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Where's my water is good. Fun, problem solving type game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapunda_Road_Royal_Commission

I was one of the 5,000 people who were at the protest march. Did nothing to help of course, nor did the royal commission.

Pond-scum of an (ex-police) lawyer by the name of Eugene McGee, got drunk, was speeding when he killed a cyclist, fled the scene, hid from police, police didn't do their job properly, lawyer did what they do best and he found a way out, and he ends up with a small fine and lose of his driving license.

And people wonder why lawyers and police are held in such low esteem.

Conceptually, version control is like having your own time machine for documents.

Here's a brief summary I wrote about the benefits.

Perhaps, but you also lose geek cred for not using ½ or ¼ ;-)

btw, I live in South Australia and yes, this is just cheap political points, I suspect it's because we have a vocal christian community who frown upon violent fun.

As the father of a 6 year old Son, it's my job (and his Mums), not the states, to ensure he plays and watches appropriate games, videos, etc. I appreciate being advised as to the content rating of games, television and movies, but that's all it should be; a recommendation.

This could be true, but [citation needed].

FWIW, we were in rim port hell for two years and stuck on dial up because when we moved into our home I didn't get ADSL connected within 3 months (new home, new baby = not much time for geeking out!) so we lost our reserved port (which no-one mentioned to us).

Once things settled down at home I checked the Telstra wholesale ADSL availability reports as soon as they came out, but the only way we managed to get ADSL(1) was when Telstra upgraded our local sub-exchange in the expectation they would win the NBN tender (pre NBN-co days). It was very arrogant of them, as they upgraded a *heap* of hardware (I have a mate who works there), but I'm not complaining...well...we're now stuck on ADSL1 and aren't on the NBN radar for at least 2-3 more years, but anything is better than dialup!

Hey! You know Johnny too :)

Hey! Don't be so hard on the English! ;-)

I bloody well hope not!

You mean like this: http://beyondzeroemissions.org/

Just a pity our (Australian) economy depends so much on digging up coal and iron ore to send to China.

Not if you turn it off.

They are a good idea, my son has one and loves it!

That's (at least partially) incorrect.

AGL has been chosen to provide energy from GreenPower accredited sources in SA to meet 100% of electricity
consumed by the ADP operatons for a 20-year contract period.

FWIW, South Australia is also getting 2 new gas-fired generators on Torrens Island for electricity needs.

Nice tag line though.

My point was that they do this for a very good reason, to prevent the spread of disease. An often quoted figure is ~80% of infections (everywhere, not just in hospitals) are spread because people don't wash their hands, or wash them properly.

http://www.cdc.gov/cleanhands/
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Handwashing_why_it's_important?OpenDocument

By washing your hands with just water, you are effectively saying you don't care about this for the people you do come in contact with. And I'm glad you have the ability to differentiate those with weakened immune systems.

You know the #1 thing that hospitals can do to prevent the spread of infection?

Get staff who are in contact with patients to use hand gel.

I sure hope you don't work in the service or heath industry.