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Lid posted:http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/taxi-drivers-fined-for-refusing-short-fares-from-melbourne-airport-20171008-gywryo.html
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Didn't they used to have separate cab ranks for short and long fares? I remember airports getting rid of them for some reason.
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Oct 9, 2017 11:44
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Apparently the local queer social group had a couple of no people turn up to their monthly dinner/meeting to hand out anti gay propaganda as people left at the conclusion. But you know, text messages are definitely the major incursion we should be worried about.
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Oct 9, 2017 11:47
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No they don't have split ranks and they're breaking the law refusing fares. I take uber because I can't be hosed sitting in the passenger seat of a taxi arguing until I have exhausted the driver and forced him to drive me home.
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Oct 9, 2017 11:48
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Sparticle posted:Yeah, gently caress those drivers trying to earn a decent wage. Maybe they can do it by doing their loving jobs.
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Oct 9, 2017 11:53
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Spending all day in an airport taxi rank to get a lovely fare would suck, and doubly so if a smug shithead cop gave you a fine for it
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Oct 9, 2017 11:57
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Inside scoop on the 4 Corners report: The guy drinking bore water was warned ~years ago~ not to drink bore water, and continued to ignore the local advice about not drinking the bore water.
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Oct 9, 2017 11:58
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ_bywNRfNs
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Oct 9, 2017 11:59
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Maybe the taxi companys' bullshit pay structure is the reason this and cashies happen. Nah forget that, punishing the worker is definitely the solution.Starshark posted:Maybe they can do it by doing their loving jobs.
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Oct 9, 2017 12:01
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Recoome posted:Inside scoop on the 4 Corners report: The guy drinking bore water was warned ~years ago~ not to drink bore water, and continued to ignore the local advice about not drinking the bore water. Which of them?
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Lid posted:http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/taxi-drivers-fined-for-refusing-short-fares-from-melbourne-airport-20171008-gywryo.html A fine for swearing? Now that's loving unaustralian
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Solemn Sloth posted:A fine for swearing? Now that's loving unaustralian Not if the swearing person was brown.
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Oct 9, 2017 12:11
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Tokamak posted:It's a little late for that The donation was made a month ago. They only went public about this now because most of the voting is over.
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Oct 9, 2017 12:17
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When does the vote close and they release results?
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Oct 9, 2017 12:20
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Les Affaires posted:When does the vote close and they release results? Ballots have to be received by November 7th. Results are announced November 15th. So there's still more than a month to go.
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Oct 9, 2017 12:48
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Lid posted:http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/philosophy-lessons-lead-to-better-behaviour-and-marks-in-sydney-school-20171005-gyusfj camus observed that there is only one truly serious philosophical question, and that is whether or not to commit suicide
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Sparticle posted:Maybe the taxi companys' bullshit pay structure is the reason this and cashies happen. Nah forget that, punishing the worker is definitely the solution. Okay what can the police do about the lovely pay structure then? They wanted to be the only public transport at the airport so they have to suck it up when there's a short fair. Also when a worker strikes against capital that is cool and good, when they strike against the public, who don't control their pay, that is not.
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Tasmantor posted:Okay what can the police do about the lovely pay structure then? They wanted to be the only public transport at the airport so they have to suck it up when there's a short fair. Police shouldn't have to do poo poo. By fining the individual workers they are just helping the taxi corps ignore the issue they created in order to keep profits. They could easily fix the problem by changing wage structure but that would hurt the bottom line so they never bother. The government could also force them to pay normal wages but they would rather have the police gently caress over the drivers. It's almost like the police exists to keep the working class in order... I bring up strikes not because it is a perfect comparison but because the rhetoric used against drivers is the same used against unions. It's hard for a strike to avoid affecting the public. They both harm profit and grow public awareness to the issue. You can minimise the latter by framing it as the individual workers being greedy/lazy as opposed to the companies seeking profit.
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Lid posted:http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/taxi-drivers-fined-for-refusing-short-fares-from-melbourne-airport-20171008-gywryo.html Taxis remaining their own worst enemy in trying to remain a thing in the face of Uber etc.
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Oct 9, 2017 21:19
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Lid posted:http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/taxi-drivers-fined-for-refusing-short-fares-from-melbourne-airport-20171008-gywryo.html Wasn't this literally a Chaser skit
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Oct 9, 2017 21:24
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Yes but Uber is its own worst enemy too.
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They had a system where drivers who got a short fare could return to the front of the queue, but got rid of it because it was being rorted.
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Oct 9, 2017 22:00
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I don't even have words for such blind stupidity. quote:Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has suggested climate change is “probably doing good” in a speech in London in which he likened policies to combat it to “primitive people once killing goats to appease the volcano gods” . https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/10/tony-abbott-says-climate-change-is-probably-doing-good
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Oct 9, 2017 22:20
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Tony is just a paid Coal spokesman at this point.
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Senator Roberts reckons his case is the strongest of the seven before the High Court. His lawyers argue that even though he never believed he was a British citizen, he still took the steps to ask UK authorities about his status. The fact those inquiries were almost comically misguided doesn't matter — he still did more than his counterparts.
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Oct 9, 2017 22:25
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Would Tony even consider the inquisition bad in any other context?
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Oct 9, 2017 22:45
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fiery_valkyrie posted:I don't even have words for such blind stupidity. Aside from Abbott's blind partisanship calling themselves the Global Warming Policy Foundation (and being climate sceptics) is just such arrogance and so misleading.
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Oct 9, 2017 22:53
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fiery_valkyrie posted:I don't even have words for such blind stupidity. "It's killing off all the poors and those brown people we hate, so there are benefits" Remember this is the man who enjoyed a joke done by Potato Head about Pacific Island nations being flooded by rising sea levels.
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quote:“At least so far,” he said, “it’s climate change policy that’s doing harm. Climate change itself is probably doing good; or at least, more good than harm.” You see climate change is like a bad boss or bad husband. It tends to do more good than harm
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Oct 9, 2017 23:51
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You have to understand the mind of Tone. Climate change is doing more good than harm, because it's mostly just killing people in the 3rd world 
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Doctor Spaceman posted:More CO2 and warmer temperatures means better crops etc etc Pity about the missing rain.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2017/oct/10/citizenship-case-high-court-considers-mps-eligibility-live Hopefully this is the beginning of the end.
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Oct 10, 2017 00:47
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I just really hope Barnaby gets booted because it's the funniest thing to happen. Everyone else is acceptable collateral damage.
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Oct 10, 2017 00:53
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Senator Roberts reckons his case is the strongest of the seven before the High Court. His lawyers argue that even though he never believed he was a British citizen, he still took the steps to ask UK authorities about his status. The fact those inquiries were almost comically misguided doesn't matter — he still did more than his counterparts. I hope the supreme court judges declare him inelegible on the basis of thinking that .uksydney was a valid TLD back in like 2004 or whatever.
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Matt Canavan tells Q&A Finkel review economic modelling is wrong Former resources minister refuses to endorse clean energy target and says he has ‘queries’ about Finkel price predictions cmon kick him out already
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Oct 10, 2017 01:13
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If you guys vote down gay marriage in a referendum, you will go back to being worse than Britain again, the worst English-speaking country.
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Oct 10, 2017 01:22
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It's a survey, not a referendum. And it cost 120 million.
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hakimashou posted:If you guys vote down gay marriage in a referendum, you will go back to being worse than Britain again, the worst English-speaking country. It's not a referendum. It's a survey. A non-binding, waste of time and money, homophobe enabling survey.
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