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  1. Re:Plenty of consulting dollars to be spent on Massive Solar Updraft Towers Planned For Arizona · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been watching Enviromission not build a solar tower in regional Victoria (Australia) for a decade now. Not building one in the United States is a real step up for these guys.

  2. Re:Multilayer WTF? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    Fly to Malaysia and you'll change your tune. Mandatory death penalty for drug import.

  3. Re:Great timing on World's Tallest Building To Open Monday · · Score: 1

    I'm not the other guy, but I'd agree here. Australian cities across the board are not very safe for cycling, the clear exception being Canberra. Although it's rather ironic that Canberra, the safest cycle city with dedicated bike only lanes to every corner of the metropolitan area, is the only city in which I've been hospitalised from "Car v Bike" injuries! I'd still rate Sydney as the worst overall, with Adelaide having the most individually dangerous roads, and Perth being too far away to care.

    And of course, this has just about as much to do with Dubai's stunning achievment in engineering as people getting stabbed in Melbourne. My, what an emotional thread this is!

  4. Re:Result on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    You get paid and released...?

  5. Re:As evil as it sounds... on AU Authority Moves To Censor Net Filtering Protest Site · · Score: 1

    It's this sort of attitude that makes me want to move to the United States. Freedom is unqualified. If someone wants to handle things the 'immature' way then that's their choice - if they're free. No compromise. You're free or you're not.

  6. Re:Wow, a confirmation on Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star · · Score: 1

    I found something! I FOUND SOME.... ah shoot. Sorry, forgot to clean my monitor again.

  7. 10 functions in 1 on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Is a brilliant idea. And then you drop it.

  8. Re:Shoot, there goes my Irish Coffee. Is Decafe ok on Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal · · Score: 1

    One is a sedative, the other a stimulant. Mixing the 2 is a reliable way to have a heart attack. Especially when combined with other high risk factors such as lack of exercise and obesity. It's the same principle for why one should never mix prescription drugs without professional advice.

  9. Re:ohhh on Ocean Floor Crust Wound to Be Explored · · Score: 1

    scientists have been trying to drill in to these for years.

  10. Re:425 GBP is about $835 on PlayStation 3 Still Set For March in EU, Price Revealed · · Score: 1

    It clears the 1,000 mark in Australian dollars. In Australia we have a saying for things like this: 'Tell 'em they're dreaming'

  11. Re:Good idea on Ford Airstream Electric Concept Car · · Score: 1

    Awesome. 0-100 in 2 seconds, baby.

  12. Re:getting to know your neighbor. on How to Protect a Home When Away in Winter? · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must be American. Everyone in Australia and the UK watches neighbours.

  13. Re:Accounting Math on Future Publishing Loses $96 Million · · Score: 1

    Expect their cashflow to take a hit next year when the execs secure multi million pay rises for saying 'organic development.'

  14. Re:Sick on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Yep, when i'm looking for a fight I head over to my university library without my ID card.

  15. TMNT on NES on Some of the Best Game Levels of All Time · · Score: 1

    The level in teenage mutant ninja turtles where you have to swim around and disarm the bombs. In fact, that whole game still rules.

  16. 0 - 100 on Predicting Launch Title Review Scores · · Score: 1

    And it is almost certain that each of those consoles will launch with two absolute stinkers, games which consistently score below 60%...

    And this is almost certainly why I stopped reading games magazines - their scales are so off base that it's hard to differentiate between a good and bad game. 60% should not be a stinker. It should be about 'okay.' 0 - 10% is a stinker. The Australian games mag 'Hyper' was criminal with this - 87% meant pretty dull, 89% meant pretty good, 91% meant awesome. Bollocks to that, there's 100 points on the scale, use them!

  17. Re:Hrmmm on How Practical are 20-inch Laptops? · · Score: 1

    The fact that he interviewed more aussies than poms sums up London quite well.

  18. Ban the internet on 911 Call Tracking Site Stirs Concern · · Score: 1

    It's a tool that terrorists can use to coordinate an attack.

  19. Re:Oops.. I meant 'uninhabitable' on Bush Reveals New Space Policy · · Score: 1

    Oops.. I meant 'uninhabitable'

    I just assumed you were referring to LA....

  20. Damn it! on Toshiba Develops 3-Layer DVD and HD-DVD · · Score: 1

    I just bought the Star Wars DVDs. Now i'll have to buy two more layers for HD >:(

  21. Re:oblig on Steve Irwin Dead · · Score: 1

    Show some respect. Australia just lost its Proim Minista.

  22. Re:In a few billion years... on Our Moon Could Become a Planet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Copy paste that post into a wiki then you'll have a source!

  23. Re:Batteries not included...... on Voyager 1 Passes 100 AU from the Sun · · Score: 1

    One thing I now know about Voyager 1 is that those batteries were not sourced from Sony!

    Yes they were - that's the propulsion mechanism.

  24. Re:Witty bit of wisdom on Outsourced Call Centers Losing Feasibility? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Creating employment in a third world country doesn't strike me as particularly evil.

  25. Re:Obvious on Australia Wants to Regulate Internet Streaming · · Score: 1

    A few years ago a bill was introduced to the Australian Parliament to create a new pornogrophy classification level known as NVE (non violent erotica). A full sitting of parliament was reportedly up until 4am reviewing examples of the material.

    The bill didn't pass.