Posts by Originone

Re: Whaddabout...

You're referring to the stats all for men and women regardless of age, the original comment is clearly referencing the statistics for men and women aged 18-24 where its 3 each but for those categories where men (18-24) come out ahead the difference is so borderline as to be within the margin of error, however for those two categories 'picked...for special mention' in the article the predominance of women (18-24) as victims in those categories was dramatic. 4 times more likely to have been stalked and 2 times more likely to have been sexually harassed. You might think that mentioning the standout statistics is somehow manipulating the story, but it seems to me that its just mentioning the standout statistics.

Re: CBA's absence may be conspicuous....

Probably not but 99% of most people's pay wave transactions will be in their country of residence so it's not really a significant detractor. A bigger detractors is CBA's app requires launching switching to the tap and pay function and entering a PIN before being able to conduct the transaction, I understand Android Pay is somewhat more convenient than that

Satire

I'm guessing he never sued the Simpsons on the advice of his lawyers, I think he'd find it hard to overcome the defense that the Simpsons is clearly satire.

Re: Not a question of being manly enough

In just three years time it'll only be once in the last hundred years.

Each man has his price bob...

No matter which way you slice it a significant proportion of the world's largest publically traded companies operate fossil fuel industries. So if scientists were so easily bought by the lure of grant money you would think business like Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP Billiton, et al. could afford to buy a few.

Re: Untrustworthy automatic billing

It's drastic but you could cancel the card in tgis circumstance.

Re: Paying to cut the copper

Instead they will have to either lease the copper network from Telstra or buy it outright and maintain it themselves, both options will be more expensive than laying and maintaining Fibre in the long run.

Some might suggest it is the internet generally that is the hang out of fools.

Re: Paul Crawford @Matt Bryant

Seems to me that that the Oprah Special is exactly what's needed to persuade the ponderous mass of the "sheeple" that this is something that matters. It doesn't matter if, like you, some inquiring types had done the research themselves and could list a sting of obscure names going back to 1971. It is not until now with the far ranging and ongoing releases by Snowden that the issue has made it into the minds of Joe Public in a way that might actually affect real change.

Really you're just saying 'I worked it out already because I'm smart and if you didn't then you're dumb'. Well that's nice bully for you but what have you done with that knowledge, what could you have done with it, to change things. Nothing, small groups and individuals no matter how smart no matter how obvious it was to them had the means or the power to change it. Getting the "Sheeple" on side by making it an Oprah Special is really whats needed to see anything change.

Re: Message for the labels

I think the point is that they are not being asked to pay like everyone else ie the major labels who by all reports are being offered or have secured much more reasonable terms. Instead they are being asked to pay differently ie. More for less. than everyone else. If the majors and the indies were offered the same terms one way or the other then this particular complaint would go away.

Re: Humans > robots?

A human or humans on Mars with sufficient infrastructure can survive an apocalypse on earth that current robots can't. That's one thing humans can do on Mars that robots can't. They can also test the techniques and technologies required for human survival on Mars in a way that robots can't so that's two things. Oh and you're right about the PR, that's kind of the argument of the report.

Re: Un-Believing-Fuckable.

A slightly more subtle and ironic method might be to apply for a patent for a method of conferring intellectual property rights over concepts, ideas, methods and processes, and their specific or non specific technical implementations. Once that's granted, as it most surely will be, you can then sue the USPTO out of existence for infringing your shiney new patent.

Re: No trash

A killer picture with the tag line:

Rocket Science

You're doing it right

Re: Freedom of speech goes both ways here

@skelband The human right implication was made by mraak see the original post "Freedom of speech goes both ways here" suggesting that eich was "...actively campaigning against their human rights." Thereby implying that marriage is a human right.

I think you got confused who was replying to you and who was replying to mraak.

Re: If you believe that...

It seems to me that the government is answering to the people, introduction of new laws curtailing mass surveillance is clearly a response to people's concern. The real question should be "When the intelligence agencies no longer answer to the government, is this still a democracy?"

Re: Climate Atheists

Soviet russia essentially justified massacres with atheism.

Marxist ideologies espouse the elimination of religion to be replaced with universal atheism. To this end 1200 Russian orthodox priests where executed in the newly formed Soviet Union between 1922 and 1926. I'd say that counts as a massacre justified by atheism.

I'm an atheist and I believe that atheism intellectually more defensible than believing in sky fairies. But that doesn't mean atheists can't be extremists, or that atheism can't be part of an argument for militancy and fascism.

Re: Beside the Point

- eHealth is pure spin because most hospitals are very close to exchanges

The hospital can have two latex clad exchanges inserted in its examination room and wiggled about and it still won't be able to deliver eHealth to patients on 12 meg connections or even 25 for that matter, because it's the patients connection that will always be the limit on the practicality of eHealth services.

Re: Agreed

Dwayne Dibley is most definately not a nerd. He would be a dork and therefore not part of this conversation.

Re: Slide to unlock

I see you 1950s radio and raise you the sliding bolt, proundly implementing "slide to unlock" functionality for many civilisations for at least the last 3000 years of human history.

http://www.historicallocks.com/en/site/hl/Other-locks/Locks-of-wood-and-iron/Sliding-bolt-locks/

Exactly how much prior art is needed do you think?

I have the exact same concern with that sentence.

What they should be comparing is the spending of those who admit to a mix of licensed and unlicensed content vs the spending of those who only ever obtain licensed content. Putting the focus on the very small fraction at the absolute end of the freetard scale doesn't show there its a myth at all, its just lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Re: Clerk

"The purpose of a mobile phone is to talk to someone. On the phone."

I know a number of people who make this assertion, but they and you are making the mistake of thinking that these devices are called mobile phones because thats what they are. The name mobile phone is just an historical quirk of the way they were developed, and often talking to someone is now the least part of what a mobile phone is used for, to the point where it is not unreasonable to do away with the talk to people function altogether as evidenced by 3g connected tablets which are really just large form factor mobile phones without the talky bit.

I can asure you I am not alone in saying that the $500 worth of call credit that comes on my plan goes largely untouched each month but I always use at least %50 of the 2gb of data thats included. Maybe you can't think of anything you would want to do with a "mobile phone" other than talk to someone, that doesn't mean you know something the rest of us don't, it just shows a distinct lack of imagination.