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

Ten Becquerels posted:

The government wants to have the powers to do the same thing Tudge did with ARE VETERANS info - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-02/government-wants-new-power-to-release-veterans-personal-info/8320268

What the gently caress is going on with all this? Is there an actual endgame here or do they really just want to have something to shut down people thinking about making public criticisms? How can they think this looks like anything besides an insanely unethical mess?

Good time to remind everyone that Andrew Hastie felt that the Labor gov't "didn't have his back" when he was on deployment.

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 23:40

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

adamantium|wang posted:

https://twitter.com/ccroucher9/status/839328979307782144

Irony of wealthy middle aged caucasian male about people getting promoted due to their gender.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 06:50

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

Bogan King posted:

This is 2014 but the point still stands.

And that's just the ones they remembered they had!

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 03:04

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

Don Dongington posted:

The West really isn't much better than the Australian. They're a little less overtly racist but their owner is still the single biggest Liberal donor in the country, and it sure does show.

They both seem to be wildly out of touch with the bulk of the populace and run their own weird little campaigns (eg 18C for the Australian, shark culling for the West Australian)

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 04:29

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

sounds like that's something that works in concert with the backfire effect

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 12:01

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

https://chuffed.org/project/centrelink-oci-correspondence-foi

Some bloke did an FOI request for info about his previous FOI requests to Human Services/Centrelink.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 03:16

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

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Why would you design an upper house with the number of seats divisible by 2.

e:Thinking on it a bit, I suppose it's so you have a slight bias towards maintaining status quo.

If the WA upper chamber is like most of our other parliaments' chambers, the speaker/president is selected from that even number so you end up with an odd number of reps voting

# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 07:20

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

bowmore posted:

Was this from Coles? I'm sure the 400 million plus profit could handle the extra hours

what are the odds the store/shift manager has strong incentives to pull a stunt like this?

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 04:47

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

tithin posted:

https://twitter.com/smurray38/status/843591547014660096

It wasn't quite so bad before the housing market went mental.

If the tories wanted to do something to help first home buyers, ditching the FHSA scheme wasn't a great idea.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 10:18

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

quote:

WA sources have told The New Daily that a spike in voter enrolments in Pilbara�s declining electoral roll immediately after Mr Grylls announced the iron ore royalty plan last August caught people�s attention.

http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2017/03/19/big-money-miners-got-wa-politician-booted-out-claim/

Seems like now would be a good time for the new WA Government to do something to raise the 5 cents a tonne royalty that the big oversears miners pay. The Nats' proposed levy would've raised an extra 1.5-1.8 billion for WA per annum.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 10:37

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

hiddenmovement posted:

Having someone assure you that the sw4636784-nb is definitively only for the commodore made before July 2012 doesn't hurt either

Amazon feedback does this for the things I buy (usually electronics/computer related).

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 06:10

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

Crazy idea time: politicians' investment properties should be treated the same as shares, ie they can't be actively investing in them while in partliament.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 06:17

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

Anidav posted:

Airtasker sure is popular suddenly. Must be worrying for tradesmen and sole traders with a brand

I guess they weren't agile enough

Airtasker is weird. Most of the payments on offer are either way too low ("install hard wired electrical appliance for $40") or way to high ("$100 for 15 minutes' work changing the aspect ratio on some video")

# ¿ Mar 23, 2017 01:48

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

goodog posted:

The LNP will be saved by the next generation of savvy young politicos.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/yo...e023c793422e601

"I'm political, which means I'm completely cynical about joining a party whose policies I disagree with in order to further my career"

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 03:01

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

Night Shade posted:

Actual answer for the curious: With the transmission loss, the load still connected to the grid caused the frequency to drop, because when the generators weren't able to keep up the bigass spinning magnets in them slowed down. Electric generators are also electric motors, and two connected generators running at different frequencies or phases will convert each other into motors while they're out of step and put mechanical force back through the turbine. Turbines aren't designed to be driven backwards, it has a tendency to break things, and so the generators disconnect from the grid instead.

Further to all that, it seems like the report says that the SA wind generators could have ridden through the observed voltage disturbances, but it was just a software setting (since changed) that caused them to disconnect in September. Apparently AEMO didn't know about those settings, and they also didn't know the ride through settings that other generators had been running.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 05:26

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

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Isn't this like asking the fox to evaluate why henhouse security failed?

yeah the AEMO's reports tends not to be very critical of the AEMO.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 07:15

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

KennyTheFish posted:

Who is responsible for the settings for disconnecting the wind farms based? was it a from AEMO for bringing the farms into service, or a manufacturer recommendation?

Probably whoever set them up in the first place. The AEMO report also mentions that they didn't know the ride through settings for any of the generators on the network. It makes sense for the grid regulator to specify ride through settings, and they've already moved to fix that.

(The report is 271 pages long, and I haven't read all of it.)

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 11:41

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

I look forward to the IPA campaigning to overturn the following barriers to free speech in Australia:

- ASIC secrecy provisions relating to investigations
- inadequate whistleblower protections
- censorship by the OFLC of just about everything
- court imposed censorship of certain DNS lookups
- libel laws
- restrictions on plaintiff lawyer advertising

Mr Chips fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Mar 31, 2017

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 23:40

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

NPR Journalizard posted:

No, there are a bunch of different taxes like payroll tax, gst, payg and others.

GST and PAYG are taxes the business collects for the government, not taxes the business pays itself.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 08:50

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