I'm not sure it's about caring enough - it takes a LOT of work to understand and select between different candidates policies - even then who believes these policies will be followed through? I doubt many have any faith in out politicians to uphold their election promises and policies.
Such most Australian's that I know have simply given up on the system and often simply don't know who they would like to vote for and therefore don't really care who wins..
From my perspective, voting here tends to be more of a popularity contest that has nothing to do with politics or policies.
Heck, I do have a great interest in who get's elected here, but I simply do not have the hundreds of hours to scour policies and understand what each candidate really represents - as far as I can see the system is a broken farce and has outlived it usefulness.
In Australia, retailers mark up the prices how ever they like (pretty much), something like a big screen TV that has a sticker price of say $4K can usually be had for around $3K-$3.5K. The same goes for just about all electronics, gadgets and appliances.
Our retail market is a sham.
Note also that our goods cost significantly more (often 2 times) here in Australia than in the US - it's often to buy the same item in the US and have it shipped to Australia and it still turns out significantly more expensive... This is regardless of where they are manufactured.
Please, please - When I try to bargain a price down and receive the 'Oh you're one of those hagglers' attitudes, I just want to say "put the real fsck price on the product and I won't need to even talk to you' but that will never get me a good price - retail, makes you feel dirtier than sleeping with a $2 hooker.
Hmmm, seems my thoughts and reality are, well, different:)... I've always believed (I don't know why) that transmitting cost orders of magnitude more energy than receiving radio waves.. I'm sure this is a common misconception, anyone care to explain why it's not true?
Radio receivers? I thought they in themselves were cheap (power wise). I thought it was the transmitters that were power hungry, I think receivers will be fine.
As one of privileged I get at best 1.5Mb with serious crc error counts over my ADSL2 connection with daily dropouts (usually at the most important times) - that's the best my line can do and I'm in the nice dense suburbs. Thanks Telstra.
Seriously, how on earth do you define a Terrorist? Isn't that almost as difficult as defining a 'bad person' - let's jail all 'bad people' and all people who frequent 'bad people' sites - sorry, but there is too much subjectivity required to determine who is a 'terrorist' that it can not work effectively for the purpose it purports to be for.
Really? I'm just baffled how anyone of any authority could think this is they way we need to head....
I think the world is pretty fscked up, and the shear size of our societies and apparent incompatibilities between them mean they are dysfunctional by virtue - but this is not the solution. I'm not saying I can devise a good solution, but I can recognise that this is not one.
Indeed - sorry I must have been half asleep (perhaps fully asleep) when I made that post - for some reason I thought the OP I replied too was claiming that the cordless phones will be useless in a power outage when the fibre replaces the copper - obviously upon rereading that post I was actually in fierce agreement with the OP..
I'll get back in my box now..
ps, I'm an Australian and pretty much everyone I know uses their mobile (cell) phone as their primary voice contact device - we use our copper lines for our ADSL connections... I don't even have a handset plugged into my copper outlet.
The rental on a copper line from Telstra is over $30 a month - all we get for that is the ability to make charged phone calls - I make none, so I pay $30 a month to Telstra for my phone line just to get ADSL from my ISP over. My ISP charges me $50 a month for a 100GB of data over a ADSL 2 connection over that Telstra copper - I can only acheive a very poor 1 - 2Mb over that very poor and under maintained expensive Telstra copper and I'm in a nice dense suburban area. So I end up paying over $80 a month for a poor 1 - 2Mb connection.
I can go 'naked' - that's the term for having a internet connection without paying Telstra for the copper - you pay the ISP instead, and the ISP install hardware in the Telstra exchange to handle their own back haul. But this saves only $60 a year as the ISP need to pay telstra a portion still, hardly worth it for the down side... Basically Telstra applies a tax on the entire copper system, that I'm sure I've paid for now at least 10 times over.. Its a hideous monopoly that I can't wait to see the back of.
This is in direct contradiction of all vegetarians I know - they are all slim and look healthy from a distance, but they lack energy, become ill easily and just seem under nourished.
I think the term healthier is being use in a very subjective manner these days...
I thought Taco Cowboy was implying that due to the fact that the passphrase is too long to remember, he doesn't need to say he's forgotten it - he could never remember it - Instead, he'd had it written down or similar... That has now been lost or destroyed.
These USB flash drives should be destroyed, not auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Considering that these devices probably contain personal information, I just don't understand how anyone can think it's right to hand them over to anyone for analysis.
Do we do the same for personal diaries? Peoples wallets? I certainly hope not.
Personally I think it's disgusting that they are not being treated with the respect that they should be.
Of course I understand that a lot of these we probably not 'lost' but planted for nefarious reasons, but still, some will be legitimately lost personal items that could contains a wealth of personal information!
License plate reading cameras, facial recognition and other tracking devices are going to happen, they will be everywhere. Well they pretty much are everywhere already.
But the sooner we get this 'oh my privacy' all over and done with, the sooner we'll learn to live with it.
this logic does not apply to gun manufacturers, because guns are mostly used by law enforcement and army and not to commit murder and robbery.
Sorry for going way of topic here, but you may want to reconsider that last statement..... Law enforcement and army don't murder or commit robbery? That really depends on your perspective..
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure it's about caring enough - it takes a LOT of work to understand and select between different candidates policies - even then who believes these policies will be followed through? I doubt many have any faith in out politicians to uphold their election promises and policies.
Such most Australian's that I know have simply given up on the system and often simply don't know who they would like to vote for and therefore don't really care who wins..
From my perspective, voting here tends to be more of a popularity contest that has nothing to do with politics or policies.
Heck, I do have a great interest in who get's elected here, but I simply do not have the hundreds of hours to scour policies and understand what each candidate really represents - as far as I can see the system is a broken farce and has outlived it usefulness.
In Australia, retailers mark up the prices how ever they like (pretty much), something like a big screen TV that has a sticker price of say $4K can usually be had for around $3K-$3.5K. The same goes for just about all electronics, gadgets and appliances.
Our retail market is a sham.
Note also that our goods cost significantly more (often 2 times) here in Australia than in the US - it's often to buy the same item in the US and have it shipped to Australia and it still turns out significantly more expensive... This is regardless of where they are manufactured.
Please, please - When I try to bargain a price down and receive the 'Oh you're one of those hagglers' attitudes, I just want to say "put the real fsck price on the product and I won't need to even talk to you' but that will never get me a good price - retail, makes you feel dirtier than sleeping with a $2 hooker.
I thought, I thought, I think I'm wrong :).
I promise to never make this mistake again.
Hmmm, seems my thoughts and reality are, well, different :)... I've always believed (I don't know why) that transmitting cost orders of magnitude more energy than receiving radio waves.. I'm sure this is a common misconception, anyone care to explain why it's not true?
Radio receivers? I thought they in themselves were cheap (power wise). I thought it was the transmitters that were power hungry, I think receivers will be fine.
As one of privileged I get at best 1.5Mb with serious crc error counts over my ADSL2 connection with daily dropouts (usually at the most important times) - that's the best my line can do and I'm in the nice dense suburbs. Thanks Telstra.
I beg thee, bring fiber to my house please.
I'm interested to know if there is any geographical, demographic or cultural influence.
Seriously, how on earth do you define a Terrorist? Isn't that almost as difficult as defining a 'bad person' - let's jail all 'bad people' and all people who frequent 'bad people' sites - sorry, but there is too much subjectivity required to determine who is a 'terrorist' that it can not work effectively for the purpose it purports to be for.
Really? I'm just baffled how anyone of any authority could think this is they way we need to head....
I think the world is pretty fscked up, and the shear size of our societies and apparent incompatibilities between them mean they are dysfunctional by virtue - but this is not the solution. I'm not saying I can devise a good solution, but I can recognise that this is not one.
Indeed - sorry I must have been half asleep (perhaps fully asleep) when I made that post - for some reason I thought the OP I replied too was claiming that the cordless phones will be useless in a power outage when the fibre replaces the copper - obviously upon rereading that post I was actually in fierce agreement with the OP..
I'll get back in my box now..
ps, I'm an Australian and pretty much everyone I know uses their mobile (cell) phone as their primary voice contact device - we use our copper lines for our ADSL connections... I don't even have a handset plugged into my copper outlet.
The rental on a copper line from Telstra is over $30 a month - all we get for that is the ability to make charged phone calls - I make none, so I pay $30 a month to Telstra for my phone line just to get ADSL from my ISP over. My ISP charges me $50 a month for a 100GB of data over a ADSL 2 connection over that Telstra copper - I can only acheive a very poor 1 - 2Mb over that very poor and under maintained expensive Telstra copper and I'm in a nice dense suburban area. So I end up paying over $80 a month for a poor 1 - 2Mb connection.
I can go 'naked' - that's the term for having a internet connection without paying Telstra for the copper - you pay the ISP instead, and the ISP install hardware in the Telstra exchange to handle their own back haul. But this saves only $60 a year as the ISP need to pay telstra a portion still, hardly worth it for the down side... Basically Telstra applies a tax on the entire copper system, that I'm sure I've paid for now at least 10 times over.. Its a hideous monopoly that I can't wait to see the back of.
Whilst this may be true, I don't see the relevance - Those handsets will operate exactly the same in both circumstances.
Vegetarians "healthier"?
This is in direct contradiction of all vegetarians I know - they are all slim and look healthy from a distance, but they lack energy, become ill easily and just seem under nourished.
I think the term healthier is being use in a very subjective manner these days...
Indeed - Descent was certainly one of my favourites - 3 degrees of freedom and just felt good.
I thought Taco Cowboy was implying that due to the fact that the passphrase is too long to remember, he doesn't need to say he's forgotten it - he could never remember it - Instead, he'd had it written down or similar... That has now been lost or destroyed.
Where? It's certainly Wednesday 25th Jan 11:40am here....
These USB flash drives should be destroyed, not auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Considering that these devices probably contain personal information, I just don't understand how anyone can think it's right to hand them over to anyone for analysis.
Do we do the same for personal diaries? Peoples wallets? I certainly hope not.
Personally I think it's disgusting that they are not being treated with the respect that they should be.
Of course I understand that a lot of these we probably not 'lost' but planted for nefarious reasons, but still, some will be legitimately lost personal items that could contains a wealth of personal information!
License plate reading cameras, facial recognition and other tracking devices are going to happen, they will be everywhere. Well they pretty much are everywhere already.
But the sooner we get this 'oh my privacy' all over and done with, the sooner we'll learn to live with it.
When did we get these?
Because that's not longer-winded at all.. no....
That being alive increases the likelihood of death.
Computers are like air-conditioners - they work great until you start opening windows.
less
this logic does not apply to gun manufacturers, because guns are mostly used by law enforcement and army and not to commit murder and robbery.
Sorry for going way of topic here, but you may want to reconsider that last statement..... Law enforcement and army don't murder or commit robbery? That really depends on your perspective..
To overturn a stupid decision "wouldn't be Australian".
No, sorry you are linking quality of life to your "determination, credits, whatever". I don't.
Unfortunately, you need to prioritize in the real world, where resources are finite.
Yes, but that does not mean that you must always employ the attitude "Those with more" have "more to lose" therefore "deserve more"..
Those with more get more... It's a fantastic system isn't it.