The new senate doesn't sit till July and before then he has to face a Greens/Labor majority in the senate. It is unlikely that they will care very much about a double disillusion, and it's likely they would even benefit from it. Now what I'm not clear on is if Abbott can call a double disillusion before the new senate sits, that would be very interesting.
Certainly it is unlikely the Palmer senators would be swayed by this threat in the new senate as given the swing they are likely to gain more seats. Palmer supports repealing the carbon tax. Xenphon doesn't seem to have much to worry about in terms of getting back in at a double dissolution either. That leaves 1 DLP, 1 LDP, 1 Motor Enthusiast, 1 Sports Party and 1 Family First, with current projections that is exactly the amount he needs to hold a majority. If even one of those decides to cause trouble then his threat doesn't work very well anymore.
The first method is used for the final count, for initial counts they kind of guess. (Nb. all senate votes are entered into a computer system for counting)
The initial senate count is done after the house of reps count, takes much longer, and is far harder to predict. For example they only started counting the below the line votes today. The article is incorrect in saying he has been elected, no seats have yet been declared and there are even some house of reps seats still in doubt.
Should be interesting as the Greens also have 10 senators, you need 39 for a majority in the senate and the Liberals are predicted to get 33. In order to pass a bill that means they must get the support of a least 6 of the minor party senators or get the Green or Labor (predicted 25) to support there bill. I suspect that that will keep the parliament pretty centred.
People didn't want an Abbott government, that was made quite clear by the ~4% swing against Labor translating to only a 1.5% swing to the Libs (in first preference votes).
I can't be bothered to google it, but I remember the SMH mentioning that 1 in 5 voters in the seat of Melbourne didn't follow how to vote cards. Not sure if this would be the same nationally.
It took me two or so hours to decide on my preferences and then I used Belowtheline.org.au to order them. Senate.io is also good though.
FYI given the small margins that some of the preferences were decided by, below the line votes could very well make a difference in this election. For example it could change the order of elimination of one or two minor parties which would change the flow of preferences.
The article is incorrect, the senate count is nowhere near final, this result is based on computers predicting the flow of votes from people who voted above the line. Given the amount of preferences, it is entirely possible that another minor party could overtake him (it is however unlikely).
Only if he learnt the same instruments (and in the same styles). Whilst, musical ability may be genetic, there is definably a learnt component that effects ability and style.
Yes, 'cause one part of the population wants to stick to idiotic pre-medieval religious rules invented by a pedophile and force others to comply to them, while the other ones wants to leave 2000 years behind.
I think if you did some research you'd find that this is not entirely the case. Furthermore insulting peoples beliefs achieves very little, putting religious differences aside is an important part of achieving a secular society.
Indeed, it would be an interesting experiment in nature vs nurture. I would suspect that you would get some aspects of his personality, but not others.
However, artists draw strongly from their cultural background, that would certainly be very different so even if his musical talent is genetic his music would be very different. That's irrelevant though, it would be extremely cruel to clone an individual with such high expectations - especially one likely to be surrounded by media all his life.
In Australia EFPOS cards don't have chip & pin, only cards such as Visa and mastercard. Most banks will issue you with an efpos card as well (or only an efpos card)
It is better then nothing though and you would be able to detect if DNS had been compromised as they would have to use a different public key. The person on the receiving end would not be able to decrypt it, and at that point they would need to compromise the mail server anyway (which is an entirely separate issue)
The reason encryption is uncommon is that it is not easy for normal users to use, the scenario you propose is not useful for most users.
Non-self signed certs that are recognised by most major email applications are not free. They are usually quite expensive. Note I am refering to S/MIME not PGP, which is different but doesn't work very well with HTML. message (or at least engimail doesn't last time I checked).
Surely with the advent of DNSSEC it would be now be feasible to implement it on DNS. Importantly this would allow self signed certs for S/MIME as few 'normal' users will pay to get a certificate from a large company (and they are usually quite expensive).
Pretty sure that apply in non-US jurisdictions to the FBI (who are not diplomats and aren't issued with diplomatic passports) . It would be intresting if a civil suit was filled in Ireland (where the attack occurred?) or in another jurisdiction.
Surely the individual would be the one breaching licensing regulations, it would be the same as if I took apart a walkie talky and made physical modifications to make it transmit on a different frequency. If they have to make physical modifications in order for the responsibility to change hands it should be possible to make a chip that can't be flashed or can't be flashed without soldering or unsoldering part of the circuit board.
They could release the source for the SDR and simply ensure that you can't actually flash the chip (or make it clear that by doing so the device becomes illegal to use)
It is probably a lot harder to produce milk using this method than meat, so milk cows and gourmet breeds such as Wagu would remain. Many breeds would become extinct however and that would be risky (you only have to read about problems with the lack of genetic variance in grains to see why), however in the case of cattle most of the breeds came into existence for the purpose of food production, so it is unrealistic to expect them to remain when there is no longer a need for them.
Yes and when this technology matures it could be used to feed a lot more people artificial cows than can currently be feed with regular cows. (Given land usage and how costs scale with mass production)
The fact this alone requires far less land then raising animals traditionally mean that it has practical utility. Theoretically this stuff could be produced in far higher quantities than the planet could support for traditional methods. It goes part of the way towards solving world hunger, if that's not "practical utility value" I don't know what is.
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The new senate doesn't sit till July and before then he has to face a Greens/Labor majority in the senate. It is unlikely that they will care very much about a double disillusion, and it's likely they would even benefit from it. Now what I'm not clear on is if Abbott can call a double disillusion before the new senate sits, that would be very interesting.
Certainly it is unlikely the Palmer senators would be swayed by this threat in the new senate as given the swing they are likely to gain more seats. Palmer supports repealing the carbon tax. Xenphon doesn't seem to have much to worry about in terms of getting back in at a double dissolution either. That leaves 1 DLP, 1 LDP, 1 Motor Enthusiast, 1 Sports Party and 1 Family First, with current projections that is exactly the amount he needs to hold a majority. If even one of those decides to cause trouble then his threat doesn't work very well anymore.
The first method is used for the final count, for initial counts they kind of guess. (Nb. all senate votes are entered into a computer system for counting)
The initial senate count is done after the house of reps count, takes much longer, and is far harder to predict. For example they only started counting the below the line votes today. The article is incorrect in saying he has been elected, no seats have yet been declared and there are even some house of reps seats still in doubt.
Should be interesting as the Greens also have 10 senators, you need 39 for a majority in the senate and the Liberals are predicted to get 33. In order to pass a bill that means they must get the support of a least 6 of the minor party senators or get the Green or Labor (predicted 25) to support there bill. I suspect that that will keep the parliament pretty centred.
People didn't want an Abbott government, that was made quite clear by the ~4% swing against Labor translating to only a 1.5% swing to the Libs (in first preference votes).
I can't be bothered to google it, but I remember the SMH mentioning that 1 in 5 voters in the seat of Melbourne didn't follow how to vote cards. Not sure if this would be the same nationally.
It took me two or so hours to decide on my preferences and then I used Belowtheline.org.au to order them. Senate.io is also good though.
FYI given the small margins that some of the preferences were decided by, below the line votes could very well make a difference in this election. For example it could change the order of elimination of one or two minor parties which would change the flow of preferences.
The article is incorrect, the senate count is nowhere near final, this result is based on computers predicting the flow of votes from people who voted above the line. Given the amount of preferences, it is entirely possible that another minor party could overtake him (it is however unlikely).
Yes, Yes it does. (Note that is not its main functionality, but it does do it.)
Only if he learnt the same instruments (and in the same styles). Whilst, musical ability may be genetic, there is definably a learnt component that effects ability and style.
Yes, 'cause one part of the population wants to stick to idiotic pre-medieval religious rules invented by a pedophile and force others to comply to them, while the other ones wants to leave 2000 years behind.
I think if you did some research you'd find that this is not entirely the case. Furthermore insulting peoples beliefs achieves very little, putting religious differences aside is an important part of achieving a secular society.
Indeed, it would be an interesting experiment in nature vs nurture. I would suspect that you would get some aspects of his personality, but not others.
However, artists draw strongly from their cultural background, that would certainly be very different so even if his musical talent is genetic his music would be very different. That's irrelevant though, it would be extremely cruel to clone an individual with such high expectations - especially one likely to be surrounded by media all his life.
In Australia EFPOS cards don't have chip & pin, only cards such as Visa and mastercard. Most banks will issue you with an efpos card as well (or only an efpos card)
It is better then nothing though and you would be able to detect if DNS had been compromised as they would have to use a different public key. The person on the receiving end would not be able to decrypt it, and at that point they would need to compromise the mail server anyway (which is an entirely separate issue)
The reason encryption is uncommon is that it is not easy for normal users to use, the scenario you propose is not useful for most users.
Maybe it is just the engimail plugin for Thurderbird then? Last time I checked they strongly advised you not to use HTML
Non-self signed certs that are recognised by most major email applications are not free. They are usually quite expensive. Note I am refering to S/MIME not PGP, which is different but doesn't work very well with HTML. message (or at least engimail doesn't last time I checked).
Surely with the advent of DNSSEC it would be now be feasible to implement it on DNS. Importantly this would allow self signed certs for S/MIME as few 'normal' users will pay to get a certificate from a large company (and they are usually quite expensive).
Pretty sure that apply in non-US jurisdictions to the FBI (who are not diplomats and aren't issued with diplomatic passports) . It would be intresting if a civil suit was filled in Ireland (where the attack occurred?) or in another jurisdiction.
Surely the individual would be the one breaching licensing regulations, it would be the same as if I took apart a walkie talky and made physical modifications to make it transmit on a different frequency. If they have to make physical modifications in order for the responsibility to change hands it should be possible to make a chip that can't be flashed or can't be flashed without soldering or unsoldering part of the circuit board.
They could release the source for the SDR and simply ensure that you can't actually flash the chip (or make it clear that by doing so the device becomes illegal to use)
until... GM artificial cattle!
but yeah I see your point.
It is probably a lot harder to produce milk using this method than meat, so milk cows and gourmet breeds such as Wagu would remain. Many breeds would become extinct however and that would be risky (you only have to read about problems with the lack of genetic variance in grains to see why), however in the case of cattle most of the breeds came into existence for the purpose of food production, so it is unrealistic to expect them to remain when there is no longer a need for them.
Or grow different cuts individually...
Yes and when this technology matures it could be used to feed a lot more people artificial cows than can currently be feed with regular cows. (Given land usage and how costs scale with mass production)
The fact this alone requires far less land then raising animals traditionally mean that it has practical utility. Theoretically this stuff could be produced in far higher quantities than the planet could support for traditional methods. It goes part of the way towards solving world hunger, if that's not "practical utility value" I don't know what is.