Same in Sweden - paper ballots, hand counted. And ID check at the voting station.
No ID checks in Australia. You just give your name and it is checked against a paper printout of the roll and crossed off. There is nothing to stop a person voting at many different polling locations in different names, unless the real person has already voted at that particular location. Presumably it will later be discovered that fraudulant votes were made, but there is no way of knowing which way they were voted. So if the number of bad votes exceeds the winning margin, what can they do? They could order a new vote for that seat, but a cantidate may well feel they are more likely to win then, after other results are known.
I'm curious to know who funded this study? My guess is on the non-organic industry did.. Academic research is four times more likely to be favorable to who paid for for the study.
China's population density is about 1/3 that of Japan, Korea, and India, and about half the density of the UK. Does god have enough mercy for all of those souls as well?
Big difference. India and UK have lots of flat arable land. China is covered in mountains and desert.
But interestingly Sweden already has a database of everyone's DNA for medical research purposes, and the authorities refused to provide access to police. Also, police tried to get military medical records. (Sweden has national service.) The military refused to allow access to the data.
The two major parties in Australia are the Liberal Party (the conservatives) and the ALP, which as far as I can tell stands for "Another Liberal Party".
But for our American cousins, you should explain that both would be considered "socialists" over there. You know, bipartisan support for universal health care, decent minimum wage, social welfare, etc
Samsung is one of the companies that actually makes stuff. Apple just does marketting and distribution, and does it well. So Jobs is more of a Gus, i think.
First of all you have to provide a scientific definition of "race".
There are similar problems trying to define species, genus etc. DNA and other new data shows that the tree of life is more complex than we realised. But a lack of a single simple definiton does not mean that species or race are invalid or unuseful categories.
The purpose of a constitution is to expressly grant certain powers to the government and to deny it any powers not so granted.
No! The purpose of the constitution is to expressly grant certain powers to the federal government, and leave others to the states and the Crown. Which country did you think we were talking about here?
I'd prefer getting wiretaps on the ATO to find out why they are not persuing the blatent tax-dodging of large corporations like Microsoft, Google and Ikea, who report almost no profit in Australia, and massive profits in obscure tax havens.
. By this definition, when a doctor collects 20 eggs for in vitro fertilization, each and every one of those eggs is now a constitutionally protected human being with inalienable rights.
On the plus side, the child tax credits are awesome!
That would be Deuteronomy 22, so Christians and Jews are in the same boat, if they actually follow the bible. It gets worse if a betrothed virgin is raped inside the city limits. She must be stoned to death, along with the rapist.
By any reasonable definition a fetus is a human being,
How dismissive! The foetus is of course human, but so is my semen or your toenail. What makes something a "being"? The argument is that a being is independently viable. You may disagree, but you cannot intelligently call it unreasonable.
the other group believes the same thing, but the thing suddenly becomes an individual earlier.
Not quite the same. One group understands that their choice of time is somewhat arbitrary, and open for negotiation. It is almost universally accepted that a line is needed somewhere, be it conception or a ceremony some time after birth. The problem is that human life never truly begins, it only ends.
Good point. Maybe there was a planet, but the locals ripped it apart to build a Ringworld. There is no way to detect that from here with current technology.
It's a, presumably, private, 'Catholic' school. What exactly did you expect?
Plenty of Catholic schools are quite capable of distinguishing between science and religion. In fact it was a Catholic priest and scientist, Georges Lemaître, who came up with the Big Bang concept. Besides, the pope says evolution is OK. It was "guided" by God of course.
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"Allwinner"? That sounds like a real quality hardware company,
Sounds no worse than "Lucky GoldStar", and they are making billions.
There will always be a market for premium hardware. This is just abjectly idiotic.
Always is a long time. Try visiting your local hardware store and aking about the "premium" brand of nails, or copper wire.
My grandfather's blacksmith swore by Glasgow Metalworks nails, and would never buy that cheaper generic made-in-America crap.
I smell a patent infringement lawsuit from Professor Farnsworth!
I hope that Smelloscope is appropriately licensed. Since the Sonny Bono Head Act, patents from 3012 are indefinitely retrospective.
Aren't jokes supposed to resemble... you know, a joke?
I'm sorry, but slashdot does not have a laugh track. We like it that way,
Same in Sweden - paper ballots, hand counted. And ID check at the voting station.
No ID checks in Australia. You just give your name and it is checked against a paper printout of the roll and crossed off.
There is nothing to stop a person voting at many different polling locations in different names, unless the real person has already voted at that particular location.
Presumably it will later be discovered that fraudulant votes were made, but there is no way of knowing which way they were voted.
So if the number of bad votes exceeds the winning margin, what can they do? They could order a new vote for that seat, but a cantidate may well feel they are more likely to win then, after other results are known.
I'm curious to know who funded this study? My guess is on the non-organic industry did.. Academic research is four times more likely to be favorable to who paid for for the study.
Which study says that? And who paid for it?
China's population density is about 1/3 that of Japan, Korea, and India, and about half the density of the UK. Does god have enough mercy for all of those souls as well?
Big difference. India and UK have lots of flat arable land. China is covered in mountains and desert.
But interestingly Sweden already has a database of everyone's DNA for medical research purposes, and the authorities refused to provide access to police.
Also, police tried to get military medical records. (Sweden has national service.) The military refused to allow access to the data.
The two major parties in Australia are the Liberal Party (the conservatives) and the ALP, which as far as I can tell stands for "Another Liberal Party".
But for our American cousins, you should explain that both would be considered "socialists" over there.
You know, bipartisan support for universal health care, decent minimum wage, social welfare, etc
you made the decision that much easier. New Zealand .
Sure you say that now. But as soon as you get your NZ Permanent Residency, you will jump om a plane to Australia, like every other NZ immigrant.
Yeah, church barbecues are better than watching TV alone. True.
And that is as good an argument for the existence of Gods as I've yet heard.
Samsung is one of the companies that actually makes stuff. Apple just does marketting and distribution, and does it well.
So Jobs is more of a Gus, i think.
First of all you have to provide a scientific definition of "race".
There are similar problems trying to define species, genus etc. DNA and other new data shows that the tree of life is more complex than we realised.
But a lack of a single simple definiton does not mean that species or race are invalid or unuseful categories.
...and it looked like a very large princess cut diamond set in a bed of milk chocolate.
You forgot shoes. What is it with women and shoes? Some young men are obsessed with their shoes, but not 10, 20, 30 pairs of them.
Why play the race card? Iranians look white to me.
The purpose of a constitution is to expressly grant certain powers to the government and to deny it any powers not so granted.
No! The purpose of the constitution is to expressly grant certain powers to the federal government, and leave others to the states and the Crown.
Which country did you think we were talking about here?
I'd prefer getting wiretaps on the ATO to find out why they are not persuing the blatent tax-dodging of large corporations like Microsoft, Google and Ikea, who report almost no profit in Australia, and massive profits in obscure tax havens.
. By this definition, when a doctor collects 20 eggs for in vitro fertilization, each and every one of those eggs is now a constitutionally protected human being with inalienable rights.
On the plus side, the child tax credits are awesome!
Surely the authors don't claim that 86% of rapes in the U.S. go unreported?
Once you start counting Swedish definitions of rape, 86% would be a severe under-estimate.
Doesn't the Bible have the same provision?
That would be Deuteronomy 22, so Christians and Jews are in the same boat, if they actually follow the bible.
It gets worse if a betrothed virgin is raped inside the city limits. She must be stoned to death, along with the rapist.
By any reasonable definition a fetus is a human being,
How dismissive! The foetus is of course human, but so is my semen or your toenail. What makes something a "being"?
The argument is that a being is independently viable. You may disagree, but you cannot intelligently call it unreasonable.
the other group believes the same thing, but the thing suddenly becomes an individual earlier.
Not quite the same. One group understands that their choice of time is somewhat arbitrary, and open for negotiation. It is almost universally accepted that a line is needed somewhere, be it conception or a ceremony some time after birth. The problem is that human life never truly begins, it only ends.
Good point. Maybe there was a planet, but the locals ripped it apart to build a Ringworld. There is no way to detect that from here with current technology.
. Holy water really is sanctified and that's the only claim.
It is also supposed to ward off demons and vampires, but that one is rather difficult to disprove.
It's a, presumably, private, 'Catholic' school. What exactly did you expect?
Plenty of Catholic schools are quite capable of distinguishing between science and religion.
In fact it was a Catholic priest and scientist, Georges Lemaître, who came up with the Big Bang concept.
Besides, the pope says evolution is OK. It was "guided" by God of course.