I'd say that the new fish were indeed unable to breed with the fish without the adaptation, as those fish were dead

...then gold and lead will be worth the same. Likely the value of lead will go up and the value of gold will go down in proportion to supply and demand of the respective elements.

Somehow parent seems strangely relevant

I (at least these days) always think of the business concept of a "consumer" as being a thoughtless, emotion-driven automaton that exists solely to purchase goods and services provided by businesses, mainly because of the language used that refers to "consumers" in such contexts.

But yeah, we (almost all) consume in the sense that we buy stuff. Technically, growing your own stuff consumes resources too.

Perhaps I'm just being pedantic.

The cinema at which I frequent charges only $2 more for 3D movies, and an extra dollar for reusable 3D glasses if you don't have any.

The food is the real cash cow.

Well, that's blatantly wrong. Considering the pointless Holden vs Ford patriotism that goes on here there's no government intervention required to keep bogans buying locally produced cars (except for those produced by Asian owned manufacturers). I'm all for repeat or blatant idiots having their cars impounded. I had some moron drive into me to cut in front of me at a set of traffic lights, and then he raged and reversed into me before speeding off. That's the only collision I've ever been involved in.

+1 troll there. I've been done for speeding a minor amount over the limit a couple of times. There's usually leeway in the form of not fining someone until they are a certain amount over the speed limit. It's adequate motivation to make me check my speed whenever I pass fixed speed cameras or see brand new cars suspiciously parked in unusual places.

Quote from your linked article: 'Campbell said he had been advised by the IT contractor building the website, Bang The Table, that "there were two days of IT attacks on the website firewall security that began on Thursday 18 February at 8.44 p.m. and continued until around midday on Friday 19 February".'

Sounds like a Cover Your Ass on behalf of the contractor and a politician. Nothing new there.

+2 flamebait indeed.

But you can imprison senior management. You know, those who control the company

That and that practically nobody else has taken them into account, so if they're in the market for video games they've likely already developed the ability to play like the other 90%. That means that you'd be aiming for an even smaller segment of the population than that 10%.

I tried that some time ago. Unfortunately it seems that some old games don't test the capabilities of the virtualized graphics "hardware" so much as compare it to some internal list of supported hardware, and thus refuse to run

No sane person votes for the Religion First party. The only reason they've ever had -one- senate seat was due to preferencing by Labor. I guess that could conceivably happen again with the Liberals preferencing them this election, but it was enough of a fluke in the 2004 election.

I grew up in and used to live in South Australia. Considering the "tough on crime" and other nanny-state approaches the state government has, I'd put it down to the government playing on various ignorant people within the population. Also they've had a Labor state government for a while because last time the Liberals were in they either severely neglected or privatized public services and property.

I'm pretty sure there are many people there, and in fact in every state in Australia who are sick of the two major parties and would vote for someone else if they properly understood the electoral system. After all, in the second-to-last South Australian state election Nick Xenophon as an independent got enough votes for the senate to get himself and another senator elected. That's just the power of someone having a big enough name and reputation, unlike the people who get elected because they're behind the mask of a big name political party. Last election Xenophon stood for election for the federal senate and once again got in.

Since then I've moved to Victoria, so on Saturday regardless of my other choices I'll be doing my part in voting below the line on the senate ballot to put Stephen Conroy last.

It's kind of funny how "Conservatives" like to preach that "Liberals" don't understand Economics 101, yet in their supposed worship of the (theoretical) free market they're quite happy to ignore instances of market failure, such as natural monopolies, externalities and the like.

Yes, they are his children

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