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Reply to The American Idol “Forums” are Insane! in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

I have to admit I have long lost interest in all Idol shows, wheyher it is AMERICAN Idol, or Australian Idol, which is of course where I come from, I find that the judges are becoming a bit jaded, not to mentions the level of talent. Also the tight rules around the age limit are a bit constricting, when one considers many performers, including those just breaking into the industry would be too old to appear on these shows, I also find that to an extent

Reply to The Jesus Papers, the Book of Judas, Jesus Walking on Ice... in Religion JoeUser Forums

Sorry to go onI did rather miss the original theme of the blog as well, after a good cup of tea, I'll come back with a much calmer response.

Reply to The Jesus Papers, the Book of Judas, Jesus Walking on Ice... in Religion JoeUser Forums

Firstly Champas even the most meek reach the end of their fuse, Yes I may be having a bad week, and am letting fly a bit mote than I would, usually, and yes I do find having religon shoved down my throat annoying. However I am tired of people who continually find a need to tear apart peoples beliefs just because they themselvs do not believe. I find it in many cases to be patronising in the extrem, in many cases, even when it comes from those who I gen

Reply to The Jesus Papers, the Book of Judas, Jesus Walking on Ice... in Religion JoeUser Forums

I always find it interesting that people who do not believe in the exitence of God , are more obsess with proving this than most christians are in disproving them, it makes me think that maybe these people really don't that much faith in their own conclusions. For that matter why can't they get on with their lives and leave the rest of us alone. These people get very annoyed with having "GOD"shoved down their mouths, yet take great joy in shoving their

Reply to Dating Service 'Discriminates' Against Married Man in Dating JoeUser Forums

The guy is obviusly now seperated from his wife and intends to have the marriage finished in the eyes of the law, so in effect he is not an adulterer, having said this I really can't stand people who have to sue at the drop of a hat, so no sympathy here, what's wrong wih trying another agency. All a bit of a wank if you ask me. Will he represent himself, remember the old saying about a person who has themself as a lawyer, I have to agree ths guy is a f

Reply to When the time is right, should Linux become mainstream? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Linux is mainstream in some areas where it has an advantage, mainly because of its relationship to UNIX, where it is a serious competitor, specifically large scale computing systems, specifically servers, and many areas where scalability is important, however is it ready for mainstream desktop usage, will depend on what usage that is. In some limited business workstation applications it has already had what could be referred to as mainstream acceptance

Reply to Was the port deal blocked because of racism/Islamaphobia? in Politics JoeUser Forums

BakerStreet, I doný have a rosey view of the region in which I live, one would be naive to do so, however, the reality is China is very aware of thier energy needs, which is why they are further done the track of developing alternate froms of energy, the other reality is we have approx 40 years of easily accessable oil, after that we are all i trouble, it is then we will see feathers fly, however I believe the nations that will be the aggressors/losers

Reply to Was the port deal blocked because of racism/Islamaphobia? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Just one other point, a recent survey of Australians showed that a majority feel no more insecure now than before 9/11, some of this I would say has to do with our remotness and isolation, is this a good thing. I think yes, only thing worse than a parnoid Government is a nation full of paronoid people.

Reply to Was the port deal blocked because of racism/Islamaphobia? in Politics JoeUser Forums

China does not need to wish harm to the US or anyone else, they are becoming one of the most dominent economies in the world, this is a far easier to conquer, and less costly to China, why you guys have to worry about china as a military threat is beyond me, those that do worry that is. Australia is smack bang in the middle of all the Asian countries, sought of if you get my meaning, and I can tell you there are many countries to be worried about than

Reply to Was the port deal blocked because of racism/Islamaphobia? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Firstly it's not surprising that citizens of the US would feel the way they do when the Govt and media continue to reaffirm fear of all things Arab since 9/11, having said this I would have to say most of the UK is owned by Arab companies, I know this is an not quite true but in the UK and Australia and many other countries we have a large amount of investment from many arab countries and this is not an issue for us, of course there will always be the

Political Correctness still alive and well in the UK in Current Events JoeUser Forums

This week in the UK Britain's advertising regulator says it had no choice but to block a TV advertisement in the UK promoting tourism in Australia. Broadcasting Advertising Clearance Centre managing editor Paul Denham says swear words like "bloody" are specifically banned and they can offend by appearing in the middle of programs without such material. I am in

Reply to When the time is right, should Linux become mainstream? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Many years ago when I first loaded red hat onto my old p2 system, to mainly have a look and learn about ths new system, I would have agreed with many o the comments above, eg: not user friebdly, needing to compile software , lack of drive support and lack of software. However time has moved on and so has linux, I now use Linspire and have been since version 3, it still has some short comings, however so does XP. My point is I have not had to compi

Reply to To Feed, or Not to Feed in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Ted nailed it, no matter what we as amereicans do we are wrong. we need to wake up and see how much the world despises us. MM the world does not hate americans, we may disagree sometimes, but I would have to say on the whole people of the US are probably not different to the rest of us, just going about our business trying to make ends meet and maybe enjoy ourselves on the way, and I am sure most of us would pretty much accept this as being t

Reply to pants first, THEN your shoes in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I'm surprised no one has pointed a finger at the truly guilty here in this situation - TRIAL LAWYERS - these vulture get 33% of the settlement plus legal expenses. Amazingly this is one of the biggest reasons, Lawyers, why because while we have a shortage of doctors due to too few places in our universities, we are churning out lawyers a agreater pace than ever before in history, and not just in the Western World, India has more Lawyers than

Reply to The only Way to Gods grace is to be Jewish in Religion JoeUser Forums

I understand what you are saying KFC, I am not advocating we all race off and embrace all faiths, I am saying that they all have similar messages and in all probability got it from the same source, each of us will choose what is right for us, we hope. I suppose we need to look more at what the lessons of our chosen faith are and look less at at whether the others are wrong or right . I do not see faith as a competition, rather as something personal to

Reply to Imette St Guillen Murder in Current Events JoeUser Forums

As much as I oppose Capital Punishment, cases like this always make you want to do exactly that to these types, irrespective of what life they may have had to turn them into this type of monster. In the case of these people it is more like destroying an animal than Excuting a human.

Reply to Wrong Touch in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Thankyou Tova for such a great insight, having been through many of the same things and similar emotins after, it does give some comfort to not feel so alone.

Does Globalisation make the concept of money redundent in Politics JoeUser Forums

Lately I have had cause to ask this question, does money really matter any more should we move on, and when pondering this question there are reasons to conclude both yes and no. I am interested to see what people think, more so than just putting forward my own observations. I find that more and more we are discussing money less and less.<!-- Ju-Anchor-Footer-Sta

Reply to Australian Tourism Ad Spoof in Humor JoeUser Forums

Thanks for the laugh, I love it, shame the oz media got so excited over nothing with the real add.

Reply to The only Way to Gods grace is to be Jewish in Religion JoeUser Forums

I always find it intriging that we put so much emphasis on three streams of one faith, that all stemmed from one small area, and ignor what has evolved from many other cultures. Who is to say that we all had messages deleivered to us by the same force by in ways that relat to our time and place in the evolution of the world. I personally believe that God spread his/her message around the world at different times and in different ways, and at the end of

Out of the mouths of the young in Ethics JoeUser Forums

Last Friday I spent the day interviewing a new assistant, during one the interviews one of the applicants made an interesting comment, not particullarily earth shattering, but at the same time made me open my eyes. We were discussing why he was interested i the industry he was interested in joining . He replyed with the following, "Since I was a young boy I have b

Reply to Freedom or Hate Speech? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

No matter how the media responsible want to justify these actions the truth is, this is designed to a) seel papers and b) this done by being insightful, no contrbution was made to improve understanding of any culture. Its as if these people don't even care what happens at a global level, just sell more papers. The first step towards peace between all clutures is to understand and respect each other, this is how we become civilised, not with technology

Reply to IE 7 Beta 2 Review in Internet JoeUser Forums

It's getting there, but still trails the pack, Firefox, Sea Monkey, Netscape 8.1 and Opera still way ahead, its always hard to take the lead when all the others have been there done that I suppose.

Reply to The only Way to Gods grace is to be Jewish in Religion JoeUser Forums

Sorry MM should have read further, point taken, comment was worth making.

Reply to The only Way to Gods grace is to be Jewish in Religion JoeUser Forums

Are you serious, or is this just to get a rise, either way it's not worth comment.