Oh, he's using it. Or rather, he's misusing it to try to mislead the Australian public, or hoodwink a lot of people who don't understand economics. Like I say, not trustworthy.

I'm sure that more major network links will be created over time. There's no reason why they shouldn't be.

Your problem is that you feel that everything is hosted overseas. It's not. Not everything runs through the International links, unless you are some sort of stupid corporation that uses an MPLS network to route your traffic - hi EMC network admins! There are vast numbers of servers and Internet based services within Australia that are required or are extremely useful to Australian organizations. That isn't just businesses, it's Universities, charitable organizations, government services, medical organizations - you name it, it will be used.

Actually... he graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Economics (BEc) and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and graduated as an Oxford Rhodes Scholar with a Master of Arts (MA) in Politics and Philosophy.

I don't like him, and I don't feel he'd be great for the economy - certainly I won't be voting for him! - but you can't say he doesn't have a background in Economics. Now if he would actually use that background, that would be great, but he's too busy running cynical political lines like "we'll stop the boats!" to actually do the right thing for Australia.

Which of course means I don't trust him, and to be honest, neither should anyone else. Sad really. But he has a background in Economics.

True. But the Senate, as the house of review, is really where it all happens. Not to mention they have rotating 8 year terms.

Not to mention that it's not going to be seriously a factorial to work this out. If you can work out who you want to vote for in the top 15-20 spots, and the ones you dislike the most (c'mon, I'm sure that the Communist Party, or the Christian Democratic Party must be at the bottom of a lot of people's list!) you put at right down the bottom, the rest you can just number in any way you like.

And if you can work out the top 15-20, then that's not even 20!, because you'll probably know what order to put it in. And interestingly, you have... "how to vote" suggestions to look at - who knows, they might be useful.

In the Senate, you can choose where the preferences go. Just vote below the line. There'd be no guessing then!

If you don't vote below the line, then you will basically find that the major parties watch huge swings in preferences to them, and start getting worried. If the Greens win seats for a number of Senators, then they'll have to deal with them though. I'd say take the risk: it's worth it, as the "risk" is low.

Hey... you know, I could have said that about Tony Abbott.

This idea that "hey presto" we are suddenly going to get an improved economy, less waste and an excellent immigration policy from someone we haven't elected yet I find utterly implausible.

Oh, and just in case you are wondering where this is stored here is the location.

LOL! They used to package a "hardware compatibility" tool, which amongst other things gathered your MAC address, your IP address and a variety of other things and allowed everyone on the Internet to read it.

Yeah, I did. They all refer to terrorism!

That's funny, because 8 USC 1226a says nothing of the sort.

8 USC 1226a allows for indefinite detention in cases where the Attorney General reasonably believes that the immigrant is engaging in espionage or sabotage; trying to overthrow the government; is engaging in terrorist activities; or is a threat to national security.

Try reading the part of the code that quote next time. It might be helpful.

I read this article without my glasses on. I was a bit disturbed that a conjugal mass erection hit the earth.

Have you ever heard of the "PATRIOT Act"?

Sure have, in fact I wrote the Wikipedia article on it. Where does it state that you can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen?

So? He's a U.S. citizen!

No, he's not. He's advocating yet another programming language to resolve all the possible ills of programmers. Soon enough someone will point out it is too complicated.