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Crikey! Australia is Moving Six Feet North![^]
Quote: Every year the Australian continent drifts about 2.7 inches north because of the slow sliding of the Earth's lithosphere. It's hardly enough to trip you up, but it can throw off any computer system that relies on pinpoint map accuracy.
At this rate, within a few tens of millions of years "Down Under" will become "Up Over" 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Tie me Kangaroo country down, sport, tie me Kangaroo country down...
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We are coming!!
Just you wait!  
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As long as you bring the barbie and the beer... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Someone should tell your politicians they need to rethink their immigration plans. Once the wreckage of Indonesia piles up on your northern coast intercepting their boats at sea won't work very well. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Someone should tell your politicians they need to rethink their immigration plans.
Bitch puleeze!
Our politicians have now, and have never had, any plans for anything.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: Our politicians have now, and have never had, any plans for anything.
. . . sounds like a plan . . .
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Plenty of products are labelled new and improved. I am not really sure if that can be correct. If something is new, how can it be improved? Improved compared to what?
Slow day here. Got lot of useless things to think about.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Improved compared to what it replaces, is all.
If you design a new phone from the ground up and it shares nothing with the previous model, then it is both "new" and "improved".
But many companies us the phrase to mean "made with cheaper ingredients / components but you're so dumb you won't notice while it makes us loads more money" 
In the UK, Tesco use it to mean "we sell a lot of this, so the accountants had a look and now it tastes of nothing" 
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That begs for another question. Say I have a hand sanitizer that claims to kill 99.9% germs. Great! Then they come up with new version which still kills 99.9% germs but is labelled improved. Either they are just rounding off some high precision number for the label or it is improved in the the sense that it now has the word improved on the label.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Or it contains stuff which is nicer for your hands, or smells better while still killing the same percentage of germs.
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Or the actually improved the package...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Do you mean the soap delivery system?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Your pun may REST in peace. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Or it kills faster.
I recently bought new and improved hand soap. I hid under the bed for three hours before help arrived 
The soap is now used for the new and improved Terminator program 
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May be it is using "improved" less painful methods to kill the same amount of germs.
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Or it no longer causes your fingernails to fall out, and curly hair to grow on your knuckles, like that peaky last version.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Nah - you got it wrong.
The new and improved version kills 99.9% of the stronger resistant germs that now dominate your environment because you used their original product (which is now useless).
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A new design improves the product.
A new formula improves the product.
Or to put it another way.
Stop paying attention to advertising.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Yep! All products should come with version numbers and a what's new and/or change document, shouldn't they? 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I remember Mars bars in the UK being reduced in size from 67 grams to 60 grams (mid 1980's I think). Within a week or two, they were selling original sized bars in packages with a big "10% Extra Free!" flash on them. You've got to love the brassneckery of it!
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In US: Orange Juice used to come in a 64oz container (1/2 gallon).
Then the improvement came!
Then it was reduced to 59oz (8% less, approximately) and the proud proclamation that the new container will fit better in your fridge door. They saved you the trouble of doing price comparison by keeping the price the same.
Also - yogurt used to come in 8oz cups (220ml) and then it was reduced to 6oz. I guess that's their way of lowering the calories?
Both of these have become the 'norms'.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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They mean new and improved "formula", not product. By the way, they test how well laundry detergent works by burning the clothes afterwards and weighing what is left. The adverts would have to think there are visible differences with "new and improved" powder but that's not really the case.
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