This is what NZ does to its vermin problem :

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10797453

and it REALLY sucks to be a rabbit down here :

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10797453

"Free range" pigeons are yummy! Though I'd probably not eat the scabby things flying around most cities

I've twin 4 year old boys and I'd stick a tracker to them if I could!

Bollocks to the politically correct brigade! Until they are 16 they are my property and I'm responsible for anything they do. So I'd want to be able to find them if I needed to ... and being boys, and twins, and 4 .. they have the attention span of a knat and zoom around like hamsters on crack! Keeping dibs on them in busy places is a full time job :-)

Does Saint Paul have a doctors degree ?

If Oracle get forced to support Itanium I wonder what quality software they will actually make ?

Seriously people get paid to do the "research" on this ? There are countless diseases and other problems in the world and someone gets the new crop of university brainiacs working out how hard an f'ing computer game is ?
Well that'll be such a help to civilization!

So what is your alternative then ?

I'm sure there are thousands of people world wide who would love to be able to flick a switch and just turn themselves off to escape the misery of they are in!

If you were given a choice to be stuck in a bed, being fed cocktails of drugs to keep your failing body clinging to life, all the while your family and friends get to experience watching you decay, wouldn't you want a way out ? Not just to relieve your trauma but to let your family get their lives straightened out as well ?

Or are you the sort of person who thinks that would condem you to eternal torment because you failed to endure the years of agony he/she/it/they had lined up for you ?

Everyone has a choice, let people chose their own fate. And if the person is not able to chose for themselves, then let their friends, family and loved ones chose for them.

Do you live in a happy little world with talking fluffy bunnies by any chance ?

The world of business is there to make money and that's it, if you can negotiate a deal where your products and services get priority over someone elses then you take it and run to the bank!

I used to sell systems to a US sponsored outfit that recorded telephone calls in the old East Germany from West Germany .. what's the issue ? Honestly and truely is there anyone who actually cares if someone you don't know, have never met, never will meet, who'se in a country that you can't find on a map and will never go to, has been "spied" upon ?

Find something worthwhile to fight for rather than trying to promote how much better free software is over paid software .. personally I detest most "free" software as a large percentage is unfinished crap and I'd rather buy from a company I can hold accountable if I have problems

I do hope hope your spelling mistake was intentional and just a parody of your "superiour" intellect...

hehehehe :-)

That appealed to my sense of humor!

And is a very clever way of HP getting twice the shelf space of a retail store .. your average Joe Public thinks they are separate companies you see :-)

... says the "Anonymous coward" ;-)

He'd have a job doing that right now .....

Why if you have 2 flight recorders do they not have the voice replicate to the data and the data to the voice ... that way it you find one you have the complete data set.

I know "crazy talk" but I'm a storage bod and it irks me when people lose VERY important data!

Now that would be a fun movie! :-)

But I shall still take a gander at this one to keep in the spirit of things.

"While NZ of course have an airforce"

Ummm ... well ... we sort of do ... kind of ... in fact here is what we have .. fear us!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_New_Zealand_Air_Force#Aircraft

No sniggering in the back row please!