Why don't we ever hear any GOOD news out of Australia? Is it just the media companies (and here I include /. ) only talking about the shitty stuff they're doing ... or is it really that shitty there now?

Australia used to be cool.

pi is stupid anyway. It should be 6.283185 (the current value of 2pi) instead of 3.141593
That would make it June 28th in the US and 6th Feb everywhere else. Which is still screwed up... but at least we wouldn't have to mess around with 2pi in all our equations...

We're making pretty good money and want to pull together a large enough nest egg to allow us to move home, buy a house, and start a business. After that, we'll likely only ever return here to take the kids to Disneyworld

Oh yeah...that kind of sentiment will endear you tremendously to the local populace.

Sadly, this is plan B. Plan A was to immigrate, integrate, and raise our family here.

My wife and I came to this country because it is the land of opportunity. The place where the very best in the world go to build the best business. We're thinking of leaving because that don't seem to actually be true... at least, not anymore. Instead you:

• treat us like criminals whenever we want to cross the border or enter a government building
• limit H1 terms to force us to leave
• have a surprisingly poor primary and elementary education system (on a side note... your President wants kids to stay in school longer?!? You already have them in school for more hours than other countries whose kids score better on tests... it's not the quantity you need to improve, it's the quality)
• allow your religious nutjobs a frightening amount of political power. This is less evident under Obama than it was under Bush II but still scares the hell out of me
• disappear people to Guantanamo under Bush II and Bagram under Obama

I wanted to make this permanent, get my green card and eventually citizenship. But it seeme to me that you guys are trending hard towards compleat paranoid xenophobia. We have kids now and I'm thinking more and more about what living here is going to do to them. I don't want my kids to grow up in what, to me, seems like a poisonous atmosphere of stranger hate, militant and religious zealotry, misplaced sense of entitlement, and a "we're the greatest because we're the greatest" view of the world.

At this point, it's just a matter of time for us. We're making pretty good money and want to pull together a large enough nest egg to allow us to move home, buy a house, and start a business. After that, we'll likely only ever return here to take the kids to Disneyworld

Is there such a thing as a "good" pun?

Much of the tech I actually care about has reached the "good enough" stage >> why bother upgrading? (This is especially true for gaming platforms)

IMHO, DRM technology has become crimminally intrusive >> I don't want to support those bastards

I have a family and a mortgage >> I have more important ways to spend my money

Much of what I want to do and see is available online >> why buy even more physical stuff?

Do you also celebrate the First of May?
I do and it's awesome

I really like my Kyocera FS-1010.
It's technically a workgroup printer, but it's small and sturdy and prints a LOT on a single cartage.
It has linux support, but I deliberately bought a networkable printer so I would never have to worry about OS compatability

Somehow "Sharks with frikken laserprinters in their heads" just doesn't seem as cool

beaten by stealth dave
funny becomes redundant
better luck next time :-(