lol, looks like Family First is my party of choice.
Yes Crikey is good. I've been continually disillusioned by the press over the past few years.
Another great thing I subscribe to is the Daily Briefing. It pretty much sumarises the press here and overseas, and highlights great writing on current affairs here and, well, overseas. Highly recommended as a time saver in these busy times. http://www.thedailybriefing.com.au/
Most of the people I meet in Melbourne from Tasmania are quite normal and switched on... but I've always assume that is why they moved to Melbourne in the first place.
I assumed the Senator's seat would be vaguely marginal due to the quite fussy voters of Tasmania.
Quite a cause for concern. I agree with your comments with regards to protesting.
I work in government myself (road authority, nothing to do with this) and I see the power of personal letters to elected representatives. So, all Aussies out there, be a bit proactive, put together a well written intelligent letter and send it off to your state (the states are all ALP, and are fairly keen to screw over the feds on most issues) and federal MP's. See parent comment for some good arguments.
Yes, the simplicity of extending the censoring, or even monitoring is quite frightening.
I agree with you, I donate all my mod points to you. (no, no sarcasm)
Comparing Tasmania with US South culturally/socially was a cheap shot, akin to wondering where the scar from the second head removal is. Although politics wise I was under the (mis?)apprehension that the real reason that the Libs and Nats were screwed in Tasmania is due to major backlash over the Franklin Dam project that they have never really recovered from. Interestingly, with the way that the current Tasmanian ALP is going with regards to Gunns and forestry policy, they may suffer a similar fate. I'm fairly sure that the Liberal/Nats did well in Tasmania in the last election, which seemed to me to point to a conservative majority that just votes for Labour due to despising the Libs'.
With regards to the Republican's in the US, while we see the extreme part of them on the news or late (so calle 'neo-cons'), traditionally, they were quite close to the now quite central Libs. Meh, 'left', 'centre' and 'right' are pretty much useless these days as a term of reference anyway. I usually prefer a 'conservative scale, but then I have no clues, eh?
I was quite interested in your comments on the Libs focussed historically as a 'catch-all' party, which would tend to more clearly explain their current strong populist politics.
I do not believe that I have ever heard the word 'cleavages' used in reference to politics, and I subscribe to the delightful crikey.com.au which is never short of colourful phrase.
As a term of reference for you delightful residents of the US of A, Tasmania is like the US 'south' (rednecks, interbreeding et al) and the 'Liberal' party isn't actually a liberal party, but a conservative party (similar to your Republican party).
However, this motion/proposal is unlikely to gain legs as Howard (current Australian Prime Minister) would almost certainly leave it as a 'conscience vote' and I sincerely doubt that it will have the popularity to get through the lower house, let alone the upper house.
And, as I understand it, this sort of 'filtering' would be quite difficult to do and the current upper echelons of politicians *and* public servants switched on enough to listen to those who would advise them on the viability of 'filtering'... so false alarm and ignore the political posturing. The guy is (most likely) in a marginal seat and is trying to buy some credit with the local religious conservatives.
"while two in five boys had deliberately used the net to see sexually explicit material"... and the other three were lying about it.
Yeah, I quite like WoW's balance. It is fun to meet random players and have a bit of PvP action, but sometimes it is good to concentrate on a 'remote dungeon' and fight with just you and your buddies. Of course, end game for WoW is now all constant running through instances or constant PvPing in.... 'instances' against the Horde. As Tycho said recently on www.pennyarcade.com, I've also become an 'altoholic'. But I digress.
From 0 - 59 the balance in WoW is a delight. At 60 your pretty much stuck with instances or farming.
Most of my entertainment from the game is actually the process of building a character from 0 to 60. It is so worth it just for that joy factor of discovering things. Join a new server, and you will find heaps of 'n00bs' playing for the first time, with some experienced vets creating an 'alt'. I actually think the game falls down a bit once you hit 60.... new characters, lands to discover, storylines to quest through.
I quite like the game.... having said that, after nine months I think I'll hang up my mouse soon. But nine months of playing, it's been awesome, and great value. Probably my best game experiences ever (perhaps apart from Counter-strike in the late 90s).
Indeed. Quite the harsh one, owner of a UID not that far removed from mine.
The original poster was ambiguous with regards to ownership of shares in the Infinium or whatever they are called, and I was amused by the possibilty that someone had actually bought shares in this decidedly dodgy venture.... and if you read further on, the original poster actually responds with "I actually did buy a very, very, very small amount"
Still, I wonder why I was marked harshly down overated and you somehow escaped attention for your trolling efforts.
No volcanoes? My parent's farm in the Western district of Victoria has them dotted along the horizon. Some are extinct, but some are dormant... which means they could blow at any time! In the next 20,000 years that is. I recall as a child wishing for the excitement of a volcano erupting.
I recall travelling in New Zealand in 1990 and there were geothermal powerplants around (North Island) then that had been around for some time. So that is 15-20 years.
Of course, while (I'm one) us Aussies and the Kiwis share some animosity, we assist each other far more than we like to admit.
I don't think that is a very good analogy at all. The music industry failed to recognise the change in it's own industry and is now playing catch up and attempting to control a tornado effectively; some archaic piece of who-cares software has now changed hands.
In fact.... what are you actually trying to say? Not to be too nasty (too late he thinks) but html links do not make a relevant post.
To save on costs, and so you don't get any value out of the game, they could just ask for the ID/code number that you need to create an unique account and play the game and then ban it.
True, it does depend on the nick. In WoW, if my nick was something like microchip, it would not have got a run.... but Jools could be of any origin.
And if you wanted microchip, and wanted to be slightly lame, you can always medieval it up. eg Mikael de Chep Mycro etc (I'm embarrased for myself)
Automatic name selection just seems so lifeless. Having said that, I rolled my Alliance, Female Night Elf Hunter, and found out that it was one of the most popular combinations.... perhaps apart from Human Rogue. C'est la vie.
I disagree with this, I've had the name 'Jools' for many years as a corruption of my first name (not original, I know) and it is something I really identify with. When I couldn't get jools@gmail.com, I was quite devastated.
(by the by, when I found out the reason a lot of people accused me of cheating in Counter-strike was because of my name and not my 1337 5ki11z I was quite upset. Turned out there was a brit with the nick 'Jools' who had made a famous cheat program for CS, the bastard)
Ha Gold. Man I never have mod points when required.
(to keep on topic)
You're right, it was a nice way to celebrate, but I think something a bit more flashy that to grab media attention would have been good.... something to get the attention of Fox News. I'm seeing scantily clad ladies with a guy in a fox outfit releasing a hundred doves.... or maybe scantiliy clad ladies with fox masks.
Any time that a friend asks for IT help of any kind, the first thing I do is d/l firefox, eradicate the links to IE, and tell them to use that instead.... even if the 'IT help' request had nothing to do with IE or the 'net.
I've even started doing it on other peoples PC's at work.
Sure IE has improved of late, but that appears to have been only due to the increased interest in the foxy lady.
And to think that ten years ago I was one of the biggest MS fanboys out there.
It's pretty amazing, isn't it? I read that PA had donated the $10k just before....
unless of course *that* was also JT style satire.
But I doubt it. PA have always been legit.
Penny Arcade, between this and the Childs Play foundation thing.... pretty amazing. To my shame I haven't donated in the previous two Childs Play appeals. I will this time around.
Good on you for writing the letters! I work in State Govt in Victoria, and the theory politicians go by is that one letter = the opinions of 1000 voters. Or is that 100? So when they get stacks of letters on one issue, they can become quite passionate.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.ozpolitics.info/blog/index.php?page_id= 206&id=d5fff2c1214c73437c7048c9306363f7
lol, looks like Family First is my party of choice.
Yes Crikey is good. I've been continually disillusioned by the press over the past few years.
Another great thing I subscribe to is the Daily Briefing. It pretty much sumarises the press here and overseas, and highlights great writing on current affairs here and, well, overseas. Highly recommended as a time saver in these busy times.
http://www.thedailybriefing.com.au/
Most of the people I meet in Melbourne from Tasmania are quite normal and switched on... but I've always assume that is why they moved to Melbourne in the first place.
I assumed the Senator's seat would be vaguely marginal due to the quite fussy voters of Tasmania.
What do you mean by 'He's just and idiot'?
Quite a cause for concern. I agree with your comments with regards to protesting.
I work in government myself (road authority, nothing to do with this) and I see the power of personal letters to elected representatives. So, all Aussies out there, be a bit proactive, put together a well written intelligent letter and send it off to your state (the states are all ALP, and are fairly keen to screw over the feds on most issues) and federal MP's. See parent comment for some good arguments.
Yes, the simplicity of extending the censoring, or even monitoring is quite frightening.
Paranoid? Make that two of us.
I agree with you, I donate all my mod points to you. (no, no sarcasm)
Comparing Tasmania with US South culturally/socially was a cheap shot, akin to wondering where the scar from the second head removal is. Although politics wise I was under the (mis?)apprehension that the real reason that the Libs and Nats were screwed in Tasmania is due to major backlash over the Franklin Dam project that they have never really recovered from. Interestingly, with the way that the current Tasmanian ALP is going with regards to Gunns and forestry policy, they may suffer a similar fate. I'm fairly sure that the Liberal/Nats did well in Tasmania in the last election, which seemed to me to point to a conservative majority that just votes for Labour due to despising the Libs'.
With regards to the Republican's in the US, while we see the extreme part of them on the news or late (so calle 'neo-cons'), traditionally, they were quite close to the now quite central Libs. Meh, 'left', 'centre' and 'right' are pretty much useless these days as a term of reference anyway. I usually prefer a 'conservative scale, but then I have no clues, eh?
I was quite interested in your comments on the Libs focussed historically as a 'catch-all' party, which would tend to more clearly explain their current strong populist politics.
I do not believe that I have ever heard the word 'cleavages' used in reference to politics, and I subscribe to the delightful crikey.com.au which is never short of colourful phrase.
As a term of reference for you delightful residents of the US of A, Tasmania is like the US 'south' (rednecks, interbreeding et al) and the 'Liberal' party isn't actually a liberal party, but a conservative party (similar to your Republican party).
... and the other three were lying about it.
However, this motion/proposal is unlikely to gain legs as Howard (current Australian Prime Minister) would almost certainly leave it as a 'conscience vote' and I sincerely doubt that it will have the popularity to get through the lower house, let alone the upper house.
And, as I understand it, this sort of 'filtering' would be quite difficult to do and the current upper echelons of politicians *and* public servants switched on enough to listen to those who would advise them on the viability of 'filtering'... so false alarm and ignore the political posturing. The guy is (most likely) in a marginal seat and is trying to buy some credit with the local religious conservatives.
"while two in five boys had deliberately used the net to see sexually explicit material"
Yeah, I quite like WoW's balance. It is fun to meet random players and have a bit of PvP action, but sometimes it is good to concentrate on a 'remote dungeon' and fight with just you and your buddies. Of course, end game for WoW is now all constant running through instances or constant PvPing in.... 'instances' against the Horde. As Tycho said recently on www.pennyarcade.com, I've also become an 'altoholic'. But I digress.
From 0 - 59 the balance in WoW is a delight. At 60 your pretty much stuck with instances or farming.
Most of my entertainment from the game is actually the process of building a character from 0 to 60. It is so worth it just for that joy factor of discovering things. Join a new server, and you will find heaps of 'n00bs' playing for the first time, with some experienced vets creating an 'alt'. I actually think the game falls down a bit once you hit 60.... new characters, lands to discover, storylines to quest through.
I quite like the game.... having said that, after nine months I think I'll hang up my mouse soon. But nine months of playing, it's been awesome, and great value. Probably my best game experiences ever (perhaps apart from Counter-strike in the late 90s).
Yeah, I remember a friend having problems along these lines. Of course we weren't allowed games 'cause thems was the devils work'.
Indeed. Quite the harsh one, owner of a UID not that far removed from mine.
The original poster was ambiguous with regards to ownership of shares in the Infinium or whatever they are called, and I was amused by the possibilty that someone had actually bought shares in this decidedly dodgy venture.... and if you read further on, the original poster actually responds with "I actually did buy a very, very, very small amount"
Still, I wonder why I was marked harshly down overated and you somehow escaped attention for your trolling efforts.
*claps*
Are you joking? Or did you actually invest in this company? If you did, then you have my condolences.
No volcanoes? My parent's farm in the Western district of Victoria has them dotted along the horizon. Some are extinct, but some are dormant... which means they could blow at any time! In the next 20,000 years that is. I recall as a child wishing for the excitement of a volcano erupting.
Volcanoes in Victoria (random Google)
I recall travelling in New Zealand in 1990 and there were geothermal powerplants around (North Island) then that had been around for some time. So that is 15-20 years.
Of course, while (I'm one) us Aussies and the Kiwis share some animosity, we assist each other far more than we like to admit.
I don't think that is a very good analogy at all. The music industry failed to recognise the change in it's own industry and is now playing catch up and attempting to control a tornado effectively; some archaic piece of who-cares software has now changed hands.
In fact.... what are you actually trying to say? Not to be too nasty (too late he thinks) but html links do not make a relevant post.
To save on costs, and so you don't get any value out of the game, they could just ask for the ID/code number that you need to create an unique account and play the game and then ban it.
But that's logical.
That's the sort of cool RPG elements that are missing in WoW.
True, it does depend on the nick. In WoW, if my nick was something like microchip, it would not have got a run.... but Jools could be of any origin.
And if you wanted microchip, and wanted to be slightly lame, you can always medieval it up.
eg
Mikael de Chep
Mycro
etc (I'm embarrased for myself)
Automatic name selection just seems so lifeless. Having said that, I rolled my Alliance, Female Night Elf Hunter, and found out that it was one of the most popular combinations.... perhaps apart from Human Rogue. C'est la vie.
Careful, someone in TV land will hear you and before you know it -
Wham!
We have another shite television program.
I disagree with this, I've had the name 'Jools' for many years as a corruption of my first name (not original, I know) and it is something I really identify with. When I couldn't get jools@gmail.com, I was quite devastated.
(by the by, when I found out the reason a lot of people accused me of cheating in Counter-strike was because of my name and not my 1337 5ki11z I was quite upset. Turned out there was a brit with the nick 'Jools' who had made a famous cheat program for CS, the bastard)
Ha Gold. Man I never have mod points when required.
(to keep on topic)
You're right, it was a nice way to celebrate, but I think something a bit more flashy that to grab media attention would have been good.... something to get the attention of Fox News. I'm seeing scantily clad ladies with a guy in a fox outfit releasing a hundred doves.... or maybe scantiliy clad ladies with fox masks.
I'd better get back to work.
I'd be responsible for about 20 of those...
Any time that a friend asks for IT help of any kind, the first thing I do is d/l firefox, eradicate the links to IE, and tell them to use that instead.... even if the 'IT help' request had nothing to do with IE or the 'net.
I've even started doing it on other peoples PC's at work.
Sure IE has improved of late, but that appears to have been only due to the increased interest in the foxy lady.
And to think that ten years ago I was one of the biggest MS fanboys out there.
It's pretty amazing, isn't it? I read that PA had donated the $10k just before....
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unless of course *that* was also JT style satire.
But I doubt it. PA have always been legit.
Penny Arcade, between this and the Childs Play foundation thing.... pretty amazing. To my shame I haven't donated in the previous two Childs Play appeals. I will this time around.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplaycharity/ind
You ride at 60mph?
Wow. That's like 96.6 km/h in real measurements.
You're really moving on that bike.
although I do work in traffic, and *everyone* is passionate about what is wrong and what should be done to fix it.
Good on you for writing the letters! I work in State Govt in Victoria, and the theory politicians go by is that one letter = the opinions of 1000 voters. Or is that 100? So when they get stacks of letters on one issue, they can become quite passionate.
Thing is, they're releasing Half-Life 2, not Halo 2. But I digress.