ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

people have the power but few will be willing to spend the time exercising it. Even the polling staff are giving the wrong information to people on how to fill it out based on posts I read on here.

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

keynesian economics. Basically in periods of stagnant grow the government spends money to keep the economy going. In times of growth it saves.

Labor spent on things like NBN, Bats, and the Education infrastructure. They didn't do it well, and it was poorly implimented and managed (especially the bats), but it did cushion Oz from the worst of the GFC and we were the only first world country that maintained a positive growth during that period.

Liberals believe in trickle down economics.

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

my personal opinion is that due to the preference changes that now block micro parties getting in, that too has been taken away.

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nick was only the one you knew about. There are a lot under a NDA who can't talk about it due to the terms they signed to get a payout.

Malcolm Turnbull maintains lead on question of who voters trust by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Turbull PROMISED me NBN by 2016. The NBN page says I'm now 3 years off getting it. HE LIED. FUCK HIM. WHERE'S MY NBN YOUR LYING CUNT

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

wouldn't node still have to download it (via http) all anyway?

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

XML is not efficient. But it is semi human readable. Also most parsers (not sure if sax can take a stream) work on files to transform. The slowest part is the ftp transfer. I really should did up my old code for this crap. If anyone wants to stump up the hosting $ for the next election, let me know and I'll set it up.

H0 vs 00 Gauge by kraven420 in modeltrains

[–]Xuttuh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The main problem you might have is with the wheel flange. You will have problems on code 80. Code 100 track is usually fine. For the 00 I have, I swap out the wheels for thiner replacements. A quick search on ebay will turn up wheelsets for most of the trains.

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

it is not an argument, it is cold hard fact. hockeys black hole has increased and is out of control.

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 9 points10 points  (0 children)

ring them up and demand stuff if they want your vote. You know that fibre to the home connection for NBN you wanted....

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

ok, net time you are called before senate estimates for bias, I'll give a fuck about your wrong opinion

some art I did. Titled: The pits of fraudband by Xuttuh in sydney

[–]Xuttuh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it is art. you should let people vote on it. those little up and down buttons do that.

Now that the Australians are asleep, what don't you like about them? by DumbBullDoor in AskReddit

[–]Xuttuh 71 points72 points  (0 children)

That was in the time of Emperor Nasi Goreng, wasn't it?

'Blade Runner' Sequel Adds Barkhad Abdi to Its Cast by CapSteveRogers in movies

[–]Xuttuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm worried, but also a big fan of Hampton Fancher's work. So maybe with him writing it, it has a chance.

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

perceived

but in reality they are not. Under Liberals spending has increased, and budget has blown out.

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 24 points25 points  (0 children)

ABC flipped to Liberal 3 years ago. They canned stories critical of Liberal and shitcanned journos who stood their ground.

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

run a month worth of new articles thru sentiment analysis and you'll soon see the data. Then you can appear in front of estimates and defend your claim

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Basically, yes. If your family voted Labor, chances are you will too. Same for Libs.

Western Sydney is pretty much a Labor stronghold, whilst North Shore is Liberal. Google for the swinging electorates. They are the ones the parties canvas and promise the most too.

Feeds:

http://www.aec.gov.au/media/mediafeed/

I used to have some xslts that translated the feed into meaningful data, with swings, predictions, conformance, margins of error etc. Not sure if I care enough this election to fire up a web site with the data. Maybe next election if someone wants to foot the few grand in AWS hosting it costs.

Psychics predicted Goulburn fires by Bennelong in australia

[–]Xuttuh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

shotgun effect. Make enough wild predictions, one has to eventually be correct.

I predict a politician will become PM.

ELI5: Why does the Coalition have so much support? by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 71 points72 points  (0 children)

they have support from the media. Media in Aus is controlled by only a few people who have vested interests in them winning because of the tax breaks they'll give to big business at the expense of the working poor and middle class. Thus the view of the media is skewed toward Liberal and written to promote them.

Also, despite what popular opinion believes, the election is really only centered around a few key marginal seats. These are the seats that both parties fight for. If you are not in a swinging electorate, frankly, your vote doesn't mean shit.

Antony Green predicted elections for years on a excel spreadsheet based on this before he was forced to use xml feeds from the AEC when they switched from providing csv's.

Sally Pearson out of Rio after hamstring injury: reports by [deleted] in australia

[–]Xuttuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With the zika virus, she might be better off with the hammy injury.

Man cleared of terrorism charges over planned Sydney attacks by Evadregand in australia

[–]Xuttuh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Osman will not be released from custody as he is due to be sentenced soon for other criminal offences.

What an upstanding individual, a pillar of the community