Posts by splodge 70 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2010
"...Whoa, wait there partner. Do not compare the government owned and controlled reserve bank of australia http://www.rba.gov.au/ with that hugely corrupt private for profit scam that is the US Federal Reserve ..."
From http://www.rba.gov.au/about-rba/governance.html
"...The Reserve Bank of Australia is an *independent* central bank with responsibility for monetary, financial system and payments system policies, and other financial matters..."
While a pal of mine attempted suicide at least a dozen times this past year, they may have been helped more by NHS staff not refusing to stitch their wounds; telling them "if they really wanted to die they'd have succeeded by now"; not having a surgeon prescribe blood thinners when told how they would be used - and they were; not getting a letter from the ambulance trust saying they'd used the service "too much", an undefined term; not having to listen to an old lady being left to die of a urine infection overnight; and not having every helplines' advice essentially boil down to "go to A&E / ring an ambulance".
Actual help, advice, empathy and support would be a better use of time / money than pointlessly chasing web sites you disagree with
"Honestly, the best protection against macro viruses now is to be running an up to date version of Word. It won't run macros unless you, the user, explicitly enable them."
The better protection would be to use an OS who doesn't use the random, arbitrary last 3 characters of a file's name to determine its type
"The serious point is that a lot of the time we're talking about a matter of seconds between us being able to get to a genuine emergency effectively and not being able to, and therefore having people's lives put at risk."
Oh yes, the emergency crossword that needs doing while eating the emergency doughnut
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