Located 2537 results from search term 'australia'
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Commented in Novak Djokovic to be deported from Australia after losing appeal against visa cancellation
Good. Narcissistic idiot is finally told he is not above the law. Good on Australia not to capitulate to the people whinging about how special he is..
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Commented in Session Is An Encrypted Messenger Geared Towards Privacy Enthusiasts
The 2 key and critical areas about a secure messaging system is :
1. that it is technically secure and it is opensource.
2. Who owns it? How is it funded? What legal jurisdiction is it under?Lots of technical detail here but the second part, not so much.
From the Gadgets link
Session is a project of the Loki Foundation. The Loki Foundation (registered as LAG Foundation, LTD) is a registered charitable foundation based in Victoria, Australia.
It's Australian, so it can't be trusted. Australia has laws that allow it's police and secret police to secretly interfere with software. This is dealt with in the second link from restoreprivacy.com.
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Commented in America’s gun problem, explained
It's not just guns,it's assault rifles. These need to be banned,like in AU.
In 1996, a 28-year-old man armed with a semiautomatic rifle went on a rampage in Port Arthur, Australia, killing 35 people and wounding 23 more. It was the worst mass shooting in Australia’s history.
Australian lawmakers responded with legislation that, among other provisions, banned certain types of firearms, such as automatic and semiautomatic rifles and shotguns. The Australian government confiscated 650,000 of these guns
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Commented in The rare allergy that turned me into a vegetarian
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Commented in War against natural medicine
FSM has accused what it labels as Australia's "lesser" universities that offer alternative medicine courses of "putting the public at risk".
However, this is a difficult notion to fathom when you compare the tiny number of injuries inflicted on natural medicine patients compared to the hundreds of thousands of deaths recorded each year due to medical errors.
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Commented in Jet suit paramedic 'could save lives'
Not to mention the possibility of setting the bush/grass alight as a helicopter did in Australia in summer, starting a massive bushfire.
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Commented in The shocking reason the U.S. wants to stop Facebook’s Libra
This was badly thought through even from the name. In Australia, Libra is a popular brand of feminine hygiene pad.
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Commented in Huawei is the world’s fastest-growing smartphone seller despite increasing global scrutiny
When does that western arrogance stop for a bit? Global: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, US and soon also Canada and UK. They sell more phones, because in the biggest part of the world, i.e. the rest, are also the majority of people who want to buy them. Which shows another propaganda-style way of communicating: those "crackdowns" are just a small percentage of the company's potential customer base. Maybe it is time for a lot of westerners to look at the bigger picture or stay small minded for ever and end up in a third world situation. Jesusfuckingchrist, I can get so angry over such simplistic way of thinking. Sigh.
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Commented in A carb called fructan may be the real culprit behind gluten sensitivity
This work has been studied for a while now by a group in Monash University and Sue Shepherd in South Australia.
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Commented in Why plant protein is better for you than animal protein
Damn it. Popsci does this stupid thing. It has a different version geolocated in Australia at http://www.popsci.com.au so this article doesn't show for me.
I'll have to ungeolocate myself to see it.
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Commented in If renewable energy can power entire countries, why isn't everyone doing it?
They claim they have enough money, but do they really
Yes. Australia has some of the largest provinces in China.
Governments run on huge deficits
Meanwhile, economies run on money banks create out of thin air when they issue debt.
they could go into more debt for it and are probably good for it, but is it cost-effective
That depends on what costs we consider to be what economists call externalities, and what costs we don't bury because they're not our job. For instance, poisoning the atmosphere to the point of another great extinction in Earth's history, that's a real cost, not an externality in our energy economy.
let's not forget that a country like the USA is large, not postage stamp sized like the often quoted Iceland
Incidentally, it's always surprising to me how big Australia is.
The truth is that it would cost billions for each state to implement
So what? We spent $100 extra on military spending this year and didn't even have any debate about that.
you would have to get large batteries to store it
Or what any country with a national industrial policy and world class research and development know-how would do, develop new kinds of energy storage.
my understanding is battery production is in no way Green
There're more ways to store energy than electric batteries. As the U.S. Navy's shown, if you've got enough extra energy around you can do more than just desalinate, you can synthesize jet fuel. There are more things you can do with excess energy than are dreamt of in your wildest Aziz Ansari bit.
batteries also don't last forever and need to be replaced
Some folks store energy by using it to haul heavy trains or water uphill. There're a lot of options for energy research around storage.
would there be an offset to the green revolution when they have to continue producing very unclean batteries?
Agreed, let's get control over these supposed externalities early.
The article talks about a cost of 3.3 Trillion
Oh, so roughly two-years-in-Iraq money?
As does money it would cost to update and install.
I'm confused, it's like we don't have free market economics on our side? Why do we as Americans have so much trouble understanding that industrial policy isn't the exact same thing as a command economy?
We are tied to the past
Which'd be fine, if the past had a future. Which it does not.
it's already installed, we don't need to spend trillions to replace it and update to new stuff
Yes, we do.
most states operate on a budget deficit as well and can't keep up with crumbling infrastructure, where are they going to find the ability to do this?
Well, maybe if these states were united in some way, then there might be some way we could collaborate as a people toward needed ends... Nah.
who is going to pay for the rollout of the new technology, it's not going to be the companies installing it
A lot of people that would make this point would also be instinctively opposed to any kind of government subsidy, like the tax deal that makes companies like Solar City pay to put solar on people's roofs in exchange for the long-term tax credits. I don't know if you share that view, but subsidy is a policy tool, a means to an end.
Jobs will be created but thousands will be lost when the coal workers are out of jobs
Guess what? Obama didn't kill the coal industry, and Trump's not saving it.
it's way more feasible and economical to stay the course
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Commented in If renewable energy can power entire countries, why isn't everyone doing it?
My own country, Australia, is rich in renewable resources and has the money to invest, yet only around 15 percent of electricity is sourced from renewables.
They claim they have enough money, but do they really, Governments run on huge deficits, for the most part, they could go into more debt for it and are probably good for it, but is it cost-effective?
Wind power can be sent straight to the electric grid, or stored in a battery. The trouble with the latter is that, at the moment, batteries big enough to store lots of energy are expensive.
Batteries are expensive, but let's not forget that a country like the USA is large, not postage stamp sized like the often quoted Iceland, which coincidentally didn't go Green suddenly but started in 1904. The truth is that it would cost billions for each state to implement, on top of that you would have to get large batteries to store it, my understanding is battery production is in no way Green, batteries also don't last forever and need to be replaced, would there be an offset to the green revolution when they have to continue producing very unclean batteries?
If we could build enough of these pumped hydro stations as backup for the variability of solar and wind power, Stocks said, Australia could easily get all of its electricity from renewables.
We are again talking billions to install. The article talks about a cost of 3.3 Trillion if we don't do anything about global warming by 2050, we are probably talking the same figures or more to replace the old system.
"If there's uncertainty around politics, then things grind to a halt," Stocks said.
As does money it would cost to update and install.
"But the struggle is on the political, institutional, cultural areas, trying to get movement from governments and industries that are tied to the past."
In the US, a country that Stanford University says has more than enough resources to run entirely on renewables, the goal is 30 percent by 2025.
These last two quotes go together for me. We are tied to the past, it's already installed, we don't need to spend trillions to replace it and update to new stuff. The goal at this time is to phase out the old and in the new, but this article makes it sound like they should do it immediately, the Stanford study even claimed: "Geothermal energy was available at a reasonable cost for only 13 states." But they don't say what they think is reasonable, or how those states could pay for it, most states operate on a budget deficit as well and can't keep up with crumbling infrastructure, where are they going to find the ability to do this?
The Stanford study also says...
So the overall cost spread over time would be roughly equal to the price of the fossil fuel infrastructure, maintenance and production.
"When you account for the health and climate costs – as well as the rising price of fossil fuels – wind, water and solar are half the cost of conventional systems," Jacobson said. "A conversion of this scale would also create jobs, stabilize fuel prices, reduce pollution-related health problems and eliminate emissions
They never talk the actual costs in either the fossil fuel or supposed lower costs of green, you can't compare because they don't give you numbers you are just supposed to take their studies word for it... The second part of that quote is that green will cost half of the fossil fuels, sure in theory, but who is going to pay for the rollout of the new techno...
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Commented in Hundreds of homeless people fined and imprisoned in England and Wales
History repeats itself, only this time they can't transport them to America or Australia.
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Commented in Australia Bans Cash For All Purchases Over $7,500 Starting July of 2019
Screw Australia
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Commented in Six Reasons Gun Control Will Not Solve Mass Killings
we do trust that in general people are not going to pull guns on each other
A sense of security that lasts right up until they do. Granted, since 1996 massacres, spree and rampage killings in Australia do seem to rely on a mix of threats, arson, blunt instruments, automobiles, knives, as well as guns. Personally, I find people are better behaved when their calculus involves a significant chance of getting shot.
You really think that conventional light arms are going to cut it against a government?
Who said anything about taking up arms against the government? Where’d that come from? The Black Panthers had a great deal of success with their free breakfast and lunch programs, which are now taken for granted in American schools. Once they were infiltrated by the FBI, furnished with guns and enticed into crime, that was their undoing.
Until US citizens have their own nukes and delivery systems you are not going to be able to seriously bother your government.
Static defenders have very little to gain from nuclear hand grenades.
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Commented in The land of delicious chocolate (Belgium) moves to ban 'Star Wars Battlefront 2'-style loot boxes
I saw where a province in Australia has also said the same thing, I really hope this catches on because this pay to win stuff isn't just annoying it sets a bad precedent for the future.
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Commented in Chipocalypse: potato shortage in New Zealand sparks crisp crisis
Nah, they are called chips in Australia and New Zealand.
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Commented in Racism, Gun Ownership and Gun Control: Biased Attitudes in US Whites May Influence Policy Decisions
This is an older study from 2013 I thought had some interesting statistics relevant for today. You're right about agenda corraling research, I assume quantifying biases in any demographic probably can only yield subjective conclusions no matter the "explanatory variables, logistic regressions" considered. Most of the authors are from Australia and they never understand USA gun obsessions or whatever and anyway, the study found "paradoxical attitudes" among US whites so what are we really supposed to think? Thank you for your thoughtful response btw, was hoping for a discussion, this Vegas thing has me really distraught, to say the least, I can't make any sense of it. Maybe I'm searching for answers in all the wrong places...
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Commented in Here's why Australians will never understand the US obsession with guns
I didn't say there aren't gangs in the US. But I also think it's disingenuous to say that there aren't any in Australia, or Canada, or Britain, etc.
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Commented in US warship crash that killed seven American sailors 'was Navy's own fault'
In Australia we have an expression for this: "Well der!" It has to be said with the right tone.
The officials say investigators are also looking at the possibility that the ship was traveling at a higher speed than expected in order to reach a location it was due to arrive at the next next day.
I would have thought one of the first things they would do was get a GPS trace, so shouldn't they know exactly where and what speed the ship was going?
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Commented in A pill to treat coeliac disease? Not quite – here's what the science says
If the manufacturer states the product should not be used to treat any disease including coeliac disease, how is it listed with Australia’s regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) as a complementary medicine?
My question is why in the world would anyone waste their money on this in the first place?
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Commented in Fifty new species of spider discovered in far north Australia
Fifty more reasons to not go there. As if this wasn't enough.
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Commented in Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence
The CIA has been running coups for so long in other countries, what's the biggie with orchestrating one in their own backyard?
And isn't it funny/strange/sad/kafkaesque that the media is focusing on how the information on the DNC-Clinton-Media collusion/corruption got out and not even mention the actual corruption?!
Does it really matter if it was Russia that "hacked" the emails that revealed the scope of the DNC-Clinton corruption? And really, do you believe the CIA of "Saddam has weapons of mass destruction" fame or Wikileaks with their 10 years unblemished record of whistleblowing - telling us that it was not the Russians "hacking", but a leak from DNC insider?
And what of the Podesta (Clinton's campaign chief) email leaks (and not "fake news") that started the worldwide citizens' investigation of the massive global child trafficking/pedo ring within DC (involving both sides of the aisle) with ties to Clinton Foundation being a front for these activities?
And isn't it also funny timing/coincidence that there's been a major pedo ring bust in the USA and several major pedo ring busts around the world since the emails on Anthony Weiner's PC were found? And isn't it kind of coincidental that donations to the Clinton Foundation from Norway and Australia dropped to practically zero right after the major pedo busts in those countries? And isn't it even more strange that the NY Times, WaPo, ABC and other US media outlets scrubbed their websites of the story on the major Norway pedo bust right after it was revealed that a couple of government officials were involved in that pedo ring and they may have financial ties to the Clinton Foundation?
The pedos and human traffickers in DC are running scared and trying to do everything in their power (and it is considerable and scary judging by the response so far) to stop Trump from being president - as I believe/hope his "drain the swamp" is targeted at these human garbage.
#PizzaGate, #AskAlefantis, #BreaktheRing, #SavetheChildren, #TwitterGate
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Commented in The bank lent me $2m so I spent it on strippers and cars [and all]
February 2015: Found guilty of obtaining financial benefit by deception
Wait... that's against the law in Australia? How do advertising agencies not get prosecuted then?
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Commented in TPP’s Death Won’t Help the American Middle Class
This one’s a doozy. Who would fall for this?
In short, by trying to protect American workers by killing TPP, Trump may be actually hurting them by reducing the incentive for companies to create jobs here, says Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think tank with a favorable view towards trade.
Yes, the Peterson Institute. Because they’re objective, outside observers.
Specifically, the TPP could have established stringent labor and environmental laws in other countries that could have driven up the cost of labor there, thus making American workers more appealing.
Yes, Hickory Dickory Dock, the cow could jump over the moon. The reason our neoliberal rulers contrived the TPP is to enshrine profit as the highest function of humanity. If that means outright slavery, then that’s what it means. If abolishing slavery could endanger ‘expected future profits’ and therefore be a ‘restraint on trade’ punishable under the TPP, I’m not clear how wage protections and safe working conditions are going to magically precipitate out of this solution. Except in facile disinformation polemics like this sorry effort.
If the U.S. does not want to hold other countries accountable for better labor standards, another way to attract corporations to hire Americans would be to lower labor or regulatory standards at home.
Black lung for America! Black lung for prosperity! Black lung… for freedom!
The TPP essentially took NAFTA, the free-trade agreement among Canada, Mexico, and the United States that Trump called “the worst trade deal ever,” and added a whole bunch of countries, including Australia, Vietnam, Japan, and Malaysia.
Because that’s not creepy?
TPP’s not about trade. NAFTA’s not about trade. GATT wasn’t about trade. They’re about making multinational corporations the literal rulers of the Earth.