What do you plan to use otherwise? Chrome does the same thing, so you're stuck with IE and Safari.

Opera.

One often overlooked factor is that Australia applies a 10% GST at the federal level, whereas the US sales taxes vary from state to state and aren't usually included in the price.

Which isn't to say that the entire markup is justified, only that some of it is beyond the retailer's control.

How is it "illegal" to flee from war and persecution?

I don't get it, is someone forcing you to watch video game-related videos? Are you unable to find videos that interest you by yourself?

Did you even read what you posted? A person commits an offence only if the material is in a prescribed area. From the same document:

prescribed area has the same meaning as in the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007.

And in the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007:

4 Prescribed areas
(1) The areas in the Northern Territory covered by subsection (2) are prescribed areas.
(2) The areas are:
(a) an area covered by paragraph (a) of the definition of Aboriginal land in subsection 3(1) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976; and
(b) any roads, rivers, streams, estuaries or other areas that:
(i) are expressly excluded under Schedule 1 to that Act; or
(ii) are excluded from grants under that Act because of subsection 12(3) or (3A) of that Act; and
(c) land granted to an association under subsection 46(1A) of the Lands Acquisition Act of the Northern Territory (including that land as held by a successor to an association); and
(d) each area in the Northern Territory identified in a declaration under subsection (3).
(3) The Commonwealth Minister may declare that areas in the Northern Territory known as town camps that are identified in the declaration are prescribed areas for the purposes of paragraph (2)(d).
(4) The Commonwealth Minister may declare that:
(a) an area in the Northern Territory that would otherwise be covered by subsection (2) is not a prescribed area; or
(b) an area in the Northern Territory that is not covered by subsection (2) is a prescribed area.
(5) A declaration under subsection (3) or (4) is a legislative instrument.

There may be other legislation making the possession or purchase of RC materials an offence, but the above only applies to specific areas of the Northern Territory subject to the emergency intervention, not the vast majority of the Australian population.

Pop quiz: Name the major Australian political party, also beginning with L, which started the mandatory detention of illegal immigrants, and is also opposed to gay marriage?

They're both as bad as each other.

There's no reason why Logitech couldn't issue HTTP 301 redirects from http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/ to a newer, friendlier URL.

Internode's pricing is better, but still not what I'd consider good: the $50/month that the original post mentioned will only get 20Gb/month on a 1.5Mbit ADSL1 connection, and their ADSL2+ (on Telstra) plans start at $69.95/month for a paltry 5Gb. To get 100Gb, you'd have to pay $219/month, which is completely unaffordable for most people. ADSL2+ may as well not exist at all outside of the major cities if it's not available at a reasonable price.

I've posted this before whenever people gush about how wonderful ADSL2+ is in Australia: it's only great when there's competition at the exchange. There are plenty of exchanges where Telstra is the only ADSL2 provider; on one of those you'd pay $149.95 for only 60Gb, and about $6000 in excess usage charges (15c/Mb) to get to 100Gb.

Have a look at the small print on your laptop's power adapter; most elecronic devices these days support multiple voltages and frequencies.