Coming to the next version of WoW...reward based rewards. When you complete your quest to collect 17 butt plugs of doom or whatever, the screen will flash in a precise way, leaving the player high and content.

We know random reward systems in games are as addictive as those in real life (eg. slot machines), but we can take it to the next level and introduce physical rewards.

1. It doesn't get any more ideological than censoring the most basic (and essential) of all human activities. Any censorship at all is solely done for ideological reasons.

2. The Pirate Bay are lucky that weren't in Asutralia

3. Heller and Kafka were right. THe perfect law is one in which trying to defend yourself results in you breaking yet more laws.

Yes, but you need to remember the ranking.

Less evil than Google
More evil than Microsoft

What I mean is the standard 3.5mm jack is simple, and works brilliantly for it's intended role. So why mess with it?

"Made for 3rd generation iPod shuffle" is fairly simple, but 99% of people would have no idea what generation their iclod is (/. crowd aside).

"Plug these in, hear music" is even more simple, and how it should be.

So...no DRM, only ARM.

They are still trying to lock you into their crappy products, or 3rd party products that have paid the Apple tax for certification and pass those costs onto you.

Why does it always get so complicated every time Apple try to reinvent simplicity?

Just ask my wife. She's convinced her 8mp phone camera is better than my 6mp DSLR.

'fixed' (ie. 'broken') focus, no lens cover so it's always coated in grease, CA up the wazoo, enough flash power to only highlight the grease on the lens.

pfft, just copy and paste the number.

It doesn't get any more basic than that, does it?

Tell me about the King Kong defence. Please compare and contrast it to the Chewbacca defence, to provide an adequate frame of reference.

I've got big issues with artifically crippled software, where all versions come on the same install media.

It's like buying a car with 12 cylinders and having a switch hidden under the hood somewhere that controls the number of cylinders used. You buy the budget model, still have to cart around the weight of all 12 cylinders, but only get to use 4 of them.

TV is a luxury item, absolutely non-essential. So why is the government paying for people to be able to receive TV?

The people who should be paying for it are the TV companies, and the advertisers, ie. those who profit from millions of slack-jawed yokels staring at the tube all day.

Fundamentally, the guovernment seems to be guaranteeing access to TV for all. So what if you don't own one, should they provide you with a unit? Or if yours breaks down, should they pay to repair it?

I just don't get how and why the gov't got involved.

Here in Australia, politicians are having the same debate.

Because Mulberry leaves are not a complete food source for humans.
However, they are for silkworms, which are a more complete food for humans.
You can then feed your human waste to the mulberry tree, and the circle is complete. With of course extra energy being introducted into the loop via sunlight.

I think you'll find that after 8 years the world is well and truly sick of your retarded president. We no longer listen to what he says, because his comments are invariably lies, ignorant, or a mixture of both.

Not finding WMD's is about as 'unfortunate' as dubya suddenly finding out that the USA does torture people after all.

Our national anthem starts with:

Australians all let us rejoice
For we are young and free

But most of us don't sing about it, few know the words, or cares to learn them. We really don't associate with our anthem at all.

But Waltzing Matilda or Khe Sahn....