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Frogmanv2 posted:Ok, what other factors should a civilisation be judged by? Happiness of its citizens? Treatment of the downtrodden? Ability to stave off existential threats?
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Redcordial posted:"poo poo's hosed in here, ey" - Ancient (white) Australian proverb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K49ECn1m7xk
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LibertyCat posted:Putting people places where they otherwise wouldn't qualify (due to their lack of merit) only reinforces negative stereotypes. Old boys networks seek to perpetuate themselves. You can't just sit back and hope they'll do the right thing, they need to be actively broken up. The point of quotas isn't to put in unqualified women over qualified men, it's to make sure that qualified women don't get excluded just because they're women.
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I look forward to the pedantic debate about what counts as a city.
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I love the irony in someone arguing that people just need to negotiate better while simultaneously following an ideology built on crushing the ability of workers to negotiate.
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LibertyCat posted:My belief is the best programmers seem to have be interested from an early age, and trying to attract women at age 20 or so misses the boat. Yeah, you need to get people early but you also don't want to lose them just because some dickheads on a recruitment panel chose John instead of Jane.
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Four Corners is making me so loving hyped for a company tax rate cut in the budget.
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Whyalla wipe-out? But they got rid of the carbon tax and everything!
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Zenithe posted:Have you given blood? If you have, surely you know how easy it would be to get out of it right, just say you had sex with a bisexual guy once. Reasons I have been disallowed for giving blood include getting bitten by insects while in the garden, having blisters from running and having a small cut from something.
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open24hours posted:Being made to live with malfunctioning lungs or kidneys or going longer than you should between blood transfusions or whatever is probably pretty harmful to a child's development too. Obviously donating blood or organs is more invasive than most vaccinations (although if the subject is dead then this doesn't really matter), but that seems like a pretty arbitrary distinction. Donating blood (or an organ) offers no medical benefits to the donor. Getting a vaccination (generally) benefits the recipient. That's a huge difference, even before you ignore things like herd immunity.
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Negligent posted:Libertarians always end up being authoritarians, they can't hide their massive hard on for indiscriminate, arbitrary and disproportionate punishments for long. Yeah, I can't tell if LibertyCat is a terrible libertarian or a great one.
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hooman posted:“Excessive taxes, excessive debt serve as a handbrake on economic growth.” What's funny is that there keep being rumours that 30 year infrastructure bonds will be a big part of the budget.
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KennyTheFish posted:I would love to see some numbers on the source of the "HELP bad debt blowout". how much of it is from universities, and how much from dodgy private VET providers? The PBO looked at the HECS-HELP debt recently, if you want some solid numbers.
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LibertyCat posted:There's education and there's education. If you knowingly spend the (mostly) Government's money doing a poorly paid degree, well what did you think would happen? Worse, imagine spending a few years of your life on a degree but never actually doing the research to see what it will likely pay. I know people who did exactly this and were surprised when no-one offered them six figures at the end of it. Why are you quoting US data?
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LibertyCat posted:We both know you removed the second part "proportional to how many people already have those skills" because it shoots your argument down in flames. There are a lot of people who could collect rubbish. You would have to get all of them on strike at once. I'm going to take a guess and say you're not exactly in favour of unions and collective bargaining. LibertyCat posted:In turn, how many of you are on Centrelink? Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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Has anybody grabbed May's thread? Because I'll do it.
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I'd say a lovely bit of politicking doesn't compare to supporting actually bad policies, and doesn't take away from supporting actually good ones.
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hooman posted:Albo would be a better leader than empty suit right wing powerbroker blib blorpen. I can't see the Labor party having a leadership team of two left-wing Sydney MPs though.
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Neil Anthony Brown, QC (born 22 February 1940) is a former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
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Spudd posted:Jackson Pollock is so loving good. I didn't care for his stuff until I saw it in person.
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Negligent posted:The abcc isn't even about IR. Ahahahahahahaha
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Doctor Spaceman posted:What's funny is that there keep being rumours that 30 year infrastructure bonds will be a big part of the budget.
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Birdstrike posted:doc spaceman called it a while ago iirc Yeah, still happy to do it.
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V for Vegas posted:For May Auspol can The Arts Party get a shoutout in the OP. Any other requests for Auspol May - Crisis on Infinite Australias?
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LibertyCat posted:Disrupting traffic doesn't endear people to your cause, hth You're half right.
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Laserface posted:How do you even trigger the "I'm a huge prick" filter?? It seems pretty successful at attaching itself to terrible posts Hope this help, hth.
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Cartoon posted:What brought on the sudden out pouring of hate for an American cartoonist?
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LibertyCat posted:Is the May Thread ready to go? Yes, to the point where I accidentally put it up last night.
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