My other half is a fan of google drive, but you've pretty much summed up for me why I feel uncomfortable with it being the sole source of truth for the current version of a file.

The "i" is silent, the "u" is a long "oo" sound, rhyming with "you", tack a "k" on the end and you're golden.

I also worry about the 'permanence' of such a solution. Paid or unpaid, plenty of these types of services have come and gone over the years, why is drop box going to have any more traction than any other 'flavour of the month' web-service. Even Google could fall, let alone smaller companies with much less in the bank.

According to recent outbursts in the Australian political scene, you're at greater risk from nameless men in blue ties.

Your math is off. The $1B was for a replacement system which failed to deploy, the 7M lines of code were probably written for well less than $1B. There is a high probability that the new system had a smaller number of lines of code - therefore a higher cost per line.

Other views of the corporate ethics of running a nuclear facility. (Yes, I know this account if fictional.)

According to a piece of trivia I read yesterday, where lightning strikes a person, it has a greater than 80% chance of hitting a man over a woman. It extrapolated that it may be due to men being more likely to indulge in risk-taking behaviour than women.

What I'd like to see - but don't think it likely - is that 'superstar' salaries in sports and entertainment come down to something a bit more reasonable making some of these properties less expensive to make, and may encourage publishers to take on new artists from time to time. It could potentially also have the effect of making it cheaper to consume these entertainment products, meaning people are more likely to consume them via legitimate means - assuming simple methods of sourcing and using said media.

While I'm spinning candyfloss unicorns, how about CEO and Board salaries coming down to something which is no more than 10 times that of the lowest paid worker at their organisation like is done in some Scandinavian countries.[1]

[1] No I don't have a citation for this, I remember hearing about it are some point in the past 20 years *waves hands vaguely in 'that' direction* but couldn't find a relevant link after a quick google search.

I beg to differ, there are less Australians in prison as a percentage of our total population than there are Americans in prison relative to their total population. If any country was going to have the accusation of being full of criminals thrown at them, the good ole' USA will be near the top of the list.

While several of the early white settlements were penal colonies, the vast majority of people who have emigrated to Australia have done so for economic reasons - in search of a better life for themselves and their children.

As a 45 year old I remember going to Billy Joel concerts in my late teens, early 20s. IT was an awesome show.

On that front I also saw Eurythmics, Dire Straits, Peter Gabriel and INXS around this time - give or take a few years.

I am perpetually surprised that given taste is 90% scent, that certain foods which smell tantalising taste like crap - hot dogs and bad coffee for example.

There's a heap of reasons why your authentication probe wouldn't work, none the least being a woman's smell varies based on her menstrual cycle. And how do guys authenticate? Free prostate examine perhaps?

That says to me the original printer had a faulty fuser unit.

/facepalm

I read this as Much of the science is based on magic orientation in rocks and thought you were being sarcastic or had an imaginary friend telling you the earth was only about 6,000 years old.

But is an excellent example of something which is unnatural and can kill you.