Something to do with that period where Google+ thought it could upload my photos without asking. Google+ is just distancing itself from what is now no-doubt the largest repository of kiddy porn on the internet.
I do agree with you on that, but you can't have it both ways. It either raised no money and wasn't effective, or it was hurting people in exactly the right way.
The point of raising people's power bills wasn't to make them hot in summer, it was to make them consider new tech such as the air-conditioners that the power company can turn off suburb by suburb 10 minutes at a time to manage peak load. This stuff is coming thankfully and it should help end gold plating.
I guess I must concede the point that it wasn't effective, because the pressure should have been put on suppliers to make these changes, not allowed to be passed straight to struggling families.
Hoping that you're staying on top of your power bills,
Yeah yeah. It was that horrible tax that was sucking heaps of money out of our economy. The one that was so hopeless it wasn't even sucking any money out of the economy.
It's funny what some people consider an unavoidable expense.
My mother recently looked into this, it was $3000 per eye for laser surgery, which she was going to do until she heard that they can now replace your lenses whollus-bollus for $800 an eye.
It was an even scarier procedure, but it worked a charm and she can now read (which she does a lot) without glasses and is basically 20/20.
Yes, you're exactly right. The best thing the human race could do is turn the entire place into a radioactive crater, then say "off you go, fight over that".
I do agree with you in principle, but that unused land is a long way from where most people live. If it were viable to do anything out there we'd be grazing it.
When the pendulum swings the other way you probably have a great deal of tolerance for supposed electoral mandates.
You may be correct, but I've yet to see it happen. Tony Abbot's mantra of "we have a mandate" is almost as scary as the "we don't comment on operational matters" one. They both seek to treat the entire electorate, including a proportion of their own voters I'll bet, like they are completely stupid. You can vote Liberal but still think it's inappropriate for someone else to control who you can and can't marry. Tony Abbot would stand up and say he has a mandate on that too - in fact I'm surprised he hasn't.
The moral certitude you indulge has you reaching for some thread that would grant immunity to your agenda despite election results.
I don't think I was indulging or attempting to push any agenda and if I was it certainly wasn't to depose the democratically elected government of my country, merely to point out the sheer numerical weight AGAINST the idea of having a clear mandate on any one topic without having had a specific referendum on that topic.
As someone already pointed out, they voted Liberal to get rid of Labour (an action I find irresponsible but anyway...). That means at least one person didn't vote for repealing the carbon tax, but voted Liberal. Does that mean that they now have "mandate-1"? No, it just reinforces the fact that they don't have a mandate on anything.
The thing is that this is so wrong and simply not how things work. Nobody would trade on a market where the first person to bid or offer is the not first person to trade. In your example, as soon as someone said 'will pay $500', they would be given the bike that was available at $400. And they would pay $400, not $500.
The other thing is, even if this did occur, the person wanting to pay $500 for a bike has gotten what they want. This is called liquidity and it's valuable in its own right. If they didn't want to pay $500 for a bike then they shouldn't go to a market place and say that they did. But they did, because they didn't want the $500 as it won't help them travel to the shops (by itself).
I agree, it was great when everyone was just on MSN messenger. But like all things MS they crapped in their own bed by turning it into a games platform, office suite and 30 other things with Windows Live. So everyone left.
If they could have just learnt that ONE lesson... Oh well.
We're sitting on the largest known deposits of radioactive materials in the world I believe. But in a country where racism is still rampant under the title of "Operation Sovereign Borders", how accepting do you think the population will be of nookular power?
I'm so sick of being told that because one party has a majority at one election they have 'a mandate' to follow through on every horrible plan they conceive.
1 - Not everybody voted for them. 2 - They aren't the only party sitting in parliament. 3 - Even if you DID vote for them AND live in one of their electorates you are still entitled to disagree with them on any issue you choose.
Let's not even go down the path of trying to separate the rhetoric of 'power poverty' from all the other contributing factors in power prices.
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Copyright is not only stealing, it's terrorism. Do try to keep up.
Something to do with that period where Google+ thought it could upload my photos without asking. Google+ is just distancing itself from what is now no-doubt the largest repository of kiddy porn on the internet.
Did they happen to rule on whether Nigerian princes who use cloud services in the US would be covered by the same thing?
Of course. The USA is the USA, all those other places, they're just countries.
I do agree with you on that, but you can't have it both ways. It either raised no money and wasn't effective, or it was hurting people in exactly the right way.
The point of raising people's power bills wasn't to make them hot in summer, it was to make them consider new tech such as the air-conditioners that the power company can turn off suburb by suburb 10 minutes at a time to manage peak load. This stuff is coming thankfully and it should help end gold plating.
I guess I must concede the point that it wasn't effective, because the pressure should have been put on suppliers to make these changes, not allowed to be passed straight to struggling families.
Hoping that you're staying on top of your power bills,
Aaron.
Yeah yeah. It was that horrible tax that was sucking heaps of money out of our economy. The one that was so hopeless it wasn't even sucking any money out of the economy.
Make up your mind.
It's funny what some people consider an unavoidable expense.
My mother recently looked into this, it was $3000 per eye for laser surgery, which she was going to do until she heard that they can now replace your lenses whollus-bollus for $800 an eye.
It was an even scarier procedure, but it worked a charm and she can now read (which she does a lot) without glasses and is basically 20/20.
It's that easy!
Well, they constantly claim that the rockets are targeted at schools or whatever - are they just pushing them there themselves?
Yes, you're exactly right. The best thing the human race could do is turn the entire place into a radioactive crater, then say "off you go, fight over that".
> Can't they stop having too many kids for the greater good?
No, we gave them religion so that they wouldn't want to practise birth control.
Don't worry, it will mainly be used to fix lipstick before soccer matches...
did our parents ever manage to raise us using JUST HATCHBACKS?
Some technology is handy. Other technology just promotes being a wanker.
Only Australia has excluded Australia from Australia's migration zone.
I do agree with you in principle, but that unused land is a long way from where most people live. If it were viable to do anything out there we'd be grazing it.
Not that we can't do both, I guess. :-)
When the pendulum swings the other way you probably have a great deal of tolerance for supposed electoral mandates.
You may be correct, but I've yet to see it happen. Tony Abbot's mantra of "we have a mandate" is almost as scary as the "we don't comment on operational matters" one. They both seek to treat the entire electorate, including a proportion of their own voters I'll bet, like they are completely stupid. You can vote Liberal but still think it's inappropriate for someone else to control who you can and can't marry. Tony Abbot would stand up and say he has a mandate on that too - in fact I'm surprised he hasn't.
The moral certitude you indulge has you reaching for some thread that would grant immunity to your agenda despite election results.
I don't think I was indulging or attempting to push any agenda and if I was it certainly wasn't to depose the democratically elected government of my country, merely to point out the sheer numerical weight AGAINST the idea of having a clear mandate on any one topic without having had a specific referendum on that topic.
As someone already pointed out, they voted Liberal to get rid of Labour (an action I find irresponsible but anyway...). That means at least one person didn't vote for repealing the carbon tax, but voted Liberal. Does that mean that they now have "mandate-1"? No, it just reinforces the fact that they don't have a mandate on anything.
That's right, it is if you're rich. You just pay your levy and enjoy your fucking private health insurance.
The rest of us will be paying GP copayments, increased HECS, and all those other things that probably don't affect you, forever.
In actual fact most connections used by HFTs are encrypted AND dedicated.
The thing is that this is so wrong and simply not how things work. Nobody would trade on a market where the first person to bid or offer is the not first person to trade. In your example, as soon as someone said 'will pay $500', they would be given the bike that was available at $400. And they would pay $400, not $500.
The other thing is, even if this did occur, the person wanting to pay $500 for a bike has gotten what they want. This is called liquidity and it's valuable in its own right. If they didn't want to pay $500 for a bike then they shouldn't go to a market place and say that they did. But they did, because they didn't want the $500 as it won't help them travel to the shops (by itself).
I'm not sure if this post was sarcastic... but just in case it wasn't: Microsoft have adopted automated testing? Wow! What's next, bug tracking?
I agree, it was great when everyone was just on MSN messenger. But like all things MS they crapped in their own bed by turning it into a games platform, office suite and 30 other things with Windows Live. So everyone left.
If they could have just learnt that ONE lesson... Oh well.
We're sitting on the largest known deposits of radioactive materials in the world I believe. But in a country where racism is still rampant under the title of "Operation Sovereign Borders", how accepting do you think the population will be of nookular power?
Do you happen to work at the Australia Institute?
I'm so sick of being told that because one party has a majority at one election they have 'a mandate' to follow through on every horrible plan they conceive.
1 - Not everybody voted for them.
2 - They aren't the only party sitting in parliament.
3 - Even if you DID vote for them AND live in one of their electorates you are still entitled to disagree with them on any issue you choose.
Let's not even go down the path of trying to separate the rhetoric of 'power poverty' from all the other contributing factors in power prices.
Did you get your $550 yet? Didn't think so.
Windows 8 has yet to be supported at all.
It's especially ridiculous when it's a CG generated space scene and THERE IS NO LENS.