Comment: Re:Australian mining stock (Score 1) 868
I would prefer taking company equity / listed shares via a salary sacrifice option. No tax on the initial income and a growing tax advantaged income stream from dividends.
Comment: Re:Two (Score 1) 674
I've never met an Engrish speaker that speaks English.
Comment: Re:I only speak 2 languages.... (Score 1) 674
My chinese coworker says he picked up English in one year when working in hotels, and in 19 years still can't understand 'Strayan.
Comment: Re:Bad summary (Score 1) 412
Before JB Hifi I had to search 5 different CD stores over 3 square km (in a city of 1 million people) to find some albums I wanted, and I was paying more for them 15 years ago (not in real terms, raw dollar for dollar). Yeah you know what, they pull some shit, but life got easier after they came along, and I get more shit for the dollar. Suck it up and don't buy an iFad.
Comment: Re:Still out of date (Score 1) 515
Yep - and we still have a banking system.
Comment: Re:Still out of date (Score 1) 515
We still haven't perfected the technology. Or more to the point, perfected the technology for $5 notes. The rest are fine, the 5's fall apart all the time. Baffling.
Comment: Re:While were looking at that spreadsheet... (Score 1) 776
Probably the most racist thing I've read all day.
Comment: Re:Cartoon porn is still porn (Score 1) 673
2 years probation for his first offence. Hell of a book.
NASA To Propose Commercial Space Initiative 151
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from the healthy-competition dept.
from the healthy-competition dept.
MarkWhittington writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that starting with the FY2011 budget request for NASA, the Obama administration intends to propose a new program to encourage the development of a commercial space flight industry. 'The controversial proposal, expected to be included in the Obama administration's next budget, would open a new chapter in the US space program. The goal is to set up a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar initiative allowing private firms, including some start-ups, to compete to build and operate spacecraft capable of ferrying US astronauts into orbit—and eventually deeper into the solar system. Congress is likely to challenge the concept's safety and may balk at shifting dollars from existing National Aeronautics and Space Administration programs already hurting for funding to the new initiative. The White House's ultimate commitment to the initiative is murky, according to these people, because the budget isn't expected to outline a clear, long-term funding plan.'"
SETI Founder Outlines Ambitious Future Plans 281
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from the just-send-money dept.
from the just-send-money dept.
Lanxon writes "'In the universe there is intelligent life, I'm confident about that,' SETI founder Dr Frank Drake (of the Drake Equation) affirmed earlier today during a talk at the Royal Society in London, 50 years after SETI was founded. One of his visions to prove this, and to show that the last five decades were not a waste of time, is to station a radio observatory not in near-Earth orbit, but on the far side of the moon. He also suggests that another craft could later be stationed 500 times further away from the Sun than the Earth, using the Sun itself as a giant magnifying lens to resolve alien worlds."