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Those foams are toxic.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being like the study that showed that blind recruitment favored men.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

why not just state the name of this 'country' you supposedly inhabit.

Native English speaker apparently, in a country that uses dollars (but probably not the US), is obsessing about $100 notes, and then there's the name of the consumption tax ... my guess would be Australia. They're a weird mob.

WTF are climate-related diseases? How is it that a couple of volcanic islands about 13deg south of the equator, probably 3000km from a major landmass suddenly becomes the poster-child for a newly invented climate scare?

Samoa's Met says the "climate is characterized by uniform temperature, pressure, abundant rainfall and high humidity." It's always about 28C with 80% humidity.
It isn't going to change a whole lot no matter what over the next century or so. Rainfall from 3M to 6M should keep the drinking water supply in the OK range.

Inundation? Not so much. These are volcanic islands. Think Hawaii. It isn't the famed Carteret Islands - you know, the ones that were going to be completely gone by 2015?

Here's an update on that climate tragedy btw:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

It's not surprising: the iPhone X has been a disaster.

Um, about that:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

The company's chief financial officer Luca Maestri said customers were buying costlier models, and the $US999 iPhone X was the best seller.

Apple posted third-quarter revenue of $US53.3 billion and profits of $US2.34 per share, and forecast its revenue would be between $US60 billion and $US62 billion in the fourth quarter.

So. while Huawei is selling more phones, Apple is selling more expensive phones and making more profit in the process.

I had to read the headline a few times before I realised that Musk was not calling the "Boss of Tesla" a "Troll Who's Heavily Invested In Oil Industry." Seemed odd that Musk would attack the head of his own company as an enemy agent... but then Musk has said some off-the-rails things recently.

From reading the fine article (or rather, looking at the pictures in it), the guy who "sank" into "melted" tarmac actually fell into a sinkhole underneath a section of tarmac that was clearly a patch where an excavation had previously taken place.

A real melting tarmac would be like what happened in northern Queensland, Australia during the week: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-05/melting-road-in-far-north-queensland/9942800 (Most likely caused by faulty materials.)

I think this is something that will only get worse as time goes on, in that, if the USA (I've never been in the states btw, I'm Australian) wants to maintain it's global economic position (in your terms, the playground bully, and more formally speaking [and probably ironically too], maintain the pax americana), it needs to start acting against China strategically. The problem with acting now is, the USA might not be in its ideal position to do so, but I think it will only get worse for the USA as time goes on, as China isn't sitting idly; it's growing and establishing its foothold.

Now, while I'm not infatuated with the USA, I'm concerned far more by China's political interference in oceania, and their general subversive nature of establishing their own hegemony. I'm inclined to side on the countries which, at least nominally, share our values of personal liberty, democracy, and a rule of law, which arguably places most above that of China. Despite our flaws, we're still much better than a regime which denies those freedoms, and champions the idea that people are too stupid to rule them selves, therefore they must be lorded over by the select few.

Another point to consider is that the Chinese have a chip on their shoulder that westerners have been exploiting them, and that has been stymieing their development. Their concept of face means that they're proud and arrogant, to their own detriment, to the degree that they'd rather go down with the ship than change course if it means admitting they were/are wrong, or that systems of governance that encourage skulduggery, corruption, and self interest, over talent and merit, has been holding them back.

From a trade perspective, I've noticed a growing sentiment amongst Chinese that they're starting to feel superior. They feel that where once their stuff wasn't taken all that seriously, it is significantly not the case now, and relating to their concept of sociological face, while they grow with the idea that they are superior, it is us who should be grateful that they trade with us, and we need them, and not they need us. This is definitely becoming the case in Australia, where we're so exposed to China, that if they stop buying our resources, we have problems, if we stop selling residential property to them, we have problems, if we try to stop them donating money/buying our politicians, we have problems! They have us where they want us; we're reliant on their money, they're not reliant on our resources.

Fast Acting.... you mean like a massive battery connected to a wind farm?

https://www.teslarati.com/tesl...

https://www.news.com.au/techno...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Have a nice day.

Well Wilbur, how do you think that they are currently determining the atmospheric composition of distant planets?

Yeah, but those thick 15c bags need to be used at /least/ 50 times to be the same impact as the thin bags:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Plus, I never use the thin ones once, they're always bin liners or cat litter bags, or dog crap bags, etc. So that means the 15c one needs 100 uses.

I'd suggest that's unlikely verging on the ridiculous.

And the paper containers aren't much better, worse on some measures.

>unsupported by anything that resembles evidence

Evidence like it being widely reported in the press?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
http://fortune.com/2017/12/26/...
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

We're seeing a short-term price bump because of the recent sharp rise in demand thanks to e.g. Tesla), which has temporarily outstripped supply. But supply is ramping up in response - the boom in mining as you say. But booms in a commodity sector most often lead to prices going down, not up.

Unless you can produce real evidence that supply cannot keep pace (unlikely in view of the huge reserves quoted here and elsewhere), or that extraction prices will go dramatically up instead of down (despite the greater investment already resulting in cheaper and more efficient techniques), then I'm not seeing any reason why we should value your opinions over the researchers' study in TFA, which is backed up by considerably more evidence.

They're not keeping children in "concentration camps" on the southern border. Geeze, you people are self-parody.

They are absolutely keeping children in concentration camps.

First, maybe we should establish a definition of "concentration camp"" According to Merriam-Webster, a concentration camp is, "a camp where persons (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined"

https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Next, we should establish that Trump is indeed keeping children in such places [note: I purposely only include foreign news sources for this, so you can't claim some local political bias]

https://news.sky.com/story/hun...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

https://www.standard.co.uk/new...

And when did this new policy of indefinite detention of children start? May of 2018.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

Further, since people who present at a port of entry requesting asylum have broken no US laws, the Trump Administration is separating children from parents who have done nothing wrong and holding them in concentration camps just to exert political pressure on his opponents.

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201... At least one executive will go to jail.

You can do that now. The answer is yes. Most men who live long enough will get prostate cancer, but it will develop late enough and grow so slow that something else will kill you first. It's the people that get prostate cancer early that have to worry.

Recent Australian radio program on proper surveillance of recently diagnosed prostate cancer. (transcript)

http://www.abc.net.au/radionat...

WA is using a few transparent bins to 'raise a conversation'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
They should make this mandatory for recyling bins so you can see if people are contaminating it.
Fun Fact: I heard pizza boxes are not recyclable because of all the oil from the pizza soaking into the cardboard!

This is fucking amazing, should be on every front page, everywhere.

It is and it is :-).

At least it's front page on:
http://www.abc.net.au/news
http://www.npr.org/sections/ne...
http://www.theguardian.com/uk

Scalp 'em.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rur...

https://www.theguardian.com/au...

Many weeds spread seeds also but for some mechanically harvested crops this has already been solved.

Don't stop there - it's to the tune of 50000 installations in one scheme and another 40000 installations in a second scheme.

South Australia leads the way for the rest of the world. You're welcome, and please DO come here.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Behind? As far as power goes, we've sent humans to space, and yet 100 years of internal combustion engine development hasn't been able to create instant torque response that an EV can deliver every time. Performance numbers certainly aren't lacking for the maker of "ludicrous" mode either.

Range is dictated by battery tech, and you're getting a hell of a lot more out of rechargeable batteries today than you were 20 years ago. My first cell phone had an hour of talk time. Another decade of battery development will likely create EV solutions with a 1,500-mile range, which at that point the metric is pointless, because human passengers would never want to sit in a car that long.

Battery tech has improved in regards to fixing the battery memory problem and faster recharge times but has little to do with how long your cell phone lasts. Most major battery improvements over the last 10 years are due to three factors: Shrinking electronics has allowed for larger capacity batteries, electronics have become much more energy efficient (i.e. lower power displays), and power management improvements.

As far as I can tell, the accepted wisdom is that battery capacity increases at 5% to 8% per year. In 10 years a 300 mile Tesla would be able to go about 500 miles. That being said, there is a ton of research being done on using capacitors and on developing the next battery chemistry that will supplant what we have today. So, it's quite possible that a breakthrough will happen and provide a range of 1500 miles. However, in my opinion, the current pace of battery technology does not support this with existing battery technology.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-tr...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

why not operate a solar powered salt powered station to generate power and get paid more money... because would earn you more money be more efficient and truely sustainable

This is already being charged by wind power. Why would switching to solar suddenly make it much more efficient?

The 100MW battery will provide the region with 129 megawatt-hours of energy to be paired with Neoen's 99-turbine wind farm at Hornsdale, near Jamestown, South Australia.

Over 50% of South Australia's electricity comes from sun and wind-based sources, so perhaps you need to educate yourself before jumping to conclusions.

No, coral as a whole is not going to go extinct. But some species will (some already have) - many others will not be able to adapt rapidly enough, given the current pace of change. In time, once the climate settles down, the survivors will doubtless adapt to the new norms and new reefs will flourish.

But on more human timescales, it seems all but certain we'll lose most of a major World Heritage site and one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the world. We lost 27% of it in 2016, and we're set to lose up to another third after 2017. I took my kids diving there last year, while there was still something left worth seeing, and the deterioration I've personally witnessed since the 80s and 90s was heartbreaking.

The real crime is that the Australian Government has taken this long to summon even this level of action. Agricultural runoff has been a problem for decades, but the Government has consistently underfunded efforts to improve this, censored UNESCO reports describing the Reef's vulnerability, lobbied hard to avoid an Endangered listing, and both political parties have given every support for major new dredging and coal-handling developments at Abbott Point that will certainly further worsen water quality on the nearby Reef.

Even if you view the Reef merely as a valuable national asset, this negligence will cost us all.

What if like these Fords they were broken before you got them out the parking lot?
And Ford tried the 'your holding it wrong' excuse.

Here's one.

That's from September, so springtime, and apparently over the winter the corals had recovered somewhat. Then came summer and the season of warmer water killed a lot more corals, leading to the current article. I see no inconsistency here. Both can be true. Last winter the corals recovered more than people thought they would, but then a lot more got killed.

Here's one.

We know almost exactly how much support there was for gay marriage in Australia, since 80% of people returned the survey form.

You are only consider stable cell state, how about cell division state, where the cell is dividing at a molecular level, you are adding energy to that and it is happening all of the time, hence probability outcomes catch up to you. Disrupt that molecular cell division and replication and you are rolling the die, just suck it up, happen at any time from any damage, some acts produce more risk than others, the fewer risks you take the better your probability outcomes of successful molecular cell division and replication and one bad cell can kill you, and you have a whole lot of cells to roll the die or is that roll to die on http://www.abc.net.au/science/.... Sure hard radiation can melt you, like duhh, but this is all about probability outcomes, probably specifically during cell division and replication (this is a continual process, most likely the greatest risk where cells divide and replicate the most often and reduced risk where cells last longer, you are rolling the die more often).

If someone is driving a truck at you, your puny weapons wouldn't do shit.

Looking at the truck used by the muslim kook in the Nice terror attack:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

There are a lot of bullet holes in the truck.

Nope, but he definitely likes the idea!

Hmm.

Nope, but he definitely likes the idea!

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Hiding is not a problem, there are platforms dedicated to it, but the problem is, it won't work, since thee reason for disparity is NOT biased hiring process.

Blind recruitment trial to boost gender equality making things worse, study reveals

It is comical we even mention HR bias in the context of the lawsuit.

Here's the easy solution to this problem. Don't include information on race, gender, etc. on employment applications

They tried that in Australia. They started an initiative to obscure the gender and ethnicity of candidates in an effort to remove prejudice from hiring. They had to stop it, because as it turns out, when you hire based on merit with no knowledge of gender or ethnicity, you hire more men than if you know these things. Turns out, on average women are unfairly advantaged by their gender during hiring.

of course, that the Democrats tend to put forth foreign policy much more friendly to the rest of the world

Bullshit. Prove it.

The New York Times Accurately Portrays Hillary Clinton as an Unrepentant Warmonger
Why the election of Hillary Clinton promises a more dangerous world
Good Riddance to Warmonger Hillary Clinton

Why wouldn't you?

For the first time ever, the components that make up a solar / storage system are so cheap that they can be paid back with the earnings from the electricity generated.
This is probably been helped by the Australian Governments policy of selling off all the power assets to private enterprise who, in turn, have escalated energy and supply costs at a rate far greater than inflation resulting in significant power bills for most Australians. Natural market forces, along with the public's quest for greener energy, have led most people to look for environmentally ways to lessen their electricity bills.
Side note: The Liberal Australian Government is still way out of step with the public on renewable's arguing that Coal fired power generation is good and renewable's is ugly.

Just look at how well the National Broadband Network is coming along!! http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

The cat is not suing, the slave cat owner is suing, in this case the cat has no right to anything beyond a humane putting to sleep for what ever reason the slave cat owner deems appropriate, whether that be chicken fried cat (and that's not chicken revenge frying that is unborn chicken sacrifice frying) or any other use the slave cut owner wishes to put the humanly 'put to sleep' cat. https://peterbarrett.com.au/20... One persons pet is another person mass murderer http://www.abc.net.au/news/201.... Perhaps grumpy cut has just heard about Kangaroo Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., it's were you go if you find Adelaide all a little to hot, thanks for nothing America.

people who are procuring illegal (in particular, kiddie) porn could then hide behind the response of "I thought it was fake".

Even knowing it is fake, and being able to prove it in a court of law, may not be sufficient to avoid a guilty verdict. An Australian man was convicted of possession of child pornography for a fake Simpsons cartoon. source - source.

Let us assume you are talking about real-looking child porn, not disgusting cartoons. Why would you even have child porn that you thought was fake, e.g. a child's face photoshopped on an adult's body? Why would you want pornography involving children, even if fake and no child was harmed? Laws in pretty much every Western democracy criminalize such behavior. Even if it is fake, you know it is fake, the judge and jury know it is fake, none of that matters because you possess pornography containing minors (naked adult, child's face photoshopped in ticks the right legal check box). You are now a sex offender for life and will go to prison. Oh, and prisoners may not care if you murdered someone just to watch them die, but if you commit rape or any crime against a child, good luck not getting your skull bashed in and the guards looking the other way.

And while I think of it, here's an example from Australia of another country trying and not quite getting caught.

A timeline to switch over before the first successful prototypes been demonstrated

Don't worry. They've been demonstrated.

If only:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Starving, emaciated, sick, but at least he's got a pimp ass beanie.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Actually in sweden sex without a condom without direct agreement between the two is "rape" and they all agree that there was no condom was used... even better, "rape" charged are public, even if the girls do not want to file charges, the police can still file the charge anyway... so the police used that as the rape charge. The girls clearly said several times it was not a rape (in the common meaning of the word), both agreed in the sex. what parts disagree is if they requested the condom used and Assange lied about using one or if they simply assumed what the other partner intentions where the ones they wanted (he may have think that no condom was fine, the girls thinking that he would of course use a condom). Even when the girls talk in public, there was really no much info on what happen... probably they were all drunks and they mix all the facts

I think if she really reported that she was raped, people would not support Assange, but all this "condom rape" charges and the pressure to take him to personally to "inquiry", not allowing video inquiry, makes everyone suspect the real motives.

Actually most people who read the news likely knew about it. That story was covered all over the place when it happened.

Just a sampling:

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://nypost.com/2017/10/16/...
http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com....

One would have to be fairly ignorant to not have run across it on some news website after it happened.

That's 117F. It was new for Sydney.

It was not new for Sydney.

They "forgot" about records for an older weather station. Would go against the message after all.

It is the highest since *1939*. But that means it was that hot almost a hundred years ago...

Studies have shown that teenagers today are significantly more narcissistic.

This was not a study of behavior, but a survey of self-reported "feelings". Another way to interpret the data is that "teenagers today are more honest about themselves".

The "disinhibition effect" is driven by anonymity. People are "mean" to strangers online. Teenagers spend most of their time socializing with close friends.

No, read that article again. Anonymity is just one of several factors that contributes to the effect, and it occurs even without anonymity. It turns out that actually seeing the look on someone's face when you hurt his/her feelings results in a lot more empathy than a text message sent ten minutes later, and not seeing that person in the flesh until the next day.

Asserting that something is "self-evident" is very different from providing actual evidence. I have seen no evidence of causative harm from teenagers socializing online, rather than say, watching TV.

You aren't paying attention, then. Studies have shown that teenagers today are significantly more narcissistic, on average than twenty or thirty years ago. This may or may not be visible by looking at specific individuals in isolation, but in aggregate, the effect is very real and well documented. And that's precisely the effect that one would expect from a loss of empathy, which is precisely the effect that one would predict from people socializing online too much and in person too little. I mean, this isn't absolute proof, but it is about as close as you can get without a randomly selected control group.

Yes, because Hitler was such a big fan of Free Speech, that the dangerous concept must be suppressed. For the Greater Good[tm].

He was also a fan of hate speech. Had there been laws against it back then his rise to power and WW2 may have been curtailed.

Without citations, this is all meaningless FUD.

Do you even read what you wrote? How about Steven Harper suppressing science. What about Trump's banning the use of certain terms such as 'diversity', 'vulnerable', and 'evidence-based'. What about banning a group of people from actively serving their country.

It took me longer to write this post than it did to google those terms. Maybe you should do something about the log in your eye, before criticizing the speck in others.

Bullshit
http://www.abc.net.au/science/...