One of the things I love about the prevalence of Sparkle on the mac. Easy for the user to upgrade, but only checks when the app is running.

Here in Oz I get 30Mbit down, and 1Mbit up. But I can't get ADSL of any variety at all

No, roundabouts in heavy traffic are dangerous and slow down everyone when not needed. Get to the root of the problem, wrt your traffic light issues. Side note: here in .au leading up to traffic lights the striped lines turn solid, and experience has told me when you reach those lines, your not going to be able to stop in time for a redlight

Annoying Americans

When someone is tailgating me I slow down. No brakes, just foot off the accelerator. Because, firstly, I'm an arsehole, and secondly its the only remaining control I've got to make the situation safe again by giving myself enough space behind me for the speed I'm doing. Of course those few mindless idiots who realise what I'm doing and back off, I'll return to my original speed. Generally they had the shits with me in the first place for doing such horrible things as following the speed limit, which I do as I pretty much have to the way speed limits are enforced here in .au if you actually get caught

You think it's a good idea. Try it This is pretty much how all home connections in .au work. Only thing is I get capped from about 8mb/s to 64kb/s, making my internet connection completely useless. I normally resort to using my 3G modem until the months ends

Only one monitor
Altough at 30" its about as useful as two monitors. Not that I wouldn't complain about another monitor

Your still doing it wrong On my Mac & Linux boxes I login as an unprivileged user, but can easily become privileges without logging out! You serioulsy can't understand why someone would want to close everything they have running to do something like change some networking setttings?

I've been unemployed before, but wasn't this bad. You get a form once per fortnight to fill, where have you applied for work, and related questions, as well as how much did you earn? If you've been unemployed for a while you build up kind of credit system where you may not get your benefits reduced at all. The other good part is you keep getting the forms for about 2 months of earning 'too much' before your officially cut off. So if you get a temp job picking fruit or whatever, as long as your income drops back off before the forms finish, everything keeps going without any hassle. Don't get me started of the rest of Centrelink though!

Australian law has a separate charge for unauthorised access to a computer system under the computer crimes act

First time I've seen Vegemite associates with kiwi's most people know it as an aussie food