This is where Apple are on to something. A single licence PC upgrade pack for MacOSX Leopard is $AUD149.00, but a "family pack" upgrade pack is only $AUD249.00 and allows you to install on up to 5 computers, which makes much more sense.

If you could get a 5 licence Windows 7 (or XP) licence pack for $100 more than a single licence, it wouldn't be so unpalatable.

Yes, I was wondering in what universe is Bowen an "outback town". I seem to recall it being coastal, somewhere close to Ayre, although it may have moved in the 35 years since I was last there.

It seems to me that Stardock would have still had the same problem without the pirated copies had the embargo not been broken.

Quite a number of Australian ISPs do allow this. For example, we get 7 gb per month, but we also get a "bonus" 14 gb of off peak data which is available from 12am to 12pm. You can guess when p2p gets scheduled.

...or shop in Australia

I'm not convinced that the "MAD" concept would work with Islamic fundamentalist nations such as Iran. It seems to me that they would happily sacrifice their own people if it meant defeating "the Great Satan" and infidels.

5. Don't tailgate - the end is near!

Couple that with outstanding warranties and you have a winner. A good example is the dead/stuck pixel policy they have for LCDs. It is one of the best around.

I think some of the mods must be on crack. How the hell is this guy's post a troll?

Sorry to double post.. this is a good article on it too.

No it's more like this:
Optus spent $5 million creating a 900 page bid proposing an open playing field. I don't think the details are public yet, but that link has the media release. They also fronted a $5 million bond.
Telstra sent in a 14 page memo saying something along the lines of "we'll do it as long as you guarantee our infrastructure monopoly and we wont pay the bond, but we promise to put in $5 billion".
If this gets up, this is a win for all Australian Internet users. "Telstra has said entry-level access to its proposed NBN would start at $39.95 per month for a 1 megabit per second connection with 200MB of download capacity."[ref] This is what we could look forward to under Telstra. More of the same shite. That 200mb includes backhaul too.

I thought all of the dingo/baby jokes faded away back in the 80's?

At least the $100 million (citation?) spent by the previous government on examining Internet censorship still left us with a choice of whether or not to participate. I would rather see $100 million spent on trying to catch and punish the people making and distributing the real kiddie porn.
In other news,in Sydney, a homeless guy was today charged with having child porn on his phone. It was pictures of kids running around in public in their underwear, so apparently children playing, with clothes on, in a non-sexual context is also considered porn. The implications of this are quite profound, especially in the context of the current debate on filtering. Oh what a slippery slope.

I can't believe that you voted for those arsehats either. ;)