too right !!!

Both my grandfathers worked (early to mid 20th Century) in skilled manual labour for 44 hours a week (8hrs Mon-Fri and another 4 on Sat mornings), and both grandmothers did part-time work to make ends meet.

My Father worked in skilled labour (late 20th Century) for 40 hours a week (8 hours Mon-Fri) - mother stayed at home. Things were tight, but they raised 3 teenage sons on one mid-level govt salary.

Now in the 21st Century - I could live the way my parents did on 25-30 hours a week - unfortunately my boss wants me here for 40. So I have a much higher standard of living than my parents. Govt workers only do 37.5 hours a week now.

The number of hours per week worked per person is trending downwards. Our grandkids will be working 20-25 hour weeks; and will stare in wonder at us old farts that worked 40 hours a week. We need to confront the problem of what all our grandchildren are going to do with their the extra free-time.

80386 for a POS Puuuuleeeeeeeeeaaasssseee - that's an extravagance I only dreamed of. We did POS with 80186 (and it was way before Linus had even heard of Minix).

....and it's still being used 20 some years later at numerous gas stations all over NZ and AU

So get off my lawn.

Or if Cygwin is too much work.....try installing FireSSH

The Short Version: President of France rang up Prime Minister of New Zealand and said (roughly) "Let my two spies go or you'll never sell another pound of butter in Europe again"

NZ was broke and economics always wins over principles.

The most telling comment from the actual orginal post reads:

"Ten providers also seems to be the threshold below which one finds significant additional risks from infrastructure sharing — there may be a single cable, or a single physical-layer provider who actually owns most of the infrastructure on which the various providers offer their services."

How many of the 61 at "severe risk" countries are micro-states in the middle of the ocean with a single cable connecting them to the internet? More than half; so nothing too sinister about the size of the "severe risk" category.

Oh - it's nice to see that New Zealand has cemented its place in the list of nice countries who are "extremely resistant" by having more than 40 ISPs - unfortunately there's only one organisation that controls the two connections out of NZ on the Southern Cross Cable So the home of that fiendish master-criminal Mr K. Dot Com should rightly be lumped in with Syria, Libya & that famous hot bed of international crime, The Cook Islands.

Switzerland, like the rest of western europe has not had 500 years of democracy and peace. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Napoleonic_era

According to http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7338332/File-sharing-has-dropped-researcher-says/ today, Waikato university academic has actually measured difference in traffic levels pre- and post- implementation of the 'SkyNet' law.

Dear Apple, I paid a bucket of money for my hearing aids - in excess of NZ$7000 - please leave the damn things alone. If I need to tune them with wizzy settings, I will let the professionals who know what they're doing do it. PS. If I want to join a social network for sharing hearing aid settings - I'll join the 'Patents Killed by Prior Art network' on facebook.

It's much more likely that there's no conspiracy and it's just fuck ups all the way down.

The hard drives in question, that have been cloned and spirited away to the US, are the ones in Mr dotcom's house not the megaupload ones.

The most interesting ones, are of course the drives from the CCTV system, that show how many FBI tourists were waving what sort of armament around as they assisted the NZ cops with smashing down Mr dotcom's front door.

In actual extradition case news: The crown has complained that the court mandated 21 days to provide the defense with all evidence to be used in the extradition case is too short a time, and they can't provide copies in time -

"So, your honour, why don't we just skip that bit of the legal process and put them on a plane to the US this afternoon?"