War always favours the incumbent at election time, so the cynic in me thinks the US is dragging its feet quite purposely.

Relevant, for those interested in the history of grep. Computerphile

Isn’t the point of the Olympics to go there and represent your country? Isn’t that what people aspire to do? So fuck off with this nonsense! Let people represent themselves, or admit the Olympics is now defunct and no longer worthwhile.

Yes. That’s how proxies work.

That’s Doctor to you.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Except he was found in Pakistan, yes?

Amon Göth. Such a good movie, but I just can’t see Liam Neeson in any other role - especially “tough guy” roles - after watching it.

They said £650k, so roughly equal to $820k

You moron everyone else has a voice: it’s called the house of representatives. This was a body specifically to advise on indigenous issues, primarily because they live in remote communities and are therefore under-represented. A lot of money goes their way each year from the federal budget for purposes decided by old white men who live in cities, so why not have an indigenous body advise on where that money gets spent? Seems a lot less wasteful to me.