majority of australians don't complain, they take the "she'll be right" approach and get on with their lives, the ones that do complain vocally are those who try to stay abreast of current issues and what the govt is doing down here atm... which is essentially trying to convert a secular "democracy" into a theocracy http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/01/1159641213160.html
I know race issues have been in the news down here recently, especially certain ethnic groups claiming that any crime committed against them is a hate crime when in reality a thug is a thug and will rob/bash anyone regardless of racial decent, but I can't say i've seen much open or overt racism... then again, in Perth we have a far more blended culture than the eastern states cities, so i can't really speak for the whole of Aus.

yes, but receiving a copy isn't.

in the context of priating on the high seas you would be correct.
Piracy of software is ONLY illegal if you are distributing said software (thus infringing copyright).

elephant in the room... what if I want to run XP Pro?
my only option if I don't already have a legitimate copy is to pirate it, given that you can no longer purchase it.

(granted I could still buy Vista with downgrade licence... but I don't want to pay for something I will never use)

Maori's aren't native. the Mori Ori were native, the Maoris came along and ate all of them along with the rest of the wildlife.

anyone else see this statement as ironic?
people have as much right to be biggotted as to be gay
just as people have a right to be appalled by bigots and their behaviour

mine controls my thoughts 80% of the time, it's fair enough to say that my penis is more sentient than I am.

... bout 10 years ago and to me it was the biggest waste of time, it took me two sessions to type out the terms work. being a budget school it was on typewriters too.

Slashdot has been added to the ACMA blacklist at the request of CoS for religious vilification.

how the hell did this fanboyism get modded informative??? cpu: same memory: same, wait... no... the n900 also uses up to 768Mb virtual memory, and since the 32gb memory is flash memory it should work just as fast as the 256Mb RAM... not to mention that since it's linux it won't be long before somebody out there figures out how to repartition the drives and add some extra swap space. gpu: same max internal flash: same, wait... nice use of the words "max INTERNAL flash", the iPhone doesn't have ANY external flash... the n900 has a microSD slot allowing you to expand your storage to 48Gb. camera: iphone 3gs = 3mp, n900 = 5mp keyboard: as you metioned there is an actual keyboard, so you can actually tell which damn button you are pressing. conclusion: the hardware is FAR superior to the iphone

not true. if you shoot first and ask questions later then clearly violence was the second last thing you did.

not here in Australia they aren't. here in Australia they are promotoed to Minister for the Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy... that or they are voted in as Prime Minister.

it seems pretty obvious that this nutbag of a journalist simply typed in "why are mac's so expensive" and hit search, then typed in "why is windows so expensive" and left the results as they were for the screenshot. nothing to see here except some shoddy journalism.

harddrives: now archiving the kitchen sink!

...but it helps :)