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Anidav posted:So my Facebook account got banned for posting about the planes from yesterday. Reason Given: Suspicious Activity. loving hell ewe2 posted:Can you do a screenshot so I can tweet the gently caress out of it? Do this please!
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 04:44 |
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Do this please! Sorry, I already did the account recovery process with my G20 post deleted. It was a soft ban.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 04:54 |
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Anidav posted:Sorry, I already did the account recovery process with my G20 post deleted. It was a soft ban. No that was anything but "soft", that was shut the gently caress up, peasant. Oh well, I'll have to disappoint the militant twitter army now.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 04:58 |
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 04:58 |
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Abbott's tick of repeating phrases looks even funnier when it's written out.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 05:04 |
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ewe2 posted:No that was anything but "soft", that was shut the gently caress up, peasant. Oh well, I'll have to disappoint the militant twitter army now. Yeah I know, I guess I'll screenshot it if it happens again.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 05:05 |
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All Palmer had to do was act as a spoiler for the two major parties and he couldn't even do that right. If there is one thing that will turn the public off voting for PUP it's dumb internal party squabbles.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 05:32 |
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quote:@latikambourke posted: Who cares about the future when there is Newscorp and mining companies to suck up to in the here and now.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 05:47 |
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Who would have thought that a political party formed by the man behind Gold Coast United and the Hyatt Coolum could end up having problems so soon? Truly staggering.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 05:47 |
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He also has Titanic II and big dinosaurs <- and this awesome quote
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 05:54 |
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I don't know if anyone has posted this yet: http://www.theage.com.au/national/e...112-11lbdi.htmlquote:Whistleblowing academics have accused their universities of contributing to systemic cheating by welcoming international students who are "functionally illiterate" because they rely so heavily on their fees. Who would have thought that making the universities desperate for cash would result in compromised education? I've known this has been happening for years, back in 2010 one of my lectures told me that there was always pressure to pass people. They'd fail their assignments throughout the year, but would mysteriously do well enough on the exam to achieve a final mark in the 50s. Of course the students would just be happy to have passed after failing throughout the semester and wouldn't ask any questions. This was at Adelaide University's winemaking and viticulture course which is one of the top 3 universities for that course in the world, so I'd hate to think what has been taking place in the less prestigious courses in universities around the nation. My current university in Melbourne talks tough when it comes to plagiarism but when it actually happens they tiptoe around it and just give extensions, and pass poor quality work. They post exam questions online a week before we sit the exam, which at a Masters level is staggering, and then during one exam the lecturer just let a couple of guys talk and look up answers on their phones. Unfortunately I don't see anything changing while the current bunch of flogs are in government. Maybe the backlash from students will force some action.
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gay picnic defence posted:I don't know if anyone has posted this yet: http://www.theage.com.au/national/e...112-11lbdi.html Which Uni are you at? I hope it's the one I finished up at earlier this year because, yeah, they really don't give a poo poo and will pass anything and anyone and I knowingly took advantage of this when submitting work. It's incredibly damaging to the reputation of the Universities, the value of a degree (or a second degree) and it makes things more difficult for international students because the general consensus is that they're passing and doing less work to do it even when I know that, with my SO and her friends, they were doing far, far more work than many other students. Milkfred E. Moore fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 06:28 |
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I like how Clive speaks to his senators by way of passive-aggressive press releases. Also "courier pigeon", didn't even bother to fix his customary word mangling for the release.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 06:28 |
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Not a single homeless person or Big Issue salesman in Brisbane today. I wonder where the police took them.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 06:31 |
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Milky Moor posted:Which Uni are you at? I hope it's the one I finished up at earlier this year because, yeah, they really don't give a poo poo and will pass anything and anyone and I knowingly took advantage of this when submitting work. I'm at LaTrobe. People are blowing up over it on facebook, and it does seem to be hurting the reputation of international students. Some of it is justified because there are some deadset no-hopers out there but I really feel for the ones who are actually doing the hard yards and earning their degree.
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gay picnic defence posted:I'm at LaTrobe. People are blowing up over it on facebook, and it does seem to be hurting the reputation of international students. Some of it is justified because there are some deadset no-hopers out there but I really feel for the ones who are actually doing the hard yards and earning their degree. They should be mad at the university for slackening their standards and at the government for underfunding the universities and at their parents and elders for voting the bastards in.
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gay picnic defence posted:I'm at LaTrobe. People are blowing up over it on facebook, and it does seem to be hurting the reputation of international students. Some of it is justified because there are some deadset no-hopers out there but I really feel for the ones who are actually doing the hard yards and earning their degree. I was at Melbourne. For all their rep, they never cared about quality work. What was incredibly bizarre, and this is something I still don't understand given how the course worked, is at my graduation, there were so many international students who I had never seen on campus during my Masters of Teaching. The cohort was so small and tight-knit that you generally recognised everyone (shared compulsary subjects, placements, all in one building, etc) - and then it just seemed to double in size on that evening with all these people no one knew or recognized.
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Anidav posted:Not a single homeless person or Big Issue salesman in Brisbane today. I wonder where the police took them. Noticed that too, it was really hosed up
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 06:46 |
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What kind of a loving gutless worm was doing this interview and allowed that answer to just go by unchallenged.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 06:47 |
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Milky Moor posted:I was at Melbourne. For all their rep, they never cared about quality work. Yeah its the same for my classes during the exams. Suddenly the class is 3 times the size and there aren't enough seats for everyone in the lecture theater. I'll probably move to a different uni next year some time, I'll decide which one based on the responses to this issue I reckon.
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Gough Suppressant posted:What kind of a loving gutless worm was doing this interview and allowed that answer to just go by unchallenged. But Egg on the face hur hur!
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 07:00 |
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SO GOOD
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gay picnic defence posted:Yeah its the same for my classes during the exams. Suddenly the class is 3 times the size and there aren't enough seats for everyone in the lecture theater. I'll probably move to a different uni next year some time, I'll decide which one based on the responses to this issue I reckon. I imagine these days there's a large number that don't bother coming to campus and catch up online.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 07:18 |
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Nibbles! posted:I imagine these days there's a large number that don't bother coming to campus and catch up online. Lecture captures are amazing things and don't require you to get up for 8am lectures.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 07:31 |
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Quantum Mechanic posted:NOPE Uh-uh, comrade. Y'all might have been the first in this country to be called "Green" but the United Tasmania Group - the first party in the world to be founded on what we now refer to as Green principles - was formed in 1972, a full 12 years before your mob. I got into an argument with David Shoebridge about this at AYGcon.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 07:36 |
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Splits bro!
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 07:40 |
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fucken lolquote:Controversial unionist Kathy Jackson will be referred to Victoria Police for criminal investigation over the theft of about $900,000 from the Health Services Union.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 07:41 |
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Excellent. She'll be throwing a massive tantrum about this, and I bet the Liberals are doing their best to distance themselves from her
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 07:59 |
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:They should be mad at the university for slackening their standards and at the government for underfunding the universities and at their parents and elders for voting the bastards in. Actually they should be glad Tony is deregulating university fees because it means white people have been given the opportunity to keep all the lazy asians out by paying a reasonable 250% surcharge on the current cost of a degree. Win/win! Shoot me in the head. PaletteSwappedNinja fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Universities man. The concept of "Accept any international student for those big dollars, regardless of their ability to communicate" is combined with "Make everything group work so it's easier to mark" is a loving catastrophe. I was receiving desperate emails sent by international students to everyone in the subject asking to join a group, and I've had lecturers actually say "international students don't all form a group together because none of you will have any contacts in Australia that you'll need to do the assignment*" Thing is, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY will actually respond to these emails. You'd have to be insane. Picking group members you don't know personally is a crapshoot already. Add in a high chance that the candidate barely speaks English and won't be able to write anything that doesn't take hours to edit, and you've got yourself a terrible choice. You could argue that its racist, but group projects are all about communication. Generally, the groups made of exclusively international kids will do pretty well in practical tasks, if they're all from the same place, because they all speak the same first language. *It was an assignment where you had to go and interview someone at a related company.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 08:13 |
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Can someone sum up the whole Kathy Jackson thing. From what I can gather she was championed as a whistle blower in the Thompson scandal, then it was discovered she's been up to no good herself. So I'm curious to why did the Libs cozy up to her in the first place? And why does that revelation of her misdoing scare them off when you sort of have an perfect example of a Union secretary being corrupt as they come - surely she'd be the perfect example to fire the Royal Commission at?
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WebDog posted:Can someone sum up the whole Kathy Jackson thing. Traitor inside union decides to use Liberal paid for lawyers to improve her factional position by throwing opponents under bus. Liberal backers laugh because when the time comes she is the perfect candidate for also going under the bus. See also Jo Jo de Bruyn. The right factions in unions are money in the bank for Tory poo poo lords.
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Splode posted:Universities man. It's not racist at all when it's based on the fact that the person in question lacks a critical skill for completing the assignment, i.e. being able to communicate. It's also important to emphasize that this lack is absolutely not their fault, this is exactly why you have entrance exams but of course the universities are chasing the short term buck lest they be forced to cut back on programs and layoff staff. But all of this can be laid at the feet of an incompetent and destructive government with a sense of foresight that doesn't extend past their noses, but at least they're honest about it: Tony Abbott posted:'I'm focusing not on what might happen in 16 years' time.' Right Tony?
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Splode posted:Universities man. Almost every group assignment I've done at uni has assigned groups to students not had students from their own.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 08:33 |
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Regarding the paid assignment writing services thing, I'm just dirty that about missing an opportunity to earn extra cash. I could easily crank out a distinction level 1500-3000 word undergrad biology paper every fortnight.
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CH9 reporting Police have been given the power to strip search anyone suspicious looking over the G20 long weekend in order to prevent protests.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 09:08 |
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Cartoon posted:That's a pretty fair summation. Watching her downfall will be delightful and I will not feel any sorry for her at all. Not only has she dirtied the name of her union, she has destroyed the confidence of lowly paid nurses to join it. I am not saying Thompson is innocent in this all, but Jackson was a far bigger thief than him. The Libs only went for Thompson in the hopes he'd leave parliament and the by election for his seat would go their way.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 09:12 |
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WebDog posted:From what I can gather she was championed as a whistle blower in the Thompson scandal, then it was discovered she's been up to no good herself. So I'm curious to why did the Libs cozy up to her in the first place? And why does that revelation of her misdoing scare them off when you sort of have an perfect example of a Union secretary being corrupt as they come - surely she'd be the perfect example to fire the Royal Commission at? Cartoon posted:Traitor inside union decides to use Liberal paid for lawyers to improve her factional position by throwing opponents under bus. Liberal backers laugh because when the time comes she is the perfect candidate for also going under the bus. See also Jo Jo de Bruyn. The right factions in unions are money in the bank for Tory poo poo lords. While the backers have some clues, the party has none, so this is the kind of backfire they run into every time. It's a great example of where the strategy might be right, but tactically it's completely bonkers and their wunderkinds always betray them because they don't research and they don't network outside their tribe. There might be potential in right factions in unions, it doesn't mean they have a clue how to utilize them. But because the MSM is in their pocket only a fringe player like Independent Australia makes the running on the story, which needs to be put into a brief page 10 in the Hun to avoid any kind of self-examination which ahhahaha was never going to happen. So they never learn from their mistakes. We can only hope this leads to an almighty fuckup ahahaha who am I kidding.
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Can't be hosed looking up a source but apparently the 'approved' G20 protestors can only have banners 10 cm by 20 cm. We are past farce now. My Domino's flyer is an illegal banner.
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