At least it's a non-issue insofar as carbon dioxide levels are concerned. The link between CO2 and increasing temperatures doesn't survive outside actual greenhouses to grow plants (which don't have their own global weather systems, oceans, etc, to counteract its isolation). Sea levels have been rising slowly ever since the end of the last ice age. This has happened in cycles since time immemorial, and will happen again. If anything, we could do with a lot MORE carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to help counteract the next ice age, and to increase fertiliser for plants, needed by the MANY hungry people you'd think the Catholic Church should actually care about.

Climate change is a non-issue. The temperature has NOT risen since 1998. Fact. If people build homes on increasingly marginal land and closer to the sea or low-lying areas, then OF COURSE the effects of ANY climate event will be more severe! This is NOT proof that carbon dioxide is pollution.

Amen to that, brother! The search is terrible. We need the ability to sort by popularity, download count, most recent first or last, etc. And when you click the back button to go back a page, actually go back to the page as I had it previously, not a collapsed version of the category I was looking at. I HATE looking in the App Store for apps due to the cornucopia of rubbish. The crap to quality ratio is very high, alas.

I was receiving a pointer to an NSNumber in a recursive function and wanted to increment it so that the ultimate caller eventually would have the value. I guess I could use an int internally then set the pointer to the NSNumber to the final result of the int, but that seemed like just as much work. Anyway, I'm ditching Objective-C now that Swift is here, so it's no longer an issue

It may not measure up to whatever fly-by-night languages to which you might compare it, but it's a MAJOR and LONG OVERDUE replacement for Objective-C, which is the only language any serious Mac developer has had to put up with. I for one welcome our new Swift overlords.

I had to figure out how to increment an NSNumber over the weekend. It's not pretty:

NSNumber *num = [NSNumber numberWithInt:[num intValue] + 1];

... UNINSTALL! I refuse to have a Facebook account and if Whatsapp starts making it mandatory to have one, then I'll go back to plain old SMS.

I thought "gold pressed latinum" was the preferred currency of moneyed-types in the alpha quadrant? I couldn't imagine Quark dealing in any other kind, certainly not the ordinary non-gold pressed variety.

I created a custom email alias for Linked In and use a really nasty randomly-generated password which I store in a password manager, so they'll never get anything else out of me. I also never put my work Outlook email address and password in. I'm not THAT stupid :-) Some people obviously are, but I'd hardly call that Linked In's fault.

Sorry, it has to be done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE

We have election scrutineers from each party to observe the process. I've done it once before and we all watch the boxes like hawks, and the counting of ballot papers, too. You'd only need sturdy metal boxes if the ballot boxes had to be collected by, say, your local govt-friendly militia to transport them to a "safe" counting location (i.e., where their contents are simply replaced anyway).

Democracy in Australia is one of the best-functioning in the world. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you do, you end up with the US system where elections are a complete farce. It's amazing how they hold themselves up as a beacon of democracy to the world. Their elections are less free than some dictatorships!

There is no way that the Australian Labor Party could be considered Centre Right, not in a million years. They're more Centre Left than anything, and Greens Left or Far Left. And by extension the Liberal/National Coalition could be Centre Right or Right. They both compete for the centre ground.

The argument that three greens are a viable alternative simply because they aren't one of the major parties is a very poor argument indeed. Their policies would ruin this country utterly! The Liberals appoint their leadership through a ballot in the parliamentary party room. You don't like it, vote for somebody else. It has worked fine for a long time and just because Labor is tearing itself to bits, doesn't mean the Libs have to change to suit people who wouldn't vote for them anyway.

I have sometimes routed my preferences to ultimately land with the Liberals but upon finding out that they would be deprived of my AEC-funding as a result, most definitely I'll be putting a "1" in the Liberal/National Coalition box this time. Thank you, kind sir :-) You've done me a great service.

They might come from the "social democratic" tradition but there's nothing democratic about the Australian Labor Party. They're the masters of branch stacking and rigging votes, especially through union representation at national conferences. The party has become a joke and the sooner they're turfed in the coming months, the better. They need a few terms in the wilderness to clean up their filthy act.