Auspol April - Long Live the Glorious State of North Queensland

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Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

please only express areas in football fields, none of this hectares business

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 05:28

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 12:00

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Anidav posted:

How did the German Colonies go? Never learned much about them. They probably collapsed like Liberia.

We picked one up cheap in 1919 thanks to the treaty of Versailles.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2016 03:34

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

katlington posted:

From the brain of scott morrison

!DO NOT STEAL!

Tax idea #8; threaten children somehow?

Anything to avoid touching the tax breaks around property.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2016 03:31

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Anidav posted:

One is carrying a folder, the other has a reference for City Beach on his resume.

The bloke will never be hired because the sheila will work harder for less money

# ¿ Apr 3, 2016 02:54

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

weren't the Bligh and Newman governments chucked out because Qld voters don't like privatisation?

# ¿ Apr 4, 2016 02:37

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Frogmanv2 posted:

Actually, a significant portion of the Australian public agree with the greens on specific policies, when they are told about them. They just dont vote for the greens because of reasons.

no you see a first preference at an election means that a voter exclusively agrees with 100% of that party's policies, whilst simultanously rejecting all other parties' policies.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2016 04:22

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

these morons don't realise that the CSIRO's greatest commercialisable successes have come from public good research that wasn't focussed on short term commercial "impact".

# ¿ Apr 6, 2016 04:51

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Endman posted:

I think so. My point was that all the whinging you hear about FTTN comes from suburbanites who want fewer milliseconds on their ping for Halo Call of Honour Duty Mans or whatever it is the kids play these days

And here I was thinking the criticism of the FTTN project was it's going to cost the Commonwealth almost as much as FTTP, while being slower, having more limited growth potential, having higher operating costs, higher end-user setup costs, and less revenue per user.

Unless you're talking about the congestion complaints, which are a combination of lovely ISPs skimping on CVC capacity, the ACCC's braindead 121 POI rule, and the low numbers of customers on the service due to the rollout being so delayed.

Mr Chips fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Apr 8, 2016

# ¿ Apr 8, 2016 14:18

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Frogmanv2 posted:

FYI this is a stupid criticism, because over a long enough period of time, the NBN will make the government money.

20 odd million subscribers all paying $30 a month adds up.

I listed several criticisms of the current MTM incarnation in comparison to the previous FTTP plan. Which one are you saying is stupid?

edit: also, where are you getting 20 million subscribers from? All the numbers thrown around so far have been in the region of 8-12 million premises connected.

Mr Chips fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Apr 9, 2016

# ¿ Apr 9, 2016 02:03

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

ahmeni posted:

The switch was a garbage decision to work with and will likely break the nbn internally at some point as it slowly converts into an IBM/Accenture/Infosys money
funnel.

Will that be compatible with the current plan for the project, ie propping up Telstra's share price?

# ¿ Apr 9, 2016 03:32

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Frogmanv2 posted:

The cost of it. But it was a poorly worded reply. Sorry, I was pretty trashed when I wrote it.

no worries. I'm coming at it more from a "get best ROI per public dollar spent", which MTM most definitely is not, therefore the initial rollout cost is an issue

# ¿ Apr 9, 2016 06:05

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Freudian Slip posted:

Just found out that my research centre is closing due to lack of Government funding. We spend 6 billion a year on general practice services a year. If you include the meds prescribed, tests ordered and referrals made - that number is multiple times larger.

The fact that they don't want to know how that money is being spent both angers and saddens me. (That and also being out of a job in a couple of months with 20 other dedicated researchers)

This is complete BS. A couple of million a year for good information about how primary medical care is working? Hahah no we just know that people are going to the doctor too many times!

# ¿ Apr 10, 2016 05:43

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

open24hours posted:

I bet the private sector is just falling over itself to take a 100 billion dollar risk.

IMHO they should be reserving the corridor, but the technology to make a high speed train from Sydney to Melbourne competitive with air travel is still a few decades away. Once Japan/China/Europe have 500km/h trains for sale then they should start thinking about actually building it.

Whereas the inland rail link joining Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane would cost 10-20% as much, give a greater productivity boost, and get a shitload of heavy trucks off the highways along the east coast. But it's not as sexy, so probably isn't going to happen in a reasonable amount of time.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2016 02:11

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Cartoon posted:

compare the way the average science faculty and the typical arts faculty are governed. The science faculties tend to have a thin veneer of proper and merit based process but in reality are a cartel of the people who are most acceptable to the hierarchy all hell bent on pursuing the 'one true vision' of who ever is leading the research. This is the nature of specialisation. The arts faculties suffer from the same pressures but nobody alludes to this being due and proper. The emperors clothes are known and given the proper consideration. So it is that a Phd student in the Arts may routinely submit work that directly affronts the Arts faculty hierarchy and still expect to be given marks based on the merit of their actual work while a Phd student in the Science would suddenly not be able to find a supervisor.

I guess all my peers/friends/acquatinances who got exactly the same lovely treatment, exploitation, harrassment, bullying, in their arts/humanities RHD as the STEM people did in theirs were just imagining it then.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2016 07:49

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

ewe2 posted:

It's certainly a persuasive argument for relaxing firearms legislation. Curiously, we don't hear that one.

As long as Holland and Holland guns are still legal, I'm ok with it.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 14:20

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Birdstrike posted:

good value odds crypto currencies get a mention in the budget

Quite likely. The mainsteam financial media (AFR et al) seem to be running at least two stories every week about this revolutionary blockchain tech that's going to disrupt everything.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2016 01:24

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

open24hours posted:

That wasn't about ownership, it was about Labor wanting the government to regulate media content.

It wasn't even as exciting as that implies. They were accepting the recommendation of the media's own self-regulatory body, the Press Council. The government (ACMA) already regulate content to a certain extent, this was a relatively minor change to some guidelines.

Mr Chips fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Apr 19, 2016

# ¿ Apr 19, 2016 02:23

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Anidav posted:

"The realities are that we are acting in the interests of a sustainable health system."

So they're going to get rid of the private health insurance rebates, and stop cutting funding for primary health care interventions/research?

# ¿ Apr 20, 2016 01:55

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Frogmanv2 posted:

Ahaha yeah gently caress tourists, they deserve to be ripped off.

Or anyone who finds themselves in a place where they don't have comprehensive knowledge of the quickest routes.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2016 05:26

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

katlington posted:

Can you post the whole saturday paper thing? Tia

Private browsing mode will let you view it for free

# ¿ Apr 23, 2016 04:49

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Sweet, those 2800 submarine jobs some time towards the end of the next decade will totally make up for the 100k+ jobs lost in SA by the collapse of the car industry.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2016 05:16

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

open24hours posted:

I'll concede this, I suppose a German invasion (of Australia or Britain) would have been unlikely.

I do wonder what would have happened both if the British had lost and/or Australia refused to participate, I guess that's unknowable alt-history though.

Germany repopulates the British Privy Council and Parliament with the Kaiser's cronies, who revoke Australia's dominion status, repeal the Australian constitution, erm, war of secession?

# ¿ Apr 26, 2016 13:16

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Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Pretty sure it's even worse than that...a year or so ago, 110k people were directly employed by car manufacturing in SA and Victoria.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2016 04:03

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