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I'm not reading the screed so I'll just go ahead and assume that bolt is Jesus and the cross is 18c
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2015 05:45 |
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# ¿ May 22, 2024 17:08 |
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Last one I had do that charged me about $4 less than the average fare for that trip so I didn't complain. I know to watch for it after the first time it happened where I got screwed tho
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2015 16:17 |
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http://m.canberratimes.com.au/comment/antipenalty-rates-campaign-backfires-20150406-1mfblu.htmlquote:The ad itself makes no sense whatsoever. Amazing, just simply amazing. I can't believe they thought this campaign was a good idea.
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2015 00:21 |
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CrazyTolradi posted:lovely movie had a budget of $5mil, got $55mil in box office revenue. Nope that's not enough for greedy poo poo movie makers in Hollywood. You know the movie probably lost money of paper though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2015 06:41 |
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Maybe they will approach it as a social/health issue? nope, look forward to more money for cops at train stations and black people in prison
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2015 00:22 |
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It'll be awesome when everyone starts moving to solar panels + heat pump water + batteries because of those sort of policies. Battery prices are dropping pretty steadily right now so eventually you'll just have a fridge-sized battery somewhere to store all the power from the day.
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2015 05:14 |
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You were all doing so well at ignoring Craig's attempts at getting a rise out of you. Seriously, why does the stupid "lawyers picnic" bullshit work so well for trolls? Nevermind the fact that most of the time the lawyers taking on the asylum seeker's case are pro-bono (as in the case for the constitutional challenges) or are paid minimally by asylum seeker advocacy groups. The QC's on the other side of the room are normally getting paid a shitload more.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2015 04:23 |
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It's pretty much right The bit it's missing is that the Libs are proposing to change the cut offs for getting full pension, meaning that they are attacking rich people - which is totally the greens m-o Edit: wow, took longer to post that than I thought
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2015 13:12 |
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Graic Gabtar posted:They will get grumpy about using a VPN but I don't know why you would bother trying to as it's pretty easy to sort out a gifting option. There is even a goon run one that gives you an additional 15% off the U.S. price (when he actually has steam wallet credit)
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2015 00:32 |
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http://m.smh.com.au/federal-politic...411-1mie6x.html Phone posting so sorry you have to click it. Finally an actually good policy out of these fuckwits!! Holding back Family tax benefit A if you "conscientiously object" to vaccinating your spoilt little brats!!
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 14:08 |
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The article sounds like it's a savings measure, but any savings will be illusory because the objectors will just vanish as soon as it hits them in the wallet
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 14:22 |
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http://theconversation.com/want-worker-wages-to-rise-end-the-corporate-income-tax-39287 I know this is a U.S. article but is this just the usual neocon ladder curve bullshit or is there something to this?
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 14:44 |
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Yeah I get that the whole company tax thing is just a race to the bottom. I guess maybe I was reading the article in a different light and hoping it was going start advocating taxing capital/land instead of trying to play the futile game of taxing local profits in our increasingly international system.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 18:45 |
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Bifauxnen posted:GEE GOOD THING WE GOT RID OF THAT CARBON TAX THEN Not to mention that someone with a wage of $30k will probably pay around $200 per year for every percentage point they raise the GST by. Say good by to your "$550 saving" from axing the tax
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2015 06:16 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:Don't mention the Canadian part. I almost want him to win so some nutter brings a case to the Supreme Court and they actually have to rule on whether you need to be born in the US or just a citizen at birth. Not to derail but haven't they done that already because of someone who was born in a US military base overseas?
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2015 05:54 |
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It's a bit like the uni funding ads, no substance and a promise of some substance (maybe) at some point if you agree to something we won't explain to you very well.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2015 09:32 |
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katlington posted:Even if free it's a solution in search of a problem. Nobody has yet demonstrated why it's needed, let alone why it would outweigh the negatives. Australia isn't made of money, why should my tax go to useless needless policies just to placate you? How about the fact that by using drivers license as the primary form of id document you are excluding the growing number of people that choose not to drive a car from access to effective documentation. Think of all the things that require id, now try and make 100 points as someone renting a room for cash in a share house where your name isn't on the utilities.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 00:31 |
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In WA I'm pretty sure a learners is still just a bit of paper with no photo. And our proof of age card doesn't have an address.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 00:41 |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-14/fossil-fuels-just-lost-the-race-against-renewablesquote:The race for renewable energy has passed a turning point. The world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined. And there's no going back. Gotta love that our government believes that "Coal is the future"
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 05:06 |
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Urcher posted:Debian everywhere for me. If you are new to Linux on the desktop I'd start with Ubuntu, and save Debian for servers. I'd argue that you should choose FreeBSD for servers. There's a lot less flavour of the month upheavals. Although I had a few problems during the gcc -> clang transition on my home machine. I do regret not having a native version of mono/coreclr tho, means I'm stuck with sickbeard for now. At least until Microsoft finish their LLVM runtime stuff
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 12:57 |
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As a graduate this can not be quoted enoughhooman posted:gently caress me UWA is just the loving worst.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 02:13 |
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Orkin Mang posted:yo, bros, why is the gst said to be a regressive tax when since it applies to everyone it sounds like it should be an equitable tax. i heard somewhere, clarke and dawe i think, that its regressive bc consumption makes up a great proportion of poor peoples income than highers. how does that work? it doesnt sound obvious to me the reason it is regressive is the "marginal utility of money" Someone who spends 100% of their income on goods and services will pay 10% (roughly) of their after tax income on GST Someone who spends 20% of their income on goods and services will pay 2% of their income on GST edit: beaten like a dead horse
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 03:32 |
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It's also bad for the poor because GST is not levied until you actually spend your money. So you are able to remian untaxed, earning money from your money, until some point in your future where you spend some small portion of your loot. This is why you should punch anyone who suggests we should replace income tax with consumption taxes.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 03:42 |
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Les Affaires posted:The only realistic way to bring GST up equitably is in part to cut income taxes. Sorry, wasn't clear. I meant someone who wants to replace ALL income taxes with consumption taxes.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 04:54 |
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Tokamak posted:Unless these are brand new coal plants, 35 years would mean that they live a full life The coded message was "Our investment horizon is greater than 30 years and new build coal is more expensive than renewables and gas"
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 08:59 |
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Whenever you shitheads scoff at WA complaining about the commonwealth cutting the grants because of *reasons* makes me realise you don't pay attention as well as you should. I couldn't find it but there was an actually worth reading (it doesn't happen often) editorial by Alannah MacTiernan in the west today that I wish I could find online. It made obvious how dumb the allocation rules are, like Tasmania technically having their whole state classed as "remote" for schooling and hospitals cause they have their nearest capital city in Melbourne and maxing out the distance calculations at around 1200km so lots of the Kimberly was more than double the distance taken into account. Not to mention that WA doesn't allow pokie machines outside casinos (thank loving god) but gambling revenue is not counted in the distribution. The bigger problem is that the media coverage is on the wrong parts of the problem just because they are cyclical in nature
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 17:55 |
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It's Saturday morning and everyone is hammering Netflix
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2015 04:19 |
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That article was terrible. Who the hell is that guy and why does he hate Netflix so much?
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# ¿ Apr 21, 2015 00:18 |
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Seagull posted:unless you're about to be shot in the head you shouldn't try to get out of harm's way but if that is the case don't ask for help you selfish gently caress you should've had the foresight to get out of harms way And only do it if there are no bodies of water in the way
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2015 09:35 |
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http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/23/victorian-town-gets-41m-benefit-from-resettling-burmese-karen-refugees Pretty sure this is an awesome rebuttal to hooman's lovely avatar. edit: that works out to an economic increase of $49k a year per refugee assuming they were all settled in one go in 2010. So even if we pay every single one of them newstart + rent assistance (we aren't because a great deal of them get jobs) it is still worth it. norp fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Apr 23, 2015 |
# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 02:40 |
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It's not even that. It's that every year your super account will earn money, and if the account earns more than 75k in interest you will pay 15% on every dollar earned over that amount. In other words you could draw down 75k/year from your super and still be increasing your capital if you are retired and rich enough to pay this tax.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 03:00 |
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Lord Windy posted:You guys are very antagonistic. It's horrific nightmare fuel, you have been warned.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 04:29 |
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Graic Gabtar posted:Oh gods. When would you ever think that would be OK? You do realise that these people have a very tenuous grasp on reality, right? They are the kind of people that will happily go on about "chemtrails" and how you shouldn't use microwave ovens because of "radiation"
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 05:28 |
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Lord Windy posted:Well that was an eye opener. I gather that the reason for detention is to deter people from coming yes? Yes, the policy is explicit in it's goal to make going back to the place you left more attractive.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 05:43 |
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Graic Gabtar posted:If vaccination is sexual assault to these people, what the gently caress is major surgery? I assume you mean "brought in unconscious with no ID and rushed into surgery with no ability to sign a consent form", I assume that consensual surgery would be equivalent to consensual sex. I don't like this analogy
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 05:51 |
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https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/wa-prisoners-cost-115000-a-year-each-new-figures-show/story-fnhocxo3-1226730978849 Around $100k depending on jurisdiction and security level.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 06:06 |
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Shooting refugees? Now there's a policy that Negligent and Craig can get behind!!!
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 07:45 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:There is a moral obligation to book and then hijack as many uber operators as you can. Serious question, would that be putting both of you at danger of requiring rescue?
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 08:34 |
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Obviously thats why they chose that as the cutoff
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 02:25 |
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# ¿ May 22, 2024 17:08 |
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/28/it-defies-belief-that-the-liberals-would-lock-themselves-into-a-hostile-senate Noted elected-through-voter-apathy senator David Lion Helm complaining about changes to senate voting to make things easier for people.
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 09:41 |