It’s not that internet explorer was good that made it successful, it was packaged with windows where Netscape wasn’t. People used the one that was already on their computer, then as they got market share they extended http to encourage sites to make stuff that wouldn’t work in Netscape, and couldn’t due to patents
By the time Microsoft was forced to unbundle IE and windows it was very hard for Netscape to get market share back
It’s irrational to fear people identified as male at birth whose testosterone is suppressed
Hormones are a reasonable line to draw it on, as it is testosterone that makes men strong and which makes some men dangerous
I’m sure that back in the day there were adults in charge of the big companies. I know that where I work management used to listen to tech areas for tech stuff. Now they just trust whatever the Microsoft agent tells them
DOS 5 docko was fine. I wonder* when they went wrong
*I don’t really
Mine was all boys, my sister went to a girls only school. We were certainly treated differently.
Ah yes, the announcement he made wearing a bullet proof vest
What was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn’t great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help
The web was pretty small in the '90s
I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars
To put dates on it (though South Australia is different) from colony onwards Australia was mostly Catholic, then the £5 poms came after the second world war, 1940s
Adelaide had a Protestant population of German heritage from early colonial days
As bad as he was, I think he was the last competent Liberal prime minister. I really don’t understand how that party still attracts votes.
The public funding of private schools was around before him.
Howard’s big legacy is GST replacing sales taxes
My experience says money is used either for good education or indoctrination. I feel that religions should have no place in education, not just stripped of public money but banned.
I wish I had gone through the public school system, the shit the Catholic system left me with and all. The men who I went to school with who I recently reconnected with are the most sexist and racist people under age 60 I have ever met. My circle of public school friends are much more progressive.
On the good side, that Pet Shop Boys’ song really resonates, though I avoided the internalised shame
Sov cits aren’t good at court
I note that this is relatively easier in Australia as we have no right to free speech.
So it probably doesn’t account for the fact Americans must spend a large chunk of their spending money on health insurance which we don’t have to; not to mention the enormous cost should they become sick or injured
I’m not suggesting deep discounts, just some discount, 10% seems reasonable. Still plenty of profit for them, not enough to move it into a different price category. Anyway poor people will eat pork which is less than half the cost of lamb
This isn’t the weekly excess order. This is unsold Australia Day meat, hardly common
The system I work on uses “Y” and “N”.
Before NBN came to my area, I had fibre to the node with new copper between the node and my home
Now I have a choice: my old fibre to the node with a node 50m from the termination in my home, or NBN fibre to the node with a node 2km away and 1970s copper between
Neighbours on NBN get about half the speed of the old solution
When they eventually roll out FTTH here I’ll probably change over. I’m not holding my breath
If they’re referring to the Anonymous stuff from a decade (two?) ago it doesn’t seem a very hot trend
An Australian solar panel company: Tindo Solar. Made in Adelaide
Highly ranked by solar quotes, but expensive because not made in China