I personally read it as some gun owners and anti-abortionists - which I'm sure you can agree is true. You have examples like pro-lifers killing doctors who perform abortions and the NRA holding rallies in Columbine the day after the massacre. In the latter case it's their right to do so, but its a pretty dick move so soon after the tragedy.
I've got a better way to deliver this digital album.
1. Store your songs on digital optical media. 2. Bundle your optical media along with lyrics, liner notes and artwork in a flimsy plastic case. 3. Send these packages out to the shops 4. ????? 5. Profit!
Unfortunately the record companies don't know what step 4. is.
Australia is a good place for the worker in theory and in regulation. Unfortunately the reality for many is somewhat different. Yes we get 20 days of PAID annual leave, and 10 days of paid sick leave per year and this is the legal minimum.
Unfortunately American business culture seems to be gaining ground here, so we have low rates of people actually using their annual leave and increasing amounts of unpaid overtime. Australia usually slots in just behind the USA and Japan in those "average hours worked" surveys.
I take it you are ignoring all the one liner posts making some pithy comment about the "sky fairy", or the posts comparing religious belief to serious mental illnesses. These sorts of posts are frequently modded up to +5 insightful, when they offer nothing constructive to any conversation, and are quite frequently off topic. Not to mention trolling/flamebait to religious people - I mean come on, how can you post something that insulting and not expect an angry response?
Not sure if its law or if it's just done by convention, but in Australia the Australian flag has to be flown on either the leftmost pole or in the middle and higher than the other flags when you have a row of flags. The man who climbed the flagpole was right to be annoyed, but I'm not sure that he needed to take matters into his own hands like that. I'm also not sure how newsworthy such a report is.
As for the GP's comments about bias in the media, yes some bias is inevitable because the reporters are human, however shouldn't the goal of all newspapers be to report the news objectively? I don't want the paper owners spreading their political agenda in every column. I guess that's why I don't read News Corp's "The Australian". At least in Sydney's other broadsheet "The Sydney Morning Herald" the different reporters have different political biases which come across in their writing. They aren't all forced to parrot Murdoch's libertarian ideals.
The European governments, particularly France and Germany thought Saddam didn't have WMDs. Or did you forget all that rhetoric about "Old Europe" and "Freedom Fries" spewed out by Bush and co when they didn't co-operate?
In the UK there was a huge scandal after it was revealed that their intelligence reports that were used as the justification for their involvement in Iraq were "Sexed up". There was no evidence of WMDs and any mention of WMDs in the reports were our of date or doubtful intelligence that had been passed off as fact.
Too bad you folks don't enjoy the 2nd amendment, like we do in the USA. The elderly can protect themselves here in The States.
And what happens if they pull a gun on someone? Either the delinquent pulls a gun too and exercises his constitutional rights or the elderly person fires and ends up in jail for murder or manslaughter.
First your second, now your fourth... when are you guys going to adopt a constitution over there? - seems like you're losing your "amendments" (analog to USA anyway) one by one...
Good One! The UK doesn't have a constitution. Ha Ha Ha!
And at no time in history have the groups with guns used them to have power over other people. Ever.
I suggest you look at what has happened in any number of African and South American countries where exactly what you describe happened. The people got weapons and overthrew the totalitarians only to set up themselves as the new dictators when the old were gone.
How on earth did this get modded up? Shipping arms and ammo instead of food? The problem with shipping food and medicine is the army and dictators confiscate it all and distribute it as they see fit. Who do you think will get the weapons if we replace food shipments with guns? (HINT: It's not the starving people).
Grunt: Sir, the radars are picking up incoming Russian nukes. We've only got 2 minutes to act!
Commander: This is the moment we've been training for. Commence launch sequence.
[The commander and another officer turn keys and the commander presses the red button. On the screen the following appears:]
Hi. It looks like you're trying to launch an ICBM. Would you like to:
Launch a test missile.
Participate in M.A.D. [click here to learn more]
Remove Clippy and continue working (Note this will detonate your nukes without launching them). It's the only way known to permanently remove Clippy.
Anyway. Anonymous snipes backed by "emotion" of wanting to "save the people" is all you can expect from the left. When confronted with logic or even a touch of rational debate, lefties put on their super hero masks and start talking about "the value of life".
Another group of people wanted to do whats best for the people too. They made gulags and had great leaps forward for the progress of man kind!
Comparing environmentalists or the left* to Stalin. You just Godwinsky'd yourself.
* There is no one position representative of all people on the left of politics. The same is true for the right. For example the left includes both environmentalists and coal mining unions.
You don't personally play the race card, and that's to be commended. However there are many that would play the race card - for example look at the Israeli government's response to recent international condemnation of them creating new settlements in the west bank.
Why is parent currently modded funny? Obama is half black and half white. If anything its more impressive that he's president considering the mixed races would have meant that both blacks and whites would have persecuted him back in the day.
Name one global warming activist whom does not think that the solution to the problem is to enact strict world wide government control on first world economies. Name one global warming activist that thinks that the best way to reduce CO2 emissions would be to encourage China, India, and other developing nations to adopt freedom and capitalism, so that their economies can progress as quickly as possible into the green tech era.
Both of your ideas for tackling climate change are political. Creating government regulation is political. Trying to change overseas governments is also political.
I'm not sure where to begin on the following inaccuracies in your post: India and China are both capitalist countries, India is the world's largest democracy so they have freedom covered, both economies were growing at huge rates before the financial crisis and will pick up again after the downturn. Also the west hasn't exactly reached the green tech era and won't while governments continue to subsidize coal and oil.
Both you and Project Gutenburg are correct. As part of a free trade agreement, Australian copyright was brought into line with the American laws. However it doesn't apply to works already in the public domain in Australia.
From Project Gutenburg:
Changes to Australian Copyright Law
As a result of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, certain provisions realting to copyright law in Australia have changed. Full details can be obtained from the Australian Copyright Council, particularly from their Information Sheets.
Information Sheet G85 states:
"Duration of copyright generally. The period of protection for most material that was still protected by copyright when the amendments came into effect has been extended. In general, material that was previously protected for the life of the creator plus 50 years is now protected for life plus 70 years, and material that was previously protected for 50 years from first publication is protected for 70 years from the end of the year of first publication.
"No revival of copyright under the AUSFTA amendments. The extended periods of protection only apply to material that was still protected by copyright on 1 January 2005, or created on or after that date. There has been no revival of copyright in material which was in the public domain by that date."
This means that, with regard to books, all material in the public domain as at midnight on 31 December 2004 will remain in the public domain. For example, Miles Franklin died in 1954. Her book My Brilliant Career entered the public domain at midnight on 31 December 2004. It remains in the public domain. Works published by authors who died in or after 1955 will now remain in copyright until midnight on 31 December 2025 at the earliest.
He got in on preferences from Liberal and Labour. The threshold for a senate seat is 16% of the vote and I believe he had about 1% of the primary vote with the other 15% coming from preferences. The senate voting is too confusing. If you ask me preferential voting should be scrapped and you just get one vote for whatever party/candidate you like.
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I personally read it as some gun owners and anti-abortionists - which I'm sure you can agree is true. You have examples like pro-lifers killing doctors who perform abortions and the NRA holding rallies in Columbine the day after the massacre. In the latter case it's their right to do so, but its a pretty dick move so soon after the tragedy.
I've got a better way to deliver this digital album.
1. Store your songs on digital optical media.
2. Bundle your optical media along with lyrics, liner notes and artwork in a flimsy plastic case.
3. Send these packages out to the shops
4. ?????
5. Profit!
Unfortunately the record companies don't know what step 4. is.
I don't want a kitten on my lap. Do you know the sorts of people that keep kittens on their laps? Doctor Evil - that's who!
Australia is a good place for the worker in theory and in regulation. Unfortunately the reality for many is somewhat different. Yes we get 20 days of PAID annual leave, and 10 days of paid sick leave per year and this is the legal minimum.
Unfortunately American business culture seems to be gaining ground here, so we have low rates of people actually using their annual leave and increasing amounts of unpaid overtime. Australia usually slots in just behind the USA and Japan in those "average hours worked" surveys.
The US healthcare system best in the world? Only if you have shares in health insurers or big pharma.
I take it you are ignoring all the one liner posts making some pithy comment about the "sky fairy", or the posts comparing religious belief to serious mental illnesses. These sorts of posts are frequently modded up to +5 insightful, when they offer nothing constructive to any conversation, and are quite frequently off topic. Not to mention trolling/flamebait to religious people - I mean come on, how can you post something that insulting and not expect an angry response?
Not sure if its law or if it's just done by convention, but in Australia the Australian flag has to be flown on either the leftmost pole or in the middle and higher than the other flags when you have a row of flags. The man who climbed the flagpole was right to be annoyed, but I'm not sure that he needed to take matters into his own hands like that. I'm also not sure how newsworthy such a report is.
As for the GP's comments about bias in the media, yes some bias is inevitable because the reporters are human, however shouldn't the goal of all newspapers be to report the news objectively? I don't want the paper owners spreading their political agenda in every column. I guess that's why I don't read News Corp's "The Australian". At least in Sydney's other broadsheet "The Sydney Morning Herald" the different reporters have different political biases which come across in their writing. They aren't all forced to parrot Murdoch's libertarian ideals.
Bullshit!
The European governments, particularly France and Germany thought Saddam didn't have WMDs. Or did you forget all that rhetoric about "Old Europe" and "Freedom Fries" spewed out by Bush and co when they didn't co-operate?
In the UK there was a huge scandal after it was revealed that their intelligence reports that were used as the justification for their involvement in Iraq were "Sexed up". There was no evidence of WMDs and any mention of WMDs in the reports were our of date or doubtful intelligence that had been passed off as fact.
See, It's easy to come up with economic or terrorism justifications.
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And what happens if they pull a gun on someone? Either the delinquent pulls a gun too and exercises his constitutional rights or the elderly person fires and ends up in jail for murder or manslaughter.
Good One! The UK doesn't have a constitution. Ha Ha Ha!
And at no time in history have the groups with guns used them to have power over other people. Ever.
I suggest you look at what has happened in any number of African and South American countries where exactly what you describe happened. The people got weapons and overthrew the totalitarians only to set up themselves as the new dictators when the old were gone.
How on earth did this get modded up? Shipping arms and ammo instead of food? The problem with shipping food and medicine is the army and dictators confiscate it all and distribute it as they see fit. Who do you think will get the weapons if we replace food shipments with guns? (HINT: It's not the starving people).
What's wrong with the state just taking a loan? Why all the complexity with selling the buildings and buying them back?
Grunt: Sir, the radars are picking up incoming Russian nukes. We've only got 2 minutes to act!
Commander: This is the moment we've been training for. Commence launch sequence.
[The commander and another officer turn keys and the commander presses the red button. On the screen the following appears:]
Hi. It looks like you're trying to launch an ICBM. Would you like to:
You were doing great until this:
Comparing environmentalists or the left* to Stalin. You just Godwinsky'd yourself.
* There is no one position representative of all people on the left of politics. The same is true for the right. For example the left includes both environmentalists and coal mining unions.
You don't personally play the race card, and that's to be commended. However there are many that would play the race card - for example look at the Israeli government's response to recent international condemnation of them creating new settlements in the west bank.
Why is parent currently modded funny? Obama is half black and half white. If anything its more impressive that he's president considering the mixed races would have meant that both blacks and whites would have persecuted him back in the day.
Both of your ideas for tackling climate change are political. Creating government regulation is political. Trying to change overseas governments is also political.
I'm not sure where to begin on the following inaccuracies in your post: India and China are both capitalist countries, India is the world's largest democracy so they have freedom covered, both economies were growing at huge rates before the financial crisis and will pick up again after the downturn. Also the west hasn't exactly reached the green tech era and won't while governments continue to subsidize coal and oil.
Please give up the China and India blaming. The USA is just as culpable. If you switch it to per capita emissions China and India come nowhere close to the USA.
Both you and Project Gutenburg are correct. As part of a free trade agreement, Australian copyright was brought into line with the American laws. However it doesn't apply to works already in the public domain in Australia.
From Project Gutenburg:
Yes. Would you want your workers operating at 60% or 80% of a work week?
Uh, what about X and Y chromosomes?
VB.NET is a horrible language. It is exactly the same as C# semantically, however the syntax is ugly.
He got in on preferences from Liberal and Labour. The threshold for a senate seat is 16% of the vote and I believe he had about 1% of the primary vote with the other 15% coming from preferences. The senate voting is too confusing. If you ask me preferential voting should be scrapped and you just get one vote for whatever party/candidate you like.