The article is worth a read just to get some perspective on what everyone else thinks of america.
If enough people believe this statement from the email...
I learned from American security and military speakers that, "We need
to attack Iraq not to punish it for what it might have, but
preemptively, as part of a global war. Iraq is just one piece of a
campaign that will last years, taking out states, cleansing the planet."
... then one might suggest that what everyone else thinks of America is about to take a turn for the worse.
I bet you bitch and moan as much as the rest of us when it comes to our government but you don't vote?
As above, I repeat.
If I am ever in the position again where I look at the candidates and find myself choosing the lesser of two evils, I will do the same again. No political party shall ever be given a 'mandate' by me because they were simply the best of the worst.
To imply that I never vote is to imply that there has never been a worthy candidate contesting any election in the 15 years that I have been a registered voter.
Would you like to consider that implication as insightful? Many would.
I can, if I choose, place all voting slips in the bin provided on the way out. I don't have to fill them out. I don't have to put them in the boxes provided. There is no electoral offence that I can be charged with if I choose to do this. It is counted as a vote.
And yes, I have done this. I even smiled at the scrutineers and electoral officials as I did so. They can't do anything about it and they know it. I don't hide behind an informal donkey vote (forms submitted but not valid) by virtue of guaranteed confidentiality. I do it in an obvious manner, in plain view of multiple witnesses. And they can't touch me.
Please, take your attitude and **** off. If I am ever in the position again where I look at the candidates and find myself choosing the lesser of two evils, I will do the same again. No political party shall ever be given a 'mandate' by me because they were simply the best of the worst.
Where are you that you have ATMs that pull in your card? ,br>
Here in Australia it counts for almost all of them. The newer ones where you just swipe your card have only started to appear in the last 6 months or so.
The major benefit of using e-mail instead of snail mail is that it doesn't cost anything.
And here was me believing that the major benefit of e-mail instead of snail mail was the fact that it will be sitting in your inbox in a matter of seconds.
I would happily pay to send e-mail (I imagine a system where known parties can agree to reciprocate no fees) to help address a problem that really doesn't cause me much trouble.
Since we're on the subject of e-mail and spam, I had my main address (not free web-mail) get out a few months ago. It got up to about ten spam messages a day (thats bad for me). After spending a couple of months making sure they were never opened (to make sure that they are spam) whilst connected online, and making sure that I *never* replied to their "please remove me from your list addresses", I'm down to about one spam message a week.
I had 5 mod points all set to go on this story. But this needs an answer.
From your post, I'm guessing (like some other posters here) that your an Australian. Well so am I.
Over here, the government will practically pay for your first degree...
No, they will not. They will give you government assistance while you study, which is almost enough to survive on (without working as well), but that is it. If your under 25 years of age and your parents are well off, you will get nothing. But you can't escape HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme). If you do a second degree (exception being double degrees) you won't even get the government assistance. By the time my studies are over (hah!) it will have cost me US$50,000 (US$40,000 if I pay up front).
...particularly as students who are prepared to defer for a year can usually enter many courses without any scholastic prerequisites as 'Mature Age Students'.
Firstly, for a student to defer university studies for a year, they must first have actually qualified for a place. This means they have already proven their scholastic abilities.
Secondly, as a Muture Age Student studying Electrical Engineering, I can assure you that entry to any such course without the required TEE (Tertiary Entrance Examinations) pre-requisites is near impossible. I studied my arse of for two years to get here. It was the only way in. Hell, if it was any easier, it wouldn't have been worth it. Sure, you might get into an arts degree without them, but your choices are *very* limited. Even then, you still need to pass some tests to prove english competence and demonstrate a level of intelligence within the top x% of the population.
There are always exceptions to the rule (scholarships as an example, ECU as another), but most of us live by a different set of rules to those that your post suggested.
Anyone else who has been the target of a UN Peacekeeping Force basically got to beat up on a lot of foreigners.
The only comments I see here are on the quality of the peace keeping forces that have been deployed at various times, and their willingness to simply do the job at hand (as opposed to 'just having a presence'). It also touches on the reduced effectiveness of a peace keeping force when it is 'multi-national'.
When a peace keeping force comprised almost entirely of Australian soldiers was sent into East Timor to combat the Indonesian backed militia, the result was very different. Arguably the single most *effective* UN backed peace keeping force ever deployed.
I pay sales tax when I buy software. This defines my purchase as a sale (implying ownership), not a licence, since licences of any kind are not subject to sales tax. Subscription (ie... yearly) would be a different story.
You would think that people would have learned by now that putting "Secret Government Property" on a box is not a good idea. Write "Spectrographic Differential Analyzer" on it and everybody will just think that it's a really boring and useless piece of scientific equipment and leave it alone.
Either that or a/. geek would find it and immediately start pulling it apart to see how it worked. Then they would *never* get it back.
Plus, the retard local business owners here, generally speaking, are lazy, and not at all clued-in to the customer service idea.
Wow! I can't help but comment on this.
As an Australian, I come across my fair share of Americans, either visiting or working in my country. As somebody who worked (before I returned to study) in a customer service orientated role for my company, I would have to say the the customer service expectations of most Americans I met (surprisingly many) are far above and beyond that which my fellow Australians expect.
It suggests that Americans ask a lot more of others than they do of themselves.
I'm not trying to troll or anything, just making an interesting (and somewhat off-topic) observation.
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The plastic money is also much harder wearing than paper money...
Lets not forget the first of those notes that were released, where a patient person could literally rub off the figure in the little clear window that was part of the anti-counterfeit measures incorporated into the new notes.
They fixed that one quickly, and most of those notes should have been removed from circulation by now.
A question if I may, for those with more knowledge than I.
It has apparently been reported that a small part of the shuttle came adrift and may have caused damage during launch.
I'm curious to know if the space shuttles actually have the ability to abort flight mid-air and safely return to earth. I mean before they leave our atmosphere, but after take-off.
My point is that even if the engineers had decided that there was a significant risk as a result of the reported damage during the launch, was there actually anything that could have been done anyway? Were the astronouts *really* doomed by design?
How different is this from making an ordinary copy of a key
It is different because the method can be used to create a Master Key to an entire building (like every single door in a block of flats for instance) from a key that only opens one single door in the same building.
If you make a copy of the single key, you only get to open the single door.
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I will personally *never* be caught having my own cell phone ... *I* am the one who decides when and where I want to be reachable.
Personally, when I don't want to be reached, I turn mine off.
I remember buying the original Quake a long time ago. Now, it's basically free.
Care to explain what you mean by "basically free"?
The source might be available as a free download, but the art, and everything else that is not code, is not free.
So would that be free as in available on p2p, or free as in available for $10 in the bargain bin at your local games store?
I had picked up Stephen Hawkings' "A Brief History of Time" from the library, but stopped reading it...
Do a google for stephen-hawking-a-brief-history-of-time.pdf and download a copy. It's easily found and worth reading in full.
The article is worth a read just to get some perspective on what everyone else thinks of america.
...
... then one might suggest that what everyone else thinks of America is about to take a turn for the worse.
If enough people believe this statement from the email
I learned from American security and military speakers that, "We need to attack Iraq not to punish it for what it might have, but preemptively, as part of a global war. Iraq is just one piece of a campaign that will last years, taking out states, cleansing the planet."
I bet you bitch and moan as much as the rest of us when it comes to our government but you don't vote?
As above, I repeat.
If I am ever in the position again where I look at the candidates and find myself choosing the lesser of two evils, I will do the same again. No political party shall ever be given a 'mandate' by me because they were simply the best of the worst.
To imply that I never vote is to imply that there has never been a worthy candidate contesting any election in the 15 years that I have been a registered voter.
Would you like to consider that implication as insightful? Many would.
If you never registered to vote you wouldn't have been fined.
Then you will be fined for failing to register. It's an offence under the Australian Electoral Act.
When they finally catch up with you that is.
No. You are the one with the mis-conception.
I can, if I choose, place all voting slips in the bin provided on the way out. I don't have to fill them out. I don't have to put them in the boxes provided. There is no electoral offence that I can be charged with if I choose to do this. It is counted as a vote.
And yes, I have done this. I even smiled at the scrutineers and electoral officials as I did so. They can't do anything about it and they know it. I don't hide behind an informal donkey vote (forms submitted but not valid) by virtue of guaranteed confidentiality. I do it in an obvious manner, in plain view of multiple witnesses. And they can't touch me.
Please, take your attitude and **** off. If I am ever in the position again where I look at the candidates and find myself choosing the lesser of two evils, I will do the same again. No political party shall ever be given a 'mandate' by me because they were simply the best of the worst.
... yesterday sent off $100 fine for NOT voting in the election - that's how regulated we are.
No. You paid a $100 fine for not attending a polling booth on election day and having your name struck of the register.
You didn't have to vote if you didn't want to. You are however required to demonstrate that it was a conscious decision on your part.
Where are you that you have ATMs that pull in your card?
,br> Here in Australia it counts for almost all of them. The newer ones where you just swipe your card have only started to appear in the last 6 months or so.
You can find some more information in the previous link and slashdot article for this topic. Same story, new link.
The major benefit of using e-mail instead of snail mail is that it doesn't cost anything.
And here was me believing that the major benefit of e-mail instead of snail mail was the fact that it will be sitting in your inbox in a matter of seconds.
I would happily pay to send e-mail (I imagine a system where known parties can agree to reciprocate no fees) to help address a problem that really doesn't cause me much trouble.
Since we're on the subject of e-mail and spam, I had my main address (not free web-mail) get out a few months ago. It got up to about ten spam messages a day (thats bad for me). After spending a couple of months making sure they were never opened (to make sure that they are spam) whilst connected online, and making sure that I *never* replied to their "please remove me from your list addresses", I'm down to about one spam message a week.
Ahh, so thats why I've seen footage of Steve Balmer hopping around like a mad monkey. He's dying for a piss and can't find the bathroom ...
I had 5 mod points all set to go on this story. But this needs an answer.
...particularly as students who are prepared to defer for a year can usually enter many courses without any scholastic prerequisites as 'Mature Age Students'.
From your post, I'm guessing (like some other posters here) that your an Australian. Well so am I.
Over here, the government will practically pay for your first degree...
No, they will not. They will give you government assistance while you study, which is almost enough to survive on (without working as well), but that is it. If your under 25 years of age and your parents are well off, you will get nothing. But you can't escape HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme). If you do a second degree (exception being double degrees) you won't even get the government assistance. By the time my studies are over (hah!) it will have cost me US$50,000 (US$40,000 if I pay up front).
Firstly, for a student to defer university studies for a year, they must first have actually qualified for a place. This means they have already proven their scholastic abilities.
Secondly, as a Muture Age Student studying Electrical Engineering, I can assure you that entry to any such course without the required TEE (Tertiary Entrance Examinations) pre-requisites is near impossible. I studied my arse of for two years to get here. It was the only way in. Hell, if it was any easier, it wouldn't have been worth it. Sure, you might get into an arts degree without them, but your choices are *very* limited. Even then, you still need to pass some tests to prove english competence and demonstrate a level of intelligence within the top x% of the population.
There are always exceptions to the rule (scholarships as an example, ECU as another), but most of us live by a different set of rules to those that your post suggested.
Anyone else who has been the target of a UN Peacekeeping Force basically got to beat up on a lot of foreigners.
The only comments I see here are on the quality of the peace keeping forces that have been deployed at various times, and their willingness to simply do the job at hand (as opposed to 'just having a presence'). It also touches on the reduced effectiveness of a peace keeping force when it is 'multi-national'.
When a peace keeping force comprised almost entirely of Australian soldiers was sent into East Timor to combat the Indonesian backed militia, the result was very different. Arguably the single most *effective* UN backed peace keeping force ever deployed.
If a lot of scientific research could have military applications, are they going to start limiting even more information?
Your suggesting that this doesn't happen already?
No, software is licensed.
... yearly) would be a different story.
...
I pay sales tax when I buy software. This defines my purchase as a sale (implying ownership), not a licence, since licences of any kind are not subject to sales tax. Subscription (ie
Things may be different in your country
I thought my ex-girlfriend was uncrackable. Turns out she was a two-timing pad. Bitch. :-)
You would think that people would have learned by now that putting "Secret Government Property" on a box is not a good idea. Write "Spectrographic Differential Analyzer" on it and everybody will just think that it's a really boring and useless piece of scientific equipment and leave it alone.
/. geek would find it and immediately start pulling it apart to see how it worked. Then they would *never* get it back.
Either that or a
Plus, the retard local business owners here, generally speaking, are lazy, and not at all clued-in to the customer service idea.
Wow! I can't help but comment on this.
As an Australian, I come across my fair share of Americans, either visiting or working in my country. As somebody who worked (before I returned to study) in a customer service orientated role for my company, I would have to say the the customer service expectations of most Americans I met (surprisingly many) are far above and beyond that which my fellow Australians expect.
It suggests that Americans ask a lot more of others than they do of themselves.
I'm not trying to troll or anything, just making an interesting (and somewhat off-topic) observation.
The plastic money is also much harder wearing than paper money ...
Lets not forget the first of those notes that were released, where a patient person could literally rub off the figure in the little clear window that was part of the anti-counterfeit measures incorporated into the new notes.
They fixed that one quickly, and most of those notes should have been removed from circulation by now.
A question if I may, for those with more knowledge than I.
It has apparently been reported that a small part of the shuttle came adrift and may have caused damage during launch.
I'm curious to know if the space shuttles actually have the ability to abort flight mid-air and safely return to earth. I mean before they leave our atmosphere, but after take-off.
My point is that even if the engineers had decided that there was a significant risk as a result of the reported damage during the launch, was there actually anything that could have been done anyway? Were the astronouts *really* doomed by design?
How different is this from making an ordinary copy of a key
It is different because the method can be used to create a Master Key to an entire building (like every single door in a block of flats for instance) from a key that only opens one single door in the same building.
If you make a copy of the single key, you only get to open the single door.
Interestingly enough, I didn't get any of the registration stuff - just the article.
Same here. No sign of the usual registration page, just the article (and a pop-up).
She stepped down to spend time with her children.
...
Damn, you Americans *are* brave. You actually let her breed
Gilette is going to have RFIDs embedded in your razor blade soon...
Great! So now I'm going to need a tin-foil roof on my house to go with my tin-foil friggin hat?