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Nibbles! posted:There's the general deterrence aspect, if others get caught and people know investigations occur you'd hope they're less likely to do it themselves. All that juicy metadata has to be data-mined by someone. Private investigators might cost, but they're also conveniently at legal arms length when an inevitable fuckup happens. You're right about the pensioners, but they'll gently caress the poors too to justify the budget, which will grow and grow.
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The wowsers are slowly strangling inner-city Sydney:quote:The total and utter destruction of Sydney’s nightlife is almost complete. It is a long article and doesn't just stop at the decimation of night-culture (except for the casinos, but you knew that already, right?), but a religiously-motivated war on culture using the very weapons lefties love against them. To me, this is "Chicago syndrome", by which the heart of the city becomes culturally void like the heart of Chicago became physically void, and it's extremely unlikely that it will return. From my perspective, this has merely escalated a trend begun in the middle 80's when fire regulations were used to shut down most of the music venues in inner-city Sydney within 18 months of being passed. Only the bigger venues and the pubs who could afford to retool survived. This is an extension of that process, but it's gone beyond local council wowsers and now a big Premier wowser is booting it home. And don't think Melbourne is immune, it's not. The same mechanism by which security theatre is used to take away our privacy is here being used, as safety theatre, to lock down our CBD's. Stay home. Don't gather in groups. Any public activity is rendered suspicious. Enjoy responsibly.
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Feb 5, 2016 04:57
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Tasmantor posted:Is it just drinking that is getting harder (I read the fire codes shutting down venues bit that sucks) or are they making anything after dark hard to do? Ostensibly its just the drinking establishments and the clubs but in practice it hits businesses around them too. Restaurants, fast food, any late night shopping that benefits from the foot traffic has lost so much money they're closing or hibernating. Except the casinos who happen to have 24x7 licences. That's really dumb, because it won't drive people to the casinos, it'll just drive them away. And then they'll probably spend millions on bullshit studies to provide "family friendly" activities in the CBD at night and wonder why nothing sticks. What really boggles my mind is that at the same time they're doing this to inner Sydney because of drinking, apparently it's impossible to stop serving alcohol to vulnerable people because freedom. Someone pointed out that it could be toxic masculinity that's the root of the problem. Good thing we have Christians running things, then.
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dr_rat posted:I get community consultations a good thing. and if, and this is a big if, it did affect someones sunlight and they have solar panels that's a legit concern, but the house price whining is pretty disgraceful when the governments actually trying to improve the local area. "Give me free money because I'm affected by the thing! I'm entitled to money because you're doing a thing! Near me! Give me money for the thing!" It's utter selfishness.
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Solemn Sloth posted:In happier news, Jay Weatherill has indicated that SA along with Victoria is ready to take in asylum seekers Call me a cynical old bastard, but why now? What is this sudden rush of compassion and generosity from state Premiers who previously have not given two fucks? Could it be that they want something from the feds in an election year? My bet is they'll use this to put pressure on the feds to get whatever they're really after and withdraw the offer,  and  well we tried but those evil old federals... and let your politicians do YOU.
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Feb 7, 2016 14:33
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ScreamingLlama: you do the FY after the GM dude, just saying. You're ruining it for the other neoliberals.
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Feb 8, 2016 03:36
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Government IT is a 3 option, pick 2 problem. They're blaming the infrastructure but it was them who chose the current hardware/software mix back in the 90's when they did the last upgrade, because it was the easiest option (IIRC IBM did a big deal on the mainframe just to keep the business). The next upgrade will be the easiest option. You've got a huge database doing millions of transactions live for most of the day and you can't simply drop it to fix it. They really need to do a rewrite that is modular and still transactionally safe so it can fail better, but it doesn't solve the massive problem of moving stuff over. Ironically Y2K was the best opportunity they had to fix a lot of stuff and they went with middleware hacked on to the end of the existing db rather than fix the actual db. When it gets out of sync with the main database, thats when glitches happen. And often they have no idea how. But you put it to them to rewrite all of this and verify all the existing data, and see how far you get, $1billion is cheap.
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Feb 8, 2016 05:18
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Laserface posted:Maybe if the government wasnt spending upwards of 65K a head for basic IT work they would have money for server upgrades. It's more than that, these are large scale IT projects and few know how to do them effectively or efficiently. Every department is different, hell, I'm pretty sure every building is different. You've got kludges on top of kludges that can't be untangled like a really bad snarl.
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Feb 8, 2016 15:39
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I guess the proof of the pudding with KC Ombudsman to Aussie Battlers is if she can keep her moosh off The Drum for 5 minutes. If she can't, that's proof enough, as if you needed more proof that hiring a career politician rather than say a retired judge or public servant to the post signals great bullshit. Also great as @oz_f's blog was, he didn't mention the phylactery and Ruddocks 1000 year reign of terror over us all. Also also how could auspol get more ironic that someone called thatfatkid takes up fatshaming like it's not a disgusting projection of his own self-loathing. Even ScreamingLlama is better than that.
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Feb 9, 2016 07:24
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They're not raising the GST it says here on page 12 of the Hun. Apparently the money raised would have to be spent on welfare so no income tax cuts (oh and its not popular with marginal seat Libs) but gosh if we don't do SOMETHING about INCOME TAX we'll LOSE 0.35 OF GDP GUYS!!!!!! The numbers must be looking poo poo 
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Feb 12, 2016 05:43
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Anidav posted:I would argue a DD election is a higher chance than ever with the polls I've seen being done. There's some serious LNP legwork going into this particular topic. They're desperate to break that Senate, but all I can see arising from a DD is a worse Senate than ever, unless they plan to spend absolutely zillions to shut everyone else out, and that strategy never works on the Senate and only sometimes in the Reps.
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Feb 13, 2016 04:30
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Gorilla Salad posted:I try to avoid the Herald Sun in the break room, but it was open to page three and I was greeted with this poo poo which made me so made I tore the page out. The racism is now running on an internal logic unaware of its absurdity. As if a gesture of humanity is going to ruin all that hard work of torturing children.
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Feb 14, 2016 15:26
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The Peccadillo posted:That dude also interjected on the "we need a new stolen genetation" thing with "I don't know anything about indiginous history, but brave ideas like that are why freedom of speech is so important" Catallaxy Q&A Trip Report: The catallaxy crowd have an "interruption bingo" to count how many times lefties interrupt rightys to Stop Them Saying Righty Things (the winner had 55). We have a new category of conservative too, there's Conservative and Malcolm Conservative. Ciobo is a Malcolm Conservative. They were very much for Steyn:quote:Steyn’s class is wasted on this hive of scum. but if you think any of his comments gave them pause, think again. quote:Steyn was probably not aware that those reffos are rorting the system and hanging out in camps for eternity by using the legal system to prevent us loving them off. This was a more interesting comment: quote:Ciobo accidentally says “In a democracy you gotta limit the choices of the people” Oh there's more jargon: Ciobo is a LINO = Liberal In Name Only. They're really sorting out whats what over there. I'll spare you all Sinclair Davidson's ridiculous graphs trying to prove that negative gearing is good for low and middle income earners and not "the rich". It's a laugh though. Remember, they're libertarian AND centre-right 
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Cartoon posted:We'll put that in the 'maybe' pile then. This is really getting silly. No wonder they're trying the numbers on a DD.
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Feb 16, 2016 10:55
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Cartoon posted:She shouldn't be able to but thats what makes it She's thrown so much mud to distract from it, it'll be a Pyrrhic victory if she gets off. And that joke of a report hasn't helped her cause, it's just made it obvious who wants ICAC defanged. They've got to be screaming at Baird, but he seems quite happy to let things run their course, which is very smart.
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Feb 17, 2016 05:04
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My feeling is that Baird et al will use this to clear out some dead wood while maintaining deniability. They need to keep away from the rather dirty coal (lol) issues that ICAC has brought up. This is partly why the Cunneen thing has blown up in the first place: trying to get pressure off them by angry rich people who feel wronged by ICAC. If Cunneen/Levine get their way, ICAC is soiled and we can all forget about those embarrassing links with mining and developer interests. If not, well, then Baird has a bigger problem than just the original one because the legal profession is in uproar over this, too. It's a big delicious mud pie Committee leaks are just the sludge on top of it!
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Feb 17, 2016 08:32
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Skellybones posted:TLDR: ANZAC Day = Death Cult That was like a time capsule for me. Believe it or not, back in the late 70's before the death cult got into full swing, this was the general interpretation of war poetry in high school English and History, right down to the contrast between poets like Brooke and Owen, although Futility by Owen was usually quoted because even then Dulce et decorum est was considered a bit near to the bone what with high school latin mottos etc. Sassoon was mentioned but in dark whispers. Now you're unaustralian for pointing out what's obvious to anyone with a lifespan longer than a millenial. No wonder old men lust after war. edit: actually Sassoon isn't even mentioned in my high school poetry reference but neither is Brooke, only Owen won that particular battle. Without being explicit, I think my generation was led to believe that the attitude of the WWI poets was rendered redundant by the necessities of WW2, but still that left WW1 in an uncomfortable and ironic no-man's land that no one was prepared to cross. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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Birb Katter posted:Turnbull is going full Abbott and now saying that Shorten just wants to remove 30% of housing demand so people's homes become worth less. Smells like a big nudge to see if the early election DD idea will swing.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Well they have to say something, given they don't actually have any new policies to counter it with. Further to the  I just got screened by market research on voting intentions at Fed/State level in Bendigo. I'd say there's decisions being made. Dumb ones, probably.
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What is Uhlmann on about this time? On the one hand there's this https://twitter.com/undeadroger/status/700913128872087552 and then there's this https://twitter.com/liamvhogan/status/700911310897180672 I feel there's an element of strawman in that last one, amusing as it is. While Uhlmann does seem to be tacking on a gloriously incoherent political justification for feeling sad on the internets, it isn't much more than a dogwhistle justification. His main problem is that journalists, specifically Canberra Press Gallery journalists aren't treated like the lofty political authorities he feels they should be. Don't be fooled by the job application alongside the whine, the whine is specifically that journalists (and no doubt the friends of journalists) like Uhlmann shouldn't have their opinions attacked or even tested because how could You People understand their Difficult Job. Well, Chris, we criticize you because your job is public and you're poo poo at it, not merely bad, but bad in a way that tells us it's not so much journalism as paid propaganda. The proof is in the defences from a fellow journalist like Monica Attard and perhaps disturbingly Robert Hay QC, although his defence falls along comforting Catholic lines. But there's no doubt that Twitter is both a source of copy and frustration for journalists seeking to have it their own way, and it's always revealing when they resort to screeds like this, particularly from the Australian which one suspects would love to have an all-out war on Twitter but can't afford to.
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Recoome posted:I am still a bit shocked by it all. Why is this normal? It's been normalized by the base using it for years, which is why this screed marks Uhlmann as a right-wing conservative, because it's like a bloody big flag saying IM RIGHT HERE GUYS! It wouldn't look out of place on catallaxy.com, it's not even the most batshit crazy version of it (which does accuse Jews etc). And unfortunately a lot of it has American cultural baggage because if this particular political school of thought love anything, it's the comfort of thinking like American conservatives. In a political scene where IPA graduate Tim loving Wilson is getting parachuted into a safe Liberal seat, its clear that at least in Uhlmann's mind, this is the orthodoxy. Anyone telling him and his mates different has to be a cultural Marxist because they couldn't possibly have any other motive.
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Rubio is screwing this up, he just had a debate where he made all sorts of points, and Trump just blows it over with a water bottle joke about Rubio sweating. Now Trump has two Governors endorse him today, one of them Christie. Conventional wisdom is failing, he keeps not losing. But he's only looking good versus other GOP candidates so far.freebooter posted:It really is interesting - I noticed this in the UK election - how not having compulsory voting makes it much harder to predict how elections will go. In Australia swing voters are really the only ones who matter, whereas in other countries there's also the whole race of trying to get non-voters to get off their asses. It really is galvanizing both sides in the US, which is probably going to favour Clinton but who knows. So far the evangelicals haven't really decided for Trump (rather against Cruz) but if they feel threatened by Clinton enough, they'll turn the general into a crusade if it comes down to Trump and Clinton. And as you say, everyone else is energized to vote against him.
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tithin posted:Who are the governers and why do their endorsements matter? Christie was one of the nomination candidates until he dropped out the other week. At one stage he was running hot with endorsements himself. The other guy is LePage of Maine who is an utter shitheel so both of them kind of suit Trump. The importance of it is that it opens the floodgates to Trump getting very likely more from Republican politicians with axes to grind. It makes Cruz more vulnerable and it's not exactly good for Rubio either. I suspect there's a lot of caucus maths involved in it too, which is also ominous. Once this gets going, it could well snowball, so watch 538's tracker to keep up with it. A lot of Jeb!s former endorsees switched to Rubio, for instance, and they could switch back depending on the political weather. But at least one has switched from Jeb! to Trump already.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:VanBadham, cultural Marxist Those who can't do, teach. I think doing more journalism has actually ruined her for Twitter, she completely deteriorated. Does she front the Drum these days too?
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Zenithe posted:Can we not say dumb poo poo like this please. Recoome posted:lmao get a load of this nerd It's called wit, google it. I can't believe you're that dense.
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Cartoon posted:Also lol at Border Farce not already being outsourced heavily and by design. Unless you had your eyes closed due to the possibility of seeing Pavel's junk you would have read that every time there is a serious incident in our immigration detention it all becomes a game of pass the parcel between Immigration, The contractor, the government and/or police force of PNG/Nauru and assorted other sub-contractors and private individuals. At the end of round one - Obfuscation, the news cycle has moved on and nobody seems to know wtf is going on any more. The good news is they've spawned a generation of mini-me's who are mercifully free of any life experience outside of student politics or pet thinktanks, so that'll end well. Given the other generational implications of the boomer oligarchy, I'm wondering what it's going to take for an actual revolution, or are you all just biding your time until they're ready for the cheapest nursing home? Having been at the sharp end of how the Department is "managing" the WFD program (ie getting agencies to cover for their utter incompetence and disorganization to the point of penalizing their customers for questioning the process, the customers being the businesses running the projects), I'm well aware of how the outsourcing program is proceeding. I merely think they may as well shut the department of border farce down since it seems completely redundant now, and since that's working so well, let's do the same with a bunch of other politically-difficult departments. Why bother governing at all, people just blame you for everything.
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http://www.salon.com/2016/02/26/brian_eno_oscars_swag_bag_is_part_of_israels_cultural_propaganda_campaign/quote:For decades, the UN has been condemning the forcible takeover of Palestinian land by Israeli settlers who, backed by an enormous army, government subsidies and the United States, have flooded in from Moscow, London, Brooklyn, Cape Town and elsewhere. It’s a familiar story: The Europeans who settled America did the same to the Native Americans, and the British did it to the Aboriginal Australians. In both cases we turned the victims into the problem: America had a redskin problem. Australia had an abbo problem. But what they both had, in reality, was a settler problem. And what Israel has is a settler problem. All a part of the boomer problem. It says something when Palestinians still can't catch a break 30 years after South Africans. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Feb 29, 2016 |
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