Is standard. Party membership numbers are used to determine things like funding allocations, and if you let people enrol multiple times for multiple parties the system becomes easy to game (like football grand final tickets).
And as usual, detecting and updating the Flash Player across ~300 sites is not as fun as several thousand other things I could be doing this morning.
Adobe seem to go out of their way to hide the distributable.exe, hide the command-line switches (which have changed for reasons passing understanding in this version) and hide the method of detecting the currently installed version of Flash.
I've already ripped Reader out of (most of) my clients because it's a bitch to manage. Flash would be next on the bonfire if I could convince my customers.
When you're a partisan hack who has risen to the No.2 spot on a Senate ballot for your major party, you only need ~8% of the vote to get in. Again.
I've just found out that Senator Conroy is elected in Victoria, where I live. Never before have I worked out who's going last on my vote so early in an election year.
Same here in Australia. I used to hate it, until I realised that it prevented lobby groups from buying a sole representative to do their bidding. Now they've gotta buy the whole party.
Those little old ladies are well equipped too. If you tell them that you're filling out your census online, and you don't for some reason, they'll get a text message telling them to pop back over to your place and gently remind you/see if you need help.
The reason they don't ask for your views is that the census is run by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and they couldn't give a stuff about people's opinions. Their job is to assemble population snapshot data.
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Is standard. Party membership numbers are used to determine things like funding allocations, and if you let people enrol multiple times for multiple parties the system becomes easy to game (like football grand final tickets).
And as usual, detecting and updating the Flash Player across ~300 sites is not as fun as several thousand other things I could be doing this morning. .exe, hide the command-line switches (which have changed for reasons passing understanding in this version) and hide the method of detecting the currently installed version of Flash.
Adobe seem to go out of their way to hide the distributable
I've already ripped Reader out of (most of) my clients because it's a bitch to manage. Flash would be next on the bonfire if I could convince my customers.
Possibly someone trying to catch a connecting flight?
When you're a partisan hack who has risen to the No.2 spot on a Senate ballot for your major party, you only need ~8% of the vote to get in. Again.
I've just found out that Senator Conroy is elected in Victoria, where I live. Never before have I worked out who's going last on my vote so early in an election year.
Please don't give Senator Conroy any more ideas.
"So open-minded your brain has fallen out"
Obligatory Tim Minchin link
Same here in Australia. I used to hate it, until I realised that it prevented lobby groups from buying a sole representative to do their bidding. Now they've gotta buy the whole party.
Foxit worked like a charm with the PDF forms we had at my old workplace, but not with others. Suck it and see.
Those little old ladies are well equipped too. If you tell them that you're filling out your census online, and you don't for some reason, they'll get a text message telling them to pop back over to your place and gently remind you/see if you need help.
The reason they don't ask for your views is that the census is run by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and they couldn't give a stuff about people's opinions. Their job is to assemble population snapshot data.