Sure, but a lot of people still use their USB connectors. I am currently in a place with unstable power, and USB connected printers come straight back online after an outage, while Wi-Fi manages it about a third of the time, and never seamlessly (new IP address even when it’s supposed to be static, for instance). It’s…

We’re really going to poke fun at a 25-year-old letter intended for a private audience, and critique its objectivity? Really?

It may not be smart lawyering (there’s not a lot of lawyer money in it) but it’s smart adulting. If everyone involved is able to behave with goodwill in the interests of a clean outcome, and if equipped with the financial literacy, business skills, and negotiating skills entertainers and/or their management teams…

Am I really the only one completely bewildered by this whole notion of punching someone in the vagina? Like, do these people know where the vagina is? You would have to do something like stand the punchee on their head, spread their legs, and punch straight down to actually achieve this. Are these people punching the…

I really don’t understand why anyone feels like they’re in the right here. You’re supposed to get a new safety sticker before the old one expires. That’s the whole idea of having an expiry date. Yes, it’s a bit like shooting fish in a barrel for the cops to go after you while you’re trying to fix it, but no one is…

I don’t think all that many Australians think the detention camps are “good” so much as “the least bad option we have.” Since Australia is an island and the only ways in are by air or sea, our asylum seekers come via dangerous long boat journeys and many of them die, and there were many really awful tragedies. For a…

If they’re doing the wrong thing and that’s what’s necessary to stop them? Fine. A stadium is not a public place! No one has a right to be there, except insofar as they have paid to be in a certain area. If you try to go places you know damn well you shouldn’t be, the stadium has a right to stop you. Once we start…

I’m not a fan of the security industry, but I don’t have much sympathy on this one. If you’re an idiot who thinks being happy over a sporting win gives you the right to force your way into a part of the stadium reserved for players and staff, you deserve to be stopped by security, roughly if necessary, so long as the…

But a cruise isn’t like a flight. When you go on a plane, you’re buying a transport service. You’re not really paying for the experience of flying in a cramped seat in the air, you’re paying to get to [wherever]. So they have to refund you or get you on another flight if the flight is cancelled. But on a cruise,…

Why are people jumping to Teddy Lupin? Obviously the most cursed child in Harry Potter was Tom Riddle. According to Rowling, he is quite literally cursed with being unable to love because he was conceived by rape. (Which is twaddle, but it’s her world).

They aren’t? I’m in Australia and my kid single-handedly kept the local cafe in business eating their waffles.

Because people rebel against things they feel they are being forced to do.

Not really. The big money in this one is the childcare rebate, which is an economic stimulus used mostly by the middle and upper classes. If they wanted to hurt the poor who live on welfare, they’d have gone after the parenting payment. Plus, vaccination and most routine child health care is free/subsidised in…

Probably nothing. The ones who truly believe with all their hearts that doctors know less than them and that vaccines will kill or maim their children, will go without to continue to abstain.

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It is, but it isn’t US-style welfare. This is childcare allowance and a family tax break, both of which are available to all but the highest income earners. It’s an economic stimulus designed to encourage mothers to work and generate tax revenue (and also designed to encourage them to keep having babies despite having…

He was, what, twenty or so when she got out? By which time his family (I think) had been raising the kids for some years. They probably really needed MKL to take some responsibility, and if it wasn’t a happy home anyway, maybe Vili felt at least if they got married, he’d have help with the kids from MKL and his family…

The number one goal of raising a baby is that both you and your baby live to tell the tale. The number two goal is that both you and your baby survive happy and nurtured and well-adjusted. If you have minimal supports, have to work two jobs, have post natal depression, or for whatever reason have so little room to…

I agree with this. For me, loyalty isn't about whether you stay or go. It's how you conduct yourself while you're there and how you leave. I don't consider staff leaving to be disloyal. To me, a loyal staff member is - for example - one who quietly keeps their work well-documented and handover-ready while they…

Because they pay you a lot of money? Because they invest in you? Don't you owe something for that?