No, but they are likely to give away your credit card details for no apparent reason.

In my case, it was the opposite - they gave me someone else's credit card details. I logged into my iTunes account once and discovered a credit card listed there, despite never having entered any details. Card number, cardholder's name, expiry and CCV, all there for me to read and, if I was morally bankrupt, exploit.

If it was a Union Official, I'd have to have ordered a few hookers with his card. >:)

Some of the Australian made cars sell for less in the US than they do in Australia.

That's after shipping the fuckers across to the other side of the world. How the hell does that work?

And then companies will pay Guide $5,000 to have the inventors assassinated so that their valuable patents have now expired.

No license fees? Pure profit!

Ultrasound Scanners (as used by pregnant women everywhere)
Solar hot water
A4 DSP chip
Aerogard, insect repellent
Atomic absorption spectroscopy
Distance measuring equipment (DME) used for aviation navigation
Gene shears
Extended Wear Contact Lenses
Interscan Microwave landing system, a microwave approach and landing system for aircraft
Use of myxomatosis and calicivirus to control rabbit numbers
Parkes Radio Telescope
The permanent pleat for fabrics
Polymer (plastic) banknotes, or "funny money"
Relenza flu drug
'Softly' woolens detergent
X-ray phase contrast imaging
Buffalo fly trap
EXELGRAM (optical anti-counterfeiting technology)
RAFT (Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer) Polymerisation
The Mills Cross radiotelescope design
Supercapacitors
24 hour tests for Tuberculosis in animals and humans


It was also the CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope that beamed the Moon Landing.

CSIRO isn't a patent troll, they're a government owned R&D organisation. They get money from inventions, but who doesn't? Patent trolls come up with (obvious) ideas and never make it work. CSIRO actually patents completed inventions.

Some more achievements for you.

You're right, it was a bad example in the fact that he actually had more than one policy...

I had been trying to use the old grey-matter to find an example of a loonie party getting in, but couldn't think of one at that moment. Now a better example would be the "Family First Party," who gave us the wonderful Steven Fielding.

The ability for them to get into the Senate was a springboard to being seen as a "legitimate" party, instead of the bunch of ultra-conservative homophobes.

Actually, the Senate is a great springboard for small parties.

It gives us (the people) a safety net by allowing a diverse amount of views to vote on a Bill. Well, that's the theory.

But take a look at the different parties that run for the Senate, such as Xenophon, the old Democrats and even the Greens. Many of these groups end up holding the Balance of Power in the Senate, so it's not to be thought little of.

And if Xenophon can get in on the "No Pokies" ticket, then surely Assange can get in on the "Open Government" ticket?

I'd move to fucking Werribee for a few months, just for the chance to vote her out of office and the Wikileaks candidate in!

And to welcome them as Overlords?

Ouch. Touché. =)

I wasn't. In 83 I was tapping away on my ZX81.

Of course, I was 6, so I guess I have an excuse for being non-comformist. =p