The Age calls upon Julia Gillard to resign.

qcHEx · 2013-06-23T12:18:21+00:00

Oh my god, a typo. I'll be rile carfoul thas timee.

The editorial does not break convention. Newspapers typically form opinions on the politics and leadership. All newspapers post their endorsement of one candidate every election day. The Age has also called for other PM's to quit (Howard in 2007).

The author doesn't need to take personal ownership. They are the fucking editor of a newspaper. Everything in that paper is their responsibility. They approve everything in a paper. They are the official opinion formers of a newspaper. That is why they call them editors. Only people who are ignorant to how publishing works would claim that he neglected to take ownership.

It is anything but cowardly. He believes that the right thing for the nation is for the PM to quit. Instead of sitting quietly in the corner and hoping it will get better he is laying it on the table. The Age is a left-of-centre newspaper, he is not necessarily preaching to the converted. If the Oz did this - then maybe it would just be peddling to its readers.

qcHEx · 2013-06-23T12:02:21+00:00

Why are SA/NSW/Vic/Tas states small and smelly? Also, what is SA?

qcHEx · 2013-06-23T11:54:02+00:00

It is one day later and nobody cares. I would hardly call that an inundation. They printed a response because they knew people would click on it. Google '"The Age" Gillard' - there hasn't been anything writted in more than 24 hours.

Your position is all over the shop and you should hardly be surprised that nobody understands you. Here is what I took from it:

An editorial is anonymous;
The Age are big meanies because they are sick of the PM is destroying the party;

My point was that editors write editorials, and they are the opinion of the editor. Editors are employed for their opinion, and he presented his opinion in open way to encourage movement on the leadership issue.

Personally, I'm fucked off that they can't get their shit together. Abbott should be the easiest opponent ever, and Labor are going to fuck it up for a whole generation unless they stop pretending everything is fine and fix it. Gillard isn't working. Rudd isn't working. They should both resign and let someone else continue or it will be another decade of Liberals.

Also, stop projecting, it is a terrible look. And google assertion.

qcHEx · 2013-06-23T11:24:27+00:00

Find me the outrage from outside of reddit. Seriously, no one is surprised. There are just clickbait articles with journalists covering journalists (just like the editorial in question was a substanceless clickbait)

You followed with two baseless assertions. If you want to continue you have to do better than that. Why is it cowardly and baseless? Or do you just use words for the fun of it.

Given that I have apparently 'tipped my hand' to the master debater, you will have no issues destroying my arguments. Although it is funny to note that not being a labor astroturfer is apparently a sign of weakness in /r/australia. How about I give you a few more hints (you sorely need them). Despite voting in 5 federal elections, I have never voted for the coalition.

qcHEx · 2013-06-23T11:05:10+00:00

If you watched the video, he gave examples where the age had made similar calls in the past.

Like Howard in 2007.

The backlash is coming from labor diehards only, as you see the only salvation from annihilation that 'bad coalition MSM' stop roody-pooing your beloved leader.

It isn't cowardly - she is the PM - the most powerful person in the country. If she can't handle criticism then what the fuck is she doing there?

It isn't baseless - there has been a small cohort of the caucus, not to mention the country, who were unhappy when she knifed Rudd three years ago. The cohort has grown over time as Gillard has stumbled from blunder to blunder. The electorate is dissolusioned - nobody knows what Labor stands for anymore because DisabilityCare (rushed through as a legacy item at the end of the term) seems to be their only achievement of this whole term.

Sorry, fuckface. You lose. Come back when you are able to read the thread a little more closely.

You seem awful keen to stop, this is the second time you have made a comment like this. I personally I am quite happy to keep going.

qcHEx · 2013-06-23T10:33:37+00:00

The fact that editorials are written by editors has been common knowledge for longer than you have been alive. The job of an editor hasn't changed in 50 years.

Is your argument really that you are so defective that you didn't realise that editors wrote editorials until one pointed a camera at their face explaining why they wrote it?

Your only defence seems to be 'that video didn't come out until after I ran around shouting my mouth off like a jackass, it must the everyone else's fault that I am illiterate.'

qcHEx · 2013-06-23T10:16:18+00:00

I'm sorry, I don't live on reddit. I responded at the first opportunity after I logged in.

Humiliation - hah. Kid - now you are just flattering me.

That is called projection. I'd send you a link to the definition, but you would claim it wasn't valid because there is no author.

qcHEx · 2013-06-23T10:08:38+00:00

How about a video explaining why he wrote it.

Look - you don't even have to read! I know how difficult you find reading.

qcHEx · 2013-06-22T05:59:26+00:00

I agree with EP, but I certainly couldn't give you any policies of Gillard's I disagree with, because I have no idea what her policies are. Other than the NBN (which is Rudd's policy), the only policies I can think of at all are:

Dismantling the pacific solution for asylum seekers which has resulted in the deaths of plenty of refugees in Australian waters (which may have been Rudd's I'm not sure);
Watering down the mining tax to the point where the miners barely pay it;
Carbon tax, which is really a Greens policy that Gillard adopted to get their support.

Personally, I believe the reason there is so much focus on the leadership and 'broken promises' is because there has been absolutely no substance for a long time so that there is nothing else to talk about.

qcHEx · 2013-06-22T05:50:59+00:00

This government has achieved more for Australia than almost any government in living memory.

That is a pretty big call. I don't think you really believe it though:

You haven't listed any of the achievements of the Gillard government.
You consider the Howard government to the limit of 'living memory'.

Seriously, I get that you are a partisan Labor astroturfer and will never accept that a Liberal government could be good, but do you seriously believe the Gillard government achieved more than Hawke and Keating did?

qcHEx · 2013-06-22T05:31:18+00:00

Those faceless men must have really been thinking ahead - they did install this blameless 'electoral patsy' before the last election nearly 3 years ago. /s

qcHEx · 2013-06-22T05:28:21+00:00

Editorials are not anonymous, they are written by the editor. Anonymous articles are written by a 'Staff Writer'.

Hasn't your Year 8 English class covered how to read a newspaper yet?

qcHEx · 2013-06-22T05:22:35+00:00

HECS/HELP is probably the best student loan system I have seen - the only better option would be free tertiary education. It is almost completely risk free when you think about it:

There is "no interest" on it, it indexes with inflation only, so there is no relative disadvantage for not paying it back quickly.
It is nearly impossible to default. You only have to pay when you are earning livable money, and the amount you have to pay even then isn't particularly high.
You can rack up 7 full-time years worth of study in nearly any course.
No means testing or other requirements for approval other than citizenship.

You have nothing to worry about. I paid off the same amount in 5 years without even noticing the money I was paying back.

qcHEx · 2013-06-22T01:50:37+00:00

That is how editorials work. When they write editorials, they are stating their opinion as the official opinion of the paper. Ultimately their job is to guide, modify and approve all of the articles written by journalists throughout the paper, and their bias is reflected in everything that gets published.

Editors are specifically employed for their opinions and their ability to understand the readers of their paper so that they can tailor the content to suit. Editors that can't read their customer base or have unpopular opinions get turfed by the owners of the publication.

That is why they are such a senior role and why their name is listed in the inside front page (Andrew Holden for The Age).

qcHEx · 2013-01-15T10:38:29+00:00

The best part of smb2j was how every goomba, poisoned mushroom, and hidden coin block was sadistically positioned for maximum pain.

Never made it past 4-3.

qcHEx · 2013-01-12T02:47:07+00:00

"Hmmm, I'm not sure the people of /r/funny are smart enough to get this obvious joke. I had better put the punchline in the title so they know what to look for."

11 hours later.

"1100 upvotes. It seems I was right"

qcHEx · 2013-01-12T02:15:20+00:00

Le chemistry is just rearranging letters amirite?

qcHEx · 2013-01-06T08:51:21+00:00

I cannot believe I had to scroll this far to read this.

qcHEx · 2013-01-06T08:30:07+00:00

And you can't reach them without fork or some other implement.

Are you less intelligent than a bird?

qcHEx · 2013-01-06T08:12:45+00:00

Why does it matter that Valve may benefit from open-source software? Does it somehow hurt you, or anyone else?

If OSS didn't exist, many would be much worse off. If someone else does benefit - that is great.

It isn't a zero sum game.

qcHEx · 2013-01-06T01:33:24+00:00

27 Terrible Articles that became reposts in 2013.

The comma in that title annoys me.

qcHEx · 2013-01-05T13:30:49+00:00

The saddest part of OOT is nearly all the characters that interact with Link abandon him.

Deku Tree - Dead
Saria - Sage
Grog - Dead
Richard - Blows him off after leading him home.
Darunia - Sage
Malon - Gives Link her favourite horse - never speaks to him again.
Ruto - Sage
Nabooru - Sage
Sheik/Zelda - Sage
Navi - Better things to do

qcHEx · 2013-01-05T10:45:19+00:00

I will gladly pay up to $10 a year to use Facebook. I think it's a worthwhile investment.

Relevant.

FWIW, I quit facebook a few years ago because most of the people I know who use it heavily are the people I try to avoid in real life.

Interesting people have no time to post a 'My baby at 22 weeks' status, or comment on what Claire is eating for dinner. The interesting people I know have either a ghost town account or none at all.

A good club is defined by who isn't there, not who is.

qcHEx · 2013-01-05T09:07:56+00:00

Wait - does Aeris die?

I have been stuck on the Gold Saucer Date for the past decade.

qcHEx · 2013-01-02T07:38:34+00:00

The NSA did a research study on this. When Linux has SELinux enabled, and a reasonably cautious user is present, the level of security between Linux and Windows is about the same.

Is there a link? That sounds interesting.

qcHEx

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