Provide me with proof that it was not common for children to see their parents having sex in their single room peasant dwellings pre-1800. Or, frankly, in some third world country right now, where they have similar conditions.

I don't actually believe this. I wouldn't mind betting that pre-industrial civilisation, that children saw this sort of thing all the time - and not just pictures and films, but real life sex. Ie, their parents.

Privacy in homes is a modern thing. I bet the children saw sex regularly and didn't think anything of it at all. They probably grew up with far more well-adjusted attitudes towards it than people in modern societies do.

Que? How many people in first-world countries have children at 22-25 now? Most people aren't even married until in their 30s. And if they have any sense, they'll leave it even later.

No-one wants to be stuck with kids, a mortgage and the utter boredom of 9-5 office work in the prime of their life.

Ok, I'm not quite right, it's Securecode that went down: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11935539. Apparently prevented some web transactions from going through.

Anonymous seems to mostly go for websites, however (although they did manage to take out Mastercard's transaction server, which was an interesting touch).

If they only went for Australian government websites, it's no big loss. I don't know why the press went so nuts last year when the Dept of Comms webserver went down - meh, it's hardly important.

How many people these days are actually doing something they love? I love to work with Linux, but every fucking sysadmin job out there now is loaded down with compliance bullshit which I have absolutely no interest in.

You don't know that aliens haven't been there before.

What did you do? Go contracting, start your own business, retire or move overseas?

Move overseas. Seriously. The situation in your country is not going to change until people start doing something to fix it, and in this case, let the free market sort it out - many European countries mandate four weeks or more paid vacation. When large numbers of good workers start moving overseas, the countries with poor vacation policies will have to improve to get the best staff.

This article is a good example of how little journalists know about the subjects that they write about. How much bullshit are we being fed when we read about fields that we know nothing about ourselves?

I'm Australian, you moron. My country's economy is leaving yours for dead.

Your economy is in the shitter because you've spent trillions chasing ghosts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Maybe if you spent the money on, gee, INFRASTRUCTURE, like rail and roads, and thereby plowing money back into your own country, you might have something to show for the last ten years, instead of thousands of dead soldiers.

"Who needs a trial?". Oh dear, the terrorists really did win.

Ah, I see you're from the same line of communists who like to incarcerate people without trial.

If you don't believe that there are also despots in the US, then I have a nice bridge to sell you. Cleaning up a mess starts at home.