Putting GST on those products/services is a good idea, but such actions should be delayed pending the investigation of the various suppliers/importers for price-parity in Australia.

Valve and the ACCC are still in a spate of litigation (according to the Q1 ACCC report here http://www.accc.gov.au/system/... ) in regards to not offering refunds.

My bank can and do notify me when there is 'odd spending' happening on my credit card. Usually it is just some odd store I have purchased from online.

Having their billing system trigger a flag when it hits 10x the usual cost and halt access and red flag for support to call them when it hits 100x is NOT hard or invasive. This wouldn't even need metadata, it could simply wait for the daily billing totals to tally up and run off that.

You may want to work on your comprehension.

If you follow all THEIR instructions and make a mistake because you followed their instructions, you will not be held accountable (and duh, of course you have to pay the difference, they just aren't going to charge you for misfiling).

"If you make an honest mistake in trying to follow our information in e-tax 2014 and you owe us money as a result, we will not charge you a penalty. However, we will ask you to pay the money, and we may also charge you interest. If correcting the mistakes means we owe you money, we will pay it to you. We will also pay you any interest you are entitled to." - eTax help guide.

You didn't point out the BEST thing about the e-tax stuff.

If you follow all the instructions (and they are extensive), do everything exactly as stated and something messes up, you cannot be held accountable for it.

Dang it, I had my link all ready and you beat me to it. Damn good series, very interesting in that he describes in simpler terms why and how it is worked out.

Yeah, this is some irony right here.

Seems like Snowden's views on censorship are not held by the interviewer.

You ever seen a grown man naked?

Yeah, if all the nerds out there didn't sit on their arses and reply to slashdot stories, why, we might just be able to do anything... ahh fuck it, I am getting more doritos.

Son, with a monocle at the ready, I would do damn near anything with it.

Didn't read it enough to find out that it was a dead relative that they took it from.

What really gets interesting is when three or four generations all have the same penis, passed down from father to son.

Yeah, in the past I never ticked it but, just the other week, I put a little tick next to Hammond.

What, you think they will change the article later to be about something else?

Aww, go nice on her, this is her second story!

And the other was a set of facts/comments about bees it looks like she lifted from wikipedia.

Yeah I am pretty sure I will need more than sunglasses an a request to see the manager to rob a bank.

And no, not all banks do this. Mine (NAB) never has.