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Comment Re:Because it sucks when you can't compete..... (Score 1) 96

Which companies? As far as I can tell the only companies that are complaining about this are other search engines or other people who compete directly with google in another area (e.g. maps).
In the case of search engines if you search for "search" Google isn't even the top result (Yahoo is...), Google is third. If you search for maps Google Maps comes first (which makes sense as it is probably the one most people link to on websites), followed immediately by whereis. As far as I can tell Google isn't intentionally manipulating the results there products are just more popular so get more links and are hence ranked higher (which is fair, this is how Google ranks everything. It is their core product.)
So in this case they appear to be in the right.

Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 369

Alternately he is a US citizen (a lot of ISIS fighters are from western countries). Gets on a plane from a country bordering Syria (say Turkey, which has quite a pours border atm) and lands directly in a major US population centre (say New York). He now can very effectively spread the disease. It is also worth noting that air travel is a brilliant way to spread a disease (hundreds of people trapped on a plane with recycled air for 12hours)
Now a better question is, realistically is it sensible to introduce extra security measures to respond to this? The answer is most likely no.

Comment Re:Space Drive or Global Warming? (Score 1) 315

No the control experiment did not get the same results. An alternate version of the "drive" that did no comply with the theory it was supposed to work by did. they also tested a control:

"Finally, a 50 ohm RF resistive load was used in place of the test article to verify no significant systemic effects that would cause apparent or real torsion pendulum displacements. The RF load was energised twice at an amplifier output power of approximately 28 watts and no significant pendulum arm displacements were observed."

Comment Re:Great... (Score 1) 582

The evidence that most strongly points to the Russian sponsored separatists is that several social media accounts owned by that group posted that they had shot down a Ukrainian military transport at the time and place of the crash, and then quickly removed them. And this has been independently verified. (And given this I can accept that it was also a mistake, because it would be pretty stupid to post otherwise).
FYI the plane altered its course because of severe weather it was avoiding and was still flying in the approved corridor. I was in the air on the day in question in a nearby area, and the weather defiantly warranted this.

Comment Re:Battler (Score 1) 291

If they apply through legally defined channels and have something to offer that Australia deems valuable, they will be welcome

You know that requesting asylum is a legally defined channel regardless of how they arrived right? Or at least that is what we agreed to under international law?

Australia has no duty, whatsoever, to care for every unhappy wanderer that comes to the door.

Apart from the legal duty that our government committed to uphold, and our moral responsibility as human beings. If you disagree with this you should lobby the government to withdraw from these treaties instead of making us look bad on the international stage, but considering the government currently has to lie that they are doing this to "save lives" as supposed to pleasing bigots like you I suspect you won't be very successful.

That's just terrible. It is now clear to me that they must avoid this horrible Australia place at all costs.

Yes and soon so will the rest of the world if we continue to do this. We depend on the rest of the world for things like trade and defence. But more importantly the ends do not justify the means, we are not a country that condones torture and show trials.

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