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Heh. Same.

The law comes down pretty ****ing harsh on drink driving here in Australia. I think the legal limit is one standard drink for women and 2 standard drinks for men. No alcohol at all for those without a full licence (e.g. learners and provisionals). Also, NSW and Victoria are starting to conduct random drug tests for drivers as well as random breath tests for alcohol. Man, Wikipedia is showing all these countries with a limit of 0.08% BAC. Sounds too high to me.

From an Aussie perspective: I'm grateful for Europe's initialisation, influence and continued support of Australia as a country and culture, but I am also pleased that economically, politically and culturally we have chosen our own independent direction, not hesitating to disagree with EU if we see fit.

Well I just got back from a week of drinking (first week of uni for my friends) so my revised tastes would be: Carlton Draught - I don't like it any more. I think it's too 'sweet'. Toohey's Extra Dry - It's too dry and tastes like tonic water. Also dryness causes bad hangovers. Victoria Bitter (VB) - It's not my first or second choice but it's not THAT terrible, really. Corona - Lovely stuff. Crown Lager - Lovely stuff. Guiness - Great stuff if I'm in the mood. More of a meal than an alcohol, though. Kilkenny - All time favourite beer. Cooper's Pale Ale - Brewed in the bottle. Has a distinct metallic taste - the beer I was drinking most this week.

I agree. I don't like baby-sitting in computer games.

That has been proven ineffective. Not only can these people get an illegal gun, but they can just as easily aquire a license. That guy in Finland a few months ago had a license, and Finland has much more restricitve gun laws than you could ever hope to get in the US. You just cant legislate away school shootings. It's not been 'proven' ineffective - careful how you use that word: 1) Murders with guns will likely always happen. What's changeable is the rate at which they happen, and gun control legislature DOES change this for the better. America could drop from having 80% of the world's school massacre cases to 25%. 2) You can't just make legislation. You also have to remove the guns currently in circulation, as Australia did through a buy-back scheme (e.g. get a licence or sell your gun to the government). 3) Finland gun control seem average in strictness.

Co-op? <3

Kaftan: Or you could require people to have a licence and a reason to own a gun. I mean, it seems only logical to me; you don't give guns to people who don't need them.

Or look at any number of European countries which are proof that mankind can try, and succeed, in evolving to something better and maintaining that improvement (but it looks like we're talking about philosophy and ethics now instead of biology). Honestly, your argument sounds the type Visceris used to make.

Niiice Tarna. I bet she was happy, though.

Well said, Tarna.

I was wondering that, too. I mean, there are many secrets that people carry for many good, legal reasons. It doesn't seem lawful at all to force people to show the contents of their hard drives... not to mention it sounds like a logistically horrible process for both customs and the traveller.

Anybody seen Atlantis 17 I think it was? It was a classic 1st or 2nd season SG1 rambo-style save-the-day spree. Mostly entertaining, if only due to Teal'C.

How does a judge always get people to obey his orders? They have the stubborn one sit in a jail cell until his lawyers can appeal him out, which can take months, if not years, and only if his lawyers are good enough to get the appeal approved. Suspicion that somebody has something incriminating stored in an encrypted file is not grounds to throw somebody in jail any more than suspicion that somebody has incriminating evidence stored in their head is.

More help for the mentally ill and rational gun control would prevent more incidents than both combined. Meshugger: Um. No? Lots of micro-evolution has occurred in Humans in 2000 years. I think people too often dissociate mutation and evolution. Sand: Oh really? Where did you learn that? Because it's wrong. Humans are evolving in 2 ways: 1) We're evolving faster as the human population increases (not more slowly, as predicted), due to population increase increasing the chance of favourable mutations occurring. 2) Populations geologically isolated are evolving away from each other - not towards one homogeneous mass as predicted due to globalisation; globalisation is serving to introduce some novel genes and mutations to work off, not homogenise populations.

Pop: How exactly do you plan to excise the password from him?

No, it really is. Meshugger: Not really. Most encryptions require brute-forcing by super-computers to decipher. It can take years to millions of years. This isn't World War 2. Look here for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization Basically, it's an NP problem, and NP problems can't be solved quickly by today's computers. Quantum computers may offer some advances, but then you'll very likely get quantum cryptography to nullify that.

Slow day?

Of course gun control won't solve all America's problems but it's a good start. As an indicator, gun-related crimes in Australia dropped over 50% once we introduced gun control after the Port Arthur Massacre. It doesn't stop the people who need the guns from having them; but it helps decrease the number of guns floating around, and it helps prevent those who shouldn't have them from having them.

That was the 6th school shooting in the past week in America. America has something like 80% of all school shootings in the world. The country seriously needs stricter gun laws. To start with, people need to be required to have a gun license for any gun.

It must necessarily be the case that he is allowed to keep his passworded secrets. What are the alternatives? Torture?

Yeah, definitely. Am I the only one bothered by the naming? "Aliens: Colonial Marines" sounds gaudy and awkward.

My favourite games: Planescape: Torment Deus Ex Fallout Bloodlines What did they all have in common? Rats.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23217812-2,00.html Those poor kids. Lecture room with over 100 students. Gunman had 2 pistols and a shotgun. 16 injured, 6 dead.

Haha I remember somebody who would say "son of a Saracen" instead of "son of a bitch".