I just read this on the weekend: The icky part of tech support: Porn and other NSFW surprises

Which has a wonderful bit of text in it:

Would you care to revise your opinion of corporate executives?

Congratulations .. you just invented licensing with a central authority!

But I will give you that the hash technique would be useful for anonymous validation licenses.

And how do you validate the certificate if there is no record of its existence?

Nope .. douchebag strip club owner near me is now in jail for using underage dancers.

So who is doing the checking? The strip club doesn't care who dances as long as money comes in. At least with licensing you can have some sort of auditing.

So who is performing this background check? If not the government, then the strip club? Because if the girl is bringing in money the strip club isn't going to care.

How about keeping underage girls out of strip clubs? That would be something reasonable to achieve?

So you'd be happy if the strip clubs were filled with sexy, nubile but underage girls?

Recently I tried the BBC Fuel Price Calculator, which for where I am at $2.55/Gallon indicates that the only place I can get gas cheaper is either Nigeria or Venezuela.

Thanks for that .. I just ordered a copy

Hey I am not going to deny any of the past genocide or current treatment now and I am ashamed of that aspect of Oz. On the other hand I still feel pride in where I was borne.

The sad thing is that even given such eulogies we still have people like Andrew Bolt.

Struth mate[1]. Don't come the raw prawn with me. Pissed can have multiple meanings, and you sound more like a whining pom than any brit.

And yeah .. I did bring the aerogard last weekend

[1] And if you don't know how to parse that, then I hope your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down.

Have you seen Virginia lately??????

Anyway, the level of conservatism in the US is much higher than a lot of places in the world. Just take the reaction to Janet Jackson's nipple and nudity in general (think of the children!)

What pesky laws are those? I'm pretty certain that governments already have the rights to inspect any goods that pass over their borders and to know the details of who is transporting them, where they came from and to whom they are going.

I'll have you know that in Oz, having criminals in your family history who were deported to Australia is actually a bit of a status symbol. Especially if you can trace them back to the First Fleet. I'm a bit pissed, as I can't do that as all my ancestors were free settlers.

And the reason that the Brits started dumping convicts in Australia was partly because of some war or something that they had with a former colony that stopped them from sending the prisoners there.

And in the words of some comic (who I can't remember)