I live in Australia, you insensitive clod. I can drive for 25,000km on one highway without leaving the country. Apart from a few pacific islands, New Zealand is the only country within 6 hours flight of me (Melbourne).

And yet, most of my friends have travelled to several other countries. In the time it takes to drive 2000km, you can fly pretty much anywhere it the world.

Evidence here: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1693641

You could at least have come up with some better examples: Wedding on waterskis, Underwater wedding

They already do. Stamp collectors buy stamps and never use them for postage - but they still pay the full price. Same with coins - they are bought from the Treasury.

At least if you work in mining, the exotic places you get sent are likely to be places you wouldn't really want to live otherwise, for example outback Australia or Siberia.

Obviously what is required is a program to de-clothe selected women in the field of view.

Certainly in Australia people are well aware of this. See for example www.ourwater.vic.gov.au. The major daily newspapers have the current supply level of reservoirs every day.

And so we come to the crux of the debate. The poll does ask about text editors, so I think it's reasonable to rate them on their text editing ability.

The problem with this is that there is no way a system that actually tickets people whenever they do these things would be accepted, and since people are distracted while on the phone they don't realise they are doing them.
The threat of an occasional ticket is enough to stop most people from speeding and running red lights because they generally notice when they do those things, and think, "I hope I don't get caught."

The crew is due to go to sleep tonight at 11:55 p.m. CST and will wake up at 7:55 a.m. tomorrow.

Man, that's a pretty damn regimented sleep time. I guess there's no quickly checking /. before bed.