No, roundabouts in heavy traffic are dangerous and slow down everyone when not needed.
Get to the root of the problem, wrt your traffic light issues.
Side note: here in.au leading up to traffic lights the striped lines turn solid, and experience has told me when you reach those lines, your not going to be able to stop in time for a redlight
When someone is tailgating me I slow down. No brakes, just foot off the accelerator.
Because, firstly, I'm an arsehole, and secondly its the only remaining control I've got to make the situation safe again by giving myself enough space behind me for the speed I'm doing. Of course those few mindless idiots who realise what I'm doing and back off, I'll return to my original speed.
Generally they had the shits with me in the first place for doing such horrible things as following the speed limit, which I do as I pretty much have to the way speed limits are enforced here in.au if you actually get caught
You think it's a good idea.
Try it
This is pretty much how all home connections in.au work. Only thing is I get capped from about 8mb/s to 64kb/s, making my internet connection completely useless.
I normally resort to using my 3G modem until the months ends
I've been unemployed before, but wasn't this bad.
You get a form once per fortnight to fill, where have you applied for work, and related questions, as well as how much did you earn?
If you've been unemployed for a while you build up kind of credit system where you may not get your benefits reduced at all.
The other good part is you keep getting the forms for about 2 months of earning 'too much' before your officially cut off. So if you get a temp job picking fruit or whatever, as long as your income drops back off before the forms finish, everything keeps going without any hassle.
Don't get me started of the rest of Centrelink though!
My wife and I heard this one on the radio this morning. Driving is an adult activity, your kids gotta be learning responsibility before they are driving. Good old nanny state
Firearms are legal in Australia. I'm only familiar with Victorian law, but you need to have a lawful purpose to own a firearm such as being a farmer, hunting, member of a club, prison officer, security officer etc
Police here can and do carry weapons
No its not at all.
The only people who see your Tax File number are employers, banks/super funds (people who deal with your money), and the tax office.
You don't have to supply your TFN to any of them, and you can calim back any extra tack paid when filing your tax return (where you still dont *have* to give you TFN, it just takes longer), although I admit for most people this isnt practical
The scary identifier here is your drivers liscense number, the number of times I've had to supply it, had copies taken of it, is used for all sorts of credit things, and yet changes when you move interstate
Most of the AMPS network was shutdown in Australia at the end of 1999, with the exception of a few rural areas where GSM coverage wasn't equivalent, and since time as Telstra created a CDMA network, the Australian government funded some of the CDMA towers to cover these areas.
Now we are going the same again in rural areas where Telstra has announced they are shutting down the CDMA network and get everybody on to their HSDPA network (otherwise known as next g), but coverage isn't as good yet, and for once we have the governement actually looking after users side and said Telstra has to keep the CDMA networking running for now
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Hey, I listen to both types. Country and western
Change power cords? You know US two pin plugs can fit aussie socket if you *really* force them
One of the things I love about the prevalence of Sparkle on the mac. Easy for the user to upgrade, but only checks when the app is running.
Here in Oz I get 30Mbit down, and 1Mbit up. But I can't get ADSL of any variety at all
No, roundabouts in heavy traffic are dangerous and slow down everyone when not needed. Get to the root of the problem, wrt your traffic light issues. Side note: here in .au leading up to traffic lights the striped lines turn solid, and experience has told me when you reach those lines, your not going to be able to stop in time for a redlight
Annoying Americans
When someone is tailgating me I slow down. No brakes, just foot off the accelerator. Because, firstly, I'm an arsehole, and secondly its the only remaining control I've got to make the situation safe again by giving myself enough space behind me for the speed I'm doing. Of course those few mindless idiots who realise what I'm doing and back off, I'll return to my original speed. Generally they had the shits with me in the first place for doing such horrible things as following the speed limit, which I do as I pretty much have to the way speed limits are enforced here in .au if you actually get caught
You think it's a good idea. Try it This is pretty much how all home connections in .au work. Only thing is I get capped from about 8mb/s to 64kb/s, making my internet connection completely useless.
I normally resort to using my 3G modem until the months ends
I've been unemployed before, but wasn't this bad. You get a form once per fortnight to fill, where have you applied for work, and related questions, as well as how much did you earn? If you've been unemployed for a while you build up kind of credit system where you may not get your benefits reduced at all. The other good part is you keep getting the forms for about 2 months of earning 'too much' before your officially cut off. So if you get a temp job picking fruit or whatever, as long as your income drops back off before the forms finish, everything keeps going without any hassle. Don't get me started of the rest of Centrelink though!
Australian law has a separate charge for unauthorised access to a computer system under the computer crimes act
First time I've seen Vegemite associates with kiwi's most people know it as an aussie food
No mod points today, otherwise I would have upped
Move to Australia then. We're working on stopping kids finding sex on the internet!
I run Ubuntu Sever over Debian because of the predictable release cycle, and that large companies (such as VMWare), actually support the LTS releases.
I don't use the commercial support yet, but I like knowing its there if we need to go down that path
Thats nice if you live on an ADSL2 enabled exchange with a clean path the whole way. Those of us stuck on ADSL1 pay more for less
My wife and I heard this one on the radio this morning. Driving is an adult activity, your kids gotta be learning responsibility before they are driving. Good old nanny state
What does opnning the system prefrences panel for spaces have to do with anything?
Wow, i'm paying about $1200AUD a month for child care, after goverment subsidies, and it really strains our budget.
Firearms are legal in Australia. I'm only familiar with Victorian law, but you need to have a lawful purpose to own a firearm such as being a farmer, hunting, member of a club, prison officer, security officer etc Police here can and do carry weapons
Can't be bothered getting the exact details right now, but the Trade Practises Act (Cth), make it illegal.
No its not at all. The only people who see your Tax File number are employers, banks/super funds (people who deal with your money), and the tax office. You don't have to supply your TFN to any of them, and you can calim back any extra tack paid when filing your tax return (where you still dont *have* to give you TFN, it just takes longer), although I admit for most people this isnt practical The scary identifier here is your drivers liscense number, the number of times I've had to supply it, had copies taken of it, is used for all sorts of credit things, and yet changes when you move interstate
My TomTom One XL I bought in December 2007 doesn't work on mac? Somebody forgot to tell that to TomTom.app
Most of the AMPS network was shutdown in Australia at the end of 1999, with the exception of a few rural areas where GSM coverage wasn't equivalent, and since time as Telstra created a CDMA network, the Australian government funded some of the CDMA towers to cover these areas.
Now we are going the same again in rural areas where Telstra has announced they are shutting down the CDMA network and get everybody on to their HSDPA network (otherwise known as next g), but coverage isn't as good yet, and for once we have the governement actually looking after users side and said Telstra has to keep the CDMA networking running for now
How so? I'd like to keep this nugget aside for future reference
Be more worried about your little one pulling it from where it lives and letting it drop on the floor, or giving parts the good old saliva test