gillard has a major fight on her hands to stay in power. she's too much of an ice queen to win voters over with any kind of warm feminine touch, and she's got too many of krudd's failures on her hands to win a vote of compertence. i'll list for non australian's the current governments screw ups:
billions wasted on the pink batts scandal, plus several people killed.
failed to implement ETS scheme after wasting 100's of millions on a "climate change" department.
after announcing 149 new child care centers to be built, only a dozen have opened.
announced the creation of "gp super clinics". not one has opened.
failed to reform the health system after much promising.
wasted millions on the halls for schools program.
the so called education revolution amounted to nothing more then an expensive website.
they said they'd take on japan over whaling, they haven't.
failed to act on illegal boat people.
ran the country broke bank rolling cash hand out's during the GFC.
wiped 10's of billions off australian retirement funds through their botched handling of the so called super profits tax.
it's really really hard to think of ANYTHING redeeming about this government, and you have to remember gillard was in on ALL of it. it's a shame, but it seems all abbot has to do is keep his mouth shut and he'll be PM in a few months.
the previous howard government policy was to provide free filtering software to anyone that asked for it. as effective as anything, far cheaper then a national filter and totally opt in.
the current liberal policy has not changed from this.
it sounds like a classic case of a small company having no idea how a patent works or what it means. you can get the details of their invention from the patent office any time you like. that's how it works.
they are a developing country. how are they supposed to have the same standards as the rest of the developed world? remember the west went through the same dirty as fuck industrial stage 100 years ago.
oh and the whole landfills are full is just bullshit. guess why they are full? because governments refuse to build new ones. ergo, they fill up. it's a circular reference and about as honest as calling this pc recycling fake. after all, the pc's ARE being recycled and there's plenty of land to build land fills.
"Sure there is. There is a steady increase in C02 Levels in the atmosphere. This should result in a corresponding increase in plant growth since plants are largely bottlenecked by the relatively low C02 levels in the modern vs the 1500ppm that existed when they evolved. Plants should be able to balance any increase in C02 emissions and yet they aren't."
probably because we are chopping down forest like there's no tomorrow, you silly knob.
this whole thing is stupid and her experiment is poorly controlled. she's done hardly anything to establish if the results are because of the EM.
actually the real issue with stopping the use of DDT was it's use as a mosquito control - 100,000's of people have died from malaria because it was stopped. the environmental movement will only gain credibility when they start looking outside of their own narrow special interest focus and see how their demands effect others.
it's unacceptable when your asking countries to spend trillions based on teh data.
that's the issue. sure people make mistakes, but a paper written and reviewed by supposed "thousands" of the top scientists in the world (as AGW people like to tout the IPC's paper)????!!!!
this was a gag. they merely threw together a pool internally and asked people to make their picks. there was no massive man hours or processing power based on complex models. anyone that believes these bankers spent more then a few hours on this is a naive idiot.
i just lol at the fact this crap makes/. front page and that so many of you are taking it seriously.
your 1/3 right. it's the constant violence that prevents them growing food and having clean water supplies. build a damn for clean water? might as well paint a bull's eye on it for one of the many rebel groups in your country.
the honest truth, is the best thing that could happen for most african countries is for white man to take them over again. self governance is a failure is africa.
so you admit the journalist was being aggressive, but somehow the young officer is the one over reacting?! police are NOT there to put up with your shit, inspite of what the spoilt brats of gen-y seem to believe. they aren't mommy and daddy who will put up with your temper tantrums, they are the enforcers of law and keepers of the peace. if this idiot thinks being questioned is the same as being threatened, he needs to try taking photo's somewhere like Columbia where they just beat you without even a hello.
this guy is just a typical dickhead who thinks he can be as rude as he likes to everyone, yet whines like a little bitch when the inevitable happens.
an issue like this is going to be completely polarized. either LHC is worth doing or it isn't. you can't do it cheaper or on a smaller scale so there's never going to be a middle ground.
negative results will still infer a great deal of information that the brains behind the operation will dumb down to layman's terms for the non uber nerds, so they will stay interested anyway.
the brain dead idiots who think LHC is a waste of money will as you said, never change their minds.
you fail. even negative results are interesting to scientists. a negative can infer as much if not more then finding what you expect. people that think unless they can buy it in walmart it's not worth doing, were around when they were investigating the nature of electricity, and now look at how important that knowledge is. the information we are getting from places like LHC will be the lynch pin to our future discoveries. to the morons looking for stuff to buy at walmart, i direct you to aisle 3 for the hana montana dvd's.
no, the worst thing that could happen to them is for the world to "butt out". the taliban would take over in a month and they'd be back to the dark ages.
they aren't going to fix their fucked up country on their own, they need help from the free world.
nah, after years of working in the resource industry i can offer you one insight - geologist are usually useless twits. show me a room of 100 geo's and there will be maybe 2 or 3 with a clue, and the rest just took the course because they couldn't pass anything else.
most of what they have "found" is probably uneconomical to mine and the nytimes is too dumb to read the fine print of the report.
i've heard this tired argument time and time again, painting mining companies as the devil who sneaks in and steals the wealth and gives nothing back.
it's FUD. mining companies pump bulk cash into economies and employ 10,000's of people. if you want to know who the real villains are, take a look at where all the royalties go - government coffers. corrupt government are the problem not mining companies. companies are neither good nor evil, they just want to do business.
yes because a site named AntiPolygraph.org is going to give us a fair and even handed review....
this is why america is royally FUCKED, you just can't help but completely polarize every argument until it leads to us vs them on every topic and no one is willing to give an inch.
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what a load of crap. do people actually believe your nonsense????
failed to implement ETS scheme after wasting 100's of millions on a "climate change" department.
after announcing 149 new child care centers to be built, only a dozen have opened.
announced the creation of "gp super clinics". not one has opened.
failed to reform the health system after much promising.
wasted millions on the halls for schools program.
the so called education revolution amounted to nothing more then an expensive website.
they said they'd take on japan over whaling, they haven't.
failed to act on illegal boat people.
ran the country broke bank rolling cash hand out's during the GFC.
wiped 10's of billions off australian retirement funds through their botched handling of the so called super profits tax.
it's really really hard to think of ANYTHING redeeming about this government, and you have to remember gillard was in on ALL of it. it's a shame, but it seems all abbot has to do is keep his mouth shut and he'll be PM in a few months.
the previous howard government policy was to provide free filtering software to anyone that asked for it. as effective as anything, far cheaper then a national filter and totally opt in.
the current liberal policy has not changed from this.
it sounds like a classic case of a small company having no idea how a patent works or what it means. you can get the details of their invention from the patent office any time you like. that's how it works.
oh and the whole landfills are full is just bullshit. guess why they are full? because governments refuse to build new ones. ergo, they fill up. it's a circular reference and about as honest as calling this pc recycling fake. after all, the pc's ARE being recycled and there's plenty of land to build land fills.
so why waste our time with this dribble then? h.264 has won, /. get over it
oh wait, 99% of job's ask for .net experience.
honestly some people will sit there and tell you the sky is purple when it's clearly blue....
probably because we are chopping down forest like there's no tomorrow, you silly knob.
this whole thing is stupid and her experiment is poorly controlled. she's done hardly anything to establish if the results are because of the EM.
actually the real issue with stopping the use of DDT was it's use as a mosquito control - 100,000's of people have died from malaria because it was stopped. the environmental movement will only gain credibility when they start looking outside of their own narrow special interest focus and see how their demands effect others.
that's the issue. sure people make mistakes, but a paper written and reviewed by supposed "thousands" of the top scientists in the world (as AGW people like to tout the IPC's paper)????!!!!
i just lol at the fact this crap makes /. front page and that so many of you are taking it seriously.
the honest truth, is the best thing that could happen for most african countries is for white man to take them over again. self governance is a failure is africa.
maybe you should stick to your greeting job at walmart....
this guy is just a typical dickhead who thinks he can be as rude as he likes to everyone, yet whines like a little bitch when the inevitable happens.
an issue like this is going to be completely polarized. either LHC is worth doing or it isn't. you can't do it cheaper or on a smaller scale so there's never going to be a middle ground.
negative results will still infer a great deal of information that the brains behind the operation will dumb down to layman's terms for the non uber nerds, so they will stay interested anyway.
the brain dead idiots who think LHC is a waste of money will as you said, never change their minds.
you fail. even negative results are interesting to scientists. a negative can infer as much if not more then finding what you expect. people that think unless they can buy it in walmart it's not worth doing, were around when they were investigating the nature of electricity, and now look at how important that knowledge is. the information we are getting from places like LHC will be the lynch pin to our future discoveries. to the morons looking for stuff to buy at walmart, i direct you to aisle 3 for the hana montana dvd's.
but there is nothing else suspicious. this just sounds like bullshit to me.
everyone tag this as kdawsonsucks. that summary needed to be aborted.
i haven't seen anything aside from text ads from google in years. it's called ad block, and the more desperate ad companies get the more i lol.
they aren't going to fix their fucked up country on their own, they need help from the free world.
wait so government officials are taking bribes but somehow the resource companies are the problem???
most of what they have "found" is probably uneconomical to mine and the nytimes is too dumb to read the fine print of the report.
it's FUD. mining companies pump bulk cash into economies and employ 10,000's of people. if you want to know who the real villains are, take a look at where all the royalties go - government coffers. corrupt government are the problem not mining companies. companies are neither good nor evil, they just want to do business.
not to mention you can already by garden lights that do exactly this.i think this whole story is fucking stupid.
this is why america is royally FUCKED, you just can't help but completely polarize every argument until it leads to us vs them on every topic and no one is willing to give an inch.