What, why shouldn't an American site post Australian topics...Australia is a great place and has good beer. Risk factor aside, gaining Australia is important in the quest for world domination as they have the only supply of Koalas which are crucial to the hearts & minds portion of the COIN strategy.

Could this be the furry - ultimate plan?

Wasn't this the plot COBRA used to create their base island in the gulf? Do we need to worry about Blackwater/Xe becoming more powerful?

Webscription sells books from multiple publishers other than Baen. The $15 price is for the ARC editions of the book which are pre-print editions that get updates as the author writes/edits the work. When the work is finalized you can buy it for ~$6. The other catagory of $15 books are the serial compilations where they cut seven books into three parts and you get one part of each book per quarter. If you buy and end up not liking what you read you dont have to continue paying. So thats slightly more than 6 bucks for what usually amounts to a few new books and some old ones. All in all 90% of the books are priced at $6 or under. The collection of 7 books you refer to is the "Fafhrd and Grey Mouser Collection" by Fritz Leiber. I believe the rights were purchased after a member poll showed some interest and even without the bundle deal the individual books normal price are $8.99...a buck less than what Amazon would charge for the Kindle version if Amazon were to have it available for the Kindle or even for sale new.

there is not much you can do if that person is at the other side of the globe. Yes you can call police, but they will seldom do something.

Don't count on it:

The federal government can extradite a man to face a first-degree murder trial in the United States on charges of killing his wife, even though the evidence presented against him does not meet the test for the same charge in Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Top court okays U.S. extradition [Oct 16]

A Briton accused of hacking into secret military and Nasa computers has had his extradition to the US put on hold as new psychiatric evidence is considered. Hacker's extradition put on hold

This is Gary McKinnon pitching his last-ditch "Asperger's defense" to the Home Office.

The Swiss Justice Ministry rejected on Tuesday film director Roman Polanski's appeal for an immediate release from custody. Polanski was arrested September 26 upon arriving in Zürich, Switzerland, to attend a film festival and has remained in prison ever since, awaiting possible extradition to the United States. Roman Polanski denied bail in Switzerland

Comedian and talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg had on The View on September 29 tried to defend his actions.
"It wasn't rape-rape," she had said.
The next day, Debra Tate, sister of Polanski's murdered wife, Sharon, argued on the Today show that it was consensual sex even though the victim was 13.
"There's rape, and then there's rape," she said.

Shannon Gilreath, Wake Forest University Law Professor for Interdisciplinary Study and a nationally recognized scholar on issues of equality, sexual minorities, and constitutional interpretation, believes there are really two perspectives involved in the case. "One is the perspective of people who look for any reason imaginable to excuse the victimization of women and girls that is rampant: it happened long ago, she was mature for her age-she wanted it," he explained. On the other side of this are those of us who are saying that every victim matters, even those victimized by people rich enough to evade jurisdiction for many years."

But Gilreath says that statutory rape is a clear offense under the law, and at the age of 13, the girl was underage. Polanski defenders 'define' rape

What do you do when you have friends over and you want to play a round of video games? Or do all your friends own laptops and carry them everywhere?

There are games for Wii published by third-party major labels. It's just that third parties do an absolutely fecal job of promoting them to players.

Ummm...that was the plot of Angel of Darkness III wasn't it?