If you want to drink I'd recommend using something different to Fosters.

Hmmm... I have a 3G running iOS4.2 and no noticeable problems (I don't play much music, perhaps that a factor). My point is that it seems not all recommendations by manufactures are realistic or universal. Some understate and some overstate. At the end of the day you just have to give it a go.

I do suggest waiting until the warranty runs out.

The basic point is that the government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in indefinitely without a collapse at some point.

While this particular point is true, everything I listened to from the Tea Party:

1. calls for releasing restraints on institutions or industries that show themselves to be psychopathic and self-absorbed
2. calls for reduction on spending in areas that plainly are the best investment to get better returns in the future --- excluding the USA's "national health" program which went from primitive to medieval post Obama
3. ignores the enormous military black holes
4. adds to the roar for war-mongerers that seem to be congregating in powerful positions.

rarely have I heard any pro-Tea Party rant say anything intelligent except the adage you can't take out more than you put in.

Why does this Australian care? Because that shrill party is messing up my backyard! >:

You don't have taxi drivers where you live?

Wow, I thought rort and derivatives were generic English terms; global.

I would, however, expect rort to be decended from cockney rather than an obscure surname. In fact, a couple of online sources* suggest it is from an 19th century London term: rorty > "boisterous or rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué".

Not sure where you came up with the political surname gig. Wait! Relying on presumptions will rort knowledge.

* yes there were more reputable sources, I just got bored.

I wish I was hurting as much as they are. This is the same kind of scare the Mining companies did with WorkChoices, the Mining Tax Review, and Reason knows how many other cronyist schemes before those. These people post increased (often record) profits and then cry foul. And we forget.

Come on. they only passed on savings when there was competition in town.

Even when AUD was below parity, a surprising amount of products would be cheaper to purchase overseas with shipping than to buy at the larger retailers. I used to by ram overseas when AUD was ~.6 US because it was cheaper. I knew of plenty of other products that I personally didn't need that could be purchased and shipped from overseas cheaper than locally. I can't think of a product that ever followed the exchange rate even allowing for a six month shelf lag price. Exchange rate has *nothing* to do with the gouging. It has only made it more obvious to those who have trouble with simple maths.

You obviously haven't tried to buy online at Harvey Norman. It is easier to go into the store, 600km away.

It snowed in December in New South Wales, Australia in 2010. Southern hemisphere's summer.

What about Personalbrain? It is a multi level mind-mapping software, which is flexible enough to be used for a graphical tree of the family. Doesn't have the genealogy stuff built in but makes it easier to do funny and interesting anecdotes if you are trying to put together a living memory family history. 'course in that case you could also just use freemind for purely in OSS. Genealogy is hard and lengthy. 4 days to do it? eep.

(Lisp().)

http://faxmate.com.au/. You are tied (heh) to a email account, not a physical location. Good stuff. There should be something available for the rest of the world. Good luck.

You are still paying to watch the ads. I don't mind watching a preview or two, but sitting in the cinema and being told downloading is stealing is a bit hard to take.

Paying to be told the industry is dying, when the apparent evidence is to the contrary... /facepalm

Heh, seems we must do it differently here (Qld, Australia). You make it sound like you go to a bar to sing!? Bars are for drinking at.

Here you go to a bar for a quiet beer, watch some hotties dance and watch sport on the Bigscreen. Then some dickhead sets up a mic to the sound system, replaces the sport/video clips* with words and then encourage other dickheads to sing.