Exactly, it constantly amazes me that some of the posters here who rely on science in almost every aspect of their lives can be convinced by either the media or their own self interest to deny reality with the thoroughly debunked skeptics arguments. There's a sucker born every minute apparently.

Cue the usual conga line of climate change denying assholes trying to use this as evidence for their delusion.

In all fairness you are an obvious shill. You have made yourself a target for down mod of every post due to
the blatant nature of your shilling.

You could say that about a lot of countries. Idiots are never in short supply.

http://xkcd.com/652/

Given Simon is now on the NBN board you seem a little behind the news. Simon's smart but he is also a business man, out to make money now Internode is sold.

My guess is you have swallowed Rupert and Bolts propaganda very nicely. I'm well over 30, not far off double but there is no way on earth I would vote for Tony and the rightwing nutjobs. They are already behind in the polls, and have been utterly incompetent right from the start. Idiots like you a ruining our country. Luckily it looks like a rerun senate election will be needed in WA and should bring an end to Tonys senate majority, cant wait to see the liberal sycophants howl then.

There is nothing worse than Accurate well composed pseudo-scientific doublespeak.

I don't believe in nothing, I only believe evidence. To argue that not believing in religion is a belief itself is the kind of crazy thinking that typifies the religious, who in actual fact hold such beliefs to avoid facing their own irrelevance in cosmological terms.

Absolutely, the monarchy is much better than a US style president.

Exactly, as and Aus resident I often wonder how the US puts up with its diabolically hopeless banking system.

You don't have a left, you have far out loopy extreme right, (Fox news) and hard right (MSNBC).

In Australia we are under grounding more and more cables using horizontal drilling techniques which seem to work well.

So I hire people in countries that don't expect employees to be paid a decent wage.
FTFY

Slashdot, where you get the same news as Theregister, but a week later.