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G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005

Anidav posted:

Actually Queensland has been the best state for awhile and I'm looking forward to Vic flipping blue and watching goons go nuts.

I'd be more concerned about your opinion if you still worked in tele polling. Matthew Guy is a nobody whose platform is a cop on every corner and while there's a lot of poo poo media spruiking The Crime we've already seen what good more cops via PSOs are - which is to say they're not so much upholding the right as shaking down the minority

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G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
People think they belong to different generations depending on how closer to the cusp they are/how much they hate millennials when they actually are one/it's weirdly fluid

E: Oh I'm doing the survey now, maybe it's for finer grained analysis.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Bet Turnbull wishes he could dispute the paternity of those polls

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Conservatives mistakenly equating social media click bait tactics with relevancy

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
I know we're reasonably anti Jordies since he went off the angry zealot deep end but his take on Xenophon is reasonably educational, particularly in terms of summarising his voting history vs politiking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKw1Qp-fv_U

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005

ewe2 posted:

When people stop splashing out for food, there is definitely a trend, guess which one.

Related, the number of premises for lease in shopping strips. Chapel St has been going to poo poo up the Windsor end for a long time but now it's a steady 2-3 empty windows per block from the river to the highway.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005

Laserface posted:

Which is exactly what my brother did, which is what the Optus rep told him to do, and then said 'and then we will get the TIO complaint and contact you to say 'there is nothing we can do as there is no plans to upgrade the infrastructure at this time' and offer you a discount on your plan'

which is exactly what happened, but hes still paying $80 a month for 1mbps on a 100mbit HFC line.

You can deny their offer and get out of contract to try another provider who didn't over stack their capacity.

Gee I wonder if anyone could possibly suggest another ISP like that, maybe even with some recommendations of getting the service speed they pay for?

Oh well. Guess you're stuck slamming your dick in the door of life.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
ADSL congestion is different to cable because it's an individual connection instead of a shared line but yes it's possible your brother is poo poo out of luck if there's no other provider yet.

But you're telling other people the TIO is a waste of time for reasons specific to your brother's case. Synth has NBN. Edit: as in, NBN usually means more providers get into the area.

G-Spot Run fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Mar 6, 2018

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005

drunkill posted:

Because isps will stop talking to you if you have a TIO claim open. Meaning your issue could go unresolved for a month or three

Customer service equivalent of emotional blackmail isn't a reason to keep a service. A monthish of pain or sunk cost that pain forever.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
The sex workers and mad locals are still there but instead of arty folks it's meth heads.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Government assets

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Aside from being government asset electricity and computers they used in the process, the fact that it's Bitcoin possibly counts it as stealing from your employer (generated on their asset) and offshoring the income.

https://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/alrc-80-legal-risk-international-transactions/8-australian-remedies-misappropriation-an

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Jun 28, 2005

bandaid.friend posted:

What are the ages of legality. Has someone legislated an upper limit on doing it.


Speaking of

https://twitter.com/TheCalebBond/status/971295392070623232

It's a bit purple, so not really your fault, but it's "Between the ages of legality and experience" as in young to old.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005

tithin posted:

It's not about the tax it brings in, it's about showing women their place.

Boom.

Every month as I poo poo and bleed myself into oblivion in an uncomfortable toilet stall hoping nobody opens the door - and this is after a laparoscopy to blast off my endometriosis - I remember that silly "joke" that if men had periods there would be 12 weeks annual leave.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
I wonder if the name change to SA BEST will gently caress them over. There's people who post here who don't realise it's Xenophon.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005

thatbastardken posted:

it is alleged the prime minister 'slew her pussy' which has been misconstrued

You're about to be accused of regicide cos you slay queen

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
It's a devastating sign of the times I didn't get it until more than halfway.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
"It turns out my boss is a sex pest but payroll was always on point so good luck and god bless mate"

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
It's the biggest Jewish population per electorate in Australia so yeah they probably can

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
The magic eight ball says I doubt it

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
It's already lower iirc

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Oh right. It was so tight for a while there I kinda gave it away in my head. The Jewish community doesn't need to change or Danby necessarily. There's a lot of apartment growth so there could probably be another fresh 2.5k people voting any which way by the next Federal election.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005

a man of vision posted:

yikes! a kike! vote greens

It sounds like it's like that but it's not. It's the dominant topic because our local member addresses a 10% demographic to the exclusion of the 90% of the electorate. I think people say dumb poo poo because it's hard not to say dumb poo poo when you're desperately trying not to sound like a Nazi while also pointing out that catering to that demographic over every other possible issue is the problem.

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Jun 28, 2005

froglet posted:

So folks, a television producer is asking me if I'd be interested in talking to them about the gender wage gap since I shared a story somewhere public about getting paid less than a dude for the same job.

I feel like I should say yes, but I also don't really want to put myself out there because I feel like this might be setting myself up for getting myself thrown under a bus.

Thoughts?

It's not your job to fix but also "I don't want to put myself out there" is what allows the problem to never be addressed.

I'd say do it but under a "not her real name" so it's not googleable against your name to affect future career prospects (transcripts etc). Don't bother going full face hidden vocoder voice though, it's not so much about hiding yourself it's about not giving it on a silver platter to the inevitable poo poo stain hiring practice.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
I've worked probably approximately median wage jobs over 15 of the last 20 years and if I withdrew every cent in super it still wouldn't make a deposit (or even half a deposit) on the median house price in Melbourne.

It's a decoy.

The government furiously while the boss walks by hoping they don't notice you're hammering garbage into the Windows search bar.

I guess they passed it though because with everything else going on that they've gotten away with why the gently caress not.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005

CrazyTolradi posted:

So, if there's a major housing market crash and banks are foreclosing on properties left, right and centre, what happens to the people who are renting in those properties who have to find a new place to rent, cough up bond and do this in a market where suddenly there's a real shortage of rental properties available in the short term?

Maybe they go to market with rental agreements intact, because the bank can swipe the rental income on the property during that period? There are people who will buy a property despite an existing lease arrangement, probably.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Everything is so completely and utterly hosed of course people are putting on the blinders and daydreaming about a single comfortable outcome with daily resonance like "hey what if housing crashes and I can afford to live somewhere, that'd be nice".

edit: here, let's cross post this a bit further, it's like one of those youtube "don't look away" challenges.

SKULL.GIF posted:

Things that Happened Today:
  • A fifth bomb exploded in San Antonio destined for Austin, injuring a mail carrier
  • A second bomb was found at the FedEx facility in San Antonio, making six total
  • Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy was arrested over corrupt campaign financing from Libya
  • Zuck! was summoned before the British Parliament to squeal about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
  • FTC is probing Facebook for use and abuse of personal data
  • There was another school shooting, this time in Maryland
  • Trump is weighing firing Ty Cobb and John Dowd
  • Multiple lawyers, including one who claimed Trump was the victim of a mass conspiracy, have declined to represent Trump
  • Trump and Putin had a nice long phone chat while Trump twirled the phone cord around his finger
  • Committing a serious diplomatic misstep Trump congratulated Putin on winning the sham election
  • Trump announced he will meet personally with Putin in the near future
  • Oblammo's campaign also got bigly personal data from Facebook and says Facebook was "on their side"
  • A gunman raided a Panera Bread at Princeton
  • A judge temporarily blocked Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban
  • Trump said that Saudi Arabia will give lots of money to USA
  • The world's last male white rhinoceros died
  • Another porn star sued to break her NDA on Trump - Karen McDougal from Playboy
  • ANOTHER porn star is suing Trump, this one for defamation - Summer Zervos
  • A NY judge ruled that being President doesn't protect Trump from defamation suits, including Zervos's
  • Bitcoin contains child pornography on its blockchain
  • Shulkabee refused to refer to Russia's election as a sham election
  • Shuckabee refused to call the Austin bombings terrorism. (It is terrorism.)
  • Trump is dropping restrictions on selling armed killdrones to American allies
  • Pennsylvanian Republicans are attempting to impeach their State Supreme Court justices
  • Despite having more Democrats at the vote than Republicans, Trump's Border Protection Commissioner appointee was confirmed 77-19
  • Cambridge Analytica's CEO was shown hobnobbing with Russia's UK Ambassador
  • Cambridge Analytica's CEO claims they ran Trump's entire digital campaign -- which includes illegal poo poo
  • Cambridge Analytica's CEO says that their candidates (Trump, presumably, included) were "always puppets"
  • Cambridge Analytica's CEO is suspended immediately pending the investigation
  • Housing and Urban Development has been replacing all upper officials with Russians
  • 90% of the property HUD has been selling since inauguration has been to Russians posing as Americans
  • The FBI is raiding HUD for false credentials and vast corruption
  • Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have been hiding all day long from their own employees, and are excusing it by claiming that Zuck's phone was dead all day long
  • We found out that Trump ignored **explicit instructions** from his staff to "DO NOT CONGRATULATE" Putin, but also refused to condemn him for poisoning spies in the UK
  • Betsy DeVos hid her secret plans for completely revamping Education from Congress and the White House and everyone's flaming pissed now

+ mentally add in the local stuff e.g. reef protections being removed yesterday, continue this list as an exciting homework task.

G-Spot Run fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Mar 21, 2018

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
You've kinda proven my point about people being fatigued since that list also included the certain death of a species, French corruption, etc.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005

bandaid.friend posted:

Is a buy-back what it sounds like? Why would you give land away only to buy it again?

How else are you supposed to launder public money into your own pocket.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Even ignoring the cost-price issue with Australian retailers there is practicalities of stock and line management. It will get worse rather than better because globalisation is creeping further and deeper every day because of the internet, and riding sidecar is review culture/reviews as content and human nature to have "the best".

Beauty V/Bloggers are a really good microcosm. One person reviews a (probably) local product, turns into purchases by their audience which typically includes other v/bloggers, which leads to more reviews and wider audiences, and then the cascading ripples of it turning up in product comparisons or shop the look or daily routine videos or the 10 best creams for XYZ. Consumers gonna consume and if they get it into their heads they have to have X product because it's perfect for their Y that's what they'll do. By the time local vendors have the opportunity to recognise and cater to that market people have already found ways to buy it through overseas vendors and peer networks - though in truth reatilers don't bother unless it's a real money-printer, they just stock the brands they stock and maybe if you're lucky one of those "locally stocked" brands does their own take on the product that started the ripple. Besides which, by the time they build the import relationships and get their palate of stock another Holy Grail Trail has begun on another product.

I think it could actually be the fragile beginnings of the anti-mass market movement, but I'm not sure whether people are ready to start turning over retailer's shelving in protest of the one product line suits most model. I do think it's impossible to put online ordering back in the box now it's out, there's just no real way for a single or even national market to accommodate every product ever made at your fingertips.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
s'footymatewhatsyafukinproblim

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
One hit dodgeball, also known as a coward canon

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
I think it's been said before that it does, but people outraged about the labor plan probably don't actually understand how the credits work, or even necessarily have them, it'll be blind "AR PENSIONERS" akin to the "CARBON TAX ARRGBLEEAAARGH" campaigns run by the excessively wealthy.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
DEFICIT
DEEEFIICIT
DEFICIIIIIIIIIIT
LIBERAL WAAASTE
Why isn't this echoing I don't understand

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
This is *checks notes* good for Star Citizen because

wait wrong train wreck

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
It's too easy for it to be his au pair with his big denials that I never hired her. It's probably a big donor's or possibly another party member, so just as scummy but he's not lying so no harm no foul :smugdog:

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Old person in wrong opinion shock

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
They won't be eating meat as we know it unless they're very rich or farmers or cannibals or some combination.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Has she given birth? As far as I'm aware amnio is the only way to get the DNA before. So while it's possible to find out prior to birth I can't imagine any mother risking it just to assuage a beet faced idiot

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G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Oh okay they do have tests on maternal only blood now. Serms a bit late to bother

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