500GB download assuming you upload as much as you download...

Furthermore, there is no on or off peak on that internode plan. It's a flat terabyte, anytime.

Add to that the fact that your upload speed will usually be 1/10th or less than your download speed and it doesn't seem too bad unless you're a super heavy user. I manage to burn my way through most or all of 200GB a month pretty easily.

Hear, hear. Every time someone tells me the NBN is a waste of money I want to strangle them. But that would not be polite. Thank you for your level-headed and rational argument.

Ahahah, that's fantastic.

My mum's actually got a Japanese character tattooed on her shoulder - but she's a PhD specialising in post-WWII Japan and can actually read a bit of Japanese.

All the Rutherglen wineries are fantastic. I think I've tried that Tokay, I remember the guy who I talked to when I was tasting it told me about the situation with the naming, I don't recall what the replacement name was but I know it was stupid.

I'm also disappointed at the ban on the name "port". I rarely drink but when I do it's usually port. Next time I feel like a bottle I won't know what to buy!

I said "lol" instead of laughing, once. I immediately felt ashamed and went outside for a while.

They make kava ice cream? As in, from the roots of the kava plant?

Huh. How about that.

Hey. I don't tell you how to cook.

Hah! I used to use popeye to get my sister to eat her spinach (and other green vegetables)! It was the only reason she'd eat them!

I wonder if it'd still work, she's a teenager now and doesn't eat any bloody vegetables.

I use twitter, not so much for tweeting as for following others. I find twitter is very useful - not for following friends and family, but for following certain companies, people etc who give small bites of useful/interesting information that lends itself well to the microblogging format.

My windows 7 box from a cold start boots to desktop in less than a minute. 'course, my vista laptop never got anywhere near that, nor my XP computer. :P

I've got a while to go before I could be a grandfather, I'm counting on cybernetic augmentations. ;)

Well it was all going to be fine until you put that idea in my head, thanks.

I'm going to be pwning noobs until "pwning noobs" is a ridiculously outdated term and then I'll beat my grandkids at whatever game they're playing and I'll go "Yeah! I pwned you little noobs! Old school!" and they'll groan and go "graaaaandpaaaaaa". It'll be awesome.

Is it bad that I want to troll my hypothetical grandkids?

Ahahah, I remember when I thought high school teachers knew basic math as well. Those were the days.

I went to a public school and got anywhere from 1-3 hours homework per class per day. Which is anywhere from 5-15 hours worth. Never did any of it myself, of course, because there were no real consequences for me besides the odd half lunch detention and I aced all tests anyway. Fuck them if they think I'll do their inane work. If I'm doing inane work I'd better be getting paid for it.

Good ol' public schools.

Relevant reading on the work culture. Take with a grain of salt of course, it is anecdotal.