No she won't. They'll just pass legislation for the filter just after the election and then have three years to distract the electorate before the election after that.

Obviously you haven't been listening to the blue whales themselves

We're all guilty of confusing a bat shit crazy vocal minority of any general group as being representative of the aims and views of that group. Other people have made a similar mistake in response to this article. But the author of the summary, while not in the summary itself, did clarify that they were specifically talking about "anti-nuclear environmentalist organizations" rather than "anti-nuclear environmentalist organizations".

If anything such a response is representative of how knee-jerk we've become in response to the polarization and poor signal-to-noise ratio of the news where someone is always attacking someone or something else.

Sorry, but the US != the world

I'm not.

If you're going to try to seek a remedy using the legal system, you better care.

I don't disagree with that sentiment. But at the same time, if the sentiment is strong enough, you, I or anyone else is free to choose to not buy apple products. While the Apple "ecosystem" is locked down by Apple, you can choose to have nothing to do with it.

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Lawsuits aren't typically about what is right. They're about what is legal. The two just happen to coincide a lot (but not necessarily a lot in the samples we view on here)

Consumers are the product. Advertisers deliver this product to their customers. The way I've always heard the term "consumers" used in the media reminds me of cattle. Every producer and provider wants as much consumer pie as it can eat, and we best not spook the consumer or it'll take a break from its mindless consumption.

But if you meant that we aren't the customers any more; you're right, we aren't. Being a customer is what you want to be, not a consumer.

Personally I thought "turning the other cheek" was supposed to invalidate the "eye for an eye" deal of systematic revenge rather than precluding justifiable self-defense.

I believe that the gun-toting Americans that he was referring to are the God-fearing "Christians" that seem to quote more of the Old Testament than New who instead of loving-thy-neighbour espouse the killing of anyone who is different in the way many fundamentalist extremists of any religion do

Yet the emerging trend of dressing children in clothing that is tarty and/or has sexually suggestive slogans printed on them is A-OK

I've got two words for you: Vicarious Liability

Where would you get the atmosphere to re-pressurize the module from, without having to wait for the next resupply visit bringing some up?

Actually, upon investigation it's even more unfortunate than that. Because senators are elected for two terms (effectively six years) at a time, Stephen Conroy isn't up for re-election this election unless the government pulls a double-dissolution election.

A number of factors are likely to keep Stephen Conroy in after the election this year.

In Australian election ballots for the senate we select one box above the line or number all the boxes below the line. To elaborate: below the line we number all of the possible candidates in order of preference (and we have to number all of them in order for that vote to be valid. Above the line we choose one political party who will be choosing the below the line preferences for those voters. Such preferences are selected based on the principles of the political party, on a reciprocal basis or for attempted political gain. This was how we ended up with Steve Fielding.

Due to the extreme number of senate candidates in Australian state and federal elections (last time I voted in the South Australian state election I think there was 46) most people elect to have their favoured political party choose their preferences for them. Based on the traditionalist attitudes of voters that revolve around biases, prejudices and/or traditionalism (my family has always voted for party X) the parties with the most senators tend to be Labor and Liberal, Conroy being a Labor senator who was elected even during the years that the Liberal/National Coalition had a majority in both houses of government.

As I now live in Victoria I'll certainly be voting in favour of candidates that are not him in the election some time this year. However I don't trust the preferences of other parties, nor do I want to re-elect members of the party of fear and xenophobia, so I'll be voting below the line.

But you can count on the majority voting above the line.

Sure. Just like I have district and magistrates burgers which are obviously of lesser quality than supreme burgers.

What to do with the tax money? Subsidize R&D for renewable energy, subsidize renewable energy generation and fund more substantial public transport systems that actually have a hope of competing with cars. Yeah, I know that in practice this likely won't happen because governments like to lump all tax revenue into one huge pile. But in the same vein, cap and trade isn't going to work because governments insist on throwing free rights to their heavily polluting lobbyists