Give me your free time...

I only work 37.5hrs a week (standard in Australia or New Zealand for fulltime employment) and I still don't have anywhere near enough time to do all the things I try to do. Maybe I just have too many hoobies and addictions (gaming).

When I was unemployed for 2-3 months I had so much free time and loved every second of it. It takes a couple weeks to adjust to so much free time but you will.

There is, I recently upgraded me Alienware M17xR2 from 4870M in crossfire setup with a single 7970M.

Its not dell supported to install the 7970M but it works perfectly.

Pretty much sounds like me. I raided in one of the top guilds on Illidan back in Classic. Played casual in TBC. I started raiding a bit in Icecrown in WOTLK and then never played since. So i've never experienced or seen Cata or MOP.

Honestly? A deal with the movie studios (or any of the recording studios) is a deal with the devil.

I applaud Cinedigm for giving an alternative a shot.

Never. Why on earth would it? Crypto-currencies are a fascinating concept and Bitcoin is one of the greatest experiments ever. Whether it ultimately succeeds or fails is irrelevant, it will be written into the history books forever.

You do know it went past $250 USD for a while, yeah?

Sounds like an excellent use for Bit Torrent? I assume someone will download the whole dataset and make a torrent out of it before long....

Um all sorts of AirCards, USB 3G dongles, etc can be made to make and recieve calls.

All the Huwaei 3G usb modems that are sold by telco's here in Aus/NZ i've managed to get to make and recieve calls. (Yeah you need to use a USB headset or something, but you already do for skype and voip.)

Is there any point to it? I don't know, but you can.

Just like most tablets can be made to make/receive phone calls even though they aren't considered phones by the law.

What's the best way to find a job in the US as an Australian Citizen and using the E-3 visa?

The E-3 visa is like H1-B but better and has a seperate 10.5k cap and is only available to Australian Citizens.

I find many employers don't know what an E-3 visa is (as they only do H1-B) and don't bother, nevermind the fact that getting an Aussie on E-3 visa is much easier and cheaper (its free, in fact) compared to the hassle of H1-B...

Any tips, information, etc, would be greatly appreciated.

This is just gonna encourage more piracy.

For physical items I buy in the US when I can. And when I can't, I use a US shipping remailer. There's dozens of them around. I use shipito which gives me 2 physical addresses in the US, and 1 in Hong Kong and 1 in Europe. But google US remailer, you'll find dozens of these, do your research and pick one that looks good or has competitive pricing.

I also have a US phone number (just SIP service, but its easy to find US VoIP providers, hell you can even use Skype.)

And with US number and address you're pretty much as good as there. Some places might want a US credit card and address which is trickier, but you can (usually) get around that. Just say you're 'from Australia or in my case NZ but just visiting the US for 2 months' etc and that'll usually work.

But yeah. When it comes to software or anything digital, honestly, fuck them. Just pirate it.

Personally I think there SHOULD be government intervention and personally I think the government should outright state they won't care to protect copyright holders copyrights when they price gouge so substantially effectively making their software unaffordable.

I actually don't horde.

I put my shit up on ebay - preferably sooner rather than later whilist it still has value - and sell it all for $$$ which I can spend on newer toys!

I always sell my current model phone to get the latest model for example. Thought I have a lot of crap still sitting at both my parents houses back in Australia I need to get rid of one day.... but I never never visit for more than a few days so it never happens. Oh well :)

Prostitution is perfectly legal in many parts of the world. And the law protects prostitutes.

But yes, I figure you're an American and unware of this fact.

Really?

Thats what this game is limited to?

How in the fuck is this game SimCity then? Sounds more like SimSuburb.

Not surprised since squeeze is ANCIENT. In fact debian is ANCIENT in general.

Yes people argue that leads to stability but in all seriousness debian is so far behind modern distros and hardware its almost irrelevant.

My employer (and others I know of) who had standardises on Debian have had to jump ship to another distro (most end up going Ubuntu Server but plenty use RedHat) because they're more up to date. We had so many problems getting Squeeze to run on modern IBM servers and having to fuck around with backporterted kernels and build custom installers because Squeeze just had no idea how to support hardware designed and built in the last few years >

Yeah redhat is based on older kernels aims for stability too but redhat employs employees to backport new features and drivers to their older stable kernel.

And both Redhat and Ubuntu have commercial support, if you need that.

I've forgotton why I went on this rant now... :/

3 hours? Seriously? My Galaxy Note N7000 lasts 4 days - YES 4 DAYS - of a single charge.

As long as you're not looking at your screen to check your facebook stream or w/e every 2 minutes your phone can acutally last a while.