I see Bahbus rates his own made-up facts over actual facts

I gather that suntzu3000 would prefer it that companies should be able to do whatever the hell they want with no limits or restrictions

"These laws have nothing to do with protecting kids, and everything to do with stripping adults of their privacy" - False. These laws are aimed solely at getting kids away from social media addiction.

Did anyone expect there would be 100% compliance?

Nothing to do with "stripping adults of their privacy", where did you get that idea, it's not true

"You can be imprisoned in Australia for criticizing Islam" - hah! Given a prominent ultra right wing Senator regularly criticizes Islam, I'd say you just made that up

Here in Queensland where I live in Australia we've the same thing with e-bikes and kids, the showing off without a helmet, injuries & death etc,

We've new laws that aim to reduce the carnage (ask any hospital emergency department professional) and limit e-bike and e-scooter speed to 25 km/hr (divide by 1.6 for mph) or 12 km/h on footpaths.

This one may be of interest :-
"E-scooter, e-skateboard and e-unicycle riders must be aged 16 years or older to ride unsupervised. Children aged 12-15 can ride only under adult supervision.
Parents will be fined for under 16s riding illegally."

No one expects that there will be 100% adherence but it makes a line in the sand & I've not heard any negatives now it's in place.

I love the part where will4's reason to hang on to cheques rely on the fear of foreign military invasion of the country, and how cheques are going to save the USA when that happens.

I agree with all of nospan07's comment, except for the "most sophisticated banking system".

I can only assume that, like most Americans, they are unaware of how primitive the US banking system actually is compared with most of the rest of the world.

It's also bizarrely splintered along state lines, afaik.

I am curious what Americans think is the cause of the uniquely high percentage of their population, that are in prison.

As an Aussie I don't have the insider insight to understand what drives that.

I did not know Opera is Chinese. Wow. We really don't have a lot of choices do we.

which I guess is why I keep using Firefox because the alternative, Chromium being the only show in town, is too awful to think about.

Any particular bugs in Firefox bothering you? I've not stopped using it since the start. Then when Google removed don't be evil I was less tempted to switch to Chrome. In my day job I use both, because Chrome had profiles before Firefox, but I'm not surfing the web at work.

Sure there are some websites where the odd bit doesn't work, but that is rare in my experience. And I expect due to their coding it wrong (by accident) rather than a Firefox bug.

After Trump's recent grovelling to Xi, there are three possible situations re invasion of Taiwan
- no change to likelihood
- less likely
- more iikely

I know which of those seems the favourite.

Going to be hard for the US to stop export of chips to China if they are made in a China owned Taiwan

Good point - reminds me I have a couple of case fans that are meant to be super quiet and have dimples on the blades, presumably to that end.

I'm no aerodynamics engineer but a relationship between reduced drag, and quietness, seems reasonable.

They would be insane to give up their position and reputation. That sort of regard should be hallowed. I hope they know what they are doing.,

I use Keepass as my core, because I started with it a decade before Bitwarden was invented.

If you have a server you can FTP to, Keepass is the absolute bees knees. Perfect sync, and item-level granularity. That is, two devices can update different entries, then both sync, and the sync always works.

Add a toolbar button to do the sync, which is only really feasible for techies, and happy days. Your kdbx file "in the cloud" is hidden behind a password for your FTP server that can be crazy long because you never type it.

For all the relative and friends I look after, it is Bitwarden all the way.

I expect there are videos of Victorian bushfire firestorms online. Watching them is not the same as being in one, but you'll gain a little understanding.

Bizarrely, no, it's mostly Victoria, the southern-most mainland state, and south of Sydney.

I guess it's the cooler climate giving a different forest structure, among many other factors. Mind you, Melbourne had another temperature record the other day.

Aboriginals used to burn off to keep things under control, but westerners put a stop to that.