+1 to your line of argument.

My 2c: it depends on your definition of "egg". The way I'd put it the egg as in anything that could be defined as an egg in the biological sense predated the chicken by hundreds of millions of years. The first egg would have dated from around the time of the first life defined as animal. The egg came before the chicken.

On the other hand: an egg as in a chicken egg, ie. something produced by a chicken would have to be produced by the first chicken which had evolved from something that is not quite a chicken. The chicken egg came after the chicken.

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Yeah, I'm in Victoria too and I've never seen an electronic voting machine. Maybe next election...

You're forgetting about the seller listing & paypal fees

It's also useful for conversion of units - 1,000 cm^3 is equivalent to 1Litre(of water) which weighs 1 Kilogram, 1 Joule = 1 Newton over 1 Meter = 1 Watt Second etc.

Or for that matter did they not think to try testing the actual module on the ground prior to launch?

Basically... our prime minister known here as K-Rudd is enforcing the "Won't someone think of the children?!?" act. IMO the way this came about is that our current PM who's party is by far the more liberal of the two main powers (interesting fact, the conservative opposition party is actually called the liberal party) got elected into government because he campaigned for the same issues as our previous conservative PM but with a more modern, less "old fuddy-duddy" & slimy political appearance. The swinging conservative voter helped elect him because his policy didn't conflict with their ideals and the youth of Australia helped elect him because he wasn't a drooling 80 year old with a speech impediment who went for a daily "jog" in the countries national colours for the media. Basically our old PM had will and enforced it. Sure, it made the average Joe's life hell and his CEO schoolmates life easy and that was his downfall - there's more average Joe's than CEOs. In reality the only thing that's changed in Australian politics is the work place relations, and even that's been a slow ongoing process. Meanwhile we're still trying to dig ourselves out of being a technological backwater...

At the end of the day how is this a bad thing for the people of New Jersey? Any person except the owner of said gun is unable to use it (yeah, unless you steal his watch as well) - children and home intruders included. Worst case scenario: there are less handguns in New Jersey because of the price of these new weapons. Sorry, I really don't see the downside here.

Creepy sure. Racist? Maybe if they were impersonating a member of another race for comedic value. Oh wait, one of them was...

How are Verizon getting away with calling a plan with a 5GB cap unlimited? Where I'm from there are laws against that. What, unlimited as long as your credit card is unlimited too? That dog won't hunt mont senior.

Only uses ~8% CPU on safari vs ~30% for the same video through the safari flash plugin.