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Gough Suppressant posted:And I swear to god if anyone tries to claim that picking 7-11 is motivated by racism rather than their appalling treatment of staff and prevalence I will rip this thread apart with my bare hands How is picking 7-11 racist? What are you hiding?
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Captain Pissweak posted:an Endman post God save the Queen.
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What kind of fancy lives do you lead where you got drunk in your youth on anything other than goon, passionpop or VB?
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xutech posted:What kind of fancy lives do you lead where you got drunk in your youth on anything other than goon, passionpop or VB? Gross, and no. I only drunk goon, passion pop and VB once of each in my life. It was usually Woodstocks, UDL's and Teddy's (all of which are also incredibly poo poo).
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xutech posted:What kind of fancy lives do you lead where you got drunk in your youth on anything other than goon, passionpop or VB? The fancy life of not being a teenager any more.
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Is there actually a difference between auspol gbs and auspol d&d beyond post counts getting reset monthly in one of them?
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xutech posted:What kind of fancy lives do you lead where you got drunk in your youth on anything other than goon, passionpop or VB? Maybe when I was loving twelve.
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Gough Suppressant posted:Is there actually a difference between auspol gbs and auspol d&d beyond post counts getting reset monthly in one of them? This one's mostly readable
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Gough Suppressant posted:Is there actually a difference between auspol gbs and auspol d&d beyond post counts getting reset monthly in one of them? Normally D&D is actually about Australian Politics, but I think we're all a bit burnt out on how horrifyingly poo poo everything is, so we're talking about drinking instead.
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bell jar posted:This one's mostly readable nice av
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Ouch. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/frances-abbotts-teacher-says-she-didnt-deserve-scholarship-20140808-102329.html quote:Frances Abbott's teacher says she didn't deserve scholarship Although reading the actual news copy beyond the headline it's pretty clear it's exaggerated, but still. quote:He questioned whether Mr Abbott’s daughter was worthy of a merit scholarship, saying while she was a hard-working “high achiever” who got a distinction for portfolio design, “there were a lot more people more deserving [of a scholarship]”.
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You don't get scholarships with a D average. You rarely even get an APA with an HD average, it's usually an HD average + excellent thesis + published papers o_o
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Murodese posted:You don't get scholarships with a D average. You rarely even get an APA with an HD average, it's usually an HD average + excellent thesis + published papers o_o Yeah, nobody get's a 60,000 dollar scholarship on the basis of a D average. It's laughable.
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Orkin Mang posted:Yeah, nobody get's a 60,000 dollar scholarship on the basis of a D average. It's laughable. Yeah I agree, and the story is obviously worth persuing. But still, it must hurt to be Frances Abbott now. Everyone in Australia is leafing through her undergraduate work and calling it poo poo.
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Amethyst posted:Yeah I agree, and the story is obviously worth persuing. tbh if you don't already know your undergrad work is poo poo you're probably a total wanker
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She got a $60k scholarship off the back of one 15 minute interview before she'd even received any grades to get that D average, she absolutely knew it was dodgy as gently caress and deserves the scrutiny
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NTRabbit posted:She got a $60k scholarship off the back of one 15 minute interview before she'd even received any grades to get that D average, she absolutely knew it was dodgy as gently caress and deserves the scrutiny As there wasn't any scholarship to begin with, it makes it even more dodgy when you add that it was the College that contacted her for said "interview". 'Please come talk to us, we'd love for you to have $60,000 if you'd be so kind as to accept and this has absolutely nothing at all to do with your father in persuading him to deregulate university funding in Australia...'
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NTRabbit posted:She got a $60k scholarship off the back of one 15 minute interview before she'd even received any grades to get that D average, she absolutely knew it was dodgy as gently caress and deserves the scrutiny To be honest, when you're the child of someone wealthy and powerful this sort of poo poo probably happens all the time. I honestly doubt she thought twice about it, and probably assumed it happens to everyone else as well. You've got to remember how oblivious most people are to their own privilege.
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Ler posted:As there wasn't any scholarship to begin with, it makes it even more dodgy when you add that it was the College that contacted her for said "interview". From memory the scholarship had been awarded once before. quote:Though both the Prime Minister's office and the Institute themselves have been adamant that Ms Abbott's scholarship was awarded on merit through a non-advertised and discretionary scholarship known as the Chairman's or Managing Director's scholarship, questions have been raised about the nature of that so-called "merit" due to the fact that the scholarship was kept secret from students and most high-level staff at the school, and was not advertised before its awarding, nor announced afterwards. In fact, it seems that in the entire history of the school, the scholarship had only ever been awarded once before. Despite questioning, the school refused to disclose who that other recipient was. Apparently studying at mummy's design school free of charge doesn't count as receiving anything. adamantium|wang fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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How is that not straight up tax fraud?
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Oh please for gently caress's sake don't privatize Medicare. I've already had a couple (a recently qualified speech pathologist, and a child psychologist), who I'm close to, emigrate -- I really don't want any more of my friends to leave, Tone. I'll be lonely here all on my own, Tone
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Murodese posted:You don't get scholarships with a D average. You rarely even get an APA with an HD average, it's usually an HD average + excellent thesis + published papers o_o Uh I got an APA with a D average in my undergrad and no papers? I got first class for my honours year though so that might have been what did it.
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D stands for "drat good job".
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Quantum Mechanic posted:Uh What discipline was it in, and when? I have an APA but had an upper HD average with first class honours and from everything I've heard nowadays getting an APA on anything less than an HD average, or a high D with publications, is practically impossible.
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Orkin Mang posted:What discipline was it in, and when? I have an APA but had an upper HD average with first class honours and from everything I've heard nowadays getting an APA on anything less than an HD average, or a high D with publications, is practically impossible. Nanotechnology.
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Apologies thread my previous Arsetralian headline grab wasn't nearly horrifying enough. Fortunately I didn't have to wait long for redemption. Behold: The Arsetralian why would you click this? Why? quote:WE'LL FIGHT ISLAM FOR 100 YEARS There you go. Section 18C eat your heart out. Let's have a bunch of far right exAJ nutjobs trumpet 100 years of religious war on the front page Just for reference here is a basic threat matrix. Exactly how you define things does alter outcomes but simply put here RED/EXTREME means you absolutely need to address it, ORANGE/HIGH means you need to have a credible solution available YELLOW/MEDIUM means should address it, resources permitting, and LIGHT GREEN/LOW means it's something you should apply resources to if they available after fully dealing with the RED, ORANGE and YELLOW (DARK GREEN means you are worrying about the wrong things). So for 'expert' David Irvine to go for MEDIUM he would have to be asserting that the threat was either really unlikely but with catastrophic consequences or on the line between that and very high probability (sometimes called certain) but low consequence. OK fair enough. The evidence to date says ~50 people motivated enough to go and fight over seas with limited to no intentions to do anything in Australia (the worst credible threat ever released was the guys who were going to try and gun down some soldiers and another bloke who had 'materials capable of making bombs' - HINT This is you you have those materials under your kitchen sink. I'm struggling to go to this being a SIGNIFICANT threat. As MINOR is all we are left with the likelyhood has to be CERTAIN to warrant being declared MEDIUM as a threat. Conclusion :- Also featured was how the Australian Press Council was giving the paper a sad. Looks like it's war there too! Cartoon fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Quantum Mechanic posted:Nanotechnology. One of the sciences then. For the humanities, a D without publications will pretty much never get you an APA Francis Abbott was doing a bloody design course. A D average is hardly impressive.
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Good thing they're spending so much on fighter planes then. The perfect tool for fighting those domestic terrists
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Cartoon posted:Apologies thread my previous Arsetralian headline grab wasn't nearly horrifying enough. Fortunately I didn't have to wait long for redemption. Behold: idk, the crusades seemed to work pretty well
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starkebn posted:Good thing they're spending so much on fighter planes then. The perfect tool for fighting those domestic terrists "Tony Abbott has stated the ADF were responding to a credible threat when conducting an airstrike which killed 5,000 greens voters in central Melbourne today"
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That Australian article reminds me of some bad race war novel poo poo.
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Couple of questions that I should know the answer to (as I want to go into research post grad) but don't; if a HD is 7/7 how do you have a HD average GPA without getting all HDs throughout your degree? And when you guys say published do you mean like peer reviewed conference papers or journals? Because I don't really see an undergrad producing journal quality work.
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Kim Jong ill posted:Couple of questions that I should know the answer to (as I want to go into research post grad) but don't; if a HD is 7/7 how do you have a HD average GPA without getting all HDs throughout your degree? And when you guys say published do you mean like peer reviewed conference papers or journals? Because I don't really see an undergrad producing journal quality work. At least in my field (science) people sometimes produce publications during their honours year or immediately afterwards if their supervisor hires them as a technician and they get to work on a project. And yeah, they're talking journals. Though I guess that's all a bit less important in science since you can get a PhD scholarship with second class honours.
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It really depends on your field and your individual situation. Establishing a good rapport with potential supervisors is as important as your undergrad work.
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Kim Jong ill posted:Couple of questions that I should know the answer to (as I want to go into research post grad) but don't; if a HD is 7/7 how do you have a HD average GPA without getting all HDs throughout your degree? And when you guys say published do you mean like peer reviewed conference papers or journals? Because I don't really see an undergrad producing journal quality work. When people say HD average, they are typically referring to WAM rather than GPA. As you can guess, getting a true HD GPA is very difficult and very few people will achieve it (in my graduating year it was 1/4000). Undergrads publishing conference papers is much more common than in journals, yes. But in some fields conferences are as if not more important than journals, so it doesn't necessarily mean that their work isn't good (especially if they are collaborating with advisors on [the advisors] truly groundbreaking work, which isn't that uncommon). I'm a little skeptical at the people saying a D average is hardly impressive, P and C averages far outnumber D averages. The difficulty of getting an APA is also high dependent on institution. It's much harder to get an APA at Melbourne, say, than at Newcastle simply because of supply and demand. The easiest but still successful path for an APA is to try be the student of top academics at smaller regional universities (because each Australian university, regardless of "prestige" or whatever will have at least a handful of extremely prominent academics) since there is less competition from prestige hounds who don't yet understand that advisor trumps institution.
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Orkin Mang posted:One of the sciences then. For the humanities, a D without publications will pretty much never get you an APA Francis Abbott was doing a bloody design course. A D average is hardly impressive. Muro was talking about it, and he's in STEM. That's what made me curious.
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Cartoon posted:Apologies thread my previous Arsetralian headline grab wasn't nearly horrifying enough. Fortunately I didn't have to wait long for redemption. Behold: Jesus Christ.
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Senator Bob Day has confirmed he intends to introduce a private members bill into the Senate on 18Cthe arse posted:Senator Day has revealed he will introduce a private senator’s bill to remove what he describes as “chilling” restrictions on free speech after Tony Abbott this week abandoned plans to rework section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. The IPA happily tweeted this to the world. Thank god they still have some influence eh eh?
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Race war headline next to the failure of a father to de-radicalise his son
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Pope:
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