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Freudian Slip posted:Just further proof this Government doesn't support good science This government supports no form of logic so science is a distant aspiration at best - probably as close as you'd come to an accurate statement about their science policy. Chump Ignorant Muppet Government (on a trajectory to surplus!)
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markgreyam posted:This Changes Everything has to be the most depressing book I've read (am in the middle of reading) I've been avoiding this book for that reason. I'm sure it's as good as The Shock Doctrine, but I just can't deal with it right now.
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Adnar posted:If only somehow there was a way people could buy a house that they could afford! Because "variety is the spice of life", as they say. Who the gently caress wants to live in the same boring place for decades? I realise that the answer to this question is lots of people, but I personally don't. Even if I did think I would be ok with living in the same place for decades, I can't guarantee I'll like the same things in 20 years that I do now. Will the house I think of buying right now meet my needs in 20 years time? Who the gently caress knows? So the answer is that renting is better for certain kinds of people; those who want to be able to move around easily and without freaking out about the value of their house when trying to sell if they do want to move.
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Mad Katter posted:I've been avoiding this book for that reason. I'm sure it's as good as The Shock Doctrine, but I just can't deal with it right now. On my first attempt I made it about 60 pages in before I had to actually put it down. I'm now reading it alongside American Monsters by Linda Godfrey so I have some light-hearted fun (about HORRIBLE MONSTERS like Mothman and Batsquatch!!!) so I have something to distract myself from the existential depression who am I kidding we're all going to die
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Bad science is a lot like a bad government or a bad husband...
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 04:18 |
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SynthOrange posted:Bad science is a lot like a bad government or a bad husband... Run by Tony Abbott?
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markgreyam posted:On my first attempt I made it about 60 pages in before I had to actually put it down. I'm now reading it alongside American Monsters by Linda Godfrey so I have some light-hearted fun (about HORRIBLE MONSTERS like Mothman and Batsquatch!!!) so I have something to distract myself from the existential depression At least we will outlive the boomers who on their death beds will still be complaining about how lazy we are and how hard they had it with their free education, affordable property and 0% targeted unemployment.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 04:31 |
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Newscorp and the Telegraph's twitter accounts are being very proactive in telling me that the van in that photo was not edited and their original photos are missing the S, so it must have been physically removed since the original photo. They're ignoring any questions about why they might have framed the photo the way they did. Anyone have the time to investigate if they're lying (I just assume they are because they always do)?
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 04:32 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:*walks into a conversation about people taking mortgages they can't afford* The discussion was around "why would you get a mortgage" and "renting isn't that bad!" Anyone who over reaches or hoards property by leveraging to their teeth deserves what's coming to them but there seems to be an implication that this is 100% of (young) Australian property owners.
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Hardly worth of a post in this august forum but one thing I have been noticing in senate estimates is the utter lack of any quality in the cut, style and fit of the suits that senior bureaucrats are wearing. They must be the cheapest AT LOWES! shite that they can get their middle-aged overweight hands on. Are we not paying them enough? There was a time when a fitted Armani suit was the stock and trade of a departmental head (or Jack Victor if you had actual taste). Nothing screams take me seriously less than an empty suit in a cheap badly fitting suit made of poor fabric. If that is the only substance you ever had going for you then at least it should be pretty. I get the feeling they have all stopped trying.
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Adnar posted:The discussion was around "why would you get a mortgage" and "renting isn't that bad!" The discussion was around whether it is victim blaming to talk about people with ridiculous mortgages being at fault when they fail. If you want a place to live, have a stable job, and can afford to keep up repayments if you do find yourself without work for a chunk of time, then buying makes a lot of sense and offers a lot of benefits.
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iajanus posted:Newscorp and the Telegraph's twitter accounts are being very proactive in telling me that the van in that photo was not edited and their original photos are missing the S, so it must have been physically removed since the original photo. They're ignoring any questions about why they might have framed the photo the way they did. Remember that time when Peter Slipper was actually a rat IRL and sprouted whiskers and a tail in the Speaker's chair?
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Cartoon posted:
I find it striking watching mid 90s and earlier videos of Parliament how strikingly bad the suits worn are. Sure there's some leeway for the fashion of the time but there was some horrendous, ill fitting shite going around on PMs and Ministers.
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iajanus posted:Newscorp and the Telegraph's twitter accounts are being very proactive in telling me that the van in that photo was not edited and their original photos are missing the S, so it must have been physically removed since the original photo. They're ignoring any questions about why they might have framed the photo the way they did. It's presumably not a magic trickster van which sometimes makes the S disappear to mess with its owner so call them fuckwits and move on.
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iajanus posted:Anyone have the time to investigate if they're lying (I just assume they are because they always do)?
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Seagull posted:It's presumably not a magic trickster van which sometimes makes the S disappear to mess with its owner so call them fuckwits and move on. That's the longer term plan, I'm just curious if I can pin them down lying clearly
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Cartoon posted:Hardly worth of a post in this august forum but one thing I have been noticing in senate estimates is the utter lack of any quality in the cut, style and fit of the suits that senior bureaucrats are wearing. They must be the cheapest AT LOWES! shite that they can get their middle-aged overweight hands on. Are we not paying them enough? There was a time when a fitted Armani suit was the stock and trade of a departmental head (or Jack Victor if you had actual taste).
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Cartoon posted:Theirs is the only image that comes out of a google image search missing the letter and it looks shopped. I suppose I could drive to Bonny Hills to check. It isn't that far away. Considering your profile, not the best idea.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 04:44 |
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'Why are these dinosaur career bureaucrats so completely banal and tasteless?'
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tithin posted:Considering your profile, not the best idea.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 04:46 |
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Front page of the Advertiser today screams "LIVES FOR TREES". Curious what the hell this meant, I had a brief look at the article and it's about "greenies" not allowing the road safety authority to remove roadside trees in the hills/country and this is causing driver death. Not drink driving, inattentiveness or speed, nope, it's the trees that are to blame Found the full article: Adelaide Advertiser posted:Cut down roadside trees to save lives, says MAC chief Look, if the tree is in the bitumen then it should go. But it seems like there's so many other factors to tackle first.
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While I'm in a posting mood, look at this load of bullshit: An American telling us our labour laws are too soft posted:Aussies overpaid, hard to fire: economist Sweatshop conditions for all!
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Some American Fuckwit posted:""Either it's the actual level of wages or it's the fact that it's very difficult for businesses to let somebody go for whatever reason - some combination of that." look at that guy and his feelpinions. It could be this, or this, or some combination, who knows? REDUCE WAGES AND ENTITLEMENTS I mean there's no way that would reduce the amount of money people have available for spending, which in turn drives the economy, right? I mean, just reduce the minimum wage, the wages of a significant chunk of people who spend all their money on goods and services instead of squirreling it away, there's no way that'll have a horrible effect on the economy, nope, trickle-down 4 life, something something GALT SHRUGGED, RAND. Mattjpwns fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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MysticalMachineGun posted:While I'm in a posting mood, look at this load of bullshit: Congratualtions Bob Baur! You are now officially Bozo of the day!
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iajanus posted:Newscorp and the Telegraph's twitter accounts are being very proactive in telling me that the van in that photo was not edited and their original photos are missing the S, so it must have been physically removed since the original photo. They're ignoring any questions about why they might have framed the photo the way they did. I was wondering why they had an image credit next to the photo instead of the usual notice that it was a digitally altered image. I guess this way they can blame a third party if anyone raises a fuss.
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Cartoon posted:I love how an actual economist uses an example of the US manufacturing recovering (as a result of transport costs improving competitiveness in the US market) and then tries to push the same logic at Australia. A market less than a tenth the size separated from most other markets by enormous distances. Also, even IF all this stuff is causing the economy to grow slowly...if the cost of good income, lots of holiday time, job stability and low unemployment is that the economy grows slowly, I really can't bring myself to care all that much. Oh no, company profits and the investments of the megarich aren't growing as absurdly fast as desired
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MysticalMachineGun posted:While I'm in a posting mood, look at this load of bullshit: That is a special kind of stupid - "US isn't the problem< its everyone else!"
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 05:17 |
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No wonder Anidav cant find a job.
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adamantium|wang posted:I was wondering why they had an image credit next to the photo instead of the usual notice that it was a digitally altered image. I guess this way they can blame a third party if anyone raises a fuss. Following up on the Photographers name I found these additional images. Now it is possible that someone has tampered with the van's actual signage. The image that made the front page of the Tele has definitely been altered. If only to clean up the lack of the 'S'. In a way I hope the guy did do it because the consequences for them are already horrific.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Front page of the Advertiser today screams "LIVES FOR TREES". It's kind of depressing that trying to tell people to pay loving attention on the road, drive to the conditions and not the speed limit, PUT YOUR loving PHONE AWAY and the constant reporting of every fatality on the road in the news like some sort of morbid parade just isn't working so now we have to just accept that people are inattentive idiots and make sure that when they inevitably leave the road they have less to hit. "Trees are dangerous", said a 20-something male driver in his too-powerful Commodore, flying around the winding, blind-corner filled, bark covered road to Langhorne Creek at 110, occasionally flicking his eyes down to check his mobile.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 05:20 |
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So, table booked or anything like that for tonight? if not someone going to wear an identifiable hat or something?
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"Trees are killing our motorists, remove the trees" *lines roads with telegraph poles* EDIT: I am a certified hoon and I want MORE tree-lined roads. They are awesome. Laserface fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Front page of the Advertiser today screams "LIVES FOR TREES". Solution: 50-100 metres of racetrack style sand/gravel traps along every single road so that anyone who runs off would not collide with anything. Your move, greenies!
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 05:26 |
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Isn't Adelaide the home of the Stobie Pole?
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KennyTheFish posted:So, table booked or anything like that for tonight? if not someone going to wear an identifiable hat or something? Just follow your nose. go_banana posted:Isn't Adelaide the home of the Stobie Pole? drat right, I'm always morbidly curious when looking at cracked and bent ones wondering who it was that lost the fight against it.
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go_banana posted:Isn't Adelaide the home of the Stobie Pole? We even give them brown trimmings so they match the trees. Also it's home to officially Australia's worst drivers. Incidentally, if you're interested, a suburb called Blackwood has, in my experience/opinion, the worst drivers in the state containing the worst drivers in the country. I don't know exactly why it's so bad but I've yet to drive through Blackwood without encountering at bare minimum at least one person with a basic lack of understanding of road rules or common decency towards other drivers.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 05:40 |
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Bomb adelaide flat and put bitumen on top of the remains, problem solved.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 05:45 |
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I want to know Muir's position on this one. This could have national attention if they wanted.
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Gough Suppressant posted:Bomb adelaide flat and put bitumen on top of the remains, problem solved. I see you have been to elizabeth then.
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Gough Suppressant posted:Bomb adelaide flat and put bitumen on top of the remains, problem solved. Just be sure to clear the trees from around the edges
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