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The thought of a couple of chubby assholes in suits I've known over the years doing ballet badly is immensely pleasing.

>(Ford)'s amazing success with low R&D expenditure (they had one engine design that ran from the 70's to the 90's with no modification or improvement despite the industry balloonin…

I actually re-read your comment a couple of times searching for an sort of argument at all, let alone "blowing" it.

The reason I dived into Android with so much relish was because it was so much like my Asus WinMo PDA. The TOMTOM maps on that was brilliant. GPS was way more accurate than Google …

>I live in South Africa and government handouts do nothing but keep the poor oppressed and uneducated. I live in Australia, one of the best examples of how government handouts can …

Easy on the pitchforks, man. Maybe it's because I'm Australian and have got used to the free ride of healthcare and education, but I'd gladly take a minor tax increase if it means …

Averages are nice, but I'll be interested to see what happens to the workforce that depends upon them entirely, as mentioned above: truckies, taxis, FedEx, etc. I say, leave it for…

>Australia could chase edge by becoming a low-tax or low-red-tape capital. Although our country was founded and grew up with a "low red-tape" mentality, the last 30 years of global…

They are legal on private property and (since 2012-06) in our capital city, Canberra, but not on any other roads/pathways. Side note: in New Zealand they're classified the same as …

As a bearded Australian, I gotta say that that's an old joke. That keeps getting used ^_^

All very interesting, thanks for the detailed response. I'm pretty interested in setting up a fully-automated custom brewery/distillery so I've been looking into making a lot of cu…

Well, I'm going home. That's pretty easily the coolest thing I've heard of today.

I like the photos of the solidoodle2 and the price tag. How is the end product? Some dudes in a local hackerspace built a reprap a while ago but that thing is nothing but disappoin…

I feel the same way about iPhones. I can never find a damn thing on them. Though, got a new GS3 recently and agree with all you've said. I could harp on with Cyanogenmod, Cyanogenm…

Everything too complicated to fit into any one single person's head is going to have problems. That's how it works. There is a tradeoff of functionality vs expense-of-time for any …

For a couple of weeks my wife bought me chocolate-coated coffee beans once a week. These lasted about 5min once I remembered about them at work, due to (a) yumminess, (b) tendency …

>Cyanogenmod is fine Yes it is. > but what about all the others? You don't need to venture beyond CM if you don't want to, but really, CM brings the whole "land of milk and honey" …

>By the time CM has stable builds for J, my phone will be on K. Going to take issue with this as well. I'm on a SGS3 and CM10 (JB), and they just changed the status of the rom from…

It's mostly subjective and entirely contextual: If the software company is large enough to afford a marketing team to fill Google up with ads then there's a good chance the softwar…

>attractively low fees Standard price around here (Perth.au) is $50/fortnight or ~$15 per use. Is that considered reasonable?

Agree and disagree. At my last job I had 6, 2008 & 2010 all installed (legacy apps, yay). 6 was amazingly responsive but sucked if you had to read/write anything (like, say, compil…

Indeed. The whole self-driven car isn't a new idea - various individuals and university disciplines have been trying the idea for the last decade over in Europe - it's legal to tes…

Windows Me, Too? Excellent.