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starkebn posted:Is there any more to it other than they choose someone from the other team, and a woman to boot? Because none of the media about this is giving any other context for a tantrum. Not only is she a woman, she has cooties and will probably try to kiss me
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They were shocked the ABA selected someone who chose to be deliberately barren. How could they be expected to do business with someone like that?
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 05:48 |
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A job that was supposed to be for their mates went to someone else's mates. And after all they've done for the banking sector! Might as well just spit in their faces.
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Also, the tea-leaves say the banks are signalling they know the LNP are cooked, and the ABA wasn't going to pick anyone from that team ever.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 06:03 |
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First Dog:
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 06:47 |
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open24hours posted:http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo...plication%2Fpdf From the wording this will also extend to stuff bought online: quote:If a supply of low value goods that is connected with the ITZ because of these amendments (an offshore supply of low value goods) or an inbound intangible consumer supply is made through an electronic distribution platform, the operator of the platform is treated as having made the supply for the purposes of GST.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 06:49 |
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I'm not too worried about the CEFC rule changing stuff. Ultimately their finance justification for projects comes down to how much the project costs versus the returns, a run of the mill business case. With the way renewables are going right now, the only projects put up to the CEFC that will be financially viable will be solar and wind installations. Clean coal just doesn't provide enough clean energy for the price per kilowatt hour in comparison, especially if there's no carbon price underpinning the modelling.
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adamantium|wang posted:First Dog: This looks a bit like a shoutout to Bruce Petty and his wonderful illogical machines. Here's a topical one from a few years ago:
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Delving into the other side, heres the dog fuckerquote:If journalists are determined to expose Donald Trump as dishonest, then they should start by being straight up themselves. In their group hysteria, the media are so keen to oppose, antagonise and mock the President that they underscore his own attacks on them. (He is wrong in this article repeatedly btw, this is an amazingly seld owned gotcha)
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 07:55 |
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Aww geez, you admit to sexually assaultING women on one tape...
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quote:Pre-election coal advertising funded by money meant for clean coal research
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open24hours posted:http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo...plication%2Fpdf I wonder how long this will last once every single wharf in the country is log jammed with low value goods stacking ten cargo containers high awaiting customs GST processing. Complete economic shutdown I've read through that multiple times and it seems to assume every commercial entity and one person garage business in the entire world will magically sign up for an ABN. Boy are they in for a surprise. DancingShade fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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I thought this was interestingquote:Never mind the politicisation of energy and carbon policy – the market and legal system is moving rapidly to instil the discipline and punishment the government isn't game to discuss.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 11:08 |
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Scott Morrison chucking a tanty about how the banks have mistreated him after all he's done for them is just the funniest thing. Let us all remember this as a valuable lesson on dealing with bankers.
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gay picnic defence posted:I thought this was interesting Wow, that certainly feeds into the perception that corporate Australia, outside the Minerals Council have pretty much decided they can't trust this lot to mind a pram for 5 minutes let alone provide certainty around low-carbon transitions.
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George Christensen is a huge fan of Doctor Who. https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/people-who-love-dr-who-should-love-their-fellow-man-rightVICE posted:I think the show is a useful guide because, regardless of your political bent, if you're digging down to the values of a character like the Doctor, you arrive at this inevitable "this is how we should treat people" viewpoint. George Christensen posted:Look, obviously the Doctor's fairly liberal on the issue of gay marriage I would think, so we'd probably have some disagreement around that issue. The Doctor also scoffed at the idea that global warming will end the Earth, so he might agree with me on that one…
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I'm making an assumption but I think the dr probably scoffed at the idea that global warming would ruin the earth because an alien invasion would destroy it first, next week
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ewe2 posted:Wow, that certainly feeds into the perception that corporate Australia, outside the Minerals Council have pretty much decided they can't trust this lot to mind a pram for 5 minutes let alone provide certainty around low-carbon transitions. Its not even that they cant trust the LNP, its more that the political position of each party is becoming irrelevant to the climate change debate, because regardless of whether there is a law or court precedent or whatever, board governance has to operate on the assumption that there is otherwise they can expose themselves to a whole lot of poo poo. Directors of most public facing companies and NFPs are generally required to have something called Directors insurance, which is a product that pays out in the event that a director is found personally liable for the actions of an organisation. If the insurers wont insure the directors unless they have climate change policies and actions at the board level no idiot in their right mind would take the job in the first place unless its their company.
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Dr Who is just another pointy headed scientist anyway. Who cares what they think?
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Solemn Sloth posted:I'm making an assumption but I think the dr probably scoffed at the idea that global warming would ruin the earth because an alien invasion would destroy it first, next week I think it might have been an episode where a young genius billionaire was using alien technology to fight climate change with aerosols, but the technology was the means for aliens to invade. So lol. The doctor was scoffing at geoengineering that doesn't take into account the full ramifications of the technology it uses.
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You dumb fucks who think we don't need more coal-fired power plants need to read these articles. COAL NOW http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-20/fears-hay-stocks-could-run-low-into-winter-if-no-rainfall/8286166?WT.ac=localnews_newcastle http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-13/heatwave-kills-thousands-of-bats-nsw/8265530 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-16/heatwave-impact-on-consumers-and-producers-means-crop-damage/8272456
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 12:48 |
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If we have more coal stations we can run more air conditioners and cool the crops and bats down you loving idiot.
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Solemn Sloth posted:I'm making an assumption but I think the dr probably scoffed at the idea that global warming would ruin the earth because an alien invasion would destroy it first, next week I know Doctor Who, apparently better than Christensen, because I can tell you the Doctor's never commented on global warming unless you're extremely illiterate and think, like, solar flares are 'global warming'. And even then you'd still have to not know the show, because the Doctor is very aware and concerned of those dangers. It's just that, as you said, the Doctor's usually more worried about immediate threats.
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The only Doctor Who episodes I can recall that touched on global warming was the one where car emission filters were an integral component to a hostile alien invasion (go Volkswagon?) and a classic one called Inferno which was something about "don't screw around with the earth's core unless you know what you're doing". I'm thinking Georgie Boy is just trying to appear hip and with it to appeal to the hipster demographic. Rock bands and all that. His next interview will probably be him extolling the virtues of denim trousers, also known as "jeans". Also to show my true unrestrained Doctor Who nerd-dom the Doctor is fully aware nothing anyone does matters because ultimately the timelines are in constant flux since the time war so history gets rewritten all the time. He just plays along with everyone he meets and pretends they matter to stave off his own loneliness and insanity from having the entire matrix locked away in his brain from when he blew up Gallifrey the first time around DancingShade fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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http://www.smh.com.au/business/cons...217-gufhfz.htmlquote:Five years after graduating from medicine in Sydney, Matt Schiller is operating in Silicon Valley. This article was on the front page of SMH and it's driving me mad. So these two goobers created Uber for Photography. They essentially will create a marketplace which will drive down the cost of professional photographers incomes but make them rich in the process. And they get huge tax subsidies because we somehow want to encourage this. Nothing is innovated here, nothing is created, the end result is two guys create income off other people's labour and government funds that could have otherwise have done good are wasted on this. Am I right to be shitted off by this?
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They're just copying an existing business model from the USA as used by media intermediary companies/brokers. Is it scummy? Well the tax breaks are. I have to wonder which LNP backer/donor they have relations with.
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https://twitter.com/CliveFPalmer/status/833551162519347200
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Shunkymonky posted:http://www.smh.com.au/business/cons...217-gufhfz.html Hi welcome to capitalism enjoy your stay
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DancingShade posted:The only Doctor Who episodes I can recall that touched on global warming was the one where car emission filters were an integral component to a hostile alien invasion (go Volkswagon?) and a classic one called Inferno which was something about "don't screw around with the earth's core unless you know what you're doing". You're ignoring the fact that some points in time are fixed you idiot, you child
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If anyone cares, some pics of the monstrous WA Liberal mailer being sent out from Eleni's office: https://twitter.com/GarbageDotNet/status/833648408845914113 It's loving enormous. The big part is double-sided as well. Pile Of Garbage fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:You're ignoring the fact that some points in time are fixed you idiot, you child If you have a web of time you don't need to care about those because you can just reset everything whenever you want. This was the entire reason the Time Lord war with "the enemy" was such a big deal (these weren't the daleks) - they had their own web of time and rival historical process.
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DancingShade posted:I'm thinking Georgie Boy is just trying to appear hip and with it to appeal to the hipster demographic. Rock bands and all that. It's not really any different from all the right wing people who love Star Trek.
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at least Perrett is wearing Tom Baker's scarf, which makes my MP better than the others
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 13:55 |
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I loving hate doctor who it's trash.
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JBP posted:I loving hate doctor who it's trash.
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https://twitter.com/CliveFPalmer/status/833594954811183108
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Abbott was way ahead of him on that one.
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Les Affaires posted:Its not even that they cant trust the LNP, its more that the political position of each party is becoming irrelevant to the climate change debate, because regardless of whether there is a law or court precedent or whatever, board governance has to operate on the assumption that there is otherwise they can expose themselves to a whole lot of poo poo. It's more than their ideology is in direct conflict with reality, making it impossible to rely on them. These are not conservatives in any sense of the word any more.
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gently caress I hate Australian Mainstream/Commercial media. Pauline Hanson or one of her moron candidates does something disgraceful: "Oh that's our Pauline/One Nation! What laughs! Here's Pauline again with an awful sound bite. Remember Pauline is the only alternative to Labor and Liberals" The Greens: Either deathly silence or OMG RABIT LEFTIES WANT US TO EAT MUNG BEANS AND poo poo IN A HOLE while totally misunderstanding most of the Greens policies or handwaving them off as "extremist leftie views". And this isn't just the Murdoch media, Fairfax, ABC, SBS and online sites like Buzzfeed and sometimes even New Matilda are guilty of this.
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Too many questions on Q&A and the radio show afterwards were "Why do politicians argue about things instead of working together? Important things aren't being done because they are so politicised." and it was particularly maddening because on the show the major topic they were talking about was renewable energy and climate change, issues that the Liberals deliberately politicised. Malcolm Turnbull was once in favour of the ETS until they realised it was an effective weapon they could hit Labor over the head with so they politicised it and then Labor could only react and now it's hopelessly stuck. See also the NDIS. These "politicians only squabble all day" types need a sense of history instead of shrugging their shoulders and deciding that all politicians are equally bad. The pervasive pattern is that there is a neutral issue, then the Libs politicise it and attack Labor with it, then Labor defend it (what else should they do? concede to every new attack?) and then it looks like two equal sides squabbling with each other.
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