What a rubbish post. "Rolling back of benefits"? Er no. Seniors are actually receiving thousands of dollars in cash bonus' on top of their fortnightly stipends and this is to pre-empt the conclusion in the report into pensions due for release in the next few months. As for "families having babies" you're presumably talking about the means test for the baby bonus. Prior to the means test, everyone who had a baby got a cheque for $5000 - a blatant bribe. Now, that cheque is only available for people earning less than $150,000, which frankly, is still way to high.

They'll probably contract out the development of the next Flight Sim, if they choose to develop it. Firing the dev team helps their balance sheet in the short term and when they choose to develop it they might lease the license or hire an external company to develop the game.

Obviously the teacher can't do this. But WTF is happening to Slashdot. Since when is a question posted on an unnamed off-topic forum a reasonable story?

Simple example to show the flaw in your logic. You think viewing numbers for a program like House in now reflect the future production of the show? Of course they do, just like with EVERYTHING ELSE. Child porn is not static, it's continually being made. Of course you're not a pedophile as watching child porn doesn't seem to fit your definition of that.

You're an idiot and your circular logic is pathetic. Yes, if no one watched child porn it would continue to be made. Yes, watching something in no way contributes to it's supply. I think only one group of people defend those who watch child porn with such a stupid argument and I bet you know who they are.

He's creating the demand for it... You're whole premise is that if no one watched child porn it would still exist. That's ridiculous.

Your post doesn't make any sense.

Yes, the person viewing child porn may not be out molesting, but he's viewing a child being molested... So in the end, you're still getting children being molested and filmed. Unless of course, you think it's reasonable to throw a few kids into the fire to potentially lower child molestation rates in other parts of the world/country, thus taking the burden completely off the paedophile.

It's depressing you don't realise how rubbish that all is.

Right, because "sin" is "all the elements of religion". On that logic you could pretty much call scientists proclaiming the dangers of lung cancer as a religious cult.

Equating decades of scientific research to a story tale about a Jewish carpenter and his drinking buddies is ridiculous.

Er, ok. So Hamas is shooting and missing and you have beef with them. Israel is shooting and hitting thousands of civilians and you ignore them. Interesting.

This "Omg rockets" nonsense has to stop right now. In eight years, 20 Israeli's have been killed by rocket fire from Gaza. 20. Over eight years. In roughly a week, Israel has killed 500 Palestinians. That says enough.

Which is why, of course, the current Prime Minister and the majority of the caucus are Anglican.

No, it's not a replacement for anything. this was a pre-election promise that is now a policy. The 9-12 "bracket" was what was decided by the Government. It may actually be 10-12, bot 100%. Either way the summary is incorrect and giving laptops to 12 year olds would be ridiculous.

No, the government never ruled out Microsoft. A third-party report stated that Linux would be the cheapest option and MS too expensive.