The article begins by taking pot shots at Americans. Classy.

Following that, the article only presents statistics in the particular way that shows Australia as leading, while leaving the other ways unsaid.

First it talks about GDP growth percentage without adjusting for population growth differences.

Then it compares the average income growth per year while ignoring the hard numbers of both where it started and where it ended, removing the ability to compare income with other nations.

This is followed by more of the same, an odd obsession with comparing the economic growth of Australia's poor to the rest of the world's rich, citing a high minimum wage as if it were an accomplishment instead of a fiat law, a claim that anyone who disagrees is in denial, and topped off with a shot at the American government.

It seems Americans aren't the only ones who enjoy chart-fueled autofellatio.

It seems you're also not familiar with the usual self-depiction of Australia in the media - that we're a shit country spiralling into disaster, and nothing here is worthwhile (except those lovely miners and our sports teams)

Taking pot-shots at America is a favourite pastime of the Australian left. The leaders of the left side of politics usually take turns at doing their best to insult the American president and/or the American people.

Of course all this sniping is done behind their back. If Air Force one actually touches down, they line up like preening peacocks at the bottom of the steps.

The article is really about (a) trying to convince people Australia is on the right track politically and (b) trying to say 'hey, we don't have a 99/1 wealth spread like Americans do'.

Crikey leans left. Don't sweat it.

+1 for "chart-fueled autofellatio" thats a keeper!

Ah, the march of technology busily grinding the concept of intellectual property into dust. Glorious. Imagine if every patent troll was greeted by thousands of citations of previous use?

Incorrect. Once capacitive screens that could detect a finger were invented, they were immediately incorporated into tablet PCs. Many tablets incorporated an active digitizer underneath a resistive one, allowing both fingers and styli. As for a custom app-based OS, look no further than any tablet running Windows Mobile, like the HTC Shift X9500.

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Mis-pasted wrong link?

You can add to that the Uren V1, the Samsung Q1, the i7210, the HTC Advantage, the Samsung Mondi, and the W1090, just for starters. Apple did absolutely nothing when it came to device innovation, they just made brilliant, easy to use software to go along with it and gave it a good price point.

I'm disappointed. Hyneman especially should have recognized the danger of combining energy levels like those with the elastic properties of a cast iron ball. If the firing range was within five miles of inhabited area, stone canonballs should be used. They've obeyed this rule in the past.

There are only two websites which I endorse enough to whitelist them in my adblockers.

It's a case of having a finer control over the behavior of your web browser. Once upon a time, you had only rudimentary control, and had to use your eyes to ignore extraneous information. Adblocking gives us a little more automation. It's my hope that in the near future browsers will be able to parse the "real" content out of web pages in order to present it and only it to the user. Wouldn't that be nice? No more sidebars, no more banners or popups or buttons or other garbage, just paragraphs of text you want to read, pictures you want to see, and videos you want to watch, undiluted.

Myths about the feasibility of reducing the spectrum of human personality into a binary value.

Is it just me or does this patent appear to be describing someone using a mouth to send a verbal order to an ear, which is processed by a brain, with the resulting sequence of actions being held in a thought.

Doesn't NFC technology already cover this?