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» 30/12/2011 9:20:13 PM @Ammonite: Deleted for trying to discuss moderation decisions plus abuse. That's a shame......
» 22/12/2011 11:15:16 AM Ah, the echo chamber. If there was a article that typified it, this is it. Rafe Champion i.....
» 21/12/2011 9:43:17 PM @GrahamY: But once the invasion was mooted by the US you had to be on board because it cou.....
» 12/12/2011 5:23:12 PM @Shadow Minister Hey Shadow, I see you are still in the business of making predictions. N.....
» 10/12/2011 9:45:55 PM @579: You can-not have DC transmission lines. DC power does not travel to well. Nah 579, .....
» 10/12/2011 2:19:45 PM @Martin N: At $2/W (low commercial price today) Your information is a little out of date......
» 23/11/2011 9:31:24 PM You confuse two sorts of risks Jonathan. You are quite right is saying nuclear is safe whe.....
» 23/11/2011 8:54:36 PM @pelican: That is poor show even for you. I don't know about the "even for you".....
» 23/11/2011 8:25:20 PM @stevenlmeyer: We are NOT going to curtail greenhouse gas emissions in any meaningful way......
» 22/11/2011 1:12:29 PM It was 2 years ago, but I remember this: @michael_in_adelaide: Don't worry Curmudgeon - I.....
» 22/11/2011 12:35:42 PM @Daffy Duck: Demographic Winter is of course produced by self righteous right wing Catholi.....
» 22/11/2011 12:30:06 PM The comments here gave me a sense déjà vu. But it was just from yesterday. It occurred to .....
» 21/11/2011 12:29:21 PM It's funny how people can see things differently. When Malthus proposed his idea it must h.....
» 17/09/2011 6:09:15 PM @Shadown Minister: There are plenty of high speed connections, So you have one your house.....
» 17/09/2011 6:09:12 PM @Shadow Minister: such as it being more efficient to estimate costs with a government orga.....
» 14/09/2011 9:38:31 AM @Shadow Minister: Absolute rubbish. The costs on both cases are audited. Are you just mak.....
» 11/09/2011 11:01:24 PM @Shadow Minister: For all your spin I have yet to see anything that would indicate that pr.....
» 11/09/2011 10:47:48 PM @Shadow Minister: it would be a bit of a truism that the discount you can offer to your ow.....
» 10/09/2011 10:39:50 PM @Shadow Minister: They cannot sell below the price they are charged by the NBN even if the.....
» 9/09/2011 11:46:59 AM Also Shadow you seem to want a private monopoly to provide you with your broadband connect.....
» 9/09/2011 11:37:50 AM @R0bert: my guess is that all or almost all of the cost will land in the laps of middle in.....
» 9/09/2011 10:46:10 AM @Shadow Minister: OPTUS has promised not to criticise the National Broadband Network in ke.....
» 6/09/2011 7:44:47 PM @Shadow Minster: As for the "commercial" contract, paying others not to compete .....
» 6/09/2011 7:34:02 PM @Shadow Minister: This essentially means they have to offer the same access prices to ever.....
» 6/09/2011 10:57:18 AM I have more time for Gillard than the rest of you here do. She was dealt an extraordinaril.....
» 6/09/2011 10:14:34 AM @Shadow Minister: Paul Broad warned that the uniform price directive, anti-cherry picking .....
» 2/09/2011 10:41:04 AM @Shadow Minister: The so called anti cherry picking legislation For gods sake, there is n.....
» 1/09/2011 10:10:46 AM Oh, and one more thing. We seem to have had our fill of the radio discussion, but this mig.....
» 1/09/2011 9:47:56 AM By the way, I in doing yet more reading in researching for for the post above, I came acro.....
» 1/09/2011 9:26:18 AM @Shadow Minsister: If the Coalition reverses these laws, the NBN collapses. From the arti.....
» 31/08/2011 11:42:32 AM (...cont'd) The point being, this the anonymity city gives us is a relatively new thing, .....
» 31/08/2011 11:42:28 AM @TurnRightThenLeft: Is it reasonable for social networking sites to demand our real names?.....
» 30/08/2011 5:54:30 PM @Shadow Minister: If it is not necessary to ban it, then why do it? Are you claiming comp.....
» 27/08/2011 12:44:01 PM @Shadow Minister: The new laws prevent people cherry picking profitable areas by making it.....
» 26/08/2011 9:17:26 AM @Shadow Minister: none of them have competition banned. Are you sure it is banned? My und.....
» 24/08/2011 9:06:56 PM @Shadow Minister: I hate monopolies with a passion, especially those that use undue influe.....
» 24/08/2011 11:23:55 AM @Shadow Minister: but it was an an obvious attempt to justify the NBN. Cut him some slack.....
» 24/08/2011 11:23:06 AM @Shadow Minister: with all competition banned can simply make a profit by pushing up price.....
» 24/08/2011 9:32:28 AM Good article, just the sort of thing we need for an informed public debate. I wasn't aware.....
» 23/08/2011 6:20:06 PM Well Ruth, I think we have our answer to your question "Is this the start of Australi.....
» 23/08/2011 6:13:57 PM @Shadow Minister: It is rapidly becoming clear that the NBN co cannot be profitable at the.....
» 23/08/2011 10:00:00 AM @Antiseptic: build it and they will come Is this the fantasy you building up in your mind.....
» 23/08/2011 9:59:55 AM @Shadow Minister: The NBN prices are not lower than the most competitive ASDL prices avail.....
» 22/08/2011 10:53:23 PM I think the premise of this article is wrong. It assumes it is possible to be so smart you.....
» 22/08/2011 9:21:35 PM @Bugsy: Mark, you are much better on economics. I agree with this perspective on protectio.....
» 22/08/2011 8:43:53 PM @Shadow Minister: The evidence to date is that the NBN prices will equal one of the more e.....
» 22/08/2011 1:15:34 PM @Shadow Minister: The same would apply if the government installed new water lines to each.....
» 22/08/2011 1:09:04 PM @Antiseptic: Here's a link to an interview with a developer of the technology. Have a list.....
» 21/08/2011 12:01:37 PM > Despite fears of Western capitalists, Beijing apparently has no immediate plans to cu.....
» 21/08/2011 10:24:56 AM @Antiseptic: I agree. Firstly it isn't a choice between 100MBit/s and something else. It .....
» 19/08/2011 10:36:25 AM A clear and straightforward summary of events. Thanks......
» 15/08/2011 10:15:49 PM I was listening today to a UK local policeman talking about the reaction of his community .....
» 15/08/2011 9:31:21 PM I have always worked in private enterprise where jury duty has always been treated as a bi.....
» 14/08/2011 6:43:22 PM @Eclipse Now: So I'm wondering if they are also counting how many people listen to their p.....
» 12/08/2011 10:20:50 PM @Shadow Minister: Telstra was a state funded monopoly, and should have been broken up. Br.....
» 11/08/2011 7:43:42 PM The culture of youth violence in the UK is not exactly new. The behaviour of their soccer .....
» 11/08/2011 7:12:48 PM @Shadow Minister: TPG Has broadband for $9.99 per month over the phone charges for 20GB. T.....
» 11/08/2011 9:51:56 AM @Shadow Minister: A prime example of a monopoly wholesaler gouging the retailers. This wou.....
» 10/08/2011 6:24:13 PM @Shadow Minister: NBN Co's attempts to gouge retailers has suffered a setback. Ye gods - .....
» 10/08/2011 10:56:07 AM I went to the good professor's web site, and saw he is promoting a lecture tour by Ann Pet.....
» 7/08/2011 6:23:21 PM When I read the article I thought it was 1600 words saying the author had discovered the s.....
» 5/08/2011 11:05:48 PM @Agronomist, Thanks for putting the article into perspective......
» 5/08/2011 6:52:30 PM (...cont'd) The sneaky bit is because it is so much better than copper, they could go to .....
» 5/08/2011 6:52:27 PM @Bazz: Fibre everywhere is the Rolls Royce solution and it will have a long life through m.....
» 5/08/2011 12:58:58 PM For what its worth pepper, there have already been two threads on the NBN right here on OL.....
» 4/08/2011 6:39:06 PM @Shadow Minister: Survey systems can get accurate readings, they just need to average over.....
» 4/08/2011 11:26:08 AM @Antiseptic: Rstuart seems to have missed the way in this makes it possible to break Shann.....
» 4/08/2011 11:26:04 AM @Shadow Minister: Phased arrays and GPSs get very close to the accuracy req. Nah, it wou.....
» 3/08/2011 11:34:38 AM @Shadow Minister: I haven't done so much reading for ages. Me neither. Without your prodd.....
» 2/08/2011 5:11:09 PM @Shadow Minister: You didn't even bother to look did you. Touché. I only looked at the ta.....
» 2/08/2011 3:55:24 PM @Shadow Minister: NOT as you claim: "itsy bitsy data allowance with their shiny new i.....
» 2/08/2011 2:10:56 PM @rstuart: I tried to dig up some meaningful figures, like the trends for average US or eve.....
» 2/08/2011 1:33:23 PM @Antiseptic: At $43billion without the blowout factor I:'ll be paying, along with every ot.....
» 2/08/2011 12:29:23 PM @Antiseptic: And what is going to drive such an uptake? The driver to date has been increa.....
» 2/08/2011 11:08:33 AM @Shadow Minister: Why pay a minimum of $60p.m. when wireless at $20pm meets your needs. I.....
» 1/08/2011 8:49:00 PM @: you're only intereested in hearing one thing:"fibre good, wireless useless" .....
» 1/08/2011 10:10:07 AM @Antiseptic: In a paper released yesterday, Mr Perlman claims his new wireless technology .....
» 29/07/2011 5:41:21 PM @Antiseptic: why do you find it so hard to imagine the next logical step could be as huge .....
» 29/07/2011 5:18:36 PM @Shadow Minister: As per this article, there is no application other than live HD TV that .....
» 29/07/2011 9:56:27 AM @Antiseptic: "Visible light communication (VLC) uses rapid pulses of light to transmi.....
» 28/07/2011 9:41:01 PM @Shadow Minister: Much of the ASDL copper and cable network is in good condition and deliv.....
» 28/07/2011 9:40:52 PM @Antiseptic: Not sure if I agree with that sort of reasoning. I'm not sure if that is how.....
» 28/07/2011 9:50:56 AM @Shadow Minister: The volume of mobile data...is growing at an exorbitant rate. That is a.....
» 28/07/2011 9:13:38 AM @Antiseptic: That was the point I was making: if there is no compelling new reason for ban.....
» 27/07/2011 8:46:03 PM @Antiseptic: I'll keep asking the question: what's the killer app that's going to drive th.....
» 27/07/2011 9:48:02 AM @Antiseptic: I'm saying that the average performance of 4g per user will be adequate for a.....
» 27/07/2011 9:47:44 AM @Antiseptic, @Shadow Minister, I sense I've had a bit of a win here. I think you both now.....
» 26/07/2011 8:27:40 PM @Antiseptic: 1Gb/s per user for static users. I am struggling to put it more clearly than.....
» 26/07/2011 7:36:48 PM @Shadow Minister: All the houses in the cell are connected to wireless broad band Fair en.....
» 26/07/2011 12:43:59 PM I am not sure what the make of the article. It looks to me more like an economist battling.....
» 26/07/2011 11:09:06 AM @Antiseptic: That's why there's that non-compete clause. Sorry, I didn't get your point l.....
» 26/07/2011 10:34:39 AM @Shadow Minister: Actually, assuming you had a 1Gb/s connection rate, the 2000 people conn.....
» 25/07/2011 8:08:45 PM @Antiseptic: LTE, WIMAX and of course 4G all improve on this even more. No. LTE gets 150 .....
» 25/07/2011 5:57:42 PM @Shadow Minister: Your maths is out again, you left out 3 zeros. No Shadow I did not. It .....
» 25/07/2011 5:42:47 PM @Houellebecq: I honestly don't understand the confusion and outrage about Mr Rabbit. ... W.....
» 25/07/2011 3:20:12 PM @Shadow Minister: giving each user an effective 1MB/s connection, while still being connec.....
» 25/07/2011 2:51:38 PM @Antiseptic: 5.8GHz is used for some cordless phones (inefficiently) and gives me about 10.....
» 25/07/2011 2:11:11 PM (...cont'd) What they have done, and with the NBN will do is use wireless in low very den.....
» 25/07/2011 10:29:02 AM @Antiseptic: it is simply a matter of relaying the signal through the intervening cells to.....
» 24/07/2011 10:07:07 PM (....cont'd) I don't know how long ago you were a ham radio operator, but today's radio's.....
» 24/07/2011 10:06:56 PM @Antiseptic: One of the important points I made and in fact something that is part of the .....
» 24/07/2011 5:58:11 PM @SPQR: Until some whopping great holes began to appear in your favored scenario You don't.....
» 24/07/2011 5:44:48 PM @Antiseptic: Dear me, rstuart, you do get upset easily. It appears so. Intelligent people.....
» 24/07/2011 4:57:50 PM @Antiseptic: If your friend is having problems, he may need to install an amplifier He is.....
» 24/07/2011 2:05:48 PM @Shadow Minister: At 1GB/s a monthly usage is consumed in a minute. The data speeds are on.....
» 24/07/2011 2:05:40 PM @Antiseptic: With respect, the spectral efficiency issue is a red herring. With respect, .....
» 24/07/2011 2:03:50 PM @Antiseptic: By comparing current technology in mobile services with the proposal for the .....
» 24/07/2011 11:10:37 AM @SPQR: It is entirely reasonable to have expected the higher levels of Neoproterozoic CO2 .....
» 23/07/2011 12:03:35 PM @Shadow Minister: I corrected my error immediately, which you selectively failed to mentio.....
» 23/07/2011 11:35:43 AM @sonofgloin: If you don't have the take up rate numbers are rubbish. Currently they have .....
» 23/07/2011 10:43:15 AM @SPQR: The key point –which you seem intent on trying to redefine away – is that CO2 conce.....
» 22/07/2011 10:59:40 PM @Shadow Minister: The AVERAGE is 18.8GB per quarter, or 6.3GB per month. That's embarras.....
» 22/07/2011 4:18:42 PM Oh, and while I am here the ACMA released a report on Australia's broadband usage: http:/.....
» 22/07/2011 4:09:26 PM @Shadow Minister: As the NBN intends to charge all its customers the same Indeed, but thi.....
» 22/07/2011 3:13:49 PM @Kenny, @morganzola, @Ho Hum, Thanks for the background. I could not make sense of the ar.....
» 22/07/2011 2:47:10 PM @sonofgloin: Silly idea goes against the business model and the principal of an investment.....
» 22/07/2011 12:39:50 PM @Shadow Minister: Compare it to the $50 per month. So it is 66% more expensive! Shadow, y.....
» 22/07/2011 11:55:52 AM @Arjay: Just ignore Rstuart and Pericles As a peace offering I give you this: http://ars.....
» 22/07/2011 11:47:45 AM @Peter Mac: I simply don’t know the answer and will be very interested in responses and/or.....
» 22/07/2011 11:28:20 AM @Shadow Minister: The link provided shows the cost to the consumer will sky rocket. Oh fo.....
» 22/07/2011 10:15:34 AM @Dan S de Merengue: If you can’t answer the question, it shows you know not what you are t.....
» 22/07/2011 9:51:47 AM @Shadow Minister: It has just been revealed that we will be paying double for NBN connecti.....
» 22/07/2011 9:22:00 AM @SPQR, The answer was in the questions I posed. You just didn't look. Quiz answers, from.....
» 21/07/2011 3:55:13 PM @Shadow Minister: in my view, he put to rest the relentless lying about the outcome of the.....
» 21/07/2011 2:28:56 PM @Curmudgeon: thus wind farms in Qland can't sub for wind farms in SA No that's wrong. The.....
» 21/07/2011 10:42:18 AM @GrahamY: The entry lays a fair part of the blame on fertilisation of the oceans, not by C.....
» 21/07/2011 9:57:04 AM @SPQR: it is a little hard to believe that a whopping 6000-7000ppm of CO2 ... took million.....
» 21/07/2011 9:40:34 AM @Pericles: There's no point in a discussion that is conducted through the exchange of mean.....
» 20/07/2011 8:31:15 PM @Shadow Minister: The modelling was released with the carbon tax details by the Gillard go.....
» 20/07/2011 4:33:47 PM @Curmudgeon: You're beginning to get it! Congratulations! You've grasped the point of the .....
» 20/07/2011 1:17:38 PM @Yabby: Rsruart, I never forgot anything. Yes, you did Yabby. Even in your reply. The f.....
» 20/07/2011 12:57:19 PM @Shadow Minister: According to Juliar's modelling the actual emissions will be about 13% h.....
» 20/07/2011 9:22:52 AM @sonofgloin: Gillard needs this tax because we are broke and in debt. Geeze. Then Labor r.....
» 20/07/2011 9:10:31 AM @SPQR: I watched your vid, all the way through, twice Did you? That must of been painful......
» 20/07/2011 8:50:04 AM @Shadow Minister: My only thought is the carbon traders and bankers. Any other suggestions.....
» 20/07/2011 8:39:06 AM @Poirot: Well actually, Antiseptic, you have no right to make so much sense so early in th.....
» 19/07/2011 10:16:03 PM @Yabby: All I see in the city is more paper shuffling, more claims to entitlements, more l.....
» 19/07/2011 10:06:38 PM @sonofgloin: My issue with the cabal is that they have been instrumental in the formulatio.....
» 19/07/2011 9:36:35 PM @Curmudgeon: the point I make is that there is now evidence that wind dies for hours acros.....
» 19/07/2011 9:14:32 PM @Yabby: Whilst you lot sit around contemplating your navels, inventing rules to take their.....
» 19/07/2011 8:25:29 PM @Yabby: It exports nearly everything produced, for the benefit of all you Australians who .....
» 19/07/2011 7:58:58 PM @Leo Lane: I grant that were it not for your persistence, rstuart, I would have continued .....
» 19/07/2011 6:46:37 PM @Yabby: Around here last year, 75% of farmers lost money. So again you plead poor on beh.....
» 19/07/2011 2:50:01 PM @GrahamY: Grim, he has the sun as being the source of warming and then has a heater inside.....
» 19/07/2011 2:21:08 PM @Curmudgeon: Its sole real use is to offset fossil fuel plants, when the wind blows. I th.....
» 19/07/2011 1:55:37 PM @Leo Lane: You put up, as evidence, material from the villain itself, the IPCC. Only beca.....
» 19/07/2011 11:47:26 AM @Yabby: that was AWC or the Australian Wool corporation. Ah, so that was it. Thank you. .....
» 19/07/2011 9:08:07 AM @Yabby: AWB sold wheat and had little to do with sheep I was referring to the Australian .....
» 18/07/2011 7:58:14 PM And since I've managed to get myself worked up about this, I am sick and tired of seeing t.....
» 18/07/2011 7:44:38 PM @Yabby: Indeed rstuart, I have given away a truckload of 400 sheep. ... No wonder that two.....
» 18/07/2011 6:45:09 PM @Curmudgeon: The rest of your link broadly confirms that wind does little for base power (.....
» 18/07/2011 3:51:05 PM @Leo Lane: the authors of the Summary, who are politicians, not scientists. That's factua.....
» 18/07/2011 2:40:18 PM Articles like this from Mark always make me scratch my head. I don't know why he writes th.....
» 18/07/2011 11:02:13 AM There is an assertion in this piece that just doesn't ring true. It is that competition fo.....
» 17/07/2011 6:37:36 PM @Yabby: Ah that would be wonderful Rstuart, but for most of what they produce, farmers are.....
» 17/07/2011 3:35:36 PM @Leo Lane: Rstuart, one of my pen names is Leo Lane. Thanks for the reply Leo. I apprecia.....
» 17/07/2011 1:22:54 PM @individual: From the flow-on of a 12 months national service we'd just about achieve most.....
» 17/07/2011 1:14:17 PM @GrahamY: How is life supposed to go into "exponential overshoot" and exactly ho.....
» 17/07/2011 10:46:11 AM @Shadow Minister: The point of this thread, and the articles I linked is that the timing o.....
» 17/07/2011 10:41:13 AM Yabby: Meantime if I grow 100 tonnes of wheat and try to ship it to the ports, or haul bac.....
» 16/07/2011 10:52:27 PM @Peter Mac: That there was a mass extinction at the end of the Permian Indeed. Condition.....
» 16/07/2011 4:27:15 PM @Peter Mac: maybe 280 ppm CO2 is a dangerously low level and we almost got to a point wher.....
» 16/07/2011 1:32:42 PM @SPQR: When the real story was it had been a blatant attempt by the govt to INTIMIDATE the.....
» 16/07/2011 12:57:38 PM So Alex, I take it we are putting a giant bubble around Australia and calculating how much.....
» 16/07/2011 11:23:54 AM @TheMissus: Abbott's Plan is so poor if Gillard did call an election on the issue he would.....
» 16/07/2011 11:08:00 AM @SPQR, Saturday, 16 July 2011 12:36:21 AM: You completely miss what should be the major st.....
» 15/07/2011 6:16:13 PM @TurnRightTurnLeft: As I asked, would you mind actually engaging my points? I doubt there.....
» 15/07/2011 5:53:18 PM @one under god: yes try yesterdays press club hard/press her saying the media publishes[su.....
» 15/07/2011 10:01:37 AM @TrashcanMan, Believe it or not, I was thinking about the odds on whether you would respo.....
» 15/07/2011 9:43:31 AM @Saul Eslake: real names are relevant because all too many people in forums like this hurl.....
» 14/07/2011 6:12:57 PM Here is a man who has chosen to embed his religion in his identity. Well his drivers licen.....
» 14/07/2011 3:02:37 PM @VK3AUU: Also, I am not aware of any wind farms which have taken advantage of the anabatic.....
» 14/07/2011 12:11:50 PM @VK3AUU: there isn't a hope in hell of it being put in place by 2020 Perhaps. I guess you.....
» 14/07/2011 11:14:05 AM So we have two economists, both of whom I respect, posting opposing views on the wealth fu.....
» 14/07/2011 11:08:35 AM @VK3AUU: I would like someone to check my figures, but according to a rough back of an env.....
» 14/07/2011 10:33:03 AM @R0bert: If she can't stick to such clear commitments then she should say so and let the v.....
» 14/07/2011 10:08:05 AM @Shadow Minister: People that voted for Labor voted based on the solemn promise of no carb.....
» 14/07/2011 9:45:47 AM @R0bert: Her words were clear enough, if she can't lead the government and keep her word o.....
» 13/07/2011 7:42:05 PM For me it started with the No Carbon Tax rally outside of parliament house in March, where.....
» 13/07/2011 6:38:15 PM @Rhian: In February the price of bananas rose from about $6 a kilo to about $15. I think .....
» 13/07/2011 12:06:23 PM @VK3AUU: Of that 22 million, most will be compensated for the increase in price so there w.....
» 12/07/2011 6:30:25 PM @gippy: As Mark says "...we have a real problem if governments are influenced by GetU.....
» 12/07/2011 3:10:21 PM @Shadow Minister: If this is taken on average generation, the cost per watt of solar nearl.....
» 12/07/2011 1:09:16 PM @Ludwig, Time to summarise Ludwig, because I'm fairly sure you get my main points, even i.....
» 11/07/2011 5:40:38 PM @Pirot: As a nation, we aren't likely to sacrifice growth as our mantra and, without indus.....
» 11/07/2011 5:05:52 PM @Lugwig: The important thing was that a decisive political action was taken, at great risk.....
» 11/07/2011 4:11:15 PM @Ludwig: You think that Howard was basically an honest pollie on every issue except the on.....
» 11/07/2011 12:56:00 PM @Ludwig: There was a very strong and obvious principle. Yeah, and it seems it spoke to yo.....
» 11/07/2011 11:50:17 AM @GrahamY: Otherwise this is just a redistribution of income, not an environmental measure .....
» 10/07/2011 6:52:25 PM @Shadow Minister: These tariffs are based on costs. The feed in cost are about euro 30c/kW.....
» 10/07/2011 5:27:36 PM @bonmot: This is what spindoctor is referring to: http://tinyurl.com/tis-here Monckton did.....
» 10/07/2011 4:24:17 PM @Ludwig: That was a very difficult juggling act. If he’d been seen to be even slightly mor.....
» 9/07/2011 11:18:47 AM @Antiseptic: I've been rather busy doing some crisis management and restructuring in my bu.....
» 9/07/2011 11:14:21 AM @sonofagun: The earth has COOLED in the last decade, a fact. I don't get this. It hasn't......
» 9/07/2011 10:39:31 AM @Shadow Minister, I went looking harder for subsidies. They only thing I could find beyon.....
» 8/07/2011 11:06:47 PM Shadow Minister, I seem to be above your prices for everything bar solar thermal. I said .....
» 8/07/2011 8:39:20 PM @MWPOYNTER: I can't work out whether you are deliberately trying to wind-up people on this.....
» 8/07/2011 8:02:22 PM @spindoc: I think you will find the subject of this thread is freedom of speech. OK, and .....
» 8/07/2011 6:52:38 PM @Squeers: Religion as a spiritual dimension to life, however, remains as a hangover for ma.....
» 8/07/2011 6:43:37 PM @spindoc: We are told that 90% of scientists agree. And so spindoc justifies his nick aga.....
» 8/07/2011 2:35:40 PM @gippy: Australia's forests have changed from the Eocene, just in case you hadn't noticed......
» 8/07/2011 1:23:59 PM @hugoagogo: Your rehabilitation may start by accurately contrasting for us the evolution a.....
» 8/07/2011 12:50:14 PM @gippy: Oh thank you so much @rstuart for the best laugh I have had this month. I am glad.....
» 8/07/2011 11:44:04 AM @Antiseptic, Five months, to the day. And you came back to have a whinge about the very a.....
» 8/07/2011 8:45:01 AM @vanna: One of the great myths of all time is that men are not nurturing, caring, accommod.....
» 7/07/2011 9:37:20 PM @R0bert: given the role that those same academics play in the research that's then used by.....
» 7/07/2011 6:50:00 PM @R0bert: overwhelmingly negative ... substantiated for me by my attempts to answer vanna. .....
» 7/07/2011 4:53:25 PM @vanna: Find an academic who has written something about the male gender, and then find th.....
» 7/07/2011 4:10:09 PM @leiverde: old growth forest (which is in a stage of sensence - ie dying back or 'negative.....
» 7/07/2011 12:19:31 PM @Shadow Minister: As the deadline is 2022, I would guess that Angela Merkel will do a Juli.....
» 7/07/2011 10:50:03 AM @VK3AUU: Maaate, can't you get into your head that old growth forests ultimately die. Th.....
» 6/07/2011 7:53:11 PM @vana: I have never seen any positive statements written about the male gender by Catherin.....
» 6/07/2011 2:42:32 PM Hmmm. I see we have got this far without one person giving a hint of how the Germans might.....
» 6/07/2011 1:54:22 PM @Hasbeen: & you know how many yachties, who have actually been to sea, rstuart? Yes. I wa.....
» 6/07/2011 11:14:18 AM @Hasbeen: Once used the wind is stopped it's energy is gone, & some research is suggesting.....
» 6/07/2011 10:32:35 AM @R0bert: Actually it's not a finally after years, it's been done a number of times before......
» 5/07/2011 8:02:30 PM @Poirot: My point about whinging,whining and moaning was in response to vanna's take on Gr.....
» 5/07/2011 7:13:33 PM @Otokonoko: Wow, spindoc. At those prices, the energy companies must be on the brink of ba.....
» 5/07/2011 5:31:02 PM @Curmudgeon: Go to the IPCC site, and read the stuff they have on climate models. Notice.....
» 5/07/2011 4:29:53 PM @Curmudgeon: Okay, to anyone familiar with the computer models You are taking so someone .....
» 5/07/2011 2:36:42 PM @spindoc: Coal, $68 per Kw/h, Wind, $1,456 per Kw/h, Solar, $4,482 per Kw/h. The report y.....
» 5/07/2011 11:41:32 AM @suzeonline: Jo, I would suggest that all your misgivings about the ever-improving technol.....
» 4/07/2011 3:29:38 PM @Curmudgeon: No, sorry, completely wrong. If you make those models more detailed, then you.....
» 4/07/2011 2:57:09 PM @Poirot: disaffected men have anything even remotely constructive to offer....even just on.....
» 4/07/2011 1:29:42 PM @Amicus: rstuart, I don't see any point in posting links, you can finds links to anything .....
» 4/07/2011 1:06:57 PM @Shadow Minister: No body believes that Germany has a snowball's chance in hell of buildin.....
» 4/07/2011 12:53:43 PM @Amicus: Hanson's models predict all manner of things, some appear correct, the majority a.....
» 4/07/2011 12:27:04 PM From the article: "This is what climate change needs; an hypothesis that is proved o.....
» 4/07/2011 10:43:09 AM JamesH: The research is conducted by asking women to interpret male behaviour, beliefs etc.....
» 3/07/2011 7:48:19 PM vanna: http://melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/ Impressive link, vanna. Makes interesting rea.....
» 3/07/2011 2:18:59 PM There is a common thread running through the article, and many of the responses here. It i.....
» 1/07/2011 5:07:41 PM (...cont'd) If you can put up a rational argument that gender differences you see in toda.....
» 1/07/2011 5:07:34 PM @Ian Robinson: Where in my piece do I argue "that women are being persecuted because .....
» 1/07/2011 2:52:15 PM @Pericles: If anything was plainer, more obvious or more crystal-clear, it would leap out .....
» 1/07/2011 1:44:52 PM Not a very useful article. Yes facial recognition is getting better. In a decade or two's .....
» 1/07/2011 1:29:36 PM Does the "Rationalist Society of Australia" know you write stuff like this Ian? .....
» 1/07/2011 9:45:15 AM @Pericles: Why you are unable to accept this, is entirely beyond me. Which part of it rema.....
» 30/06/2011 8:00:16 PM A silly little calculation. Total commercial hours flown in Australia in 2009 was very, v.....
» 30/06/2011 6:49:46 PM Rats. I was going to post here, but Billy C read my mind and said it for me......
» 30/06/2011 6:20:40 PM @Pericles: It is sufficient for us to assert there is no relationship between population g.....
» 30/06/2011 2:27:45 PM @Pericles: Domestic and foreign policy should both address [global population control]. Yo.....
» 30/06/2011 2:27:38 PM @Pericles: I am simply pointing out that Australian history does not support the opposite .....
» 28/06/2011 9:19:38 PM (...cont'd) The out is "correlation does not imply causation". To take a concoc.....
» 28/06/2011 9:19:34 PM @Pericles: Riddle me this. Ye gods. We are all begging you to give us reasoning from refe.....
» 28/06/2011 1:50:58 PM @Pericles: I was simply pointing out that the claim "[population growth] does not mak.....
» 27/06/2011 6:12:34 PM (...cont'd) So what would what effect would freezing out population have on standard of l.....
» 27/06/2011 6:12:26 PM (...cont'd) So if you grow the population instantaneously by 10%, the first thing that ha.....
» 27/06/2011 6:12:23 PM A measured response Pericles. Thanks. @Pericles: At which point "nature will take it.....
» 26/06/2011 6:51:24 PM @Pericles: The rest of the polemic focusses on “peak” predictions. These are as valid toda.....
» 24/06/2011 2:46:59 PM @Saltpetre: explain please why the Chinese one-child policy has been a disaster? I'll put.....
» 24/06/2011 12:50:41 PM (...cont'd) A nerd is looking at an arts student here, and I can't pretend to be impresse.....
» 24/06/2011 12:50:37 PM (...cont'd) - the Howard and the Rudd governments have imposed a 33 percent or greater hi.....
» 24/06/2011 12:50:35 PM @Pericles: Tell you what, I'll give you an illustration of my opinion of her opinion, then.....
» 23/06/2011 9:38:05 PM @Boylesy: Why don't you compile a list of mammal species where the above is not the case a.....
» 23/06/2011 7:41:39 PM @Pericles: Presenting the argument in the manner that she does is mere polemic. No, what .....
» 23/06/2011 6:41:41 PM @Boylesy: For any species where males fight for the right to copulate with the females the.....
» 23/06/2011 12:00:20 PM @Boylesy: rstuart you have this whole evolution thing arse about with the examples you hav.....
» 23/06/2011 11:08:36 AM @Boylesy: If there are indeed genuine examples of this then it is the rare exception rathe.....
» 23/06/2011 9:46:01 AM @Pericles: I am fairly certain that if the author were my daughter, I'd be immensely proud.....
» 22/06/2011 1:59:32 PM @GregaryB: Therefore in the vast majority of cases in the animal world, the 'fittest' are .....
» 22/06/2011 11:13:35 AM @Ammonite: Watch the video here http://www.readfearn.com/2011/05/monckton-bunkum/ That wa.....
» 21/06/2011 8:24:05 PM @Curmudgeon: I'm glad you recalled my point about Freudian psychology. It is an excellent .....
» 21/06/2011 4:17:43 PM @GregaryB: I don't think I misunderstand natural selection and 'fitness' at all! There wa.....
» 20/06/2011 3:41:16 PM @TurnRightThenLeft: China [is a net importer of food] .... This alone punches a pretty sig.....
» 20/06/2011 1:01:09 PM @dempografix: We are losing approx 95,000 this financial year! We lost 95,000, and had a.....
» 20/06/2011 10:48:34 AM @dempografix: The dept of immigration report that last year 30,000 of the 40,000 permanent.....
» 20/06/2011 9:03:37 AM @dempografix: And do not believe the bs from the abs about most returning within one year......
» 17/06/2011 10:47:57 AM I can't resist adding new bits of information as I find them. Yesterday Malcolm Turnbull w.....
» 17/06/2011 9:33:15 AM @TurnRightThenLeft: One problem China does not have is denial of infrastructure. Even with.....
» 16/06/2011 5:59:47 PM @VK3AUU: as well as making it possible for babies to be born who would normally be natural.....
» 16/06/2011 5:43:12 PM @Rhian: If you look at my post or the treasury paper I quote, you’ll see that the decline .....
» 16/06/2011 4:04:25 PM @@Yuyutsu: Can you please explain why this is similar? Quite apart from anything else, I.....
» 16/06/2011 3:58:20 PM @Rhian: According to the Treasury’s 2010 intergenerational report ... “In 1970, there were.....
» 16/06/2011 3:08:15 PM @Yuyutsu: Then what about the reverse - can't the same be done with the NBN? Technically.....
» 16/06/2011 2:36:44 PM If anyone is still following this, here are Graeme Samuel's (chairman of the ACCC) thought.....
» 16/06/2011 1:29:19 PM So the gist of the article seems to be a loudmouth spokesperson can't reason, and can't ad.....
» 15/06/2011 12:11:17 PM @Shadow Minister: Our typical usage is about 30GB which would be $90p.m. in your terms. W.....
» 15/06/2011 10:36:19 AM @rstuart: But I'm guessing they will find a way to move all those cable customers onto the.....
» 14/06/2011 8:36:15 PM "Every nation on earth must legislate to create severe penalties for any couple who h.....
» 12/06/2011 12:15:40 PM Arjay, any chance you could change your taste in conspiracies? I know Pericles does enjoy.....
» 12/06/2011 10:57:07 AM @Shadow Minister: FYI voice requires a peak data rate of 22kb/s and compressed, 1GB of dow.....
» 12/06/2011 10:37:17 AM @Shadow Minister: What iinet is recently offering would appear to match what is presently .....
» 12/06/2011 10:09:35 AM @Shadow Minister: Rstuart, from your own link: "Of the 86 million residential high-sp.....
» 12/06/2011 1:13:14 AM @Shadow Minister: As for ASDL I get 200GB at 12-20Mb/s plus telephone (incl all national c.....
» 11/06/2011 12:24:04 PM @Shadow Minister: The Voip phones don't require a landline connection whether it is a copp.....
» 11/06/2011 11:45:48 AM @Shadow Minister: The broadband connections incl wireless I'll concede I didn't do my hom.....
» 10/06/2011 8:54:24 PM @Shadow Minister: More than one of every four USA households (26.6%) had only wireless tel.....
» 10/06/2011 3:51:23 PM @Yuyutsu: you cannot talk directly to my receiver without making an eligible phone-call an.....
» 10/06/2011 3:19:18 PM @Shadow Minister: Considering that you yourself posted the link that itemised the usage of.....
» 10/06/2011 11:47:06 AM @Yuyutsu: But the call itself is carried by my telco, isn't it? On your side yes. But obv.....
» 10/06/2011 9:52:41 AM @Shadow Minister: The balance of the funding is expected to come from capital markets. I.....
» 9/06/2011 9:05:16 PM @Yuyutsu: Do you mean that currently, a hacker from the internet, say they successfully co.....
» 9/06/2011 2:39:22 PM @Shadow Minister: As I have shown above, with the existing connection rates, this is extre.....
» 9/06/2011 2:23:30 PM @Shadow Minister: It looks as though all my arguments are solidly based No Shadow it does.....
» 9/06/2011 11:28:25 AM @Shadow Minister: So Telstra gets $9bn directly, and $2bn is paid on behalf of Telstra. St.....
» 9/06/2011 10:43:46 AM @Yuyutsu: That includes installing and using copper cables. You are free to install coppe.....
» 8/06/2011 8:24:34 PM @Curmudgeon: The confusion is there because the subject is confused, and the media simply .....
» 8/06/2011 7:32:17 PM If they started build reactor designs like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S .....
» 8/06/2011 6:58:22 PM @Shadow Minister: The traffic figures proved to be wildly optimistic It is exactly the sa.....
» 8/06/2011 6:10:42 PM @Yuyutsu: you believe that it is OK for 51% to tyrannize 49% in the name of democracy. Th.....
» 8/06/2011 11:32:34 AM The title of the article makes no sense. The laws of deformation don't say "its perfe.....
» 8/06/2011 10:32:44 AM I am trying to get around the fact that Mark Lawson, a member of the Fourth Estate whose w.....
» 8/06/2011 9:26:42 AM @Shadow Minister: Firstly, the $11bn purchase of the Telstra access is not included My u.....
» 7/06/2011 7:22:04 PM @Shadow Minister: 10yr old Daihatsu ... porsche .. the extra $40bn or so that connecting h.....
» 7/06/2011 7:22:00 PM @Houellebecq: You sound happy about that. I am happy we still have it in us to go down go.....
» 7/06/2011 7:21:56 PM @Houellebecq: Do you think that policy should be developed in such a manner It's the old .....
» 7/06/2011 11:23:46 AM @Shadow Minister: However, the new higher 4g and 5g frequencies are able to provide far hi.....
» 7/06/2011 10:15:28 AM @Yuyutsu: But what if I'm happy to pay for the maintenance myself The entire telephone in.....
» 6/06/2011 8:03:43 PM @Houellebecq: CAT-5 is rated to 100M Cat5 was designed to go to 1G, and will happily do .....
» 6/06/2011 8:03:38 PM @Houellebecq: I can get a better price for 50Mb quota now at a good enough speed for me. .....
» 6/06/2011 8:03:32 PM @Houellebecq: The cheapest plan is estimated at $53-58 for a 12/1Mbps plan with 50GB of qu.....
» 6/06/2011 10:48:23 AM @rstuart: A moments googling finds http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/02/17/31.....
» 6/06/2011 10:39:36 AM @Shadow Minister: My point is that the business case for the NBN for which the government .....
» 6/06/2011 10:39:22 AM @Yuyutsu: I hardly see why such a convertor-device should cost more than $5 Unfortunately.....
» 5/06/2011 10:55:34 PM @Shadow Minister: The trends are published so look them up. I don't know where to look S.....
» 5/06/2011 3:35:48 PM @Yuyutsu: Although I wouldn't trust those people that high-frequency internet traffic will.....
» 5/06/2011 12:25:45 PM @Shadow Minister: we still are required by law to use copper for the emergency fire phones.....
» 5/06/2011 11:28:25 AM @Yuyutsu: But how can this be accomplished with the NBN where all lines come ADSL-enabled .....
» 4/06/2011 7:23:50 PM @Shadow Minister: Fibre to the node, or to the towers etc is exactly what I am talking abo.....
» 4/06/2011 12:00:26 PM @individual: How far into this future is what I'd like to hear. They signed contracts for.....
» 3/06/2011 7:07:01 PM @Houellebecq: But, what if a larger percentage than expected only pays this low cost, not .....
» 3/06/2011 6:24:33 PM Houellebecq: A standing ovation? How bloody ridiculous! I want a standing ovation if he ge.....
» 3/06/2011 5:54:17 PM @Yuyutsu: Indeed they don't normally come physically-separated, but I added that extra swi.....
» 3/06/2011 5:22:20 PM (cont'd) To look at it another way, whereas before your copper line could be split into 2.....
» 3/06/2011 5:22:17 PM @Yuyutsu: physically separate the phone's voice/analog signal from the internet traffic T.....
» 3/06/2011 3:21:09 PM @Houellebecq: The thing that stands out for me is the attempt to eliminate competition by .....
» 3/06/2011 2:45:00 PM @Shadow Minister: Remember the campaign against work choices. The ALP and unions used exac.....
» 1/06/2011 6:09:35 PM @clickcraftsman: aimed at reducing the credibility of complementary practitioners Why? Wi.....
» 1/06/2011 5:04:02 PM @pelican: The US was remiss in it's own judicial process that was and is the only point. ......
» 31/05/2011 8:05:46 PM @runner: It is clear that sexualisation of children is the fruit of secularism. ... You al.....
» 29/05/2011 5:55:09 PM Awesome series of posts Yabby. I disagree with you only on one thing. I don't think Bush's.....
» 29/05/2011 5:27:55 PM You know Shadow, the religious fervour in your political outlook conceals the fact that on.....
» 29/05/2011 5:06:00 PM The article looked to me like a whole pile of back of the envelope calculations. That woul.....
» 29/05/2011 3:23:46 PM This wasn't a huge success Lyle. By the looks of the comments from newbies here you got a.....
» 29/05/2011 3:00:01 PM I'll just chime in here are say I agree with Yabby, Houellebecq. The 60c solar rebate look.....
» 20/04/2011 7:27:40 PM Dear Dr Kevin Baker, It's 2011 goddamit. It's the age of the internet which among other t.....
» 28/04/2010 6:35:02 PM @pelican: What is the mindset of those who wish to download this stuff, the user is in eff.....
» 27/04/2010 4:34:06 PM @Leigh: Anyone riding a bicycle on the same road as cars is a hazard to motorists and eith.....
» 27/04/2010 11:56:04 AM @Severin: Nothing has changed, Rstuart and Antiseptic continue to argue the following: The.....
» 27/04/2010 11:16:08 AM @benk: The research that you have cited has failed to prove that viewing porn leads to sex.....
» 26/04/2010 11:44:18 AM @benk: The research that you have cited has failed to prove that viewing porn leads to sex.....
» 24/04/2010 12:21:12 PM @Pericles: Except for my car keys, of course, which seem to hover between dimensions like .....
» 24/04/2010 10:56:55 AM @Pynchme: It's worth considering some points made years ago by Andrea Dworkin. Only if yo.....
» 24/04/2010 10:56:50 AM @Pynchme: If there is no proven link between pornography and sex crimes being committed I.....
» 23/04/2010 10:14:52 PM @Houellebecq: That civility was maintained by Fractelle's post being deleted I am curiou.....
» 23/04/2010 9:18:40 PM @examinator: If say this filter was to slow the net down particularly in the social networ.....
» 23/04/2010 12:37:08 PM @Shadow Minister: the issue is that when they put their names and positions within the ace.....
» 23/04/2010 10:34:55 AM @examinator: My stance on "freedom of Speech" now and always was that it was rel.....
» 23/04/2010 9:58:54 AM Thanks for a few minutes of entertainment, Steven. I thoroughly enjoyed it......
» 22/04/2010 7:27:07 PM benk, Since you seem trying to put some rational thought into this, I'll explain another .....
» 22/04/2010 2:04:58 PM @benk: What is the psychology behind this assertion? What is the mechanism that might make.....
» 22/04/2010 12:05:50 PM @pelican: Allowing a man access to his child when there have been claims of abuse, the chi.....
» 22/04/2010 10:28:24 AM @CJ Morgan: Did you miss the bit in the report to which I linked about the paedophile bein.....
» 21/04/2010 4:06:06 PM @CJ Morgan: covertly taking pictures of naked children for sexual gratification is regarde.....
» 21/04/2010 1:17:13 PM @wooldog: Shane, have you got kids? Assuming not, you're seriously kidding yourself... I .....
» 21/04/2010 11:38:37 AM @CJ Morgan: Of course, you'd have to identify yourselves and wear the public opprobrium th.....
» 21/04/2010 9:35:57 AM @CJ Morgan: Are you suggesting that creeps like this guy should be permitted by the commun.....
» 20/04/2010 6:43:36 PM @CJ Morgan: your odious and erroneous use of the pejorative term "illegal immigrants&.....
» 20/04/2010 6:04:22 PM @JayG: It's a shame that Online Opinion would publish a piece that is full of vitriol, une.....
» 20/04/2010 11:02:39 AM @CJ Morgan: I'm trying to [rstuart] him honest. It didn't look like anything else to me, .....
» 20/04/2010 9:43:20 AM I am with Grayzie here. The problem the anti-18+ category campaigners have is that men vot.....
» 18/04/2010 6:52:19 PM @Pynchme: I already provided evidence that most child abusers view child pornography ... I.....
» 16/04/2010 11:04:23 AM @Shadow Minister: Has anyone else posting here actually worked a 100hr week for an extende.....
» 16/04/2010 10:00:31 AM Give it up girls, it's hopeless. All this hand wringing over how much your gender focuses .....
» 16/04/2010 9:18:23 AM The author should be commended for his brevity......
» 15/04/2010 5:51:58 PM @rstuart: Snuff films are another. Turns out I am guilty of propagating a myth. Snuff fil.....
» 13/04/2010 11:28:49 AM @Jardine K. Jardine: You are trying to set up a dichotomy between ‘rule by wealth’ and ‘tr.....
» 13/04/2010 9:43:14 AM Here is a little factoid that was new to me. Wikileaks was founded by an Australian. http.....
» 12/04/2010 9:40:19 PM @Jardine K. Jardine: There is no good reason why equality should be the criterion of decis.....
» 12/04/2010 8:13:21 PM @CJ Morgan: he would be charged with offences that the community takes very seriously inde.....
» 12/04/2010 8:13:17 PM I get the impression you three have to given up trying to debate whether looking at child .....
» 12/04/2010 7:02:13 PM @Shadow Minister: that is exactly what the greens are about. No expense is too much to pay.....
» 11/04/2010 10:54:04 PM @Jardine K. Jardine: the decisions should ... be based on private property rights This is.....
» 9/04/2010 3:22:42 PM @Shadow Minister: I have never heard of the AEF before You can get an idea of what way th.....
» 9/04/2010 2:09:34 PM @Shadow Minister: However a tactic that the greens often do is create these open letters a.....
» 9/04/2010 11:43:49 AM I suspect MWPOYNTER already knows what my response will be. The political activitism is n.....
» 9/04/2010 11:28:03 AM @Severin: The reason is because children are exploited to create said images. No, that a.....
» 9/04/2010 10:33:34 AM @pelican: The French are less aggressive - really? Yeah, you're right - but I am not sure.....
» 9/04/2010 9:48:27 AM @suzeonline: Do you honestly think the children posing or acting in child pornography mate.....
» 8/04/2010 10:17:14 PM @StG: It wasn't indiscriminate and it wasn't unprovoked. I don't see that, unless you co.....
» 8/04/2010 1:36:54 PM Here is a video of the Arc de Triomphe that shows roughly what I saw, although again the t.....
» 8/04/2010 1:17:17 PM @pelican: Imagine it in Sydney or Melbourne CBD! You don't have to imagine. The Arc de T.....
» 8/04/2010 12:56:35 PM The words "innocent civilians" don't appear on the page you linked to. The words.....
» 8/04/2010 10:55:26 AM @CJ Morgan: commercial production of child pornography My point was child pornography isn.....
» 7/04/2010 1:54:51 PM @csteele: not sitting in a comfortable chair 12,000kms from the action playing God in the .....
» 7/04/2010 1:30:25 PM (...cont'd) Vilifying such a minor crime just cheapens the word. It already has. When you.....
» 7/04/2010 1:22:20 PM @Severin: sexual interest in children be it from simple observation through to actual sexu.....
» 7/04/2010 11:56:42 AM @CJ Morgan: << The pilots in the video act "like they are playing a computer ga.....
» 7/04/2010 11:14:08 AM @Pynchme: I don't understand why people here are minimizing the issue of child pornography.....
» 6/04/2010 10:28:26 PM @ChazP: Media report ... Perhaps you can explain how biological fathers are different from.....
» 6/04/2010 1:22:12 PM @CJ Morgan: With respect to the case under discussion, the father not only sought out, dow.....
» 6/04/2010 1:21:31 PM @ChazP: explain what healthy reason an adult male would have for looking at photographs of.....
» 6/04/2010 11:27:37 AM @Jardine K. Jardine: an example of the parties to a conflict over natural resource uses co.....
» 3/04/2010 9:11:19 AM @ms_boot: Pedophiles need to be put away once and for all. Yes indeed. @ms_boot: No fath.....
» 2/04/2010 8:21:14 PM @rehctub: Why can't you lot ... leave the others alone. Because you want the rules change.....
» 2/04/2010 7:53:07 PM @Jardine K. Jardine: What would be an example of the parties to a conflict over natural re.....
» 2/04/2010 2:04:28 PM Jardine K. Jardine: The question is, what reason is to think that “getting the balance rig.....
» 1/04/2010 11:01:11 AM @Shadow Minister: The $42bn that Rudd squandered could have built 4 multi reactor power st.....
» 1/04/2010 10:38:26 AM @byork: the evidence would be the content of the original article, which we would have to .....
» 1/04/2010 10:12:58 AM @Pynchme: rstuart: You left my deletion out! You need to retally. Sorry Pynchme, it wasn'.....
» 1/04/2010 10:08:46 AM I'll agree with you rehctub, but with a few of provisos. The first one is a fall back pos.....
» 1/04/2010 9:02:53 AM @byork: that's not evidence - that's a rumour. If an article appearing in a national new.....
» 31/03/2010 10:26:02 PM I don't know the amount, tragedy. The IPA is not a particularly open organisation. All I k.....
» 31/03/2010 4:01:57 PM @Shadow Minister: Most of the radiation from the spent fuel rods comes from comparitively .....
» 31/03/2010 2:41:46 PM I am with Foxy and Shadow here. I don't see how bombing a building from 2 km away while si.....
» 31/03/2010 12:26:43 PM Just a note of praise for our moderator, GrahamY. I happen to think is is exactly the righ.....
» 31/03/2010 11:23:57 AM This reminds me bus & train timetables. No kidding. A few years ago the High Court decide.....
» 30/03/2010 9:44:20 PM @tragedy: Correct me if I am wrong but I read he/she is implying that areas managed by for.....
» 30/03/2010 1:10:18 PM @Peter Hume: You haven't given any reason why the balance between different competing valu.....
» 30/03/2010 11:53:06 AM @Author N: And where may I ask are the parents of these children in this article? I can t.....
» 30/03/2010 11:26:45 AM @Shadow Minister: Myth 3. They produce waste that lasts on geological scales. Reality, If .....
» 30/03/2010 11:26:34 AM @Shadow Minister: there would be sufficient [Uranium] for at least 200yrs of total generat.....
» 29/03/2010 10:14:43 PM @Peter Hume: And what is the balance between? Between various uses of the forest. Some pu.....
» 29/03/2010 4:35:46 PM @Curmudgeon: but, above all, we should dump wind as it distorts the network badly Surely .....
» 29/03/2010 4:14:30 PM You can view the debate online here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2010/03/18/284.....
» 29/03/2010 3:44:16 PM @cinders: [rstuart] seems to be denying that he said ... Australian Environmental Foundati.....
» 29/03/2010 1:28:58 PM @byork: I checked out your link and neither it nor you establish any connection between AE.....
» 29/03/2010 12:12:22 PM @byork: Also, if you believe in evidence-based argument, you need to be able to prove not .....
» 26/03/2010 5:03:46 PM @MWPOYNTER: how does this differ from The Wilderness Society forming a union with part of .....
» 26/03/2010 2:48:35 PM @byork: If you can't address the arguments, then either investigate for yourself or stop t.....
» 26/03/2010 12:17:15 PM @byork: you still need to be able to argue against the content and logic of Max Rheese's a.....
» 26/03/2010 9:35:52 AM @byork: rstuart resorts to a common but unfair method of arguing by pointing to associatio.....
» 25/03/2010 9:47:02 PM @rpg: i am also constantly amazed by this current generation ... find them the least disci.....
» 25/03/2010 9:43:23 PM @Amicus: I think 1998 is well recognized as being very hot due to an El Nino event, Yes i.....
» 25/03/2010 3:07:52 PM @Curmudgeon: Any economic trade off was doubtful enough If you think the CPRS was about u.....
» 25/03/2010 2:54:57 PM I am having trouble seeing beyond a lobbyist for the Forestry Industry doing a fairly tran.....
» 25/03/2010 2:06:07 PM @wobbles: I also found the 3D a bit distracting, particularly for objects out of focus in .....
» 25/03/2010 2:05:50 PM My score card looked like this: Hurt locker: No much of a plot, more a "One Day in t.....
» 23/03/2010 1:27:58 PM There is a bit of discussion here about whether religion is the default position at birth......
» 19/03/2010 3:17:32 PM (...cont'd) The result was not just doing away with the obviousness test, but also allowin.....
» 19/03/2010 3:17:28 PM (...cont'd) @Shadow Minister: You don't have to get a patent invalidated. You simply igno.....
» 19/03/2010 3:17:22 PM @Shadow Minister: In 30 years all these patents will have expired and will no longer be pa.....
» 17/03/2010 7:44:18 PM @Forrest Gumpp: Is the idea to cripple investment in these enormous resources until Big Oi.....
» 17/03/2010 7:40:46 PM @Rhian: up to a point, more people can use it without existing users being noticeably wors.....
» 17/03/2010 6:19:55 PM (...cont'd) Software patents are another example. Cost to commercialise a new software id.....
» 17/03/2010 6:19:51 PM (...cont'd) But if the justification for awarding patents is to speed the uptake of new i.....
» 17/03/2010 6:19:48 PM @Shadow Minister: The major advances have nearly all come from private companies. Nope. T.....
» 17/03/2010 2:46:02 PM @Trav: Quantum physics has not shown that something can come from nothing. I suggest you .....
» 16/03/2010 6:31:54 PM (...cont'd) But returning back to your central thesis, which is a thinly disguised attemp.....
» 16/03/2010 6:31:49 PM @Grey: http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3447051.html I saw that, but didn'.....
» 16/03/2010 10:08:32 AM CJ Morgan: "What gets me is those who attach greater primacy to the denial of the gir.....
» 16/03/2010 9:27:10 AM pelican: "Your assertion that if the father was a pedophile he would be in jail is na.....
» 15/03/2010 6:49:24 PM Foxy: "However, I am totally amazed by the Judge's decision." That comment prom.....
» 15/03/2010 3:43:03 PM @Grey: But hey...never let reality get in the way of good propaganda. Good advice Grey. Y.....
» 15/03/2010 12:36:31 PM @pelican: If the child's name and family were not mentioned how is it a breach of privacy?.....
» 15/03/2010 11:37:48 AM @CJ Morgan: The child's privacy hasn't been breached, because the report quite correctly d.....
» 15/03/2010 11:26:30 AM @The Blue Cross: is Rowan a fashion journalist or a sports journalist, I wonder? See http.....
» 13/03/2010 8:32:42 AM David Jennings, An impressive set of questions. You are obviously putting some thought in.....
» 12/03/2010 6:12:54 PM @Forrest Gumpp: Isn't it interesting how little has been said about the Pedirka Basin disc.....
» 12/03/2010 4:04:00 PM Rhian: "Since 1959 Australia’s annual public investment as a percentage of GDP ...&qu.....
» 11/03/2010 3:02:25 PM @Bazz: Your figure of 5000 Gton of coal is not I think accurate at all. The info I have he.....
» 11/03/2010 11:17:43 AM @rstuart: Now quote where I said pelican's opinions are half-arsed. @Severin: Rstuart, yo.....
» 11/03/2010 10:31:19 AM I had never thought of RC like that before. It just didn't occur to me that RC might be th.....
» 11/03/2010 10:25:10 AM @Lucy Montgomery: I think the point was that some people could use the population debate t.....
» 11/03/2010 10:11:55 AM @Bazz You might enjoy this paper on peak oil: http://j.mp/aBq9ut p.s: I gave up engagin.....
» 10/03/2010 2:01:12 PM @pelican: I have given you all I can in terms of explaining why I feel the way I do. OK, .....
» 10/03/2010 11:14:48 AM Severin: When I read stuff like ... You are being patronising and playing the (wo)man. Ap.....
» 10/03/2010 11:14:43 AM @Severin: In fact Pelican has offered plenty of evidence in support of her opinion. Nope......
» 9/03/2010 2:14:44 PM @Severin: imply that because Pelican is female, she is out of touch ... Play the ball, man.....
» 9/03/2010 11:16:32 AM Despite your claims of irrelevance Severin, what was very relevant was pelican's last post.....
» 9/03/2010 10:13:58 AM Severin: "I do know that claiming someone talks out of their arse" No one here .....
» 8/03/2010 9:31:02 PM Sydney Carton: "I'm pretty sure 25% IS pretty hard to justify, as Curmudgeon pointed .....
» 8/03/2010 8:36:55 PM pelican, We are having two different conversations, and neither of us is budging an inch .....
» 8/03/2010 6:43:47 PM @Dicko: http://www.pmo.gov.sg/News/Messages/PM+Lee+New+Year+Message+2010.htm ... Singapore.....
» 8/03/2010 12:43:47 PM @Lucy Montgomery: Australia actually exports around 60% of its agricultural produce. Yes......
» 8/03/2010 11:10:58 AM @Lucy Montgomery: It seems that if you don't like the idea of population growth you just l.....
» 8/03/2010 9:59:41 AM pelican: "The issue is that drug cartels will still find a market among newer unregis.....
» 6/03/2010 11:31:39 AM pelican: "IMO drug cartels are not going to be diminished even if some currently bann.....
» 5/03/2010 3:23:09 PM pelican: "Where have I said smoking is a good thing?" Nowhere, which is why I d.....
» 5/03/2010 1:06:02 PM pelican: "I have been around people high on drugs ... [they don't] behave considerate.....
» 5/03/2010 12:31:19 PM Jedimaster: "Have I missed any drill-points?" Yeah, you have. 7. Constantly re.....
» 5/03/2010 9:34:48 AM pelican: "This article forgest about the rights of a person who just wants to walk do.....
» 4/03/2010 7:45:09 PM we are unique: "could you please attach a link on the statistics, the year and so for.....
» 4/03/2010 4:52:08 PM Cornflower: "So much for fat and lazy Aussie primary industry." Are you saying .....
» 4/03/2010 2:14:39 PM Shadow Minister: "The possession of these drugs for personal use has been decriminali.....
» 4/03/2010 11:41:35 AM Shadow Minister: "Has anyone stopped to think that there might be sound legal and tra.....
» 4/03/2010 11:08:56 AM Ngarmada: "Something does not add up RStuart." You don't provide a link to your.....
» 4/03/2010 10:09:47 AM csteele: "What are the OP levels? I am unfamiliar with the initials." It is a Q.....
» 4/03/2010 10:06:43 AM CJ Morgan: "I think this is a very ineresting recent article from the New York Times:.....
» 4/03/2010 9:47:48 AM Ngarmada: "The remaining 90% of iron ore reserves in the world are shared between Aus.....
» 3/03/2010 3:19:03 PM csteele, The OP levels are normalised across the state, as are the field scores for each .....
» 1/03/2010 3:09:00 PM GrahamY: "There has been a tradition amongst first world countries that you don't ass.....
» 1/03/2010 2:35:34 PM Shadow Minister: "Rusty has already done this in as simple a fashion as possible.&quo.....
» 1/03/2010 1:29:58 PM GrahamY: "rstuart, those links ... doesn't offer any evidence." A 120 Watt sola.....
» 1/03/2010 1:18:09 PM Barnaby isn't and was never the village idiot. He is far too smart and conniving for that......
» 1/03/2010 12:46:39 PM Labour has put the ETS to the vote, 3 times in fact so it is a double dissolution trigger......
» 28/02/2010 10:14:07 PM Shadow Minster: "Blue rinsed dowager" Shadow Minster: "The term BRD is not .....
» 28/02/2010 8:42:56 PM GrahamY: "I understand that some solar panels actually emit more CO2 in construction .....
» 22/02/2010 7:47:52 PM King Hazza: "our electricity bill ... is now much higher" I don't know where yo.....
» 22/02/2010 4:18:05 PM Peter Hume: "Having assumed AGW, you then proceed straight to assuming that the solut.....
» 22/02/2010 11:19:03 AM Dan S de Merengue: "By the way, Runners point, to which I agree, is that today’s tech.....
» 22/02/2010 9:55:39 AM StG: "My question is, considering that societal law and consequences regarding earthl.....
» 22/02/2010 9:09:31 AM King Hazza: "I think we've already gone beyond the whole "market forces be damne.....
» 22/02/2010 8:29:27 AM Forrest Gump: "Would I be correct in thinking the following quote ... explains why LF.....
» 21/02/2010 12:02:32 PM Hasbeen: "Now we know for sure that there is no problem in burning coal, to produce o.....
» 21/02/2010 9:38:46 AM Kinda Hazza: "governments of other 'greening' countries are doing something useful an.....
» 20/02/2010 1:25:04 PM GrahamY: "your side in the AGW debate is ignoring the empirical evidence and resortin.....
» 20/02/2010 12:11:46 PM Forrest Gumpp: "Just wondering, apropos this topic, whether very many OLO viewers rea.....
» 20/02/2010 11:31:48 AM Back to the discussion at hand. I view what Rudd's declaration as essentially meaningless.....
» 20/02/2010 10:36:04 AM King Hazza: "compare the amount of access and promotion of alternate power sources an.....
» 19/02/2010 2:30:02 PM david f: "Evidence for this is the fact there are bacterial forms that closely resemb.....
» 19/02/2010 11:05:10 AM Shadow Minister: "China and India are of CANDU type format" No, not in China. S.....
» 19/02/2010 10:26:40 AM Bazz: "Another catch is the connection to the mains might be such that at 12 volt it .....
» 18/02/2010 7:20:45 PM Yikes. Talking about tilting at Windmills. I have difficultly believing clergy of all peo.....
» 18/02/2010 7:11:54 PM Zhuubaajie: "Stern Hu is in jail because he broke the law." The problem is, it .....
» 18/02/2010 6:42:42 PM microwave: "an R18+ classification means that inevitably more violent, sadistic games.....
» 18/02/2010 5:34:51 PM Perhaps Rudd simply doesn't want to subsidise the nuclear industry to the tune of USD$8.3 .....
» 18/02/2010 4:05:38 PM CJ Morgan: "Er, surely they could simply turn the power off at the mains switch prior.....
» 18/02/2010 11:03:29 AM Assuming Nina is reporting things accurately, it seems both men offering themselves up as .....
» 18/02/2010 10:52:29 AM Janette: "It seems obvious that we could use an equally huge influx of healthy, indus.....
» 18/02/2010 10:24:03 AM Peter Hume: "The warmists still haven’t got to first base in showing that they even u.....
» 17/02/2010 7:23:09 PM (...cont'd) Having seen what happened to IBM, Microsoft spends a great deal of time and e.....
» 17/02/2010 7:23:05 PM (...cont'd) Well IBM did know, but they had no choice. They had a huge anti-trust suit ha.....
» 17/02/2010 7:23:00 PM (...cont'd) Because there was nothing much to distinguish between the various OEM PC's, c.....
» 17/02/2010 7:22:56 PM Yabby: "IMHO credit where credit is due and it was Gates who broke the Apple monopoly.....
» 17/02/2010 1:49:08 PM Shadow Minister: "The 2010 election was labor's to lose, and the way the polls are pr.....
» 17/02/2010 12:34:04 PM Shadow Minister: "If you have evidence it would be useful to provide the link." .....
» 17/02/2010 8:15:22 AM For those of you who are interested in the original topic, this short news story makes for.....
» 16/02/2010 4:29:46 PM Growing up fast and furious, That was an impressive list on the effects of video games. B.....
» 16/02/2010 3:57:26 PM Shadow Minister: "Having documented evidence of what can happen, and an expert body r.....
» 16/02/2010 10:08:51 AM Antiseptic: "the CFMEU is trying to milk the situation for some publicity" On t.....
» 15/02/2010 11:06:15 PM whitmus: "Probably busy twisting their brains" I can't speak for the others whi.....
» 15/02/2010 11:43:36 AM Shadow Minister: "He was notified by the electrician's union that there were legitima.....
» 14/02/2010 10:46:11 PM Peter Hume: "The point is, there is no ideological inversion, in which the supposed l.....
» 14/02/2010 8:53:20 PM qanda, I went and looked for a video of the stoush. If it is out there somewhere it is we.....
» 14/02/2010 7:45:12 PM Yabby: "Meantime there is no good reason why my 10 year old copy of Office, should no.....
» 14/02/2010 2:29:19 PM Yabby: "I read the first URL which you posted, now it seems that in some cases there .....
» 13/02/2010 9:36:38 PM Yabby: "I checked the specifications this morning on the website and oh dear, only Wi.....
» 12/02/2010 7:14:28 PM qanda: "Did anyone watch the debate between the Lord and the Doctor at the Sydney Hil.....
» 12/02/2010 6:29:53 PM whitmus: "I don't see anything about extracting a consensus." True. But since t.....
» 12/02/2010 1:03:38 PM I am with ShazBaz001 - one of the better articles on the IPCC and AGW. Cheryl: "The .....
» 12/02/2010 11:55:53 AM GrahamY: "If this is the case, where does that leave the common protestant stress on .....
» 12/02/2010 11:37:37 AM woulfe, Excellent stuff. Thanks......
» 12/02/2010 10:48:55 AM Arjay: "earth will not warm as much a as Al Gore says it will in the next 5 years.&qu.....
» 12/02/2010 9:57:08 AM Yabby: "or your list of examples would be longer then just the French police and Braz.....
» 11/02/2010 11:45:17 AM Herbert Stencil: "Can you please cite specific instances" Sorry Herbert. I didn.....
» 11/02/2010 9:25:54 AM It is disappointing to see articles like this. The main point of his article, which is sum.....
» 11/02/2010 8:52:53 AM Foxy: "I'd settle for a new upgraded computer (mine's an antique)," If you trul.....
» 10/02/2010 4:43:39 PM (...cont'd) The Microsoft sanctioned way of restoring your software is to reinstall it, g.....
» 10/02/2010 4:43:25 PM Yabby: "Consumers/Govts don't want to buy products, they want to buy solutions.".....
» 10/02/2010 3:30:06 PM Peter Hume: "But in any event, if the majority favour rape or robbery, does that make.....
» 10/02/2010 12:29:51 PM Peter Hume: "Unlike the market for land, the market you are talking about doesn’t exi.....
» 10/02/2010 10:42:02 AM Yabby: "You are telling me about one single computer, used in the last year." I.....
» 9/02/2010 5:15:23 PM Peter Hume: "There is no evidence of catastrophic AGW in the first place, so don't tr.....
» 9/02/2010 3:13:45 PM RobP: "Did you see "Q&A" on the ABC last night?" No. But thanks for p.....
» 9/02/2010 3:12:55 PM Peter Hume: "Centralised price-fixing, trading tax receipts and capital consumption a.....
» 8/02/2010 6:15:07 PM qanda: "It's never really been about the science." Naturally. If you are talkin.....
» 8/02/2010 4:00:35 PM Peter Hume: "A free market solution is to leave the parties to contracts free to choo.....
» 8/02/2010 12:16:47 PM Pericles: "We seem to have no mechanism for pricing-to-market our infrastructure proj.....
» 8/02/2010 11:47:36 AM The simplifying assumption for this discussion is the current politicing between the Libs .....
» 8/02/2010 11:25:40 AM Pericles: "horrendously imperfect band-aid fix called "emissions trading", .....
» 5/02/2010 8:23:44 PM Foxy: "While I shall continue to do the Indian Rain-Dance" Oh. So you are the r.....
» 5/02/2010 4:58:36 PM TurnRightTurnLeft: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/the-east-was-red/story-e6f.....
» 5/02/2010 1:52:22 PM Copyright law was fine when it was the same a patent law. Everybody was happy while it was.....
» 5/02/2010 1:18:19 PM examinator: "Question ....how long do you think patent (intellectual property) goes t.....
» 5/02/2010 10:54:34 AM Divorce Doctor: "a govt can't make legislation contrary to the Constitution" NZ.....
» 4/02/2010 5:26:28 PM GrahamY: "deliberate destruction of data so as to avoid their legal obligations".....
» 4/02/2010 4:59:48 PM Today, iiNet verus AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) was decided. iiNe.....
» 2/02/2010 2:47:51 PM Oh, and burbs, if you are going to use Mike Rann's name and postcode, for future reference.....
» 2/02/2010 2:14:12 PM burbs: "Signed: Mike Rann - post code: 5000" See the last like of the first pos.....
» 2/02/2010 10:24:31 AM Bazz: "BTW, the Barrier Reef is doing fine thank you ! Stop panicking." You mad.....
» 2/02/2010 9:34:52 AM Anyone here planning to comment on the poll in South Australia? If you are, be aware of t.....
» 1/02/2010 6:15:40 PM I guess Chris Lewis for at least be given a guernsey for persistence in pushing his nuclea.....
» 1/02/2010 11:49:11 AM In the spirit of Antiseptic's suggestion, I have another. In order to protect children fr.....
» 31/01/2010 8:18:26 PM Sorry about that Yabby. I use Evolution myself - but under Linux, not Windows. I made the .....
» 31/01/2010 8:09:17 PM Bazz: "something running so many arithmetic calculations on something like weather wo.....
» 31/01/2010 11:22:04 AM Arjay: "with the computers you will note that you get very few programs" Not go.....
» 30/01/2010 11:28:13 PM GrahamY: "I'm not sure how you can be sure that the models predict anything" I .....
» 30/01/2010 9:40:28 PM Gawd Arjay, I am glad I don't live in your head. Mind you, I'd recon Microsoft is as para.....
» 30/01/2010 8:37:48 PM They are trying to force you to use Windows Live, which normally requires an internet conn.....
» 30/01/2010 7:57:35 PM Bazz, I still think the climate models most likely do predict the climate. What you see .....
» 30/01/2010 4:45:57 PM Hours: "But, when presented with sources ..." That was half the problem, Horus......
» 29/01/2010 5:40:46 PM Foxy, I presume this is him: http://www.global-warming-and-the-climate.com/un-climate-cha.....
» 29/01/2010 11:00:19 AM Here are a few recent outcomes of our current censorship laws. I thought it timely to pond.....
» 29/01/2010 10:31:14 AM Suffices to say I find it difficult to accept moralising on sex before marriage from a man.....
» 28/01/2010 2:47:37 PM There is no way to defend this state of affairs. It is not just climate science, either. I.....
» 28/01/2010 2:47:23 PM GrahamY: "I'd be interested to see the computer model that accurately reproduces clim.....
» 28/01/2010 10:23:17 AM From the article: "Hopefully, Google and China will find a way to settle amicably. Fo.....
» 27/01/2010 9:50:41 AM Rusty, Whatever point you were trying to make with the first part of your post went right.....
» 25/01/2010 3:46:21 PM Rusty Catheter: "For a start, we could measure effectiveness by subtracting the rate .....
» 25/01/2010 2:12:55 PM Jedimaster: "Once again, Leo Lane's contribution gives weight to my hypothesis that t.....
» 23/01/2010 1:39:51 PM Q&A: "Btw, do you know who is funding the Monckton-Plimer road-show?" Interesti.....
» 21/01/2010 4:48:40 PM Jedimaster: "For OLO-ers who may be interested in how the debate on this article is s.....
» 17/01/2010 1:04:02 PM Arjay: "I find it amazing that there appears to be no modern day practical experiment.....
» 15/01/2010 2:37:23 PM TurnRightTurnLeft: "Whilst the Chinese government hasn't been directly accused,".....
» 15/01/2010 9:25:42 AM runner: "Oh I see Rusty 'the science is settled'" Why would you care whether th.....
» 15/01/2010 9:06:44 AM Arjay: "Would Q&A or Keith Davies care to explain how CO2 acts as an amplifier?".....
» 13/01/2010 11:13:14 AM Amicus: "Wiki, most people get severely flamed for mentioning wiki on OLO, particular.....
» 13/01/2010 11:05:27 AM I have to agree with Ludwig. Just same-old, same-old. The response to the Monckton articl.....
» 13/01/2010 10:36:25 AM pelican: "Trouble is the Howard Government left a funding loophole ..." Ah yes,.....
» 12/01/2010 2:42:31 PM I haven't got any further in understanding the water cycle, but I did come across this lin.....
» 12/01/2010 10:50:31 AM michael_in_adelaide: http://www.energybulletin.net/50905 , http://rutledge.caltech.edu/ T.....
» 11/01/2010 10:57:24 AM Privacy concerns aside, it is not at all clear full body scanners are worth the effort: h.....
» 7/01/2010 6:31:25 PM So the Yanks are being a wee bit silly. I guess it is kind of them to provide us with a bi.....
» 6/01/2010 11:40:01 AM spindoc: "Dec.16, 2009, R.J. Courtney, IPCC reviewer" In the interests of balan.....
» 3/01/2010 8:00:58 PM TheMissus: "If business could make a cut of 15% and households cut 20% then at least .....
» 3/01/2010 7:36:07 PM rpg: "point 2, Consensus is not science" No one said it was. However, when a la.....
» 3/01/2010 3:11:25 PM Belly: "rstewart you understand I never said it don't you?" Yes, but I find dis.....
» 3/01/2010 2:45:27 PM rpg: "I don't know about dramatically we have no measurements before 200 years ago an.....
» 3/01/2010 1:26:02 PM A more balanced description of the current state of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor can be.....
» 3/01/2010 11:25:45 AM Horus, thanks for the quotes. It is always nice to see the original words. The Howard pol.....
» 30/12/2009 7:32:41 PM Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has.....
» 30/12/2009 12:57:44 PM (...cont'd) But a compromise is possible. Firstly, go back to a graded rating system so t.....
» 30/12/2009 12:57:28 PM (...cont'd) All the Australian government is proposing to do is to implement mandatory gu.....
» 30/12/2009 12:56:52 PM pelican: "You are talking about internet filters not a clean feed. My understanding i.....
» 28/12/2009 7:46:14 PM Alex Goodwin: "the LFTR is NOT a fast spectrum reactor - the flouride does too much m.....
» 24/12/2009 8:25:37 AM Fission in fast breeders like this one look like it will be a excellent solution one day. .....
» 23/12/2009 9:02:55 PM pelican: "Your response to me earlier clearly demonstrates you are missing my point.&.....
» 23/12/2009 12:01:04 PM CJ Morgan: "Cheers Pericles - I'll have a cold beer for you :)" It will be a gl.....
» 23/12/2009 11:14:56 AM (...cont'd) It is likely to be that way with porn too. In fact, there is some evidence tha.....
» 23/12/2009 11:14:35 AM walk with me: "No,No, you misunderstood me. When I said we make our own porn, I meant.....
» 22/12/2009 8:06:48 PM examinator: "Plimers contribution to this debate ..." We are clashing elsewhere.....
» 22/12/2009 7:09:25 PM csteele: "I currently have around equivalent of 25mm of liquid water in the column ab.....
» 22/12/2009 6:53:17 PM walk with me: "Me telling you how to bring up your children? I don't even know you! l.....
» 22/12/2009 6:53:05 PM examinator: "Evidence suggests there are more who may benefit than those who won't.&q.....
» 21/12/2009 9:49:04 PM examinator: "My experience leads me to understand that most OLOer are *not* the socie.....
» 21/12/2009 9:48:59 PM examinator: "Frankly, gratuitous "Nanny state comments" seems to indicate a.....
» 21/12/2009 8:02:00 PM Banjo: "Question. Which expert knows best? this one or the bloke from Cairns?" .....
» 21/12/2009 2:09:17 PM Bazz: "The Barrier Reef ... copes with higher temperatures and lower PH quite well.&q.....
» 21/12/2009 2:06:57 PM Drones, mines - what is the difference? Drones aren't popular because of some conspiracy. .....
» 21/12/2009 12:08:20 PM (...cont'd) But it is being attacked as not being the "best". Well, in one of h.....
» 21/12/2009 12:08:03 PM (...cont'd) As for the ongoing discussion here about whether the climate science consensu.....
» 21/12/2009 12:07:38 PM (...cont'd) But then he goes further and says: - The amount of water vapour in the upper.....
» 21/12/2009 12:07:23 PM csteele: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atmospheric_Transmission.png Until this lectur.....
» 21/12/2009 10:23:56 AM examinator: "Does anyone's 8 year old daughter *need* to see and aborted fetus?".....
» 21/12/2009 10:23:36 AM examinator: "To suggest that the issue is black or white is seriously misleading. the.....
» 20/12/2009 6:51:13 PM spindoc: "The immense volume of documentation emitted by Copenhagen contains volumes .....
» 20/12/2009 11:49:06 AM pelican: "We classify games and magazines yet people get up in arms about doing the s.....
» 20/12/2009 12:48:50 AM CJ Morgan: "the Greens rightly opposed the final form of the ETS is that it had been .....
» 20/12/2009 12:48:36 AM Belly, I suspect you are being a little negative. Copenhagen is struggling with one of th.....
» 19/12/2009 11:38:57 PM R0bert: "rstuart I know it's Wikipedia but ..." Cruel words R0bert. I happen to.....
» 19/12/2009 4:15:43 PM pelican: "Is the government really censoring the internet? They are only censoring th.....
» 19/12/2009 3:02:58 PM walk with me: "What for the new and naive?, not all are computer savvy, so who protec.....
» 19/12/2009 2:23:35 PM I guess what I don't understand is relative importance of GHG's (CO2, Methane, etc), water.....
» 19/12/2009 2:23:27 PM csteele: "Sorry to be so dogged on this" Sorry? This is a nerds idea of fun. An.....
» 18/12/2009 6:01:28 PM spindoc: "Not so, Work Choices is Australian legislation, we can change it. A binding.....
» 18/12/2009 5:49:58 PM examinator, I can't believe I am defending Shadow Minister. At times I think he is indist.....
» 18/12/2009 3:46:36 PM (cont'd...) Thirdly, although no one particularly likes it, for the most part horse porn,.....
» 18/12/2009 3:46:30 PM walk with me: "SM, child porn, horse porn, incest or any of that way out sh@t I think.....
» 18/12/2009 2:29:20 PM pepper: "if scientists can't understand it, what makes you think anyone HERE can ??&q.....
» 18/12/2009 12:58:02 PM Austin Powerless: "rstuart, your link http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html gives.....
» 18/12/2009 11:55:31 AM CJ, I would be a dammed sight more comfortable about the future of this if your mob hadn't.....
» 18/12/2009 10:51:59 AM examinator, Maybe I can put it more clearly. There are three effects operating. From fast.....
» 18/12/2009 9:26:26 AM csteele: "So I thought because our sun is capable of warming the 'bottom of the pot'&.....
» 17/12/2009 2:15:22 PM TheMissus: "Warning graphic content, may cause offence or upset." I love your i.....
» 17/12/2009 11:43:53 AM Crackup: "Like all the Posts on all the different Threads we could go on arguing our .....
» 17/12/2009 9:26:13 AM Horus: "YES, your “experts” got it wrong about the Antarctic" I didn't mention .....
» 17/12/2009 9:00:23 AM RobP: "Isn't it likely that what we're doing to the atmosphere today will also reach .....
» 17/12/2009 8:25:23 AM Bazz: "Downloaded the chapter about oil & coal. Its big 330 Mb." Yes. There is .....
» 17/12/2009 8:18:24 AM Bazz: "But, But, what is all the fuss about cars and petrol then ?" Buggered if.....
» 16/12/2009 3:00:34 PM csteel: "but how does it work with a hotter stratosphere?" For two reasons. Fir.....
» 16/12/2009 2:24:56 PM Bazz: "I will go an have a read." It isn't a read. It is a rather pleasant seri.....
» 16/12/2009 1:34:50 PM I personally am a bit mystified why Pilmer still has credibility. Granted Pilmer has alway.....
» 16/12/2009 1:11:54 PM csteel, It was examinator who put them up. I have now watched all 16 hours of them. I hav.....
» 16/12/2009 12:52:29 PM Bazz: "if it does not have as one of its input parameters the realistic fossil fuel c.....
» 16/12/2009 11:35:54 AM Shadow Minister: "The whole purpose behind the peer review system was to precisely to.....
» 15/12/2009 7:55:39 PM individual, Don't get your knickers too far in a knot. Earlier in the term we were critic.....
» 15/12/2009 7:33:21 PM Horus: "This is not to deny the hole –rather to highlight how our experts often get i.....
» 15/12/2009 6:05:16 PM Austin Powerless: "'100 or so' for, 31072 against!" I presume this is your idea.....
» 15/12/2009 11:35:12 AM spindoc: "In the real world any computer programs in production, those of your suppli.....
» 15/12/2009 10:50:34 AM rehctub: "The real frightening issue with Krudd is that the only way he will loose th.....
» 15/12/2009 9:21:14 AM Shadow Minister: "That scientists not directly involved in AGW research are not compe.....
» 14/12/2009 7:56:58 PM Shadow Minister: "This would then imply that Ross Garnaut is not qualified to comment.....
» 14/12/2009 1:43:41 PM Austin Powerless: "is there anyone objective enough to consider how many scientists s.....
» 14/12/2009 11:53:40 AM Bazz: "ps the reason the children were thrown overboard was because they had scuttled.....
» 14/12/2009 11:41:03 AM Crackcup: "is a direct result of increased solar activity and is affecting all the pl.....
» 13/12/2009 10:35:08 PM CJ Morgan: "The scientific facts don't matter to Abbott, Minchin" Really? What .....
» 13/12/2009 7:38:59 PM Belly: "He ask to and did go on record saying cigarette smoke was not dangerous.".....
» 13/12/2009 11:50:33 AM Crackup, An excellent summation......
» 13/12/2009 11:36:31 AM ReaBee: "We are the most taxed country in the world." There is nothing like a b.....
» 13/12/2009 10:06:03 AM RaeBee: "You don't really believe that selling carbon credits will change the world?&.....
» 12/12/2009 12:04:19 PM Yabby: "Not so rstuart, I am actually Swiss." Sorry, Yabby. I don't know where .....
» 12/12/2009 11:57:58 AM Horus: "Translation: look how out of touch he is." No. Translation: look, anti .....
» 12/12/2009 11:42:48 AM Bazz: "they were on about matching the tree ring data to the thermometer data since 1.....
» 11/12/2009 10:20:42 AM Horus: "If we are to rubbish/discredit Tim Ball (& others on the sceptics side) becau.....
» 11/12/2009 9:44:21 AM Pericles: "It's not healthy, people." Yes. Some seem to view the world through .....
» 10/12/2009 8:38:20 PM I just think it odd that HermanYutic says he isn't religious, then takes on a nick that lo.....
» 10/12/2009 6:39:26 PM Arjay: "Listen to the audio of Dr Tim Ball climatologist" Ah yes, Dr Tim Ball. .....
» 10/12/2009 11:26:53 AM (...cont'd) rats. sorry about the wrong posting order......
» 10/12/2009 11:25:27 AM Peter Hume: "You assume that the benefits are because of, rather than despite states......
» 10/12/2009 11:25:23 AM (...cont'd) When competitive markets don't arise, there are three choices. Either (1) for.....
» 10/12/2009 10:19:34 AM Col Rouge: "That in no way absolves even so called "scientists" from btheir.....
» 9/12/2009 1:17:00 PM Hasbeen: "A wine grape industry in northern England, & cows grazing Greenland during .....
» 9/12/2009 11:30:17 AM thomasfromtacoma, I would like to apologise on behalf of my fellow Ozzies here. You are r.....
» 9/12/2009 11:06:24 AM For pete's sake, Farida Akhter can not seriously believe the picture painted by the graph .....
» 9/12/2009 10:55:25 AM Peter Hume: "doing it by way of confiscations and government bureaucracy will produce.....
» 9/12/2009 10:54:03 AM Peter Hume: "If they merely not-enforced it, i.e. respected its terms, the resulting .....
» 9/12/2009 9:29:59 AM eyejaw: "One example among many concerns the origin and residence time of CO2 in the .....
» 8/12/2009 1:03:02 PM Stazza: "I think you will find that neither yourself, the government, or geology will.....
» 8/12/2009 12:09:36 PM keith: "The director of the East Anglia research unit has stood aside. Not because of.....
» 7/12/2009 6:51:07 PM keith: "what really astonishes me is the utter lack of comment by the media in Austra.....
» 7/12/2009 5:11:02 PM Stezza: "People probably calculated that once horses reached a certain population tra.....
» 7/12/2009 4:29:47 PM Peter Hume: "Societies with relatively greater rather than lesser freedom tend to out.....
» 7/12/2009 4:28:06 PM Peter Hume: "What stops such a better system from becoming general is that the courts.....
» 7/12/2009 2:04:48 PM Bazz: "The CRU is so tightly connected to the IPCC that it looks to me that they have.....
» 7/12/2009 12:07:39 PM keith, It looks like your penchant for peer reviewed papers supporting AGW can be found i.....
» 7/12/2009 9:49:44 AM spindoc: You have always presented your case based upon for key pillars. These are “Scient.....
» 6/12/2009 1:56:13 PM Peter Hume: "If the wrong to be remedied costs $1, but the machinery of justice to re.....
» 6/12/2009 1:54:57 PM Peter Hume: "But in all coerced transactions, including taxation, the stronger takes .....
» 6/12/2009 10:32:59 AM keith: "I doubt any scientist worth anything would be happy with references to wikipe.....
» 5/12/2009 4:54:58 PM keith, You don't need Andy to answer the first two questions. It is easy enough to find .....
» 5/12/2009 1:28:12 PM HermanYutic: "The followers’ actions have nothing to do with their doctrine (and to p.....
» 5/12/2009 12:37:13 PM Peter Hume: "controlling the supply of doctors entering the profession," A priv.....
» 5/12/2009 12:35:58 PM Peter Hume, I get the distinct impression you believe markets are some wonderful system .....
» 5/12/2009 11:23:02 AM Bazz: "As the call would have been somewhere else in the program" Being a compu.....
» 4/12/2009 11:21:13 PM rstuart: "If challenged on a fact I provide a link" Yabby: "I respond to s.....
» 4/12/2009 9:57:00 PM Jon J: "in Australia, where we have had our coldest October for some time" From.....
» 4/12/2009 6:59:32 PM Bazz: "Gawd, you did get stirred up." Yeah, but didn't stop me from looking to .....
» 4/12/2009 12:30:37 PM Bronwyn, Ta. I was feeling lonely here. Yabby: "I am limited to two posts a day at .....
» 4/12/2009 12:01:07 PM I am utterly confused. All these words about CO2 being recycled and in balance. Yet not o.....
» 4/12/2009 11:53:45 AM examinator, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sand.....
» 4/12/2009 11:35:57 AM HermanYutic: "The vast majority of the brainwashed Muslim hordes practise Islam-lite......
» 4/12/2009 11:12:27 AM Bazz: "Even Tim O'Flannery now admits that it is down." O'Flannery says the per.....
» 4/12/2009 9:10:42 AM digiwigi: "Forrest - I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and don't have the minor problem you men.....
» 3/12/2009 8:51:04 PM Peter Hume: "It is vain to consider the respective factual benefits of private versus.....
» 3/12/2009 7:53:33 PM TheMissus: "You could scream rant and be outraged at what happened at Jonestown witho.....
» 3/12/2009 7:14:57 PM Yabby: "I haven't conceded anything, you just dream this stuff up as you go along.&qu.....
» 3/12/2009 2:18:09 PM Bazz: "There is significant doubt about the temperature increase." No Bazz, the.....
» 3/12/2009 12:48:32 PM runner: "I can't believe those who are so full of their own self importance." D.....
» 3/12/2009 12:34:58 PM Ludwig, I don't mind the posting limits. David f spells out the reasons fairly well. I t.....
» 3/12/2009 12:17:53 PM Yabby: "The question of Rudd using force would hardly have arisen, if the 78 had not .....
» 3/12/2009 11:04:06 AM stevenlmeyer: "Banning minarets by a vote of 58% to 42% is a far more profound slap i.....
» 2/12/2009 10:13:35 AM dorothy42: "or did I miss the point here" Yep, you did. Richard Allsop doesn't .....
» 1/12/2009 8:15:02 PM Yabby: "the 78 made it plain that they refuse to disembark in Indonesia" Did th.....
» 1/12/2009 7:44:23 PM Peter Hume: "The USA health system is characterized by intensive and extensive govern.....
» 1/12/2009 6:47:38 PM I too would not worry about it too much Polly. Did you see the winning bid? $2.74 for a 30.....
» 1/12/2009 6:01:48 PM rstuart: "Ruddock set the 90% benchmark - he didn't change it" Yabby: "Not .....
» 30/11/2009 9:19:01 PM Peter Hume: "people, like Pericles, can’t or won’t understand the smoke-and-mirrors e.....
» 30/11/2009 8:18:54 PM plerdsus: "I believe this is factually incorrect, as the referendum result AMENDS the.....
» 30/11/2009 7:56:29 PM Yabby: "you previously conceded [the war is now over] is now a major factor." T.....
» 30/11/2009 4:15:44 PM Bazz: "It seems that even though the CRU people have acknowledged their fiddling".....
» 30/11/2009 2:46:59 PM Yabby: "I remind you that 30 or so Tamils have just won first prize of a cushy life i.....
» 30/11/2009 2:14:24 PM Geoff Davies: "so a plausible cause is known" Yes. Several in fact. But from th.....
» 30/11/2009 11:49:47 AM one under god: "i know there shall be no replies" Here is one. Firstly, the in.....
» 30/11/2009 11:12:51 AM The only definition I have seen that works is the one used in the USA which requires the s.....
» 28/11/2009 10:56:29 AM Yabby: "On that basis a case can clearly be made, that all these people deserve prote.....
» 27/11/2009 10:59:17 PM Yabby: "Under the UN Convention, all they need to do is to fear persecution." W.....
» 27/11/2009 5:35:21 PM Jayb: "Just for you, again, rstuart. http://sahultime.monash.edu.au/" Ta. The.....
» 27/11/2009 1:45:08 PM runner: "Making political mileage out of child abuse is in poor taste" If that .....
» 27/11/2009 10:50:54 AM Yabby: "as is the case with onshore asylum seekers." Onshore asylum seekers? We.....
» 27/11/2009 10:18:10 AM Jayb: "You have frightened yourself for nothing." My reply was joke with a seri.....
» 26/11/2009 7:28:34 PM Pericles: "If we don't have proof, but have a good deal of evidence, then say so".....
» 26/11/2009 5:51:20 PM Banjo: "an interview of Phillip Ruddock, by Greg Sheridan" Again no link Banjo,.....
» 26/11/2009 2:51:34 PM Jayb: "What if you're wrong? What will you tell your grandchildren?" Dear grand.....
» 26/11/2009 10:45:19 AM Yabby: "Their blackmail clearly paid off!" I don't see the word "hijack&qu.....
» 25/11/2009 4:17:54 PM Yabby: "You accepted the drivers decision, not so for the 78, who defied the captain .....
» 25/11/2009 3:11:57 PM Bazz: "Well that is just the point, what is in their papers ?" I'd wager no one.....
» 25/11/2009 9:47:51 AM Yabby: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/human_rights/immigration/idc2009_xmas_island.html That is .....
» 25/11/2009 9:02:21 AM Bazz: "What disappoints me is that those that believe in AGW are so set in their beli.....
» 24/11/2009 11:53:02 AM Pericles: "The health profession also operates (pardon the pun) a massive protection .....
» 24/11/2009 11:05:09 AM Peter Hume: "we should be asking: what reason is there to think a territorial monopol.....
» 24/11/2009 9:48:45 AM Yabby: "I admit, city Aussies have become piss weak." Spin aside, so now do you.....
» 24/11/2009 8:45:07 AM TurnRigtTurnLeft: "However, we don't trust them will all the considerations, such as .....
» 23/11/2009 8:57:02 PM Peter Hume, That, without a doubt, is the best reasoned post I have seen on the "nay.....
» 23/11/2009 8:08:48 PM Yabby: "Here is one link of what the story was about" My point was that we woul.....
» 23/11/2009 8:02:30 PM spindoc: "I don't understand why Rudd doesn't abuse the IPCC and CRU scientists.".....
» 23/11/2009 5:38:13 PM Bazz: "I thought they were worrying about the wrong problem." Have you consider.....
» 23/11/2009 10:36:44 AM stevenlmeyer, There has been a scandal, but this isn't it. You apparently haven't notice.....
» 23/11/2009 9:25:38 AM Yabby: "Economic refugees claiming to be asylum seekers, is the huge loophole that ev.....
» 22/11/2009 7:05:48 PM Yabby: "Rsuart, methinks you must be getting a bit long in the tooth," Methinks.....
» 21/11/2009 4:21:33 PM Yabby: "Our bleating hearts felt that this was inhumane, so temporary protection visa.....
» 21/11/2009 9:36:22 AM suzeonline: "New Nurses coming out of their training need lots of supervision, and ho.....
» 21/11/2009 8:54:59 AM renysol, Following the posts here are you? Particularly the bit where Jon J posted the sa.....
» 20/11/2009 9:25:31 PM Pynchme: "rstuart, I'm afraid that your estimation of risk is mistaken." Perhap.....
» 20/11/2009 8:32:19 PM Banjo: "Horus, One wonders if rstuart and others will take any notice of the informat.....
» 20/11/2009 12:34:37 PM Pynchme, Thanks again. You have obviously put a fair effort into answering my question, .....
» 20/11/2009 11:39:36 AM Shadow Minister: "I notice that none of you have actually contributed to the dicussio.....
» 20/11/2009 10:32:37 AM Joanne Nova: "Rudd needs to apologise for baseless attacks on all the scientists".....
» 20/11/2009 8:41:16 AM Shadow blows the dog whistle with some imaginative story about jellyfish, and the dogs com.....
» 19/11/2009 8:15:02 PM Banjo: "These FACTS which have been known for years" Oh, I see. You don't under.....
» 19/11/2009 6:36:12 PM Yabby: "I put it to you that far more backpackers have been murdered in Australia, th.....
» 19/11/2009 4:00:12 PM Pynchme: "A base rate reconviction cited in that study for offenders 55 years and old.....
» 18/11/2009 9:47:45 PM TurnRightThenLeft: "And yet, I don't see any public debates about why we persist with.....
» 18/11/2009 8:11:41 PM TheMissus: "I am far more sympathetic to the plight of Afghans than to Sri Lankans.&q.....
» 18/11/2009 7:40:04 PM Forrest Gumpp: "he was still running the old Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10, on which the .....
» 18/11/2009 6:40:01 PM King Hazza: "it shouldn't be up to them to give up their rights" I think you ar.....
» 18/11/2009 6:08:02 PM Yabby: "For reasons of diplomacy, Australian politicians won't withdraw from the Conv.....
» 18/11/2009 12:37:24 PM Bazz: "The whole thing becomes a madhouse, it appears from this post they have no ide.....
» 18/11/2009 11:18:22 AM The most interesting part of all this to me is how it happened at all. I gather the IEA wa.....
» 17/11/2009 3:07:00 PM Sibba: "the advance being made in biotechnology." The technology (fertilisers, .....
» 17/11/2009 1:46:46 PM Banjo: "You are really grasping at straws ... My dictionary uses one word to describe.....
» 17/11/2009 12:29:10 PM Banjo: "The major political parties receive big donations from developers and big bus.....
» 17/11/2009 10:50:54 AM Just so know all know where this guy is coming from the "Georgist movement" prom.....
» 17/11/2009 10:11:06 AM Banjo: "The illegals have lied and broken laws all the way from their home country an.....
» 17/11/2009 8:27:51 AM Best lead post in a while, TRTL. Lawyers like wolves are a necessary evil. Smart chickens.....
» 16/11/2009 12:29:24 PM phoenix94: "I ask someone to tell me where to find the science that proves that CO2 i.....
» 16/11/2009 11:54:11 AM This is a bit of a let down. I was genuinely hoping to see an article on OLO with a title .....
» 16/11/2009 11:16:09 AM Banjo: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/Committee/maritime_incident_ctte/report/f04.htm#top Y.....
» 16/11/2009 10:16:31 AM Pynchme: "I think therefore that the magistrate was very mistaken." No, he wasn.....
» 16/11/2009 9:47:34 AM socratease: "I want to know why the same rules dont apply to all peoples from all ove.....
» 14/11/2009 11:57:22 AM TheMissus: "There is no evidence Sri Lanka is a dangerous place to be except if you a.....
» 14/11/2009 11:47:26 AM I heard a Background Briefing (ABC Radio National) on the history of Afghanistan the other.....
» 14/11/2009 11:34:18 AM pelican, the problem from your point of view is that no-one has posted an article here on .....
» 14/11/2009 10:55:10 AM Yabby: "Firstly I thought the name of the boat was the "Ocean Viking"".....
» 13/11/2009 9:03:22 PM Yabby: "That is very sweet of you Rstuart." So nice of you to say so. Yabby: &.....
» 13/11/2009 11:13:03 AM JBowyer: "rstuart - You are demented!" Possibly, particularly as I don't see wh.....
» 13/11/2009 10:17:19 AM rehctub: "the people who elect them don’t get to choose the staff" Actually, th.....
» 13/11/2009 10:13:28 AM I don't understand the enthusiasm of controlling carbon flows for carbon already in the bi.....
» 13/11/2009 9:28:48 AM Shadow Minister: "I see in the news that labor is looking at re introducing the tempo.....
» 13/11/2009 9:05:05 AM Yabby: "rstuart, I remind you that the 1951 Convention is voluntary, for there is no .....
» 12/11/2009 8:08:45 PM Banjo: "the reason they attract media and peoples attention is simply because they ar.....
» 12/11/2009 6:44:16 PM Shadow Minister: "I said the boat arrivals (see topic) increased by about 20x not asy.....
» 12/11/2009 6:33:52 PM To me the main problem is, and now remains, that it is cheaper to import overseas books di.....
» 12/11/2009 5:47:25 PM Jayb: "They haven't been offered asylum by Australia. They have asked for it. ...&quo.....
» 12/11/2009 5:18:34 PM Jayb: "So do you offer them asylum? Bring them to Australia. Find they are undesirabl.....
» 12/11/2009 9:12:13 AM Jayb: "Copy comment URL to clipboard Look again at your UNHCR Handbook." It wou.....
» 11/11/2009 9:30:23 PM Warwick Marsh, I am the sort of person who is normally swayed by figures and the figures w.....
» 11/11/2009 8:53:48 PM Jayb: "They cannot be asylum seekers because the UN says that when they cross their o.....
» 11/11/2009 4:50:31 PM TheMissus: "I am starting to think the real xenophobes are those that think every cor.....
» 11/11/2009 1:32:31 PM Jayb: "rstuart it was Q&A that said ..." Sorry Jayb. My mistake. Jayb: "B.....
» 11/11/2009 11:37:13 AM Bazz: http://www.energybulletin.net/50662 Geezz, it didn't take you long to notice that. .....
» 11/11/2009 11:17:30 AM Divergence: "Sending failed asylum seekers back can be difficult or impossible if it .....
» 11/11/2009 10:57:25 AM Shadow Minister: "Sorry, but the bleeding hearts don't have much credibility at the m.....
» 11/11/2009 10:41:24 AM rpg: "They evidently can afford to pay thousands of $ to people smugglers, but cannot.....
» 11/11/2009 10:04:13 AM Q&A: "Anyone else care to comment?" There is no much to add, Q&A. Stellar job -.....
» 11/11/2009 9:43:01 AM mikk: "Very simplified but basically thats how I see it." You underestimate you.....
» 11/11/2009 9:36:40 AM TRUTHNOW78, thanks for that link. I had got the impression from other media Hockey spoke i.....
» 11/11/2009 9:13:31 AM This is one of the few times I agree 100% with rehctub. He summarised it pretty well......
» 11/11/2009 9:05:08 AM Yabby: "perhaps you missed this post, on one of the Bartlett threads" No Yabby,.....
» 10/11/2009 1:22:27 PM stevenlmeyer: "I am intrigued that no one here has been able to cite a single study t.....
» 10/11/2009 11:05:55 AM Leigh: "My understanding of the Convention is that bona fide, refugees once processed.....
» 10/11/2009 10:27:01 AM Yabby: "Under our laws, with no documents to prove his real name, he would have simpl.....
» 10/11/2009 10:02:38 AM CJ Morgan: "Horus - you're raving." I read this and thought "oh here CJ go.....
» 9/11/2009 5:27:45 PM Leigh: "unless Australian governments start turning them away as they are perfectly e.....
» 9/11/2009 3:04:22 PM examinator: "This is a WORLD problem and needs to be addressed that way." The w.....
» 9/11/2009 10:03:41 AM With all other things being equal, you are better off with a large population. A few reaso.....
» 8/11/2009 10:17:28 PM Horus: "An analogy: ... does it make you less sympathetic" I agree. But this is.....
» 8/11/2009 11:15:04 AM Shadow Minister: "[Rudd] will shortly be faced with either releasing the detainees wi.....
» 8/11/2009 10:41:06 AM Yabby: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/the-real-reasons-for-asylum-seeker-arrivals-.....
» 8/11/2009 9:57:32 AM Horus: "but apparently refugees can be very choosey!" I don't follow the logic......
» 7/11/2009 7:54:44 PM Horus: "But what I missed was the Old RStuart." Their is no "old rstuart&q.....
» 6/11/2009 8:51:32 PM Horus: "I didn’t notice your little quip camouflaged amongst the bluster" What .....
» 6/11/2009 2:55:21 PM Belly: "Turnbull today proved a point, he had no opinion on that boat in Indonesia.&q.....
» 6/11/2009 2:25:28 PM Bronwyn: "is policy change that may have been in the pipeline, but which has been wel.....
» 6/11/2009 11:38:15 AM examinator: "The bulk of the post also showed reasons why I think that the island sol.....
» 5/11/2009 6:57:04 PM From the article: "to live on one or other of those Australian offshore islands until.....
» 5/11/2009 6:32:41 PM Shadow Minister: "I would guess you work with you hands, as your mind is definitely n.....
» 5/11/2009 5:44:01 PM geoffreykelley: "you find several references to RAN sailors preventing the SUNCs from.....
» 5/11/2009 11:56:01 AM runner: "there will never be any such thing as gay marriage whether acknowledged by t.....
» 5/11/2009 10:36:50 AM eftfnc: "In my view it is international politically based due to resistance of the NW.....
» 4/11/2009 6:18:34 PM Banjo, Firstly, what an interesting article that first link is. I hope you read the comme.....
» 4/11/2009 3:20:17 PM Forrest Gumpp: "What drivel." Yup. Adam Ferrier obviously hasn't spent much con.....
» 4/11/2009 3:03:08 PM Taswegian: "This raises questions as to how forward thinking is the free market syste.....
» 4/11/2009 2:48:05 PM I agree with the comments above. To me paying someone to keep trees in the groud seems lik.....
» 4/11/2009 2:36:41 PM Shadow Minister: "what damage has been done to the environment?" There is some .....
» 4/11/2009 2:12:23 PM Shadow Minister: "There is nothing stopping him hopping on a ferry to the mainland an.....
» 4/11/2009 9:21:21 AM csteele: "I don't know how many of you access OLO through your mobile phone but I do&.....
» 4/11/2009 8:33:48 AM Yabby: "for to come to Austrlia and win first prize, you need some serious money by t.....
» 3/11/2009 9:39:12 PM Yabby: "We never stopped offering first prize, to those who sail to our mainland.&quo.....
» 3/11/2009 12:24:19 PM Shadow Minister: "Unless you are being particularily dense, completely ignorant of wh.....
» 3/11/2009 7:52:00 AM Shadow Minister: "as a result of the relaxed regulations" You have said this in.....
» 3/11/2009 7:35:32 AM Yabby: "Err not so Rstuart, for this stuff eventually turns up in the news once again.....
» 3/11/2009 6:59:22 AM AndrewBartlett: "keith, geoffrey, horus: perhaps your obsession with trying to put th.....
» 2/11/2009 3:23:26 PM Bazz: "The failure of the financial system was forced by the surge in oil prices just.....
» 2/11/2009 12:04:42 PM The other thing Kevin doesn't mention is that the current infrastructure problems, like th.....
» 2/11/2009 11:43:32 AM Andrew Bartlett - thanks for taking the time to reply here. Your calm responses and the ci.....
» 2/11/2009 11:42:24 AM examinator: "Perhaps someone can help me to understand how Polluting up one area to t.....
» 2/11/2009 10:58:42 AM Pericles, Did you know of Lyndon La Rouche's history before Arjay mentioned him here? It .....
» 2/11/2009 10:26:57 AM Smithy456: "Congrats for falsely implying that others here have called her and others.....
» 30/10/2009 2:08:51 PM TZ52HX: "That's not good for the coalition." Are you saying that making their p.....
» 30/10/2009 1:32:45 PM Taswegian, Thanks. Out of your list, (d) is the winner for me. Oil companies make money .....
» 30/10/2009 11:51:17 AM TZ52HX: "let's appeal to as many people as we think we can, because that means we'll .....
» 30/10/2009 11:06:30 AM Taswegian: "... we could make liquid fuel from coal as is done in South Africa. That .....
» 30/10/2009 10:34:45 AM Shadow Minister: "The old policies worked" Actually, they didn't for a while. W.....
» 26/10/2009 11:42:38 AM pelican: "It is a real battle for parents to convince teens that they don't have to p.....
» 16/10/2009 5:06:20 AM Divergence: "On Iran's success in bringing down fertility rates ..." A very hea.....
» 2/10/2009 11:06:28 PM Ludwig: "However, the main tenet of this article is of course rock solid. The human p.....
» 1/10/2009 10:54:28 AM Forrest Gumpp: "It seems Jessica wasn't at fault! " The fact that they saw each.....
» 30/09/2009 11:50:24 AM examinator: "note the address and the deliberate second line for the last sentence.&q.....
» 30/09/2009 9:42:11 AM runner: "Whose ethics do you suggest?" That seems like a genuine question runne.....
» 30/09/2009 9:39:43 AM The Pied Piper: "So are we talking about a drive." Precisely. I wasn't trying t.....
» 28/09/2009 9:42:22 PM Antiseptic: excellent points. Made me think for a bit. But I do worry about your motives. .....
» 28/09/2009 7:50:59 PM The Pied Piper: "I completely missed this before. Sorry Mr Stuart." I am afraid.....
» 28/09/2009 7:23:51 PM examinator: "I'll bet that victim and the Mormon are glad you're neither a police off.....
» 28/09/2009 4:57:00 PM examinator: "The Key is ABUSE of power." Key to what? Its not the key to unders.....
» 28/09/2009 3:39:54 PM Bugsy: "Population genetics relies on dominance and recessiveness, selection pressure.....
» 28/09/2009 12:07:03 PM Bugsy: "Religion is not genetic, perhaps feelings of being spiritual are (and are exp.....
» 28/09/2009 11:09:43 AM CJ, instinctively I love the idea. I wish you could persuade me the kids would like it as .....
» 28/09/2009 9:39:51 AM Bugsy, I haven't understood the line of reasoning you are trying to lay out, and I am hav.....
» 26/09/2009 12:14:05 PM stevenlmeyer, I am not sure what this thread is really about, but I'll address it as if t.....
» 26/09/2009 11:28:24 AM The Pied Piper: "Weird Exam… my thoughts would be rape is all about sex because it is.....
» 26/09/2009 11:03:23 AM Now I have had a chance to watch Rudd for a while, he seems like a fairly pragmatic sort o.....
» 21/09/2009 5:36:30 PM All Barbara Biggs does here is present us with some statistics and draw some fairly straig.....
» 21/09/2009 11:23:06 AM michael_in_adelaide: "You will find this online recorded lecture by another Western A.....
» 21/09/2009 11:01:40 AM The article: "A common tactic of cult groups to ensure total reliance on them is to c.....
» 20/09/2009 6:52:52 PM The future fund sold 1/3 of its Telstra shares a few weeks ago: http://www.smh.com.au/bus.....
» 18/09/2009 7:36:20 PM Fractelle: "Rstuart, Your ad hominem on Bronwyn - completely called for" I'm an.....
» 18/09/2009 5:24:09 PM Curmudgeon: "The Government has mandated 20 per cent of our electricity supply must c.....
» 18/09/2009 11:27:06 AM (cont'd...) 3. The reason 66% of people switched off the home filter is because it blocks.....
» 18/09/2009 11:26:59 AM The Pied Piper: "Okay so I am thinking the internet needs to be policed at the PC lev.....
» 17/09/2009 9:50:02 PM For what its worth, I recently heard a story that changed my views on this considerably. I.....
» 17/09/2009 9:13:33 PM (cont'd...) Similarly, we don't know there is common underlying "urge" that bot.....
» 17/09/2009 9:13:15 PM Fractelle: "There have been extensive arguments on OLO regarding censorship, there ar.....
» 17/09/2009 7:17:58 PM Pericles: "You are looking for logic. I have none to offer that sounds remotely convi.....
» 17/09/2009 4:38:53 PM Pericles: "I am very aware that my opinion on this subject is widely regarded as oddb.....
» 17/09/2009 12:04:15 PM Yeah well, I agree with both sides of the argument. What has happened to the Telstra shar.....
» 16/09/2009 8:53:54 PM I tell you what Barry, I will make a deal with you. You get your Australia card, but there.....
» 16/09/2009 4:21:43 PM Pericles: "Thanks for the gratuitous reference to my declining mental faculties".....
» 16/09/2009 1:04:55 PM Sylvia Else: "So now the ACMA has no choice in the matter. It has to get that content.....
» 16/09/2009 10:33:25 AM The Pied Piper: "Sorry Sylvia, I’m probably going to drive you nuts as I try and unde.....
» 15/09/2009 7:56:22 PM Pericles: "Keeping animals for our personal pleasure has to be on a par with slavery,.....
» 15/09/2009 3:57:58 PM Pericles: "an e-book will ... become an unnecessary hurdle." Nah, eBook readers.....
» 15/09/2009 2:40:24 PM runner: "That is the morality you come to when you allow man to think he is a god and.....
» 15/09/2009 11:57:37 AM diver dan: "Therefore; Morality is unusable as grounds for debate on prostitution.&qu.....
» 15/09/2009 11:29:22 AM michael_in_adelaide: "The Shell discover amounts to about 6 weeks of world oil consum.....
» 14/09/2009 3:56:21 PM Desk Hermit: "The reason rstuart can't get a handle on the import books debate is tha.....
» 14/09/2009 3:18:21 PM Sylvia Else: "You ask whether I know who submitted the URL. Well, yes, I do. It was m.....
» 14/09/2009 1:54:51 PM Taswegian, I can't help but think you are being a little negative. Frankly, I am surprise.....
» 14/09/2009 1:21:23 PM I formed my opinion on this years ago, after being dragged along to dog shows. The kennel .....
» 14/09/2009 12:08:12 PM Desk Hermit: "from personal experience it is very difficult for authors to receive th.....
» 14/09/2009 11:40:22 AM Sylvia, Thanks for posting this. I have been waiting to see for the outcome of the case. .....
» 14/09/2009 11:13:08 AM CJ, I don't have a clue why my opinion or anybodies else's on this matters in the slightes.....
» 13/09/2009 9:35:01 PM Antiseptic: "Did you have a look at that chart I linked to?" The entire point o.....
» 11/09/2009 9:07:41 AM I find myself becoming a huge fan of Andrew Leigh's articles. Keep up the good work Andrew.....
» 10/09/2009 8:06:12 PM Pericles: "Health insurance is non-discriminatory, by law." True. My mistake. I.....
» 10/09/2009 3:57:10 PM My short answer is no, they should not be able to discriminate. With just about any other .....
» 10/09/2009 2:16:08 PM Pericles: "Sounds pretty cruel to me." These guys aren't being treated too badl.....
» 7/09/2009 8:30:02 PM Oh, and now I remember: after speed limits were introduced in the NT accident rates on ave.....
» 7/09/2009 8:21:20 PM examinator: "Starting with the 25 yo rust buckets and progressively mandate all opera.....
» 6/09/2009 8:55:39 PM examinator: "I have no doubt that Toben's rot will strike a chord with the right wing.....
» 4/09/2009 10:22:48 PM examinator, I'll make your point "speech not is harmless" for you with this lin.....
» 4/09/2009 6:43:55 PM The Pied Piper: "Funny how DoCS don’t consider underage sex a big deal. I’m sure it i.....
» 4/09/2009 12:11:17 PM david f: "My candidate for the worst president is Andrew Jackson" I wandered ov.....
» 3/09/2009 6:16:44 PM The Pied Piper: "Do you want a slapping?" That would be the first OLO post that.....
» 3/09/2009 1:22:04 PM Crackcup: "The rapidly increasing criminal activities are becoming more violent".....
» 3/09/2009 12:32:57 PM Ludwig, While I agree with you the current government's attitude to immigration sucks, th.....
» 3/09/2009 10:32:59 AM examinator: "Are you really making the distinction between the 'word' and the act of .....
» 2/09/2009 1:05:35 PM StG: "Is it ok for websites depicting adults raping children alright for free access .....
» 1/09/2009 8:12:38 PM Bazz: "It is the ready acceptance by some that makes it dangerous." The central.....
» 1/09/2009 6:51:35 PM Bazz: "an Irishman who believed he was God ... makes you wonder if some of these peop.....
» 1/09/2009 3:12:56 PM StG: "He was jailed for contempt of court." Yes, Toben was jailed for contempt .....
» 31/08/2009 2:02:18 PM Shadow Minister: "The gas is used not for its calorific value, but for its hydrogen c.....
» 26/08/2009 9:52:35 PM Grim: "water from condensation" You are claiming you get a meaningful amount of.....
» 25/08/2009 7:07:37 PM rehctub: "I am of the opinion there is enough water, it's just that we take it for gr.....
» 25/08/2009 10:50:24 AM tomw: "But I don't find it strange that young children could learn from computers.&qu.....
» 24/08/2009 10:08:44 PM I demonstratively know absolutely nothing about this, as I had to use Google to figure out.....
» 24/08/2009 11:42:29 AM Shadow Minister and I have sparred over nuclear in other threads. One of the sticking poin.....
» 24/08/2009 10:54:47 AM This morning I read the ABC's news item "4.6m short of water in China drought". .....
» 24/08/2009 9:03:52 AM The Pied Piper: "Sorry I know you want to talk with a clearer understanding of law wh.....
» 23/08/2009 6:30:25 PM The Pied Piper: "often it is the police that decide if they’re going to arrest you or.....
» 22/08/2009 10:35:14 AM So, Belly, this thread was prompted by that Law Report thing on the same issue, eh? It was.....
» 21/08/2009 9:14:42 AM If I had of gone with my heart rather than my head, I would have been an etymologist. To t.....
» 11/08/2009 9:56:04 PM Shadow Minister: "It has been under development for many years, but has yet to produc.....
» 11/08/2009 1:24:37 PM Shadow Minister: "they have a fraction of the waste that standard reactors have and c.....
» 11/08/2009 12:08:28 PM Several people here are worried we would be over governed with an upper house. Here are s.....
» 10/08/2009 8:42:20 PM Shadow Minister, I have spent some time looking on the net to try and verify if fuel and .....
» 6/08/2009 5:31:34 PM Shadow Minister: "The citation you requested on the 10 fold increase of uranium at th.....
» 6/08/2009 2:11:44 PM MaryE: "does the New Zealand law stop parents from merely hitting their kids on the b.....
» 6/08/2009 12:35:59 PM Just about all 32 bit applications will run on 64 bit Vista. See the question "Can I .....
» 6/08/2009 11:40:37 AM Fractelle: "For your edification" ... Reverse osmosis of sea water has a recove.....
» 5/08/2009 3:16:51 PM Shadow Minister: "Don't make the same mistakes that everyone has in the past." .....
» 5/08/2009 10:05:36 AM Shadow Minister: "Nuclear works Now." It depends on how your define "works.....
» 31/07/2009 1:14:09 PM You lot should try out for "Grumpy Old Men", although if too many of you got in .....
» 31/07/2009 12:47:14 PM My personal view is the root of all this evil lies in the absence of an upper house. Polit.....
» 30/07/2009 2:04:51 PM Evidently we have a few fans of big bureaucracies here. No doubt you all thought Bush's am.....
» 30/07/2009 12:37:22 PM "Dr Hilary Joyce, the new president of the National Association of Specialist Obstetr.....
» 28/07/2009 7:51:42 PM I heard the book retailers and book publishers go toe to to on this on radio. Bob Carr (wh.....
» 24/07/2009 2:00:23 PM examinator: "there is a big difference between being told something andbeing able to .....
» 24/07/2009 11:48:19 AM stevenlmeyer: "I think Dr. Teo should be commended for pointing out a REALITY that an.....
» 21/07/2009 10:37:43 PM It is interesting that so many of you here condemn the Vietnam war. My understanding is th.....
» 21/07/2009 10:12:08 PM stevenlmeyer, You ask for a number. I think it is pointless providing you one. Sure, I ha.....
» 15/07/2009 8:41:02 AM In an in order to foreclose on a condominium in Florida, Wells Fargo Bank engaged in a sur.....
» 14/07/2009 11:50:46 AM Thanks for that great set of links, Michael. It would help lazy buggers like myself if you.....
» 14/07/2009 8:57:36 AM rehctub: "Why not look in to just what these men provided for their communities befor.....
» 13/07/2009 11:06:12 AM OC617, Your confidence in the ability of the market to predict prices is amazing, and not.....
» 13/07/2009 10:04:55 AM You can count me in as a supporter of death taxes, although not because it is fair, or bec.....
» 10/07/2009 10:01:17 AM I went looking for where Pell said the secular experiment failed. It sounded like the usua.....
» 9/07/2009 12:55:15 PM This looks like an issue that needs oxygen, and I am glad someone is is vigorously perusin.....
» 30/06/2009 9:07:35 AM Supertooth, nice overview of current dental health issues. Thanks......
» 25/06/2009 10:25:33 AM "Breaching her permit conditions" indeed. What idiot thought anyone would swallo.....
» 23/06/2009 2:13:02 PM Pericles: "It should not be too difficult, given the wealth of technology available t.....
» 23/06/2009 9:43:46 AM Pericles: "Surely, it is not beyond the wit of man to devise a sensible measurement m.....
» 22/06/2009 2:28:33 PM Bazz, interesting new points. I have no doubt Mr Graitz was being micro-managed. For bett.....
» 22/06/2009 1:35:46 PM Leigh: "Heaven + Earth" has not been demolished by "scientific" review.....
» 22/06/2009 11:50:33 AM I listened to a ABC Radio National podcast over the weekend which was a revelation to me. .....
» 22/06/2009 10:56:54 AM Me too. I can't see how could be construed as anything but criminal negligence. I am also.....
» 19/06/2009 5:20:36 PM Count me among those who think Tasers are a good idea. As others have said, there have al.....
» 19/06/2009 4:10:45 PM What a good article. Finally, some good information on how politicians wages effect perfor.....
» 17/06/2009 10:12:29 AM I listened to Kurt Lambeck on ABC the other day. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/st.....
» 12/06/2009 11:05:59 AM Indian's get attacked by Lebanese gangs, and then 3rd generation Australian's beat themsel.....
» 12/06/2009 10:22:53 AM The ability of some to work themselves into a lather of terror when confronted with someth.....
» 12/06/2009 10:14:01 AM Articles like this make me wonder how Universities work. I naively think of them as academ.....
» 10/06/2009 12:07:05 PM Thanks OLO for publishing this. I would have missed it otherwise. I don't have much faith.....
» 9/06/2009 3:01:46 PM Perhaps someone prayed the "imprecatory prayer" for Chris? http://www.abpnews.c.....
» 9/06/2009 10:41:51 AM This is a timely and well written piece. I hadn't though of the OOA like that before......
» 5/06/2009 4:48:00 PM Jewely: "You aren’t talking discipline as such you are talking punishment/consequence.....
» 4/06/2009 3:30:10 PM Jewely: "Kids are actually quite happy and comforted not being in control" You .....
» 4/06/2009 12:26:51 PM Maximillion: "Water is already short,and drying up fast, so I wonder at your claim.&q.....
» 4/06/2009 10:14:17 AM I came to the conclusion a while ago that harm was done to kids when they were no longer i.....
» 4/06/2009 9:25:24 AM The answer is simple, Maximillion. All other things remaining equal, countries with a high.....
» 4/06/2009 8:55:38 AM Perciles: "The schemes are designed as a longterm benefit for the employee." My.....
» 3/06/2009 9:48:46 AM Bernie Masters: "I was taught there is more gold in one cubic mile of seawater than h.....
» 2/06/2009 3:43:47 PM Pericles: "That is quite simply theft." Well yes. I guess the best that could b.....
» 2/06/2009 2:06:56 PM Cheryl: "I'd like to know ... [to] reduce population that didn't take away personal l.....
» 1/06/2009 4:58:54 PM mac: "I think that statement expresses what philosophers call a solopsistic view of k.....
» 1/06/2009 1:07:50 PM I can't help but think Malcolm King, director of Republic Media, was acting in his process.....
» 1/06/2009 11:29:39 AM Foxy: "Well, the way you explain things - it seems that I'd better just go and do som.....
» 1/06/2009 10:14:40 AM I can't recall any incident that gave me a reason to be afraid of Australian Muslims. But .....
» 29/05/2009 7:34:22 PM Glorfindel: "Islamic theology is profoundly incompatible with western democracy".....
» 29/05/2009 3:24:50 PM And since I am on a roll ... It appears to me Antiseptic has won a round. His central the.....
» 29/05/2009 3:04:27 PM CJ Morgan: "So none of you champions will admit to having engaged in such activities .....
» 29/05/2009 10:59:45 AM I don't have much sympathy for the winging expressed in the article. We are all tribal. I .....
» 29/05/2009 10:34:48 AM I would have been effected in the past but not now. I agree with you GrahamY. Entirely in.....
» 29/05/2009 9:12:00 AM pelican: "I have some sympathy for Telstra given they have financially invested in ga.....
» 28/05/2009 8:04:32 PM (cont'd) This week, the High Court ruled on another copyright case that had been put befo.....
» 28/05/2009 8:04:21 PM pelican: "Please define exactly what is an activist Judge?" I have no idea what.....
» 28/05/2009 6:54:44 PM runner: "And the gullible and deceitful want to give unelected judges more power thro.....
» 25/05/2009 1:55:02 PM Myth No. 1: The girl was "asking for it" by going back to a hotel So it was rea.....
» 25/05/2009 12:42:09 PM Barbara: "Those rugby players learnt somewhere to fantasise about degrading group sex.....
» 16/05/2009 10:15:34 AM GrahamY: "But Conroy just keeps ploughing ahead." In the budget monthly expendi.....
» 13/05/2009 10:04:49 PM Antiseptic: "The relevance is that Nina has made sexual behaviour a central part of h.....
» 13/05/2009 10:04:03 AM Roscop: "The photo which stuck-up Professor Catherine Lumby" I got to see the g.....
» 13/05/2009 9:25:17 AM Ginx: "I'm getting sick of the slowness of the site" For what it's worth, I don.....
» 12/05/2009 7:30:25 PM For gods sake Bugsy, give it up. You are letting facts get in the way of a good argument......
» 11/05/2009 6:59:32 PM JamesH: "Scepticism is healthy, it may not always be welcome." Scepticism about.....
» 11/05/2009 2:04:27 PM Fractelle: "What do you suggest I do? Remain silent? Or by commenting," Either .....
» 10/05/2009 5:58:57 PM Rusty Catheter: "Sources of suitable silicon for producing semiconductors are becomin.....
» 10/05/2009 11:49:45 AM By the by, someone posted this site: http://www.withouthotair.com/ Maybe it was someone.....
» 10/05/2009 11:43:56 AM Bazz: "My question is does two half cycles = one full cycle?" I don't know, Baz.....
» 10/05/2009 11:15:18 AM Obama must throw some people in jail over this. Only time and the death we people who watc.....
» 10/05/2009 10:58:14 AM Fractelle: "Your posts amount to nothing more than deliberate harassment of a woman w.....
» 10/05/2009 9:40:03 AM Foxy, Obviously marriage isn't necessary, because a lot of people have no trouble getting.....
» 9/05/2009 6:03:51 PM Bazz: "The use of floating car batteries would probably be OK if the rate paid for po.....
» 8/05/2009 10:09:29 PM They need to raise government revenue, given the stimulus. What would have them raise taxe.....
» 8/05/2009 12:21:01 AM Rusty Catheter, As you have probably gathered, I do love crunching numbers. I crunched so.....
» 7/05/2009 7:57:20 PM examinator: "Sadly the question was on plastic bags." Precisely. They question .....
» 7/05/2009 2:36:27 PM Bazz: "I am rather ignorant on chemistry so I cannot really make a knowledgeable crit.....
» 6/05/2009 10:30:26 PM RawMustard: "where did the energy come from that creates these alternatives!" T.....
» 6/05/2009 1:11:34 PM examinator: "Thanks for the info what I was referring to was the 'drop in an Olympic .....
» 6/05/2009 9:03:58 AM Rusty Catheter: "So, my estimate my be high, but I think yours is low by a factor of .....
» 5/05/2009 11:33:59 PM examinator: "More info about fossil fuels in plastics please." My comment was a.....
» 5/05/2009 8:52:24 PM Foxy: "Over 100,000 different birds seals, and whales die every year." Foxy you.....
» 5/05/2009 6:50:51 PM Ginx: "I'm curious as to why you started this thread....?" Its possible this th.....
» 5/05/2009 6:34:50 PM examinator: "The other issue ... is ... the environmental damage particularly in the .....
» 5/05/2009 1:41:03 PM rehctub, It would have helped (well helped me anyway) if you had posted links to the disc.....
» 5/05/2009 1:20:09 PM Leigh: "We are stuck with fossil fuels for the forseeable future, so there is not poi.....
» 5/05/2009 12:40:47 PM I don't understand the focus on plastic bags. I am often dismayed at how much rubbish we p.....
» 4/05/2009 11:38:27 PM Bazz, sorry. It is a hobby horse of mine. I know this is Online Opinion, but endless opini.....
» 3/05/2009 10:30:52 PM Maximillion: "I was half-expecting to be howled down" You were? There aren't t.....
» 3/05/2009 10:11:39 PM Hasbeen, I appreciate the effort, but by link I mean a URL. As it is, I can see no connec.....
» 2/05/2009 3:21:23 PM Hasbeen: "Fairy stories are grate, but they belong in kids books." Another aspe.....
» 2/05/2009 2:07:50 PM Bazz: "trucks use up to eight times the fuel per ton KM. ... the third track between .....
» 1/05/2009 5:36:59 PM rehctub: "Anyway, some interesting info on nuclear power, esspecially the suposed lac.....
» 1/05/2009 1:12:31 PM Jefferson, I to put your of worship of "all knowing, all seeing market" in the .....
» 30/04/2009 3:13:46 PM Wing Ah Ling, You could knock me over with a feather. I think I agree with everything you.....
» 30/04/2009 1:40:32 PM JamesH, Excellent summary of why the changes were made. It would be interesting to see if.....
» 30/04/2009 1:09:26 PM Wing Ah Ling: "If and when the price rises, it makes economical, supplies that are no.....
» 30/04/2009 10:05:41 AM rehctub: "Now my understanding is that nuclear power is a clean sourse of power gener.....
» 29/04/2009 10:34:53 AM I think it depends on who "we" is. If you mean mankind in general, then the answ.....
» 28/04/2009 2:00:58 PM GrahamY: "It actually seems to be very fast at the moment. Is that how others perceiv.....
» 28/04/2009 8:25:09 AM Ginx, My guess is if OLO knew the answer to your question, the problem would be fixed. I.....
» 24/04/2009 5:09:16 PM Shadow Minister: "I never meant to imply that all businesses would cut jobs" Yo.....
» 24/04/2009 4:19:07 PM mikk: "What was the population growth or the change in birthrate over that time?".....
» 24/04/2009 2:07:44 PM Curmudgeon: "Sorry fellas but you are still short of an energy crisis." Well Cu.....
» 24/04/2009 11:36:03 AM JamesH: "how is convicting a person of a crime making the world a safer place? ... Ju.....
» 24/04/2009 11:19:36 AM I always think we Australian's are a socially progressive nation. If we find problems we d.....
» 24/04/2009 10:09:58 AM Lintner, Ariadne, Hooker Corp, Bond Corp, HIH, Skase, One Tel, ........
» 24/04/2009 9:34:15 AM rehctub, I looked at your links. I didn't see anything in the first about limiting the si.....
» 23/04/2009 6:35:20 PM Charger: "What is going to replace all that oil." Actually Charger, in the shor.....
» 23/04/2009 10:36:19 AM What can I say? Awesome article. Macro economists have a lot to answer for......
» 23/04/2009 9:45:21 AM rehctub: "The laws were first introduced back in the arly 90's and it was not until t.....
» 22/04/2009 11:33:55 AM The article did a good job of convincing me secular societies tend to be healthier by most.....
» 22/04/2009 11:10:51 AM rehctub: "as you only have numbers on your payroll, not names." Well rehctub, I.....
» 21/04/2009 7:35:56 PM Shadow Minister: "The question is that when the economy turns around who will re hire.....
» 21/04/2009 10:44:13 AM It is probably time to fess up and admit I don't really believe the high price is caused b.....
» 21/04/2009 8:59:41 AM rehctub: "Are you willing to state on record that these laws will not cost jobs?".....
» 20/04/2009 6:41:57 PM Houellebecq: "I'd much rather increase the chances of the women in my life getting ju.....
» 20/04/2009 5:06:30 PM CJ Morgan: "and indeed how insignificant is Australia's intake of refugees when compa.....
» 20/04/2009 2:49:38 PM Yabby, are we bored and looking for someone to annoy? Or maybe you missed your cup of coff.....
» 20/04/2009 2:09:44 PM Yabby: "So how much profit was left?" A fair bit I'd say. His contribution was .....
» 20/04/2009 9:08:52 AM rehctub: "It is called 'convenience' and it is evrywhere we look today." Maybe .....
» 19/04/2009 10:27:57 PM Today I went to the local service station to swap my 9Kg BBQ gas bottle, and left in a sta.....
» 19/04/2009 9:22:30 PM Ahh, bugger, I posted to the wrong thread above. Anyway, while I am here... Yabby, your p.....
» 19/04/2009 5:36:14 PM ninaf: "all individuals should take full responsibility" Sounds like our positi.....
» 19/04/2009 3:43:36 PM ninaf: "all individuals should take full responsibility" Sounds like our positi.....
» 19/04/2009 12:12:13 PM Pynchme: persuade you to accept something despite you having said, "No thanks" .....
» 19/04/2009 10:56:21 AM rehctub: "Remember, many small business people did not finnish school, can't read or .....
» 18/04/2009 1:53:04 PM ninaf, You may be right about the letter of the law Nina. Fortunately it isn't enforced t.....
» 17/04/2009 10:35:38 PM rehctub: "I had a guy just the other day who was late by three hours due to attending.....
» 17/04/2009 2:54:01 PM Pynchme: "The assumption must always be NO sex; no hands on anyone else's body until .....
» 17/04/2009 12:06:14 PM Curmudgeon: "imagine what Australians in the 1930s would have said about a population.....
» 17/04/2009 11:03:56 AM TRTL, I normally agree with you, but not this time. The constitution allows for a DD for a.....
» 17/04/2009 9:36:32 AM Pynchme: "The clue is that silence is not consent." There is an adult female ou.....
» 16/04/2009 9:41:08 PM stormbay: "Small business is all about fairness, as well as making a living on your o.....
» 16/04/2009 11:29:38 AM If there was a point to this article, I missed it. It seemed to read like "Please sto.....
» 16/04/2009 10:53:06 AM Nina: "If you came home tonight and ... all your valuable goods stolen you would say .....
» 16/04/2009 9:50:36 AM Pericles: "small business is more a way of life than a livelihood" Absolutely. .....
» 15/04/2009 5:04:05 PM Bazz: "The point I was making is that the average Jo Blow, who mainly only reads web .....
» 15/04/2009 9:38:22 AM GrahamY: "But isn't that also true of fibre and everything else - the more users the .....
» 14/04/2009 8:06:16 PM Bazz: "Instead of a page coming down in 2.000 secs it might arrive in 1.999 secs. If .....
» 14/04/2009 7:33:55 PM Curmudgeon: "no-one has the slightest idea what the increasing temperatures will do t.....
» 14/04/2009 4:33:50 PM dane: "You agrument is another example of women not taking responsibility for their a.....
» 14/04/2009 3:40:47 PM (cont'd) It is that last point that is most important. Right now we have an takeup of 50%.....
» 14/04/2009 3:12:14 PM tomw: "obsolete before it is completed." By what? Wireless? That sounds pretty .....
» 14/04/2009 2:26:01 PM I agree with the thrust of the article, but in introducing ideology and big words it makes.....
» 14/04/2009 12:08:54 PM The article reads like the infighting between rodents over their ever decreasing slice of .....
» 14/04/2009 11:14:39 AM Shadow Minister: One issue with the fair "commissions" ... Its nice to see a co.....
» 12/04/2009 8:34:53 PM stormbay: "Rstuart, with respect, you don't seem to have a clue about small business&.....
» 12/04/2009 1:40:05 PM Stormbay, Somehow you missed the point. Firstly, my post wasn't about the best way to ru.....
» 11/04/2009 4:38:38 PM JosGar: "And that is where taking responsibility DOES come into it." Come into .....
» 11/04/2009 4:20:04 PM Now that I think about it, Fractelle has got closet to the real issue. We have laws that .....
» 9/04/2009 3:58:41 PM Mike, I don't see any reference in that URL to MIT increasing the battery storage capacit.....
» 9/04/2009 1:41:55 PM Mike, Your google news link doesn't for for me, it just displays the latest stories. Give.....
» 9/04/2009 10:10:05 AM Banjo: "Should we, or the UN set up sterilization facilities in some very over popula.....
» 8/04/2009 6:49:00 PM Cohen seems to imply the law makes it difficult and expensive to fire people. I have both .....
» 8/04/2009 11:04:00 AM Taswegian, 200Km's is not an unreasonable distance to get out of a battery powered car. It.....
» 8/04/2009 10:14:03 AM Regardless of the shock and horror it seems to provoke in my generation, sexting is a fair.....
» 29/03/2009 11:40:28 AM rubberneck: "the indignant hot air from male posters is motivated by the prospect of .....
» 27/03/2009 9:58:22 AM pelican: "A good but well worn strategy is if your view does not match mine I will ca.....
» 26/03/2009 3:26:29 PM Sylvia Else: "but destroying the market for the product by making it undeliverable&qu.....
» 26/03/2009 2:52:44 PM Sancho: "I'm not sure why the ALP thinks it's a vote winner." They can't possib.....
» 26/03/2009 2:49:32 PM Sylvia Else: "I dislike them intensely." Given your previous posts on the issue.....
» 24/03/2009 12:51:18 PM Sylvia, So you are effectively say the EFA is wrong. For now I will have to take your wor.....
» 24/03/2009 12:14:22 PM The article: "The greatest concern of the blacklist being leaked is that it will prov.....
» 23/03/2009 3:55:05 PM Sylvia Else: "Rstuart, you're quoting me out of context." I miss understood wha.....
» 23/03/2009 11:37:43 AM Sylvia Else: "appeal against the decision to issue the notice" There is no prov.....
» 22/03/2009 6:12:59 PM pelican: "As I have said on similar threads I would like, as a parent, to have an opt.....
» 19/03/2009 11:56:31 AM And now, in a utterly predicable turn of events, the entire ACMA blacklist has been leaked.....
» 19/03/2009 11:40:09 AM Silvia Else: "The A320 that crashed off France during a test flight was a different a.....
» 18/03/2009 7:26:13 PM Forrest Grumpp: "Am I reading this situation correctly?" Nah, not really. If I .....
» 18/03/2009 1:25:15 PM Gradually the ripples spread. The Wikipedia page on the AMCA described the incident and ga.....
» 13/03/2009 6:09:08 PM In January I started this discussion about a pro-abortion site that has been blacklisted b.....
» 12/03/2009 9:21:56 AM Forrest Gumpp: "I would be surprised if there was any reticulated sewerage system in .....
» 11/03/2009 5:14:36 PM StG: "Get back to me when 1770 has been drinking it for 50 years." I don't know.....
» 17/02/2009 10:31:59 AM I strongly agree with every word written in the article. Pity they come from a politician .....
» 13/02/2009 10:07:43 AM Yabby: "there will have to be state building codes and council approval of those mand.....
» 11/02/2009 2:25:40 PM What sort of council do you have, Yabby? Mine, in the middle of a city, requires no counci.....
» 11/02/2009 12:29:21 PM And it seems some here are think of a bushfire in terms of other fires they have experienc.....
» 11/02/2009 11:54:52 AM RobP, "It's possible that in a really big firestorm, oxygen is sucked in to feed to a.....
» 11/02/2009 10:12:10 AM There have been a number of posts here saying oxygen starvation is a danger in bushfires, .....
» 9/02/2009 5:55:49 PM examinator, "You might not be touched by the flames but you die of asphyxiation.".....
» 9/02/2009 1:39:16 PM Foxy, I disagree - Turnbull is doing exactly what a good opposition leader should be doing.....
» 9/02/2009 1:02:50 PM StG: "It seems a lot of the dead stayed to fight for their houses or left it too late.....
» 5/02/2009 9:28:17 PM Divorce Doctor: essentially any properly engineered infrastructure went out the window onc.....
» 5/02/2009 3:45:11 PM Chaos is not an insurmountable problem in modelling. There are two ways of handling it. On.....
» 22/01/2009 10:11:10 PM Perhaps I was too subtle. My excuse it is it was late when I wrote the post, and possibly .....
» 21/01/2009 11:43:33 PM Below is a link to a post on Whirlpool, an Australian discussion site devoted to internet .....
» 15/01/2009 1:02:41 PM Good article. I hope the book is as good as Phil's says - I am downloading it now. The st.....
» 15/01/2009 12:52:15 PM Great article. A very lucid description of the behaviours involved. I don't like the conc.....
» 8/01/2009 7:37:36 PM Sylvia Else: "It might have been of interest when it was originally published. But si.....
» 8/01/2009 2:39:34 PM Sylvia Else: "What was the point of this article appearing in OO? It doesn't say much.....
» 7/01/2009 9:39:38 PM Diocletian: "The US is a classic example. The current police state, and fascist empir.....
» 7/01/2009 10:14:53 AM What a brilliant article! I don't know if it is just me, but is seems our pollies are succ.....
» 7/01/2009 10:01:42 AM I agree with the point the article makes, and the distinction between "positive".....
» 22/12/2008 6:20:19 PM ORAMZI: "the difficulty I have Administration of suicide by government has not had a .....
» 22/12/2008 12:15:55 PM Belly: "I doubt peak oil is yet on us." Try a thought experiment. In an era whe.....
» 22/12/2008 10:49:40 AM A great article - the best I have seen on the climate change debate. In other news, its p.....
» 22/12/2008 9:27:06 AM ORAMZI: "The problem is that very often the decision to commit suicide is driven by d.....
» 17/12/2008 4:46:04 PM Paul.L, Thanks for the link. It looks to be pretty much as you described......
» 17/12/2008 11:28:30 AM Non-GM farmer: "Remove the hype and you find its a scam." Perhaps. But no one i.....
» 16/12/2008 6:14:48 PM Merri bee: "seems its your word against a lot of quality peoples here" You make.....
» 16/12/2008 5:03:07 PM Paul.L: "In confronting this person one of the police found themselves in a position .....
» 16/12/2008 2:09:41 PM Sylvia Else: "It's probably reasonable to suppose that the ACMA ... would be more con.....
» 16/12/2008 1:17:31 PM stevenlmeyer: "Do you think (say) Bill Gates would look kindly at the prospect of bei.....
» 16/12/2008 12:17:16 PM stevenlmeyer: "I believe passionately that the best defence against [fraud] ... is an.....
» 16/12/2008 11:58:57 AM Sylvia Else: "offence to a reasonable person *AND* either ..." OK. Point conced.....
» 15/12/2008 4:04:09 PM Sylvia, we are going around in circles here, and given neither of us are lawyers and given.....
» 15/12/2008 2:18:29 PM Sylvia, Maybe you would like to link to and quote the section of the Act you are referrin.....
» 15/12/2008 12:59:41 PM Sylvia, You might try reading the act. You can find it here: http://www.austlii.edu.au/a.....
» 15/12/2008 10:57:03 AM Sylvia Else: "Such footage would not fall within the definition of either child porno.....
» 15/12/2008 9:55:12 AM As others have said we don't know the full story yet. However there was a similar case on .....
» 15/12/2008 9:23:19 AM It looks to me like the suggestion is to legalise fraud, and let the market take care of i.....
» 14/12/2008 9:16:13 PM lillian, I ingest billions of bacteria and viruses every day. Sadly, I suspect very few o.....
» 13/12/2008 8:14:08 AM Sylvia Else: "Many Funniest (?) Home Video clips would be caught by the legislation i.....
» 12/12/2008 11:14:25 PM Sylvia Else: "I don't see it as nuanced. To me it is clear." It appears you are.....
» 12/12/2008 4:50:28 PM Bronwyn: "I'd be interested to see a scientific rebuttal of this" As far as I a.....
» 12/12/2008 1:33:58 PM Sylvia Else: "Actually, they didn't." I hope you are right in your reading of t.....
» 12/12/2008 12:04:15 PM I have been playing with that rather silly line of thought I proposed earlier, and realise.....
» 12/12/2008 10:19:45 AM Foxy: "What evidence do they have against this man?" He admits to doing what th.....
» 12/12/2008 9:13:38 AM I was thinking about the story last night. It struck me that Dannielle Gauld, the mother i.....
» 12/12/2008 8:44:22 AM Ludwig: "Can I ask you and Hasbeen and indeed anyone, just what you think Rudd should.....
» 12/12/2008 8:15:16 AM Bazz: "Did you separate out the other renewables ?" No Bazz, I didn't. And on r.....
» 12/12/2008 7:39:59 AM Gibo: "Manipulation, in any form, is well known to christians as witchcraft." !.....
» 11/12/2008 10:22:01 PM Hasbeen, I tried to verify the figures you quoted. This is what I found: - Wind produce.....
» 11/12/2008 7:41:30 PM CJ Morgan: "Don't you just love moral panics?" I wouldn't of cared until this o.....
» 11/12/2008 7:01:23 PM I 1/2 agree with you Ludwig, but it is in no way as simple as you paint it. Firstly, when.....
» 11/12/2008 1:42:41 PM Chris Illingworth, a father of four from Maroochydore Queensland, was charged after he pos.....
» 10/12/2008 10:45:59 AM A couple of clarifications are required. Firstly, when the Child Pornography laws were dra.....
» 9/12/2008 5:40:59 PM Yesterday an Australian man has lost his appeal against child pornography charges. The Sup.....
» 9/12/2008 10:37:16 AM Fractelle: "I learned about sex by having sex - not the best way" Assuming you .....
» 8/12/2008 9:13:28 PM CJ, Fractelle, Steel, I too have yet to make the acquaintance of one of these submissive .....
» 8/12/2008 7:55:55 AM Romany: "most people ... did not seem to realise that the CCP had slowly given up on .....
» 7/12/2008 12:44:32 PM Bronwyn, I hadn't read that particular news article. Thanks for posting it. I am not sure.....
» 7/12/2008 11:59:19 AM pelican: "Is there any age at all that you might consider it inappropriate for a chil.....
» 7/12/2008 10:20:05 AM pelican: "This is not to say the media are not past spinning their own version of the.....
» 6/12/2008 10:22:43 AM Bronwyn, As it turns out, you are flat out wrong in each of your suppositions. If you go.....
» 6/12/2008 9:56:22 AM pelican: "if the technicalities of filtering won't work" It will work to an ext.....
» 5/12/2008 6:12:11 PM pelican: "What a low act. Making money out of the misfortune of others is hardly cred.....
» 5/12/2008 4:03:34 PM runner: "Don't bother reporting research Melinda." I'd agree, runner. She doesn.....
» 5/12/2008 3:07:02 PM meredith: "What do you think of that Tor thing in the link I put on?" I am a co.....
» 5/12/2008 2:06:36 PM Bronwyn: "the vast bulk of pornography depicts women in the mode of 'passive dominate.....
» 4/12/2008 9:57:35 PM Mr. Right, "Morgan was [the] ... only one to twig that Mr. Right was also Leigh some .....
» 4/12/2008 8:31:08 PM Col Rouge: "If you think the imposts are tough now, wait until we all start paying th.....
» 2/12/2008 4:33:24 PM chandralekha and dickie, In the unlikely event either of you take up the art of making po.....
» 2/12/2008 12:19:33 PM The $600 billion is not real money. Imagine a casino that approves bets worth more than th.....
» 2/12/2008 11:35:20 AM I'm with Ludwig. Anyone thinking that 4 litre cars will sell in 2012 is gambling, but in 2.....
» 1/12/2008 11:23:27 AM Your honesty in your two posts here is refreshing, Bronwyn. Yes, women like filters becaus.....
» 28/11/2008 8:42:40 PM dickie, thanks for the links. I presume they are meant to show sexual assaults rates are .....
» 28/11/2008 9:51:06 AM dickie: "In addition, while crime rates are generally down in Australia, sex attacks .....
» 27/11/2008 8:37:51 PM Q&A: "Can you point to a link [to where he said that]?" I described what he sai.....
» 27/11/2008 9:48:10 AM dickie: 'Do these “healthy” activities – the pictures to which you refer, include the myri.....
» 26/11/2008 7:56:04 PM pelican: "Hamilton's paper on the sexualisation of children has many valid points&quo.....
» 26/11/2008 6:40:46 PM I should read more Ogden Nash......
» 26/11/2008 6:31:01 PM J S Mills: "You see - I can think of society." Great. So when you think of it f.....
» 25/11/2008 2:32:11 PM Right now I am not trying to convince you that any particular thing is good for society. W.....
» 25/11/2008 10:06:46 AM J S Mills: "those who implemented [HECS] never paid it and shifted debt onto those un.....
» 24/11/2008 12:39:09 PM J S Mills: "Unis don't impose HECS." True, the government does. But that is a b.....
» 23/11/2008 10:16:07 PM J S Mill: "The point is - to whom to due allow the power of coercive taxation." .....
» 20/11/2008 6:43:57 PM J S Mill, here is a more direct answer to your question than Spikey's. In general, we impo.....
» 18/11/2008 1:49:07 PM runner: "You both know that my comment regarding biblical expression was in the conte.....
» 18/11/2008 12:31:28 PM daggett: "Do you or don't you think that the Australian public are entitled to know ......
» 17/11/2008 8:01:41 PM DreamOn, My recollections are similar to yours. My understanding is the "Student Uni.....
» 17/11/2008 3:35:14 PM runner: "I take no delight in this at all." Amazing. As we have discussed in th.....
» 17/11/2008 2:19:25 PM CJ, I am going to pick a nit here. I agree with everything you say of course. But ... you .....
» 17/11/2008 1:36:59 PM runner: "the national broadcasters and many universities have banned any sort of bibl.....
» 17/11/2008 11:48:05 AM This can be done fairly easily with Google now. Eg this search into google: ludwig searc.....
» 17/11/2008 11:34:36 AM Yuri: "If all 'adult' sites could be so named - eg http://explicitpictures.xxx.au&quo.....
» 17/11/2008 11:10:21 AM Yes Lorraine, it is probably a duck. But your whinging about the ALP reintroducing it prob.....
» 15/11/2008 12:01:05 PM Divergence: "It is incredibly dishonest that this censorship proposal was not put up .....
» 14/11/2008 3:20:14 PM pelican: but isn't only the illegal stuff that is being filtered? I am rather hoping this.....
» 14/11/2008 10:32:38 AM Article: [Conroy] further claimed that similar kinds of filtering already exist in UK, Swe.....
» 10/11/2008 11:58:33 AM It seems the author has just noticed copyright isn't as beneficial to society as the media.....
» 7/11/2008 9:22:26 AM examinator, I didn't understand your initial post, but I think I have got it now. I think .....
» 5/11/2008 10:02:22 AM Every line in the article was ringing true, up until he Eric said: "What really matt.....
» 3/11/2008 9:23:09 PM Yes, we are being played. By some, at least: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/ar.....
» 31/10/2008 8:57:28 AM Arjay: "If Govt censorship can be narrowed to child porn" On the contrary, it i.....
» 30/10/2008 9:24:57 AM Mark has posts his comments loudly and widely around the internet. This article is a dumbe.....
» 21/08/2008 11:33:19 AM Its nice to see a good new story about the WTO for a change. Things like the average tarif.....
» 21/08/2008 11:03:12 AM Tristan Ewins: "I've noticed that there's very little traffic going on in OLO comment.....
» 19/08/2008 6:29:20 PM Usual Suspect: "I have often wondered with the technology available what mischeif cou.....
» 19/08/2008 4:14:07 PM examinator: "Everyday families are vulnerable, particularly children are at risk.&quo.....
» 18/08/2008 7:38:47 PM I am not sure why I am posting here. To thank daggett, Fractelle, CJ Morgan I guess for hi.....
» 18/08/2008 5:55:13 PM The article treats all types of information equally. But from a practical there are really.....
» 18/08/2008 11:42:31 AM Yes, its a real problem. But is it one that will be fixed. I haven't seen anybody arguing .....
» 18/08/2008 10:29:39 AM Veronika, the fashion industry exists for one reason: to sell fashion to women. You ask wh.....
» 18/08/2008 9:44:10 AM People Against Live Exports & Intensive Farming: "As Rstuart has pointed out he does .....
» 17/08/2008 4:46:14 PM Fester, Nice links. Thanks......
» 16/08/2008 12:10:20 PM examinator, there is nothing controversial in what Hamlet said. Its generally understood i.....
» 15/08/2008 11:19:10 PM Polycarp: "harm to others can be defined in many ways" Yes it can. Nonetheless,.....
» 15/08/2008 3:52:54 PM RobP, on the basis of that I got all excited and went and checked if we could now select &.....
» 15/08/2008 1:06:38 PM "It is time the right to privacy was taken as seriously here as it is in the UK.".....
» 15/08/2008 10:12:01 AM Here I have to confess to a certain snobbishness - before reading the article I always rea.....
» 15/08/2008 8:46:38 AM Fozzy: "Mirko Bagaric should commence his post with his annual salary and medical his.....
» 14/08/2008 7:48:58 PM So what I am to make of this good news? Compared to a year or two ago, it is unbelievably .....
» 14/08/2008 6:33:03 PM All these negative comments. Mirko really hit a nerve. I think he is 1/2 right because the.....
» 12/08/2008 7:40:30 PM Col Rouge's post in particular made wonder why it is so hard for some people to get past j.....
» 12/08/2008 12:28:24 PM Haneef is the best known, but probably not the worst case. Try this: http://www.news.com......
» 12/08/2008 9:30:52 AM Forrest Gumpp: "I'll just mention the desirability of a 'hard' post number" Yes.....
» 11/08/2008 3:51:39 PM Bazz, daggett, It's not that I disagree daggett - we should do something about CO2 as qui.....
» 8/08/2008 4:39:55 PM You two recon she's a double agent for the ALP? Here I was thinking GrahamY had just let a.....
» 7/08/2008 8:03:59 PM It is a pity this mandatory detention thing worked so well. It does look like it stopped t.....
» 7/08/2008 7:31:18 PM A weighty article. I feel like I way out of my depth. Actually, I am. I do not know how t.....
» 7/08/2008 6:59:20 PM Not a lot of comment here, so I will put my 2c worth in. Smeaton nail it in saying alcoho.....
» 7/08/2008 2:08:27 PM I find myself nodding in agreement Ludwig. Occasionally I notice all the action is happeni.....
» 7/08/2008 8:44:14 AM Veronika, There was more concrete information about the topic at hand in your last two p.....
» 6/08/2008 7:42:00 PM Bazz, You forced me to read the bloody thing. We agree that "Absorption of light fol.....
» 6/08/2008 2:12:18 PM .Ludwig, "Suggestions for OLO" is still there. Its just over one month old now,.....
» 6/08/2008 10:41:00 AM Steel: "I would like for you to point this mysterious thread out" It was this o.....
» 6/08/2008 10:15:14 AM Bazz, I'll wager no one will answer your question. The odds any who can with authority (.....
» 5/08/2008 12:46:06 PM JF Aus: "We are told the ocean level will rise 1 metre, correct? Where will all the w.....
» 5/08/2008 11:16:26 AM Spikey, Not that I am unhappy with you saying no - it saves me work, but I notice a good .....
» 5/08/2008 9:28:00 AM Spikey, Its not of much interest to me, it may be hard to do as OLO's article list is bro.....
» 4/08/2008 3:38:52 PM dickie: "I am disappointed in Samsung and RStuart, who seemingly place themselves abo.....
» 4/08/2008 2:46:03 PM If relevance is measured by size, my gut feeling is OLO's readership is small compared to .....
» 4/08/2008 11:29:30 AM We have always been a small fish in a big pond. Yes, the big fish in the pond are going th.....
» 4/08/2008 10:40:18 AM Usual Suspect, This comment made me chortle the other day: pelican: "The only thing.....
» 3/08/2008 10:24:25 AM colinsett, excellent post......
» 1/08/2008 7:29:12 PM Austin Powerless: "Why are you surprised?" Don't no. Perhaps because I thought .....
» 1/08/2008 2:29:21 PM chainsmoker, you might enjoy this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t......
» 1/08/2008 1:50:48 PM Austin Powerless: "you automatically accuse me of having 'deviances'" Yikes! Ca.....
» 31/07/2008 4:28:06 PM TurnRightThenLeft: "we're only allowed one alias" My guess is they don't care h.....
» 31/07/2008 3:42:36 PM Austin Powerless: "where do I find the list to opt out of filtering so that I can add.....
» 31/07/2008 1:05:05 PM Nah, samsung, we don't view it as important to Australia, at least not right now it isn't......
» 31/07/2008 9:49:04 AM Nice as it would be to have authors respond, OLO can't force the issue. Handing out their .....
» 30/07/2008 10:05:04 PM Some have pointed out the death penalty is more expensive than throwing away the key. That.....
» 30/07/2008 9:50:08 PM Col Rouge, poses a hypothetical, eh? I wonder if he has some slippery slope planned for us.....
» 30/07/2008 6:55:51 PM TurnRightThenLeft: "this low popularity rating for the Liberals is a very, very bad t.....
» 30/07/2008 4:30:53 PM Our governments have tried their best to protect us from the horrors on Internet. So far t.....
» 30/07/2008 12:40:05 PM SJF, You are quoting things I didn't say, and putting inflections words that weren't spok.....
» 30/07/2008 11:23:32 AM Ludwig: "We need messages on threads where posts have been deleted ..." Obvious.....
» 30/07/2008 10:40:38 AM I suspect that is up to the submitters. I certainly don't want to see stuff added by OLO e.....
» 29/07/2008 5:45:02 PM philips: "The major concern seems to be his need to **DOMINATE**" Talk about th.....
» 29/07/2008 3:35:39 PM Ludwig, It used to be like that - everything on one page. But people on dialup modems com.....
» 29/07/2008 3:14:10 PM SJF: "You’re desperately trying to get me to declare myself on whether these pics sho.....
» 29/07/2008 12:38:43 PM SJF, I don't have a clue what point you are trying to make. SJF: "Like the boy who c.....
» 28/07/2008 1:22:04 PM SJF: "Like the boy who cried wolf, crying ‘censorship’ every time some individual or .....
» 28/07/2008 12:35:11 PM pelican: "You appear to have labelled me in the extremist camp " It probably ap.....
» 28/07/2008 11:42:58 AM mil-observer, your posts here are better than most of the anti-AGW we see, but alluding to.....
» 28/07/2008 11:19:21 AM My guess is this dismal outlook will become more popular as it becomes obvious just how ba.....
» 26/07/2008 1:20:41 PM Article: "Conflict develops where there is an absence or the denial of the ability to.....
» 26/07/2008 12:05:41 PM sillyfilly, don't get despondent about being one of the few arguing for AGW here. The poin.....
» 25/07/2008 5:11:13 PM Odd. Every poster has expressed reservations about population growth through immigration. .....
» 25/07/2008 4:33:48 PM lilya, Your words struck a cord in me, but you've come to the wrong place. There are wom.....
» 25/07/2008 10:33:37 AM pelican: "I am just a bit tired of the lack of substance in the arguments by the pro-.....
» 25/07/2008 9:32:47 AM Richard Castles: "How are the fingers, rstuart?" Very good, Richard, but not be.....
» 24/07/2008 1:15:54 PM pelican: "How can a child possess the maturity and awareness of the consequences of s.....
» 24/07/2008 12:01:40 PM individual: "exclude voluntary drug users in the human rights bill." I presume .....
» 24/07/2008 9:14:31 AM SJF, unlike your earlier posts this last one made perfect sense to me. I can't disagree wi.....
» 23/07/2008 3:11:18 PM And for this afternoons trivia question: how long did it take to spot the transformation f.....
» 23/07/2008 2:56:06 PM R0bert, the suggestion is good. But regarding BD, the general consensus is he uses the na.....
» 22/07/2008 8:34:56 PM Country girl, I am going to side with CJ and Shadyoasis. This, without a doubt, is the war.....
» 22/07/2008 6:13:25 PM runner, earlier you quoted Judith Reisman. I think she could probably do with some profess.....
» 22/07/2008 5:00:54 PM Grey: "such study MUST do a multivariate analysis" OK, OK. I am not disagreeing.....
» 21/07/2008 6:25:51 PM Elka: "You people want to view naked children dressed up in adult women jewellry?&quo.....
» 21/07/2008 2:06:19 PM SJF: "the art world’s ... now collides with issues such as pedophilia, feminism, neo-.....
» 20/07/2008 9:03:55 PM There have been a few articles on this topic this year: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/v.....
» 20/07/2008 6:47:25 PM philips, you make it sound like the speed limit is the least of NT's problems. If so, I'd .....
» 20/07/2008 6:34:45 PM Forrest Gumpp: "That alternative is to display in order of recency of posting" .....
» 19/07/2008 11:03:20 PM Grey: "Actually, they said that not using a multivariate analysis ..." I don't .....
» 19/07/2008 12:23:13 PM G Larsen, thanks for that link to Spencer's slides. I was waiting for something to finish .....
» 18/07/2008 3:28:33 PM RobP: "So, I'm guessing the software spat the dummy when it read the first double-quo.....
» 18/07/2008 3:17:34 PM chainsmoker: "It's the only site I'm aware of that lets commenters decide for themsel.....
» 18/07/2008 12:40:37 PM Janama: "you should read this review of your 'peer reviewed' IPCC report" Are y.....
» 17/07/2008 7:49:10 PM G Larsen: "In a nutshell Roy's thesis ..." I am sure its a very good thesis. Bu.....
» 17/07/2008 6:40:30 PM chainsmoker: "from a social researchers point of view, one of the most interesting di.....
» 17/07/2008 3:06:07 PM Oliver, I was actually after John Ness's bio, as you seem to know of him. Just a link or .....
» 17/07/2008 2:01:25 PM So, chainsmoker, I am being studied like a rat in a cage. How am I doing? Joking aside, I.....
» 17/07/2008 12:53:41 PM Foxy, the first one is actually easy to fix. I am sure they, like the rest of us, manage t.....
» 16/07/2008 8:45:58 PM Janama: "I suggest you keep up to date." I try to Janama but for the life of me.....
» 16/07/2008 7:01:15 PM examinator, my guess is that John Ness would heartily agree with everything you have said......
» 16/07/2008 6:10:05 PM This doesn't look like a reasoned article about climate change. It looks more like an effo.....
» 16/07/2008 1:23:32 PM Janama: "which scientists is the question wobbles." Yes, I agree Janama. The cl.....
» 16/07/2008 12:35:56 PM Bazz, Yes, the CO2 effects on temperature are logarithmic. You point to the logarithmic .....
» 15/07/2008 8:14:30 PM GP: "No John, atheism logically leads to every man/woman for his/her self when it com.....
» 15/07/2008 6:31:35 PM Bazz: "Might not it be an indication that they know they will not be allowed to take .....
» 15/07/2008 5:35:32 PM Oliver, Sometimes your posts are so abbreviated I don't have a clue as to what your on ab.....
» 15/07/2008 11:25:18 AM Grey, I found the US figures hard to swallow myself, which is why I quoted the UK figures.....
» 15/07/2008 10:06:20 AM Dan S de Merengue: "we will never figure everything out." Dan S de Merengue: &qu.....
» 14/07/2008 3:06:40 PM Grey: "Isn't someone who has 'no religion' an atheist?" No Grey, they are not. .....
» 14/07/2008 2:31:52 PM Grey: "You just need to global warming delusionists to stop trying to destroy the eco.....
» 13/07/2008 4:19:36 PM TurnRightThenLeft: "Same goes for the BBQ suggestion." I don't understand your .....
» 13/07/2008 3:56:21 PM Tom Harris: "I suggest people have a look at the (currently last) posting by A.J.H. V.....
» 13/07/2008 12:11:17 PM When I read Clive's article my first thought was, why did he write it? What outcome was he.....
» 12/07/2008 11:31:03 AM Judy Spence, I've seen a few your posts around now. It seems you have decided that nuclea.....
» 12/07/2008 12:12:05 AM Foyle, The answer is the CO2 dissolves on the surface - obviously. It takes long while pe.....
» 11/07/2008 11:02:05 PM GP: "No, I have not said that all atheists have to or should start stealing." S.....
» 11/07/2008 1:42:48 PM This article reminds me of something else I read recently, in relation to Peak Oil. The ar.....
» 11/07/2008 1:27:37 PM runner: "Someone who does not believe in absolutes dumping his absolutes in the name .....
» 11/07/2008 12:03:01 PM Dan S de Merengue: "I enjoy participating on OLO." This is something we have in.....
» 10/07/2008 10:21:43 PM GP: "it would surely be very sensible to take note of what God may have said is right.....
» 10/07/2008 9:17:52 PM Arjay: "The 1930's are still the hottest period of recent times." Where did you.....
» 10/07/2008 9:00:46 PM 1. Do your have your own car? Yes. 2. How many cars? 2. 3. What type of cars? 4 cylinder.....
» 10/07/2008 5:15:18 PM Aha! I see the posts from toppa have mysteriously disappeared. The phantom moderator stri.....
» 10/07/2008 2:13:35 PM Bronwyn, After your recent post to the "Abortion: the silent majority" I wait wi.....
» 10/07/2008 1:20:11 PM GP: "but why should anyone who disagrees with you care what your preferences are".....
» 10/07/2008 1:01:52 PM runner: "On the contrary. I would rather all men humble themselves and receive forgiv.....
» 10/07/2008 12:25:30 PM Bronwyn: "All I can ask is when is your humbling going to occur, Runner?" Runne.....
» 10/07/2008 11:30:10 AM Here is an observation: the current situation was in created by the hysteria that surround.....
» 10/07/2008 11:12:22 AM And another suggestion. When you have submitted a new comment, you get taken back to the c.....
» 10/07/2008 11:06:37 AM LATO: "Would any climate change guru please provide ... a model to predict local impa.....
» 10/07/2008 10:51:16 AM From the article: "Maybe Nitschke was born to remain restless until he had a cause to.....
» 9/07/2008 4:16:11 PM Grey: "Gotta disagree with you there big guy. Current secular ethics philosophers wou.....
» 9/07/2008 3:22:32 PM Pericles: "This indicates to me that you, too, cannot understand ..." You naile.....
» 9/07/2008 11:01:44 AM Other suggestions: 1. In the "New Article Comment" email sent out, could the li.....
» 9/07/2008 10:30:56 AM Pericles: "Arjay is asking a ... question ... It is not up to him .. to do the resear.....
» 8/07/2008 9:25:17 PM Bronwyn: "No, Graham, we don't need a god to provide us with an ethical compass. ...&.....
» 8/07/2008 11:49:05 AM Shadow Minister: "considering that 31% is considered good" You sure chose the w.....
» 7/07/2008 5:47:53 PM Bronwyn: "Just made a quick revisit to the '05 thread and I see you've either changed.....
» 7/07/2008 3:12:14 PM Bazz: "You could charge batteries during the day and charge from them at night but th.....
» 7/07/2008 1:31:29 PM Tom Harris: "I wasn't 'caught' editing Wiki - I edited it openly to correct mistakes......
» 7/07/2008 12:16:31 PM Grey, you are probably correct in saying the Sanders article was supporting climate models.....
» 7/07/2008 11:35:06 AM Democritus: "at least make the effort to read the links you have provided" I di.....
» 6/07/2008 3:35:21 PM Col Rouge, for me is not the carbon taxes that make me nervous. When its all said and done.....
» 6/07/2008 2:42:56 PM Democritus: "generation of electricity produces far more CO2 than petrol" Assum.....
» 5/07/2008 11:08:05 PM Richard Castles: "PS. rstuart, there’s nothing wrong with changing your mind." .....
» 5/07/2008 10:33:54 PM Ludwig: "If we can produce petrol from LNG or coal, that is competitive with current .....
» 5/07/2008 5:56:24 PM OK Ludwig, I'll bite. Firstly, rather than reading any of the rubbish I am about to say, I.....
» 5/07/2008 4:34:03 PM The first one is about comment deletion. Graham used to replace deleted the body comments .....
» 5/07/2008 4:00:48 PM Climate_Change: "Read the interesting report below on climate change for an open mind.....
» 5/07/2008 12:38:34 PM I stumbled across this post from Graham, evidently made in a different era: http://forum......
» 4/07/2008 2:08:53 PM Sams: "Commodities change price all the time and the market adjusts to it." Mos.....
» 4/07/2008 11:53:16 AM Bronwyn, gecko; did you actually go look at the archives to check if this claimed bias exi.....
» 4/07/2008 10:49:45 AM dovif1: "electric car uses electricity, which is made from coal/nuclear". What .....
» 3/07/2008 5:26:21 PM Grey, I was trying to get the energy to post something anyway, but your link tipped the ba.....
» 2/07/2008 1:48:32 PM Don Aitkins: "That they had to do it this way is no credit to the IPCC." Out of.....
» 2/07/2008 12:38:57 PM Clive Hamilton, you have to learn something about these online journals. Their worth isn't.....
» 1/07/2008 12:11:13 PM Jennifer: "I thought the article was clear in its intent ... to question the often re.....
» 30/06/2008 7:11:35 PM I have come across a few lawyers arguing against a bill of rights recently. Is there some .....
» 30/06/2008 5:13:17 PM Paul.L: "They make a solid point about the factual incorrectness of that claim. It is.....
» 30/06/2008 12:11:47 PM AJ Philips: "I hope you're in this for the long-haul!" No, probably not AJ. I a.....
» 30/06/2008 11:58:04 AM My son's girlfriend is doing journalism at Uni. We often chat about how "the system&q.....
» 29/06/2008 10:25:46 PM ChrisPer. The gun laws were introduced, and then gun related behaviour changed. The obviou.....
» 29/06/2008 1:35:37 PM runner: "as long as I have the opportunity I will voice my convictions and opinions&q.....
» 29/06/2008 11:03:29 AM Dan S de Merengue. I see I have come dangerously close to casting aspersions on Batten's a.....
» 28/06/2008 11:42:00 PM ScienceLaw: "everyone ... agrees "some things are simply so wrong they cannot be.....
» 28/06/2008 4:22:22 PM Brian: "the recipient would have to have a good reason to get it." No they don'.....
» 27/06/2008 1:44:33 PM Brian Holden, the statistics you quote do seem to say the $500 million didn't change the &.....
» 27/06/2008 10:50:24 AM runner: "You infer that I am a hateful person because I come across strong on moral i.....
» 27/06/2008 9:45:55 AM Usual Suspect: awesome......
» 27/06/2008 8:40:05 AM ChrisPer, yes OK. Guns are a favourite target of the talking heads. When your job its to g.....
» 26/06/2008 10:42:39 PM ScienceLaw: "I am absolutely astounded to see this statement from another lawyer? Its.....
» 26/06/2008 1:10:31 PM Geoff Alford, you are evidently a professional with a passion for your work, and high ethi.....
» 26/06/2008 10:42:25 AM Runner, I didn't think my point was obscure. You seem to have no trouble understanding it......
» 25/06/2008 9:06:44 PM Runner: "None of the posts you linked have me claiming to be a 'victim'." They .....
» 25/06/2008 11:32:45 AM Dan S de Merengue: "Dr Batten a pseudo-scientist?" Dr Batten holds qualificatio.....
» 25/06/2008 10:42:40 AM ChrisPer: "the gun laws ... are rooted in contempt of gun owners and their (implied) .....
» 23/06/2008 10:01:39 PM runner: "the vast majority of journalist and writers on this topic impose their pro c.....
» 23/06/2008 11:53:01 AM Bernie Masters: "I could have written articles about the myth of peak oil." Ind.....
» 23/06/2008 11:39:13 AM The idea that "anybody criminal" can get a gun is baloney. Guns have become hard.....
» 22/06/2008 12:07:17 AM After reading so much thinly supported junk from the AEF, I expected this to be more of th.....
» 19/06/2008 12:53:49 PM This enthusiasm for making 10 cent tax adjustments to the price of fuel while it is varyin.....
» 19/06/2008 11:55:59 AM The first in-depth article what is behind the Food Crisis, with hard verifiable data. Than.....
» 18/06/2008 11:03:57 AM Dan S de Merengue: "Occasionally, mutations can aid in the continued existence of an .....
» 17/06/2008 11:49:25 AM There have been a number of articles on OLO of late around the current "Food Crisis&q.....
» 16/06/2008 4:35:16 PM Jennifer: "an informative and thoughtful article". And here am I thinking the o.....
» 15/06/2008 2:04:57 PM Dan S de Merengue, "Mutations are never seen to be adding information to the genome&q.....
» 13/06/2008 4:47:49 PM Joseph Chamie paints the gender imbalance as a bad thing, but I don't think the Chinese wo.....
» 11/06/2008 7:46:25 PM Just about anything can be patented now, and there are so many patents its impossible to c.....
» 11/06/2008 7:43:57 PM Patents were once a good idea well implemented. Perhaps one day they will be again, but ri.....
» 11/06/2008 1:33:01 PM Q&A, "How are you going to conduct the cull Mr Right/Candide?". I don't know how.....
» 11/06/2008 11:35:28 AM Col Rouge, You caught me by surprise when you implied runner was female. Runner for the .....
» 10/06/2008 7:10:01 PM Dan S de Merengue, "Neil Armstrong ... says that the moon is receding from the earth .....
» 9/06/2008 11:41:36 AM Unlike most others here, I was enheartened to see Hetty had accepted donations from the po.....
» 5/06/2008 7:36:33 PM Here is my 2c worth on the Australian electric bike laws. My understanding is they are a b.....
» 5/06/2008 2:37:12 PM I am bemused by articles like this. Effectively what the author is saying is that if the c.....
» 5/06/2008 2:26:10 PM Commenting as someone who cycles to work, my chief antagonist is the weather. Riding in th.....
» 25/05/2008 5:07:03 PM Lev, I see my earlier summary of your argument was wrong. Is this what you are arguing? .....
» 24/05/2008 11:18:14 AM Lev, "I am sorry you cannot see ...". What you are proposing would be remarkable.....
» 23/05/2008 4:26:06 PM Awesome effort, Bugsy. Without your comments there would have been a distinct lack of bal.....
» 23/05/2008 10:52:10 AM Lev, "The consumption of any good produced in Melbourne, for example, has a lower env.....
» 23/05/2008 9:09:44 AM Lev, I am not sure it requires a PhD to figure out whether its possible to reduce the eco.....
» 20/05/2008 1:08:00 PM Don, regarding using Wikipedia as a source. I think I may have implied using Wikipedia is .....
» 20/05/2008 1:04:33 PM Geoff Davies, "WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE POSTING ABOUT THIS ARTICLE?". This *IS* Onlin.....
» 20/05/2008 11:45:44 AM I love these sorts of articles. I had no idea how far down the roots of our political syst.....
» 17/05/2008 11:58:46 AM pelican, "even the scientists cannot agree". Within the scientists who publish .....
» 16/05/2008 5:42:55 PM Don, That link you posted about Wikipedia wasn't terribly convincing. There were around 8.....
» 16/05/2008 4:59:15 PM Lev, I have seen you argue for a change in tax regimes before. If you think that would en.....
» 16/05/2008 12:53:14 PM I don't see the point of forcing the bulk of the population learn something if that someth.....
» 16/05/2008 11:48:02 AM OLO, whoever edited this down to 2000 words from the original 3600 did a wonderful job. It.....
» 16/05/2008 10:33:03 AM TRTL, good explanation. Thanks......
» 14/05/2008 7:12:58 PM Lev, You floored me with this: "I do not see the "clear need" to which you.....
» 14/05/2008 6:50:31 PM GP, You were clear the first time. Equally I thought I had made it plain: we have a diffe.....
» 14/05/2008 10:05:02 AM GP, "That statement implies that perpetuating our genes is a good thing". It mig.....
» 13/05/2008 6:21:47 PM GP, "tell me even one single moral principle that can be derived from evolutionary sc.....
» 12/05/2008 8:48:45 PM "Me too". Excellent article and good discussion. Yes a Green party without a str.....
» 9/05/2008 10:38:21 AM Does anybody else find a lawyer and politician arguing that the ideals we cherish can't be.....
» 8/05/2008 12:40:32 PM Another excellent article - excellent because it talks the issue and not the politics. Cu.....
» 8/05/2008 11:52:24 AM An excellent article that gave me an overview of the issues. Thanks......
» 6/05/2008 8:26:24 PM JaneS, "are you saying, you could see merit in Melinda's argument, ..." What is .....
» 6/05/2008 11:22:58 AM sonofeire, my tone was over the top - but when things are as plain as the nose on your fac.....
» 29/04/2008 8:06:25 PM sonofeire, from the US, are you? A piece of advise mate: Australians are less likely to sw.....
» 21/04/2008 6:09:02 PM You lot amaze me. I would never of found this thread if I had not stumbled across it by ac.....
» 21/04/2008 11:06:44 AM goodtheif, 'Do you still believe mainstream Islam has “moved on”?' Yes, I believe it is m.....
» 21/04/2008 11:06:27 AM goodtheif, 'Do you still believe mainstream Islam has “moved on”?' Yes, I believe it is m.....
» 19/04/2008 9:13:45 PM goodthief, I have been reflecting on Ruby's movie review. She acknowledged it as piece of.....
» 19/04/2008 8:40:01 PM Philip Tang, "What happened to the post of Boaz_David of 19/4/2008, 9:39:31 AM?".....
» 17/04/2008 4:36:11 PM My view of this was formed when mainstream Islam didn't react to "those cartoons".....
» 14/04/2008 6:51:22 PM OC617, "make a lot of money if you have the courage of your convictions ...". T.....
» 14/04/2008 3:46:02 PM I agree with Chris. Technological barriers won't work. We can't stop SPAM and viruses, thi.....
» 13/04/2008 8:46:18 PM Fozz, this will answer your questions: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/rrat_ctte/o.....
» 12/04/2008 9:02:02 PM Lev, Chris. I must be missing something. What is the relevance of the this discussion? I.....
» 11/04/2008 9:24:00 PM It does look like oil really did peak when Kenneth Deffeyes said it would - in 2006. It wa.....
» 11/04/2008 11:02:17 AM Its interesting to contrast the full paper from Don Aitkin versus the cut down version tha.....
» 11/04/2008 10:23:20 AM David Palmer, thanks for those links. They are the best summaries of the anti AGW position.....
» 10/04/2008 3:33:24 PM Fractelle, - "those who believe porn is harmless are all hetero" That's plain .....
» 10/04/2008 1:16:59 PM SJF, "Who says that putting more controls on the availability of pornography is ‘shap.....
» 9/04/2008 5:57:15 PM tragedy, you said: "Carter does not need to publish a peer reviewed paper to state h.....
» 9/04/2008 3:23:47 PM right or wrong, You say "you had a friend and you knew they were about to do somethi.....
» 9/04/2008 8:26:11 AM Jolanda, you say "Soft porn isn't nearly as dangerous or damaging as ...". This .....
» 8/04/2008 2:42:43 PM But I don't think the long term outlook is as bad as the author makes out. The old dinosau.....
» 8/04/2008 1:58:41 PM shayne, the primary argument for copyright is a "public good" one. The "pub.....
» 7/04/2008 8:10:44 PM tragedy, that would be the same AEF that shares its web site registration address and phon.....
» 7/04/2008 7:49:31 PM Col Rouge "you could catch up with some authoritive and objective posts". As it .....
» 7/04/2008 12:21:40 PM Nugsy, I was going to respond to comment that "age of consent ... does not mean they .....
» 7/04/2008 11:37:22 AM tragedy, you said: "You cannot, on the one hand, argue that someone who is a denier a.....
» 4/04/2008 9:09:10 AM Ryna, My "logic" wasn't just simplistic, its wrong because the initial premises.....
» 3/04/2008 5:44:19 PM Christabel, Let us assume that you are for the most part right. Lets assume that all wome.....
» 3/04/2008 9:05:43 AM The best article of the week. I have been admiring Indonesia's progress for a while now. I.....
» 3/04/2008 8:48:02 AM david: no disagreement from me on logging. Looking with mild interest from afar, it seems .....
» 2/04/2008 9:19:23 PM dickie, Thanks for point out who the Australian Environment Foundation are. I hadn't thou.....
» 2/04/2008 11:12:28 AM Antonella, I think you miss understand why the authors said "We’ve got numbers"......
» 1/04/2008 8:55:15 PM TurnRightThenLeft said: > Plus, there's a couple of things I don't think any of > .....
» 31/03/2008 2:50:15 PM Awesome thread, boys. Q&A, Fester: Thanks for taking the obviously large effort in you put.....
» 31/03/2008 12:12:22 PM Bob, you do yourself a disservice with these articles. Most of the words are spent gleeful.....
» 29/02/2008 9:26:34 PM Ms Norma doesn't seem to realise it, but the evidence she quotes undermines the point she .....
» 25/01/2008 11:42:14 AM You argue strongly and passionately, Sarah. I am not sure Adele Horin is worth the effort,.....
» 17/12/2007 1:30:42 PM We have had a 3 articles on this subject of late. This is by far of the best of them. The .....
» 21/11/2007 6:34:17 PM Faustino, most of what you say makes sense. I have no doubt that you gave good economical .....
» 20/11/2007 11:18:32 AM Who wouldn't like to see more manufacturing in Australia? Actually, that's too weak. Curre.....
» 8/11/2007 1:28:20 PM Stuart mentions there was a senate enquiry into Peak Oil. You can find it here: http://w.....
» 7/11/2007 4:48:24 PM Privatisation is a wonderful thing when there is competition. The justification when there.....
» 6/11/2007 9:44:17 AM Here is a ranking of the "Global Competitiveness Index" ranking for each country.....
» 22/10/2007 2:35:57 PM Pericles, EasyTimes overwrought comments aside, the issue brought up in the article is ve.....
» 19/10/2007 10:38:59 AM This article should be read as a statement of the obvious, about as enlightening as someon.....
» 16/10/2007 4:34:13 PM keith, No, I haven't forgotten about Fitzgerald. But neither have I forgotten that one of.....
» 16/10/2007 10:04:19 AM My recollection of the Goss years was a bit different. As I recall, Goss got elected when .....
» 13/07/2007 4:19:49 PM I thought this was an uncontentious rehash of Jared Diamonds "Guns, Germs and Steel&q.....
» 13/07/2007 12:16:59 PM I like the author found the ABC airing distasteful. The way it was handled didn't put anyb.....
» 13/06/2007 5:39:41 PM Bazz, you may well be right with respect to VDSL. I am not familar with it. You can find m.....
» 13/06/2007 1:32:50 PM Bazz, ADSL2+ achieves 20Mbps using a 2.2MHz signal over distances of 1.5km's. Speed drops .....
» 12/06/2007 2:06:47 PM Bazz, I didn't see anywhere in OC617's post that he thought there wasn't a benefit in spee.....
» 12/06/2007 10:58:42 AM The article is suggesting is that we spend $20bn on wires to bring the Internet that last .....
» 15/04/2007 9:39:13 AM Forrest Gumpp: You lost me with "There will thus unlikely be multiple vote claims mad.....
» 13/04/2007 9:51:42 AM Forrest Gumpp: you quote a lot of figures and give references to back them up. It is a del.....
» 11/04/2007 1:34:16 PM The article picked the wrong target. If you are going to attack something as try to pick a.....
» 4/04/2007 6:21:17 PM Quick response: a vote must be your vote - it can't be bought or coerced. This is why your.....
» 4/04/2007 2:38:52 PM Good article - it raised points in the debate I was not aware of. Thanks. There is one ad.....
» 7/12/2006 6:33:26 PM I am left wondering why these laws are necessary. The first law seems fair enough - you c.....
» 17/11/2006 3:22:58 PM Contracts? What are is she thinking? One of the great things about University is there is.....
» 26/10/2006 11:21:43 AM The current government push seems odd for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we are a net IP im.....

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