One - Even if there are laws covering privacy of data within AU I understand that the 3 letter agencies in the US have the legal right to get data from any US company stored anywhere in the world. So , for example, the AU gov could ask the US gov to crunch the data and tell them who the baddies are. Second thing - if the PM is so confident about the safety of the data how about he agrees to go to jail if ( or rather when ) there is a breach of that security or the data does end up being used for purposes other than c19 contact tracking. I could just be silly

Circumference

Its different because the idea came from Foss ( Ben - sorry I RTA )

No no no - Imagine if every body did that - a near empty /.

and scibe assign him to Starship Captain

I know I shouldn't have

I believe the infanticide of several 10's of millions of female children in recent years will be seen as the greatest tragedy of all time ( assuming historians exist in the future ). You are right tho' it will get sorted out and I doubt it will be nice. I keep thinking there must be a lot over underground 'gay stuff " going on - I think I have even heard of raiding nearby countries to abduct females. I might add it is not only China doing this now and historically there are many examples but just not the shear numbers . The extend of this tradgedy is that it is not a foreign power decimating another but an internal process at the family level.

Yes but if it was a tightly focused weapon that missed its target 12 billion years ago then it might have only needed to be half a super nova (which is equal to 20 LoC raised to the power of a slashdot meme). Any hooos if you can decimate someone else's 2000 light years of space why not - teach a lesson an' all that.

I have experienced a Office 2007 Spreadsheet that would not open in Office 2003 with the compatibility pack ( but that Office 2003 could open other 2007 created docs and spread sheets - sort of proving the compatibility pack had installed correctly ) where as OOo was able to open the file. Based on this evidence - all of teh bases belong to OOo.

There are many things that we could all do better :-)

When I follow your link to a check of Amazon it shows a book called "Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind" however the first review I read mentions only 5 plants. The missing plant wait for it .... Coca - in the book he refers to both Popeye and at least one Charlie Chaplin movie that appeared to be references to Cocaine. Your links seem reasonable - at the mo' I have loaned the book to my brother and can't refer to his rational.

It is a great read - amongst many interesting things I felt he put a great case for decriminalising drugs but at the same time making a great case for why addictive drugs (such as Cocaine ) should be avoided.

I was wondering if in fact there existed a censored version of the book ( he speaks not unfavourably of the use of the drug in its natural form so some Govt. might not like it ) - if you have read it let me know.

Happy Days

Off topic but I thought I would mention that in "Seeds of Change " Henry Hobhouse mentions the use of Spinach was a thinly veiled nod to Cocaine and also generations of kids had to eat the stuff because it was a high source of iron - where as it is nothing special for a leafy green.

Yes the ones that think they know - press this button once - hearing down the receiver beep beep beep beep - you pressed some other buttons? Yes. OK - we just need to go back a few steps now.