one of the key things labor supporters always attempt to make a point of in federal elections is medical and education - both of which are STATE RUN, and guess what party is in power on a state level? LABOR.
The truth is, that federal spending on education and health increased dramaticly under howard, it's just the state labor governments are fucking useless at running them.
And why are your criticizing the liberals for selling assets to pay off debts? they didn't get the country in such debt in the first place, and it's just sound financial management to sell assets to rid yourself of debt (in fact it's finance 101)
it's also part of smaller government. although i DO disagree with some of their moves, such as how they handled telstra. they should have only sold the retail sector of telstra and setup the wholesale as a not for profit. they also need to give the accc some more teeth, same with consumer protection and fair trading.
the world was a VERY different place when bob hawke was in power, comparing comments made 20 years ago to today's climate is idiotic in the extreme.
and don't fucking kid yourselfs, Rudd is just as big of a snake. Knowing labor they have scraped the "national ID" so they can bring in their own "mega national ID". Where the liberals are all about less government, labor are all about MORE government... take a guess which one is going love the idea of more power that a national ID card will bring. It's standard for the incoming government to dump all the old governments idea's anyway, i don't see what your all so excited about. get back to me in 12 months and then we will see.
oh and john howard stayed in power for so long because he was a smart motherfucker who got rid of the 80 billion in national debt and 12% interest rates that labor left us with last time. he also got us back our AAA credit rating, brought the economy out of recession and instigated much needed tax reform.
all you lefty tree huggers love the idea of labor because they try to please everyone, but in the real world when you try to please everyone you end up pleasing no one and making a big screw up of everything. that's what a labor government brings to the table.
well, i can't say i agree with you because erratic or racing heart beats are a vital clue to many illnesses.
my partner's rapid heart beat was what lead to her being diagnosed with a certain illness. a doctor could very well play back the beats to show there was no reasonable way for him to know a person had a certain illness that related to it.
simple example - patient see's doctor, walks out has heart attack, sues doctor claiming he should have diagnosed him, doctor plays back perfectly normal sounding heart beat. that kind of thing really comes down to how confident you are of your abilities...
what so it's ok to rip off people because they are clueless? here's a hint - people are under no obligation to be an expert on something to purchase it, and the burden is on the provider to be fair.
oh and yes internode dropped a whole bunch of peering a while back and there was a motherfucking HUGE out cry about it so don't give me this dribble about it not mattering.
Telstra is THE isp that is out there pushing the mantra "content is king" and now they think it's ok to start pulling that content?
But it's NOT free you dickhead, access to the bigpond mirror sites is part of your agreement if your a bigpond customer. by making those mirror sites less useful they have degraded your service without offering anything to combinsate you.
Anyone from australia who is familar with telstra won't be suprised by this move, they are the biggest bunch of cunts i've ever seen. this same company wanted to charge $32 for shared access to phone lines, and after careful invesgiation our regulartory body here the accc ruled a price of $3 - $9 was the price that still made telstra a profit and allowed competition. telstra were effectively double dipping, charging the customers line rental and charging ISP's using the lines even more for the same thing. they charged these fee's under the guise of maintanence costs, even though 8% or more of phone lines have serious service issues ranging from no dial tone to being so static that a conversation is impossible.
you wouldn't think so because what your talking about are dishonor fee's, and only get applied if there isn't enough money in your account.They can't charge you a fee for a fraudulent transaction, or if they did i'd be screaming blue murder all the way to the accc.
the problem is going to be that modifying the http stream will break web applications and some secure sessions. it'll become even more of a problem as time progresses.
imho they are creating a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. there's 1000's of widgets out there they could tune to give you an almost real time view of your quota, building their own an interfering with your http traffic is not a good solution.
thats right, its more then likely your previous computer models are wrong. GOOD science only starts with computer models and works it's way to theory from there. Global warming nut's are trying to skip all that and jump right to a conclusion.
And when you say "large" numbers of scientists i hope you aren't some how refering to that UN report claiming 2000 of the worlds leading scientists agree.... because it's been shown even people who proof read that thing were included in that 2000, and a number of leading climatologists have requested their names be removed from it.
just because they whack a bunch of sources at the end of the wiki doesn't mean anything in those sources is in the main article, which is what you are quoting. try quoting a primary source if you want to be taken seriously.
and yes, people often do just make shit up and put it in wikipedia, hence it's poor reputation.
Time and time again you'll see global warming advocates pointing to computer models as proof.
computer models are NOT proof in any scientific field. they are the beginning of a hypothesis. use them to refine your hypothesis till you can produce testable results elevating it to a theory, then come back to me.
i don't believe it's even "clear" that it's an indicator our climate is changing. in TFA they don't even consider that maybe they are just getting better at knowing where to look for them, hence they see more.
We've established naming conventions and guide lines everyone seems to be sticking to. the real test will be if they stick to it while i'm away on another project.
I think lack of direction and leadership is why projects drift. hence why many OSS projects have woeful code, because they are hobbies and lack a firm direction.
I know why they hate email so much, because it's a verifible record of their dealings.
I had clients back in the day that never wanted to use email, and i couldn't work out why until i figured out they were saying one thing in phone conferences and changing their tune down the track to suit themselves, and they couldn't do that when i had our conversations via email.
I take it you aren't aware that the ONLY nuclear accident that has resulted in injury to anyone, all happened under the control of your communist buddies, in the exact government controlled public interest setting you are advocating.
and wtf does enron's book keeping fraud have to do with safety or the republicans?
do you have ANY fucking idea how the electrical grid works? because i'm finding it really hard to see how we are going to distribute all the worlds power from a few deserts, hoping from site to site as the sun goes down.
I'm going to assume your just ignorant, and don't know what your saying is rubbish.
i'd much rather the surgeon be worrying about keeping me alive while under the knife, not worrying about how many sponges he has used.
with ever more complex operations happening, there is hardly anything "basic" about a lot of what happens.
try watching one of those medical shows and you'll see about 1% of whats involved. to qualify my comments i used to work in the medical field in an IT capacity.
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The truth is, that federal spending on education and health increased dramaticly under howard, it's just the state labor governments are fucking useless at running them.
And why are your criticizing the liberals for selling assets to pay off debts? they didn't get the country in such debt in the first place, and it's just sound financial management to sell assets to rid yourself of debt (in fact it's finance 101)
it's also part of smaller government. although i DO disagree with some of their moves, such as how they handled telstra. they should have only sold the retail sector of telstra and setup the wholesale as a not for profit. they also need to give the accc some more teeth, same with consumer protection and fair trading.
the world was a VERY different place when bob hawke was in power, comparing comments made 20 years ago to today's climate is idiotic in the extreme.
and don't fucking kid yourselfs, Rudd is just as big of a snake. Knowing labor they have scraped the "national ID" so they can bring in their own "mega national ID". Where the liberals are all about less government, labor are all about MORE government... take a guess which one is going love the idea of more power that a national ID card will bring. It's standard for the incoming government to dump all the old governments idea's anyway, i don't see what your all so excited about. get back to me in 12 months and then we will see.
oh and john howard stayed in power for so long because he was a smart motherfucker who got rid of the 80 billion in national debt and 12% interest rates that labor left us with last time. he also got us back our AAA credit rating, brought the economy out of recession and instigated much needed tax reform.
all you lefty tree huggers love the idea of labor because they try to please everyone, but in the real world when you try to please everyone you end up pleasing no one and making a big screw up of everything. that's what a labor government brings to the table.
my partner's rapid heart beat was what lead to her being diagnosed with a certain illness. a doctor could very well play back the beats to show there was no reasonable way for him to know a person had a certain illness that related to it.
simple example - patient see's doctor, walks out has heart attack, sues doctor claiming he should have diagnosed him, doctor plays back perfectly normal sounding heart beat. that kind of thing really comes down to how confident you are of your abilities...
The real test in these cases is how the asshole worded the question. I bet he tweaked it to get the result he set out to get
oh and yes internode dropped a whole bunch of peering a while back and there was a motherfucking HUGE out cry about it so don't give me this dribble about it not mattering.
Telstra is THE isp that is out there pushing the mantra "content is king" and now they think it's ok to start pulling that content?
and you want to rag on MS for their patching efforts, apple are even worse and flat out refuse to patch some things till service pack time.
Anyone from australia who is familar with telstra won't be suprised by this move, they are the biggest bunch of cunts i've ever seen. this same company wanted to charge $32 for shared access to phone lines, and after careful invesgiation our regulartory body here the accc ruled a price of $3 - $9 was the price that still made telstra a profit and allowed competition. telstra were effectively double dipping, charging the customers line rental and charging ISP's using the lines even more for the same thing. they charged these fee's under the guise of maintanence costs, even though 8% or more of phone lines have serious service issues ranging from no dial tone to being so static that a conversation is impossible.
you wouldn't think so because what your talking about are dishonor fee's, and only get applied if there isn't enough money in your account.They can't charge you a fee for a fraudulent transaction, or if they did i'd be screaming blue murder all the way to the accc.
imho they are creating a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. there's 1000's of widgets out there they could tune to give you an almost real time view of your quota, building their own an interfering with your http traffic is not a good solution.
replace "trying different things" with "seeing what we can get away with" and your closer to the truth
thats right, its more then likely your previous computer models are wrong. GOOD science only starts with computer models and works it's way to theory from there. Global warming nut's are trying to skip all that and jump right to a conclusion.
And when you say "large" numbers of scientists i hope you aren't some how refering to that UN report claiming 2000 of the worlds leading scientists agree.... because it's been shown even people who proof read that thing were included in that 2000, and a number of leading climatologists have requested their names be removed from it.
and yes, people often do just make shit up and put it in wikipedia, hence it's poor reputation.
computer models are NOT proof in any scientific field. they are the beginning of a hypothesis. use them to refine your hypothesis till you can produce testable results elevating it to a theory, then come back to me.
you lose.
i don't believe it's even "clear" that it's an indicator our climate is changing. in TFA they don't even consider that maybe they are just getting better at knowing where to look for them, hence they see more.
I think lack of direction and leadership is why projects drift. hence why many OSS projects have woeful code, because they are hobbies and lack a firm direction.
I had clients back in the day that never wanted to use email, and i couldn't work out why until i figured out they were saying one thing in phone conferences and changing their tune down the track to suit themselves, and they couldn't do that when i had our conversations via email.
The critical flaw in this, is that if you get to even 50% of the car out there having this it's a piss weak load balancer.
and wtf does enron's book keeping fraud have to do with safety or the republicans?
I'm going to assume your just ignorant, and don't know what your saying is rubbish.
Now if the rest of the alternative power crowd would get a clue we might actually make some progress....
as you well know there's no sure things once you start opening the body up, yet people seem to think they have a "right" to a trouble free operation.
with ever more complex operations happening, there is hardly anything "basic" about a lot of what happens.
try watching one of those medical shows and you'll see about 1% of whats involved. to qualify my comments i used to work in the medical field in an IT capacity.