It's actually about half that. Because that garbage is no longer going to be dumped at a cost of $30 per ton, they're saving themselves that $30 in addition to making $26. So eight years to pay for itself, but your comments on the longevity of the bins still stands.
There may be more than two choices but one of those two will be Prime Minister, regardless how often you may repeat the simplification that there are other options. Spoken as someone who is leaning Green in the Senate as the only one with sane policies outside the environmental policy area.
It's the usual "DNA testing helped us catch this serial killer. Obviously this means it's all safe and dandy and no privacy worries here!" article that gets wheeled out about once every couple of months, just in case someone was starting to have concerned thoughts about all that identifying material being available to the government and its underlings.
I'm rather sceptical about these articles these days because they do seem to appear so regularly to remind us all how lucky we are. Keep an eye out and you'll see what I mean.
I do use iTunes and the level of reviews are generally so crap as to be useless anyway. They tend to either be "this crashed on me once, 1 star" or "AWESOME!!! 5 stars!". That's not even mentioning the frequent "I don't want to buy this app because it looks crap, 1 star" reviews that seem to pop up and aim to be even more useless.
Wow there's a lot of knee-jerk reactions, especially those saying it shouldn't be taught as science as well as those from Australians saying "of course it's in Queensland".
However if you've actually read the article you'd know creationism is going to be "offered for discussion in the subject of ancient history, under the topic of "controversies"." The History Teachers' Association say the curriculum asked students to develop their historical skills in an "investigation of a controversial issue" such as "human origins (eg, Darwin's theory of evolution and its critics").
So in other words, it's not going to be taught as science. It's going to be covered as a controversy, under history (which is the closest thing to general social studies these days). IMO this would be the correct way to cover this kind of discussion and the kneejerk reactions based off the title and the summary are just that.
Of course I'm posting this too late and at too low a mod-level for anyone to actually see this explanation unfortunately.
All they are saying is that "if it gets popular, we may support it". So... they're basically saying nothing but the obvious, given it's in their interests to support popular formats anyway.
In Australia we have providers of "roadside assistance", which for an annual fee you can ring to come and either fix or organize towing of your car if it breaks down, gets a flat battery, or even lock your keys in the car. It's a pretty common service that almost everyone has because of the long distances and low amounts of traffic on some of our roads, for example.
Fitting in with your analogy, I have a friend who recently got threatened with a refusal to renew his roadside assistance for the coming year unless he got his car serviced because he'd had four call outs in a year so it definitely makes sense for that scenario to be the case both automatively and in healthcare.
On the friend, all four call outs were for locking his keys in his car so the company providing the roadside assistance withdrew the ultimatum in the end since it didn't make sense...:)
"Stopping child pornography is extremely important to me and the Liberal party and therefore, if we can prove the censorship plan doesn't work, we will oppose it; but only it. We will continue to seek effective means to block 'filth' (his word) from entering our country any way we can. If the filter works, we will support it."
Basically the message I got from his reply is that Tony Abbot believes that the filter will work "well enough" and is too much of a hot potato to oppose politically.
I was inclined to agree until Tony Abbott rolled Malcolm Turnbull. There's no way Abbott would be saying no to an internet filter given his love for all things Catholic and his inability to separate that with his day-to-day job. Kate Lundy is the person to back now - campaigning for making it opt out (not ideal but more sane than no option) from within the Labor Party.
And to paraphrase a Chinese-Malaysian friend of mine who immigrated to Australia as a young child and is in the UK at the moment, "I have to catch myself every time someone calls me Oriental and realise that they're not being racist."
Oriental is a racial slur here. East Asians are "Asians". Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are "South Asian" if the speaker is being technically correct, or "Indian" if they're not concerned (which is racist to my mind, but that's because a Pakistani friend of mine pointed out that calling him Indian is like calling an Israeli a Palestinian).
I honestly don't get why third parties would be getting involved in it. Sure, the privacy settings might not be to everyone's wishes but third parties complaining to the government to get them to interfere is just layering stupidity on top of stupidity.
The arbitrary "placing" of products is one of the more annoying features of these reviews. The better ones just outline the competitive differences and deficiencies of the products and let a knowledgeable user determine which fits their needs (value for money potentially being one of those needs), and then follow it up with corresponding information on how to determine which fits their needs for those less knowledgeable.
Actually now that you raise that point, it's not as bizarre as it sounds. I was getting ready to ridicule it but giving Linux the ability to play Wine unsupported games and Windows 7 the ability to play WinXP-dependant games with decent performance may be one of the main consumer drivers of virtual machines. Though I'm not holding my breath on it being widespread just yet.
I wonder if the phrase 'disclosure of this information is likely to cause substantial harm to the Department of the Army's competitive position in the gaming industry.' indicates any competitive advantages they might have...
OTOH, I think I just really like that phrase and intend to reuse it whereever possible given it's one I never thought I'd see anyone utter in complete seriousness.
Exactly! I know my wife and I occasionally let slip expletives of our choice... the natural follow-up to this law would be to remove our children because of it, or install devices in their ears that beeps out any such word until they're 16, 18 or 21 (depending on where you are in the world).
My wife and I were grabbing lunch in a cafe in Edinburgh Castle right next to the cannon, blissfully unaware of both the time and the custom. That bang scared the crap out of us until we saw the (literally) smoking gun through the cafe's windows. Next time I'll remember to keep an eye out for dragons.
East Asia has a serious problem with violence and discrimatino between different religions and/or regions within countries. Against Christians and Acehnese in Indonesia, against Chinese in Malaysia, similar stories in Thailand, India, Japan, the Phillipines and China. The exceptions seem to be South Korea and Vietnam, possibly because the former is more dependent on the west while the latter you just don't hear about it.
Strictly speaking they ruled the banning of regionless DVD players illegal (well, anticompetitive but effectively the same thing given the ACCC's powers). So if someone wants to sell regionless DVD players and advertise it as such, they are free to do so. I know the first thing my wife and I check when we're buying a new DVD player is whether it can be easily made regionfree, and most can.
One minor nitpick... in the scheme of polls, very few poll results are boolean due to the inclusion of undecideds/unsures. Their inclusion obviously depends upon the particular polling firm's methodology but in what I've seen of the big pollers, the straight boolean figures, e.g. 51-49, are the exception rather than the other samples, e.g. 48-46 with an unmentioned 6 undecided.
You also realize most of the popular sites Australians visit are hosted locally in Australia, right? This reduces costs for the content providers as well as the ISPs.
This is quite simply wrong. Facebook/Twitter? YouTube? BitTorrent downloads? Even a significant number of our "local" sites are hosted overseas last time I remember anyone checking, often because the company is a local division of a multinational or they found cheaper hosting in the U.S.
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Replying to undo an unfortunate misclick resulting in a "Flamebait" moderation instead of "Funny".
It's actually about half that. Because that garbage is no longer going to be dumped at a cost of $30 per ton, they're saving themselves that $30 in addition to making $26. So eight years to pay for itself, but your comments on the longevity of the bins still stands.
There may be more than two choices but one of those two will be Prime Minister, regardless how often you may repeat the simplification that there are other options. Spoken as someone who is leaning Green in the Senate as the only one with sane policies outside the environmental policy area.
It's the usual "DNA testing helped us catch this serial killer. Obviously this means it's all safe and dandy and no privacy worries here!" article that gets wheeled out about once every couple of months, just in case someone was starting to have concerned thoughts about all that identifying material being available to the government and its underlings.
I'm rather sceptical about these articles these days because they do seem to appear so regularly to remind us all how lucky we are. Keep an eye out and you'll see what I mean.
I do use iTunes and the level of reviews are generally so crap as to be useless anyway. They tend to either be "this crashed on me once, 1 star" or "AWESOME!!! 5 stars!". That's not even mentioning the frequent "I don't want to buy this app because it looks crap, 1 star" reviews that seem to pop up and aim to be even more useless.
Wow there's a lot of knee-jerk reactions, especially those saying it shouldn't be taught as science as well as those from Australians saying "of course it's in Queensland".
However if you've actually read the article you'd know creationism is going to be "offered for discussion in the subject of ancient history, under the topic of "controversies"." The History Teachers' Association say the curriculum asked students to develop their historical skills in an "investigation of a controversial issue" such as "human origins (eg, Darwin's theory of evolution and its critics").
So in other words, it's not going to be taught as science. It's going to be covered as a controversy, under history (which is the closest thing to general social studies these days). IMO this would be the correct way to cover this kind of discussion and the kneejerk reactions based off the title and the summary are just that.
Of course I'm posting this too late and at too low a mod-level for anyone to actually see this explanation unfortunately.
All they are saying is that "if it gets popular, we may support it". So... they're basically saying nothing but the obvious, given it's in their interests to support popular formats anyway.
In Australia we have providers of "roadside assistance", which for an annual fee you can ring to come and either fix or organize towing of your car if it breaks down, gets a flat battery, or even lock your keys in the car. It's a pretty common service that almost everyone has because of the long distances and low amounts of traffic on some of our roads, for example.
Fitting in with your analogy, I have a friend who recently got threatened with a refusal to renew his roadside assistance for the coming year unless he got his car serviced because he'd had four call outs in a year so it definitely makes sense for that scenario to be the case both automatively and in healthcare.
On the friend, all four call outs were for locking his keys in his car so the company providing the roadside assistance withdrew the ultimatum in the end since it didn't make sense... :)
Paraphrased from his own words:
"Stopping child pornography is extremely important to me and the Liberal party and therefore, if we can prove the censorship plan doesn't work, we will oppose it; but only it. We will continue to seek effective means to block 'filth' (his word) from entering our country any way we can. If the filter works, we will support it."
Basically the message I got from his reply is that Tony Abbot believes that the filter will work "well enough" and is too much of a hot potato to oppose politically.
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I was inclined to agree until Tony Abbott rolled Malcolm Turnbull. There's no way Abbott would be saying no to an internet filter given his love for all things Catholic and his inability to separate that with his day-to-day job. Kate Lundy is the person to back now - campaigning for making it opt out (not ideal but more sane than no option) from within the Labor Party.
And to paraphrase a Chinese-Malaysian friend of mine who immigrated to Australia as a young child and is in the UK at the moment, "I have to catch myself every time someone calls me Oriental and realise that they're not being racist."
Oriental is a racial slur here. East Asians are "Asians". Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are "South Asian" if the speaker is being technically correct, or "Indian" if they're not concerned (which is racist to my mind, but that's because a Pakistani friend of mine pointed out that calling him Indian is like calling an Israeli a Palestinian).
Brew the sugar into rum... Potatoes into vodka.
And when you get sunburnt, the smell of sizzling bacon is just a delicious bonus!
I honestly don't get why third parties would be getting involved in it. Sure, the privacy settings might not be to everyone's wishes but third parties complaining to the government to get them to interfere is just layering stupidity on top of stupidity.
The arbitrary "placing" of products is one of the more annoying features of these reviews. The better ones just outline the competitive differences and deficiencies of the products and let a knowledgeable user determine which fits their needs (value for money potentially being one of those needs), and then follow it up with corresponding information on how to determine which fits their needs for those less knowledgeable.
"Normal" users play games in their VM?
Actually now that you raise that point, it's not as bizarre as it sounds. I was getting ready to ridicule it but giving Linux the ability to play Wine unsupported games and Windows 7 the ability to play WinXP-dependant games with decent performance may be one of the main consumer drivers of virtual machines. Though I'm not holding my breath on it being widespread just yet.
I wonder if the phrase 'disclosure of this information is likely to cause substantial harm to the Department of the Army's competitive position in the gaming industry.' indicates any competitive advantages they might have...
OTOH, I think I just really like that phrase and intend to reuse it whereever possible given it's one I never thought I'd see anyone utter in complete seriousness.
They are when politicians think they can convince people to vote for them based on it...
Plus sex and swear words don't have a real lobby group, unlike police brutality, marketing, and religion.
Exactly! I know my wife and I occasionally let slip expletives of our choice... the natural follow-up to this law would be to remove our children because of it, or install devices in their ears that beeps out any such word until they're 16, 18 or 21 (depending on where you are in the world).
My wife and I were grabbing lunch in a cafe in Edinburgh Castle right next to the cannon, blissfully unaware of both the time and the custom. That bang scared the crap out of us until we saw the (literally) smoking gun through the cafe's windows. Next time I'll remember to keep an eye out for dragons.
I've found Hotmail to be one of the most secure. At least I'm assuming so since often not even I can access my own email.
East Asia has a serious problem with violence and discrimatino between different religions and/or regions within countries. Against Christians and Acehnese in Indonesia, against Chinese in Malaysia, similar stories in Thailand, India, Japan, the Phillipines and China. The exceptions seem to be South Korea and Vietnam, possibly because the former is more dependent on the west while the latter you just don't hear about it.
Strictly speaking they ruled the banning of regionless DVD players illegal (well, anticompetitive but effectively the same thing given the ACCC's powers). So if someone wants to sell regionless DVD players and advertise it as such, they are free to do so. I know the first thing my wife and I check when we're buying a new DVD player is whether it can be easily made regionfree, and most can.
One minor nitpick... in the scheme of polls, very few poll results are boolean due to the inclusion of undecideds/unsures. Their inclusion obviously depends upon the particular polling firm's methodology but in what I've seen of the big pollers, the straight boolean figures, e.g. 51-49, are the exception rather than the other samples, e.g. 48-46 with an unmentioned 6 undecided.
This is quite simply wrong. Facebook/Twitter? YouTube? BitTorrent downloads? Even a significant number of our "local" sites are hosted overseas last time I remember anyone checking, often because the company is a local division of a multinational or they found cheaper hosting in the U.S.