Auspol January: I think that young Abbott would make a really good minister

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Senor Tron: May 26, 2006

Laserface posted:

Its actually more 'no one seems to care that it happens to men, and its mostly accepted, but why are people mad that someone hit on a woman isnt it and should it not be the same thing?'

No-one cares that it happens to men, because for the most part it isn't a consistent form of harassment of men and most importantly most men wouldn't be bothered by it.

There are two options here if you're trying to go down the "bu...bu...but consistency!" route.

1. You are arguing that men should respond negatively to advances in inappropriate situations even if they are fine with them.

or:

2. You are arguing that women should stop complaining and act more like men.

Which one of the two is it?

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 13:16

Senor Tron: May 26, 2006

Yeah, prior to the early 1990's, we would have likely come out ahead by investing in nuclear technology. At this point the technology is getting good enough and we have so much free open space that investing in renewable energy like solar thermal is so obviously the best long term idea.

That said, I'm all in favour of nuclear waste being stored in Australia. We make money selling uranium to the world, the correct thing to do is to take responsibility for disposing of it. If we don't want to bury it again here, then we shouldn't be digging it up in the first place.

edit: Beaten by Ludlum linkage.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2016 06:28

Senor Tron: May 26, 2006

Graic Gabtar posted:

Yes it's the quite obvious angle of the story, but it's still a beat up.

A simple Google shows that the offenders named were in the article are/were supported by the church for around ten years each. One is dead. Not hard to rack up "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to be honest. They should have reported that so that readers know the rivers of gold have stopped for at least one of them.

If you want to write an article about lovely payments to victims of crimes then do that. Unless they draw comparisons between Church vs. State funding for a similar thing as well then it just reads like a junk article.

Well in the government funded program it's expressly for the purpose of keeping them away from children. Is there anything showing that the Church programs involve round the clock seperation of the offenders from youth?

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 13:11

Senor Tron: May 26, 2006

A sandwich sat on a plate should be relatively stable, with the top piece of bread flat. Basically sandwiches should be stack-able.

Now, take a sausage, a piece of bread (or two pieces of bread) and try to make a stack-able sandwich out of it, without cutting the sausage up into bits. It doesn't work. Therefore a sausage in bread is not a sandwich.

Interestingly however, you can start stacking your sausages in bread if you use two or more sausages in each layer. So two sausages between two slices of bread can be a sandwich.

2 sausages between 2 slices of bread = sandwich

Therefore 1 sausage in 1 slice of bread = 1/2 sandwich.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2016 03:44

Senor Tron: May 26, 2006

Anidav posted:

Ok now I'm confused by the Greens Mayor Candidate. The ALP and the Libs have both come out with some rail projects that will take cars off the road and in theory decrease congestion. The Greens are proposing more buses which will fill the CBD up with even more buses that stop at every stop.

You've lost me here, Greens. Trains are better than buses 9 times out of 10. A weird policy choice.

Does the Brisbane mayor have any power at all to get rail projects built?

# ¿ Jan 31, 2016 12:36

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