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True. It reminds me of the Wikipedia entry for the Tory party: Excuse me if I find that mindset fundamentally repulsive. Although I doubt I'm in any sort of minority among both Australians and Brits. Pity Britain's Labour party is so shit (akin to the end of Howard's reign) that they now...

Yes, that's correct. :)

Well, yeah, that is why you're a Libertarian. ;)

Since our dollar fell, our export competitors sunk into recession, and our domestic appetite died in the arse. I.e.: roughly since the GFC started.

Australia posted the 2nd biggest trade surplus on record last quarter at $2.1 billion. Economists had predicted $0.7 billion. The surplus is big enough that it may prevent negative growth for the 1st quarter of this year, defying the 'inevitable' technical recession. Australia's exports grew...

I think we should be prioritising Indonesian students above other international students. That country has a heck of a lot of economic potential, not to mention they're a stable democratic neighbour and over the past ten years have been moving increasingly close to Australia in terms of defence...

15% is not a large portion. Sorry. Edit: And the fact remains that by the economics of supply and demand, we can easily afford to offend every Muslim student on the planet and still have more demand for Australian university places from international students than we can ever hope to fill. Not...

It's highly unlikely. Alcohol does not kill brain cells and it generally takes addiction-level drinking (e.g. every third day or more) to cause long-term changes in your brain's gene regulation. Most of the deleterious effects of alcohol actually stem from physical causes - binge drinking (as...

Um, no. Most of Australia's overseas students are Chinese and Indians. We can certainly afford to lose Arabs and gain Asians if that ever happens. ;)

Yes. What do you suggest, communism? A Brave New World? Don't make me laugh. Don't kid yourself. There is no "current societal trend" here. Humans have been acting like this since the dawn of time (or at least speech). If anything we've been getting smarter as time goes on. Thank you...

Fucking Islams. :( :( :(

Well Islam is pretty shit. Just saying.

What's your justification for this? To me, it's blatantly morally wrong, but I would think it'd even be wrong to your average amoral Libertarian since individuals can't really be 'free' in many aspects if they're being fed misinformation just so corporations can turn a profit.

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Waf is wrong. The HP Mini is a fine netbook. One of the best keyboards of any netbook. My main (only) gripe is that it doesn't have an ethernet LAN port for wired internet (you need a USB adapter which is fairly clunky and non-portable). I guess if you only plan on using wireless when you're not...

It's built-in. No upgrade possible. Good to know it works with at least average performance. Don't worry, I'm not a moron. The Windows boot will be XP. The comp will have 4 GB of RAM and it'll be DDR3 which is about 1 Ghz in speed. Obviously I'd prefer dedicated GPU RAM, but besides that...

Hi. If you plan to do any amount of writing or programming on it, then you really are going to need a 10 inch model (e.g. MSI Wind, HP Mininote, etc). The reason for this is simply that otherwise the keyboard becomes too small and typos become frequent. Besides that, all netbook models...

I'm on a budget and the computer I'm getting has a 9400M (i.e 9400 GT but uses 256mb of CPU's DDR3 memory). How well will this fare in gaming? I'm usually a year or two behind the times in the games industry and generally play RPGs anyway, so I'm hoping it'll be fine for at least 3 years.

Common sense saves the day once more!