I've got a lot of my savings in oil stocks just because of things like this.

Oil prices != Oil stocks, particularly if governments nationalise oil for strategic purposes.

Cricket and baseball?
I'm guessing that the OK Cupid categories are crudely lumping together the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakastan, Sri Lanka) with totally unrelated ethnic communities from countries occupied by the U.S. at the end of WW2 (Japan)

My suggested tag- soitwasatrap

Not quite- In wave, when rapidly evolving a text based document, you could tell exactly where other people were working. This meant people could dive into any part of the document that needed work without any additional organization of who was doing what. While google docs synchronizing every few seconds and showing who is editing approaches this, that last step actually makes quite a big difference.
I'd like to see docs color code the paragraph by the active editor, then it would have the same functionality to me.

I used it. Specifically, I used it for hyper rapid content development among small groups of dispersed people. The advantages of simultaneous editing of single documents (along with the edit history) were huge for this particular niche.
The thing is, there aren't many small dispersed groups needing hyper rapid content development. If you weren't as dispersed, or had the time for consecutive (rather than concurrent) editing, other traditional tools were better. The interface, and its tendency to bog down once the wave sizes grew large, didn't help either.
But as I fell into the small niche it was really useful for, rather than just as a novelty, I will miss it.

It's actually the potential senate composition- The Greens could well wind up holding the balance of power, in which case the next government less likely to propose pro-multinational corporation legislation (and software patents definitely favour corporations who have lawyers more than small local software artisans).
Now, I think it more likely that either new government will harmonise with the U.S., but a Labour government dependent on the Greens in the Senate would be more likely to reconsider and go the New Zealand route. In general, the more interests a government has to address, the more likely it is to favour the entire country rather than one sector.

Because it prevents new cultural creations as it makes them totally dependent on the patent holders willingness to provide their particular patent. Effectively it creates blocks on economic activity, as people are not going to provide their patents for others who will disrupt their business models, or alternatively it imposes a patent troll tax on doing business (this depends on if the patent holder is an entrenched market player, or a leech). Given the economic costs, and the high rate of change of software, it is better for the economy as a whole (but not current individual patent holders) for the abolition of software patents.

It will be interesting to see if the Australian government leans towards the U.S. model (with the U.S./Australian Free Trade Agreement) or New Zealand no-software patents model (with the Closer Economic Relations agreements between the countries). I suspect that mainly hinges on who wins the upcoming Australian election.

That is the case for standard wage and salary earners in New Zealand. It is your employers legal responsibility to pay the basic estimate tax directly from your pay (Pay As You Earn). At the end of the fiscal year, Inland Revenue sends out your taxpayer statement with the final results (that may be a little under or over, depending on how tax rates and payments have changed during the year). One can pay, collect, or amend this.
That said, in New Zealand we have no state government, which simplifies the tax structure.

I use a Macintosh at work. I use a Macintosh at home. I used my mod points on the Juggalos article (being a science education fan-boi).

It won't be your 5 really good shots that people will want. Based on my experience, it will be the photos that are well annotated with keywords and have a rich description of the photo attached, because these are the photos that people will find, and they need to find it before they can want to use it. Those photos of mine that people have expressed an interest in using have either been photos of particular species of birds with accompanying text describing the scene, or photos of specific places with explanatory text (as a textual description, not just GPS data).
It is a bit sad, but artistic quality doesn't come into it.

Speaking as someone who:
a) has no intention of ever being a pro photographer
b) has most of my photos among the other 142 million Creative Commons photos on Flickr
Most of my requests for my photos are of the form of "I'd like to put your photo on my wall", where they didn't really need to ask permission. I'd hate for people like that to be put off by thinking they need a commercial agreement.
The flip side is those occasions when a company has used on of my photos for commercial purposes, it has been a real pain for me to chase up by myself. by the time you account for my time, the only satisfaction has been moral. So I would be happy with a service that managed commercial rights and only returned a pittance, as it is more than I would make otherwise.
However, in balancing it out, the Getty model doesn't work for me, as I want to share more than I want to become a stock photo supplier.

When you try to throw a ring over a peg at a carnival, there is the assumption that there is a very, very small chance you might win. But as this recent case (involving statistics, forensics, and side-show con artists) shows, in the U.K. at least the odds can't be too far in the houses favour.

There are informed consent ways of delivering placebos.

In the case of a study with patients with an anxiety disorder they were basically told "We would like to prescribe you this treatment with no medical benefit which has been found to be effective in cases like yours". It still worked.

It was cited in Ben Goldacre's book Bad Science (which I don't have immediately to hand for the full reference).

Well, if we use oil drillers to use nukes to stop an asteroid catastrophe, it only makes sense to bring in the nuclear scientists to deal with an out of control oil well.