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The Australian education system is hosed. Typically you'd have regional unis and tafes but now because of the free market every corner has a billboard for George's College of Educational Excellence founded in 2014! Or Jenny's Online university, learn nothing - today!
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Oct 19, 2017 10:25
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 Who the gently caress are you????
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Oct 19, 2017 10:27
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BBJoey posted:ready player one is an entire book of ONLY 80s/90s KIDS WILL REMEMBER THIS “Standing on the left side of the runway was my battle-worn X-wing fighter. Parked on the right side was my DeLorean. Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut. Max had already powered up the engines, and they emitted a low, steady roar that filled the hangar. The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. The ship had been named the Kaylee when I’d first obtained it, but I’d immediately rechristened it after one of my favorite twentieth-century novelists. Its new name was stenciled on the side of its battered gray hull. I’d looted the Vonnegut from a cadre of Oviraptor clansmen who had foolishly attempted to hijack my X-wing while I was cruising through a large group of worlds in Sector Eleven known as the Whedonverse."
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Oct 19, 2017 10:28
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When you google coalition of chaos it just talks about Theresa May.
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Oct 19, 2017 10:34
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Intoluene posted:I've always been of the opinion that at least one course for the hsc should be literature based and rely on evidence based arguments. History of both modern and ancient styles fits there but I'm not sure what else. I never did that well at English but I was in band 5 for Modern History. In NSW, that's standard and advanced English, which is what the mango thing is from. At least, that's what they're meant to be. They aren't because the people who teach it do everything they can to turn it into essay-by-numbers for a variety of reasons, mainly to do with them being poo poo, geriatric teachers trying to minimise the work they have to do by recycling decades-old material. If you don't get one of them, you usually get someone who mentally plateued at age 19 and thinks they'll save the world by teaching kids how to write a five paragraph essay. The most paint-by-numbers part of those courses has been removed as of next year in favour of more analysis, though. Zenithe posted:Why do you think it was a bad choice? It's too simple for the top students and impenetrable for the average and below-average students. There's also a lot of cultural assumptions in the questions, but the committee that makes them is almost entirely rich, white, and over 50, so what can you do. One of them was my teacher teacher at uni and made it really clear that she had no time for any kid that didn't have their eyes on a PhD in English lit glorifying the eternal god emperor of all linguistic acheivement his royal holy majesty Sir William J Shakespeare Esq. We disagreed. Full disclosure: I'm an English teacher with a specialisation in ESL, so I'm biased because I spend most of my time working with non-Australian kids or Australian kids from non-English speaking families and I can't go half a day without an adult giving me the total shits with the way they treat them. Milky Moor posted:Trust me, I do not take offence. Sometimes I wonder what it is like to be able to, yeah, look at a poem and go 'Hey, it's just about mangoes'. But I also think one of the worst ways to approach the text as surface-level semi-autobiographical which is the way a lot of classrooms frame texts. That, in and of itself, is just as much of an assumption of a text as it is saying it's about sensuality. And, unlike the latter assumption, it isn't even one you can argue against. I think when you talk about English it's really important to specifiy which English. In NSW years 7-10 are a blast because the teachers can use pretty much any text they like and the course outcomes are general enough to let a teacher set something up that's really tailored to their class. NSW 11-12 English is a loving black hole of memorising as much as you can about the texts you're being force fed because they're the ones your teacher has been doing since they were added to the list and they don't want to do any work at all. The vast majority of stage 6 classes are taught as "find a theme, find a technique, talk about how the technique makes the theme happen, and do it five more times." It's loving painful and super loving boring, but it also gets band sixes for the good kids, and at least a band four for your average kids. I could write you an essay answering next year's HSC paper 2 question right now and the only thing you'd have to change is the text type. If it's a speech, put good morning at the top and thank you at the bottom. If it's a letter, put Dear Whoever at the top and Regards at the bottom. If it 's anything else, copy my answer and change the name of the text and author to suit, you'll get a band six. It's a loving stupid system, but the changes they've posted for the next few years will at least give the less interested kids an out and maybe open up some space for the stronger kids to express themselves a bit by removing the loving idiotic area of study. That said, if the marking guidelines are followed properly, a kid shouldn't be losing marks for an unorthodox interpretation of a text unless they've done a poor job of arguing or supporting their reading. Shouldn't. In reality, the DET's best Ray Hadley tribute band is going to read their essay, do a full throated pub scoff, and throw it away. I'm not bitter. I swear.
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Oct 19, 2017 10:36
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Honestly Winston could have gone either way with his position and has probably been promised some rock solid policies from Labour and the Greens. The way NZ politics works is fascinating but he’s probably seen that Labour can spread the love around a bit better than the Nationals so decided to take the punt.
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Oct 19, 2017 10:39
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So I was listening to RN talk about how Facebook was weaponsized and is now so powerful that the people who built it didn't know it could do that. Have AU political parties used it like the Russians did, to microtarget and specify ads directly to the very few people you need to target? Have they done that already and I didn't notice (because done right you will never notice it's happened to you), or do they have no idea of the ful firepower of a fully operational facebook campagin? Why hasn't China used it yet? What happens when they do (if they havn't already, which might explain why Sam Dasteri is back being the front face of Labour these days)? Who are they going to support or take down? I'm guessing we'll see it when we start to see more news articles about "Taiwan". Nothing direct, but it will start to be showing up in news and fourm posts for no obvious reason otherwise.
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Oct 19, 2017 10:53
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BBJoey posted:ready player one is an entire book of ONLY 80s/90s KIDS WILL REMEMBER THIS So what would you suggest for someone who enjoyed Ready Player One that satisfies your criteria of good sci fi?
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Milky Moor posted:“Standing on the left side of the runway was my battle-worn X-wing fighter. Parked on the right side was my DeLorean. Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut. Max had already powered up the engines, and they emitted a low, steady roar that filled the hangar. The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. The ship had been named the Kaylee when I’d first obtained it, but I’d immediately rechristened it after one of my favorite twentieth-century novelists. Its new name was stenciled on the side of its battered gray hull. I’d looted the Vonnegut from a cadre of Oviraptor clansmen who had foolishly attempted to hijack my X-wing while I was cruising through a large group of worlds in Sector Eleven known as the Whedonverse." I honestly thought this was a parody until I googled it. Now I want to die. They should include it in the HSC.
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Oct 19, 2017 11:07
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Ready Player One is amazing because its a silly joke premise that is taken 100% seriously. Like to beat the videogame designed by the ultimate nerdlord and win a bazillion dollars to defeat capitalism the main character must recite the entirety of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Oct 19, 2017 11:16
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Pwnstar posted:Ready Player One is amazing because its a silly joke premise that is taken 100% seriously. Like to beat the videogame designed by the ultimate nerdlord and win a bazillion dollars to defeat capitalism the main character must recite the entirety of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I believe you.
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Oct 19, 2017 11:24
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Whitlam posted:So I was in the Speaker's Gallery for this, with a few other people, including a couple of priests behind me who would. Not. Shut. Up. Before that amendment, Richard Wynne was speaking about his dead Catholic mother, and how, if she was alive, she would have supported the Bill. One of the priests snorted and said loudly "fat chance", at which point I turned around and asked him to show some respect.
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Oct 19, 2017 11:26
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the old ceremony posted:quoted because i believe this story due to being a chronic hisser from age 2-18 What happened at 18? Did someone just punch you?
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Oct 19, 2017 11:44
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NPR Journalizard posted:So what would you suggest for someone who enjoyed Ready Player One that satisfies your criteria of good sci fi? facebook posts
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Oct 19, 2017 11:49
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Cleretic posted:Wait, how does that work and happen? Mixed Member Proportional Guaranteed to keep those pesky nazi's out of office.
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Oct 19, 2017 12:20
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lol i just remembered that julie bishop accused the ALP of conspiring with NZ Labour to bring down the Australian government. this’s gonna be really fun for everyone
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Oct 19, 2017 12:33
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She's gone defensive on her twitter tonight e. 
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Oct 19, 2017 12:56
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Julie trying so hard not to use the term fake news
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Oct 19, 2017 13:05
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oh god gently caress me https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/920989775380725761
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Oct 19, 2017 14:07
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Cleretic posted:I also hate Tolkein for his imitators ruining fantasy forever, but that's not really his fault. I feel the same way about Wilde. I adore his wit, but in the 150 or so years since he wrote, it's been repeated so many times as to appear cliché, despite him creating most of those tropes, which just kills a bunch of the fun for me when reading them. Smegmatron posted:One of them was my teacher teacher at uni and made it really clear that she had no time for any kid that didn't have their eyes on a PhD in English lit glorifying the eternal god emperor of all linguistic acheivement his royal holy majesty Sir William J Shakespeare Esq. We disagreed. It's funny that of the two English teachers I had in year 11 and 12, both had extensive education in classical literature focusing on Shakespeare but both had almost totally opposite views of his works. The first taught me in year 11, she was the head teacher and an utterly humourless and cruel woman and turned his plays into an unpleasant chore while venerating him like a flawless demigod. I think every single student came out of her class hating Shakespeare and even just the subject of English itself. The second teacher taught me in year 12 and had the opinion that Shakespeare was great, but trash. She compared his works to soap operas and action movies. Told us how the Globe Theatre had to beg the patrons not to piss and poo poo on the floor during the performances but to pass around the provided bucket and hand it back to a staff member when it got full so they could go toss it in the Thames. Most of the patrons would have been drunken yokels willing to throw down some groats for a bit of swordplay and the occasional titty, rarely the upper crust. By the time we finished year 12 English, everyone enjoyed his work to at least some extent because she would sit down and explain everything bit by bit and translate all the really fun insults and put everything into its own perspective. I pity all the students who only ever had the first type of teacher and never the second 
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Oct 19, 2017 14:13
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:oh god gently caress me We don't need the ABC, sky seems pretty "fair and balanced"
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Oct 19, 2017 14:14
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Also theatre box seats were mostly used for bonin'
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Oct 19, 2017 14:21
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BBJoey posted:facebook posts 
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Oct 19, 2017 14:37
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LOL the Arse is reporting that NZ Lab ONLY GOT 36 PC OF THE POPULAR VOTE hahahaha suck poo poo you horrible bastards.
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Oct 19, 2017 21:05
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Lmao at another ad targeting Chinese Australians. Looking forward to gay people forcing a great leap forward upon me so I can start making pig iron in my house.
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Oct 19, 2017 21:06
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Starshark posted:LOL the Arse is reporting that NZ Lab ONLY GOT 36 PC OF THE POPULAR VOTE hahahaha suck poo poo you horrible bastards. what’s the primary vote of the liberal party (not the coalition, just the libs), again 
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Oct 19, 2017 22:58
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Starshark posted:LOL the Arse is reporting that NZ Lab ONLY GOT 36 PC OF THE POPULAR VOTE hahahaha suck poo poo you horrible bastards. https://twitter.com/reddishraven/status/921128287979442176
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Oct 19, 2017 23:01
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Pictured: the Australian Liberal Party
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Oct 19, 2017 23:26
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BBJoey posted:what’s the primary vote of the liberal party (not the coalition, just the libs), again Haven't found it yet, but the whole coalition only managed a flaccid 42.1. Given that the libs and nats typically don't compete in the reps, I'm not sure that you can split the result with any real degree of accuracy in terms of the lower house - but the senate is a different story. Someone ping Antony Green?
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Oct 20, 2017 00:16
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It’s not really either a fair or straightforward comparison in NZ politics but of course that never stopped News limited from having a go anyway.
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Oct 20, 2017 00:21
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I feel like this one's a bit on the nose though. News are clesrly following their leader into senility, and will hopefully succeed in alienating most of their remaining readers by the time he dies, and before he can appoint a younger successor.
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Oct 20, 2017 00:30
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:oh god gently caress me How can these people speak professionally yet have no loving control over their voices?
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Oct 20, 2017 01:11
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Victorian Lower House has passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill.
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Oct 20, 2017 01:31
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Whitlam posted:Victorian Lower House has passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill.
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Oct 20, 2017 01:40
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Whitlam posted:Victorian Lower House has passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill. Victoria best state to kill you are self in
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Oct 20, 2017 01:46
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http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...2425-1508453670quote:A FORMER model whose personal details were accessed by hundreds of snooping Queensland police officers is outraged that not one will face criminal charges. Love to live in the panopticon. Love massive databases of all of our personal info with gently caress all oversight
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Oct 20, 2017 02:05
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Processed through Australia Post facility Wed 11 Oct location, WELSHPOOL WA Processed through Australia Post facility Mon 16 Oct location, CHULLORA NSW Processed through Australia Post facility Thu 19 Oct location, WELSHPOOL WA So uhhh is it common for AusPost to ship your package from Perth to Sydney and back for no reason whatsoever? I googled a bit and found that they purchased some expensive automated sorting machines that routinely mis-scan labels and send parcels off on (sometimes several) week-long tours of major sorting facilities. This sounds eerily similar to Canada Post, who (when under Conservative government management) took a profitable and efficient service, spent $2 billion on letter-sorting equipment when letter volumes were going down, tried to roll back worker benefits and threatened a lockout at least once, then cooked the books on pension liabilities so that the corporation managed to post a loss in 2014, leading to inevitable calls for its privatization. Well anyway, that's a glimpse into AusPost's possible future. If it makes you feel better, Canada Post returned to profitability after that and then the Conservatives got thrashed in the following election.
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Oct 20, 2017 02:16
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eXXon posted:Processed through Australia Post facility Wed 11 Oct location, WELSHPOOL WA I don't know but USPS once routed my package supposed to go from Oregon to BC through Kansas. Like, why?
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Because letting state funded entities remain competitive is communism. See also: The ABC; Public health insurance; Whatever publicly owned public transport still exists in the Anglosphere.
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