Summary slightly inaccurate, this is Telstra/Optus and a few smaller operations (who already offered filtering) who are enabling voluntary filtering. There are plenty of ISPs refusing to implement the filter until it becomes legislation and will fight it with everything they can before then. This will do nothing but make many more customers go to the smaller operators who have better customer service, better pricing etc.

The other stupid part of this is that it is DNS based and the work around is to use different DNS servers. Who actually uses their ISPs DNS servers? I haven't in years!

I know one of the stores here in Australia, use the Zip (Post Code here) to decide whether it's worthwhile building stores in new areas. If enough people are willing to travel 50ks to shop there, then more will shop local if it's available.

Did anyone else have the voice of Stephen Fry in their head whilst reading that page?

I found enough good reasons to make our Win7 image to have a prominent Firefox icon, with IE buried in the menus. People can use either, but most go with the path of least resistance, in this case it will be Firefox. It's actually really easy to manage the things most IT departments need to manage. I should know, that's what I do day in, day out.

Indeed there is aFirefox MSI. We deploy that + ietab plus to get around any apps that don't like Firefox (fewer these days, only thing we use it for now is Exchange Web mail 2007, being that the full featured version only works in IE). We deploy to 100's of desktops without any issues.

Unfortunately that's not the case. Office 2007 requires significant pain for the end user and also doesn't support OOXML all that well. In face a 1.3mb template file is enough to cause 100% cpu load, where as libre office handles the same file without any issues. A number of our staff voluntarily use Libre Office and we deploy it on our rental equipment as we cant justify the license cost of MS Office to open the simple excel files our survey software generates.

A lot of employers, especially in the mining sector require you to get a medical before your allowed to commence work. Some even have regular Drug/Alcohol tests, especially if you work on a mine site.

Seems todays quote appears to be oddly appropriate.

The thing is, shipping costs more than the 10% GST in most cases anyway. So there isn't anything to gain from taxing overseas retailers. All it does is make things more complicated to purchase from them, meaning that at the end of the day, the only people that would lose out in that scenario are the consumers. So if the prices were competitive, people would more than likely buy local. I know that's how I operate, international sales are a pain when you need to make a warranty claim.

So IMHO, Gerry Harvey or any of those other large retail chains do not have a right to my money, they can stick their bad customer service and exorbitant prices up their collective coits.

To be fair it is a pretty awesome video.

Too late :(

Australia. The tipping dollars are paper (generally come in $1 or $2 varieties). Our legitiment currency is plastic.

In aus you buy "Tipping Dollars" which are paper. Smallest note here is a 5 and all the notes are plastic.

Answer the door naked, that usually works.