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571.
by shirro 13y ago
It will be nice to take my son down the pub on his 18th, buy him a nice cold beer, congratulate him on reaching adulthood and give thanks that we don't live in a backwood shithole like the USA.
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by shirro 13y ago
The dems were founded by an ex-Liberal minister. They were supposed to be the socially liberal centrist alternative to the increasingly not-very-liberal conservative party called the Liberals. They moved left into competition with the more
573.
by shirro 13y ago
I pay for my coffee every day with NFC. The big 4 banking cartel here doesn't want an Apple or Google getting a foothold in the market and hurting their profits which is why NFC is a joke on mobile but on cards it does fine.
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by shirro 13y ago
Perhaps on paper. But being a global power gives the US a special relationship with friendly countries as well. The dependency on US military protection subverts the sovereignty of allied nations causing them to harmonise laws on intellectu
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by shirro 13y ago
I don't think the USA is comparable to the worst offenders unless you are looking at a list of bullet points instead of the big picture. But it is hard not to feel the USA is heading down the wrong path. As allies we are compelled by o
576.
by shirro 13y ago
Ignoring the incarceration rate for a moment and considering a simpler issue such as capital punishment. Whether or not to kill someone in retribution for a crime is a moral decision not an economic one. No country I would call civilised cu
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by shirro 13y ago
If you grow up living in a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon and are repeatedly told it is there to protect you from evil doers not good people like yourself, is your resulting behaviour still truly that of a fre
578.
by shirro 13y ago
There are broadly two types of innocent victims. Those who feel violated if they found someone had broken into their house and gone through their underwear and those who would be dismissive because their underwear was all clean and no real
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by shirro 13y ago
I think most people with some technical savvy have already concluded that everything on the Internet is potentially subject to surveillance, both government and corporate. You can mitigate the impact on your privacy to some extent by going
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by shirro 13y ago
People still buy diamond rings? Why not invest the money or put it into your mortgage?
581.
by shirro 14y ago
Ownership doesn't bother me as much as quality control. Cheap stuff often compromises quality regardless of source. As much as possible I try not to buy food sourced from outside Australia or New Zealand as I don't trust the regulatory envi
582.
by shirro 14y ago
Different sorts of lessons. A lot of formal education is limited by the need to produce moderately competent fodder for cubical farms. It isn't always about producing the best individuals but satisfying the needs of society. Society needs m
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by shirro 14y ago
Some messages in there for me as a parent. Make time for chatting with my kids informally and away from distractions like tv and Internet. I have been for a few short hikes with my youngest and I probably should be doing more activities lik
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by shirro 14y ago
He lives in a country with socialised health care. What that effectively means for someone with an aggressive/incurable disease is that instead of leaving your family bankrupted by heroic but statistically futile treatments you get high qua
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by shirro 14y ago
It always amuses me that in Australia primary producers identify themselves as conservative and align with the conservative party but have historically been a bunch of agrarian socialists. We even had some towns founded as agricultural comm
586.
by shirro 14y ago
Extremists play a role. Where do you draw the line on sexualisation at a tech conference? Perhaps we need unpopular people like Adria to create debate on what is acceptable and what isn't. I don't always agree with RMS but I think the world
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by shirro 14y ago
I have hung around a few health related forums and left a few in disgust. The echo chamber for unproven alternative remedies, untested theories and conspiracy theories totally dominates over rational discussion of evidence based medicine. I
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by shirro 14y ago
And mostly useless. Most active people would prefer walking or cycling to maintain their fitness. Most inactive people don't have the coordination and would rather sit down on a mobility scooter. It was a cool idea with a limited market. Gl
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by shirro 14y ago
Jobs has been quoted saying the concept for the iPad came first and there have been pictures come out in the Samsung case showing a prototype from 2002. The iPhone likely did help establish the market for the iPad which would have been a ni
590.
by shirro 14y ago
Dell, Nokia, Borders, Blockbuster. The world changes and people shift platforms. It doesn't matter how good the company is when they don't have products anyone wants. The enterprise market is still there but not so much with Dell and it is
591.
by shirro 14y ago
Perhaps I don't understand the money side of things enough to comment but I think Amazon is doing a hell of a lot more than undercutting competition by withholding profit from shareholders. They are identifying vulnerable businesses and tot
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by shirro 14y ago
Sadly the sustained value women can get from a sex toy is so much more than anything a bloke can briefly get. This article deserves to make it to the top for the hackery alone. I doubt if a tube of lube would be as worthy. Hopefully there w
593.
by shirro 14y ago
My wife looked at this and said "shampoo bottles, conditioner bottles..."
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by shirro 14y ago
My young son loves Studio Ghibli films. Nearly all the main characters Kiki, Chihiro, Ponyo, Arrietty, Satsuke and Mei etc are girls. He is a bit young for Mononoke and hasn't seen Nausicaä. About the only one he doesn't like is Porco Rosso
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by shirro 14y ago
Why does an otherwise fairly extraordinary country (space missions, amazing inventions, lots of creativity) manage to get basic stuff so completely wrong (bad toilet plumbing, units of measurement, paper currency, health care, dodgy voting)
596.
by shirro 14y ago
It isn't like a health safety net even has to be all that expensive. A good mixed system looks after the poorest people and everyone else is encouraged (with tax penalties etc) to have private health insurance. In a wealthy country hardly a
597.
by shirro 14y ago
Another South Australian. Power is just the next thing to be disrupted by technology changes. I think we need smart meters and a more market driven approach to retail pricing. Peak electricity costs can go through the roof and people will r
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by shirro 14y ago
That is a depressing statistic.
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by shirro 14y ago
Given the MSL has a constant power source does that mean it can operate 24hrs and 40 minutes a day? Do they have driving lights or can drive with IR or other sensors? If so they could get a lot more science done than the MER mission. Or do
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by shirro 14y ago
I don't want to go church bashing and I don't know how it is in the US but in Australia church run enterprises pick up a lot of government contracts for job placement, school chaplaincy and delivery of social services. Also church run schoo

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