freedom Fighter is another Mans Terrorist".

    During the second world war the French Resistance were viewed by the Germans as terrorists because they pretty much did the same as the current fighters are doing in iraq, ie killing occupying forces, attacking and destroying infrastructure, assassinating "collaborators" and foreign workers assisting the occupying forces.

  17. Re:Americans want a clean war and war ain't clean on How Technology Failed in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Just a point about Market Garden, that was a British Operation developed and run by Monty. It went pear shaped quickly and the brits suffered the biggest losses of the allies in that specific operation.

  18. How did this article get passed? on IE Shines On Broken Code · · Score: 0, Troll

    A couple of seconds work would have shown that it is complete bullshit.

    I have trouble with some of the "Linux is God" articles but crap like this really should have been let go through to the keeper.

  19. Re:Looking forward to it. on SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage · · Score: 1

    The guys at SCO have had at least a good couple of years to give their side of the story, and in fact have been trumpeting it through the main stream media. The problem is when they are asked the hard questions ("Okay which code is your s???") they either run away or they make outrageously general claims ("It's all ours!!! All your code base are belong to us!!!").

    Face it, these guys couldn't even lie straight in a pine box, let alone a bed.

  20. Re:Misintepreted? on You Might Be a Microsoft Patent Infringer · · Score: 1

    Okay so based on your analysis this patent covers any e-commerce form that only uses client side scripting to prompt the user to validate their entries.

    Its finally happened, Microsoft has patented shitty coding practices.

  21. Re:why on Mt. St. Helens Magma Reaches Surface · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The soil. After a while the ash and lava breaks down into some of the most nutrient rich soil on the planet. Crops grow at record pace and so on and so forth.

  22. Re:Sad. on Presidential Candidates Arrested at Debates · · Score: 1

    Wow a genuine nutbag, a real life fucking lunatic.

    Many of the founding fathers were married, but that did not stop them from defending a radical document like the U.S. Constitution.

    WTF? What the hell does a marrital status have to do with whether they like the constitution or not, King George was married at the time and he was dead against American independance.

  23. Re:Wow, MPAA blames themselves on MPAA Blames Linux Australia Notice on Human Error · · Score: 1

    Or you can blame the CIA OR the Chinese OR them both (according to some of the thoeries anyway).

    I blame the Norwegians you know...

  24. Re:How do you advertise? on Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Okay now I understand, I apologise, I took the subscription model as with magazines and news sites, you pay to access the information.

    I think that you've moved one step closed to figuring out 2) ???

  25. Re:How do you advertise? on Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    But with Peer to Peer you only need one person to distribute the show and the subscription model wiil fail, why pay for something when you can get it for free.