Urcher posted:Word cloud for October: A terror the likes of which you've never seen... Coming to theaters December 2014: CULTURE OF THE LIVING BURQAS
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Nov 1, 2014 20:31
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Budzilla posted:Is QLD still the shittest state? I live near Brisbane CBD and I can't imagine things getting much worse. I can. If you want to see how things could still get much worse, just try looking up some US news! quote:I haven't read much Australian politics recently and I am much happier for it. Never mind, this is probably a good idea.
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Nov 1, 2014 22:18
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Jesus Tasmania, what the hell.
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Nov 1, 2014 22:47
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Nov 1, 2014 23:02
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Fat Dumb Men, the algorithm knows.
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Nov 1, 2014 23:48
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There's a tiny little "ABC" in the middle of an enormous "culture"
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Nov 2, 2014 00:28
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My younger brother just got back from a school trip to Canberra. They met Warren Truss in his office, and he apparently spent half an hour rambling about how the Nationals are the champions of country people and also about how much he hated Gough Whitlam.
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Nov 2, 2014 02:14
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Let's get Revolver into the word cloud googs as well While we are relating anecdotes, a guy at the bar was waxing lyrical about how Hawke was a rhode scholar and Abbott was a rhode scholar and how Abbott was the best thing to happen to this country. This guy also yelled at an ambo because he hated unions. He is fat.
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Nov 2, 2014 02:39
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http://melbourneskeptics.com.au/2014/10/new-csiro-head-wants-to-make-water-divining-easier-for-farmers/ So, the new head of CSIRO is a venture capitalist who believes in water dowsing? Nearly had me that time, parody news site.
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Nov 2, 2014 03:39
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Amoeba102 posted:http://melbourneskeptics.com.au/2014/10/new-csiro-head-wants-to-make-water-divining-easier-for-farmers/ The leadership of this country is just unequivocally hosed. I cannot imagine why any young scientist would want to stay here a moment longer than they absolutely have to.
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Nov 2, 2014 03:59
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Urcher posted:Word cloud for October: Africa: Different, Terrible
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Nov 2, 2014 07:20
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Kim Jong ill posted:The leadership of this country is just unequivocally hosed. I cannot imagine why any young scientist would want to stay here a moment longer than they absolutely have to. How would you go about watching for brain-drain from Australia over the rest of the decade? Further, could you talk about how the xenophobic attitudes of your government has an impact on your higher education system? For instance, in America we've underfunded our domestic higher education to such an extent that foreign students paying sticker price in corrupt cash are much more preferable to domestic students from a profit-standpoint, which raises the cost for all domestic students due to facing foreign competition for a limited number of slots. Would your government's policies result in a brain drain and a reduced rate of educational achievement and foreign educational capture, or what?
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Nov 2, 2014 07:51
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My Imaginary GF posted:How would you go about watching for brain-drain from Australia over the rest of the decade? The brain drain has been going for at least a decade now. The reason it's coming to the fore now is because the CSIRO - our federal research organisation - has been defunded to the point of wondering why they weren't just shutdown. It doesn't even make sense from a neoliberal perspective since the CSIRO holds a few patents related to radio antenna design which underpin the wifi in basically every phone and laptop on the planet, so they're insanely profitable. They've managed something like a 1.5 or 2:1 return on investment for ages. It's just straight up anti-intellectualism. Higher education here is already supported by foreign students paying full fees since university fees for local students are capped to prevent local students being priced out. We're Asia's closest English speaking neighbour, so it makes sense. The current government, comprised of people who received a free university education and fought tooth and nail to avoid paying fees of $200, wants to remove that cap. Universities have said there'll be about a 30% increase on day one. We've had problems with violence against international students becoming publicised both here and overseas before, and it probably has cost us tourism and student dollars, but we haven't seen a mass exodus of international students due to xenophobia. On an individual level, I'm sure they could all tell you some pretty horrible stories though.
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Nov 2, 2014 09:20
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Smegmatron posted:Higher education here is already supported by foreign students paying full fees since university fees for local students are capped to prevent local students being priced out. We're Asia's closest English speaking neighbour, so it makes sense. The current government, comprised of people who received a free university education and fought tooth and nail to avoid paying fees of $200, wants to remove that cap. Universities have said there'll be about a 30% increase on day one. What we have in Illinois is lock-in tuitionx where your rates are capped at your year of entry and you can't be charged for any credits over 15 which you take per semester. The big issue isn't whether foreign nationals are willing to attend your schools; the issue is the capture rate for them once they finish their education. For Chinese in America, I believe the last time I heard about the rates, they were >50%. What I'm wondering is whether those students are attending your schools and then loving off back home, to another commonwealth nation, or to America.
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Nov 2, 2014 09:25
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Since Howard changed the immigration laws I think lots of them are loving off back home. Education's one of our bigger export industries from memory.
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Nov 2, 2014 09:30
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Since Howard changed the immigration laws I think lots of them are loving off back home. Education's one of our bigger export industries from memory. Anecdote only, but most of the international students I know are planning to return home, and are simply getting Australian degrees as they consider them higher quality than the Chinese equivalents (mostly due to Chinese unis being perceived as being entirely pay-your-way)
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Nov 2, 2014 09:34
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The department of immigration hates non-whites unless they're disgustingly rich. It's difficult for any foreign graduate to stay, despite recent changes to make it easier.
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Nov 2, 2014 09:34
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Smegmatron posted:The department of immigration hates non-whites unless they're disgustingly rich. It's difficult for any foreign graduate to stay, despite recent changes to make it easier. Yeeeeeeep. Like when they conveniently seem to misplace a test result.
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Nov 2, 2014 09:58
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BANNING LIVING BURQAS That sums up our asylum seeker policy.
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Nov 2, 2014 10:02
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Anidav posted:BANNING LIVING BURQAS Man, that's such a French policy. America's policy is offer a more free and democratic life where everyone wants to join in and nobody really wants to wear a burqas cause doesnt that like totally make it harder to go clubbing and poo poo? Too bad to hear about your foreign national brain drain. At least America uses foreigners to subsidize a better life.
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Nov 2, 2014 10:14
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I can't wait for summer to actually start, it'll be fun.
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Nov 2, 2014 10:18
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My Imaginary GF posted:Man, that's such a French policy.
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Nov 2, 2014 10:19
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I can't believe Tasmania is looking good.
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Nov 2, 2014 10:20
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How do I tell whether I'm Australian?
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Nov 2, 2014 10:25
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I can't believe it's not
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Nov 2, 2014 10:27
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drunkill posted:I can't wait for summer to actually start, it'll be fun. Whats the deal with the part near the SA NT border? Why is that cooler than the entire area around it?
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Nov 2, 2014 10:32
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drunkill posted:I can't wait for summer to actually start, it'll be fun. You can't fool me, that's just a very abstract goatse. 
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Nov 2, 2014 10:42
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Zenithe posted:Whats the deal with the part near the SA NT border? Why is that cooler than the entire area around it? 
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Nov 2, 2014 10:44
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Uhh its lining up with some grasslands in what is otherwise desert?
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Nov 2, 2014 10:51
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Arglebargle III posted:How do I tell whether I'm Australian? What are your thoughts on minorities?
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Nov 2, 2014 10:57
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Nibbles! posted:What are your thoughts on minorities? Terrorists and dancers who have it too easy.
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Nov 2, 2014 11:09
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Arglebargle III posted:Terrorists and dancers who have it too easy. bad news friend 
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Nov 2, 2014 11:22
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You're suited for public office.
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Nov 2, 2014 11:43
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Nuclear Spy posted:Doesn't really answer your question, but the climate zone map helps explain a bit: This really needs to be a bit more complex
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Nov 2, 2014 12:35
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VoteCompass for the Victoria election is up on the ABC website, in case anyone is interested.
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Nov 2, 2014 13:09
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webmeister posted:This really needs to be a bit more complex quote:The Australian desert region using the BoM classification scheme is shown in map S1. This shows that desert climates (or arid areas) occupy most of the western and central interior of the continent. It also shows that some areas traditionally thought of as deserts are, in fact, semi-arid under this classification, notably the area around Alice Springs (Northern Territory) and the coastal fringe of the Nullarbor Plain (Western and South Australia). Both these areas are cooler than surrounding regions (Alice Springs because of its high elevation, the Nullarbor because of its proximity to the moderating influence of the coast), and around Alice Springs the mountains also play a role in increasing rainfall relative to the surrounding plains. quote:While the coldest air masses to affect the desert are usually far too dry for any precipitation by the time they get there, very occasionally, snow flurries may fall in a few parts of the region. Snow was observed falling at Uluru (Ayers Rock), in the Northern Territory, in July 1997 and east of Norseman (Western Australia) in June 2005, and probably occurs more frequently (possibly a couple of times per decade) on the highest peaks of the MacDonnell (Northern Territory) and Musgrave Ranges (northern South Australia) (image S6). On the southernmost fringe of the desert, the higher parts of the Flinders Ranges get snow heavy enough to settle once or twice per decade, with a particularly significant fall occurring, somewhat out of season, in October 1995.  
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Nov 2, 2014 13:57
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I am literally a communist according to that vote compass
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Nov 2, 2014 16:27
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What was Australia like during the neolithic era?
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Nov 2, 2014 20:26
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My Imaginary GF posted:What was Australia like during the neolithic era? Probably a lot more interesting.
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Nov 2, 2014 20:32
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My Imaginary GF posted:What was Australia like during the neolithic era? Markedly less knuckle dragging
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