While we're on pedantry... 'photograhed using sonar' is nonsensical. Photographs use photons, sonograms use sonar.

The submarine was imaged using sonar.

oh henny-penny the sky is falling!
Half the bloody country clears out of their houses for 8 hours every weekday.
There is no shortage of empty houses to rob.

according to TFA their 'biker gags' are called 'bikies'.
wtf?
makes sense now... who would be afraid of a widdle bikie-wikee gang?

Making a purely academic objection to a test in school?!?!? the audacity! beat that student down.

wow.

just. wow.

So national heathcare is bad because in order to control costs you think that they will have to force you to take vaccinations to prevent disease.
This is bad because some people (presumably people who are bad a math) would prefer to get the disease and gain immunity naturally.

/canadian
//my doctors and I decide what treatments I need
///we have free and voluntary vaccinations for everyone

the kind of geek who refuses to accommodate fools and luddites?

Why does your summary not include the best/correct long-term storage method? Printed on paper.

Yes, it is naive to think that western powers could muster the balls to do that.
It is not naive to think that it would work.

Gah, this crap is so tiring.

Any new regulation can only be a band-aid solution.

The correct solution is to break the monopolies by creating a free market.

Municipal public fibre optic infrastructure.

Layer 2 (maybe even layer 1) service to every building as a public service.
Access to that infrastructure with the same access rules we use for the roads.
(In other words, completely open for private and commercial use)

with a fibre bundle to every home any service provider who wanted to provide Internet, TV, Telephone or any other innovative service could go to the municipal exchange and patch us in to their gear.

This would set the stage for a vibrant competitive market for telecoms.
It would allow private, non-commercial telecoms activities.
It would be CHEAPER than running cable and copper to every building as we do now.
It would be future-proof because the fibre has effectively unlimited capacity.

There is already great competition for IP service, the Internet is a vibrant market place except for the last mile.
Go to any public exchange and shop for IP transit and you will have dozens of providers competing for your business.
Throttling, DNS hijacking, p2p filtering.... these are exclusively last-mile monopoly problems.

We all know that last-mile telecoms infrastructure is a natural monopoly just like power lines, roads and sewers.
So why don't we stop beating around the bush creating heavily regulated and subsidized private monopolies then constantly fighting with them and just run the last-mile ourselves?

Your mom is a major threat to the ozone layer!
lolz
wut? /high on laughing gas

There is no 'right to leave a pretty corpse' and there is no 'right to life'.
Those terms are not particularly meaningful or helpful in a debate.

There *are* property rights. It is property rights that create or at least underpin a free society.
The government cannot take what belongs to you and other people cannot take what belongs to you.
(except where prescribed specifically by law.. as in taxes/contracts)
In the west it is property rights that determine what happens to a cadaver's organs.

Now, when an individual dies they no longer exist as a property rights holder and their possessions pass to others.
This of course includes their body.
As it stands, in the absence of a will(a contract) all of their possessions pass to their next of kin. (subject to taxation in some regions)
As the owner of the cadaver it is your next of kin's right to dispose of their (your) organs as they see fit.

There is almost no chance that this will change in the west.
We might at some point institute an 'assume they want to donate them' policy but the next of kin will always have the final say.

Personally, I want the donation system to be opt-out.
The majority of people are stupid, emotional and lazy. We should nudge them toward the correct decision (donation).

You are correct about organs. But, as many have pointed out, the problem is that harvesting organs from people you kill creates a profit motive for killing people and thus creates pressure for more people to be killed.
*That* is the problem.

Our parliament is contemptible.
Question period is disgusting and shameful.

Watching it on TV makes me sick.

Dear MPs, Grow the fuck up!
The election is over, this is the part where you are supposed to do your fucking job.

what, me bitter?

but any ol' whoever can already get a cert for a specific domain name for ten bucks.
What difference does it make if it is for a domain including subdomains?

This seems like a good thing. I'm all for more open source software in government.

Our current government is however composed of half-wit partisan hacks. Genuinely bush-light.

"...government's interest was spurred by a desire to reduce expenditures during the recession."

They say and do mind-blowingly stupid things like that while presenting their spending stimulus bill.
They will look for ways to reduce government spending while looking for ways to increase government spending.

Heck of a job Harper.
God help us all.