The Australian democrats went the way of the dodo years ago. They were a sensible, centrist party which lived up to their slogan of "keeping the bastards honest" but they're time is over. Years of very public infighting ruined it for them. It's time to move on.
Your post is an example of what the media does and their role in the current "dumbing down" of scientific reporting. The GP post wasn't particularly long or complicated but you decided to take one sentence out of the context of it and report that sentence as the entire truth.
The same thing happens in scientific reporting. E.g. a newspaper article will say "red wine good for you" but the original report lists all these conditions which specify how much and how often it's good, how having too much is even worse than none at all and giving some exceptions where wine isn't good at all.
We use the metric system and yet the papers still feel the need to compare units to football fields etc. It's annoying having to convert back to proper units of measurement (although not as painful as imperial to metric conversions).
A better target would have been Constantine. He was the one who transformed Christianity from a persecuted sect into the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
Censorship of porn is censorship of women. Literally.
It really isn't. As another poster pointed out it never mentions birth control or abortion. What you could do is force schools to teach proper sexual education, but even that I have trouble arguing for from a feminist perspective. It's of obvious, scientifically proven benefit to both sexes.
I blame consumers for not being informed for Telstra being dominant in ADSL. For many non-technical people "bigpond" and broadband are synonymous. Even if you try to explain alternatives they just ignore you and go with Telstra anyway. Telstra do have a huge war-chest when it comes to advertising which helps their dominance, but other ISPs have print & billboard ads. Even a small amount of digging would show up how much better the other ISPs' offerings are (more broadband for less cost).
NBNCo buying the Telstra wholesale arm is a positive step for the NBN. They get existing fibre and in rural areas copper networks (in the case of copper the digging has already been done so you just have to lay the fibre alongside the copper wires). It would be a huge waste of effort digging a second set of trenches everywhere, which was the alternative until today.
Fibre everywhere gives everyone 100Mbps internet as opposed to what we have now which is 20Mbps in cities and much slower in regional areas.
movies with titty, explosions, titty, bad writing...
Compare that with European movies which have titty, drama, titty, good writing, more titty. You usually get to see the tits too as opposed to it just being implied in hollywood.
Many people will vote for the party that is "tough on crime" because they're worried about their kids and grandchildren. Including your hippies from the 60s. Either that or people think they're law abiding and they can't foresee abuses of police power affecting themself. Also in two party systems, who do you vote for when both parties have an auction to see who is "tougher on crime" before each election? Either way you end up giving more power to the police.
Actually Gunns are doing exactly that in Tasmania, Australia. And people think you're some fringe nutjob greenie if you point out the stupidity and waste of it.
Why not say the same thing about Christians, who are working from a book known to have been edited for selfish political reasons on numerous occasions?
Some good ideas for future products from Apple, but a touchscreen SLR? No thanks. I'm a hobbyist photographer and a touchscreen SLR would be a nightmare. The point of having physical buttons, knobs, dials etc. on an SLR is so you can operate the settings by feel while looking through the viewfinder. Touchscreens have no feedback, so to operate it you'd have to: lower your camera, look at the back, change the settings, raise it, oh it's still wrong, lower again...
I know this is slashdot, but I find it hard to believe you've never once walked on a dirt track. As for assessing conditions on the track you could use common sense that the woman in TFA lacked.
You are correct when you say that lack of empathy and other social ills of this generation have always been around. What has changed is that in the past behaviours such as greed and selfishness were considered moral failings. People were criticised for having poor character. Today such traits are celebrated.
For example take a look at the Seven Deadly Sins:
Greed
Anger
Pride
Lust
Gluttony
Sloth
Envy
About the only item on that list still considered a sin these days is gluttony - all the rhetoric about obesity epidemics. Even something as horrible as envy is considered to be a bit of fun e.g. Frenemies. By the way, envy shouldn't be confused with jealousy - envy is the attitude of "if I can't have it, you can't have it either".
It's a logical fallacy to make a generalisation out of one example. Just because this one charity did a bad job doesn't mean that all charities are bad. You can and should do your research before giving to charity because some of them do great work that's relevant to the needs of the local people. These organisations need and deserve your support.
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The Australian democrats went the way of the dodo years ago. They were a sensible, centrist party which lived up to their slogan of "keeping the bastards honest" but they're time is over. Years of very public infighting ruined it for them. It's time to move on.
That's what "+1 Insightful" is for.
Your post is an example of what the media does and their role in the current "dumbing down" of scientific reporting. The GP post wasn't particularly long or complicated but you decided to take one sentence out of the context of it and report that sentence as the entire truth.
The same thing happens in scientific reporting. E.g. a newspaper article will say "red wine good for you" but the original report lists all these conditions which specify how much and how often it's good, how having too much is even worse than none at all and giving some exceptions where wine isn't good at all.
We use the metric system and yet the papers still feel the need to compare units to football fields etc. It's annoying having to convert back to proper units of measurement (although not as painful as imperial to metric conversions).
A better target would have been Constantine. He was the one who transformed Christianity from a persecuted sect into the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
Doesn't even have to be the largest group, just the most powerful e.g. Apartheid.
Europeans drive on the right (with the exception of the UK).
It really isn't. As another poster pointed out it never mentions birth control or abortion. What you could do is force schools to teach proper sexual education, but even that I have trouble arguing for from a feminist perspective. It's of obvious, scientifically proven benefit to both sexes.
I wouldn't do any of those things in your list by choice. And I certainly wouldn't do them to fit in with other people.
Air-exchangers? Talk about over complicating things. Why not just open a few windows?
I blame consumers for not being informed for Telstra being dominant in ADSL. For many non-technical people "bigpond" and broadband are synonymous. Even if you try to explain alternatives they just ignore you and go with Telstra anyway. Telstra do have a huge war-chest when it comes to advertising which helps their dominance, but other ISPs have print & billboard ads. Even a small amount of digging would show up how much better the other ISPs' offerings are (more broadband for less cost).
NBNCo buying the Telstra wholesale arm is a positive step for the NBN. They get existing fibre and in rural areas copper networks (in the case of copper the digging has already been done so you just have to lay the fibre alongside the copper wires). It would be a huge waste of effort digging a second set of trenches everywhere, which was the alternative until today.
Fibre everywhere gives everyone 100Mbps internet as opposed to what we have now which is 20Mbps in cities and much slower in regional areas.
There's usually a picture of Crocodile Dundee's hat next to the Aussie articles.
I thought he was referring to this Oxford St. Full of gay bars.
Compare that with European movies which have titty, drama, titty, good writing, more titty. You usually get to see the tits too as opposed to it just being implied in hollywood.
Mod parent up.
SUVs were a fad, started by marketing departments. In fact it was 100% marketing that led to the suburban drivers buying them.
The Bible has its own citation system. It's called chapter and verse numbers. It works quite well.
Many people will vote for the party that is "tough on crime" because they're worried about their kids and grandchildren. Including your hippies from the 60s. Either that or people think they're law abiding and they can't foresee abuses of police power affecting themself. Also in two party systems, who do you vote for when both parties have an auction to see who is "tougher on crime" before each election? Either way you end up giving more power to the police.
Actually Gunns are doing exactly that in Tasmania, Australia. And people think you're some fringe nutjob greenie if you point out the stupidity and waste of it.
So what's it like having type 2 diabetes?
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Some good ideas for future products from Apple, but a touchscreen SLR? No thanks. I'm a hobbyist photographer and a touchscreen SLR would be a nightmare. The point of having physical buttons, knobs, dials etc. on an SLR is so you can operate the settings by feel while looking through the viewfinder. Touchscreens have no feedback, so to operate it you'd have to: lower your camera, look at the back, change the settings, raise it, oh it's still wrong, lower again...
I know this is slashdot, but I find it hard to believe you've never once walked on a dirt track. As for assessing conditions on the track you could use common sense that the woman in TFA lacked.
You are correct when you say that lack of empathy and other social ills of this generation have always been around. What has changed is that in the past behaviours such as greed and selfishness were considered moral failings. People were criticised for having poor character. Today such traits are celebrated.
For example take a look at the Seven Deadly Sins:
About the only item on that list still considered a sin these days is gluttony - all the rhetoric about obesity epidemics. Even something as horrible as envy is considered to be a bit of fun e.g. Frenemies. By the way, envy shouldn't be confused with jealousy - envy is the attitude of "if I can't have it, you can't have it either".
It's a logical fallacy to make a generalisation out of one example. Just because this one charity did a bad job doesn't mean that all charities are bad. You can and should do your research before giving to charity because some of them do great work that's relevant to the needs of the local people. These organisations need and deserve your support.
Why can't we have both? Why does it have to be an exclusive or?