Why don't you go back and read your original post again and ask yourself why buying your fish from America cost so much. This link might help you too- once you get your head out of the sand you might begin to discuss things rationally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing

The thing you really need to understand is that in your little world people can afford conservation and regulation. In 80% of the world it is either unaffordable or unenforceable.

When you vote you are exercising one of the few types of force that has any meaning. The real pity is that once you have exercised that force the party you voted for can change their whole agenda.

Dude, I hate to break it to you, but since we've already decimated 70% of global fish stocks your options are limited.

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 3, 2006

An international group of ecologists and economists warned yesterday that the world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, based on a four-year study of catch data and the effects of fisheries collapses.

The paper, published in the journal Science, concludes that overfishing, pollution and other environmental factors are wiping out important species around the globe, hampering the ocean's ability to produce seafood, filter nutrients and resist the spread of disease.

"We really see the end of the line now," said lead author Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Canada's Dalhousie University. "It's within our lifetime. Our children will see a world without seafood if we don't change things."

I've used thinkpads exclusively for small business and personal use since the early noughties. In this time I've bought roughly 30 machines every three years, so three or four generations. The ones I had the most problems with were T40-T42, still practically from the IBM stable, but compared to anything else (NEC, Acer, HP) I encountered they were literally streets ahead. The current generation we have is X200-220 and T400 series. I wouldn't touch anything that's Lenovo by Lenovo like the L or W series. Of these we have had a single failure- a DOA motherboard. And no failures at all since. The machines are mostly out of warranty now but we're still going to use them in our business for a fourth year without warranty since they have shown themselves to be bulletproof. The only change we made is to recently replace all the SATA drives with some SSDs we had spare.

My boss had a T42 several years ago and propped it in his bag against a taxi. The taxi ran over and totalled the laptop but we just removed the HDD and plugged it into another of the same model. He also had one fall from an aircraft overhead locker onto the floor. No screen breakage, booted up first go. I've dropped my X220 onto concrete and there is only a small crack in the bottom left of the clamshell.

By comparison we had an Acer "business" laptop that went back to the shop 6 times due to motherboard or graphics card failure (amounts to the same thing but anyways). Each time it would take WEEKS for them to give it back to us. I've NEVER had a warranty repair on a Lenovo take more than 7 days. These days it is 48 hours or less.

The thinkvantage onboard software which keeps all the drivers and software up to date could teach Microsoft update a thing or two.

The only complaints I ever get about them from staff is that they look ugly. Personally, I don't care if they look like the proverbial russian tractor- all that matters to me is that they run like a rocket and never let me down.

IBM X220 FTW.

Agreed. They forget at the very moment the snout hits the trough and then become focused entirely on keeping it there.

And neither would Australians if they weren't fined for not voting.

'completely trashing any semblance or notion of transparency or participative democratic process of policy development.'

This behaviour s common practice for Australian governments. Most particularly the one we have now despite the Prime Ministerial promise to "let the sunshine in".

Worst Australian government in my lifetime (40 years) - probably ever.

No human interaction for a whole day? Clearly this is a slashweenie fantasy!

That's 4chan you're thinking of.

Don't put macgyverbot in a room full of guns.

Seems Weird. How do millions of app devs do it then?

The main problem is that the fundamentalist fucking morons often seem to be the ones most attracted to having power over others. Therefore their influence (and capacity for damage) is unfortunately far greater than it should normally be.

Kudos to the OP (jfengel) of this subthread who is a gentleman/woman for whom one day I would like to buy a beverage.

This is slashdot. You must be lost.

With pleasure.

Easy. Release your wildly successful product in a country in which congress has no jurisdiction. Laugh maniacally as the US government forgoes millions or billions in taxes.