In Australia we already use composting toilets on country roads for rest stops etc. They don't smell and are cheap to produce and maintain and the ventilation fan runs off a solar cell on the roof. Why should someone pay 40k for old tech?

If only the video on the link had shown some real footage instead of only CGI...

That was an awesome clip. Anyway. They wanted to analyse MUSIC and chose chart toppers? Music?

I was actually writing about myself. Tried marijuana, opium, alcohol and stimulants. Didn't do me any good. Keep it clean these days.

You can question and probably should until you are satisfied. Just don't be blinded by your own opinions when you do question things. Case in point. This guy I know has been tested to have an IQ way higher than average. He's designed and built beautiful gardens, is generally considered by his friends to be able to fix anything from their washing machine to their cars (and generally can), he learned html, css, javascript etc on the fly just because someone asked him to build a website for them. He writes all his code/markup by hand - no editors - it works in all common browsers equally and is standards compliant. It's good solid code. He reads and writes in 4 alphabets and was a top grade student of ancient languages. He's written beautiful music, poetry that people want to publish etc etc. When he's up he just do what he want to do and learns what he want to learn, figures out whatever he puts his mind to generally without any formal training at all. He thinks of elegant solutions to problems that suprise professionals - while doing things he's never done before. When he's down however... He suffers terribly from depression. He finds it hard to remember to wash his clothes or trim his beard. It is almost impossible for him sometimes accomplish even do the basics of life. Stability has never been his strong point, but pretty much everyone I know still considers him to be brilliant. While there may be discrepancies in IQ testing, surely people can be considered to be brilliant by their accomplishments.

The Phantom. Only comic you need.

My big sister's boyfriend gave us his old Apple II Europlus when I was a kid. Awesome little thing. When we weren't playing Akalabeth or Moonpatrol, we were teaching ourselves Apple Basic.

So a country rebuilt by the USA after WWII ended up with an industry based oligarcy? How surprising!

This problem is lessened by the machines involved probably having been purchased in large numbers. All that is required is to get the OS running on one machine, then roll it out to the 10,000 or so identical machines from the same purchase. Personally though I've been setting up free student computers for years using, at times, some very old hardware. I have very rarely had any driver issues at all.

The other angle is that Australia has always had censorship. Radio and TV are censored. Video games were logically censored to keep things in line with alread excepted policy. I'm personally surprised that censorship of the Internet has taken so long. I used to run a PC repair business and every customer with children and some without were concerned about what is available on the internet and many asked me to install Net Nanny or some other similar service. Any internet filter that filters out things like child porn and bestiality will be, except for some vocal small groups, quite popular here.

As for the 'oversights' outlined by the parent, Australians trust our governments a lot more than people in the US. Up until not too many years ago all of our public utilities were government owned, we have free government run or supplemented health care, education and payments and job training for the unemployed. It is quite natural to us that there should be censorship and I think the majority if Australians would be quite happy for the government to be doing it without questioning things too much.

Of the top of my head, I think the Nazi party is the only sort which is banned outright.

...but GREAT news for global economic stability!

Hmmm. Backing up booby porn?