1. The owners of stephenconroy.com.au have a registered business name in Australia called Stephenconroy. Therefore they're allowed to register the.com.au site. 2. I sincerely doubt there's any trademark infringement. Have you got a registered trademark for your name? 3. The Minister Stephen Conroy is a person so isn't entitled to a.com.au domain (com means commercial). 4. Stephen Conroy could make use of plenty of other sites, e.g. his political party's site or something in the more official sounding.gov.au TLD. He isn't exactly prevented from expressing his views on the web by not getting that one particular domain name.
It's blood flow FROM the brains that gets shut off. It would die if you shut off blood flow TO it. So us men can think just fine. We just happen to have our thinking highly focused on one thing.
I disagree with the people rubbishing antibiotics too. Antibiotics are a suitable treatment for certain illnesses.
On the topic of MRSA, the relevant cause/effect is cleanliness of hospitals. I disagree with your assertion that hospitals are generally clean. The scientific evidence shows that cleanliness will slip if it isn't encouraged or reinforced repeatedly. In Australia they did a study of doctors' hand-washing habits both before and after an advertising campaign to get them to wash their hands more. I was appalled at how few doctors wash their hands before examining every patient. The study showed that during the hand-washing campaign the rate of doctors washing before every patient went from about 40% to 66%, and the infection rate of MRSA dropped dramatically while the campaign was in effect.
Add to the problem of doctors and nurses not washing their hands often/thoroughly enough, the fact that outsourced cleaners in hospitals not cleaning to medical standards and that's how MRSA spreads. Other posts already talked about cleaners not being trained adequately for working in a hospital environment, so I won't discuss it here.
Why would the greens do everything on day 1? No political party ever works like that. I'm sure there would be compromises to some of their policy once they got in, but it would be a big improvement for the environment compared to Libs or Labor.
Neither of the major parties have the balls to tackle carbon emissions. The Liberals get donations and support from big business (read: oil and coal). Labor's donations and support comes from the unions (read: miners, loggers). The safe political option for both the major parties is to keep the status quo. The one time Labor promised to do something for the environment - Latham promising to end logging of old growth forests in Tasmania - the Liberals won some of the safest Labor seats in the country thanks to the forestry union members all switching their vote.
I was going to post the counter example of http://www.nswmining.com.au/ a mining industry marketing site, and http://www.miningnsw.com.au/ a parody site made by a green group. I was going to describe how satire is alive and well on the net in Australia. It turns out that satire is in fact dead because the parody site was taken down a couple of years ago thanks to a copyright notice from the NSW Minerals council.
Great post. Your two advantages of Cheques aren't really advantages of cheques. For both examples you could just use cash. Some other solutions to your causal gift in Australia are store gift cards or prepaid visa cards. You buy it and it comes loaded up with $X. You can usually specify the amount. Some shopping centres also let you purchase gift cards that can be used at any store in the centre. To make a purchase you just swipe it through like a normal EFT card.
The USA doesn't need to point a gun to the head of state they're negotiating with. The pen is mightier than the sword. The USA threatens to withhold the pen "We won't sign [lucrative trade treaty] with you unless you also sign [civil liberties encroaching laws]".
A student threatens to commit an act of violence in a specific class on school property and you suggest the school just ignores it? I think the response in this case was entirely reasonable and not an overreaction. Imagine the outrage if no action was taken by the school and she did carry out her threat.
Conroy is a minister in cabinet, and the communications portfolio he has is one of the higher profile ones. If he's pushing for net censorship it has the full backing* of the government.
The Greens are happy for people to see nature. I've never heard them suggest otherwise. I would, however, suggest that there is a difference between seeing nature and shooting it.
So how do the Greens or the independents get elected then? It must be doable, otherwise they wouldn't be there.
In the house of representatives they don't get elected, as a general rule. The only minor party which consistently get lower house seats are the Nationals but they only run in rural electorates and campaign on rural issues. They also have a permanent coalition with the Liberal party and there usually aren't any Liberals running in the same electorates as Nationals candidates.
The minor parties and independents only get a handful of Senate seats. Each state elects six senators at each election. Again preferences are counted, but because the whole state is counted in the one pool it's easier for them to get over the line.
Secondly, you don't have to number all the boxes. you have a choice of indicating just the one candidate or numbering your preferences.
At federal elections you do need to number all the boxes for the House of Reps. Some states let you just vote 1 for your candidate. For the Senate you can number all boxes (yuck) or just put a 1 in your chosen party/independent's box. If you do that, you're still preferentially voting, you're just choosing to use the preference order that party has nominated.
The recording I've got of the 1812 is really soft at the start and in some of the middle section. I find I really need to crank it up just to hear anything in these passages. Which means by the cannons going off are deafening - which I guess is appropriate:).
I'm sure it some cases the they're/their/there is a typo. I know I tend to think how the word sounds so sometimes use the wrong one. However a quick scan is enough for me to spot the typo and fix it.
Then there are some people whose confusion of they're/their/there is quite understandable given the lack of intelligence on display in the rest of their post.
What is a "biometric visual scan of their face"? A photograph?
Every country does that. It's called an ID card. As far as fingerprints, I've had to submit my fingerprints like 10 times for various services, clearances, not to mention immigration documents.
Civilized nations don't do that. My country, Australia has no national ID card. Photo IDs here are either passports or drivers licenses. Passports are national but you only have to show them if traveling overseas. Drivers licenses are issued by each state and there are laws preventing government agencies etc from sharing ID databases.
As for fingerprints I've only had to give them once - in the so called Land of the Free. My flight to Canada touched down in Hawaii to re-fuel and I was forced to go through security theatre TSA screening procedures despite the fact I was in transit the entire time and couldn't have left the airport legally (and my absence on the flight out certainly wouldn't have gone unnoticed).
Bad analogy. The complaint about bottled water is that the plastic bottles (75% aren't recycled) and the environmental cost of trucking the bottles all over the country are immoral. No one is complaining about drinking water.
I'm against bottled water so I make sure I bring a reusable bottle filled with tap water from home with me. I fail to see how this is hypocritical.
You're wrong about women in Australian politics. With the possible exception of Julie Bishop, none of them are stupid.
Federal
Julia Gillard - current deputy prime minister.
Julie Bishop - current deputy leader of the opposition.
There are plenty of women in cabinet at the moment. Ministers are listed on the government website.
State politics
In NSW the Premier and Deputy Premier are female. In QLD the Premier is female.
Non-elected leaders
The NSW Governor and the Australian Governor general are women. Both positions are not elected but are the figureheads of the state and the nation respectively and therefore the highest public office in each case.
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Musicians wish they could afford red bull & vodka. One of the most overpriced drinks ever (and most overrated IMO).
I thought it was a cool story and at least 3 people with mod points thought so too.
You're wrong, mate.
1. The owners of stephenconroy.com.au have a registered business name in Australia called Stephenconroy. Therefore they're allowed to register the .com.au site. .com.au domain (com means commercial). .gov.au TLD. He isn't exactly prevented from expressing his views on the web by not getting that one particular domain name.
2. I sincerely doubt there's any trademark infringement. Have you got a registered trademark for your name?
3. The Minister Stephen Conroy is a person so isn't entitled to a
4. Stephen Conroy could make use of plenty of other sites, e.g. his political party's site or something in the more official sounding
Which is why I modded the summary down as Stupid and suggest everyone else do the same.
It's blood flow FROM the brains that gets shut off. It would die if you shut off blood flow TO it. So us men can think just fine. We just happen to have our thinking highly focused on one thing.
People aren't pirating Gershwin because a lot of it is in the public domain.
I disagree with the people rubbishing antibiotics too. Antibiotics are a suitable treatment for certain illnesses.
On the topic of MRSA, the relevant cause/effect is cleanliness of hospitals. I disagree with your assertion that hospitals are generally clean. The scientific evidence shows that cleanliness will slip if it isn't encouraged or reinforced repeatedly. In Australia they did a study of doctors' hand-washing habits both before and after an advertising campaign to get them to wash their hands more. I was appalled at how few doctors wash their hands before examining every patient. The study showed that during the hand-washing campaign the rate of doctors washing before every patient went from about 40% to 66%, and the infection rate of MRSA dropped dramatically while the campaign was in effect.
Add to the problem of doctors and nurses not washing their hands often/thoroughly enough, the fact that outsourced cleaners in hospitals not cleaning to medical standards and that's how MRSA spreads. Other posts already talked about cleaners not being trained adequately for working in a hospital environment, so I won't discuss it here.
Where I'm from it's the opposite. Nerd is the badge of honour and Geek is the insult. Dorks are even lower down the tree than Geeks.
I'm a nerd and I wouldn't change it!
Why would the greens do everything on day 1? No political party ever works like that. I'm sure there would be compromises to some of their policy once they got in, but it would be a big improvement for the environment compared to Libs or Labor.
Neither of the major parties have the balls to tackle carbon emissions. The Liberals get donations and support from big business (read: oil and coal). Labor's donations and support comes from the unions (read: miners, loggers). The safe political option for both the major parties is to keep the status quo. The one time Labor promised to do something for the environment - Latham promising to end logging of old growth forests in Tasmania - the Liberals won some of the safest Labor seats in the country thanks to the forestry union members all switching their vote.
I was going to post the counter example of http://www.nswmining.com.au/ a mining industry marketing site, and http://www.miningnsw.com.au/ a parody site made by a green group. I was going to describe how satire is alive and well on the net in Australia. It turns out that satire is in fact dead because the parody site was taken down a couple of years ago thanks to a copyright notice from the NSW Minerals council.
More info: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NSW_SLAPPs/NSW_Minerals_Council_vs_Rising_Tide.
I've seen apps which look bad that have been written in a number of languages. This isn't a problem unique to java.
If I order a pizza and pay for it online, I'm pretty sure I'd be using SSL. I wouldn't even trust Security through la-la-la for ordering a pizza.
Great post. Your two advantages of Cheques aren't really advantages of cheques. For both examples you could just use cash. Some other solutions to your causal gift in Australia are store gift cards or prepaid visa cards. You buy it and it comes loaded up with $X. You can usually specify the amount. Some shopping centres also let you purchase gift cards that can be used at any store in the centre. To make a purchase you just swipe it through like a normal EFT card.
The USA doesn't need to point a gun to the head of state they're negotiating with. The pen is mightier than the sword. The USA threatens to withhold the pen "We won't sign [lucrative trade treaty] with you unless you also sign [civil liberties encroaching laws]".
If you die on /. you die in real life!
A student threatens to commit an act of violence in a specific class on school property and you suggest the school just ignores it? I think the response in this case was entirely reasonable and not an overreaction. Imagine the outrage if no action was taken by the school and she did carry out her threat.
Conroy is a minister in cabinet, and the communications portfolio he has is one of the higher profile ones. If he's pushing for net censorship it has the full backing* of the government.
* Full backing = 51% or more of the Labor caucus.
The Greens are happy for people to see nature. I've never heard them suggest otherwise. I would, however, suggest that there is a difference between seeing nature and shooting it.
In the house of representatives they don't get elected, as a general rule. The only minor party which consistently get lower house seats are the Nationals but they only run in rural electorates and campaign on rural issues. They also have a permanent coalition with the Liberal party and there usually aren't any Liberals running in the same electorates as Nationals candidates.
The minor parties and independents only get a handful of Senate seats. Each state elects six senators at each election. Again preferences are counted, but because the whole state is counted in the one pool it's easier for them to get over the line.
At federal elections you do need to number all the boxes for the House of Reps. Some states let you just vote 1 for your candidate. For the Senate you can number all boxes (yuck) or just put a 1 in your chosen party/independent's box. If you do that, you're still preferentially voting, you're just choosing to use the preference order that party has nominated.
The recording I've got of the 1812 is really soft at the start and in some of the middle section. I find I really need to crank it up just to hear anything in these passages. Which means by the cannons going off are deafening - which I guess is appropriate :).
I'm sure it some cases the they're/their/there is a typo. I know I tend to think how the word sounds so sometimes use the wrong one. However a quick scan is enough for me to spot the typo and fix it.
Then there are some people whose confusion of they're/their/there is quite understandable given the lack of intelligence on display in the rest of their post.
Civilized nations don't do that. My country, Australia has no national ID card. Photo IDs here are either passports or drivers licenses. Passports are national but you only have to show them if traveling overseas. Drivers licenses are issued by each state and there are laws preventing government agencies etc from sharing ID databases.
As for fingerprints I've only had to give them once - in the so called Land of the Free. My flight to Canada touched down in Hawaii to re-fuel and I was forced to go through security theatre TSA screening procedures despite the fact I was in transit the entire time and couldn't have left the airport legally (and my absence on the flight out certainly wouldn't have gone unnoticed).
Bad analogy. The complaint about bottled water is that the plastic bottles (75% aren't recycled) and the environmental cost of trucking the bottles all over the country are immoral. No one is complaining about drinking water.
I'm against bottled water so I make sure I bring a reusable bottle filled with tap water from home with me. I fail to see how this is hypocritical.
You're wrong about women in Australian politics. With the possible exception of Julie Bishop, none of them are stupid.
Federal
Julia Gillard - current deputy prime minister.
Julie Bishop - current deputy leader of the opposition.
There are plenty of women in cabinet at the moment. Ministers are listed on the government website.
State politics
In NSW the Premier and Deputy Premier are female. In QLD the Premier is female.
Non-elected leaders
The NSW Governor and the Australian Governor general are women. Both positions are not elected but are the figureheads of the state and the nation respectively and therefore the highest public office in each case.
You must be new here. On /. +1 Insightful is a synonym for "-1 methinks he doth protest too much".