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"wage growth slow down is an oxymoron"
Imagine the line is wage growth.
Over time, the growth is slowing down.
While it's good of Ben Grubb to do so, to spread the news, he is referencing a ZDNet article by Josh Taylor. So: well played Josh Taylor.
Ben Grubb, however, is to be especially commended for > Meanwhile, the author [Ben Grubb] of this article is seeking his own metadata from Telstra.
> Telstra is refusing to hand it over and the case is currently before the Privacy Commissioner, who is set to decide on the matter before the end of the year.
... That is exceptionally well played.
This is fairly common; you need to negotiate with your biggest vendor and you nab some of their staff to help with the negotiation. Who better to negotiate than someone who understands the ins and outs of the vendor?
Plus Turnbull hasn't been shy about showing the overspending of the NBN so far so he'll be very keen to make sure this deal makes the new management look good.
>is it possible to see how much of a stake the board holds in Telstra shares?
This was declared several times. The answer is 'nothing material'.
It is in the boards best interests to make this deal good value for the NBN. If they don't they may have a small boost to their immaterial Telstra stock but they'll lose their hefty salaries and potential bonuses.
“If we win, it will make more patriots come to the next rally. We just need to go there and we’ll beat them. We’ll have enough to crush them at some point.”
“All I want to do is smash commies too. Actually I’m lying, I’m way past just hitting them. When the time comes I will stop at nothing to fully eradicate them all!”
Proud Boy Shaun Hufton at one point made a direct threat to kill an anti-fascist activist who goes by the pseudonym Antifash Gordon on Twitter:
“This mother fucker needs to meet a 7mm [Magnum rifle] from about 500 yards,”
>Bigot - a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who does not like other people who have different beliefs or a different way of life:
^https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bigot
Their crap is not my cup of tea, but the far left can be equally bad in their intolerance of others.
Imagine how painful a far right Vegan, who is domineering with their own opinion, would be to hang out with.
Here's a podcast he was on discussing it. Very interesting. Katherine Murphy is a great host!
We need to stop fighting amongst ourselves! No wonder we never get anywhere. There is absolutely no reason why this bill is warranted. "Modify data" what the actual F*** is that?
"this Bill would allow spy agencies to modify, copy, or delete your data with a data disruption warrant; collect intelligence on your online activities with a network activity warrant; also they can take over your social media and other online accounts and profiles”
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill/
Terms such as "conservative" and "liberal" tend to view politics in a very 1-dimensional fashion.
There's an app I can recommend to you called "Vote 1 - Political Spectrum".
It will ask you a bunch of questions about both social and economic issues, and then place you on a 2-dimensional spectrum, known as a Nolan Chart, based on your answers.
It may be possible that what you think is "centrist" isn't actually centrist at all. From what I can gather, it sounds as if you may be economically centrist, but socially liberal.
how about this for a start. Or perhaps this?
I wish we could have a discussion on the surveillance bill without having the thread removed or set to hidden
Drumgold seems likely to be a member of the "equity" school of justice, noting that he studied "restorative justice in indigenous communities [and] was a member of the steering committee for inaugural indigenous circle sentencing court, and the restorative justice unit in Canberra Australia".
There's also the fact that he was a member of ACT Labor for many years. May in fact still be a member, I don't know.
Even if those figures were true - you haven't cited them - a cooler planet is dryer, not wetter.
If recent temperatures are warmer and effecting the dipole, why aren't the most extreme impacts all recent? They aren't.
In addition, the Pacific is neutral at the moment meaning there is no la niña which would cause higher than average rainfall.
When the Pacific is warm, and we get drought from el niño, all the alarmists claim this is climate change.
Here is an interview with the man who discovered the IOD. In it he states
>Strong IOD events tend to occur roughly every 10 years. The reasons for this are only being investigated.
In other words, strong IODs happen regularly. There is no increase in the length or frequency of these events. There is a graph that shows no trend. Just alternate negative and positive swings.
The scientist is asked if global warning is having an effect. He replied in the future tense meaning to date it hasn't. He also doubts the models used by climate alarmists could predict the future given their "deficiencies".
Yeah i love anyone who supports the view of hers that ppl should lift themselves up by the boots and that collectivism Bullshit she loved
http://www.openculture.com/2016/12/when-ayn-rand-collected-social-security-medicare.html
Yet died living on the states handouts
There really isn't any easy answers to the challenges we'll face in years and decades to come.
Hugh's pessimism is the best example of that - however that's not a reason for all of us to be pessimistic as well. Kevin Rudd's book The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China talks about "managed strategic competition" where we work out guard rails for the road, so that the race doesn't get out of hand, and in the face of one side losing, we choose to "blow each other's brains out". Kevin's done many book junkets recently, so here's one as an example: In conversation with Kevin Rudd (with Julie Bishop)
>Fuck the Chinese government!
I understand your emotion...if you want to calm down, read Kevin Rudd's new book: The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China. Fascinating to understand the Chinese mindset, and the games they play and why.
And to understand their diplomacy, I recommend Peter Hartcher: Red Zone: China's Challenge and Australia's Future - on second thoughts, you might feel more angry, but it's refreshing to understand that the CCP isn't China or the Chinese people, and that much of Australia (and the world) is waking up to what a CCP dominated region would look like.
For context, great powers do these sorts of stuff all the time...don't think we're that special. Each side spies on the other, and sometimes it gets out of hand....however as long as it doesn't escalate we're both OK.
>strike
>to refuse to continue working because of an argument with an employer about working conditions, pay levels, or job losses:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/strike
Funnily enough there is no disagreement with employers about working conditions, pay levels or job losses. I suggest you revise the definition.
Moxie, the main dev behind signal messenger did some reverse engineering on cellbrite kit he found a shit ton of holes I'd challenge in court the evidence chain if I was unfortunate enough to have to fight legal case were they were evidence.
>What is declaring a climate emergency realistically going to achieve?
Hopefully some supporting legislation. Like when the world community all united to phase out CFC's, because they were destroying the ozone layer. Of course, there were deniers then too.
The parallels between arguments made by the ozone deniers, and those made by contemporary climate deniers are laughably stark
Hope you enjoy the next few years, being on that side of the argument.
That's right. Those water wheels in medieval europe depended on fossil fuel.
Without middle eastern oil you could never build them.
Same with those ancient mediterranean windmills:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/traditional-greece-white-windmills-crete-island-1433054645
Nudging, Framing, other positive things that don't even force people or firms to do things can be very beneficial in terms of sustainability and mitigation of climate change. If we only had media and politicians who were willing to push such an agenda...
Rudd and Turnbull are absolutely correct.
The easiest way to get them to fix the problem is to not support it.
Cancel your internet connections.
You can survive without netflix.
> Australia is a very wide place. Its kind of redundant to make such an exponential and expensive, physical technology to cover such wide areas...
Fortunately, Australia is one of the most urbanized, most coastal-dwelling countries on Earth. FttP to every single house would indeed be prohibitively expensive; FttP to 95% of housing would cost less than half as much.
Also: Fibre's cost increases in a linear fashion, not an exponential one.
> Or having individual enterprise to enter the market, and cater to demand with much more intent, rather than a cover-all national service...
The technology has been around for awhile, and Telstra isn't interested. Why? Because they've a sanctioned monopoly on physical telecom infrastructure, so why shell out to upgrade when the chumps will pay through the nose for copper?
> It was always going to be obsolete at some point.
If you're talking about copper...it was obsolete 10-15 years ago, and we're still installing it. Why? Because the Coalition decrees that it be so.
> And our infrastructure is constantly upgrading.
Not in telecommunications, it isn't. Which is why we're steadily declining down the list of telecommunication speeds & reliability - we're not particularly getting worse, but other countries are getting better and we're not. Which is why our landline Internet access is now deemed to be worse than India's.
How, pray tell, will we encourage "high technology jobs" to this country (as I'm told is the plan to address such issues as automation), if our ability to share, send and receive information is a global laughingstock?
Errrm, yes. That's the review that NBNCo just delivered recently that recommended a "multi technology mix". That's exactly the piece of shit plan I am referring to.
Perhaps you mean the review not due until June that will include some kind of CBA for something and report on the regulatory environment and pricing structure of NBN. You could almost even call that one independent!
I'm not sure what it's going to achieve in 6 months' time though. Unless Turnbull proposes to do nothing until then and wait. But that doesn't seem like what they're doing.
Try this for an overview http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/noam-chomsky-on-whether-the-rise-of-trump-resembles-the-rise-of-fascism-in-1930s-germany.html
Here is another view http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/02/is_donald_trump_a_fascist_an_expert_on_fascism_weighs_in.html
Carlo Kopp and Peter Goon are smart men, but they operated Air Power Australia as part of what essentially was to be a legal scam.
At first, their intent was somewhat genuine; the idea was that their company, Australian Flight Test Services, which had previously only developed a net for storing cargo in the AP-3C Orion's bomb bay, would be the primary contractor for an F-111 upgrade program; the Australian government would give them billions of dollars, and they would use that to acquire equipment from BAE, Raytheon, etc to perform the job, whilst taking a portion of the profits worth at least tens of millions. You can see this evident in the fact that they praise the F-111 so much on their website.
Later on when it became evident that the F-111 was being replaced, they then pushed for the F-22 to be acquired, because it was both potentially lucrative (due to unit price), but also because the F-35 program was being procured through a government program office that essentially served as a non-profit version of what they wanted to do.
In the end, with the F-111 gone, further commitments to the F-35 made and with the F-22 being cut prematurely by the US, they essentially gave up, which is why their site has become largely inactive.
>It's not gone, but it has slowed, objectively.
That's what Kelly is saying - not that it's gone or that the number of cases is starting to drop, but that the rate of increase is starting to drop. Using the tracker run by Johns Hopkins University - which seems to be the go-to for data on the number of cases - the Australian curve does look like it's starting to flatten, unlike some others (looking at you, Brazil).
That said, though, it's most definitely too early to consider relaxing the restrictions that have led to that result.
> I'm taking that lower bound to be the best estimate, as we're missing a lot of asymtomatic cases, which will skew the statistics.
Why? Why choose the lowest and say "That's what I think is the best estimate"? Especially since that's a fraction of the current^1 global fatality rate (5.7%).
>Here's a quote from a statistician that show's it's at least not the crazy %ages people are spouting:
What do you mean by "crazy percentages"?
And looking at the article, maybe it's because his numbers are at least a few days out of date - probably because the article is almost a week old - but his percentages are all incorrect on the low side. He also gives no reason as to why he's deciding to use Singapore and America as his lower and upper bounds for the range he's using to calculate the "true" mortality rate for COVID-19.
1: Using the data provided by Johns Hopkins University which is in turn based off data received from a number of sources
Gans hasn't got any political credentials at all. Not even media. He's an economist by the looks of his work.
Robert Kerr + acma gets nothing related to the ABC
Jolly is mentioned in the following link
There are 17 uses of the word "bias" in the article, all of which refer to accusations of left wing bias. There are zero mantis of accusations of right wing bias. I wonder why that could be.
Why don't you link me where you get your notion that the ABC is not biased.?
Andrew Leigh is a fucking ALP politician. That disqualifies him from being impartial.
>I e learnt ppl Like u will shoot everything down from any source provide because u listen to ‘ common sense’ not realising ur living a bs lie
You're the one staying your common sense trumps science and identified sources. Gaslighting does not work when the text is all available in past posts to read.
>but this woman gets it out.. in too warm out from ppl stupidity[<a rel="nofollow" href="https://parler.com/post/e61bacd555994a28adda7c0bf434c97e">https://parler.com/post/e61bacd555994a28adda7c0bf434c97e]()</a>
I'm not signing up to Parler thanks. Can you copy the text here? Worth noting, that a random social media post is not a source or evidence on its own either.
I'll also still take a video showing dummies if you have that kicking around somewhere.
Look. I e learnt ppl Like u will shoot everything down from any source provide because u listen to ‘ common sense’ not realising ur living a bs lie.. my head goes like white noise and open commentary to civil war gunners goes into repeat mode but this is the shit u want to scream at ppl like u.. and I would but it’s exhausting and talking too much to this ‘ I need to argue everything or consider anything other than whAt I’m comfortable with’ mentality actually nearly leaves me wishing they would just nuke the world coz fuck me, ppl have become a real low breed species .. but this woman gets it out.. in too warm out from ppl stupidity[https://parler.com/post/e61bacd555994a28adda7c0bf434c97e]()
The stupid part about all this is that all those who are doing something illegal will just move to communication platforms which can't be compromised such as Signal. Signal is effectively immune because it is end-to-end encrypted and open source, so if a back door is put in, everyone will see it. Signal will then be 'forked' to a new project without the backdoor and everyone moves to that.
Isnt this the exact case where a VPN will save you?
If you're using accounts not tied to anything identifiable then their only choice is to track your IP. If you're using a VPN they can only get as far as the VPN provider. Good luck getting someone like NordVPN to comply with an order like that, they'd lose half their users overnight.
You are falling for fake news. Or just lying. Probably just lying.
https://www.smilingmind.com.au/education
The Smiling Mind is funded as part of the $503 million mentioned in the article. It is in schools.
If you want to see some actual data that provides an indication if your city is in "lockdown," you can look at this City Mobility Map.
https://citymapper.com/CMI?fbclid=IwAR05v9F-IOU3TGpEv_IjXuBNDjL3E3b-oee7uQb1w-2AVKDhIXyXl24RFfA
If you want some data to see how much Australia is in lockdown, look at this
https://citymapper.com/CMI?fbclid=IwAR05v9F-IOU3TGpEv_IjXuBNDjL3E3b-oee7uQb1w-2AVKDhIXyXl24RFfA
It looks at mobility data, how much a city is moving in comparison to normal. Look at the data and then come back to me and tell me if you still think Melbourne and Sydney are in "lockdown" in comparison to the other cities in the world.
Have a look at this Mobility map and tell me if you think everyone in Melbourne and Sydney are trying.
https://citymapper.com/CMI?fbclid=IwAR05v9F-IOU3TGpEv_IjXuBNDjL3E3b-oee7uQb1w-2AVKDhIXyXl24RFfA
It shows how much a city is moving, in comparison to usual. And it shows you to compare against the world and also to compare against last week and two weeks ago.
>Read the fucking article.
Chill. I have read it. Please remember rule 8 of the sub.
>Recognising that a particular group would be impacted by someone speaking at the university is not the same as recommending that person not speak.
When you have to run through a filter on what you should or should not say, that is censorship. There are multiple forms and types of censorship mate, but this one touches on self-censorship.
>control of what you say or do in order to avoid annoying or offending others, but without being told officially that such control is necessary:
** >UWA to liaise with the guild to ensure guests do not “unnecessarily offend or upset groups within the student community” and to consider the “cultural sensitivities of all groups”.
Pressure to not speak about potentially sensitive or offensive topics, how is this not an attack on free speech.
> I never gave permission for them to give that data to someone else.
Yes you did, it's in their terms of service.
(Ironically, Google is better rated than Reddit...)
You describe well the climate change aspect. Which when you learn about it is a problem beyond comprehension and will make practically all of history's previous most notable catastrophes pale in comparison. If we believe the science.
But I think we will have major problems before that. Mostly to do with debt and inflation colliding with real world resource supply problems, a debt base money system that must grow crashing into the global demographic time bomb which is going off now.
No joke if you want a banquet of consequences, it is being served right about now...
So, in terms of refugees...I think the horrible reality of the situation is, you are not going to like what is about to happen. Like basically every lets say "very progressive" topic, they are about to fall down everyone's list of priorities like a lead balloon.
Appears to be in reference to the 2015 book: "The Unnatural Origin of Sars and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons" by Dezhong Xu and Feng Li. ISBN: 9787516305874.
Oh great, not saying he's gonna try conduct a coup, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's buying this book: Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook
I've been using NordVPN for a few months to try avoid shit like this, but would this media lockout be through our accounts being Australian, or our ISPs being Australian? I've been connecting to different countries like USA and Europe but unfortunately all the international news sources are still blocked for me.
Good, reputable ones that intent on keeping their users trust won't. If a VPN provider is revealed to be keeping logs, it Kamikaze's their business.
My VPN provider of choice is Mullvad, which is as Anonymous as you can get for a VPN provider. You are provided a 16 digit randomly generated number which is both your username and password. If you then take measures to pay for it anonymously using either Cleaned Bitcoin or prepaid Visa card bought in a store with cash, then there's no financial proof linking your name to that VPN.
Many VPNs are located in countries outside of the core 5 Eyes countries intelligence sharing alliance. Mullvad for example is in Sweden. So getting cooperation between those countries is another issue often not worth it for Joe Bloe. If you're the subject of a major criminal investigation then it might be worth law enforcement perusing that avenue.
Doubt it would be an issue. Can always order from amazon and utilize their return policy if you dont get it.
https://www.amazon.com.au/GOAT-GUNS-Model-Black-Metal/dp/B07ZG6B2TQ
Sign up for ZOOMIN and join the conversation. Fast Simple Secure
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/zoom-in/id1536973037
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gappsy.dashboard.www.android5f607092571aa
> Why are the left all for people sticking pingas up their ass before ODing at music festivals?
Because it's stronger if you stick it up your ass? Also it's arse. Why the fuck do you think people do it?
I personally think you should take as much of it as often as possible. It might cure whatever dreadful thing is wrong with you.
It's great that during a pandemic when the right are supposedly in charge of the country, they've devolved into their natural instincts and overwhelming desire to eat fish tank cleaner.
Big spoonfuls for you champ.
I'd read that article. But it is a hatchet job that misstated many of the facts and exaggerated resolved problems.
It's documented pretty well in https://www.amazon.com.au/Collins-Class-Submarine-Story-Steel/dp/0521868947
We’re just upscaling this. I have faith that modern engineers and health and safety professionals can design a safe dose with an entertaining element. Hell, why not have a sliding scale of low to high zaps based on their particular action or number of repetitions?
I don’t see how guest panelists could be immune to this. I think they should all be treated the same, fact checking and stuff too like the rest. They’re all gonna get electric ants in their pants.
The bill is meaningless, every internet user has the access to modern encryption tools like this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.przyklad.SkyTale.SkyKey
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No matter what politician will vote for or against the won't get access if user dont give them the encryption keys.