Comment Re:All minor parties are teaming together (Score 2) 162
If you don't care where your vote winds up vote above the line.
If you do, vote below the line.
It only takes 5 minutes.
If you don't care where your vote winds up vote above the line.
If you do, vote below the line.
It only takes 5 minutes.
Damnit you're right. I got muddled by the brisbane times link.
Either way it's not NSW though!
Which of their policies do you disagree with?
http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/platform/
My guess would be asylum seekers?
What does this have to do with Assange directly?He is only one of 7 wikileaks candidtates, and he is running in Queensland.
This story is about preferences in New South Wales. The wikileaks candidates in NSW are Kellie Tranter and Alison Broinowski.
Anyone who is actually voting for wikileaks will likely be well informed and voting below the line anyways.
For those not familiar with australian voting, we have preferential instant runoff first past the pole voting.
You can either vote "above the line," where you select ONE party, and that party decides how your preferences fall if they don't win a seat, or you can vote "below the line," where you number individual candidates "1, 2, 3.....".
Broke the rules? Overstepped its legal authority?
Is that the euphemism we're using now for "broke the law"?
Here in Australia, I have heard tell that giving people a bad reference is grounds for a defamation lawsuit. As a result many companies (including mine now) refuse to give a bad reference and will instead only confirm the person was employed there and politely decline to answer any further questions.
Positive references are not a problem. So typically, if you ask for a reference and the person only is prepared to confirm they worked there, I think it's safe to assume bad reference.
How someone could say that with a straight face after 10 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq is beyond me. Instead of being used to export high explosive to the Middle East, maybe some of those delicious tax dollars could have done some good to the actual citizens of the United States?
Google CAN write their own youtube app. Today they can, and it would be on the MS app store within a few days.
Google has made a corporate decision to write 0 windows phone apps.
But it does not allow rockets to reenter the Earth's atmosphere at orbital velocities, slow down, and land.
How about the Moon and Mars? It seems to me that the fuel capacity of Dragon isn't enough to do both lunar descent and ascent just on the Super Draco thrusters and the trunk's fuel capacity.
The impressive part is that they do it with an actual rocket that is 106 feet tall, and that they have launched it 7 times with 0 failures.
Using the same engine, rather than treating the engine as a disposable object that only performs one burn in its lifetime. Most rocket engines can't be throttled, can't be shut down and then restarted in flight or otherwise.
The tricky part is going to be for any stage to have enough delta-V to return to the pad after lifting a payload to orbit. Also, as far as I can tell, this takes a drag chute for lower stages, and a re-entry shield for upper ones.
Bruce
http://www.globalenvision.org/2011/08/18/used-soda-bottles-light-world-free
So people in third world countries should just save up for 15 years to buy a commercial lighting system?
This isn't about commercial use in wealthy areas, it's about giving light to the various areas in the world with "shack cities", where a few thousand people just shove up tin roofs and live in close proximity.
It is both novel and beneficial to those people.
Please think before you spew.
Here comes step 2:
We'll beam him cheesy movies,
The worst we can find.
It'll have to receive and record them all,
And we'll monitor his hard drive.
And because our robot can't control
Where the movies begin or end.
It'll try to have enough free disk space
With the help of its human friends.
From the summary:
"so it's easy to track many of the brighter stars as well as planets and deep-space probes, such as Voyagers 1 and 2."
Hackers of the world, unite!