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From the ABC:

Reports today say Australia could join the US and Japan in building a shield aimed at neutralising the regional threat from a nuclear-armed North Korea.
The Greens oppose the shield and the Australian Democrats say it will antagonise Australia's neighbours.
Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Robert McClelland says he wants more details before judging the proposal.
"You would expect our defence officials and expertise to look at the technologies, you would expect them to look at the events - in particular events occurring in North Korea," he said.
"All this information we'd obviously like to be briefed on to find out the Government's reasoning here."

Aaarrghhh. Our non-Liberal parties are retarded. The correct answer is "It doesn't work. It can't work. It's a massive handout to defence contractors for a non-working solution to a non-problem. Once again, the government is pissing defence money against a wall."
I mean, I'd expect this sort of shit from Desperate Rodent, PM. He's losing, he knows it, so he's going to keep throwing money around at half-baked ideas hoping that one works. But, for fuck's sake. If you can't figure out how to knock this one down, you don't deserve to win.

lesson for others to learn

When your beloved buys herself a shiny new computer to play games, and she has to decide between installing Vista or XP, say XP. For the love of all that's holy, don't let her install Vista!

Unless you like hearing someone saying, over and over, things like "yes I do want to run it, that's why I clicked it!" and asking why the wireless card fails with "an unknown error" and the like.

When exactly does the "wow" start, Microsoft? You've definately got the "ow" part, so I guess it's close.

Oh and also - no matter how shiny and tasty the lian-li case looks, you get in trouble for trying to lick it.