Comment: A good reason (Score 4, Informative) 86
to turn your phones off whilst watching a movie!
Comment: Put your lips together and blow... (Score 2) 156
What could possibly go wrong?
Comment: To be fair (Score 4, Insightful) 124
It must be hard to ensure that every jurisdiction on earth will be happy with everything that you do
Comment: Re:Of course! (Score 5, Funny) 305
And organic produce is easier to digest than inorganic.
Comment: You should never stop learning (Score 5, Insightful) 260
If that comes in the form of a graduate degree, so be it.
As long as you keep learning
As long as you keep learning
Comment: Re:I want to believe (Score 1) 193
Training is popular in Oz because of the "training guarantee" law enacted by the Hawke govternment a couple of decades ago.
The training guarantee rules went out the window some time ago. There is no longer a tax incentive to provide training for staff.
Comment: Re:Good Riddance (Score 1) 796
Just to be pedantic, its not the tax office, its Austrac - the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
http://austrac.gov.au/
Comment: Re:Groan (Score 1) 443
You must be new here
Comment: Re:It was the blurst of times. (Score 5, Funny) 197
Get enough of them together and it will be like watching a Shakespeare play
Comment: Re:Time to encrypt everything. (Score 1) 280
Actually one word or, acronym to be precise, the DMCA.
As far as I know, the laws applicable in the USA do not apply to the rest of the world...
Yet!
Comment: Re:Just take it at birth like in the USSA (Score 1) 141
Only if you are born in a hospital. If you are born at home, you can tell the doctor to fuck off when he says he needs to take genetic samples.
And if you can talk very soon after you are born, then your genetic material would be worth studying
Comment: Re:Finally, some sense (Score 1) 229
... "Heaven knows I'm miserable @#%^H!*( NO CARRIER
Shit, are people still listening to The Smiths in the future?
I'm afraid, Very afraid. I am listening to my portable music playing device while I read this. As soon as I got to this part of the thread, who should come out of the earphones but The Smiths singing Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now.
Comment: What we need (Score 1, Insightful) 125
What we need is for the Australian Government to adequately fund CSIRO so they do not have to raise money via lawsuits.
The clever country indeed.
Comment: Re:Too good to be true? (Score 1) 173
And they are genuine "Farkarie Rugs"
(Someone will be old enough to get it)
I curse the day I married your sister.
Comment: Re:Realized they were being scammed? (Score 1) 148
No wonder they were skeptical, a 400k cashier's check...
But was it 400,000 Nigerian dollars?