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They had a protest outside a psych ward in Sydney - more recruiters than placard holders. At least it's easy to spot the placard holders.

Also listen to Varoufakis's interview. It gives you quite a lot of insight into how Greece got to this point:

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn...

Basically looks like Varoufakis was pulling the strings, but in the end Tsipras blinked first. What else could he do though, I think Varoufakis didn't grasp until late in the piece that powerful parts of the EU were quite happy to call his bluff on a Grexit. Seems like his ego is now in repair mode after making that rather fatal miscalculation.

Jar-Jar Racist is a term that I have never heard before. And I'm 37, so old enough to have come across it.

Here is a review from our most left leaning publication that would have pointed it out if it was noticed by them. http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Here's a "solution" - not a very good one I have to admit :)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

The article also fails to mention how economically feasible the use of MRI would be for biopsy, given the high cost of MR in general (perhaps 10x more than CT, which is perhaps 5X the cost of ultrasound, which is what's used now). In practice, it's more likely that advances in ultrasound (like doppler) will prove more useful and feasible for biopsy than will MR.

The extra cost may be worth it if the results are good enough. Here is a radio interview (with transcript) from an Australian doctor using MRIs for prostate exams, claiming fewer false positives resulting in unnecessary procedures, and better diagnosis of real prostate cancers.

2. Nobody said about "writing off the debt". What we ask is for the due date to go further in the future and the interest rate to be lower.

No, you're wrong. Tsipras was quite clear on his 30% debt writeoff demand.

3. If the rest of the European governments cared at all to be repaid, then they wouldn't insist on "reforms" which have been 100% proven wrong

The previous government of Greece managed to get to a primary surplus and lead Greece out of a recession. If that's your definition of "proven wrong" then now thanks to Syriza's government you will have a big bowl of alternatives.

4. Especially to my Belgian friends: The 2 bailouts of Greece helped repay loans given by private sector banks.

More bullshit. It's called debt refinancing. That's how previous greek governments managed ro reduce Greece's debt expenditure and increase maturity dates on Greece's loans.

5. Greece doesn't need more money to "keep spending above its limit".

What's your definition of a deficit, and demanding the eurozone member-states give Greece additional soft loans just to be able to actually keep the greek state functioning?

6. You are angry because we tricked our selves into the eurozone. You are right. We are angry too that you tricked us into the eurozone.

That's a touching complain, but fails to comply with reality as past greek governments even hired financial companies to help Greece cook its books and defraud the world.

You're not a victim if you elect governments that run your state like con men.

Er, no. Greece is in trouble because the Euro doesn't give them any way to handle a crisis. The failure of the euro wasn't just predictable, it was predicted.

I think though you are talking an order of magnitude difference in cost, or more. I would expect that citibikes are relatively cheap in the grand scheme of infrastructure and any modifications to roads will spread across to private cycles as well.

Looking at your link the change to the road ways is significant though. Certainly much greater than the equivalent changes here in Aus. If you are going to make that level of change then you want want to have a support network in place for them as well.

This is how we do them in Brisbane - http://architecture.org.nz/wp-...
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/2...

Basically just paint.

...as over 50% of people in one Australian state, Tasmania, are.

Teaching young kids to code is a great idea that I have already implemented, but it cannot work while in some regions kids are failing to pick up even basic maths. http://www.abc.net.au/radionat...

All this partisan political mania is hiding bigger issues that need to be addressed first.

University of Western Australia was originally slated as the site for the Bjorn Lomborg "think tank" for Climate change denial.
It has now decided to hand back the $4m of funding.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Last time I checked, the Netherlands was in Europe. (See article)

Europe may have excellent social welfare programs, but when it comes to multiculturalism, Europe is a patent failure (not my view only; see below). Perhaps this has something to do with the limits on open speech and dialogue?

https://www.foreignaffairs.com...
http://realtruth.org/articles/...
http://www.economist.com/blogs...
http://www.abc.net.au/radionat...

And after I posted this, I came across this article from same day as this Slashdot item.

Check out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Does your government give you a breakdown of your income tax of where it is spent? In Australia the largest single bucket goes to aged pension and aged care (13.75%). This bucket is 2-3x what we spend on defence. See http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

My wife reads about this stuff all the time, and the evidence is starting to point to the food pyramid being upside down!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt40...
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst...

There's a few reasons. But the biggest ones involve not having to use new land - not out some sort of idealist reasons, but pure economic practicality. First off, you need right-of-way. This is expensive. Also really ticks off land owners if you have to use eminent domain. These things almost always get tangled up in the courts. For in-town legs it'd be even harder. Secondly, all new projects have to go through a series of impact reviews. If you're building over a highway median, you're in an area that's already passed review - you still have to defend your incremental changes, but you don't have to pass as much of a barrier.

Also, most people overestimate the cost of the columns, comparing them to the cost of rail bridges. Just ignoring that by their very nature rail bridges are generally only built over difficult areas, and are going to be extremely price, It's important to note that one of the key cost-saving measures designed into Hyperloop vs. rail is often overlooked: weight. Hyperloop vehicles are more than an order of magnitude lighter than a passenger train, and only spend a brief period over any given segment; consequently the required structural strength is dramatically lower than for a rail bridge. I did some quick calculations, including tube mass, and found that and Hyperloop loadings should be similar to that of Disney's monorail. So think columns like this, not this.

While I do have criticisms for Hyperloop, I found that a lot of the criticisms levied against it on the net were seriously misguided, using ridiculous cost comparisons (another one is comparing the cost of Hyperloop tunnel boring to that of boring tunnels over an order of magnitude larger). I dug up "comparable" projects for each step of the project, and I really have to say, Hyperloop's numbers don't actually look to be that unrealistic. The keys of right-of-way reuse and low point loadings offer serious cost savings.

That said, I think Musk's positioning of the concept was stupid. By putting it in competition to an already-controversial high speed rail project, he both invited the rage of rail fans (who are used to feeling as if they're under attack), as well as inviting the expectation that it can do everything rail can (including, for example, making many stops along the way). It really is, as it was billed, an intermediary alternative between high speed rail and air travel - in speed, in throughput, in ability to make stops, etc. Consequently he should have proposed the first major project of it to be LA to Vegas. Then he wouldn't have encountered opposition from high speed rail fans, and the route doesn't have much population along the way to service. Plus, he could probably get tons of private backing for such a project, as Vegas is always desperate to better connect itself with customers in California.

I also think that for the current proposal, Musk should have positioned the LA station further into town. He's thinking "airport", and of course you can have local train / bus service to the station wherever it is, but airports are only on the outskirts because they *have* to be, mass transit is really ideally located more in-town. And there's no reason that he can't continue into town - the roads get a bit curvy but there's some nice straight rail lines that they could go over straight into the heart of town, and that'd probably be even easier to get approval for than for over road.

Check out this tutorial:
http://www.abc.net.au/abc3/goo...

Good Game Spawn Point is a TV show aimed at younger gamers (like the OP's kid) and the tutorial in question takes you step by step through the production of a simple game.

And once they have done this, they can start playing around with the Scratch! toolkit (a free game design tool produced by the fine folks at the MIT Media Lab aimed at getting kids into game development and coding) and producing their own games.

Here is the relevant part of the exchange:

QUESTION: What kind of probability do you think exists that they currently have a nuclear device?

GEORGE TENET: I think we've unclassified the fact that they probably have one or two plutonium-based devices today.

QUESTION: And how about their, they fired missiles over Japan, what is the likelihood that they currently have a missile capable of hitting the west coast of the United States?

GEORGE TENET: I think the declassified answer is yes, they can do that.

QUESTION: So in all likelihood they have nuclear warheads and an ability to deliver them to the west coast of the United States. Obviously very, very troubling.

LEIGH SALES: Mr Tenet didn’t elaborate further, although US officials admit the ballistic missiles haven't been flight tested, which raises questions about how effective they would be.

Tenet confirmed that North Korean has a missile that could hit the West Coast. He did not confirm that it had a missile that could carry a nuclear warhead. The fact that North Korea has placed a payload in orbit indisputably shows that they have a launching system with intercontinental range that can deliver some sort of payload, so Tenet's comment is hardly surprising. But a limited technical capability does not an effective weapon systems make.

According to this - http://www.abc.net.au/news/201... - many of them do.

Key quote:

The balloons carried with them USBs containing Korean-language versions of Wikipedia, 500,000 leaflets, DVDs with South Korean TV dramas and radios able to be tuned to foreign broadcasts.
"Mr Gladstein says most North Koreans do not have access to technology.
"Obviously high level military and political figures have access to pretty much anything you'd expect to have in a similar sized city or country, with the exception that it is not connected to the outside world."
"So they have access to the intranet, which is a closed internal-only internet. But that's just the elite, the average North Korean, many of them do have TV and DVD players that have actually been provided to them by the government so that the government can show its propaganda."
He says the most effective media is probably still DVDs.

Actually, our Prime Minister is doing just that.

In 2010, Tony Abbott, when asked about Asylum seekers arriving in Australia, he said "Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia" Source: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda...

He then legislated on this basis and proposed a range of immigration policy changes.

That proposed immigration policy has recently been found to be in contravention of UN human rights law. Source: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-...

So yes, at least one Christian person is committing international human rights violations in the name of his religion - unfortunately, it happens to be the most powerful man in Australia.

You think someone wanting to fight and die because his imaginary friend told him it's a good idea is NOT mentally deranged?

I'm afraid if you look closely, you'll find that a great many people declare this as their motivation for major decisions - including those we elect to lead our sensible western democracies:

George Bush on starting wars, 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq': http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Tony Abbott (Australian PM) on immigration policy, 'Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it is not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia': http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda...

So it's not really a sensible approach to just declare all such people mentally deranged. We need to look more closely at this motivation and work to eliminate, as far as possible, those elements of it which lead people to make decisions which are otherwise contrary to the accepted civil standards of our society - whether lone wolf acts of terror, political acts of policy-making, or declarations of war on our behalf.

As a fraudster who fled his home country, assaulted customers of his "spiritual healing" practice and may have arranged tomurder his ex-wife, he wasn't much chop as a Muslim, either.

Sorry, here's the link. http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

No, I don't.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asi...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...

Its a lone gunman.

Police arent calling it a terrorism, it wasnt an IS flag being waved, airspace wasnt closed.

But hey, why not use criminal activity to drum commercial media activity.

If you want proper coverage journalism go to ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission), its govenment funded but independently operated.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

2GB is about the worst place you want to hear about this from. ABC news is a far better source.

I've worked for both state and federal govt and this is pretty much my experience too. The regulations put in place to prevent corruption inevitably also prevent efficiency. Procurement takes ten time as long, and you end up paying RRP for everything, but at least there's no more corruption

I wonder if there's a link between ALS ambulances and the practice of giving oxygen to heart attack patients?

A recent study in Victoria, Australia found that there was a 20% increase to the damage to the heart if given oxygen by ambulance paramedics.

Perhaps, in general, the BLS ambulances don't carry as much oxygen and thus administer it less frequently?

Gee, here's one very relevant point for the UK.

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

It doesn't matter how thin you slice that, it is still baloney.

The boring truth about those Julian Assange smears

If any of these bozos did twenty minutes of research, they might have found Ardin's blog - "my feminist reflections and comments on animal rights, Swedish politics and Cuba from a political scientist, Christian left and long distance runner" - and read her post, with the help of a Scandinavian comrade or Google Translate, "Våldtäkt en del av mäns makt" - rape [is] a part of men's power. Or they would have seen this article from Ardin's days at Uppsala University, where she, in her role as some sort of equality watchdog, denounced the tradition of singing ribald student songs, which included "references to genitalia and serious sexual content," as "offensive and stereotypical." She is, in other words, rather sensitive on gender issues. Or this blog post on how one can exact "legal revenge" on men who have been "unfaithful." According to The Guardian, sources close to the investigation claim that she filed a complaint because Assange didn't wear a condom during sex. So the boring truth is that Assange didn't come up against a CIA conspiracy, but the rather broad Swedish conception of what constitutes a sexual crime.

Men also would rather shock themselves than not shock themselves, if there's nothing else to do for 15 minutes.

I'm in another country (Australia), and I've recently experienced both private and public care due to a stage IV melanoma. I went private because I genuinely felt I would have better care, but got a post-op infection, and some of what I saw worried me. I checked myself into the public system for my second operation and did indeed recieve much better care - In particular wound management seemed much more professional. I've since spoken to people who have worked in both systems (nuclear physicist and a couple of nurses) and the consensus was that on average public system care is superior. I heard yesterday on Australias ABC that private hospitals are a few years behind in infection management, and I'm not surprised.

Drones are so much fun and you can get so many cool photos and video from them.

Yet these morons flying drones near airports are going to ruin it for everyone. Expect to see them heavily regulated or banned soon.

...

Recently on the news in Australia. If they see drones operating near bushfire where water bombing aircraft/helicopters are flying they will ground them.

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

Current regulations are that drones have to be 30 metres away from people, they are not be used in built-up areas, not to exceed 400 feet in height and not be flown in controlled air space, but there is no law against flying near bushfires. Drones must not create a hazard for other aircraft, but if the device was several hundred metres away from its operator, how would they know if a firefighting aircraft was approaching?

Not even hard. Western media doesn't talk about it, but Shiite militias in Iraq are currently doing the exact same thing IS is doing. There are reports of entire Sunni villages wiped out by them all over the Iraq that is still controlled by the Iraqi government in revenge to IS. And before IS came, same militias were wiping out entire villages in the Northern and Western Iraq, which is what made it so easy for IS to take over. Sunni in the region were widely oppressed and welcomed pro-Sunni IS with open arms.

Kurds would do the exactly same thing if they got guns and manpower. The only reason they look reasonable now is because they are relatively powerless. For example, their military is called "Peshmerga". Literally "those in front of death". Western interpretation of the translation has been "those who face death" to give it a positive spin.

In reality however, same term can be applied to suicide bombers of IS, and it is in fact well documented that Kurds have used suicide bombings to achieve their objectives in Turkey, just like IS did in Syria and Iraq. And Kurds already have carried suicide attacks against IS, even using women. Last such attack occurred last week.

In case you're doubting it: http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

People's desire for things/stuff is infinite, demand is infinite,

No it isn't. The Australian energy market is a good example of this. Utilities have gone through a period of infrastructure expansion. The result is Australia now has a significant oversupply of electricity production at a time when demand for electricity is falling. Demand is finite.

Re "Not that I think what you are saying is not possible, more that it will take the Australian government (and associated agencies) more coordination, competence and unity to reach such abilities. And I've never been witness to any such of the three stated capabilities."
Whats the hard part?
The tracking of people who speak out on political, anti war, environmental issues was seen during the anti Vietnam war efforts.
So the police interest in any protesters is expected as it was over decades..
The ip storage for 2 years is open to the police and courts. So the legal data logging side is in place ready for open court use.
The gov malware side and interest in Australian computers?
The Surveillance Devices Bill will widen the use of "data surveillance" warrants. So more legal support to install key logging devices.
https://www.efa.org.au/Issues/...
Australia now has the power to find an Australian ip, return the provider details months later and then seek more information from a users computer.
"Data retention will catch pirates" (30/10/2014)
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline...
"Illegal downloads, piracy - sorry, cyber crimes, cyber security."

It's based on things like this:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionat...

Greenpeace does not oppose GMO crops

They destroy research and lie about lifesaving GMOs. What do you call the destruction of scientific research? There's a reason I referred to the as book burning thugs. These people actually think destroying basic research is a good thing.

Greenpeace has concerns about the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops

No they don't. Thousands of varieties of crops co-exist just fine with the proper seed saving techniques. A transgene does not change that. To give an example in some GMO crops, yellow flesh is dominant over red flesh in papaya, and yellow kernels are dominant over white in corn, yet there is still white corn and red papaya. Why is it then that these varieties can co-exist? Proper seed saving techniques. The transgenes operate on the exact same principles, it's just that no one makes a fuss until genetic engineering is involved and Greenpeace relies on you not understanding the basics principles and understanding the background context of seed saving to spread that excuse. They are lying to you.

calls for more precautionary research and monitoring of GMO's before widespread adoption.

The precautionary principle is idiocy. It says that unless you can prove something will not happen, you do nothing. Imagine if I tried to ban vaccines or wifi on the same principles, demanding that someone prove they will not, through a currently unknown mechanism, cause autism in X+1 years, demanding that you prove a negative. How foolish would it be to say that? Why does that suddenly make sense once GMOs are involved? This precautionary principle excuse is the agricultural equivalent of Russell's teapot. I suggest you read Carl Sagan's Dragon in my Garage analogy to understand why the precautionary principle is completely irrational. GMOs are extensively studied. A rational risk assessment would say there is nothing wrong with using them.

It might be helpful to search out their position papers on these things

Okay. Here they say, quote: "We continue to work with governments to get rid of genetic engineering once and for all." Here they say: "Greenpeace has been an advocate for keeping Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) out of our food supply and encouraging consumers to only buy foods that are GMO-free." They use lots of fearmongering imagery. That's not anti-GMO? The hell it isn't. Greenpeace is one of the biggest anti-GMO organizations out there, they've got no science to back them, and their work has helped hold my field back by at least a decade and a half, as well as contributed to hunger, malnutrition, environmental degradation, and climate change.

It's funny how even scientists tend to forget about the Australian Aborigines. They actually would have migrated through Indonesia approximately 10,000 years before this painting was made. They have a well documented history of making paintings exactly like the ones shown in this cave.

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

Aboriginal hand paintings:

https://www.google.com.au/sear...

we never really talk about that so it doesn't count.

The thing we should be talking about is how and why politicians worldwide are running a fear campaign, with the central message that loss of freedom is a necessary path to security.

Just a few weeks ago, Australia's Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, said:

"Regrettably, for some time to come, Australians will have to endure more security than we're used to, and more inconvenience than we would like. Regrettably for some time to come, the delicate balance between freedom and security may have to shift.

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

There's no doubt they're coordinating their attacks on our freedom, but who is driving the campaign and what is their end goal?

Not news for 2 reasons

    1) standard practice to re-screen if someone has bypassed screening

    2) this has happened several times before (see links below)

The only thing that made this relevant for slashdot was the presence of an iPad (Ah Ha! A technology angle!). That said, the exit from T3 isn't that secure, but it is a domestic terminal. The domestic terminals use pretty standard x-ray of belongings and a metal detector. In other words, just like getting into an office building in downtown New York. The security is nothing like the international terminals which are about the same level as at US airports.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
  http://www.theaustralian.com.a...

Australian cops are *dirty*

NSW!
Good cop, bad cop: how corrupt police work with drug dealers http://theconversation.com/goo...
Corruption is endemic within Australia's police agencies, and certainly within the Australian Federal Police and New South Wales Police, which between them cover the Sydney airports. It also embraces crime commissions and other institutions charged with responsibility for police governance on behalf of the public. http://www.expendable.tv/2011/...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
Pressure grows for NSW police inquiry
Posted 8 Oct 2012, 7:18pmMon 8 Oct 2012, 7:18pm
Up to 200 police officers may have been spied on with listening devices and telephone intercepts.

VICTORIA!
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
Victorian police corrupt: ex-judge The Australian
VICTORIA'S police force is riddled with "deep-seated and continuing corruption" that will only be flushed out by a powerful and wide-ranging royal commission. Don Stewart, one of the nation's most respected judicial figures, says Victoria Police and the Bracks Labor Government oppose a royal commission because they do not want the extent of corruption within the force made public. "They know that it would reveal what they don't want revealed," says the former Supreme Court judge and founding head of Australia's first national crime agency. Dismissing arguments that dirty police are already being driven out of the force through the courts, he says the recent convictions of senior Victorian officers on corruption charges are "the tip of the iceberg". "The arrest of some corrupt police only proves that corruption is deep-seated and continuing," Mr Stewart says in a book to be published in March.

CANBERRA!
http://www.canberratimes.com.a...
A long history of police corruption. In 1990 the AFP officer Michael Anthony Wallace was convicted of stealing $20 million worth of drugs and cash exhibits. In 1995 Standen's colleague, Alan Taciak, rolled over in the NSW Police royal commission and alleged 78 AFP officers - 15 per cent of the force - were corrupt. Taciak's allegations sparked the Harrison inquiry in 1996. Its final report, which is understood to have alleged widespread corruption in the AFP, has also not been released. The head of the inquiry, Ian Harrison, now a Supreme Court judge, said many agents escaped investigation by quitting the AFP. In 2001 Standen's former boss at the Sydney drugs unit, Cliff Foster, committed suicide while under investigation over corruption.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA!
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/...

DARWIN!
http://www.abc.net.au/local/st...
NT police oppose anti-corruption tests. The Northern Territory Police Association says it will oppose Federal Government plans to secretly test officers' integrity as part of new anti-corruption measures.

QUEENSLAND!
Queensland police misconduct files reveal corruption, favouritism, sexual misconduct

Australian cops are *dirty*

NSW!
Good cop, bad cop: how corrupt police work with drug dealers http://theconversation.com/goo...
Corruption is endemic within Australia's police agencies, and certainly within the Australian Federal Police and New South Wales Police, which between them cover the Sydney airports. It also embraces crime commissions and other institutions charged with responsibility for police governance on behalf of the public. http://www.expendable.tv/2011/...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
Pressure grows for NSW police inquiry
Posted 8 Oct 2012, 7:18pmMon 8 Oct 2012, 7:18pm
Up to 200 police officers may have been spied on with listening devices and telephone intercepts.

VICTORIA!
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
Victorian police corrupt: ex-judge The Australian
VICTORIA'S police force is riddled with "deep-seated and continuing corruption" that will only be flushed out by a powerful and wide-ranging royal commission. Don Stewart, one of the nation's most respected judicial figures, says Victoria Police and the Bracks Labor Government oppose a royal commission because they do not want the extent of corruption within the force made public. "They know that it would reveal what they don't want revealed," says the former Supreme Court judge and founding head of Australia's first national crime agency. Dismissing arguments that dirty police are already being driven out of the force through the courts, he says the recent convictions of senior Victorian officers on corruption charges are "the tip of the iceberg". "The arrest of some corrupt police only proves that corruption is deep-seated and continuing," Mr Stewart says in a book to be published in March.

CANBERRA!
http://www.canberratimes.com.a...
A long history of police corruption. In 1990 the AFP officer Michael Anthony Wallace was convicted of stealing $20 million worth of drugs and cash exhibits. In 1995 Standen's colleague, Alan Taciak, rolled over in the NSW Police royal commission and alleged 78 AFP officers - 15 per cent of the force - were corrupt. Taciak's allegations sparked the Harrison inquiry in 1996. Its final report, which is understood to have alleged widespread corruption in the AFP, has also not been released. The head of the inquiry, Ian Harrison, now a Supreme Court judge, said many agents escaped investigation by quitting the AFP. In 2001 Standen's former boss at the Sydney drugs unit, Cliff Foster, committed suicide while under investigation over corruption.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA!
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/...

DARWIN!
http://www.abc.net.au/local/st...
NT police oppose anti-corruption tests. The Northern Territory Police Association says it will oppose Federal Government plans to secretly test officers' integrity as part of new anti-corruption measures.

QUEENSLAND!
Queensland police misconduct files reveal corruption, favouritism, sexual misconduct

Australian cops are *dirty*

NSW!
Good cop, bad cop: how corrupt police work with drug dealers http://theconversation.com/goo...
Corruption is endemic within Australia's police agencies, and certainly within the Australian Federal Police and New South Wales Police, which between them cover the Sydney airports. It also embraces crime commissions and other institutions charged with responsibility for police governance on behalf of the public. http://www.expendable.tv/2011/...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
Pressure grows for NSW police inquiry
Posted 8 Oct 2012, 7:18pmMon 8 Oct 2012, 7:18pm
Up to 200 police officers may have been spied on with listening devices and telephone intercepts.

VICTORIA!
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
Victorian police corrupt: ex-judge The Australian
VICTORIA'S police force is riddled with "deep-seated and continuing corruption" that will only be flushed out by a powerful and wide-ranging royal commission. Don Stewart, one of the nation's most respected judicial figures, says Victoria Police and the Bracks Labor Government oppose a royal commission because they do not want the extent of corruption within the force made public. "They know that it would reveal what they don't want revealed," says the former Supreme Court judge and founding head of Australia's first national crime agency. Dismissing arguments that dirty police are already being driven out of the force through the courts, he says the recent convictions of senior Victorian officers on corruption charges are "the tip of the iceberg". "The arrest of some corrupt police only proves that corruption is deep-seated and continuing," Mr Stewart says in a book to be published in March.

CANBERRA!
http://www.canberratimes.com.a...
A long history of police corruption. In 1990 the AFP officer Michael Anthony Wallace was convicted of stealing $20 million worth of drugs and cash exhibits. In 1995 Standen's colleague, Alan Taciak, rolled over in the NSW Police royal commission and alleged 78 AFP officers - 15 per cent of the force - were corrupt. Taciak's allegations sparked the Harrison inquiry in 1996. Its final report, which is understood to have alleged widespread corruption in the AFP, has also not been released. The head of the inquiry, Ian Harrison, now a Supreme Court judge, said many agents escaped investigation by quitting the AFP. In 2001 Standen's former boss at the Sydney drugs unit, Cliff Foster, committed suicide while under investigation over corruption.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA!
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/...

DARWIN!
http://www.abc.net.au/local/st...
NT police oppose anti-corruption tests. The Northern Territory Police Association says it will oppose Federal Government plans to secretly test officers' integrity as part of new anti-corruption measures.

QUEENSLAND!
Queensland police misconduct files reveal corruption, favouritism, sexual misconduct

There was a recent interview on Australian ABC radio about the waste of money on a lot of clinical trials, due to experimenters being unable to enroll enough trial candidates to get a meaningful result.

Note the Show Transcript button. It's a fairly short read.

Godel_56 posting anonymously due to mod points.

Did anyone grab a copy of the hundreds of pages of original source documents of Crikey, before they were forced to pull them down?

Dude, I pointed you at a specific example. Here's the dashboard for the generation in France
That is not base load, that is the "load following" curve, ofc that is changing drastically. A picture explaining base laod: http://www.abc.net.au/science/...
Here is again a picture explaining what base load is: http://www.eike-klima-energie....
The blue part is base load.
This picture explains what base load is: http://www.allmystery.de/i/taf... it is the yellow and brown part (note the horizontal never changing line)
Something from Swizerland: http://www.win-swiss.ch/htm/st... the second last picture shows what base load is: it is everything up to the red line.

And now in english:
http://www.renew-reuse-recycle... The base load line is not visible, judging from the peak of roughly 50GW, base load is somewhere around 20GW - 25GW (Germany has 40% base load versus peak load relation, France has roughly 50% base load versus peak load relation)

OH A PERFECT PAGE You should pay me for trying to hammer this into your brain: http://www.geothermal-electric...
The "red" line is the base load line. Rather strange to have such a high base load, interesting.
I cite: In this graph, the base load is 120 megawatts, in the early hours of the morning. Demand does not fall below this base load at any time during the 24 hours.
Do you grasp it? Base load: the amount of power I always feed into the greed regardless of demand In germany actually around that time "demand is falling below" base load. I mentioned that to you in one of my first posts. The excess is mainly used to fill up our own pumped storages. So we create an artificial demand, if you want to say so, with the effect that our base load is a bit higher than it "could be".

Something you should have googled yourself instead of making an idiot of yourself: http://www.power-technology.co...
Care to read the text at the lowest dashed line? Or can you already guess what is written there?

A base load solar plant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Unfortunately no picture here: http://www.kcet.org/news/rewir...
But a laymen's explanation, I cite: As you can see, even when California is on "standby" setting, around 5:00 am or so, we still consume a considerable amount of power. That's the power consumption base load.

For the next wrong answers of yours, I demand my usually salary which is $100 per hour for correcting your mistakes. Or stay dumb ... that is free of course.

The guy used to work at the Coogee Bay Hotel?

If you haven't a clue what I'm talking about, read this.

Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Here’s what you need to know about these talking points and more.

Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past twenty-one days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. That is to be expected in a population of 1.8 million where the number of Hamas members is approximately 15,000. Israel does not deny that it killed those Palestinians using modern aerial technology and precise weaponry courtesy of the world’s only superpower. In fact, it does not even deny that they are civilians.

Israel’s propaganda machine, however, insists that these Palestinians wanted to die (“culture of martyrdom”), staged their own death (“telegenically dead”) or were the tragic victims of Hamas’s use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes (“human shielding”). In all instances, the military power is blaming the victims for their own deaths, accusing them of devaluing life and attributing this disregard to cultural bankruptcy. In effect, Israel—along with uncritical mainstream media that unquestionably accept this discourse—dehumanizes Palestinians, deprives them even of their victimhood and legitimizes egregious human rights and legal violations.

This is not the first time. The gruesome images of decapitated children’s bodies and stolen innocence on Gaza’s shores are a dreadful repeat of Israel’s assault on Gaza in November 2012 and winter 2008–09. Not only are the military tactics the same but so too are the public relations efforts and the faulty legal arguments that underpin the attacks. Mainstream media news anchors are inexplicably accepting these arguments as fact.

Below I address five of Israel’s recurring talking points. I hope this proves useful to newsmakers.

1) Israel is exercising its right to self-defense.

As the occupying power of the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Territories more broadly, Israel has an obligation and a duty to protect the civilians under its occupation. It governs by military and law enforcement authority to maintain order, protect itself and protect the civilian population under its occupation. It cannot simultaneously occupy the territory, thus usurping the self-governing powers that would otherwise belong to Palestinians, and declare war upon them. These contradictory policies (occupying a land and then declaring war on it) make the Palestinian population doubly vulnerable.

The precarious and unstable conditions in the Gaza Strip from which Palestinians suffer are Israel’s responsibility. Israel argues that it can invoke the right to self-defense under international law as defined in Article 51 of the UN Charter. The International Court of Justice, however, rejected this faulty legal interpretation in its 2004 Advisory Opinion. The ICJ explained that an armed attack that would trigger Article 51 must be attributable to a sovereign state, but the armed attacks by Palestinians emerge from within Israel’s jurisdictional control. Israel

Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Here’s what you need to know about these talking points and more.

Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past twenty-one days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. That is to be expected in a population of 1.8 million where the number of Hamas members is approximately 15,000. Israel does not deny that it killed those Palestinians using modern aerial technology and precise weaponry courtesy of the world’s only superpower. In fact, it does not even deny that they are civilians.

Israel’s propaganda machine, however, insists that these Palestinians wanted to die (“culture of martyrdom”), staged their own death (“telegenically dead”) or were the tragic victims of Hamas’s use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes (“human shielding”). In all instances, the military power is blaming the victims for their own deaths, accusing them of devaluing life and attributing this disregard to cultural bankruptcy. In effect, Israel—along with uncritical mainstream media that unquestionably accept this discourse—dehumanizes Palestinians, deprives them even of their victimhood and legitimizes egregious human rights and legal violations.

This is not the first time. The gruesome images of decapitated children’s bodies and stolen innocence on Gaza’s shores are a dreadful repeat of Israel’s assault on Gaza in November 2012 and winter 2008–09. Not only are the military tactics the same but so too are the public relations efforts and the faulty legal arguments that underpin the attacks. Mainstream media news anchors are inexplicably accepting these arguments as fact.

Below I address five of Israel’s recurring talking points. I hope this proves useful to newsmakers.

1) Israel is exercising its right to self-defense.

As the occupying power of the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Territories more broadly, Israel has an obligation and a duty to protect the civilians under its occupation. It governs by military and law enforcement authority to maintain order, protect itself and protect the civilian population under its occupation. It cannot simultaneously occupy the territory, thus usurping the self-governing powers that would otherwise belong to Palestinians, and declare war upon them. These contradictory policies (occupying a land and then declaring war on it) make the Palestinian population doubly vulnerable.

The precarious and unstable conditions in the Gaza Strip from which Palestinians suffer are Israel’s responsibility. Israel argues that it can invoke the right to self-defense under international law as defined in Article 51 of the UN Charter. The International Court of Justice, however, rejected this faulty legal interpretation in its 2004 Advisory Opinion. The ICJ explained that an armed attack that would trigger Article 51 must be attributable to a sovereign state, but the armed attacks by Palestinians emerge from within Israel’s jurisdictional control. Israel does have the right to