Completely agree. There are many advantages to exploring in person.You can't make split second decisions with a remote probe when communication lags are in the spans of minutes. The success or faliure of a mission can be totally dependent on being able to make the right move at the right time.
You're spot on about the "complex situation". It goes like this - Minister for Broadband meets Family First Senator in the hallway - "Hey mate - don't worry - we'll support your battle with SATAN - there are just a couple of minor tax/policy/industrial relations etc matters that we would like your support in blah blah blah". Of course they are thinking of the children.
or just try and get a photo of Senator Fielding coming out of one of those special public toilets that don't actually exist in this god fearing land...
That'll stop it sone dead.
This is all about Senator Fielding. The government needs his vote in the senate. If they can show Fielding that they are "serious" about taking up arms against Satan then he might vote with them on some dumb taxaxtion issue. The Australian Labor Party doesn't like it but they can't get what they want without the vote of a single ignorant, right-wing fundamentalist god botherer.
Let us all be subject to the fevers of the bone-stick-stone stupid. (thank you Harlan Ellison for the imagery)
This is true that it is all about domestic politics. The political scene in Australian Federal politics revolves around a dense core of deep fundamentalist evangelical Christian hardliners. They need to be pacified so that entire rafts of legislation can be rubber stamped through the Senate. However the costs in terms of basic rights are far out weighing the expedience of legislative throughput.
The fact that those who oppose such controls are condemned as supporters of all things evil pops up as a red flag highlighting their almost Inquisitionist agenda.
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Completely agree. There are many advantages to exploring in person.You can't make split second decisions with a remote probe when communication lags are in the spans of minutes. The success or faliure of a mission can be totally dependent on being able to make the right move at the right time.
You're spot on about the "complex situation". It goes like this - Minister for Broadband meets Family First Senator in the hallway - "Hey mate - don't worry - we'll support your battle with SATAN - there are just a couple of minor tax/policy/industrial relations etc matters that we would like your support in blah blah blah". Of course they are thinking of the children.
or just try and get a photo of Senator Fielding coming out of one of those special public toilets that don't actually exist in this god fearing land ...
That'll stop it sone dead.
Let us pray - This is a subliminal post so it can't be filtered except by the FSM.
This is all about Senator Fielding. The government needs his vote in the senate. If they can show Fielding that they are "serious" about taking up arms against Satan then he might vote with them on some dumb taxaxtion issue. The Australian Labor Party doesn't like it but they can't get what they want without the vote of a single ignorant, right-wing fundamentalist god botherer. Let us all be subject to the fevers of the bone-stick-stone stupid. (thank you Harlan Ellison for the imagery)
This is true that it is all about domestic politics. The political scene in Australian Federal politics revolves around a dense core of deep fundamentalist evangelical Christian hardliners. They need to be pacified so that entire rafts of legislation can be rubber stamped through the Senate. However the costs in terms of basic rights are far out weighing the expedience of legislative throughput. The fact that those who oppose such controls are condemned as supporters of all things evil pops up as a red flag highlighting their almost Inquisitionist agenda.
Thanks for the brain explosion - Parsec - that was amazing- what about Chislom Trail - that was unbelivable at the time.