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"We remain regretfully fusion-free."

Except for cheap solar power from the fusion plant in the sky (the sun) with widespread USA grid parity from PV expected by many in the next few years. :-)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_parity
    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayextra/stories/2008/2169588.htm

One big thing I see about this demo, if is it true, given the continuing progress of solar/wind/etc and batteries and energy efficiency, is that cold fusion could power advanced vehicles like flying cars or ion-drive spacecraft. Or even mobile robots. Rocketry might be the biggest beneficiary though, and we might start seeing trips to the Moon becoming common in a decade or so and the beginning of space habitats? Once we are on the Moon again, we can mine H3 for other fusion techniques.

Mining on Earth for nickel can still be ecologically disruptive, and it is not clear how much nickel is needed in practice for each generator even if only a small part of it fuses (is the rest poisoned or can it be reformed?). I'm not sure of the relative impacts of nickel mining per watt vs. renewables though, and renewables themselves take mining of various sorts for the materials. I'd think the ecological advantage would be in favor of the cold fusion though, at least as far as using up ready supplies of nickel?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/09/3007320.htm

"The Police Commissioner would be able to ban violent criminals from possessing knives and other prohibited weapons under proposed laws to be introduced to Parliament next week.

The legislation would also ban the sale of knives to children under 16 and restrict possession of knives near schools."

Yeah.. it's hard for sensible people to imagine anyone actually saying that... or even thinking it.

The idea that someone might use a knife to, say, cut steak and so you really can't practically ban something like that - it's so obvious that you shouldn't ever have to say it. And so maybe you might be thinking that they're talking about some sort Croc Dundee sized knife problem.. but no. They really are talking about kitchen knives. Go check out the article.. see the picture?

Welcome to Australia.

~223 years on, they are still ruled by idiots.
If only! Sycophants (Imagine a prime minister saying I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die". About the Queen...)
and (G.W. Bush visit, US agents decide who gets into our parliament, allow CNN in despite Australian security saying no)
lackeys (Chinese officials allowed to question Chinese political dissidents .. in private... one by one...) would be far more accurate.

ABC News 24 has removed geoblocking so it's now available for those of you viewing from other countries
http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/

Since he's Australian I'd expect the government to prevent extradition if there was potential for him to be executed, like the did for Gabe Watson here. And Gabe was an Aermican citizen!

Anyone wanting to follow this event live can listen to 612 ABC.
The peak of the flood will not hit for another 48 Hours.

http://www.abc.net.au/brisbane/includes/winstream.asx

This BBC video link shows how fast the flooding is - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12161502

The "original" is perhaps on the ABC website

More disturbing is the amount of water that went through the town of Grantham

This BBC video link shows how fast the flooding is - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12161502

The "original" is perhaps on the ABC website

More disturbing is the amount of water that went through the town of Grantham

Whoosh, This is what I'm talking about.

I hear this bullshit all the time from Americans trying to justify widespread gun ownership and it's real crap. Guns don't make killing easier 'in some ways' - guns make killing easier period. It's the first killing weapon where you don't have to be within physical contact of your victim to kill them, and it's accurate

Not so much.

It's really just a matter of whether or not you believe his reasons for speaking out on it, or the comments from others.

His stated reasons are:

"Retail giants Myer, David Jones and Target also want the threshold removed, saying the Government has a responsibility to keep profits and jobs in Australia."

So it's the governments job to keep profits in Oz, when these are the retailers who sold manufacturing to China.

All this aside, what Harvey and co are proposing is nothing less then protectionism, which has never been proven to be economically beneficial.

So... your an all caps mocking poster then.

Sarcasm is just one of the services I offer.

But please, I'm sure you can explain how it was Gerry Harvey that kills local competition and manufacturing

See what me and the AC wrote. Also, check your house for things that are Australian made. Doing a quick inventory of the room I'm in, my PC is from Korea, Japan and Taiwan, my fan and A/C are from China, My monitor and TV are from Korea (Samsung, top quality IMHO), Bicycle helmet from Hong Kong, Hard Drive and several tailored shirts from Thailand, Adidas deodorant made in UK, Motorola phone from China, LTD M10 guitar made in China, Colgate toothpaste from Mexico. Need I go on, I'm just glad the meat I've got in the fridge comes from Aussie farms (oblig, best farms in the world) although the milk is shipped from the other side of the bloody country. Not that I'm entirely deriding this, I do enjoy the cheaper prices from imported goods but for HN, Myer et al who not only made this possible but promoted it to turn around and demand protection from the government now their business is facing competition it more then a bit hypocritical. I'm not a liberatard but this is one of those times where I'll let the free market sort it out.

Ahh the joy of an internet cafe.

Cmon mate, the s/z thing should be second nature for anyone who's past year 5 (and I'm bit on the dyslexic side myself) but this is like leaving the u out of favourite.

Dr John Hooper (Queensland Museum):"Things like the Echinoderms which we thought were relatively well known, the whole Holothurians alone, we had a visiting French researcher who looked at the collection of about 130 species we've got and he said you've probably got about 30 new species here, but this big one over here, he was referring to something the size of a house brick, is possibly a new genus as well. This is something you'd trip over if it was on a beach."

The podcast is at: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2010/12/ssw_20101218_1213.mp3

Dr John Hooper (Queensland Museum):"Things like the Echinoderms which we thought were relatively well known, the whole Holothurians alone, we had a visiting French researcher who looked at the collection of about 130 species we've got and he said you've probably got about 30 new species here, but this big one over here, he was referring to something the size of a house brick, is possibly a new genus as well. This is something you'd trip over if it was on a beach."

The podcast is at: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2010/12/ssw_20101218_1213.mp3

Sometimes, I want the car running for a while, either to power the heater or to just warm up the engine before I take it on the road?

Maybe you don't.

It's kind of logical when you think about it, the best example I know of was in a documentary where a woman with her inner ear poisoned regained her sense of balance when she trained with a cap that showed her her stance and so enabled here to remain in balance; a bit like when in signal processing where you use the original signal as target when training a filtering system to remove noise etc. You just need to have some capability left and the brain will be able to correctly notice those parts.

This is probably the same documentray; neuroplasticity abc lateline

Great, I'm guessing you're getting on the bandwagon right now, then? Or do people in Pakistan not count?

Somehow, I expect you'll make excuses instead.

Pretty much. There always an "ist" of some sort to battle against. There were fascists, that went away. Then came communists, that got old.

You seem to be confusing militant, aggressive, ideological nation states like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with women's fashions. They didn't just "go away" or "get old". Nazi Germany was defeated by a hideously expensive war* that ultimately resulted in its invasion, military defeat, and dismemberment into 4 occupied zones and 2 countries (East & West Germany). The West contended with Communism's greatest power block (the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact) in Eastern Europe at great expense through the Cold War. It was by no means clear that the West and the values of democracy and free enterprise would win against them. And the struggle against Communism isn't really over yet, is it? At least the Chinese are reforming themselves a bit. Good thing too, since Communism killed about 100,000,000 people.

Now it's terrorist. You have to tell people who the bad guys are or else they start looking at what you've been up to.

Really? You have to be told? Just a little help? Well, things can get a little confusing for some, I guess.

*That was the 2nd World War - maybe you've heard of it? All the other wars are jealous about its death toll and cost.

The government is using the 'protect the children' line to outflank the Right and minimise electoral damage. Basically having their cake and eating it too.

If you read Brendan O'Conner's comments you'll see that the government is suggesting the purpose of the R18 rating for games is to 'protect teenagers' - and by pushing this line in the media they deny that ground to the conservatives. This way the government gets to implement a sensible policy which the majority of the electorate want, but at the same time they can sell it as 'protecting the children' to make it palatable to the more moderate social conservatives.

This was really the best move, although it's a shame they can't just be honest with the electorate and sell the policy on its own merits. I suspect it has been planned this way since their community consultation backfired so spectacularly. It was just a matter of timing, waiting for the SA attorney-general to leave.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Foreign Correspondent ran a documentary on china's mass production. I'll leave people to draw their own conclusions on the matter.

The youtube (Aussies can see it on the foreign correspondent website as well - it's called "Dirty Secrets") video is here, split into Part 1 and Part 2

I heard there was a good candidate for that here.

On a side note, I've been in the vehicle, or within a 100' of around 40 or 50 car wrecks, and not even once has one of them caught fire or exploded

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/03/3084071.htm

Inspector Barry Mann says the car carrying the woman and two children burst into flames.

A passing motorist stopped and rescued the five year-old girl and a ten year-old boy from the burning vehicle.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/14/2655533.htm

The car smashed into six shops on Centre Road shortly before 2:00am and burst into flames.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/28/3023588.htm

Police later found a car which had left the road, rolled and hit a tree before breaking into pieces and catching on fire.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/12/3036194.htm

Police say a fire started after two cars crashed near the Nicholson Road exit.

On a side note, I've been in the vehicle, or within a 100' of around 40 or 50 car wrecks, and not even once has one of them caught fire or exploded

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/03/3084071.htm

Inspector Barry Mann says the car carrying the woman and two children burst into flames.

A passing motorist stopped and rescued the five year-old girl and a ten year-old boy from the burning vehicle.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/14/2655533.htm

The car smashed into six shops on Centre Road shortly before 2:00am and burst into flames.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/28/3023588.htm

Police later found a car which had left the road, rolled and hit a tree before breaking into pieces and catching on fire.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/12/3036194.htm

Police say a fire started after two cars crashed near the Nicholson Road exit.

On a side note, I've been in the vehicle, or within a 100' of around 40 or 50 car wrecks, and not even once has one of them caught fire or exploded

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/03/3084071.htm

Inspector Barry Mann says the car carrying the woman and two children burst into flames.

A passing motorist stopped and rescued the five year-old girl and a ten year-old boy from the burning vehicle.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/14/2655533.htm

The car smashed into six shops on Centre Road shortly before 2:00am and burst into flames.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/28/3023588.htm

Police later found a car which had left the road, rolled and hit a tree before breaking into pieces and catching on fire.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/12/3036194.htm

Police say a fire started after two cars crashed near the Nicholson Road exit.

On a side note, I've been in the vehicle, or within a 100' of around 40 or 50 car wrecks, and not even once has one of them caught fire or exploded

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/03/3084071.htm

Inspector Barry Mann says the car carrying the woman and two children burst into flames.

A passing motorist stopped and rescued the five year-old girl and a ten year-old boy from the burning vehicle.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/14/2655533.htm

The car smashed into six shops on Centre Road shortly before 2:00am and burst into flames.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/28/3023588.htm

Police later found a car which had left the road, rolled and hit a tree before breaking into pieces and catching on fire.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/12/3036194.htm

Police say a fire started after two cars crashed near the Nicholson Road exit.

Desktop set up so that the screen faces into the room. This is a far better screening technique than any technological method. If you are very concerned, get a logging firewall (I used smoothwall on a custom built 10th hand PC, and enabled traffic logging)

http://schoolsplay.wikidot.com/website:childsplay
Club Penguin (relatively cheap, and aimed at the age).
WoW (as was mentioned by others). It provides hours of fun. Fortuneatly I have taught him not to queue as a tank.
A word processor of some kind. He loves typing random pictures.
Links to various kid's websites. http://www.abc.net.au/abcforkids/
Favourate videos.
Our older child played many many hours on age of mythology.

Be aware that your computer is newer, shinier and has different 'stuff' than his. Once our child got hooked, your PC becomes a target. I suggest passwords on screensavers.

The main thing though is to control logon time using NET USER. I'd only allow a one or two hour slot each day and one or two rest days with no access permitted. Be brutal and blame the computer when it says "logon has time limits".

Liberals may be quicker to sell-off assets, but Labor is ALSO fond of selling our (taxpayer) property.
How many times has NSW Labor tried to privatise various utilities? (especially under Iemma)

Sell-off assets for billions -> promptly spend the billions -> look like heroes to voters

But what will they sell when there are no assets left?

And some assets are quite, shall we say, profitable

Yeah that's still not exactly great by Australian banking standards. I just checked and went back 7 years on my statement history without any hassle on my net banking. I'd be pissed if there was a 1 year or 3 month limit.

Overdraft fees used to be an issue here but many Australian banks scrapped them after one did it and the rest followed.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/29/2639350.htm

So we have it pretty good here in some ways. The home loan rates being through the roof is the main issue though.

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. What We Can Learn From Terrorists 19 Oct 2010, 11:00

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. Tariq Ali argues that terrorists have changed the world in ways that serve their own religious, political and ideological aims. They've forced the West to compromise on the very foundations of liberal democracy and wind back hard-won freedoms in the name of security.

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. Speaking at the recent Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Ali provocatively suggests that the terrorists' actions pale in comparison to the West's retributive "Wars on Terror". In fact he calls these wars "State Terrorism" of which the cruel backlash has been an increase in the ranks of extremist organizations.

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. In this broad-sweeping discussion, Ali draws a parallel with the current geopolitical situation and that of the Western world in the late 19th century. Like today, that society was in a period of transition, with no meaningful political opposition. What emerged then was a group of violent activists in the form of anarchists.

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. Ultimately Ali's message is: we must understand the motivations of terrorists in order to deal effectively with them. And to Ali this means relinquishing our bias to Israel and our occupation of parts of the Middle East.

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. Tariq Ali appeared at the 2010 Festival of Dangerous Ideas, presented by the Sydney Opera House and St James Ethics Centre. Chair of the discussion was Ann Mossop.

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. Tariq Ali was in Australia to present the 2010 Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the University of Adelaide.

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. Scion of a famous Punjabi political family, Tariq Ali is a writer, filmmaker and occasional broadcaster. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is a regular contributor to "The Guardian" and the "London Review of Books", and is a longstanding editor of the "New Left Review". He currently lives in London.

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. Ann Mossop is Head of Public Programs at the Sydney Opera House, and was the co-curator - with Simon Longstaff, of the St James Ethics Centre - of the 2010 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

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What We Can Learn From Terrorists 19 Oct 2010, 11:00

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Tariq Ali argues that terrorists have changed the world in ways that serve their own religious, political and ideological aims. They've forced the West to compromise on the very foundations of liberal democracy and wind back hard-won freedoms in the name of security.

.

Speaking at the recent Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Ali provocatively suggests that the terrorists' actions pale in comparison to the West's retributive "Wars on Terror". In fact he calls these wars "State Terrorism" of which the cruel backlash has been an increase in the ranks of extremist organizations.

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In this broad-sweeping discussion, Ali draws a parallel with the current geopolitical situation and that of the Western world in the late 19th century. Like today, that society was in a period of transition, with no meaningful political opposition. What emerged then was a group of violent activists in the form of anarchists.

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Ultimately Ali's message is: we must understand the motivations of terrorists in order to deal effectively with them. And to Ali this means relinquishing our bias to Israel and our occupation of parts of the Middle East.

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Tariq Ali appeared at the 2010 Festival of Dangerous Ideas, presented by the Sydney Opera House and St James Ethics Centre. Chair of the discussion was Ann Mossop.

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Tariq Ali was in Australia to present the 2010 Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the University of Adelaide.

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Scion of a famous Punjabi political family, Tariq Ali is a writer, filmmaker and occasional broadcaster. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is a regular contributor to "The Guardian" and the "London Review of Books", and is a longstanding editor of the "New Left Review". He currently lives in London.

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Ann Mossop is Head of Public Programs at the Sydney Opera House, and was the co-curator - with Simon Longstaff, of the St James Ethics Centre - of the 2010 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

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We have LYING drug fucked cunts like George W Bush and the U$A military seeking to push it's influence into that reigon - and keep it there; along with taking the all the oil for themselves.

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We have fucking lying cunts like John Winston Howard ex PM of Australia - who is George W's pet arse licker - "the man of steel" that George W liked to call him, that most other people regard as a lying terd. Then you have shit like Tony Blair - the pathological liar - the only man who could pull his head out of his arse by pulling it over his head...

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Then these cunts go "off to war" (steal oil) and then the people who's countries are invaded and murdered get pissed off and fight back and then post their videos up for all the world to see...

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Then these globalising bank financed shit bags, say "Oh no better not allow other people to see them"....

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http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/10/19/3041128.htm

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What We Can Learn From Terrorists 19 Oct 2010, 11:00

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Tariq Ali argues that terrorists have changed the world in ways that serve their own religious, political and ideological aims. They've forced the West to compromise on the very foundations of liberal democracy and wind back hard-won freedoms in the name of security.

.

Speaking at the recent Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Ali provocatively suggests that the terrorists' actions pale in comparison to the West's retributive "Wars on Terror". In fact he calls these wars "State Terrorism" of which the cruel backlash has been an increase in the ranks of extremist organizations.

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In this broad-sweeping discussion, Ali draws a parallel with the current geopolitical situation and that of the Western world in the late 19th century. Like today, that society was in a period of transition, with no meaningful political opposition. What emerged then was a group of violent activists in the form of anarchists.

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Ultimately Ali's message is: we must understand the motivations of terrorists in order to deal effectively with them. And to Ali this means relinquishing our bias to Israel and our occupation of parts of the Middle East.

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Tariq Ali appeared at the 2010 Festival of Dangerous Ideas, presented by the Sydney Opera House and St James Ethics Centre. Chair of the discussion was Ann Mossop.

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Tariq Ali was in Australia to present the 2010 Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the University of Adelaide.

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Scion of a famous Punjabi political family, Tariq Ali is a writer, filmmaker and occasional broadcaster. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is a regular contributor to "The Guardian" and the "London Review of Books", and is a longstanding editor of the "New Left Review". He currently lives in London.

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Ann Mossop is Head of Public Programs at the Sydney Opera House, and was the co-curator - with Simon Longstaff, of the St James Ethics Centre - of the 2010 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

This will enlighten you.

If you build a maze that has multiple routes through it, and two pieces of food in it, and drop a bunch of slime molds into the maze in various places, they will fairly rapidly coalesce into a single slime mold that extends through the maze on the shortest route between the two bits of food. Now, that's no traveling salesman problem -- but slime molds are single-celled animals, so they don't have *any* brains to do the calculations. They just rely on minimizing surface area and maximizing access to food. (And being able to stop being multiple organisms and start being a single organism, but that's an aside.)

The excellent (Australian) ABC science program "Catalyst" shot the story of the crash as part of the article on the launch. I remember seeing this a few months ago. Very sad to watch but also awe inspiring just how much payload these huge balloons can hoist into the sky. The SUV get walloped pretty badly!

You can logically prove that a soul doesn't physically exist in this world. However, the soul just so happens to be spiritual and cannot be represented by matter alone, therefore that conclusion is left up to whether or not you believe God exists (which the Catholic church does).

So let me get this straight: the soul has no observable effect on the universe, yet it exists anyway? Could you clarify what leads you to believe this hypothesis? Or maybe I'm misinterpreting you somehow.

Assume for a second that all life is sacred. Assume for a second that sex was never meant to just be a pleasureful act, and was meant to represent the love of God Himself by allowing us to spread that love another generation by "becoming one" in the act of sexual intercourse.

So what you're saying is, basically, "assume that I'm right"?

How about this: I don't accept your assumptions. I reject them, because they assume facts simply do not exist. You leave the quality "sacred" undefined; you'll have to give a definition if you want me to accept that life is sacred. The entity you term "God" is not in evidence, as there is exactly zero evidence for such a creature - and, lest I start sounding like a broken record, it is also undefined. The existence of meaning behind the existence of an action is not in evidence; you'll have to provide a plausible hypothesis for why such a thing would exist, which I think will be tricky given that there is no evidence for the existence of a God Who "meant" for sex to mean anything.

Basically, your argument boils down to "assuming I'm right, I'm right". Sorry, but for matters of public policy (which covers things like sexual education and the promotion of contraceptives and prophylactics) that just doesn't cut it.

As for the catholic church molestation issues, the Church itself says that if you have deep-rooted, perverted sexual tendencies, you should seek help with those before you become a priest. There are only a few bad eggs in a giant basket of them here, figuratively speaking. The underlying principles that molestation is a grave sexual offense and that it severely separates yourself from God are still true in the Church's eyes; if Pope Benedict XVI truly is covering up these instances without a good reason (which I'm not sure is possible to have), then maybe we just have a bad pope on our hands.

The evidence that Ratzinger did in fact cover up the instances of child molestation is effectively incontrovertible. The evidence that the Catholic Church has a history of covering these things up is also incontrovertible; just look at the recent furor in Ireland, or look at the history of a potential Australian saint (hint: she was temporarily excommunicated because she went public with the fact that a priest was abusing children).

Sorry, but it looks like the rot in the Catholic Church goes back centuries - and that's not even accounting for the hypocrisy inherent in preaching tithes but living in a gilded castle.

tl;dr, It's their beliefs, not yours. Respect them for that please and stop claiming they're so backwards that they don't allow any fun. The problem isn't the church, it's you. Just because a church that you don't agree with and that you are not a part of doesn't approve of things that you want to fulfill your own selfish sexual desires, logically speaking, does NOT mean, in any way, that the Church is backwards; agree to disagree!

No, that's not the way it works. When you are wrong on matters of fact, and your wrongness on matters of fact leads you to encourage bad public policy, you should be opposed. Your beliefs matter very much when they mean the people my children end up having sex with don't know wha

Liu is going to love reading this when he get out of jail

Reads what, Slashdot comments?

all you guys can talk about is war and violent uprising.

You must be kidding; if you actually bothered to read the posts you would note how most of them seem to be about hypothetical trade futures between superpowers, ideological rants (both sides), or other nerdy nonsense. In fact, it has even been stated (and positively modded) on this page that the "tipping point" would only occur if China executes a "Military invasion of a 1st world western country." [vux984] Violence, as most of us here will agree, is the last refuge of the incompetent. [Asimov]

It is like you guys are trying really hard to prove the Chinese government is right to lock him up - that his ideas are actually dangerous.

Have you even read Charter 08? Considering its content and that he "dedicated the receipt of the prize to the Tiananmen martyrs.", his ideas are very dangerous to the people in power in China, according to those same people, especially if they catch on.

But how long until they are taking cars off the road simply because they are driven by the wrong kind of person, or at the wrong speed! This can't be allowed!

It's already happening.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinter_(Victorian_train)

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While the main routes between capital cities have the tracks laid by fuckwits, so they sink into the mud for the entire distance of 1000's of KM and now all the lines have speed restrictions to stop the trains derailing.....

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Despite a billion-dollar upgrade, train drivers are calling the Sydney to Melbourne railway a 'disaster waiting to happen' and are calling for an urgent inquiry into a problem that has crossed the state line.

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http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s3023257.htm

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‘HEADS SHOULD ROLL’

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http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/heads-should-roll/1947326.aspx

There were several articles about a secretive "mini-shuttle" being tested by the US military. Its supposed to be maneuverable in orbit, and perhaps landable.

Recently a Chinese delegation visited one of Australia's woolgrowing areas. At the end of an interview conducted by ABC Radio the interviewer asked, "What most excites you about this trip?" The reply was, "The fresh air." If you're interested you can download the four minute interview as an MP3 from http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2010/s3017529.htm (see the sidebar).

You can just see ministers in South Africa, Russia, South America, Australia, Canada ect. calling in their experts.
How much do we have, how expensive is it to extract, can we export soon :)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/17/3014499.htm?section=business

From what I understand, radiation tolerance of cockroaches is somewhat of an urban legend, but "a thriving fruit fly population" doesn't have much of a ring to it.

Well did you know islands such as Kiribati have been growing larger despite rising sea levels? http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/03/2916873.htm. It's the warming alarmists who have taken the knee-jerk reaction here.

Quote YFA:

But Dr Kench says this does not mean climate change does not pose dangers.

"The land may still be there but will they still be able to support human habitation?" he asked.

Adelaide University climate scientist Professor Barry Brook says he is surprised by the findings.

"Sea levels are obviously rising - I think in the short term [the study] suggests that there's maybe more time to do something about the problem than we'd first anticipated," he said.

"But the key problem is that sea level rise is likely to accelerate much beyond what we've seen in the 20th century."

Naomi Thirobaux, from Kiribati, has studied the shape of Pacific islands for her PhD and says no-one should be lulled into thinking erosion and inundation is not taking its toll and displacing people from their land.

"In a populated area what would happen was that if it's eroding, a few metres would actually displace people," she said.

"In a populated place people can't move back or inland because there's hardly any place to move into, so that's quite dramatic."

Both Dr Kench and Dr Brook and scientists agree further rises in sea levels pose a significant danger to the livelihoods of people living in Tuvalu, Kirabati and the Federated States of Micronesia.

It's the warming denialists who keep insisting there is no knee.

In Kiribati for starters.

Well did you know islands such as Kiribati have been growing larger despite rising sea levels? http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/03/2916873.htm. It's the warming alarmists who have taken the knee-jerk reaction here.

Eureka stockade was a failed revolution of criminals against the govt.

Failed? They achieved their objectives. The leader was elected to the legislature. That's some failure! By the way, those men were found not guilty by juries of their peers, by what authority do you declare them to be criminals?

I do not know even one person in .au who thinks a the general population should be armed.

Well I assure you there is more than one. The ABC's reporting of Queensland senate election results shows the initial allocation of votes includes 55,222 for the Liberal Democrats (LDP) whose policy is to legalise firearms ownership for self-defence including concealed carry and 42,669 for the Shooters and Fishers party. NSW had 95,752 for LDP and 96,638 for the Shooters and Fishers party. Victoria had 59,116 for LDP and 44,639 for Shooters and Fishers. SA 5,584 for LDP and 11,425 for Shooters and Fishers. WA 14,517 for LDP and 7,459 for Shooters and Fishers. NT 4,640 for Shooters and Fishers.

That is 230,191 votes for the LDP (pro concealed carry) and 207,470 for the Shooters and Fishers party in the initial allocation, more with preferences. Over 430,000 pro firearms votes.

It is YOU who have no idea of the opinion of the general pubic.

My reference to the public opinion was not intended to refer to my opinions on firearms, which I know are not mainstream. It was supposed to be specific on the issue of whether "armed conflict is the worst possible outcome". I should have expressed that better.

Eureka stockade was a failed revolution of criminals against the govt.

Failed? They achieved their objectives. The leader was elected to the legislature. That's some failure! By the way, those men were found not guilty by juries of their peers, by what authority do you declare them to be criminals?

I do not know even one person in .au who thinks a the general population should be armed.

Well I assure you there is more than one. The ABC's reporting of Queensland senate election results shows the initial allocation of votes includes 55,222 for the Liberal Democrats (LDP) whose policy is to legalise firearms ownership for self-defence including concealed carry and 42,669 for the Shooters and Fishers party. NSW had 95,752 for LDP and 96,638 for the Shooters and Fishers party. Victoria had 59,116 for LDP and 44,639 for Shooters and Fishers. SA 5,584 for LDP and 11,425 for Shooters and Fishers. WA 14,517 for LDP and 7,459 for Shooters and Fishers. NT 4,640 for Shooters and Fishers.

That is 230,191 votes for the LDP (pro concealed carry) and 207,470 for the Shooters and Fishers party in the initial allocation, more with preferences. Over 430,000 pro firearms votes.

It is YOU who have no idea of the opinion of the general pubic.

My reference to the public opinion was not intended to refer to my opinions on firearms, which I know are not mainstream. It was supposed to be specific on the issue of whether "armed conflict is the worst possible outcome". I should have expressed that better.

Eureka stockade was a failed revolution of criminals against the govt.

Failed? They achieved their objectives. The leader was elected to the legislature. That's some failure! By the way, those men were found not guilty by juries of their peers, by what authority do you declare them to be criminals?

I do not know even one person in .au who thinks a the general population should be armed.

Well I assure you there is more than one. The ABC's reporting of Queensland senate election results shows the initial allocation of votes includes 55,222 for the Liberal Democrats (LDP) whose policy is to legalise firearms ownership for self-defence including concealed carry and 42,669 for the Shooters and Fishers party. NSW had 95,752 for LDP and 96,638 for the Shooters and Fishers party. Victoria had 59,116 for LDP and 44,639 for Shooters and Fishers. SA 5,584 for LDP and 11,425 for Shooters and Fishers. WA 14,517 for LDP and 7,459 for Shooters and Fishers. NT 4,640 for Shooters and Fishers.

That is 230,191 votes for the LDP (pro concealed carry) and 207,470 for the Shooters and Fishers party in the initial allocation, more with preferences. Over 430,000 pro firearms votes.

It is YOU who have no idea of the opinion of the general pubic.

My reference to the public opinion was not intended to refer to my opinions on firearms, which I know are not mainstream. It was supposed to be specific on the issue of whether "armed conflict is the worst possible outcome". I should have expressed that better.

Eureka stockade was a failed revolution of criminals against the govt.

Failed? They achieved their objectives. The leader was elected to the legislature. That's some failure! By the way, those men were found not guilty by juries of their peers, by what authority do you declare them to be criminals?

I do not know even one person in .au who thinks a the general population should be armed.

Well I assure you there is more than one. The ABC's reporting of Queensland senate election results shows the initial allocation of votes includes 55,222 for the Liberal Democrats (LDP) whose policy is to legalise firearms ownership for self-defence including concealed carry and 42,669 for the Shooters and Fishers party. NSW had 95,752 for LDP and 96,638 for the Shooters and Fishers party. Victoria had 59,116 for LDP and 44,639 for Shooters and Fishers. SA 5,584 for LDP and 11,425 for Shooters and Fishers. WA 14,517 for LDP and 7,459 for Shooters and Fishers. NT 4,640 for Shooters and Fishers.

That is 230,191 votes for the LDP (pro concealed carry) and 207,470 for the Shooters and Fishers party in the initial allocation, more with preferences. Over 430,000 pro firearms votes.

It is YOU who have no idea of the opinion of the general pubic.

My reference to the public opinion was not intended to refer to my opinions on firearms, which I know are not mainstream. It was supposed to be specific on the issue of whether "armed conflict is the worst possible outcome". I should have expressed that better.

Eureka stockade was a failed revolution of criminals against the govt.

Failed? They achieved their objectives. The leader was elected to the legislature. That's some failure! By the way, those men were found not guilty by juries of their peers, by what authority do you declare them to be criminals?

I do not know even one person in .au who thinks a the general population should be armed.

Well I assure you there is more than one. The ABC's reporting of Queensland senate election results shows the initial allocation of votes includes 55,222 for the Liberal Democrats (LDP) whose policy is to legalise firearms ownership for self-defence including concealed carry and 42,669 for the Shooters and Fishers party. NSW had 95,752 for LDP and 96,638 for the Shooters and Fishers party. Victoria had 59,116 for LDP and 44,639 for Shooters and Fishers. SA 5,584 for LDP and 11,425 for Shooters and Fishers. WA 14,517 for LDP and 7,459 for Shooters and Fishers. NT 4,640 for Shooters and Fishers.

That is 230,191 votes for the LDP (pro concealed carry) and 207,470 for the Shooters and Fishers party in the initial allocation, more with preferences. Over 430,000 pro firearms votes.

It is YOU who have no idea of the opinion of the general pubic.

My reference to the public opinion was not intended to refer to my opinions on firearms, which I know are not mainstream. It was supposed to be specific on the issue of whether "armed conflict is the worst possible outcome". I should have expressed that better.