The aweful thing is, that there actually _was_ a property-ownership qualification for voting here (for our state upper house) within my lifetime - we got rid of it maybe 40 years ago.
IIRC, the last legitimate governmant in Afghanistan was the one the US helped the Mujahadin to destabilise, so that the USSR could have their own Vietnam. In so far as _anyone_ is currently governing Afghanistan, I don't think it's them.
I have a minor quibble with your post. Sure the Nazis _claimed_ to be socialists (more exaclty National Solialists, whatever that means), but they _practiced_ the same kind of state-controlled capitalism as the Fascists in Italy. Just remember who was making all their materiel (using forced labour).
Just because you _can_ do somehting like:
int foo, *bar; doesn't mean you _should_. You only need a little bit of self-discipline to produce this instead:
int foo;/* holds the value of foo */
int *bar;/* pointer to bar */ And yes, the comments are fatuous in this instance, but in a real bit of code they'd mean something.
The best way to tell is by assessing how much property they own - the more property, the better the qualification. In fact, people who own a _lot_ of stuff should probably be given more votes than poor people. Maybe there should be a minimum amount of property you can own before you even get a vote at all.
I've always looked on voting as one of the obligations of citizenship, kind of like paying taxes. I don't have a problem with being "compelled" to vote, it merely motivates me (and, I guess, a lot of other Australians) to bother to turn up at the polling booth, and carry out one of my civic duties.
In fact, I can remember milk, bread, groceries etc, being delivered by horse and cart when I was a small child in the 1950's in Adelaide. My grandmother used to race out into the street with a shovel to pick up the horseshit for her roses.
I also cycle to work most of the time, about 15 km each way. I have decent panniers, so I can carry all my work clothes, and buy food and wine on the way home (I make my own beer). Because I'm uphill from work, it takes me about 35 min in and about 50 min out (I don't really push it), and it keeps what would be a ballooning waistline (from the home-made beer, see above) more-or-less under control.
It does chew up a bit more of my day than driving or taking the bus, but not too much, as I'm quicker than the traffic into town. The only real downside is all the idiots with 4WDs, who take up far more than their share of the road.
Basically, it's a matter of making a virtue out of a necessity (if I've cycled in, I _have_ to cycle home).
They are economic liberals (in the sense of leaving everything to "the invisible hand" of a market economy). They are anything but liberal in their social attitudes, believing for instance (generalising and exaggerating a bit here) that women should be barefoot and pregnant, poofters and drug addicts deserve to die of AIDS, and the unemployed should live in cardboard boxes. Howard et al can in fact more reasonably be described as belonging to the radical right, rather than as conservatives.
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He looks like ... I dunno ... some kind of used-car salesman.
The aweful thing is, that there actually _was_ a property-ownership qualification for voting here (for our state upper house) within my lifetime - we got rid of it maybe 40 years ago.
New Zealanders don't speak Australian, I assure you. Only someone with a poor ear for accents could fail to tell the difference.
The interesting thing is, that when I went to b&n, they had no stock. Amazon on the other hand appeared to have heaps.
It sounds more like something nasty you'd catch off a toilet seat.
Poor analogy. Dubya's perceptions notwithstanding, US != global policeman.
IIRC, the last legitimate governmant in Afghanistan was the one the US helped the Mujahadin to destabilise, so that the USSR could have their own Vietnam. In so far as _anyone_ is currently governing Afghanistan, I don't think it's them.
3) also puts Windows out of the running ...
I have a minor quibble with your post. Sure the Nazis _claimed_ to be socialists (more exaclty National Solialists, whatever that means), but they _practiced_ the same kind of state-controlled capitalism as the Fascists in Italy. Just remember who was making all their materiel (using forced labour).
main is only int if:
a. you specify int main(); or
b. you don't specify anything.
IIRC, it's quite ok to use:
void main()
Just because you _can_ do somehting like: /* holds the value of foo */ /* pointer to bar */
int foo, *bar;
doesn't mean you _should_. You only need a little bit of self-discipline to produce this instead:
int foo;
int *bar;
And yes, the comments are fatuous in this instance, but in a real bit of code they'd mean something.
So ... a solution to so many of our problems would be to invent a time machine, and use it to make sure he didn't drop out ...
The best way to tell is by assessing how much property they own - the more property, the better the qualification. In fact, people who own a _lot_ of stuff should probably be given more votes than poor people. Maybe there should be a minimum amount of property you can own before you even get a vote at all.
I've always looked on voting as one of the obligations of citizenship, kind of like paying taxes. I don't have a problem with being "compelled" to vote, it merely motivates me (and, I guess, a lot of other Australians) to bother to turn up at the polling booth, and carry out one of my civic duties.
In other news, Admiral Poindexter consults the entrails of a recently-slaughtered sheep ...
And the gumboots are, of course, to stick the sheep's back legs into ...
In fact, I can remember milk, bread, groceries etc, being delivered by horse and cart when I was a small child in the 1950's in Adelaide. My grandmother used to race out into the street with a shovel to pick up the horseshit for her roses.
... nostalgia!
Aah
You don't need to - someone already did that.
no. Most Australian geeks know that too. It's just that, for historical reasons, we call a spade a fucken shovel.
We eat FUCKEN onions here pal, not bloomin' onions.
Hey, do you belong to the Short Penis and Small Breast Lodge too? Greetings, brother.
Ah ... how nice. Someone else who's heard of Mumford.
I must reread his stuff (haven't read it for about 30 yrs).
I also cycle to work most of the time, about 15 km each way. I have decent panniers, so I can carry all my work clothes, and buy food and wine on the way home (I make my own beer). Because I'm uphill from work, it takes me about 35 min in and about 50 min out (I don't really push it), and it keeps what would be a ballooning waistline (from the home-made beer, see above) more-or-less under control.
It does chew up a bit more of my day than driving or taking the bus, but not too much, as I'm quicker than the traffic into town. The only real downside is all the idiots with 4WDs, who take up far more than their share of the road.
Basically, it's a matter of making a virtue out of a necessity (if I've cycled in, I _have_ to cycle home).
Our ancestors' diet also used to include a fair bit of "found" meat.
They are economic liberals (in the sense of leaving everything to "the invisible hand" of a market economy). They are anything but liberal in their social attitudes, believing for instance (generalising and exaggerating a bit here) that women should be barefoot and pregnant, poofters and drug addicts deserve to die of AIDS, and the unemployed should live in cardboard boxes. Howard et al can in fact more reasonably be described as belonging to the radical right, rather than as conservatives.