Just because the Americans are asleep doesn’t mean the Australians learnt to speak other languages!

Heck, I’m not sure we’ve even got the hang of English half the time.

I live on the other side of the world, so my chances of going to the US are much lower than yours. Nonetheless, I have always maintained the same opinion.

It is not worth going to the United States. If I say the wrong thing or step in the wrong place, I’ll be shot or sued or both, probably in that order. And if I’m injured, I’ll be financially ruined.

If my employer wishes me to go to France or Switzerland or Japan, who they do business with regularly, I will be willing to go. But if they ask me to go to the United States, who they also do business with, I will refuse even at risk of losing my job, which I like very much. I believe it is one of the most dangerous “civilised”, “western” countries now, at least to outsiders.

Not here it’s not!

I Rick Rolled my entire school this way. Write a program that maxed the volume and held it there at 100%, minimised all open windows, downloaded a photo of Rick Astley and set it as your wallpaper, then started playing Never Gonna Give You Up. The only way to stop it was to power off the computer or wait the song out, then manually fix your wallpaper.

I saved the executable in a publically accessible location on the school’s server that I shouldn’t have had write access to, and sent a cleverly disguised link to a mate. He thought it was hilarious, and forwarded the email to a dozen of his mates. They forwarded it to all their mates, and pretty soon no teacher could go 60 seconds without another one of their students’ laptops interrupting the class at max volume.

Best bit? I “taught a valuable lesson in cybersecurity” and didn’t get in (much) trouble!!

I model all of my UI choices off of old(er) school windows

Same lol. The casual observer wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between Windows XP and my Debian install, bar for the fact that I have a search bar in the start menu.

Infinitely disappointed it’s not this one

I wrote one of those papers. The fuckers charged me $1000 to publish it as open access, then other journals download it and stick it on their websites and charge $60 to read it. What a joke!

Tell me you’re too young to have used “Ask Jeeves” without telling me

At least in Russia if he sued he’d fall out a window.

so America are still the good guys, right?

To be fair, POST could mean a number of things. Are we talking in a webserver context? BIOS context? The POST Office?

Haha! Australia is a full democracy? What a joke!

Australia is America’s bitch. Even if our politicians gave a shit, they couldn’t do anything.

If you get the RPM just right, you can absolutely shift gear without a left leg. I used to drive the paddock bomb around the farm as a kid with my left foot on the dashboard. This is not advisable on the freeway.

• put in first gear with right hand

• activate starter motor with right hand

• accelerate with right foot

• hold wheel with right knee

• Pull stick out of first. Gently slot into second as engine speed drops to the perfect RPM. Feather throttle if necessary.

• accelerate through second

• pull stick out of second, gently slot into third as engine speed drops to perfect RPM as above

• to decelerate, pull stick out of third, raise RPM then release throttle. Drop into second at perfect engine speed. Apply brake. Throw into neutral before stopping. Switch engine off.

Driving manual with one foot, one knee, and one hand (while completely screwing your baulk rings): a tutorial.

I suspect OP still had the engine running. That said, a lot of Americans seem to drive automatics and never use the handbrake, arguing that the tiny little tab in the transmission can hold their fully loaded “truck”, so it stands to reason that there are people in the world who leave their cars out of gear and argue that the handbrake could not fail.

I always stall it with those brake assist features. I’m coming off the clutch and the damn computer still has the brakes on, so it cuts out.

Y’all can keep your computers. I’m keeping my carburettors for now.

I dunno what kind of car you’re driving, but mine will do 10mph in first quite comfortably. I wouldn’t be “shifting endlessly” in that scenario…?

Also, just leave a decent gap between you and the car in front and idle along at 2mph without stopping and starting all the time.

AI can literally read minds. I don’t think it’s that great of a step to say it should be able to decompile a few games.

The Whirlpool forums are probably going to meet that requirement, though they’re local to Australia. I’m not sure of a global equivalent…

I’m back on internet forums now. Screw the big companies.

What’s the “load” in looking at the “200m ➡️” in the top corner?