You have to turn up. You can vote informally. You're in fact free to right "You can all go to hell" on your ballot paper.
Be careful Mr Gormley, Albert Langer went to prison for advocating voting outside the AEC's instructions on how to vote. He spent three weeks in jail for telling people an alternative, legal method of voting. But they know where you live, expect to be raided tonight and your equipment seized.
Unfortunatly the major parties have managed to literally fix the voting system into a position where they cannot lose.
The combination of compulsory voting (fines imposed if you dont) with a preferential system means that while you vote for a conservative party, if your candidate has no chance of winning, your vote is passed onto that parties next preference.
This is an extremely effective mechanism of freezing out any alternative that the two major parties both dislike enough to exchange preferences over. So while a voter may tick that Liberal box, the vote may end up counting towards the Labor count.
In many electorates, where one side's pollsters feel its not worth spending the money to put up a candidate, no candidate is put up. Independants generally lose their seat after a term, after whatever issue pushed them into parliment has faded from public memory.
In fact in Victoria we have three independants committing to voting with the government, which really bends the definition of independant past breaking point.
And as for the federal senate with its broken proportional representation, leading to situations where one religous nut, who got a fraction of the votes needed in a larger state can dictate tax and censorship issues to a government with the backbone of a limp squid....
There's a good reason most Australian's distrust politians, have more respect for lawyers, and expect more honesty for real estate agents. In the vote on the referendum, (lost mainly because of a scare campaign over "the politican's republic") we had government ministers on TV saying dont vote for this republic, it gives too much power to politicians (a lie), and I'm a politican, and you cant trust us.
Firstly, congratulations on the incredible job you've done with Kdevelop.
While there are a couple of external widget repositories for KDE, there seems to be no documentation or abstraction of many of the widgets used in the base installation and initially installed tools. Is this going to happen, or is KDE still too fast a moving target for application developers to make use of this code?
I'm left wondering if this is the equivalent of a Jesse Berst column deliberatly designed to provoke a high number of banner hits. I can only suggest to the slashdot editorial team that if they cannot write a well reasoned response to the majority feeling that JP has no place here, then the interview should be cancelled. If they can, perhaps the majority should be reading somewher else that doesn't cater to people like JP.
Slashdot Mirror
Be careful Mr Gormley, Albert Langer went to prison for advocating voting outside the AEC's instructions on how to vote. He spent three weeks in jail for telling people an alternative, legal method of voting. But they know where you live, expect to be raided tonight and your equipment seized.
Unfortunatly the major parties have managed to literally fix the voting system into a position where they cannot lose.
The combination of compulsory voting (fines imposed if you dont) with a preferential system means that while you vote for a conservative party, if your candidate has no chance of winning, your vote is passed onto that parties next preference.
This is an extremely effective mechanism of freezing out any alternative that the two major parties both dislike enough to exchange preferences over. So while a voter may tick that Liberal box, the vote may end up counting towards the Labor count.
In many electorates, where one side's pollsters feel its not worth spending the money to put up a candidate, no candidate is put up. Independants generally lose their seat after a term, after whatever issue pushed them into parliment has faded from public memory.
In fact in Victoria we have three independants committing to voting with the government, which really bends the definition of independant past breaking point.
And as for the federal senate with its broken proportional representation, leading to situations where one religous nut, who got a fraction of the votes needed in a larger state can dictate tax and censorship issues to a government with the backbone of a limp squid....
There's a good reason most Australian's distrust politians, have more respect for lawyers, and expect more honesty for real estate agents. In the vote on the referendum, (lost mainly because of a scare campaign over "the politican's republic") we had government ministers on TV saying dont vote for this republic, it gives too much power to politicians (a lie), and I'm a politican, and you cant trust us.
It only takes a moment to email your disgust at these laws to the papers. These are a couple of addresses for the guys in Melbourne...
The Age
The Australian
Firstly, congratulations on the incredible job you've done with Kdevelop.
While there are a couple of external widget repositories for KDE, there seems to be no documentation or abstraction of many of the widgets used in the base installation and initially installed tools. Is this going to happen, or is KDE still too fast a moving target for application developers to make use of this code?
On the contrary Packetstorm provided exceptional security services for anyone needing to secure their network.
It was the disruption of this service that pissed so many people off.
I'm left wondering if this is the equivalent of a Jesse Berst column deliberatly designed to provoke a high number of banner hits. I can only suggest to the slashdot editorial team that if they cannot write a well reasoned response to the majority feeling that JP has no place here, then the interview should be cancelled. If they can, perhaps the majority should be reading somewher else that doesn't cater to people like JP.