In some respects it's like circumventing DRM - an effort was made to conceal (wearing a skirt), but someone deliberately positioned themselves in a abnormal position closer to the floor in order to create a line-of-sight that would not generally be available through normal activity.

I don't understand - are you saying they ignore the risk of infection vectors or do you think that most people stay home immediately they become infectious - which is generally before they are symptomatic, somehow they just 'know'.

You seem to have missed the 'un' in the 'doubleplusungood'.

It was classic Newspeak

Random thieves have difficulty getting warrants. If he wants to avoid theft and torture at the hands of the US government he would clearly have to move to another country.

The guy is described as a crypto expert and someone who's worked on classified projects. It's not likely that hard drive is in his home somewhere. It's probably in a safe deposit box. Or two.

Smart people know about pliers.

Sounds like you're going to New Zealand without your spouse.

I live in Australia, you insensitive clod!

I can barely stream a 2 minute YouTube video without it stopping 5 times to buffer, let alone a 30 minute TV episode, god forbid an entire movie.

Usenet plus Sickbeard means we get stuff overnight or during our domestic off-peak hours (i.e. when we're at work), and watch it on stored media.

I weep for the neutering of the NBN.

Trying to read this broke my brain. If you have something of value to communicate, it's considered polite to do so in a manner that HELPS your audience, not one that makes them work harder to guess what you are trying to say.

TL:DR version - learn English.

Everytime I want to use the datedif function in Excel 2010 I have to google it because it's not listed as an available function in the Excel UI. It works perfectly fine if you follow the correct argument components, I just don't use it often enough to remember them. I"m sure there are plenty of other orphan functions in there too.

I'm posting from a work machine which is still running XP.

We have started upgrading to Win7, but we are finding that a number of our proprietary systems won't run under Win7 and have to be run under Citrix for the users that have been upgraded. This kinda defeats the purpose of upgrading as they have less functionality than they had before the upgrade.

Ah, see there's the thing. I don't worship idols. Not even one.

Good examples: those whole grains have been processed up the wazoo. As has the rice. The raw vegetables probably not as much. The word "processed" doesn't mean anything, despite the way people throw it around.

Surely in that circumstance it should be considered a form of assault and jail time would be more appropriate.