he's a low-life politician, not a career diplomat. these posts get given away to former cabinet members to keep them from causing trouble. best to ignore him and whatever facebook pages contain his name.

Fringe benefit tax is the norm in Australia. In my opinion, FB should be taxed. The extreme example of Steve Jobs announcing he would renounce his salary shows this. It is otherwise just a loophole to reduce tax. But if you're going to start closing loopholes, there are bigger fish to fry.

I first read about this in 'I capture the castle' a 1940's novel in which some americans come to england. They are from California and New England, if I remember correctly. I have seen some people do this in Australia as well. I think it more out of lack of left handed coordination than anything else...

"if you get caught using that..."
"i know. this never happened. you don't exist."

the point of security theatre is to give the impression that something is being done. this is important because there is a high level of dependence on air travel. if people are too afraid to use air travel because of potential threats it would mean airlines could not maintain their business model. from a government point of view, apart from having to bail out said airlines financially, there is also a business need to keep people flying so that global business may continue to expand limitlessly until the limit is hit.

not to mention that i also just looked at their bios and larson-green has worked at microsoft for 19 years and sinofsky 23 years. these are not jobs where you send in your resume and a cover letter about how good you are.

we are in trouble if we start thinking that slashdot article's departments actually mean something other than the editor doing their best to coin a witticism.

as if the schools these guys went to makes a difference? their skills are learned from experience working in the industry and their value is in using their judgement based on that experience to make the best choices.

listen to his wishy washy talk. what do you think he'd say about drones and kill lists? "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders. I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything" Those poor orchids, feeling the wrath of Darwin.

I wish more governments would build parks. I would vote for anyone promising to build parks!

what is a mall takedown?

Thanks for making an unnecessary sexist remark.