‘Everyone’ knows you shouldn’t shop at Gap or buy Nike cos they use third world sweatshop labour, and S11 and other anti globalists will frown on you for doing so.
Charity organisations who are actually involved in these areas will generally tell you the complete opposite. Third world workers in factories run by western/global corporations earn [...]

This is an awesomely complete Mad Max resource. In spite of its being heavily weighted towards Fords, Mad Max still goes off. I just spent two hours looking at stuff here.

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People think that because every option in an election is unpleasant, that they just won’t vote. The worst thing is that that idea is far more prevalent on the left, whereas conservatives aren’t prone to thinking anyway so they tend to do what they are told and vote for the conservative option every time.
I think [...]

I’ve been reading “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque. It’s the story of Paul Baumer a German footsoldier in WWI, first published in 1929. Good reading, but not for the weak of stomach, the battlefield scenes are pretty descriptive.
One thing he describes is the bloodlust in a forward assault, how he [...]

I was looking to see what the latest stats where for ‘what browser people use’. Having no idea where to start (although that phrase might have worked) I plugged ‘browser’ into Google. I expect the answer to my question to be somewhere between 85-90% some version of Internet Explorer.
Google however has the first 6 hits [...]

We were talking about knowledge base stuff on the Tech list at RMIT. Mark is still on that list, as are a number of other retirees and non-faculty peeps, and Mark remembered the old Faq we had written for the lab in 98/99. That thing made so much difference in supporting those labs. He got [...]