Why do all these crazy ideas revolve around GPS and the like? What's wrong with a simple solution?

When I visited New Zealand a few years ago, I was surprised by the huge difference in price between petrol and diesel. Turns out, they don't tax the diesel at the pump like petrol, but instead charge you the tax based on your mileage which is obtained by reading the odometer at registration time each year. Yes I know that you can interfere with odometers, but this is already against the law, so has the added bonus of not requiring new laws to enforce.

Seriously, disagree != troll

Just because this person has a personal experience that does not fit the current perception or stereotype of TSA, does not make him or her a troll.

As someone who lives in New South Wales, allow me to elaborate on the real issues here.

[ ] many drivers drive too fast
[X] many drivers drive too slow
[X] many drivers tailgate / travel too close
[X] many drivers have poor lane discipline
[X] many drivers can't read the traffic / have no road craft skills
[X] many drivers are incompetent
[ ] many drivers are idiots
[X] many drivers think that their job is to form a rolling roadblock to force everyone else to drive at their speed
[X] many drivers are unlicenced/suspended and unregistered/uninsured
[ ] many drivers are drunk/drug affected
[x] many drivers are too busy playing with radio/cd/GPS/cell phone
[x] many drivers are too busy watching speedo for fear of getting booked by hidden cop/ speed camera
[x] many drivers don't know how to overtake safely
[ ] there aren't enough visible police on patrol
[X] there aren't any visible police on patrol
[x] the speed limit changes every hundred metres
[x] knee jerk responses by politicians

Of course, none of these will be solved by using GPS to restrict car speeds as most people don't speed here anyway.

This is where Apple are on to something. A single licence PC upgrade pack for MacOSX Leopard is $AUD149.00, but a "family pack" upgrade pack is only $AUD249.00 and allows you to install on up to 5 computers, which makes much more sense.

If you could get a 5 licence Windows 7 (or XP) licence pack for $100 more than a single licence, it wouldn't be so unpalatable.

Yes, I was wondering in what universe is Bowen an "outback town". I seem to recall it being coastal, somewhere close to Ayre, although it may have moved in the 35 years since I was last there.

It seems to me that Stardock would have still had the same problem without the pirated copies had the embargo not been broken.

Quite a number of Australian ISPs do allow this. For example, we get 7 gb per month, but we also get a "bonus" 14 gb of off peak data which is available from 12am to 12pm. You can guess when p2p gets scheduled.

...or shop in Australia

I'm not convinced that the "MAD" concept would work with Islamic fundamentalist nations such as Iran. It seems to me that they would happily sacrifice their own people if it meant defeating "the Great Satan" and infidels.

5. Don't tailgate - the end is near!

Couple that with outstanding warranties and you have a winner. A good example is the dead/stuck pixel policy they have for LCDs. It is one of the best around.

I think some of the mods must be on crack. How the hell is this guy's post a troll?

Sorry to double post.. this is a good article on it too.

No it's more like this:
Optus spent $5 million creating a 900 page bid proposing an open playing field. I don't think the details are public yet, but that link has the media release. They also fronted a $5 million bond.
Telstra sent in a 14 page memo saying something along the lines of "we'll do it as long as you guarantee our infrastructure monopoly and we wont pay the bond, but we promise to put in $5 billion".
If this gets up, this is a win for all Australian Internet users. "Telstra has said entry-level access to its proposed NBN would start at $39.95 per month for a 1 megabit per second connection with 200MB of download capacity."[ref] This is what we could look forward to under Telstra. More of the same shite. That 200mb includes backhaul too.