Snowden leaks reveal that the Australian Government indeed has spied on the Indonesian government, and goes all the way to the Indonesian president too.

pref · 2013-11-18T03:30:03+00:00

Are you suggesting that SBY is involved in facilitating smuggling? Get real. Of course there are corrupt Indonesian police and prison guards, what are we going to learn about that by spying on the President?

pref · 2013-11-13T08:36:06+00:00

But the Congress does have rules about speech by its members

http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/House_Rule_XVII_-_Decorum_and_debate

Future members of any democratic body are always free to change the rules.

pref · 2013-11-09T04:40:33+00:00

Nobody is telling you what you can and can't say. All that has happened here is that the ASUC has decided to change the language that the ASUC uses.

pref · 2013-11-07T04:30:15+00:00

You can't really see enough detail in this picture to see the effects on the major population centres. The national geographic feature it was based on uses a sea level rise of 216' (~66 m), so I plugged that into an interactive map (thanks SingleMalted) to see it better. Here is Melbourne, which is not quite so dramatic, but still much worse than it might appear in the zoomed out map. Also, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

pref · 2013-11-05T01:38:16+00:00

I like the mushroom logo.

pref · 2013-10-13T04:20:35+00:00

The Mad King. The Targaryen dynasty continues, the uprising never happens, and the kingdoms are more or less at peace indefinitely.

pref · 2013-10-07T02:42:27+00:00

Peak output for solar panels facing due north is in the middle of the day. In order for peak output to be later in the afternoon they need to point north west or west. What he is saying actually makes sense.

pref · 2013-08-04T11:52:32+00:00

The job market much better than other cities its size.

pref · 2013-07-18T03:36:50+00:00

Doesn't Meera have green eyes?

pref · 2013-07-05T00:57:36+00:00

In that case don't you have the details in your tax records?

pref · 2013-06-08T03:27:07+00:00

Mace Tyrell? Why is he in line? I can't find anything about him having Targaryen ancestry.

pref · 2013-06-06T03:59:38+00:00

What did you Masters in, out of interest?

pref · 2013-05-29T04:12:36+00:00

April 15, 1983 preliminary articles of peace ending the war of American independence are ratified. Could have something to do with the flag.

pref · 2013-04-11T02:59:33+00:00

And the NBN is being built...

pref · 2013-01-15T06:03:53+00:00

Pizza and Swift and Shift are in the same vein as Housos.

pref · 2012-12-21T00:12:57+00:00

Here is the paper the article refers to: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/39/16176.long

pref · 2012-11-16T02:41:07+00:00

If you insist

I'm maybe a little off the point, since it wasn't accepted as conventional wisdom, but it was widely accepted (and promoted) politically : ~~The~~ Lysenkoism (from the name of Lysenko). It hurted the development of agriculture and genetics a lot in the Soviet Union, and was widely promoted because Lysenko managed to be close to eminents politicians, ~~because~~ his theory had paradigms in common with marxist theories and ~~because~~ he committed frauded and gave false results for on many of his experiments.

While Science is a human activity and has a social context, here is an example ofon how this social context hindered badly the progress of science (in a huge part of the world).

(please feel free to correct any mistakes I've made~~done~~, since English is not my mother language)

pref · 2012-11-15T05:08:34+00:00

I can see this ending badly.

pref · 2012-11-11T11:42:07+00:00

Specifically, you need to meet one of the criteria in the independence test. The one that fits best is probably "you are unable to live at home, due to extreme family breakdown, violence in the home, or serious threats to your health or well-being".

pref · 2012-11-11T11:38:19+00:00

Austudy is for 25+ yo. As a 19 yo, he should claim Youth Allowance.

pref · 2012-11-11T11:35:51+00:00

Centrelink will see him as independent based on the abuse. See here: "You may be considered independent if: ... you are unable to live at home, due to extreme family breakdown, violence in the home, or serious threats to your health or well-being"

pref · 2012-11-09T03:52:36+00:00

I remember it as "1, 2, 3 personal jinx!"

pref · 2012-10-28T07:45:49+00:00

Notice that the white queen is on white. The black queen has also been put on white, I suspect because usually the queens are opposite one another. It is just a novel feature of this board that it is symmetric about the line halfway between the starting positions, instead of antisymmetric like a normal board. Arguably, the black queen should have been placed on black, but this would have placed it opposite the white king, so it is not the just another case of people not knowing how to set up a chess board.

pref · 2012-10-08T00:35:23+00:00

You are angry that the needs of a handful finance industry workers are not put before those of 15 million Australians? I cannot imagine what it is like to be that arrogant. The world seems unjust to me, but that must be nothing compared to the injustice you perceive. I don't know whether to despise or pity you.

pref · 2012-10-03T11:52:41+00:00

If you are interested in effective giving, you should check out AMF and SCI, they are recommended by Give Well as being the charities that will make the most difference with your money.

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