You Am I posted:

How does one come to this conclusion when you include the carbon costs of building multiple homes versus a single building with a number of apartments, as well as the pollution of people living on the fringes usually having to travel to work in a car or having to travel in a car to public transport?

duck monster posted:

Captain Pissweak posted:

Materials scientist explains so loving much. Nigh on all I know are engineers in how they act, and we all know what we think of engineers around these parts, hooman.

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Bifauxnen posted:

But if we can get it up to 51 percent, that means we've democratically chosen to throw out democracy, so we can try something new, right?

Anidav posted:

There's no loving way the LNP are winning the next NSW election after so many beheadings, right?

Bifauxnen posted:

Maybe we should crash the QLD Greens event to start taking them over.

Those On My Left posted:

Are there any NSW Greens goons posting in this thread? A friend of mine is moving to Sydney and wants to get involved.

Gough Suppressant posted:

Maybe he's just taking a stand against our various military organizations who fly variant ensigns.

Bompacho posted:

Thanks for this, Epipen too. I've directed Sarah to try and write Senators/MP's that have medical portfolios/history.

Also stressed the importance of legal advice.

hooman posted:

The ADF has a crazy poo poo culture. Any recruit is beaten down until they tow the line on good and bad and right and wrong. It's all us and them and mere civilians who "don't get it". It's hosed beyond all belief. A good friend of mine has finally escaped it (despite their every attempt to sabotage her ability to leave) and in the 6 months since leaving has gone from staunch "only the liberal party forever" to "voting greens next election" just from being away from the toxic loving culture of it. The ADF is hosed, most members of the ADF are hosed, not because they're bad people necessarily, but because of the loving indoctrinating loving ADF.

gently caress the ADF. It desperately needs a huge overhaul and Australia really needs to take better care of the people it's trained to be murderers and then dumped into the streets once their murderin' years are over.

Speaking of hosed culture. Tony Abbott in response to Muslim groups who boycotted his summit due to his stupid loving statements about "team Australia" and implications that Muslims are foreigners, rather than apologise, has called their actions "foolish". Hey Tony, if you piss someone off by opening your big dumb mouth, don't then do it again. Building bridges with the Muslim community there man.

hooman posted:

Did they join as officers? I can only speak from the experience of my friends who served in Iraq as infantry.

Also definitely talking about ADF as an organisation, not the individual members.

The Arsestralian posted:

“Investigating police sought advice from the Office of Public Prosecutions, which advised that there was no reasonable prospect of conviction,” the statement said.

Execu-speak posted:

I'm annoyed at the media calling a protest with no arrests as having 'turned violent' because the protestors pushed over a temporary fence.

Those On My Left posted:

The Commonwealth was purporting to make contracts with chaplaincy providers, giving them cash. Problem is, there was no legislation authorising the making of these contracts. In the first case, the Commonwealth argued that they didn't need legislation anyway. The High Court said "No, you do." Then they made some pretty lovely legislation purporting to support the contracts. Then the High Court said "No, you don't have any legislative power to make that legislation." That's because under the Constitution the Commonwealth can only make laws about a bunch of particular, specified subjects. Chaplains don't come under any of those subjects.

Now the Commonwealth is saying "Fine, we'll give the money to the states." That's specifically provided for in the Constitution. Section 96 of the Constitution says the Commonwealth can make "grants" to States. Those grants can be subject to conditions. The way this typically works is the Commonwealth can make an agreement with the State. The agreement says "The Commonwealth agrees to give you $X, on the condition that you then give most of it to someone else."

That's fine.