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541.
by shirro 13y ago
Not really. Both major parties in Australia still stand for something. They share a lot of common ground on many issues which does make some people feel there is a lack of choice but often these are issues where there is some option which i
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by shirro 13y ago
The leaders of the three biggest parties, ALP, Liberal and Greens are all Catholic or in the case of Rudd a Catholic turned Anglican. Catholics are the second biggest cult after the Protestants in Australia and just ahead of the non-believe
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by shirro 13y ago
The senate is it though. If you live in a safe seat like me you have no influence on who gets into government, only wrecking things when they are in.
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by shirro 13y ago
Another solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist. If your viewer has a small screen REDUCE YOUR CONTENT. You probably have lots of waffle you don't need anyway. Conversely if they have more screen real estate than brain
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by shirro 13y ago
Australia needs to build this between Sydney and Melbourne. Plenty of sunlight to power it. Not much risk of earthquakes. There is enough traffic to support it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_busiest_passenge
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by shirro 13y ago
Here I am stuck on "pretty" OS X because of the support for sexy hardware and all I really want is awesome window manager, chrome and some terminals. If only there was a haswell ultrabook with a huge trackpad, nice backlit keyboar
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by shirro 13y ago
Now we need a new semantic tag to indicate content will be annoying that we can style with css however we like. I propose we reuse the blink tag for that purpose. <blink>The new iphone is rumoured to...</blink> <blink&gt
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by shirro 13y ago
Many countries in Asia that were poor and underdeveloped when I was a child now have better standards of living than I had in a developed country at the time. Africa is a big place but some countries are making clear progress. It is wonderf
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by shirro 13y ago
Anyone care to comment on the chances services like LastPass are compromised in some way? I would expect they would have been approached. Even if the data is end-to-end encrypted there have to be ways - injecting something client side etc.
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by shirro 13y ago
Does this mean I have to go outside?
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by shirro 13y ago
While I think the "War on Terror" has been mostly a huge waste of tax payer money and a threat to civil liberties, when comparing it to lighting you have to consider that the rate of lightning strikes are probably fairly constant
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by shirro 13y ago
I went to school with a male Kim in Aus. Never even realised it could be a girls name until the 80s when there were several female singers called Kim. Lots of male names seem to become girls names. Ashley is another that seems to have been
553.
by shirro 13y ago
I think there is a developing consensus that the emerging US police state (and that of its allies) aren't appropriate for constitutional democracies. Comparing them to Nazi experiments or nuclear weapons is still a bit premature. The p
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by shirro 13y ago
You have to admit these guys are working on some cool problems. If you don't have a problem with the legality of it or potential for misuse it looks like a really interesting place to work.
555.
by shirro 13y ago
When I was a kid my town had two newspapers. A broadsheet and a shitty rag called The News. The guy who inherited The News went on to buy the other paper and then like a cancer take over the world. Today 11 of the 12 Australian capital city
556.
by shirro 13y ago
Came here looking for 7 layer model. It seems to be the only surviving legacy of OSI. From memory Computer Networks by Tanenbaum mapped every protocol into that damn model. Typical of committees to have 3 more layers than needed.
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by shirro 13y ago
The anti-virus industry has always been a bit of a con. It is probably hard for people who habitually use Windows to understand since their AV software has probably saved them a lot of times but it is actually a really hit and miss way to f
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by shirro 13y ago
I don't know about potty training. Disposable nappies are a miracle of habituation. It seems they can deposit bucket loads in them and never know it - at least until they saturate and the dam bursts. Living in a climate that is warm to
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by shirro 13y ago
s/Canada/Australia/
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by shirro 13y ago
Sales of unnecessary products is simply a consequence of capitalism working properly. People create needs that didn't exist previously through marketing which is all most "health" advice on television (eg Dr Oz) or other medi
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by shirro 13y ago
I am sure with higher infant mortality and bigger families there were massive cost savings in gender neutral clothes for small children. We have our first girl due. I went to the local semi-quality big chain store and a stack of nice pink o
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by shirro 13y ago
The laptop hardware mostly. I value command line tools above the GUI and ports, then homebrew have been sufficient along with VMs and VPS providers for my needs. OSX is just a window manager for my iTerms and Chrome windows so is entirely r
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by shirro 13y ago
Get everyone out in the cold air wearing kilts. The testicles hang on the outside for a reason. BTW have my third kid due in a couple of months. So survival of the fittest is working out fine for me.
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by shirro 13y ago
I used a water saving toilet in a holiday shack with a handbasin on the top which drained into the cistern below so the water got reused. Interesting idea but not convincingly useful. It lacked warm water for starters so it is a fairly casu
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by shirro 13y ago
That makes me feel like waving my countries flag proudly. Mainly because it isn't the US flag.
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by shirro 13y ago
Women are graduating in higher numbers and getting better positions. My wife has a permanent secure job so I made the practical decision to be home dad 5 years ago. It is a huge readjustment for anyone not used to looking after kids regardl
567.
by shirro 13y ago
Part of it is just experience. As a sysadmin I was jumping from one task to the next learning as I went. I never got the chance to be really crazily good at any one thing. No sooner would I learn something and apply it and I was off to put
568.
by shirro 13y ago
If you can make the entrance requirements everyone has a chance to study without the penalty of crippling debt, most of us reach legal drinking age during our first year of study and our campuses rarely get shot up by gun toting crazies. Fr
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by shirro 13y ago
They make reference to the Australian scheme in the article. Student loans in Aus are indexed by inflation (consumer price index) so they maintain their real value so as long as wages keep up with inflation it is effectively interest free a
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by shirro 13y ago
No, they are trying to show the world the value of collecting data on millions of innocent law abiding citizens and how it enables accurate targeting of which plane a whistleblower is on almost as well as it can prevent terrorists bombing m

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