Comment Re:Another Julian missed (Score 1) 191
As an Australian, Clary is a camp UK stand-up comedian I vaguely remember from the 1990s.
Julian Morrow would have the be the second-most revered Julian in Australia.
As an Australian, Clary is a camp UK stand-up comedian I vaguely remember from the 1990s.
Julian Morrow would have the be the second-most revered Julian in Australia.
Given the success of Finland's existing education system, this could be the dumbest move by the Finish government since invading the Soviet Union in 1941.
Where I live, public transport is running at peak capacity during rush hour.
A lot of places effectively have free off-peak travel for commuters. Anyone who regularly uses buses or trains to commute has a weekly or monthly travel card.
I don't know why they can't extend it to give everyone free off-peak travel. The cost is highly subsidised already, so it makes sense to get more people using it for a small drop in revenue.
And meet 0% of the demand at night if they don't have storage which is very expensive.
No problems. Just dam and flood the San Fernando Valley. Pump up water in the day, and run on hydro at night.
Cost and other practical factors don't seem to come into consideration in this discussion.
It is the "lingua franca" of our age (and doesn't that phrase piss off the French!).
Why? The original "Lingua Franca" was mostly Italian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
You mean young black males? Plenty have said that. But violent crime is responsible for a minority of the prison population, and a much smaller minority of convictions, and so those with criminal records. A huge number have records for non-violent drug offences.
It would be a lot easier to abolish the War on Drugs, given its blatant failure, than to change subcultures. Though cutting the flow of drug money wouldn't hurt.
They are not lying, just looking for data to support their pre-determined conclusion. The same as you are. Please try to avoid such partisan vitriol on such an important topic. How about calm down, admit there is a problem, your opponents have some valid points, but we don't have all the answers.
Here is a good example of a sensible moderate view:
http://people.howstuffworks.co...
Yes, semantics, but I found the words misleading in the context.
GP implied people no longer had guns, but we actually have more guns than ever in Australia, millions of them in fact. Just far fewer semi-autos than before. Hunting is popular.
I am not defending the buyback. We already had sensible gun laws, and it mostly replaced a lot of semi-auto
It's not so long ago that police started routinely carrying handguns here. It happened after a spate of armed bank robberies. Armed robberies since declined, but we are stuck with the armed police now. (Or course they always had guns for emergency, just not carried routinely).
in Australia after their firearm ban and confiscation, removing firearms does not remove suicides.
There was no "firearm" ban, but a restriction and buyback of rapid-fire weapons. Of course many people used the money to buy new legal weapons.
A bolt-action rifle or standard shotgun is not so good for massacres, but perfectly effective for hunting or suicide. There is no reason to expect a decline.
those determined to exit this sphere of existence will find a way to do so.
Ok, too hard to RTFA, but at least RTFS. It is not about those who are sufficiently determined to find a way.
The latter comes with regular, mandatory police inspections of gun owners' homes, to ensure guns are kept according to the rules.
Reg is not at all necessary. We have lots of rules for home safety without inspection, except when a home is first built. Perhaps when someone gets a gun licence it could require proof that they have secure storage. After that, education and publicising prosecutions (e.g. kids or burglar finding gun) might be enough to make a big difference.
The canine olfactory organ is thousands of orders of magnitude
Something tells me you're an arts graduate
Compare, for example, the world's reaction to US invading Iraq in 2003 — it caused, what Time magazine would later call "World's biggest coordinated protest in history"
Well, it turns out that the protesters were 100% right on that one.
But if it makes you feel any better, much as the world loathes Bush II and the neo-con war criminals, they still won't have much trouble beating Vladimir Putin in a global popularity contest. Maybe people don't protest against Russia because there is no point?
Or is it that invading a distant nation for its oil wealth is not quite the same as a bloodless annexation of a peninsula that was recently part of Russia and is still full of Russians. Khrushchev should never have given it to Ukraine.
They don't have to convince anybody with such accusations. They just need to make enough noise to make the perfectly credible accusations against them look similarly lunatic to the short attention-span majority of the world's population...
Thats partly right, but overstated. I'd say they merely need to cast doubt - no need to make both cases equally (in)credible.
And more importantly, the propaganda is intended for domestic consumption, not "the world".
Why? Was it less important than the Air France plane that was found after almost 2 years of searching?
The AF447 debris was spotted the next day, and bodies and wreckage recovered within a week. It took 2 years to find the black boxes, but they had useful data on the cause of the crash. The Malaysian black boxes are almost certainly of no use.
Anyway, you are making a big assumption that the GP thinks the AF blackbox search was worthwhile.
They only need to convince people who already made the very uneconomical decision to buy an electric or hybrid.
Again? Your sound like a broken record. Anyway, buying _any_ new car is uneconomical, so you are left with no point whatsoever.
If all else fails, lower your standards.
