(I once went one a round-the-world holiday. At Fiji's passport control, they gave us garlands, and serenaded us with guitars; at US passport control they growled at us.)
Fijians are all nice and smiley to white people, but try being of Indian origin there. My wife is a Fiji-born Indian, and I am white. When she travels back alone the Fijian border security go through her belongings with a fine-toothed comb, and generally make things very difficult. When she went there with me they barely even glanced at her bags or my bags, just smiled and let us through.
as you say 'Distracted Driving' is the actual 'crime' here. And most states already have laws against it on the books already.
This is just marketing hype by politicians to look good doing absolutely nothing useful.
I see this as more an exercise in marketing. Fair enough that there is a generic "distracted driving" law, and texting while driving is covered by it, but when you have a law explicitly targetting texting (and it is advertised/enforced) people are more likely to be aware of it.
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A large building I used to work in used to constantly have large congregations of smokers out the front. Even though they were "outside", it was impossible to enter the building without breathing in lungfuls of second-hand smoke (which actually makes me feel ill). It became a contest to see how long I could hold my breath for so that I could get into the building! So explain to me why I should have to suffer for this? I'm not the one who is clogging up the health system with smoking-related illnesses. I'm not the one who is leaving cigarette butts all over the ground everywhere.
I wonder how much trouble I'd get into if I put on a ski mask, in the middle of summer, and walked into my local bank, walked up to the ATM, put in my own card, took out some cash, and walked out. Would I even get back to the door, or would the police already be there to arrest me while I was trying to take out the cash?
If there's one wikipedia page (and in reality there's 10,000s), that sums up the inadequacies of wikipedia, it's that Hollywood Accounting one. That page is 100% hearsay, gossip column and TMZ-esque gossip presented as fact and wikiality.
Phew, thank God a random Slashdot user saved us from that evil Wikipedia page, because of course, since we can fully trust Slashdot users always check their facts before posting.
Finally, an Anonymous Coward has stepped forward to put an end to this pointless bickering, warning us not to trust random Slashdot users. Because of course, we can fully trust Anonymous Cowards. They are anonymous, what would they have to gain by lying?
Thanks goodness a slashdot user with a 4-digit UID has come to the rescue, warning us not to trust anonymous cowards. Because, of course, those of us with high UIDs haven't got the benefit of years of experience reading slashdot to learn the dangers of the wisdom (or lack thereof) of anonymous cowards.
The article completely misses the obvious answer to the question. The barbed leaves give the trees that bad boy look that so attracts the girl trees...(captcha: showboat!)
1 teaspoon of water weighs about 5g (based on volume of a teaspoon being about 5 ml).
If you drop one teaspoon of water into a one cubic metre box that's full of air, the water is going to fall straight to the bottom of the box. If you heat the same weight of water (somehow without heating the air as well!) above the boiling point it will increase in density and float to the top of the box. Neither weight has changed, only the density has.
>>Insightful? Assuming you can perfectly remember 1 byte per second, you'd be memorizing for over 100 million years. >>The human brain is great and all that, but no way are you going to store that much data while being able to reproduce it later.
Actually, it would not be quite that difficult if the data consisted of pictures. If we take the IA-60 definition of Word as 8 bytes. And a picture is worth 1000 words. So that's a total of about 137,438,954 images to memorise, which at a rate of 1 per second would take 4.4 years.
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Actually, the slogan appears to be "Woolworths the fresh food people." No fruit.
It seems like there's often no fresh either...
Foxtel's parent company is NewsCorp
Actually, FOXTEL is only 25% owned by NewsCorp. The other 75% is owned by Telstra (50%) and Consolidated Media Holdings (25%).
(I once went one a round-the-world holiday. At Fiji's passport control, they gave us garlands, and serenaded us with guitars; at US passport control they growled at us.)
Fijians are all nice and smiley to white people, but try being of Indian origin there. My wife is a Fiji-born Indian, and I am white. When she travels back alone the Fijian border security go through her belongings with a fine-toothed comb, and generally make things very difficult. When she went there with me they barely even glanced at her bags or my bags, just smiled and let us through.
as you say 'Distracted Driving' is the actual 'crime' here. And most states already have laws against it on the books already. This is just marketing hype by politicians to look good doing absolutely nothing useful.
I see this as more an exercise in marketing. Fair enough that there is a generic "distracted driving" law, and texting while driving is covered by it, but when you have a law explicitly targetting texting (and it is advertised/enforced) people are more likely to be aware of it.
A large building I used to work in used to constantly have large congregations of smokers out the front. Even though they were "outside", it was impossible to enter the building without breathing in lungfuls of second-hand smoke (which actually makes me feel ill). It became a contest to see how long I could hold my breath for so that I could get into the building! So explain to me why I should have to suffer for this? I'm not the one who is clogging up the health system with smoking-related illnesses. I'm not the one who is leaving cigarette butts all over the ground everywhere.
Well, come on. Don't keep us in suspense. What's the answer?
You've gotta draw the line somewhere. To hell with purple people.. unless they're choking. Then, help them!
We need purple people! Won't somebody please think of the purple people eaters?
I wonder how much trouble I'd get into if I put on a ski mask, in the middle of summer, and walked into my local bank, walked up to the ATM, put in my own card, took out some cash, and walked out. Would I even get back to the door, or would the police already be there to arrest me while I was trying to take out the cash?
Something similar has already been done, with hilarious results.
Well, in all fairness, the actor quit the show, so they had to write him out somehow.
See, House is so bad that he even breaks the fourth wall and causes the actors to quit!
If there's one wikipedia page (and in reality there's 10,000s), that sums up the inadequacies of wikipedia, it's that Hollywood Accounting one. That page is 100% hearsay, gossip column and TMZ-esque gossip presented as fact and wikiality.
Phew, thank God a random Slashdot user saved us from that evil Wikipedia page, because of course, since we can fully trust Slashdot users always check their facts before posting.
Finally, an Anonymous Coward has stepped forward to put an end to this pointless bickering, warning us not to trust random Slashdot users. Because of course, we can fully trust Anonymous Cowards. They are anonymous, what would they have to gain by lying?
Thanks goodness a slashdot user with a 4-digit UID has come to the rescue, warning us not to trust anonymous cowards. Because, of course, those of us with high UIDs haven't got the benefit of years of experience reading slashdot to learn the dangers of the wisdom (or lack thereof) of anonymous cowards.
Ants are not really bugs.</pedant>
I challenge anyone to identify the location of any country on the continent of Australia!
And I don't think third world means what you think it means.
That's Mr Major Major Major Major Jr to you, mac!
The article completely misses the obvious answer to the question. The barbed leaves give the trees that bad boy look that so attracts the girl trees...(captcha: showboat!)
>>britney had a stroke ??
No, but everyone else did!
>>Is there a reason why 'orange' doesn't sound like anything else?
It sounds an awful lot like 'smorange' and 'borange'.
>>It's not a false dichotomy if you found yourself in court under the law presented.
>>Ok, its a trichotomy, since you could instead face a six-figure fine.
Another option would be to commit suicide. I guess that makes it a quadrichotomy.
>>Photog? Litho? You can't be bothered to type those out?
No, he's just a raphist.
Australians who travel overseas and have sex with underage children can be prosecuted in Australia, even though no crime occurred on Australian soil.
>>What's wrong with using a hammer for kitchen tasks? Maybe not opening eggs,
>>but they work great for separating frozen sausages from each other!
On the rare occasion that I have to beat eggs I simply insert a fork into my electric drill and use that. It gets the job done.
>>You failed to take the weight of air into account. Why, when you do that they are, in fact, lighter then air.
Talking of being pedantic, I think the word you are looking for is density, not weight.
1m^3 of air weighs about 1200g.
1 teaspoon of water weighs about 5g (based on volume of a teaspoon being about 5 ml).
If you drop one teaspoon of water into a one cubic metre box that's full of air, the water is going to fall straight to the bottom of the box. If you heat the same weight of water (somehow without heating the air as well!) above the boiling point it will increase in density and float to the top of the box. Neither weight has changed, only the density has.
>>Insightful? Assuming you can perfectly remember 1 byte per second, you'd be memorizing for over 100 million years.
>>The human brain is great and all that, but no way are you going to store that much data while being able to reproduce it later.
Actually, it would not be quite that difficult if the data consisted of pictures. If we take the IA-60 definition of Word as 8 bytes. And a picture is worth 1000 words. So that's a total of about 137,438,954 images to memorise, which at a rate of 1 per second would take 4.4 years.
If Kodachrome film looks good enough surely someone will create a photoshop effect or something to replicate it, wouldn't they?