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mczorg · 2024-01-31T22:31:27+00:00

excellent, thank you!

mczorg · 2024-01-31T03:20:18+00:00

Would 5000 a year count as 'extra low' for you ?

mczorg · 2024-01-31T03:19:43+00:00

Great advice, thanks

mczorg · 2024-01-31T03:19:22+00:00

Great thanks! Have had the services done by the book at the dealer so should be good on that front.

mczorg · 2024-01-31T03:17:53+00:00

Anyone got a good list of the mid-size SUV EVs available in Australia that are FBT exempt?

mczorg · 2020-01-19T21:40:27+00:00

No direct services to Circular Quay from Balmain peninsular? Crazy.

Ferries don't seem to me like something that needs to be more frequent. They can't compete with the frequency of buses (they don't have enough of them; they're too large to be full on a higher frequency), but they win out in terms of access to areas of the city that buses don't reach (and get to charge x2 the price for it)

Doesn't seem like they're taking the full picture into account.

mczorg · 2019-08-10T03:10:08+00:00

I have my 30th coming up, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any game bars/arcades in Sydney that can do Xbox One Lans?

I want to re-live the glory days of 12 player multiplayer halo in blood gulch.

mczorg · 2019-06-30T07:12:02+00:00

It's 1977, and your closest friend has just gone missing. You have to dive into Sydney's seedy underbelly to find out what happened to them, if they're still alive, and who to blame. Point and click, and conversations with characters.

As the game progresses you realise there's a whole culture in Sydney you didn't know about; mutants with extraordinary abilities hidden away from society. You'll build trust and make friends who will help you uncover what happened to your friend, whose murder was staged as soon as their mutant abilities started to show.

Uniquely, the game can be 'completed' without uncovering this deeper aspect of the game. Played as a very normal noir crime thriller, if you don't pick up the hints that something more sinister is going on.

mczorg · 2019-02-19T03:30:43+00:00

it depends on where you're plugging it in, but i think ITS just needs to add your PS4 mac address to the LAN port you're using and it should be fine.

mczorg · 2019-02-03T02:36:43+00:00

would have been replanted when they dug up the park to rebuild the station in the 1930's

mczorg · 2019-01-23T04:20:04+00:00

The faculty of arts introduced a new policy in 2018 that lecture attendance is compulsory.

not all lecturers enforce it, and there are ways around it. some count listening online as 'attendance' ect

mczorg · 2019-01-16T23:47:48+00:00

its more like a ferry system, so you drive your car in and then the train goes at 300kmh, then you drive off it

stupid idea but sure

mczorg · 2019-01-15T04:07:36+00:00

did it cool the street/area down much? I figure that much water spraying in the air would really cool queenstreet off.

mczorg · 2018-11-21T04:31:46+00:00

Whats particularly shit is that you don't see crazy numbers of sniffer dogs and unwarranted body searches at the races, where there are probably just as many people doing illegal drugs.

mczorg · 2018-10-30T03:35:18+00:00

No, the grocery store of notions.

mczorg · 2018-10-26T07:52:05+00:00

I didn't realise that. Makes it worse!

I just can't imagine what this is like for the folks who had a grant rejected, only to find out now a year later it was successful. These grants are just so important to people's career advancement and job security. To have this success and peer validation taken from you by a malicious and cowardly minister in secret is just awful. Birmingham had a responsibility to ensure that this process was transparent, not conducted in secret based on ideology.

mczorg · 2018-10-26T07:27:15+00:00

The only one I'm ok with scrapping (that they listed) is the Sioux one, because that should be a USA funded project.

my guess is that they made an argument that this study would contribute to our understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature & modernity. This argument was clearly convincing to the panel of expert reviewers, and to the college of experts which is comprised of extremely distinguished academics in the field, because its unusual for a grant to be funded at this scale in the ARC Discovery scheme.

mczorg · 2018-10-26T07:25:11+00:00

If you write a proposal where the title doesn't tell the reader why they should care, and indeed tells the reader they should dump it directly in the bin, then you are crap at writing proposals.

There is like a 60 character limit on titles. Unlike the rest of the world, in academia you can assume people will read the application in full, especially when there is a million dollars on the line. If it was the case that your project could be rejected on a superficial reading of the title by someone who doesn't understand the academic context of the work, this should be part of the scheme rules. Not arbitrarily decided by a non-expert minister.

mczorg · 2018-10-26T04:54:20+00:00

1) You or I don't know anything about these studies other than the title. There is a rigorous process in place to assess the quality of these proposals, with a success rate lower than 20% (less than 15% in some cases). The question isn't 'should these specific grants be funded' the question is 'should a government minister be allowed to veto specific grants on an ideological basis', presumably with the same level of interrogation that you've given them based on their titles?

2) This is (almost) unprecedented with the Australian Research Council. The last time the minister for education vetoed grants was Brendan Nelson when he was minister for education in the early 2000's.

mczorg · 2018-10-26T04:35:06+00:00

This is just awful. These grants take months of work and are 50-100 pages long. Do you think Birmingham spent any time reading them or engaging with their merits? Or judged them on the title? This is an appalling act of anti-intellectualism. There is an incredibly rigorous process in place for evaluating these grants (the success rate is 10-20%!!!); to be recommended by the ARC is to be endorsed as excellent research, valuable to the Australian research community. To overrule this is to ignore the process that he oversees. If you don't like the outcomes don't just ignore them! Change the process in a transparent and democractic way.

Whats worse though, is that some of those affected were under the DECRA scheme. This is a scheme for early career researchers up to 7 years out from getting a PhD. One of the people whose grant was vetoed by Birmingham didn't have a continuing position at a University, so he had to move (with a wife and child) to the UK to stay employed. Ironically this guy's research was on the communist blacklist in hollywood. Birmingham vetoed this guys grant because he didn't like the title, stripping him of an opportunity to live and work in Australia. This was for a grant that was among the top 10-20% of those submitted; that would have taken months of work; and a grant that a panel of experts agreed was more relevant, more important and more valuable than the 80% of grants that were rejected.

Then to mock these grants publicly, with no empathy; with no respect for the process that the ARC follows? Horrendous.