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Mithranderp posted:In other news, rich person manages to avoid a recorded conviction for four counts of cocaine possession, only has to pay $2500 with no recorded conviction. This is for possession of more than 12 grams. It was for 4 counts of possession totaling up to 12 grams. The judge made the right decision.
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Fruity Gordo posted:Permaculture is also p great for drought prone areas, hugelkultur in particular. Chuck a hugelkultur bed in every backyard, encourage cereal farmers to rotate crops instead of forcing them to destroy their land by producing unfeasible yields of the same poo poo in the same fields year on year, etc Just googled those, that's pretty cool, might do one of those at home
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thatfatkid posted:It was for 4 counts of possession totaling up to 12 grams. To a football star, 2500 is nothing. I'd be more in favour of community service and drug education than of jail time or a fine.
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TheMightyHandful posted:Just googled those, that's pretty cool, might do one of those at home They're mondo rad, and you can pretend you have a lil self-watering mountain in your backyard
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Mithranderp posted:To a football star, 2500 is nothing. I'd be more in favour of community service and drug education than of jail time or a fine. Yes $2500 may not be as much of a hit to a professional sportsman than to Joe Public, but that's ignoring the fact that he has been named and shamed internationally. Joe Public would not have experienced that.
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Fruity Gordo posted:hugelkultur I googled this to see what it was and found a bunch of pictures of idiots burying CCA posts in their raised beds
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gay picnic defence posted:I googled this to see what it was and found a bunch of pictures of idiots burying CCA posts in their raised beds I've seen people building raised bed borders with particle board WHICH IDIOT LEFT THIS GOLD OUT FOR HARD RUBBISH. FOUR PLANKS AND YOU GOT A STEW GOIN
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# ? Mar 5, 2015 05:56 |
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Watching Kevin Rudd spesk on Charlie Rose, whats the aussie opinion of him?
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My Imaginary GF posted:Watching Kevin Rudd spesk on Charlie Rose, whats the aussie opinion of him? Was an okay PM until he imploded his party because they didn't want him as leader.
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He got knifed in the back then shooed back in and one of the first things he did was to dramatically worsen the way refugees are treated. gently caress him.
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gay picnic defence posted:I googled this to see what it was and found a bunch of pictures of idiots burying CCA posts in their raised beds Nothing wrong with CCA treated timber being used for garden beds. My Imaginary GF posted:Watching Kevin Rudd spesk on Charlie Rose, whats the aussie opinion of him? A much better PM than the one who knifed him. thatfatkid fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Imagine if Joe Biden got together with Cabinet and usurped Obama to become president, then Obama was demoted to Secretary of State, rather than just sacked on the spot.
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# ? Mar 5, 2015 06:07 |
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Off the top of my head the carbon claims seem shonky given that methane is orders of magnitude worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas (though I guess if their plan is to take the cows we already have ..). Plus at first blush it seems to hit more than a few pseudo-science alarm bells; this one trick solves all the problems, doing something as nature intended, all easily explained in year 8 science terms. I'm not sure how you'd justify the claim that using hoofed animals in Australia, no matter what the technique, is in any way how things evolved.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Watching Kevin Rudd spesk on Charlie Rose, whats the aussie opinion of him? A control freak who couldn't understand why people started to dislike him
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Les Affaires posted:Imagine if Joe Biden got together with Cabinet and usurped Obama to become president, then Obama was demoted to Secretary of State, rather than just sacked on the spot. Ba-wha? If you usurp power, you leave the one you usurp it from dead, you don't keep them in the loop. How did that even work? Why? It makes no sense to keep your rival in a position of power.
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epipen posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-05/constitutional-recognition-indigenous-people-racist-senator/6282972 This is the exact logic employed by convicted racist Andrew Bolt.
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My Imaginary GF posted:
badly
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My Imaginary GF posted:Ba-wha? If you usurp power, you leave the one you usurp it from dead, you don't keep them in the loop. Who the gently caress knows. It didnt work anyhow. Also to complete the analogy he announced Guantanamo Bay II.
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The longer story re: Rudd is something like this After a over a decade of right wing leadership there was a perception that the previous PM (Howard) was yesterday's man and had failed to adapt to modern sensibilities while simultaneously over-reaching on industrial relations "reform". Rudd promised to address all the social stuff Howard had not done while still keeping the economy strong. He won convincingly in 2007, the right (ie the Liberals) was in turmoil, and things were looking good. Then less than a year later the GFC hit. Rudd and co implemented a pretty decent Keynesian stimulus package and kept the economy out of recession. He'd also made a big deal about how important climate change was, but then legislation didn't get passed because the Libs didn't support cap-and-trade to the point of junking their pro-C&T leader, replacing him with Tony Abbott. Rudd's controlling streak started getting stronger, a few bad polls came out and then his party dumped him as leader in early 2010, shortly before the election This really put the wind into Abbott's sails and he pursued a relentless lowest-common-denominator campaign against the new Labor leader, almost to the point of winning the 2010 election. Behind the scenes Rudd was incredibly angry at losing his leadership and undermined the party constantly for 3 years until just before the 2013 election he was put back in as leader, just in time to lose the 2013 election. My Imaginary GF posted:Ba-wha? If you usurp power, you leave the one you usurp it from dead, you don't keep them in the loop. After the 2010 election the balance in parliament was so close that losing a single seat (in, say, a by-election) could have meant them losing government.
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MIGF! Please stay, this is the thread for you.
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What are by-elections? Is that what you hold when someone dies and your governor doesn't have the power to appoint someone to a seat?
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My Imaginary GF posted:What are by-elections? Is that what you hold when someone dies and your governor doesn't have the power to appoint someone to a seat? Think a special election in a congressional district. The general procedure for replacing Senators here is that the party they came from gets to choose who replaces them (although there is some interesting history regarding that).
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My Imaginary GF posted:What are by-elections? Is that what you hold when someone dies and your governor doesn't have the power to appoint someone to a seat? No one can be appointed to a lower house seat, so any time a sitting member dies or resigns a special election needs to be held within a specified time frame, we call them by-elections
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Don't forget that he tried to impose a "super-tax" on miners during the commodity boom only to have the miners spend $22m on advertising to scare the public into thinking it was actually a tax on them.
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I doubt it was motivated by anything other than political pragmatism and the fact that its about fuckin time but it was pretty decent (in the most pejorative sense of the word) of him to make a formal apology to indigenous australians.
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Keep in mind that we are currently in the middle of Stolen Generation 2 : Electric Boogaloo
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Ragingsheep posted:Don't forget that he tried to impose a "super-tax" on miners during the commodity boom only to have the miners spend $22m on advertising to scare the public into thinking it was actually a tax on them. And then Julia Gillard goes on to water the tax down as much as possible to please the mining companies. She really was the personification of everything terrible about the ALP.
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thatfatkid posted:Nothing wrong with CCA treated timber being used for garden beds.
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Avshalom posted:MIGF! Please stay, this is the thread for you. This is the worst thing you've ever posted.
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Objectively speaking Rudd was a remarkably progressive PM for Australia in 2007, despite attempts to censor the entire internet and his stand on gay marriage. General consensus in 2010 was that Julia Gillard would be even more progressive and you can thank the ALP for ensuring that that was most definitely not the case.
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http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/04/research-facilities-prepare-shutdown-government-refuses-secure-funding?CMP=soc_567 The future of some successful Australian science institutes is now tied by the neck to the Education Reforms and the LNP is basically playing chicken with the future of australian science. The brain drain is real and Senate Labor is being forced to choose between killing a lot of efficient breakthrough producing labs and letting $100,000 degrees through. quote:Australian science research facilities prepare for shutdown as government refuses to secure funding RIP Australian Science.
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gay picnic defence posted:There is if the point is to have them rot down. They will, but too slow to be of much use; and as they do they'll release their copper, chromium and arsenic into the soil. Not enough to cause much harm, but it's ironic given the people building these things are the same sorts of people who flip their poo poo at a little SO2 in wine. Ah righto, thought you were talking about using them as structural members for a garden bed. My bad.
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# ? Mar 5, 2015 07:02 |
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Pyne is using the same strategy Morrison used, except, where Morrison is an expert and well-practiced bully, Pyne is a spineless nobody with the authority of a wet fart
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cpaf posted:Pyne is using the same strategy Morrison used, except, where Morrison is an expert and well-practiced bully, Pyne is a spineless nobody with the authority of a wet fart Hey, a wet fart has authority over the pants that it encounters.
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We're gonna find out who is right about accelerationism vis whether we bounce or crash.cpaf posted:Pyne is using the same strategy Morrison used, except, where Morrison is an expert and well-practiced bully, Pyne is a spineless nobody with the authority of a wet fart
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Surely the Liberals will run out of things to hold hostage soon.. What's next? "If you don't vote for all our lovely legislation we'll blow up the moon!"
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Les Affaires posted:Hey, a wet fart has authority over the pants that it encounters. Can verify
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# ? Mar 5, 2015 07:43 |
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good to know I'm hosed regardless of outcome
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# ? Mar 5, 2015 07:49 |
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Anyone know how Muir's speech went?
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Basically told the govt they were shitlords. Good job.
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