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Get on that fucking roll and give Liberal and Labour the kick in the nuts they deserve by voting for third parties (Greens, LDP, Sex Party, all of them, whatever takes your fancy)! The Election is August 21st and the last day to enrol to vote is this Monday (19th of July). The last day to...

New Zealand announces it is building NBN similar to Australia's NZ's conservative coalition government plants to build a fibre to the home network at 100Mbps speeds covering at least 75% of households by 2020. The rollout and funding methods looks set to be similar to Australia's. For...

This article coupled with Antony Green's exhaustive analysis pretty much guarantees we'll see an election called shortly: Winter vote could follow frosty polls

So much for the $43 billion dollar figure. A comprehensive study of the infrastructure project concludes that the cost would be between $25 and $35 billion, of which half will be funded by private industry, for a cost of between $13 billion and $18 billion to the government, depending on...

Discuss? Should foreign investment be open to private industry only?

Fucking Labour. Perfectly willing to sell uranium to Russia and China but not fucking India. Jesus Christ.

Well, it's on tomorrow. Multiple polls have consistently polled the Greens at about a quarter (25%) of the vote which is a rather remarkable result considering that Labour are on about (30%) and Liberal about the same or higher (say 35%). Obviously this is an extremely hung parliament with all...

The Greens have launched a federal Senate inquiry into population growth, urban planning and sustainability, and Australia's holding capacity in light of the Labour government's advocacy for rampant population growth. The Liberals have backed the inquiry, for similar reasons, so it will be set...

Paid parental scheme Tony Abbott Seems he joined Labour when I wasn't looking.

I'm looking at Tigers Direct ATM because it is in NSW. Tigers Direct Computer Store Need a new comp and looking for a store which has all the following: AMD Phenom 965 (about $250) nVidia GTX 985 (about $500) AM3 Socket Gigabyte mother board ($100 to $200 I guess) A case CPU fan Power supply...

This case is representative of the ISP industry as a whole and is a pretty landmark case. Basically the judge said ISPs are not responsible for the copyright infringement of their users, do not thave to police such infringement, and that the media industry must pay iiNet court fees. It's an epic...

This is fucking horrible: Clinton cancels Australia visit to lead Haiti relief effort | The Australian Wow. That's like the deathtoll of a nasty civil war.

Stunning economic growth as Australia weathers the global recession | The Australian Economy grew another 0.6% last quarter. Government stimulus had more effect than the government (specifically treasury) had expected. Jobless rate is highly unlikely to reach 7%. Interest rate increases will...

http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/ Nothing like the medium of comedy to elucidate something's flaws.

There was an interesting thread here about linux, macintosh and windows operating systems. I believe it was called 'Linux v Windows v Mack' Many of us posted interesting and informative replies to it. Why did you delete it?

Hey there. Does anybody do nanotechnology? I'd love to hear your thoughts about your degree or individual courses. This applies to materials science, polymer science, and chemistry, too. I'd like to know the ups and downs, what's fun and what's not, and what you enjoy. For reference, I'm...

A software engineer was disgruntled about attempts to fire him, so what did he do? He locked out all access to San Francisco's multi-million dollar government computer architecture and gave himself root access, then refused to co-operate once arrested...

Anybody up for playing a Diablo 2 game over IP with me? Ideally we'd have a group of 3 to 5 people I can't join realms cause I lost my real CD key ages ago (hey, it's been 8 years). Doesn't matter anyway; it's fun starting fresh.

Whilst the other thread is pure speculation, and I had intended to leave it in Non-School, this thread is for game details, footage and screenshots: Screenshots from a video camera: The website: http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/ Blizzard is being sketchy, but it seems probable it will use...

http://www.diabloii.net/n/667423/diablo-3-announcement-at-wwi Also, upon experimentation, I forced the battle.net forums to accidentally tell me the name of the Diablo 3 forum that's meant to be hidden till it is announced: "Diablo III General Discussion"...