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In nicer news, my university Greens Club reformed and they seemed worried we wouldn't get the ten required to remake the club, and more and more people kept arriving as the meeting went on. Sadly the new FB page already has Young Liberals complaining about 'more communists'. Oh well, still felt pretty good to be there. 
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You Am I posted:Victorian Liberals are loving over their Coalition mates the Nationals by fielding a candidate for the safe Nats seat of Euroa. This happens at least once every state and federal election. They are every so slightly being squeezed and they sit there and take it.
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IronicBeetCriminal posted:This happens at least once every state and federal election. They are every so slightly being squeezed and they sit there and take it. Splits, mate, they have been warned
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Aug 9, 2014 02:53
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In all seriousness though, the nats are probably worried that if they split from the coalition, it might mean people examine who they are voting for for the first time, and upon doing so realise that the nationals have not done poo poo for farmers in 50 years.
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Gough Suppressant posted:In all seriousness though, the nats are probably worried that if they split from the coalition, it might mean people examine who they are voting for for the first time, and upon doing so realise that the nationals have not done poo poo for farmers in 50 years. They could just split and say "we've been led astray by the libs, you can trust us to look after rural Australia!" and people will still vote for them because the alternatives ate ~worse~.
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"As a farmer, I'm happy to vote for an ineffective and impotent barnacle, desperately clinging to the hull of the HMAS Neoliberalism"
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We must find a final solution to the Islamic problem.
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The featured Life of Pyne article looks almost as vomitous as the headline. Didn't that previous feature on Pyne have the tidbit that he had a painting on his office wall of the British fighting the Zulus which 'gave him inspiration' or some poo poo.
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Pred1ct posted:The featured Life of Pyne article looks almost as vomitous as the headline. Yes, a painting of the battle of Rorke's Drift, "It's a metaphor, for me fighting the Labor party"
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Quantum Mechanic posted:Uh I got my APA with an HD average, First Class Honours-equiv Masters and 4 published papers, and a friend didn't get one with HD avg/1C/no papers. Depends a bit on how many your university gets allocated and how competitive they are.
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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. P sure you average out raw scores, rather than grades. So if, say an HD is a final score of 80-100, having a mean mark of above 80 would be an HD average. Or at least that's the way I've always calculated it.
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Depends how you do it. The APA scoring (at my uni, dunno about others) is based actually on GPA, so to get 4/4 GPA you need to get an HD in literally every unit (which is what I did) (b/c I own). Otherwise, they base it on WAM which is just a weighted average of every unit, and you can afford to get 70 or something in a particularly difficult unit. As for papers, most people in STEM will generally publish at least one during hons from their thesis. I had 4 because I did a Masters, which gave me a bit more time to do other stuff and I also went to Belgium to work in research before my APA application went in, so I got one from there. Another came from a normal coursework unit assignment that I rewrote to tighten up the language. One paper from my MSc thesis proposal turned into a position paper, and another from the final thesis written into a paper.
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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. also, don't go into research don't do it don't do it.
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Haters Objector posted:P sure you average out raw scores, rather than grades. So if, say an HD is a final score of 80-100, having a mean mark of above 80 would be an HD average. Though Kim Jong Il lives in SA so a HD is 85% or above, not 80%. It's a bit harder to get HDs and first class honours at unis where 85+ is the standard, so that's probably why he was saying it was difficult to get a HD average. Murodese posted:As for papers, most people in STEM will generally publish at least one during hons from their thesis. This is actually pretty uncommon out of everyone I know in biology. I know post-docs who have never published.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:This is actually pretty uncommon out of everyone I know in biology. I know post-docs who have never published. Really? I have a biologist on ResearchGate and literally every 5 loving minutes he's making GBS threads out a new paper about some particular aspect of some particular plant or something.
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Murodese posted:Really? I have a biologist on ResearchGate and literally every 5 loving minutes he's making GBS threads out a new paper about some particular aspect of some particular plant or something. I guess I'm mostly talking molecular and microbiology. I don't really have much to do with ecology people. For all I know it might not be true of them.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:I guess I'm mostly talking molecular and microbiology. I don't really have much to do with ecology people. For all I know it might not be true of them. Varies by your department, as well. In Belgium there was pretty big pressure to publish amongst PhDs, with at least a couple of papers per year on top of your thesis work. Over here it's a lot slacker, I've found. More like one per year.
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OK AusPolers, in researching our Russian Trade debarcle I came across something that is fascinating. Now the embargo is only on 'produce' but our trade with Russia is almost entirely (Imports to Australia) Crude Oil ~ 1 Billion per annum. Our exports are mainly produce but nearly half is:  "Confidential Items of Trade" to the tune of ~ 0.5 Billion P/A. This is a real brain teaser. I did some poking and found: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/5372.0.55.001 "5372.0.55.001 - International Merchandise Trade: Confidential Commodities List, Jun 2014" - Which only deepens the mystery. http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/australias-trade-at-a-glance/g20.html Is the best I could find on the DFAT site, but it lists our trade as $738 Million and if you add up the items listed you come up 291 million short. Going the other way you get a much more believable 50 Million (As in there are other sundry items that don't get a separate listing that make up 50 million).  So what are we secretly exporting to the Russian Federation to the tune of ~0.5 Billion per annum. I had a guess at bank notes but that doesn't seem to work. Uranium exports don't seem to work out either. Some sort of financial instrument? The truth is out there!
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Vladimir Poutine posted:This is actually pretty uncommon out of everyone I know in biology. I know post-docs who have never published. Mr Chips fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Cartoon posted:OK AusPolers, in researching our Russian Trade debarcle I came across something that is fascinating. Now the embargo is only on 'produce' but our trade with Russia is almost entirely (Imports to Australia) Crude Oil ~ 1 Billion per annum. Confidential Commodities can be such exciting things as: quote:034.28 Other frozen fish (specifically tooth fish) A,B from Oct 2003 http://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/stats-pubs/confidentiality-in-australian-merchandise-export-statistics.pdf
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Like there seems to be really odd reasons to be on that list. eg. source country is suppressed for macadamia nuts. Why? Why does that matter? LPG apparently is always suppressed for individual country statistics and only overall world trade is shown.
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ell oh ellquote:Crossbench Senator Bob Day has flagged plans for a private senators bill to revive a proposal for changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.
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That's why I asked here. Thanks for the prompt answer.
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Cartoon posted:That's why I asked here. Thanks for the prompt answer. Yeah I don't understand the why's of it though. I'm not a master economist like JH
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Is it alumina? According to that DFAT analysis the Russian Federation imported $534m of it in 2008, which is pretty close to the $530m on the list Cartoon posted.
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So the failure of the 18C repeal is the Muslims fault. Cool.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfJJWZzyGyg
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adamantium|wang posted:
The Department of Defence declassified a bunch of its old planning documents a few years ago, and the ones from the late 40s / early 50s included sections describing the Germans and Japanese as "naturally aggressive races that need to be subjugated for all time". Nice to see Leahy's moved on from saying such outrageous statements by bounding the time frame for our ideological wars.
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Incidentally Leahy was also appointed only a few days ago to a panel to conduct a "first principles review" of the defence organisation. Can't wait to see what he proposes to increase their Muslim-fighting efficiency.
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Considering he phrased it as 'blood and treasure' I think his mindset is more Dark Ages then even fifty years ago.
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who else posted:[World War 1 was] in one sense a tragic waste but it was for a good cause
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Gough Suppressant posted:In all seriousness though, the nats are probably worried that if they split from the coalition, it might mean people examine who they are voting for for the first time, and upon doing so realise that the nationals have not done poo poo for farmers in 50 years. Most farmers probably wouldn't vote for them, it's the rednecks that infest country towns that are most likely to vote for the Nats.
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Well of course the British Empire being able to steal all of Germany's African colonies was a good cause. 
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https://newmatilda.com/2014/08/09/excuse-me-sir-i-speak-brandish-transcript-hellBrah mai ert an li andis posted:Well when you when you when you go to a website ert ert mai commonly ert upurpur you will go from one web page to another li from one link to another to another wer within that website that’s not what we’re interested in. A written transcript of the famous interview. It's wonderful.
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Fark, what a bastard.
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Wait Christopher Pyne seriously said that in order for women to not be denied educational opportunity vice chancellors should keep fees low for woman things like teaching and nursing. And then tells Sarah ferguson to stop getting caught up on woman things when called out on the fact that gender income disparity occurs within professions not just between them. Kill you self Pyne poo poo lorde Gough Suppressant fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:Wait Christopher Pyne seriously said that in order for women to not be denied educational opportunity vice chancellors should keep fees low for woman things like teaching and nursing. This is obviously a pile of sexist bullshit, but why would a university in a deregulated market have any incentive to charge less than they could get away with? It all makes me so furious.
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Gough Suppressant posted:Wait Christopher Pyne seriously said that in order for women to not be denied educational opportunity vice chancellors should keep fees low for woman things like teaching and nursing. I think this is a bit of a stretch. Pyne is a poo poo lord but I'm pretty sure he was just saying it can't possibly disproportionately affect women and poor people because Vice Chancellors will price things fairly and not for maximum profit. It was absolutely a straw man dodge, implying that the big problem with it is that they will specifically set the fees higher for courses predominately taken by women or some poo poo but I don't think it was a Tony Abbott 'women stay in the kitchen' thing. quote:SARAH FERGUSON: However, do you accept that there is a hit in the way that you've set up the loan repayments that hurts women and poorer people more than it does high income earners? Do you accept that's the consequence? http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4062352.htm
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