Compare the policies of the Democrat party with those of the Conservative Party in the UK. The Tories are left of the Democrats, that makes the Democrats a right-wing party and the Republicans further out than Genghis Khan.

It is the same in other '5 Eyes' nations such as New Zealand and Australia. Our right wing parties (National & Liberal/ National Coalition respectively) are left of your so-called left-wing party.

The USA is the outlier, not everyone else.

Because the earth is ~70% water by surface area? Chances are it will hit the briny.

Is this in the Mitt-Romney-approved style of dog conveyancing?
Does Seamus fit into the Car Topper?

Actually I've had Seagate, WD (I wrote an article about a WD drive about ten years ago, it will be in Random Scribblings), Maxtor, and others, and I haven't been disappointed with any of them.

Bollocks. It is well known that dogs have a more acute sense of smell than humans.
What you are saying is that all the police/ border forces are in on this and use sniffer dogs to fabricate arrests?

That is 'hanged'.

People are 'hanged', meat is 'hung'.

They may be meat by then but they were people.

Well crap, I got the wrong make :(

I got a 404...

In NZ it is from the 'white gold' of dairy farming enriching about 5%. Ohh and property speculation, but that has been the main backbone of our economy since 1870's.

More publically funded irrigation + more fertiliser + heaps more cows = increased nitrate runoffs + dead rivers and lakes.

Capitalism is awesome.

I know several people who stay away from the polls "as a protest", not realizing that they're not affecting anything at all; it's not seen as protest, but as apathy.

lol, so we are.

The absolute worst thing that can happen is when some clueless manager gets a powerpoint sales pitch, then comes in and says "we're doing everything in now!"

Inevitably, the sales pitch is either grossly exaggerated or outright lies, the "solution" costs a fortune, it's not flexible, anytime you have to customize something (and you will if your business does anything worth doing) it costs a fortune and requires an army of consultants, and you're just going to annoy staff into submission with both inferior and more expensive tools.

I've dealt with this. They come in and promise it can do the moon. Then you ask said manager if it can do any specific thing that we're actually doing right now. They stammer and have no idea, but they're sure it must be able to, because the salesman said it could do anything. In a couple of years when they realize it actually can't without five times more effort than what you had before, said manager will of course never admit their mistake.

If you're going to be making those decisions, involve your staff. They know what you actually need, since they spend every day dealing with it.

Also - walls. Walls are good. Open plan offices are productivity destroying monstrosities. The biggest problem developers have is distractions, and open concept offices are designed entirely to create more distractions. If two people need to talk about something, the entire office doesn't want to know about it.