12.04 is the current LTS, and will be supprted and patched until 2017.
Also 12.04.3 is from August this year. So it isn't some old OS left out to dry. I dunno if this is the version used but would be surprised if it isn't.
I dont use Ubuntu so I am not sure what is included in these increments. Bug fixes and backports?
Actually there is quite a lot I don't know.
You think that is the only Great White shark that is patrolling the East Coast?
I looked at it and thought "Cool, the East Coast (of Australia) is safe. There are no Great Whites at all." Then I thought like you, maybe they dont have them all.
In order to win a Senate seat, the party has to gain a quota of votes. If the party gains two quotas, they get two Senate seats, and so on. In Conroy's case, he is the first candidate on Labor's Victorian Senate ticket - so if Labor gets a quota in Victoria, he's in. Doesn't matter how many quotas Labor gets, if they get just one, he's in.
This is true if all people voted above the line. The voting actually happens on individuals, it is just that parties can nominate how an above the line vote gets distributed.
Now tell me - what do you think are the odds that Labor doesn't get a Senate quota in this year's Federal election?
I think the probability is zero. It could happen if people voted below the line, the vast majority don't. Even if it was optional preferential people could just order their party selections and leave everything else. Currently I think that would be thrown away though.
No its not banned, it just cannot be sold in any state. However the territories do sell unclassified materials. Thats why everyone goes to Canberra for porn.
RC is banned for sale. Australia does have an X classification for movies and this is what you can buy in the territories.
This leads to the situation that sex shops in Australian states sell material that is X and potentially that would be RC (as they are already doing something illegal) and is not available in the territories. When the OFLC does spot checks of these shops they are usually only looking for child porn or bestiality.
One of the lobby groups for the sex industry has been complaining about this for a long time. Here is a story about it.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,26194980-36418,00.html
Furthermore, I'm not sure what you consider "large scale" but nothing comes close to SAS in that arena. R, while a very nice tool would choke on the sort of data SAS handles with ease.
I was involved recently in an evaluation of R at a Big Bank. It is great and I suggested our research people might like it, it just can't handle our volume of data though.
Being an old S/S+ person I wondered if I would prefer to contribute to R to make it enterprise safe or as also an old SAS person try and start up an R equivalent to SAS.
Luckily I will never be a billionaire so I don't have to make a decision.
If you think this is just tinfoil hat paranoia, perhaps you haven't heard of the Wood Royal Commission. There's good reason to be wary of the police of NSW, and I say that despite being someone who might not be alive today were it not for a detective's hard work.
I have said this for more years than I care to remember, the NSW Police are the best police force that money can buy.
Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
