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Intentionally suppressing puberty in a minor, who no matter how fashionable their view at the moment happens to be has NO FUCKING clue what they're doing or talking about.

How is that anything other than child abuse? Holy fucking hell, I weep for the future.

It is most definitely child abuse, and is criminally unnatural. And of course, it targets young males as it's victims. The trick was bombarding the male children with the idea that they are mentally a female, then start the drugs. REad the story - it's a hoot and a tragedy at the same time. An epidemic of screwed up children they tried to make transgender (including a freaking 4 year old)

https://www.dailytelegraph.com...

Kinda like a bunch of feminist Mengale's running about. Thank goodness Australia cancelled the evil "safe school" program. Insanity, and they deserve punishment.

Huh? What goal post did I move?

My position was and still is that a pool fence will not stop a determined child.

Will it stop some? Sure. Will it stop all? No.

Are they of value, yes. Should you trust your child is safe because you have a pool fence? Hell no.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com...

http://www.couriermail.com.au/...

I'm not sure what "knee jerk low information decision" I'm making? I'm being practical about what safety a pool fence provides. They are not magic bullets.

You seem to think I'm saying "Don't get a pool fence, they're useless", totally not.

I'm saying "Don't blindly trust that your pool fence will keep your kids out"

I guess if we can't convince women to go into the roles that some SJW wants we'll just have to force them. For the greater good of course. This is already being brought up as shown here: http://www.dailytelegraph.com....

DSP recipients can claim up to $782.20 a fortnight, while the Newstart allowance rate is up to $561.80 a fortnight for singles with children.
From this I would gather a UBI would be around $400/week per adult = $20,800 per year.
~82% of the ~23M population is >14 years old, and could therefore be construed as recipients of a UBI.
The annual requirement therefore is some ~$392B, so we're looking at a little more than doubling the welfare bill..

Our current government focuses on "shifting from entitlement to enterprise; from hand-out to hand-up" so a UBI is ideologically opposed to them.

I dunno if AC will check back or not - but in no particular order:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.reuters.com/
http://rt.com/
http://www.cbc.ca/
http://www.news.com.au/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com....
http://news.sky.com/
http://kurdishdailynews.org/
http://rt.com/
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.aljazeera.com/
http://www.china.org.cn/
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...
http://english.pravda.ru/
http://www.projectcensored.org...
http://www.arabtimesonline.com...

I think I've covered the best - be aware, some national sites are heavy into propaganda. Pravda very much so, RT somewhat less so.

Depending on your own interests - you might type in some country in a Google search, and add "times" or "post" or "news". From time to time, I do something like that - the earthquake in Tibet for instance. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=pale... That search offered up a number of sites, but I didn't add any of them to my feeds. Note that many of the hits are very politicized, but you can still find Tibetan news sources among them.

Have fun!

Really? Let me introduce you to the United Kingdom. It is a fairly small country, but it does have its charms.

I think it would be fairer to say that what Assange is alleged to have done would not qualify as rape in any first world country except Sweden

Your story is dated 2011, and I regret to inform you that the facts seem to have changed under your feet. There have been three court cases in the UK, going all the way to the UK Supreme Court, that have upheld the charges against him as rape even in the UK.

I also think it is a bit of a mistake to rely solely upon the views of Assange's barristers/lawyers even if the story was up to date.

Legal myths about the Assange extradition

Whenever the Julian Assange extradition comes up in the news, many of his supporters make various confident assertions about legal aspects of the case.

Some Assange supporters will maintain these contentions regardless of the law and the evidence – they are like “zombie facts” which stagger on even when shot down; but for anyone genuinely interested in getting at the truth, this quick post sets out five common misconceptions and some links to the relevant commentary and material. It complements a similar post on the leading Blog That Peter Wrote.

One: “The allegation of rape would not be rape under English law”

This is flatly untrue. The Assange legal team argued this twice before English courts, and twice the English courts ruled clearly that the allegation would also constitute rape under English law.

(See my post at Jack of Kent for further detail on this.)

Those two English court decisions have been backed by the UK Supreme Court. It's rape he is accused of, even if it was in the UK.

Anyways, what Assange did qualifies as rape in every country I know of.

Really? Let me introduce you to the United Kingdom. It is a fairly small country, but it does have its charms.

I think it would be fairer to say that what Assange is alleged to have done would not qualify as rape in any first world country except Sweden

if you sell photos of people, then you get a model release form.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com....

Off you go. Be careful, they steal pens.

I wouldn't call the Daily Telegraph a tabloid.

Of course not. It's my go to source for the REAL truth on bigfoot, aliens, and the Loch Ness monster.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Hikers-capture-bigfoot-on-film

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.... - have-aliens-hijacked-voyager-2-spacecraft

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Mystery-alien-like-creature-seen-in-Bristol-harbour

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Has-Apple-maps-found-the-Loch-Ness-Monster

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Has-the-Loch-Ness-monster-finally-been-caught-on-camera

There has been a number of Aussie counterfeit rackets arrested. Usually they make $50 and $20 notes. This was just the first story I pulled from the web. http://www.dailytelegraph.com....

How is the cost of living?

Very high, isn't it. Think these things may have something to do with each other?

http://www.mercer.com/press-releases/cost-of-living-rankings

http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/cost-of-living-in-australia-is-among-the-highest-in-the-world/story-fni0cx12-1226677641006

Why, you'd almost think that high minimum wage gets absorbed by how expensive everything has become - even domestically-sourced things like rent or meat.

Prosperity comes from innovation, entrepreneurs, and hard work. And, a government/marketplace friendly to them. Never from an enforced cost structure. See also: Germany, 1950 - 1991.

As with Australia, even if you do get to the police, get an inquiry, someone is ready to destroy documents or limit the terms of a final report to be almost like a satire.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/nsw-police-admit-senior-officer-shredded-documents-relating-to-child-sex-abuse/story-fni0cx12-1226667321160

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/the-worlds-strangest-laws/story-e6frev20-1111114208087

http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/australia

http://www.weekendnotes.com/the-3-best-illegal-things-to-do-in-melbourne/

Kids need to do homework (AKA practice) just like any other endeavor.

Eww, talk about dragging out that old mule of an argument. No offense, but you sound like a grumpy curmudgeon.

In other news, research upon research shows that homework is useless until very late in school. Research also suggests that less is more when it comes to learning -- at the very least in dogs, but I wouldn't be surprised the slightest bit, considering how homeschooled children tend to fare, that it also applies to humans.

Oh, and countries where people work less tend to fare higher on a variety of happiness and life quality scales unless I'm mistaking. (I'll let you google citations for that one, as homework, since I worked too much for you already; plus, you'll need to some try to find contrarian results to solve all that cognitive dissonance that's rearing it's ugly head, especially to dislocate the dissonance due to that you might learn something by doing homework after all.)

I estimate that maybe 80% of my adult patients born after 1975 are on some form of antidepressant drug.

Based on what? Your anecdotal evidence? You must be living in a very screwed up area. Plus, what kind of stat is that? 80% of your patients take anti-depressant drugs? Who knew?

The culprit, btw, may just as well have more to do with things such as a fucked up HR and management processes (which started in the 1960s and went full-on mental in the 1980s, what a coincidence), employee 360 evaluations, putting people in dead-end positions to pressure them out of their jobs, wage stagnation, and whatever increases stress levels of individuals and groups in the workplace.

I honestly have no fucking clue of the precise figure or reason. The only thing I do know, based on my own anecdotal evidence, and having been self-employed my whole work life, is that the least I can say is that I do not miss any of what little I experienced it while an intern in my early adulthood. It was all shite..

The next step is to get prescribed an antidepressant to help their bruised self-esteem cope with the fact that they never learned anything in school and are likely to remain unemployable for the rest of their lives.

Personally, I'm a lot less worried than you seem to be. Might you need a shrink to look into your anxiety issues, so he can prescribe you some anti-depressants?

Whether you do or not, and in case you need a yardstick for human adaptability, it literally took a year during WW2 for Europeans (the great majority of which were working in non-farm sectors at the war's onset) to relearn how to -- and actually -- grow potatoe in the face of food rationing. Almost everyone with anything resembling a garden grew some by 1941.

Not to mention, if they're all on anti-depressants and unemployed, someone has to pay for it. At some point the guy who pays will say "Stop!" and said anti-depressants -- the proverbial "be happy with your shit life" drugs if there are any -- will no longer be available to them. What happens then?

As in before, I can only offer you my best guess: when people have nothing to lose, they lose it. A quote from Jean Meslier in a similar context in case you need a colorful perspective: "May all the leading elite and noblemen get hanged and strangled with the bowels of clergymen."

Oh man, that is too hilarious. Reminds me of that guy on the news who got arrested for having nasty gas near a police officer, charged him with assault. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/drunk-man-jose-cruz-charged-for-assault-farts-on-policeman/story-e6frev20-1111117581109

See recent news about the black market for guns, shootings on the rise, and now guns being stolen from houses and farmers, possibly using the Gun Registry information.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-01/scores-of-guns-stolen-from-nsw-homes/4046140
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-news/fears-that-nsw-is-under-the-gun/story-fn7y9brv-1226377827009
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/cops-fear-gun-showdown/story-e6freoof-1226333751536

So, no, it doesn't work. All it means is that the only people walking around the streets armed are the criminals.

And another in West Australia. The local street kids around here knew them. Apparently the girls where pretty fucked up puppies.

"Sick lesbian vampire killers"

they takin our jaaabs

Queue jumping rapists more like it

What other culture besides these muslims condone rape and force rape victims to marry their rapist?

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/002-rape_adultery.htm

http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/travel/news/queensland-woman-tells-of-her-jail-hell-in-united-arab-emirates/story-e6freqwo-1226028684306&date=2011-03-27

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/1856/bangladesh-sharia-brutality-raped-girl

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/04/france.jonhenley1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7708169.stm

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/sharia-law-applied-secretly-in-sydney/story-e6freuzi-1226057808947

and, of course, this is where it is all going to end up:
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/01/05/australia-islamic-leader-wants-to-implement-sharia-law-in-heavily-muslim-suburb/

Do you want to have these people in your country?

No, seriously. Australia takes all sorts of refugees from all over the world. Having thousands of muslims forcing their way in is not good.

Someone knocks at your door. Your daughter opens it. A muslim man bashes his way in and rapes your daughter. Your daughter is now forced to marry this rapist or face death by stoning. How do you feel about this?
Just don't say anything to your local cleric or you will stand in the pit with your daughter as they stone her to death.

If you think this is complete horse shit then you either need to read more about the topic, or go live in a muslim country for a while

Australia has taken in the English, the Italians, the Greeks, and a whole host of other countries. So far as I can see they are friendly and welcoming to just about anyone. But. Can you blame them for not wanting a bunch of self admitted rapists?

is this more your reading level? http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/global-warming-nonsense-gets-a-true-cold-shoulder/story-e6frezz0-1226258756363

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/plane-crashes-in-front-of-grandstands-at-air-race-in-reno-injuring-dozens/story-e6freuy9-1226139677572

out of the head one quite recent example (okay, I had to google a link...): Michael Anti/Zhao Jing

Comments in TFA link to this http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/carbon-death-threats-go-cold/story-e6freuzr-1226071996499 article, that suggest there were two instances of threats five years ago. Why does it seem any and all articles with 'environmnet' in the title instantly get dragged into the mud? Be they pro or against.

If a random blogger is going to submission spam slashdot with all of his two paragraph blogs plagiarizing news articles, the least he could do is actually LINK to some genuinely useful coverage of the story on a reputable sites...

• www.heraldsun.com.au
• www.dailytelegraph.com.au
• au.news.yahoo.com/
• www.torontosun.com
• www.nydailynews.com

It's very difficult to celebrate from the grave

Too bad a call for action is illegal, otherwise I would say the time for talk is over.

Care to provide a link to this post? I've just looked through the entire comment stream, and all I can find is this review: New iPhone 4..., which I have already seen and read.

>the Anandtech reviews certainly seemed to back up Apple's claims

Yes, they did, and so did these guys in Australia.

Speaking from my own anecdotal experience, I have a spot in my house, right in front of my fridge, where all of my previous phones (iPhone 3GS, original iPhone, and two Sony-Ericsson phones before that) would always drop the call if I walked into it. The iPhone 4G has no problem with it.

-jcr

You know what happens when we lie about our business activities? We get them taken away.

If the Feds are going to lie to the American Public about fundamental, important tennants of their new airport security theater, then we should take their toys away. "I'm sorry, you needed what? You should have thought about that before you lied about it."

Of course the naked photos will never leak. Wait, that's first thing that happened. Well, the public seems comfortable with the idea. Wait, even DUBAI banned them as intrusive.

The transplant thing has been observed, but so far I think it's only anecdotal evidence (maybe a bunch of people made stuff up, but so far I'll accept the reports on face value). Not aware of big research going on about it.

But I won't be surprised if scientists finally find out that your organs (or transplanted organs) can influence what sort of foods/drinks you'd want to consume[1], or even who you want to mate with. It does make some sense from an evolutionary advantage point of view.

[1] Like fried chicken and beer: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1096219000000135

And if your entire immune system can change after a liver transplant, it means you're not just getting a liver - it's not quite so "neat and clean" as that.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/teen-changes-immune-system/story-e6frf00r-1111115390103

So if the donor's stem cells manage to leak out and help form neurons in the recipient's brain or "stomach brain"[2], why shouldn't there be changes?

[2] The Enteric Nervous System:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199905/our-second-brain-the-stomach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system

Who is the boss? From the point of view of the ENS, the "central nervous system" (aka brain/CNS) might just be a means to keeping the ENS satisfied.

ENS to CNS: "Hey CNS go eat a double cheese burger!".
CNS: "Hmm, I feel like eating a double cheese burger, lets do a lot of complicated stuff like driving, walking etc so that I can eat that".

Of course the CNS could say, "Must resist, have to stick to diet".

• The Sydney Morning Herald.
  
• The Daily Telegraph
  
• The Courier Mail.
  
• The Canberra Times.