Because many people cite the travel ban as some kind of example of "Islamaphobia" so that they can be dismissive of it, when actually it is an example of "MotherFuckersWhoWantToKillMeAndMyFamilyaphobia" which, I must confess, I suffer from.
No, what you suffer from is being an idiot.
if you're worried about your family being killed, start campaigning for mandatory jail time for people who drive on the phone... because you're far more likely to lose your family to a distracted driver in the next week then you are to a Muslim in their entire lifetimes.
You don't have a legitimate complaint, you have an irrational bais that you're trying to support with spurious reasoning. In short you're a complete tosspot and I have a condition that makes me allergic to tosspots.
In completely unrelated news, charges for in-flight entertainment units have gone up.
Most of the airlines affected by this will have in-seat entertainment.
I know this seems like an odd concept for Americans but a lot of airlines outside the US care about strange things like customer service and their reputation.
In fact I'm utterly convinced that is the driving force behind this. BA are currently struggling with Iberia losing so much money, they aren't able to compete with Middle Eastern airlines on price or performance, so they have the government do their dirty work.
These days terrorists could kill more people detonating their explosive belts while standing in the waiting lines of TSA screening in airports.
The point of terrorism isn't to kill people, it's to make people afraid of you.
Detonating a bomb in a crowd doesn't produce the same horror as doing the same on a plane.
Also you wont kill that many because explosions lose power over distance very quickly. Only those closest to the blast will be killed outright, the majority will only be injured and most of those will survive their injuries. Kinetic force is the killer and the majority of that goes upwards, away from the crowd. That's why terrorists in the west bank in the 80's and 90's would favour busses. Busses gave very few escape routes and the frame of the bus would direct trap the kinetic energy.
The only way this will sew actual terror is if you can repeat the attack often enough that no-one feels safe anywhere and if they had the resources to perform that kind of unrestricted terror campaign like the IRA used to... why aren't they doing it?
I wouldn't trust Wells Fargo any further than I could throw any of their crooked executives. Even if my credit unions offered this, I wouldn't link my cell phone to my banking info. That seems like an extremely bad idea.
Banks in Australia have been offering this for years. You get a code sent to your phone and just plug that into an ATM to get $50.
I agree that tying your bank account to your phone is a phenomenally stupid idea, people seem to be doing it in droves. Until the cost of fraud outweighs the profit, nothing is going to change.
Besides, if I read paragraph 13 correctly, the owner of the tractor has to indemnify John Deere and its dealers against all and any lawsuits, even if John Deere or the dealer is at fault for the cause of the lawsuit. That goes beyond everything I've seen in software EULAs so far. Those usually demand only indemnification against lawsuits that arise out of actions by the owner.
The thing about EULA's is that you can put anything you like in there. You can demand the forfeiture of their first born if you like. What matters is what a court of law will enforce, EULA's are CYA memos, not legally enforceable contracts.
What is enforceable depends on how bad the courts are in your area.
A common scenario here in England is crossing over to drive on the American (or incorrect) side of the road due to parked cars. A lot of places in England were built before roads were a thing, so there are a lot of houses with no driveways on narrow streets. Obviously people park on the street. So to go through you have to go onto the wrong side of the road. There is a bit of an issue when you have two cars at opposite ends both wanting to get through.
After a while you learn who has to give way to who and how to spot gaps to pull into to allow the other driver to pass. I highly doubt autonomous cars are going to be any good at this. Autonomous cars, when faced with situations they cant sort out will just stop and not move. On the road I described above this is one of the stupidest things to do. I can easily see two autonomous cars having a Mexican standoff next to a line of parked cars because one or both of them didn't take into account that one of them needed to pull in earlier to allow the other to pass.
And this is just the beginning of driving in England. Next we'll cover roundabouts, magic roundabouts, congestion and LEZ zones as well as random roadworks with temporary signals. I honestly doubt I will see an autonomous car that could navigate from one end of Swindon to the other in the middle of winter for decades.
In my experience it's not necessarily uneducated parents. Uneducated parents, if they have access to a pediatrician, are apt to follow his or her advice. It's educated parents who question, and the miseducated ones question and come up with bad answers.
Uneducated is the wrong word. Ignorant parents are the problem.
Having lived in developing nations, parents (and we're talking as young as 16 here) dont have second thoughts about vaccinations because they remember seeing these debilitating diseases in their childhood and in all likelihood, knew people who died from them. Now we're talking about people who rarely received more than a grade 3 or 4 education. In highly developed nations, people my age (mid 30's) grew up in an era when vicious child diseases were extremely uncommon. Few people my age knew someone disabled from polio. The worst we had to worry about was a few days off from Chicken Pox or the dirty kid passing on nits.
Never having to face such diseases combined with a culture that celebrates stupidity and disdains intelligence has created an environment where some people are utterly convinced that their ignorance is worth more than decades of medical research. Anti-vaxxers shouldn't be called ignorant and stupid and unapologetically so. We "fat shame" but are so reluctant to "stupid shame", something is fucked up with out society.
It's not uneducated parents that are the problem. It's a lot of middle-class mothers who are totally convinced by the pseudo-science and rubbish that's peddled on the internet and by "Wellness" gurus. Australia seems to be infested with them.
The Paleo Diet is alive and well here, pushed by a chef who somehow has become a dietary-science expert and made a mint from pushing books that contain dangerous pseudo-diets.
We also seem to be very susceptible to charlatans spruiking special-cancer treatments that do nothing but give false hope, drain someone's bank account and leaves them dead quicker.
First off, I completely agree about your point with so-called "wellness" gurus and other charlatans like David "avocado" Wolfe. These people are doing more to increase sickness and disease than most wars in the last 50 years.
However the Paleo diet has some science behind it, a high protein, low carbohydrate diet has been shown to be beneficial for weight loss and muscle gain. Older Australians like myself knew it as the CSIRO diet before it got hipstered into "paleo". its a diet designed for weight management.
The thing is, here in England, the people telling me what I can and cant do are almost always on the extreme right. Look at Trump, he labels anything that he disagrees with as being Fake News, then tells a lot of lies about Europe whilst people like you perpetuate both lies. That is censorship in its worst form. Successful despotic states always rely on people to do the enforcing.
Whenever someone says "but you cant say that in today's Britain", I can always chase their source back to the Daily Mail.
If you want see what hypocrisy looks like, look to the extreme right.
Your arguments remind me of the arguments that were used to censor pornography. "I know it when I see it."
Face it, once you start banning speech, the kind of speech that will be banned is the kind that is disliked by the ruling class. Thus it has always been.
Yes, anyone should be allowed to shout fire in a crowded theatre. No harm there.
You lot have no idea what is actually happening in Germany.
The Germans, given their history, are a bit wiser than that. One man's freedom of speech can infringe on a million other people's freedom to survive. Speech can be dangerous.
I encourage everyone who believes this nonsense to form their own country and live in harmony with other fellow like minded cowards forever. Censorship of ideas was a core enabler of Nazi Germany and go-to means of control of every dictatorship in human history.
It wasn't Adolf Hitler that killed millions of people it was a whole country going along with his insanity. Censoring speech has a proven track record of actually being dangerous.
It's what cowards always do when they can't compete and fear losing.
Nope, name calling is what cowards do when they fear opinions other than their own.
I strongly encourage you to form your own country with no limits on speech... And I give you about 10 minutes before it collapses.
Nowhere is speech truly unlimited. Even you are trying to practice your own form of censorship by trying to tie a negative label to people that disagree with you. You're as bad as the people you're complaining about and dont even have the common courtesy to admit it... In fact, because you're trying to censor opposing opinions without admitting it, you're even worse.
But.. why? I mean, jokes aside, what's the use case here? Are there legitimately apps that cannot run on the Apple platform that people feel they need? I can't think of any other reason.
This is pure stupidity. If you want to use an iPhone, use an iPhone. If you want to use an Android device, use that. But this makes as much sense as welding a Chevy to the back of a Honda and pretending you've achieved something worthwhile. A lot of people in tech have entirely too much time on their hands.
An better car analogy is to put an Aston Martin V12 into a Chevy Cruze (which wont fit without extensive modifications... for the non mechanically inclined amongst us).
If you need the power of Android, why not just get an Andoid phone to begin with? Not like you don't have plenty of choice.
But.. why? I mean, jokes aside, what's the use case here? Are there legitimately apps that cannot run on the Apple platform that people feel they need? I can't think of any other reason. If it was an e-ink display like the Yota, maybe, but why have a wholly separate OS?
There aren't just Apps that don't run on the Apple platform... there are basic OS functions like MSC and bluetooth to transfer files. I run my choice of browser (Ghostery) and ad blockers (which Ghostery does a good job of). Plus I like not being under the control of an evil overlord.
You'll never get an Iphone case for an Android phone because Android users dont need it. I cant say the same in reverse.
He's a spineless fool who lives in terror of the ultra-conservative wing of the party despite it being obvious he doesnt actually care much for their ideology Turnbull would have known full well that moving the NBN from fibre to the home to fibre to the node would turn the whole operpation into a dumpster fire, but he did it anyway because abbot wanted to dismantle the entirety of labors work. So now we're stuck with a half bbake garbage network for whom most people will never get speeds anywhere near fibre.
This, I get fibre to my house in England, 200 Mbps for 40 quid. I used to have ADSL in Perth and the best speed I ever got was 23 Mbps living right next to the exchange.
However it should be noted for the Americans playing along at home, we dont impeach our prime ministers in the Westminster system. The Prime minister is elected by the party which gets the majority and is not a fiat ruler or holds any special powers. All he can do is direct his party, this is why the party can replace him mid term. In the Westminster system we vote for parties and members, not leaders. The only people who voted for Malcom Turnbull are the people living in the electorate of Wentworth.
That being said, Turnbull knows his days are numbered after the absolute shellacking the LNP got in Western Australia in last weekends election. We know that Labor won by a huge margin... we just don't know how many LNP members lost their seats and places in the senate yet. It was the largest swing WA has ever had. One Nation did abysmally when the right-wing papers were expecting them to pick up a lot of votes. It seems Australia is turning it's back on the extreme right... and it's about damn time.
But was the cost of laying fibre to every house still going to be cheaper than a box on each street corner, taking into account that that the cost of the box is shared between all the houses? Genuine question, not being rhetorical.
Not only was it cheaper than the LNP's "Sting to the Can" FTTN, it was cheaper than maintaining the existing copper network.
We're going to have to dig it all up to replace it in 10-20 years anyway, so why not do it all at once. Its cheaper to do the job all at once.
You're right of course. But there's a big advantage to bringing a box home that just works, and plays games, and that's all.
And if consoles still did that, it'd be great.
I watched my housemate set up a multiplayer game of FIFA on the PS3... it reminded me of the 286 days because things just took that long. He needed log in (mandatory), then register guests, set up controllers, then loading took so long they needed to put in a mini-game to prevent people from getting bored. I could have gone to my PC, booted it up, loaded GTA V (which being a console port, does not load quickly) and they still wouldn't have been playing.
plays games, and that's all.
Except all the crap they're trying to bundle into it like Netflix, media centre functions, social networks, so on and so forth. It's almost at the point where playing games on a PS or XB is a secondary function.
They work in a lounge context, they're fairly quiet,
I can hear the fans in my housemates PS4 from another floor. Thats why he has his TV up to stupid levels of volume. So I guess that's what you mean by "lounge context"
they turn on really fast,
I guess they do... However you need to do another 5 minutes of bollocks to play a game. So loading times are a killer.
the software is specifically designed to be used with a controller
Which lacks the precision of a KB and mouse. I mean you don't have a choice of controllers at all.
pairing controllers works really well.
Works so well on my housemates PS4, he sometimes does it twice.
Now the battery life on the controller is so bad, they need to be charged every 2 games of FIFA.
Specs are very far from the whole story.
Yep, they're only the start of the deficiencies.
Things I _don't_ get by not being a console gamer.
- Paying for multiplayer.
- Missing out on RTS and TBS games.
- Mandatory system updates that disable functionality.
- Not being able to fix my own system.
- RROD and YLOD's.
- No Mods.
- 30 FPS limits.
- 1080p resolution limit.
- high prices of games.
I could go on, but I'm sure you get the hint.
I totally agree with you but I strongly suspect that most games companies see this as the future, and that the days of actually having your own copy of anything are numbered.
It doesn't matter what the games companies think, it's what people are willing to buy that matters and the PCGMR definitely wont be buying streaming only games. Filthy Console Peasants may put up with it for a while.
Anyone who thinks Ubisoft, EA, et al. are too big to fail... remember THQ. They went bust in 2013 (so console players may not remember them) and all of their properties were sold off for pennies on the pound. I predict the first company to try to go all streaming will be the next to fail.
It took me a minute to realise this was sarcasm. I was about to point out that Marcos and Franco were the opposite of socialists.
But it really doesn't matter whether they are left or right wing, what matters is that they went too far to the left or right wing. That's what scares me about western nations, we all seem to be going too far to the right. Australia, my original home (now live in the UK) has traditionally been a little on the conservative side of centre, which is fine but in the last 6 odd years there has been a disturbing and dangerous lurch towards the extreme right. Racists and religious fanatics have been voted for in increasing numbers. Its been the same in the UK (UKIP, Brexit) and the US (Trump).
Its not immigrants or leftists or Muslims, so on and so forth that will destroy our nations, its the people trying to make us hate immigrants, leftists, Muslims, gingers, crazy cat ladies or whatever is the flavour of the day who want to destroy free and fair societies.
it doesn't matter if you're left or right... as long as you aren't too far to the left or right.
If a farmer can run a diesel pump, then a power company can run a diesel plant for even less. Either the government's diesel subsidies are too high or they let the power company get too greedy.
With the privatisation of power companies in Australia, this is pretty much it. They don't just need to make a profit, but an increase in profit year on year.
I'd be surprised if they weren't deliberately trying to get rural properties off the grid because even though private corporations now run many of Australia's public power utilities, the govt still caps what they can charge.
However there is also the cost of transportation. It does cost money to transport electricity across the hundreds of kilometres of absolute nothing in Australia. Cost of maintenance as well as losses to resistance. Americans and Europeans just don't get how sparsely populated Australia is. You can drive for 4 hours at 100 KPH and not see any signs of civilisation once you get out of the major cities. In some cases you're running a line for 100 or more KM just to a single property.
Most on grid farms would maintain a Jenny because an outage could take days or sometimes weeks to fix. Its just become cheaper to buy the fuel for the generator than to pay the power companies.
You mean it's not enough to say "elevated storage tanks" (and then feel smugly self-superior)? They don't just appear, along with the solar cells to fill them, and start operating magically?
Because I'm guessing a farmer can just make a call and rent a diesel generator, and have it delivered to his farm within 2-3 days. And make another call to setup periodic refueling.
A farmer would already be getting fuel deliveries. Tractors dont run on pixie farts you know. Its a simple matter to order a few more litres.
Diesel generators are cheap enough these days, photovoltaics are also becoming cheap, most farms have been using them for household use for ages.
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>>Why do people keep saying this?
Because many people cite the travel ban as some kind of example of "Islamaphobia" so that they can be dismissive of it, when actually it is an example of "MotherFuckersWhoWantToKillMeAndMyFamilyaphobia" which, I must confess, I suffer from.
No, what you suffer from is being an idiot.
if you're worried about your family being killed, start campaigning for mandatory jail time for people who drive on the phone... because you're far more likely to lose your family to a distracted driver in the next week then you are to a Muslim in their entire lifetimes.
You don't have a legitimate complaint, you have an irrational bais that you're trying to support with spurious reasoning. In short you're a complete tosspot and I have a condition that makes me allergic to tosspots.
In completely unrelated news, charges for in-flight entertainment units have gone up.
Most of the airlines affected by this will have in-seat entertainment.
I know this seems like an odd concept for Americans but a lot of airlines outside the US care about strange things like customer service and their reputation.
In fact I'm utterly convinced that is the driving force behind this. BA are currently struggling with Iberia losing so much money, they aren't able to compete with Middle Eastern airlines on price or performance, so they have the government do their dirty work.
It's especially weird, as I'm not allowed to put a laptop in checked luggage because they don't allow large lithium-ion batteries in the hold.
I'd be more worried about sticky fingered baggage handlers.
Flying through SE Asia on a regular basis has taught me never to leave anything valuable in my checked luggage.
These days terrorists could kill more people detonating their explosive belts while standing in the waiting lines of TSA screening in airports.
The point of terrorism isn't to kill people, it's to make people afraid of you.
Detonating a bomb in a crowd doesn't produce the same horror as doing the same on a plane.
Also you wont kill that many because explosions lose power over distance very quickly. Only those closest to the blast will be killed outright, the majority will only be injured and most of those will survive their injuries. Kinetic force is the killer and the majority of that goes upwards, away from the crowd. That's why terrorists in the west bank in the 80's and 90's would favour busses. Busses gave very few escape routes and the frame of the bus would direct trap the kinetic energy.
The only way this will sew actual terror is if you can repeat the attack often enough that no-one feels safe anywhere and if they had the resources to perform that kind of unrestricted terror campaign like the IRA used to... why aren't they doing it?
I wouldn't trust Wells Fargo any further than I could throw any of their crooked executives. Even if my credit unions offered this, I wouldn't link my cell phone to my banking info. That seems like an extremely bad idea.
Banks in Australia have been offering this for years. You get a code sent to your phone and just plug that into an ATM to get $50.
I agree that tying your bank account to your phone is a phenomenally stupid idea, people seem to be doing it in droves. Until the cost of fraud outweighs the profit, nothing is going to change.
Besides, if I read paragraph 13 correctly, the owner of the tractor has to indemnify John Deere and its dealers against all and any lawsuits, even if John Deere or the dealer is at fault for the cause of the lawsuit. That goes beyond everything I've seen in software EULAs so far. Those usually demand only indemnification against lawsuits that arise out of actions by the owner.
The thing about EULA's is that you can put anything you like in there. You can demand the forfeiture of their first born if you like. What matters is what a court of law will enforce, EULA's are CYA memos, not legally enforceable contracts.
What is enforceable depends on how bad the courts are in your area.
You keep saying that like it matters any more.
A common scenario here in England is crossing over to drive on the American (or incorrect) side of the road due to parked cars. A lot of places in England were built before roads were a thing, so there are a lot of houses with no driveways on narrow streets. Obviously people park on the street. So to go through you have to go onto the wrong side of the road. There is a bit of an issue when you have two cars at opposite ends both wanting to get through. After a while you learn who has to give way to who and how to spot gaps to pull into to allow the other driver to pass. I highly doubt autonomous cars are going to be any good at this. Autonomous cars, when faced with situations they cant sort out will just stop and not move. On the road I described above this is one of the stupidest things to do. I can easily see two autonomous cars having a Mexican standoff next to a line of parked cars because one or both of them didn't take into account that one of them needed to pull in earlier to allow the other to pass. And this is just the beginning of driving in England. Next we'll cover roundabouts, magic roundabouts, congestion and LEZ zones as well as random roadworks with temporary signals. I honestly doubt I will see an autonomous car that could navigate from one end of Swindon to the other in the middle of winter for decades.
Here in the UK, our press uses the following units of measurement:
Distance: buses parked end-to-end.
Weight: elephants.
Area: Wales.
Please amend the article appropriately.
Are they an American or European bus.
In my experience it's not necessarily uneducated parents. Uneducated parents, if they have access to a pediatrician, are apt to follow his or her advice. It's educated parents who question, and the miseducated ones question and come up with bad answers.
Uneducated is the wrong word. Ignorant parents are the problem.
Having lived in developing nations, parents (and we're talking as young as 16 here) dont have second thoughts about vaccinations because they remember seeing these debilitating diseases in their childhood and in all likelihood, knew people who died from them. Now we're talking about people who rarely received more than a grade 3 or 4 education. In highly developed nations, people my age (mid 30's) grew up in an era when vicious child diseases were extremely uncommon. Few people my age knew someone disabled from polio. The worst we had to worry about was a few days off from Chicken Pox or the dirty kid passing on nits.
Never having to face such diseases combined with a culture that celebrates stupidity and disdains intelligence has created an environment where some people are utterly convinced that their ignorance is worth more than decades of medical research. Anti-vaxxers shouldn't be called ignorant and stupid and unapologetically so. We "fat shame" but are so reluctant to "stupid shame", something is fucked up with out society.
It's not uneducated parents that are the problem. It's a lot of middle-class mothers who are totally convinced by the pseudo-science and rubbish that's peddled on the internet and by "Wellness" gurus. Australia seems to be infested with them.
Someone has just been hammered for this.
The Paleo Diet is alive and well here, pushed by a chef who somehow has become a dietary-science expert and made a mint from pushing books that contain dangerous pseudo-diets.
We also seem to be very susceptible to charlatans spruiking special-cancer treatments that do nothing but give false hope, drain someone's bank account and leaves them dead quicker.
First off, I completely agree about your point with so-called "wellness" gurus and other charlatans like David "avocado" Wolfe. These people are doing more to increase sickness and disease than most wars in the last 50 years.
However the Paleo diet has some science behind it, a high protein, low carbohydrate diet has been shown to be beneficial for weight loss and muscle gain. Older Australians like myself knew it as the CSIRO diet before it got hipstered into "paleo". its a diet designed for weight management.
Why do we see so much hypocrisy from leftists?
Because you dont.
You want to, but it's not there.
The thing is, here in England, the people telling me what I can and cant do are almost always on the extreme right. Look at Trump, he labels anything that he disagrees with as being Fake News, then tells a lot of lies about Europe whilst people like you perpetuate both lies. That is censorship in its worst form. Successful despotic states always rely on people to do the enforcing.
Whenever someone says "but you cant say that in today's Britain", I can always chase their source back to the Daily Mail.
If you want see what hypocrisy looks like, look to the extreme right.
Your arguments remind me of the arguments that were used to censor pornography. "I know it when I see it."
Face it, once you start banning speech, the kind of speech that will be banned is the kind that is disliked by the ruling class. Thus it has always been.
Yes, anyone should be allowed to shout fire in a crowded theatre. No harm there.
You lot have no idea what is actually happening in Germany.
The Germans, given their history, are a bit wiser than that. One man's freedom of speech can infringe on a million other people's freedom to survive. Speech can be dangerous.
I encourage everyone who believes this nonsense to form their own country and live in harmony with other fellow like minded cowards forever. Censorship of ideas was a core enabler of Nazi Germany and go-to means of control of every dictatorship in human history.
It wasn't Adolf Hitler that killed millions of people it was a whole country going along with his insanity. Censoring speech has a proven track record of actually being dangerous.
It's what cowards always do when they can't compete and fear losing.
Nope, name calling is what cowards do when they fear opinions other than their own.
I strongly encourage you to form your own country with no limits on speech... And I give you about 10 minutes before it collapses.
Nowhere is speech truly unlimited. Even you are trying to practice your own form of censorship by trying to tie a negative label to people that disagree with you. You're as bad as the people you're complaining about and dont even have the common courtesy to admit it... In fact, because you're trying to censor opposing opinions without admitting it, you're even worse.
But.. why? I mean, jokes aside, what's the use case here? Are there legitimately apps that cannot run on the Apple platform that people feel they need? I can't think of any other reason.
Headphone jack?
This is pure stupidity. If you want to use an iPhone, use an iPhone. If you want to use an Android device, use that. But this makes as much sense as welding a Chevy to the back of a Honda and pretending you've achieved something worthwhile. A lot of people in tech have entirely too much time on their hands.
An better car analogy is to put an Aston Martin V12 into a Chevy Cruze (which wont fit without extensive modifications... for the non mechanically inclined amongst us).
If you need the power of Android, why not just get an Andoid phone to begin with? Not like you don't have plenty of choice.
But.. why? I mean, jokes aside, what's the use case here? Are there legitimately apps that cannot run on the Apple platform that people feel they need? I can't think of any other reason. If it was an e-ink display like the Yota, maybe, but why have a wholly separate OS?
There aren't just Apps that don't run on the Apple platform... there are basic OS functions like MSC and bluetooth to transfer files. I run my choice of browser (Ghostery) and ad blockers (which Ghostery does a good job of). Plus I like not being under the control of an evil overlord.
You'll never get an Iphone case for an Android phone because Android users dont need it. I cant say the same in reverse.
He's a spineless fool who lives in terror of the ultra-conservative wing of the party despite it being obvious he doesnt actually care much for their ideology Turnbull would have known full well that moving the NBN from fibre to the home to fibre to the node would turn the whole operpation into a dumpster fire, but he did it anyway because abbot wanted to dismantle the entirety of labors work. So now we're stuck with a half bbake garbage network for whom most people will never get speeds anywhere near fibre.
This, I get fibre to my house in England, 200 Mbps for 40 quid. I used to have ADSL in Perth and the best speed I ever got was 23 Mbps living right next to the exchange.
However it should be noted for the Americans playing along at home, we dont impeach our prime ministers in the Westminster system. The Prime minister is elected by the party which gets the majority and is not a fiat ruler or holds any special powers. All he can do is direct his party, this is why the party can replace him mid term. In the Westminster system we vote for parties and members, not leaders. The only people who voted for Malcom Turnbull are the people living in the electorate of Wentworth.
That being said, Turnbull knows his days are numbered after the absolute shellacking the LNP got in Western Australia in last weekends election. We know that Labor won by a huge margin... we just don't know how many LNP members lost their seats and places in the senate yet. It was the largest swing WA has ever had. One Nation did abysmally when the right-wing papers were expecting them to pick up a lot of votes. It seems Australia is turning it's back on the extreme right... and it's about damn time.
But was the cost of laying fibre to every house still going to be cheaper than a box on each street corner, taking into account that that the cost of the box is shared between all the houses? Genuine question, not being rhetorical.
Not only was it cheaper than the LNP's "Sting to the Can" FTTN, it was cheaper than maintaining the existing copper network.
We're going to have to dig it all up to replace it in 10-20 years anyway, so why not do it all at once. Its cheaper to do the job all at once.
And if consoles still did that, it'd be great.
I watched my housemate set up a multiplayer game of FIFA on the PS3... it reminded me of the 286 days because things just took that long. He needed log in (mandatory), then register guests, set up controllers, then loading took so long they needed to put in a mini-game to prevent people from getting bored. I could have gone to my PC, booted it up, loaded GTA V (which being a console port, does not load quickly) and they still wouldn't have been playing.
Except all the crap they're trying to bundle into it like Netflix, media centre functions, social networks, so on and so forth. It's almost at the point where playing games on a PS or XB is a secondary function.
They work in a lounge context, they're fairly quiet,
I can hear the fans in my housemates PS4 from another floor. Thats why he has his TV up to stupid levels of volume. So I guess that's what you mean by "lounge context"
they turn on really fast,
I guess they do... However you need to do another 5 minutes of bollocks to play a game. So loading times are a killer.
Which lacks the precision of a KB and mouse. I mean you don't have a choice of controllers at all.
pairing controllers works really well.
Works so well on my housemates PS4, he sometimes does it twice.
Now the battery life on the controller is so bad, they need to be charged every 2 games of FIFA.
Yep, they're only the start of the deficiencies.
Things I _don't_ get by not being a console gamer.
- Paying for multiplayer.
- Missing out on RTS and TBS games.
- Mandatory system updates that disable functionality.
- Not being able to fix my own system.
- RROD and YLOD's.
- No Mods.
- 30 FPS limits.
- 1080p resolution limit.
- high prices of games.
I could go on, but I'm sure you get the hint.
I totally agree with you but I strongly suspect that most games companies see this as the future, and that the days of actually having your own copy of anything are numbered.
It doesn't matter what the games companies think, it's what people are willing to buy that matters and the PCGMR definitely wont be buying streaming only games. Filthy Console Peasants may put up with it for a while.
Anyone who thinks Ubisoft, EA, et al. are too big to fail... remember THQ. They went bust in 2013 (so console players may not remember them) and all of their properties were sold off for pennies on the pound. I predict the first company to try to go all streaming will be the next to fail.
streaming games SUCK, the latency, resolution sacrifices
Basically it's like playing on a console.
bandwidth requirements make all but the simplest games problematic.
Even browser game load themselves into your browser and run locally.
Leftists like, say, Pinochet, Marcos or Franco?
It took me a minute to realise this was sarcasm. I was about to point out that Marcos and Franco were the opposite of socialists.
But it really doesn't matter whether they are left or right wing, what matters is that they went too far to the left or right wing. That's what scares me about western nations, we all seem to be going too far to the right. Australia, my original home (now live in the UK) has traditionally been a little on the conservative side of centre, which is fine but in the last 6 odd years there has been a disturbing and dangerous lurch towards the extreme right. Racists and religious fanatics have been voted for in increasing numbers. Its been the same in the UK (UKIP, Brexit) and the US (Trump).
Its not immigrants or leftists or Muslims, so on and so forth that will destroy our nations, its the people trying to make us hate immigrants, leftists, Muslims, gingers, crazy cat ladies or whatever is the flavour of the day who want to destroy free and fair societies.
it doesn't matter if you're left or right... as long as you aren't too far to the left or right.
If a farmer can run a diesel pump, then a power company can run a diesel plant for even less. Either the government's diesel subsidies are too high or they let the power company get too greedy.
With the privatisation of power companies in Australia, this is pretty much it. They don't just need to make a profit, but an increase in profit year on year.
I'd be surprised if they weren't deliberately trying to get rural properties off the grid because even though private corporations now run many of Australia's public power utilities, the govt still caps what they can charge.
However there is also the cost of transportation. It does cost money to transport electricity across the hundreds of kilometres of absolute nothing in Australia. Cost of maintenance as well as losses to resistance. Americans and Europeans just don't get how sparsely populated Australia is. You can drive for 4 hours at 100 KPH and not see any signs of civilisation once you get out of the major cities. In some cases you're running a line for 100 or more KM just to a single property.
Most on grid farms would maintain a Jenny because an outage could take days or sometimes weeks to fix. Its just become cheaper to buy the fuel for the generator than to pay the power companies.
You mean it's not enough to say "elevated storage tanks" (and then feel smugly self-superior)? They don't just appear, along with the solar cells to fill them, and start operating magically?
Because I'm guessing a farmer can just make a call and rent a diesel generator, and have it delivered to his farm within 2-3 days. And make another call to setup periodic refueling.
A farmer would already be getting fuel deliveries. Tractors dont run on pixie farts you know. Its a simple matter to order a few more litres. Diesel generators are cheap enough these days, photovoltaics are also becoming cheap, most farms have been using them for household use for ages.