In the context of parent's comment, yes, that matters very much.

After all, what is the average cost of living in India or China?

For the record, I am not loyal to any party. Each election I review each party's policies and go with my gut. I think those who blindly follow a party have helped ruin this once fine country.

We cannot muscle companies around just because we can.

100% agree with you. However I believe unions have a role to play in society. Historically they have been critical to balancing the power between powerful industrialists and the lowly worker. (BTW: why is it that those who most adore free markets object to workers freely uniting?)

Also, it's worth noting that the real world isn't digital, it's analogue. And this is where politics resides. Should workers have more rights? Or fewer? There's no universal answer, just opinion.

FYI: Wrong, I ain't no whipper-snapper.

Bwahahahahahahaha yourself.

From this article:

Toyota is now in a fierce battle with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union over the attempt to reduce workers' conditions at the plant.

How DARE the union object to conditions being reduced! Perhaps you would also like to see the minimum wage scrapped?

Through creative accounting, large companies are very adept at crying poor to the government, while at the same time telling their shareholders that they're expecting bumper profits. You need to grow up, mate.

Ahhh ... thank you !!!
You have finally clarified for me something no pro-vaccination person had managed to yet explain. (Not that I particularly pursued an answer, mind you.)

I had previously enquired as to why pro-vaccination parents got all worked-up about whether or not other parents vaccinated their kids: if one's kids were vaccinated, one had nothing to fear, right? But apparently that's not always true.

Cheers bud.

Do Persians (Iranians?) even consider themselves to be Arabs?

Disclaimer: IANAP(I).

Also: driving is usually necessary, skydiving rarely is.

Both the regimes of the United States of American and that of Great Britain have proven to be DISHONEST _and_ UNPRINCIPLED !

FTFY.

Are you serious?! I think the OP is intelligent enough to know shooting wouldn't be his first option.

Personally, I think it was quite a good hypothetical to illustrate a very important function of government.

Overall I think Google's various interfaces are very clean and generally work very well.

However, I have consistently found that when I log-into Google AdWords via Firefox, the cursor will jump from the password field to the email field while I'm still entering the password. I've never encountered this in Chrome. Strange.

Homosexual.

* Same here: excessive white-space down the left & right-hand side of the page.
* As others have said, the presentation of comments is off-putting.
* Images at the top of each article are a waste of space; dump them and display the full bloody summary instead !

Let me put it this way:
I used to visit Engadget a couple of times a day (I currently visit Slashdot more often). However after Engadget adopted their current design, I'd say I now visit them about once every 1 or 2 weeks. I love the content, I just detest how it's being presented to me. And now you guys are going down the same path ?!

You've been told. The rest is up to you.

Spot on.

Apple churns-out some kick-ass products; but we also know how proud they can be.

I'm sure Apple would love to ignore this issue, but if it gets more coverage in the mainstream press I'm sure they'll quickly (and quietly) release an update.

+1 Wise

Fool you once, shame on me. Fool you twice? You are a moron and deserve what you get.

You stuffed-up a famous saying.

This is the correct form.

They just cannot ticket everyone who exceeds the speed limit because a large fraction of the public routinely does just that.

Australian politicians have accommodated that issue