"just think if you could switch carriers because you have an unlocked phone"
Yep, that's pretty much how it works in the parts of the world not called USA.
I have an unlocked phone (HTC Desire) and can go to any carrier in Australia at the moment. The only thing I'd miss is Telstra's LTE but seeing as there wont be enough coverage to make that remotely missable until 2014 at least (the network only just left testing) it's no skin off my nose.
FYI, Siri is not a woman, no matter how much you may want to imagine otherwise when you ask it "Who's the sexiest man in the world?" and it answers, "Wait, there are other men?"
So what you're saying is Siri is a male who is acting like a female... I've met a few people like that... in Thailand.
Americans are more scared of bogeyman B then they are of Bogeyman A.
Rather then being concerned about something that could really use attention like climate change, dependence on fossil fuels or population growth. Nope, we must be scared of bogeymen.
Stay Scared, Stay uniformed.
Fox News will be back after these messages from your overlords.
The logistics (fuel) guys say "Without us, your tanks wouldn't run."
The tankers say "Without us, you would have no reason for existing."
Woz supporters say "Without Woz, Apple would have nothing worth selling."
Jobs supporters say "Without Jobs, you wouldn't have been able to sell it."
Everybody needs to remember it takes a team where the members complement each other. Woz and Jobs would have sucked individually, but together they made Apple great. Jobs and Raskin made Apple great in the Mac. In modern days it was Jobs, Ive and Cook. And through most of the early history there was Tog, setting the standard for usability. If you want to talk about an Apple hero most people don't know about, look at the Tog.
The thing is, without Woz, Jobs would not have had a product. It doesn't matter how good of a marketer he was, how much smoke he could blow up the worlds collective arses, without a product Jobs could do nothing.
Without Woz, Apple Computer would have failed. The Personal Computer still would have happened as Apple was not the first, nor were they the last. PARC's technology would have been used by someone else (probably Commodore) then IBM and Microsoft would have taken over as they did when Apple floundered.
Australians are free, within the bounds of the law, to say or write what we think privately or publicly, about the government, or about any topic. We do not censor the media and may criticise the government without fear of arrest.
What you're not allowed to do, is write false information, for example saying "OzPeter is a pedophile" without proof would be illegal if it were not an example.
It's great that we Australians don't take ourselves to seriously, because when they do (like the parent has) they are normally full of shit.
Well.. given he's from Tasmania.. that's a job that probably best left to one of his relatives.
(For the US readers of/. Tasmania is the "West Virginia" of Australia. For foreigners of other denominations I'm not sure what the equivalent is. However in the spirit of an open discourse I would love to hear suggestions of similar designations from other countries!)
Upon contacting the office of Mr Nikolic he stated that it was a misquotation and his second head would be disciplined for this incident.
Chrome is based on work done by the KHTML foundation
Fixed that for you.
Also, if you think Google Maps and Earth weren't independently developed products, you've never worked with a competing GIS product like MapInfo or ArcGIS. Sure Earth does not have the same level of functionality but it blows both out of the water for ease of use.
Before Google Maps, people like you needed to hire $250 an hour GIS analysts to make a map to gramps' house. Lets not even consider the $2500 per seat license costs for ArcGIS shall we.
I guess when your tax guy "finds" an extra $2000 in the form of a tax refund, it's totally awesome, and completely "legal', I'm sure...after all, everyone has goldfish expenses, right?.
But when large corporations do the exact same thing, we're....shocked and appalled?
Wake up already.
My tax accountant cant get 99% of my tax wiped out legally. He may get 10% cut off (from 20% to 18% of my income) but not much above that.
Corporate tax rates before deduction is 30%, this means Google should have paid $60,000,000, OK a bit less then this when deductions come into play but $74,000 is 0.00037% of their profit and that's just taking the piss.
Corporation tax is charged against profit, not revenue.
A successful, well-run company can easily have a profit of $1 on revenues of billions and therefore pay only 25 cents tax.
If a company is making millions and billions in revenue it usually indicates that they are ( 1 ) not paying realistic dividends to holders of preference chares and ( 2 ) they are not investing internally in R&D. Both those are booked against the profit & loss account.
Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity.
A company that makes only $1 per year is either a shell (being used expressly as a tax dodge) or incredibly poorly run, in the former case of the Taxation Office should rip them a new one, in latter case the shareholders will rip the C-level execs and the board a new one.
But even then, how is $74,000 tax on $200 million justifiable. Even after all the funneling.
Good accountants. The tax rate in Oz on my current salary is around the 20% mark, I pay around 18% of my total income due to deductions, it means reducing my taxable income by about $2-4,000 per year, I still earned and spent the money, but it's not taxed because of what I spent it on (phone bills, internet bills, trade publication subscriptions(yes, I deduct/. subscriptions) and more) A good accountant pays for himself in a better tax return..
But 0.37% tax is taking the piss when the corporate rate should be around 30% ish (educated guess, anyone got the real number, please let us know). I'm guessing they use a crap load of R&D concessions (the 20% time would be tax deductible here I think)
Just because they didn't break the law doesn't mean they didn't do wrong. There is a difference. For example all those Nigerian scams are actually legal because their law says you can cheat people who break laws. But would you really say that those Nigerian scams are objectively and morally right things to do? I don't think so. Likewise, Google has not done anything legally wrong. Their actions, however, are morally wrong.
Erm, it may be legal to scam people in the US, but not in Australia. In Oz we call the Nigerian 419/Spanish Prisoner/advance fee scam "fraud" and if you are caught, you can be fined or imprisoned.
Yes I know about the difficulties of trying to extradite people (unless you guess a password to a US govt web site or are accused of downloading a film, but I digress) I'm just pointing out that the act is in fact, not legal.
Besides, I think you'd find the ultra-conservative "homosexuality is a choice" crowd more upset with the research than the liberal "homosexuality is innate" crowd.
Ultra-conservatives may be different where you come from, but in my country they're spilt between the camps of "homosexuality is ungodly and needs to be burned out" and "homosexuality is a disease that needs to be cured". To them saying it's a choice is like admitting it's normal, like the choice between chocolate or strawberry.
Considering that low levels of autism-like symptoms seem to be prevalent in engineering disciplines, is this something that could be used to turn your dreamy/artistic/social child into more of a nerd/engineer type?
Oh fuck off.
Being an engineer/nerd does not make you autistic.
Fuck off
Sorry, but that makes me feel better, I'm not posting as AC and the troll mods be dammed, I'm both a network engineer and diagnosed as having aspergers, on the very mild end of the autistic spectrum of disorders. Most people who post this have no fucking idea what it means to have an autistic disorder. I'm good at my job but talking to people, even people I know well is difficult. Yep, I can interrogate a thousand databases, connect VPN's the world over, figure out connectivity problems from a few clues but fucked if I can make small talk. This would also explain why I'm attracted to women who cant speak English properly (read: Asian) because they have more patience for my broken speech.
So I can do complex maths in my head but going to a restaurant makes me scared, when I go to a fast food joint like McD's or Nando's I order the same fucking thing every time, why? Because I fucking practised how to say it. I hate talking to strangers and that's not because I hate strangers, I've got nothing against people I don't know but it's hard for me to talk to them. It takes a great deal of effort to talk to people and I'm considered a success case because I can hold down a fucking client facing job. I can talk to people, but I'd rather not because of the fear factor, it takes a good amount of will power to start conversations with suppliers and clients even though when it's over I don't understand what made it hard in the first place. I can do it, but as I said I'd rather use other means of communication like email.
I know the GP meant no harm but I'm a little bit incensed over the notion that you can just "turn" and autistic person into an engineer because it doesn't work like that.
Australia basically lucked out in having the last truly successful Olympics. Since then computers, the internet and the drive for participation over sucked in by marketing passivity is taking over.
Whiny, it's not lying it's acting product promoting, athletes and their lawyers, as just so yesterday, last millennium in fact. Olympic gold medal winners are promoting crappier and crappier products, it's getting so bad, using the reduces the appearance value of a product rather than enhancing it.
I stopped taking the Olympics seriously when McDonalds became a sponsor.
OK, that's not true, I stopped taking the Olympics seriously when Roy and HG got involved.
With tax, a $30 item in the US should cost $33, maybe you could stretch that to $40 with shipping.
It's not shipping you need to account for (most of this stuff is going to be coming from Asia anyway, so shipping to Australia should be cheaper), it's the higher wages and better working conditions in Australia, and the insane rents vendors have to pay thanks to our world-leading real estate bubble (last time I checked, Sydney had the most expensive commercial real estate *in the world*, beating out places like London, Paris, Zurich, New York and Tokyo - how crazy is that ?).
(Side note: when this finally pops - and the consequent economic catastrophe has passed - the reduction in rents should go a long way towards normalising prices).
Personally, I'm prepared to pay up to about 15-20% premium to support the local economy and living standards (in as much as buying imported goods from local vendors can do that). However, the problem is that prices here aren't 15-20% higher, they're 50-100% higher.
Wages, costs and rents (higher in Oz) is kind of what I meant, I guess I didn't elaborate enough.
I agree with you about paying a small premium to support the local economy, but we're being shown how much distributors are taking the piss when Australian businesses are drop shipping cameras from the US and Hong Kong for half the price. I'm not just talking about web stores, JB HiFi is doing it and their prices are easily within 20% of web stores in Asia and the US. With that price, JB is paying Oz wages and Oz taxes, just not greedy distributors.
There seems to be a duty on "luxury" items or something. An inflatable camping mattress that would have been less than USD$30 was AUD$130, and other prices in the camping store were similarly crazy. If you're outfitting as a camper there, you can probably save by flying to the U.S. to buy your stuff.
No duties on most items, Almost everything that is not alcohol, tobacco or has a motor has GST only (Goods and Services Tax, a flat 10%). Camping gear is no exception, no special duties on it what so ever.
It's distributors profiteering. With tax, a $30 item in the US should cost $33, maybe you could stretch that to $40 with shipping. Yet Distributors price it at a 100% or greater mark up compared to the US prices.
BTW, smart Australians are already buying from overseas. Shoes, clothing, computers, electronics games and movies are cheaper to buy overseas (via the internet) and import. Items under A$1000 can be imported GST free. This is something the retail dinosaurs in Australia hate as it means people aren't paying 3-5x for the same products as much in their stores, they've gone as far as suggesting a special Internet tax to try to drive up prices online.
Lobbying from the Movie/TV/Music industry overwhelming favors Democrats by nearly a 3:1 margin. There's a tendency for people to interpret politics as "D = good, R = bad" or vice versa depending on your political affiliation. It is never that simple.
Based on contributions alone... One might surmise that the Democrats are much harder to pay off, rather then selling out for a few dollars.
One could also say that the studios get the same result out of the Republicans for half the price.
gconftool -s -t string/apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
Or install programs like Ubuntu tweak which can do that for you.
Or I could just use Linux Mint and avoid the hassle.
Ubuntu is meant to be a "no user configuration" distro, meant for end users who dont use the command line or install config utilities. If I want to play around with GUI settings, I can do that just as well on Debian or Fedora.
Not dead, more like standing on the balcony threatening to jump off.
Who uses the close and minimise buttons on the LH side, Mac Users, in other words people who are not the audience for Ubuntu. 99% of the worlds computer users are used to having them on the RH side. Given that Ubuntu is meant to be a "zero config" distro doing this only alienates the audience.
I dropped Ubuntu for Linux Mint a while back because of this, despite Linux Mint 12 being a little disapointing this one thing prevents me from going back to Ubuntu.
P.S. I know it can be changed, but it's a pain in the arse and aren't distros like Ubuntu and Linux Mint all about avoiding those little pains in the arse.
Murder wasn't a transportable offence - it was a capital offence. I'm sure a few slipped though but not boatloads of them.
Piracy was also capital not tranportable.
Crooks aplenty of course.
Most people were transported for petty crimes, burglary, petty theft and the like. The hardened criminals like murderers and rapist stayed in Mother England.
The reason for this was when a convicts sentence was up, they weren't sent back to England (too expensive, bodies take up room from precious cargo), they were given a parcel of land in Australia that they could do what they liked with. You dont just set hardened criminals free in a large, uncharted land do you, so they all stayed in England
Also, sedition was a crime that warranted transportation, but back in the 1800's sedition in great Britain meant displaying an Irish flag.
The U.S. also demands extradition of those cool police interceptors from Mad Max.
Unfortunately Ford no longer make the XB Falcon Coupe, or big block V8's in general, but we are willing to send over some bogans that want to drive one.
Oh, and just 'P.S.', the philipines right now is experiencing a rise in extremism amongst its muslim population due to high unemployment and low literacy; this program was enacted specifically to address that problem as an informal 'thank you' to that country for being a major supporter of our anti-terrorism efforts after 9/11, particularly in Iraq. So you could say with a straight face that Bishop is supporting terrorism in order to garner more votes in this election. Sick, isn't it?
Erm, no.
Groups like Abu Sayaaf and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF, no joke) has been around since the 70's. In fact there's been a marked decline in terrorism since the establishment of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (where all those evil mooslims live right). Most of the bombs in the last few years have in fact been inside the ARMM or at least in the surrounding provinces of Mindanao.
But nice try using the old "Terr'ism" bogeyman.
The biggest problem coming out of Muslim Mindanao at the moment is the number of beggars and unemployed travelling to Luzon and other islands.
In the Philippines, as a westerner or a Filipino you are much more likely to be killed by a gun toting, god fearing, Christian Filipino then being killed or kidnapped by a Islamic terrorist. Guns are everywhere over there, it's easy to find a $20 Cebu special (locally produced gun copied from popular designs), complete with no safety catch. A lot of westerners "commit suicide" in the Phils, although that is rare unless you're a complete idiot.
Also that being said, I recommend not going anywhere near Muslim Mindanao.
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"just think if you could switch carriers because you have an unlocked phone"
Yep, that's pretty much how it works in the parts of the world not called USA.
I have an unlocked phone (HTC Desire) and can go to any carrier in Australia at the moment. The only thing I'd miss is Telstra's LTE but seeing as there wont be enough coverage to make that remotely missable until 2014 at least (the network only just left testing) it's no skin off my nose.
FYI, Siri is not a woman, no matter how much you may want to imagine otherwise when you ask it "Who's the sexiest man in the world?" and it answers, "Wait, there are other men?"
So what you're saying is Siri is a male who is acting like a female... I've met a few people like that... in Thailand.
Americans are more scared of bogeyman B then they are of Bogeyman A.
Rather then being concerned about something that could really use attention like climate change, dependence on fossil fuels or population growth. Nope, we must be scared of bogeymen.
Stay Scared, Stay uniformed.
Fox News will be back after these messages from your overlords.
The logistics (fuel) guys say "Without us, your tanks wouldn't run."
The tankers say "Without us, you would have no reason for existing."
Woz supporters say "Without Woz, Apple would have nothing worth selling."
Jobs supporters say "Without Jobs, you wouldn't have been able to sell it."
Everybody needs to remember it takes a team where the members complement each other. Woz and Jobs would have sucked individually, but together they made Apple great. Jobs and Raskin made Apple great in the Mac. In modern days it was Jobs, Ive and Cook. And through most of the early history there was Tog, setting the standard for usability. If you want to talk about an Apple hero most people don't know about, look at the Tog.
The thing is, without Woz, Jobs would not have had a product. It doesn't matter how good of a marketer he was, how much smoke he could blow up the worlds collective arses, without a product Jobs could do nothing.
Without Woz, Apple Computer would have failed. The Personal Computer still would have happened as Apple was not the first, nor were they the last. PARC's technology would have been used by someone else (probably Commodore) then IBM and Microsoft would have taken over as they did when Apple floundered.
You are free to express your opinions
Actually no. There is no such thing as "free speech" in Australia.
This is pure bollocks.
http://www.immi.gov.au/living-in-australia/choose-australia/about-australia/five-freedoms.htm
you need to do some reading.
Australians are free, within the bounds of the law, to say or write what we think privately or publicly, about the government, or about any topic. We do not censor the media and may criticise the government without fear of arrest.
What you're not allowed to do, is write false information, for example saying "OzPeter is a pedophile" without proof would be illegal if it were not an example.
It's great that we Australians don't take ourselves to seriously, because when they do (like the parent has) they are normally full of shit.
FUCK HIM!
Well .. given he's from Tasmania .. that's a job that probably best left to one of his relatives.
/. Tasmania is the "West Virginia" of Australia. For foreigners of other denominations I'm not sure what the equivalent is. However in the spirit of an open discourse I would love to hear suggestions of similar designations from other countries!)
(For the US readers of
Upon contacting the office of Mr Nikolic he stated that it was a misquotation and his second head would be disciplined for this incident.
Chrome is based on work done by the KHTML foundation
Fixed that for you. Also, if you think Google Maps and Earth weren't independently developed products, you've never worked with a competing GIS product like MapInfo or ArcGIS. Sure Earth does not have the same level of functionality but it blows both out of the water for ease of use.
Before Google Maps, people like you needed to hire $250 an hour GIS analysts to make a map to gramps' house. Lets not even consider the $2500 per seat license costs for ArcGIS shall we.
Possibly a biased source, but not exactly a shocking conclusion.
What other software maker on this planet would know more about being vulnerable to malware then Microsoft?
They are pretty much the foremost experts in that field.
I guess when your tax guy "finds" an extra $2000 in the form of a tax refund, it's totally awesome, and completely "legal', I'm sure...after all, everyone has goldfish expenses, right?.
But when large corporations do the exact same thing, we're....shocked and appalled?
Wake up already.
My tax accountant cant get 99% of my tax wiped out legally. He may get 10% cut off (from 20% to 18% of my income) but not much above that.
Corporate tax rates before deduction is 30%, this means Google should have paid $60,000,000, OK a bit less then this when deductions come into play but $74,000 is 0.00037% of their profit and that's just taking the piss.
Corporation tax is charged against profit, not revenue.
A successful, well-run company can easily have a profit of $1 on revenues of billions and therefore pay only 25 cents tax.
If a company is making millions and billions in revenue it usually indicates that they are ( 1 ) not paying realistic dividends to holders of preference chares and ( 2 ) they are not investing internally in R&D. Both those are booked against the profit & loss account.
Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity.
A company that makes only $1 per year is either a shell (being used expressly as a tax dodge) or incredibly poorly run, in the former case of the Taxation Office should rip them a new one, in latter case the shareholders will rip the C-level execs and the board a new one.
But even then, how is $74,000 tax on $200 million justifiable. Even after all the funneling.
Good accountants. The tax rate in Oz on my current salary is around the 20% mark, I pay around 18% of my total income due to deductions, it means reducing my taxable income by about $2-4,000 per year, I still earned and spent the money, but it's not taxed because of what I spent it on (phone bills, internet bills, trade publication subscriptions(yes, I deduct /. subscriptions) and more) A good accountant pays for himself in a better tax return..
But 0.37% tax is taking the piss when the corporate rate should be around 30% ish (educated guess, anyone got the real number, please let us know). I'm guessing they use a crap load of R&D concessions (the 20% time would be tax deductible here I think)
Just because they didn't break the law doesn't mean they didn't do wrong. There is a difference. For example all those Nigerian scams are actually legal because their law says you can cheat people who break laws. But would you really say that those Nigerian scams are objectively and morally right things to do? I don't think so. Likewise, Google has not done anything legally wrong. Their actions, however, are morally wrong.
Erm, it may be legal to scam people in the US, but not in Australia. In Oz we call the Nigerian 419/Spanish Prisoner/advance fee scam "fraud" and if you are caught, you can be fined or imprisoned.
Yes I know about the difficulties of trying to extradite people (unless you guess a password to a US govt web site or are accused of downloading a film, but I digress) I'm just pointing out that the act is in fact, not legal.
Besides, I think you'd find the ultra-conservative "homosexuality is a choice" crowd more upset with the research than the liberal "homosexuality is innate" crowd.
Ultra-conservatives may be different where you come from, but in my country they're spilt between the camps of "homosexuality is ungodly and needs to be burned out" and "homosexuality is a disease that needs to be cured". To them saying it's a choice is like admitting it's normal, like the choice between chocolate or strawberry.
BTW, nothing against gays mind you.
Considering that low levels of autism-like symptoms seem to be prevalent in engineering disciplines, is this something that could be used to turn your dreamy/artistic/social child into more of a nerd/engineer type?
Oh fuck off.
Being an engineer/nerd does not make you autistic.
Fuck off
Sorry, but that makes me feel better, I'm not posting as AC and the troll mods be dammed, I'm both a network engineer and diagnosed as having aspergers, on the very mild end of the autistic spectrum of disorders. Most people who post this have no fucking idea what it means to have an autistic disorder. I'm good at my job but talking to people, even people I know well is difficult. Yep, I can interrogate a thousand databases, connect VPN's the world over, figure out connectivity problems from a few clues but fucked if I can make small talk. This would also explain why I'm attracted to women who cant speak English properly (read: Asian) because they have more patience for my broken speech.
So I can do complex maths in my head but going to a restaurant makes me scared, when I go to a fast food joint like McD's or Nando's I order the same fucking thing every time, why? Because I fucking practised how to say it. I hate talking to strangers and that's not because I hate strangers, I've got nothing against people I don't know but it's hard for me to talk to them. It takes a great deal of effort to talk to people and I'm considered a success case because I can hold down a fucking client facing job. I can talk to people, but I'd rather not because of the fear factor, it takes a good amount of will power to start conversations with suppliers and clients even though when it's over I don't understand what made it hard in the first place. I can do it, but as I said I'd rather use other means of communication like email.
I know the GP meant no harm but I'm a little bit incensed over the notion that you can just "turn" and autistic person into an engineer because it doesn't work like that.
Australia basically lucked out in having the last truly successful Olympics. Since then computers, the internet and the drive for participation over sucked in by marketing passivity is taking over.
Whiny, it's not lying it's acting product promoting, athletes and their lawyers, as just so yesterday, last millennium in fact. Olympic gold medal winners are promoting crappier and crappier products, it's getting so bad, using the reduces the appearance value of a product rather than enhancing it.
I stopped taking the Olympics seriously when McDonalds became a sponsor.
OK, that's not true, I stopped taking the Olympics seriously when Roy and HG got involved.
It's not shipping you need to account for (most of this stuff is going to be coming from Asia anyway, so shipping to Australia should be cheaper), it's the higher wages and better working conditions in Australia, and the insane rents vendors have to pay thanks to our world-leading real estate bubble (last time I checked, Sydney had the most expensive commercial real estate *in the world*, beating out places like London, Paris, Zurich, New York and Tokyo - how crazy is that ?).
(Side note: when this finally pops - and the consequent economic catastrophe has passed - the reduction in rents should go a long way towards normalising prices).
Personally, I'm prepared to pay up to about 15-20% premium to support the local economy and living standards (in as much as buying imported goods from local vendors can do that). However, the problem is that prices here aren't 15-20% higher, they're 50-100% higher.
Wages, costs and rents (higher in Oz) is kind of what I meant, I guess I didn't elaborate enough.
I agree with you about paying a small premium to support the local economy, but we're being shown how much distributors are taking the piss when Australian businesses are drop shipping cameras from the US and Hong Kong for half the price. I'm not just talking about web stores, JB HiFi is doing it and their prices are easily within 20% of web stores in Asia and the US. With that price, JB is paying Oz wages and Oz taxes, just not greedy distributors.
There seems to be a duty on "luxury" items or something. An inflatable camping mattress that would have been less than USD$30 was AUD$130, and other prices in the camping store were similarly crazy. If you're outfitting as a camper there, you can probably save by flying to the U.S. to buy your stuff.
No duties on most items, Almost everything that is not alcohol, tobacco or has a motor has GST only (Goods and Services Tax, a flat 10%). Camping gear is no exception, no special duties on it what so ever.
It's distributors profiteering. With tax, a $30 item in the US should cost $33, maybe you could stretch that to $40 with shipping. Yet Distributors price it at a 100% or greater mark up compared to the US prices.
BTW, smart Australians are already buying from overseas. Shoes, clothing, computers, electronics games and movies are cheaper to buy overseas (via the internet) and import. Items under A$1000 can be imported GST free. This is something the retail dinosaurs in Australia hate as it means people aren't paying 3-5x for the same products as much in their stores, they've gone as far as suggesting a special Internet tax to try to drive up prices online.
Based on contributions alone... One might surmise that the Democrats are much harder to pay off, rather then selling out for a few dollars.
One could also say that the studios get the same result out of the Republicans for half the price.
gconftool -s -t string /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
Or install programs like Ubuntu tweak which can do that for you.
Or I could just use Linux Mint and avoid the hassle.
Ubuntu is meant to be a "no user configuration" distro, meant for end users who dont use the command line or install config utilities. If I want to play around with GUI settings, I can do that just as well on Debian or Fedora.
lol... You forgot to put "Ubuntu is dead to me"!
Not dead, more like standing on the balcony threatening to jump off.
Who uses the close and minimise buttons on the LH side, Mac Users, in other words people who are not the audience for Ubuntu. 99% of the worlds computer users are used to having them on the RH side. Given that Ubuntu is meant to be a "zero config" distro doing this only alienates the audience.
Close and minimise are still on the wrong side.
I dropped Ubuntu for Linux Mint a while back because of this, despite Linux Mint 12 being a little disapointing this one thing prevents me from going back to Ubuntu.
P.S. I know it can be changed, but it's a pain in the arse and aren't distros like Ubuntu and Linux Mint all about avoiding those little pains in the arse.
Murder wasn't a transportable offence - it was a capital offence. I'm sure a few slipped though but not boatloads of them.
Piracy was also capital not tranportable.
Crooks aplenty of course.
Most people were transported for petty crimes, burglary, petty theft and the like. The hardened criminals like murderers and rapist stayed in Mother England.
The reason for this was when a convicts sentence was up, they weren't sent back to England (too expensive, bodies take up room from precious cargo), they were given a parcel of land in Australia that they could do what they liked with. You dont just set hardened criminals free in a large, uncharted land do you, so they all stayed in England
Also, sedition was a crime that warranted transportation, but back in the 1800's sedition in great Britain meant displaying an Irish flag.
This is why my minions will all have stylish uniforms. It gives them legitimacy.
You'd be amazed at where you can go with a clipboard and a high-viz jacket.
You know you can just buy lab coats.
The U.S. also demands extradition of those cool police interceptors from Mad Max.
Unfortunately Ford no longer make the XB Falcon Coupe, or big block V8's in general, but we are willing to send over some bogans that want to drive one.
Oh, and just 'P.S.', the philipines right now is experiencing a rise in extremism amongst its muslim population due to high unemployment and low literacy; this program was enacted specifically to address that problem as an informal 'thank you' to that country for being a major supporter of our anti-terrorism efforts after 9/11, particularly in Iraq. So you could say with a straight face that Bishop is supporting terrorism in order to garner more votes in this election. Sick, isn't it?
Erm, no.
Groups like Abu Sayaaf and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF, no joke) has been around since the 70's. In fact there's been a marked decline in terrorism since the establishment of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (where all those evil mooslims live right). Most of the bombs in the last few years have in fact been inside the ARMM or at least in the surrounding provinces of Mindanao.
But nice try using the old "Terr'ism" bogeyman.
The biggest problem coming out of Muslim Mindanao at the moment is the number of beggars and unemployed travelling to Luzon and other islands.
In the Philippines, as a westerner or a Filipino you are much more likely to be killed by a gun toting, god fearing, Christian Filipino then being killed or kidnapped by a Islamic terrorist. Guns are everywhere over there, it's easy to find a $20 Cebu special (locally produced gun copied from popular designs), complete with no safety catch. A lot of westerners "commit suicide" in the Phils, although that is rare unless you're a complete idiot.
Also that being said, I recommend not going anywhere near Muslim Mindanao.