I was about to say that we wouldn't live in space without a construction to sustain us, but then again, we could presumably "just as easily" build a construction to sustain us in an environment of poison flaming gas and ash.
And people who have to hold you skull together who otherwise wouldn't have had to had you worn a helmet? They're adults, too, and don't need you to make that decision for them.
Or perhaps just understand that there's a difference between something published by a well-credentialed masthead with a long reputation for quality journalism and a throw-away 140-character blurb from @axethetax.
Come on, people. A bit of skill in discrimination when it comes to dots on a screen, please.
You don't understand: 1) there's not enough of us, AND 2) we have a federal voting system that mandates a vote for one or the other of the major parties in order for one's vote to count. Number 2 is the main problem, to be honest.
I can be as honest, passionate, brief, garrulous, deadpan, irreverent or whatever as you like, and I've found that it makes little difference. And by the time I get to the ballot box, guess what? Both of the two major parties -- which is all you will ever get in a mandatory preferential voting system -- offer the same shit. All that's left for the rest of us is to gripe about it in places like this, in newspaper letters to editors, in philippics written on ballot papers, or wherever. But then that gets back to 1: there's just not enough of us.
Why buy a CD when I can hear the music free on youtube?
Notwithstanding that I'm just a slashdot number posting randomly on the intertubes, but I have recently bought 5 CDs precidely because of what I saw free on YouTube.
I would have thought that, being a member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Clive Palmer would have been well aware that there were already plenty of dinosaurs to go around.
That's a feature (ie., "bug") of our system of mandatory preferential voting. If, out of all candidates on your ballot, candidate whom you placed second-last on your ballot gets in, you just voted him or her in. Optional preferential voting means you don't necessarily have to do that. That candidate may still get in, but it will have been without your vote without your having to cast an informal vote.
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I dunno... maybe we're just generally not determined enough to go shooting the shit out of each other.
I was about to say that we wouldn't live in space without a construction to sustain us, but then again, we could presumably "just as easily" build a construction to sustain us in an environment of poison flaming gas and ash.
Because it's a fucking long drive from Sydney to Singapore or LA where my friends live?
And some of them are on fire at the moment.
We certainly will if we don't fight it. I'm with ath0mic on this: keep calling them on it, especially if they don't care.
A peculiar typo, "athiest".
... which is provably the same as 42.
And people who have to hold you skull together who otherwise wouldn't have had to had you worn a helmet? They're adults, too, and don't need you to make that decision for them.
Troll them back for larfs, maybe?
Or perhaps just understand that there's a difference between something published by a well-credentialed masthead with a long reputation for quality journalism and a throw-away 140-character blurb from @axethetax.
Come on, people. A bit of skill in discrimination when it comes to dots on a screen, please.
What, abc.net.au didn't carry enough heads-up about this for you?
I can be as honest, passionate, brief, garrulous, deadpan, irreverent or whatever as you like, and I've found that it makes little difference. And by the time I get to the ballot box, guess what? Both of the two major parties -- which is all you will ever get in a mandatory preferential voting system -- offer the same shit. All that's left for the rest of us is to gripe about it in places like this, in newspaper letters to editors, in philippics written on ballot papers, or wherever. But then that gets back to 1: there's just not enough of us.
Notwithstanding that I'm just a slashdot number posting randomly on the intertubes, but I have recently bought 5 CDs precidely because of what I saw free on YouTube.
But not necessarily mutually exclusive...
Absolute libertarianism is nearly as bad as absolute totalitarianism.
what paycheck
what employment
what monetary
what other factor
what working
You have died...returning you to bind point...
"Ambit claim". Oh, and "conditioning". Therefore http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/08/23/0547247/ask-slashdot-best-vpn-service-for-australia
Who says it wasn't someone else?
Would not buy again...
#firstworldproblems
So no frist ps0t, then.
I would have thought that, being a member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Clive Palmer would have been well aware that there were already plenty of dinosaurs to go around.
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That's a feature (ie., "bug") of our system of mandatory preferential voting. If, out of all candidates on your ballot, candidate whom you placed second-last on your ballot gets in, you just voted him or her in. Optional preferential voting means you don't necessarily have to do that. That candidate may still get in, but it will have been without your vote without your having to cast an informal vote.
You may be overestimating the voters.
Fun with commas: "Eats roots and leaves" vs "eats, roots and leaves". "Let's eat, grandma!" vs "let's eat grandma!"