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» 7/11/2022 4:29:28 PM Looks like nobody (except me) cares about what MyGov are doing with their terms and condit.....
» 31/10/2022 6:27:46 PM ttbn: I don't think it's a problem specific to millenials. Most people just don't seem to .....
» 30/10/2022 6:17:12 PM Signed on to MyGov recently? You may have found that to access it, you had to agree to the.....
» 22/08/2021 10:08:59 PM Thanks for the link Nathan. Just be aware that there is separate legislation for FOI at th.....
» 22/08/2021 2:09:01 PM ttbn, the situation here is not one where I have just been fobbed off by some minion. This.....
» 22/08/2021 12:08:50 PM Foxy, as regards the possible failure of the emergency internal door release, I'm not in a.....
» 21/08/2021 4:53:38 PM Thanks for the kind words, Foxy. This GIPA application was about the design of the intern.....
» 20/08/2021 3:07:20 PM Yesterday, a judgement of the NSW NCAT Appeal Panel was handed down in long running GIPA (.....
» 12/06/2019 12:37:42 PM I did eventually manage to get a letter about the trains published in the "Armidale E.....
» 4/06/2019 11:15:38 AM Bazz, trains become uncomfortable on curves at speeds much lower then the speeds at which .....
» 3/06/2019 12:16:43 PM Individual, Fast monorails are an attractive concept, but the only country that has buil.....
» 3/06/2019 12:07:22 PM Hasbeen to be clear, I’m not proposing the building of a fast train link to places like Ar.....
» 2/06/2019 1:43:57 PM Hasbeen, the financing of railways has always been a problem, everywhere. They're pretty m.....
» 2/06/2019 11:36:36 AM Aidan, I used Google Earth to determine the radius of every significant curve on the track.....
» 1/06/2019 12:06:21 PM The NSW government is in the process of replacing the existing XPTs, Xplorers, and Endeavo.....
» 10/12/2018 12:50:10 PM Hasbeen, one problem with the current service is that it takes so long - it's considerably.....
» 8/12/2018 1:07:50 PM The NSW government has announced its 25 year vision for high speed regional rail. The cyni.....
» 8/07/2011 2:58:13 PM Let me ask a direct question. Would it have made any practical difference if she'd been f.....
» 6/07/2011 6:59:37 PM Much hand wringing has come about as the result of the discovery, eight years after her de.....
» 6/07/2011 6:44:12 PM I received a few of these calls over the space of a week some months back. I played with t.....
» 5/05/2010 12:19:16 PM suzeonline, Codeine has some other side effects, with constipation being the most notice.....
» 4/05/2010 5:28:52 PM Suzeonline, as I said, these changes are not about reducing the risk of accidental overdos.....
» 3/05/2010 12:44:13 PM Back in June last year, the National Drugs and Poisons Schedule Committee decided to chang.....
» 9/01/2010 11:30:54 AM Col Rouge The search suggestions can be turned off from the search-settings form, reached.....
» 7/01/2010 2:32:49 PM I'm not sure it should be assumed that the suggestions are based on search results. It see.....
» 18/09/2009 12:02:33 PM Dwg, I don't think the signs about photography have anything much to do with child pornog.....
» 16/09/2009 12:16:47 PM Rstuart, The ACMA's decisions have to be seen in the context of schedule 7 to tbe Broadca.....
» 16/09/2009 10:45:08 AM Pied Piper, It helps to understand the evil that the law is trying to address. Generally,.....
» 15/09/2009 9:20:37 PM Pied Piper, Not one of the URLs I submitted (a handful) was prohibited. Intially the ACMA.....
» 15/09/2009 8:14:41 PM Pied Piper, After the magistrate failed to throw out the charges, it seemed to me that we.....
» 15/09/2009 10:29:44 AM Just a reminder that this thread is not about the merits of swinging babies around. The ce.....
» 14/09/2009 3:04:07 PM Rstuart, Yes, the fact that the Commonwealth DPP pursued the case for as long as it did i.....
» 13/09/2009 12:32:31 PM Whether something is offensive or not for the purpose of the Criminal Code is not determin.....
» 11/09/2009 3:42:24 PM Well, it seems that the first thing anyone should do if charged with uploading or download.....
» 20/07/2009 6:21:17 PM Well, I suppose we could teach children about the variety of human belief systems that hav.....
» 14/04/2009 3:12:26 PM If you don't think a question is relevant, then don't answer it. Sylvia......
» 26/03/2009 2:57:29 PM Rstuart "Are they? No one argues laws relating to harming of children aren't absolut.....
» 24/03/2009 1:22:29 PM Rstuart The EFA is right that there is no right of appeal for a person whose site finds i.....
» 23/03/2009 6:29:06 PM Rstuart "I gather from reading the section you quote can appeal the grounds for issu.....
» 23/03/2009 2:19:31 PM I'm no fan of the proposed filter either, but a lot of disinformation is being disseminate.....
» 23/03/2009 2:14:28 PM Rstuart, you're quoting me out of context. There is a right of appeal against a decision .....
» 22/03/2009 7:11:34 PM Rstuart "I agree. But to repeat what I said when you brought this up last time, don'.....
» 21/03/2009 2:48:46 PM Forrest Gumpp No, there's nothing automatic about it. Posting a link to a prohibited site.....
» 18/03/2009 4:26:16 PM Forest Gumpp, There's nothing automatic about it, and the only thing that the ACMA can do.....
» 18/03/2009 4:19:07 PM In another thread, the off topic comment was made: "The OLO article finished up by s.....
» 18/03/2009 4:09:36 PM Since the ACMA's list remains secret, we cannot directly know what is on it. The ACMA's ow.....
» 16/03/2009 4:36:33 PM In the context of link deletion notices, the legislation specifically uses the word ".....
» 28/02/2009 11:55:06 AM Peter the Believer, I don't see why you think Australia is a Christian state. The consti.....
» 27/02/2009 12:43:55 PM OK, so I'm convinced. Christians do exist. But beyond that, what is the article saying? .....
» 20/02/2009 12:48:23 PM The cross-bench senators only have any power at all because of the knee-jerk opposition of.....
» 17/02/2009 8:57:49 PM Yabby, The issue is whether it's worth paying the costs of hardening when that cost excee.....
» 17/02/2009 1:57:34 PM It seems odd that insurers are refusing to insure against flood. After all, insuring again.....
» 16/02/2009 5:15:18 PM An article in today's SMH bothers me. http://www.smh.com.au/national/think-before-you-hun.....
» 4/02/2009 3:44:53 PM Forrest Gumpp Yes, I did notice the apparent error in the labelling. I suppose if you squ.....
» 4/02/2009 11:08:50 AM Forrest Gumpp Even when I'm running my air conditioner, there needs to be a reserve. In t.....
» 2/02/2009 1:25:11 PM Divorce Doctor, It comes as no great surprise that the Powersmart meter is a relatively c.....
» 2/02/2009 11:51:32 AM Divorce Doctor, Certainly the cost of metering would have been an issue in the past. But.....
» 1/02/2009 10:34:42 PM I have three split-system air conditioners in my house. They don't get used much, and it's.....
» 8/01/2009 6:01:03 PM It might have been of interest when it was originally published. But since then, the ATSB .....
» 8/01/2009 1:16:09 PM What was the point of this article appearing in OO? It doesn't say much......
» 27/12/2008 8:48:32 AM Stg, "exclusive OR" is a simple computation involving two bits. 0 eor 0 = 0 0 e.....
» 24/12/2008 6:03:52 PM In the government's zeal to censor the Internet, they appeared to have paid little attenti.....
» 16/12/2008 1:24:54 PM rstuart, It needs to be remembered that elements of a criminal offence must be proven bey.....
» 15/12/2008 4:48:08 PM rstuart, I left out the issue of offence to a reasonable person because I considered it i.....
» 15/12/2008 3:02:08 PM rstuart The privacy stuff, in sections 227A and 227B is a separate matter. Those are not .....
» 15/12/2008 1:41:41 PM rstuart, Sections 228A thu 228D all relate to things done in respect of "child expl.....
» 15/12/2008 11:59:32 AM rstuart You have to look carefully at what the legislation says. One might have concerns .....
» 14/12/2008 3:09:37 PM This seems to have gone quiet, so I hope the OP won't mind if I widen the discussion a bit.....
» 13/12/2008 1:49:09 PM rstuart Regarding your example of footage of a child accidentally stripped naked, you're .....
» 12/12/2008 11:35:51 PM rstuart Intent comes into it because if what was filmed was not intended to happen - tha.....
» 12/12/2008 6:32:48 PM Banjo, FGM is appalling, it's certainly abuse, and it's definitely unlawful. But it's a.....
» 12/12/2008 2:06:44 PM rstuart I don't see it as nuanced. To me it is clear. The intent of the legislation is to.....
» 12/12/2008 1:04:31 PM rstuart "The people who passed the laws making this illegal" Actually, they di.....
» 18/11/2008 1:38:09 PM Polycarb, It's clear how nature keeps some mutations and removes others - animals with so.....
» 18/11/2008 11:38:05 AM But suppose I let just one monkey type random characters until it's typed the first charac.....
» 14/11/2008 10:02:07 AM Unfortunately, in Australia we actually have very few inalienable rights. As far as free s.....
» 12/11/2008 3:31:00 PM Great, I'll just fly in from Perth to see how I can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions .....
» 26/09/2008 8:00:06 PM Polycarp, It was predictable that some people would dislike my cinema analogy, but to cha.....
» 26/09/2008 4:40:31 PM SteelMan Did you bother to read what I wrote before pontificating? Sylvia......
» 26/09/2008 1:57:33 PM Netjunkie, When I visit my local cinema, I buy the ticket using money on which I have alr.....
» 26/09/2008 10:54:00 AM Small businesses [*] only pay tax if they make a profit. As long as a church doesn't make .....
» 15/08/2008 5:59:08 PM Graham I note that the tutor in the Daily Telegraph article pleaded guilty. The court the.....
» 6/08/2008 7:49:22 PM Ludvig, I don't see much scope for achieving a stabilisation of the population in the near.....
» 6/08/2008 2:06:27 PM Ludvig, Whatever your views on population growth, while the population grows infrastructu.....
» 5/08/2008 1:04:23 PM CJ Morgan, I made the point about heating water just by way of illustrating the relativel.....
» 4/08/2008 9:47:39 PM rehctub You might be happy to spend $1.20 per day on bottled water, but the reality is th.....
» 4/08/2008 2:45:57 PM Fresh water is not particularly valuable. It can be created from salt water for between $1.....
» 26/07/2008 10:40:51 PM It's probably true if there were oil down there, there would already be multiple wells, be.....
» 25/07/2008 10:26:56 AM Democritus, There's geothermal and there's geothermal. Hot rocks technology is not about .....
» 24/07/2008 12:34:06 PM Phil, The suggestion that solar thermal power generation be used in conjunction with Hot .....
» 23/07/2008 11:35:02 AM Phil, I think you'll find that the battery technology is still at a point where it could .....
» 23/07/2008 10:13:33 AM Yet we all need the babies, who will become the service sector when we grow old. Even tho.....
» 23/07/2008 10:06:26 AM Development of hot-rock power generation is already proceeding. There is no need for a cha.....
» 22/07/2008 10:04:58 AM Why has this thread been hijacked by the anti-greenhouse gas effect brigade? Regardless .....
» 21/07/2008 3:54:57 PM mvs, I'm not saying that the carbon tax doesn't change the economics overall, just that i.....
» 21/07/2008 9:24:21 AM The temptation for me to indulge in an ad-hominem attack is strong in this case. But I won.....
» 3/06/2008 4:24:12 PM So what should children be allowed to do? On the face of it, if children's own desires don.....
» 24/04/2008 7:05:37 PM Bazz People who have money on deposit, or own shares, can probably be assumed to have mor.....
» 24/04/2008 2:20:33 PM Ludvig "And still the link isn’t active. Now I’m completely befuddled |;~{" Se.....
» 21/04/2008 5:43:37 PM The thing is, air doesn't come ready-compressed. Creating a supply of compressed air requi.....
» 9/04/2008 10:00:48 AM Unfortunately, moving to a position where drug possession and usage are decriminalised wou.....
» 2/04/2008 9:51:49 AM Commercial TV is ultimately about profit and reality TV is cheap to produce. Add to that t.....
» 25/02/2008 10:39:27 AM The 2007 medical journal finding that “high pornography consumption added significantly to.....
» 6/02/2008 3:28:42 PM Show us the money! Models are only as valid as the data and assumptions used in their con.....
» 6/02/2008 12:27:04 PM "Applying Ockham’s Razor, the simplest scientific description of intermittency is to .....
» 14/01/2008 12:07:55 PM I was amused by this http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3.....
» 14/01/2008 12:00:35 PM It doesn't appear to be true that there cannot be an appeal because the matter was heard i.....
» 11/01/2008 6:37:10 PM Only Human, I could use some free lightning rods. Where can I get them? Sylvia......
» 11/01/2008 1:14:58 PM You know, all energy is free. It's just collecting it that costs money. Sylvia......
» 9/01/2008 10:28:15 PM Solar thermal plants work by having a bunch of mirrors reflecting light from the sun onto .....
» 9/01/2008 3:01:32 PM Bazz The problem with solar thermal approaches that attempt to store the thermal energy i.....
» 9/01/2008 12:09:42 PM So what is the alternative that the government and media should be reporting on? Other tha.....
» 3/01/2008 4:57:41 PM You'll probably find that most of the junk mail is actually delivered by one company. If y.....
» 25/12/2007 11:50:49 AM It seems to be in the nature of any attempted arrest that it has scope for escalating the .....
» 21/12/2007 12:26:55 PM If the police formed the reasonable (even if not necessarily correct) view that the driver.....
» 13/12/2007 10:58:12 AM When I became an Australian citizen, a while back, I used the affirmation form. Even so, I.....
» 2/12/2007 10:00:29 PM Dickie, Amounts of money and cost increases are really meaningless unless adequate conte.....
» 2/12/2007 1:59:30 PM Atom1 "plus typically a further 10 yrs for a single power reactor to recoup its ener.....
» 30/11/2007 12:20:10 PM Dickie, Our base load generation is currently predominantly coal, including the worst car.....
» 29/11/2007 10:31:15 PM xoddam, Whether something is worthwhile depends on its cost, the benefit it provides, and.....
» 27/11/2007 7:01:12 PM Dickie, The first article you cited left out some words after "could supply electric.....
» 27/11/2007 3:20:56 PM Shadow Minister The cost benefit of having wind or solar at or close to one's home is lar.....
» 25/11/2007 9:34:15 PM Wind may be growing at 25% a year, but it's from a very low base, such that it currently r.....
» 25/11/2007 9:31:29 AM I'd have to wonder how wind farms and solar power generators reduce the emissions from non.....
» 24/11/2007 9:04:05 PM Now that it is apparent that Labor have won this election, it will be interesting to see h.....
» 23/11/2007 10:59:26 AM Or Cloncurry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloncurry_solar_power_station Shame about the .....
» 23/11/2007 10:30:17 AM I think you first need to define what exactly constitutes a green Olympics. What are the c.....
» 23/11/2007 10:28:02 AM People are uncomfortable with nuclear power. As long as the Greens and Labor continue to p.....
» 14/11/2007 6:00:44 PM xoddam The report you cite gives what it states are assumed wind patterns. But even if th.....
» 14/11/2007 3:39:45 PM It might sound a lot, but it works out at a continuous consumption of only about 30 megawa.....
» 14/11/2007 12:09:09 PM I'm really tired of the "the wind never stops blowing everywhere" argument. Leav.....
» 13/11/2007 12:30:12 PM "abundant renewable sources like wind, solar and geothermal" Any chance of some.....
» 6/11/2007 12:56:39 PM A company owning a patent on a drug that cures diabetes would be in a position to set the .....
» 2/11/2007 2:28:11 PM Taswegian "I wonder if green utopians realise that steam from hot granite geothermal.....
» 31/10/2007 12:32:48 PM Atom1, There is little carbon 14 emitted from coal fired power stations - the trees that .....
» 30/10/2007 9:14:17 PM Sir Vivor, My answers to the FAQ points: 1. While efficiency measures are of use, if the.....
» 30/10/2007 11:48:14 AM "Nuclear Power, Climate Policy and Sustainability: An Assessment by the Austrian Nucl.....
» 29/10/2007 6:45:32 PM Shellback What kind of attack on a power plant are you envisaging that could have the res.....
» 29/10/2007 10:37:46 AM Australia's second largest uranium mine, at Olympic Dam uses 12GL/year at the moment, thou.....
» 28/10/2007 10:15:44 AM "once more, for the dummies" Ad hominem attack - rest of post, and subsequent p.....
» 27/10/2007 10:38:06 AM Atom1 It's doubtful the kind of bombs they had in WW2 would have done much to a nuclear r.....
» 26/10/2007 12:56:05 PM The reason that some nuclear power plants in Europe have had to be run at reduced capacity.....
» 16/10/2007 10:56:29 AM Sophie, It will make no difference. The decision on the desalinator was made by the stat.....
» 10/10/2007 6:47:52 PM Freediver, A comment to the effect that a suggestion made by a poster is stupid is a cri.....
» 10/10/2007 6:04:27 PM "WHAT a stupid suggestion" is the start of a posting that deserves no reply. Ch.....
» 3/10/2007 4:24:51 PM JackTheLad "Again the maths that today’s youth is tackling is, by your own admission.....
» 29/09/2007 5:53:11 PM Arjay, I was unaware of the factual circumstances. I assumed that the intent was "Ha.....
» 29/09/2007 11:07:52 AM Bugsy, I am concerned about it because I find it jarring. When one is listening to someon.....
» 28/09/2007 7:43:27 PM Bugsy, I'm not sure whether you're just trying a wind up, but anyway, see the personal pro.....
» 28/09/2007 11:09:17 AM Country Gal, Yes, I rather suspected something like that was the case. After all, gettin.....
» 28/09/2007 10:58:19 AM In the TV show, Ghost Whisperer, we're now seeing an extension from the use of "I&quo.....
» 28/09/2007 9:02:37 AM Belly, I've recently heard a radio ad campaign aimed at telling people that electricity i.....
» 27/09/2007 3:24:34 PM Freediver, I didn't mean that everyone would receive it. Just that a person would have t.....
» 27/09/2007 2:04:36 PM Part of the fallacy behind requiring that all electrical work be done by a licensed profes.....
» 26/09/2007 7:12:40 PM Before I came Australia, about 20 years ago, I had the impression that the country was pre.....
» 19/09/2007 10:41:21 AM Greg, See the spreadsheet at http://www.cryogenic.net/rainfalltank.xls Assumptions: A .....
» 19/09/2007 10:20:34 AM Gibo, When I look at what was done in the past to alleged witches in the name of Christia.....
» 18/09/2007 6:55:31 PM Greg, I cannot get the cost of rainwater tank water down to that level unless I assume th.....
» 18/09/2007 9:43:11 AM This article is typical of those that seek to oppose desalination: "a large percenta.....
» 14/09/2007 6:22:49 PM In a totally free market (no barriers to entry, etc) with a completely homogeneous commodi.....
» 14/09/2007 4:52:13 PM Freediver I don't see where you conclude that the figures on that site are for brackish w.....
» 14/09/2007 4:09:30 PM Freediver What do you think the price would have to be? Sylvia......
» 14/09/2007 11:26:20 AM Freediver, I have no doubt that the price we pay for water will rise to meet the costs o.....
» 11/09/2007 2:37:41 PM I have in the past adopted the practice of shredding the unwanted junk mail, delivering it.....
» 11/09/2007 1:38:45 PM That said, in this footage http://ninemsn.video.msn.com/v/en-au/v.htm?g=347cf87c-50ab-47a.....
» 11/09/2007 1:30:29 PM The footage I've seen has been quite selectively edited. In particular, we never seem to s.....
» 11/09/2007 1:17:47 PM One significant obstacle to its use is identified in the introduction: "Efforts are .....
» 9/09/2007 11:55:53 AM Is Mise, It is rather disturbing, but as always there are going to be two sides to the st.....
» 8/09/2007 1:19:06 PM Bazz, The issue is whether cameramen have been killed as a result of their cameras being .....
» 8/09/2007 9:51:29 AM Bazz, how many times have camera men been shot in situations where camera men are expected.....
» 7/09/2007 6:36:04 PM There's every chance they'll be acquitted anyway. They deny intending to enter the restric.....
» 7/09/2007 4:48:41 PM I really cannot see this stunt having cost a life. The police snipers are not going to sta.....
» 7/09/2007 9:18:52 AM They clearly did the APEC participants a service. The reaction of the security services in.....
» 6/09/2007 4:58:10 PM Spanky, Without details it's hard to judge whether you're being unnecessarily concerned .....
» 25/08/2007 10:03:52 AM Kalin, It's far from clear that the 50% outcome is what would happen. The people using .....
» 24/08/2007 10:24:26 PM Mariah, Yes, you want to receive your health care now and pay for it later. That's clear .....
» 23/08/2007 9:39:51 AM Kalin, I don't know why you're lecturing me on insurance - I didn't even mention it. Th.....
» 22/08/2007 6:46:14 PM Mariah, The reason I asked the question was to get some feel of your understanding of the.....
» 22/08/2007 11:57:38 AM Mariah What is to stop you from borrowing the money, having the surgery now, and repaying.....
» 24/07/2007 4:23:09 PM This looks like a solution looking for a problem. What is the alleged concrete adverse eff.....
» 22/07/2007 9:47:35 PM sharkfin, But terrorists do not have the resources to overthrow Western Society, and they.....
» 21/07/2007 2:02:59 PM Paul.L You have not hurt my feelings, but I find approaches such as yours very annoying. .....
» 21/07/2007 10:09:57 AM Paul.L Ridiculing a question or argument IS an ad-hominem attack, because it's intended t.....
» 20/07/2007 10:23:36 PM Paul.L said "This is the most inane question I have yet seen on OLO." Fine, g.....
» 20/07/2007 6:36:03 PM Peace, Maybe we'll see premium rate SMS numbers that you can use to vote the terror level.....
» 20/07/2007 1:23:56 PM The problem with government powers is not so much that the Government sets out to abuse th.....
» 19/07/2007 4:28:40 PM Communicate and SILLE, I have no problem with throwing the book at terrorists. They are u.....
» 19/07/2007 2:26:09 PM sharkfin You and yours may not be the target now, but these things have a habit of expand.....
» 19/07/2007 2:16:49 PM Communicat, The question was not whether terrorism is bad, but whether it is *so* bad. Is.....
» 19/07/2007 10:04:27 AM Part of what motivated me to post the item was Philip Ruddock's comments to the effect tha.....
» 18/07/2007 4:18:46 PM Now, I do not want to be accused of understating the suffering endured by the relatives of.....
» 7/07/2007 10:29:42 AM Fellow_Human Though I hold politicians in considerable disdain (despite my own brief fora.....
» 7/07/2007 8:29:49 AM Bronco Lane I have not here expressed any view at all about the reasons for the invasion .....
» 6/07/2007 1:20:26 PM C J Morgan, Dr Nelson has not admitted that oil was a reason for invading Iraq. He has on.....
» 3/07/2007 4:15:52 PM Bugsy, unlevelled wind power is unsuitable for providing power during peak times because y.....
» 3/07/2007 2:09:16 PM Bugsy, There are plenty of places where you could build a nuclear plant in Australia, but.....
» 2/07/2007 3:29:44 PM Bugsy, Fuel cells are not particularly efficient. This is not so important where they are.....
» 2/07/2007 12:36:30 PM Bugsy, Well if you weren't referring to VRBs when you talked about the storage technolog.....
» 30/06/2007 1:45:39 PM Oops - I've got a factor of 1000 out there. NSW would use about 9 GWh in an hour at peak t.....
» 30/06/2007 1:28:00 PM Bugsy, As regards storage technologies, I assume you mean the Vanadium Redox Battery, or.....
» 30/06/2007 9:48:41 AM The issue of the world running out of uranium to fuel nuclear reactors can be avoided by b.....
» 29/06/2007 12:14:09 PM Goddess, There is a real show stopper when it comes to power supply, which is that we ha.....
» 29/06/2007 12:04:15 PM I can't really see that the world would be hugely different in a practical way. It was pro.....
» 27/06/2007 9:41:24 AM As an ex patriot Brit myself, I'd have to say that although I know about the event to whic.....
» 7/06/2007 3:16:04 PM Is there anything wrong with using a solution that is quick and cheap? Sylvia......
» 15/05/2007 9:51:55 AM It's not actually true that there's no obligation to report wrong doing. In NSW, for exam.....
» 5/05/2007 8:59:58 AM I thought this would generate more interest. Oh well. I've noted that the rules relate to.....
» 3/05/2007 5:31:16 PM The 31st of March saw the introduction of new restrictions on the carriage of liquids and .....
» 18/04/2007 9:59:23 AM Are we really going to put something the size of a small town into lock-down on the streng.....
» 22/03/2007 12:10:40 PM Aime said "No Government wants us to be in any way dependant of fossil fuels and the .....
» 19/03/2007 11:34:04 AM Fickle Pickle It is not true that the natural monopoly issues with communications and pow.....
» 17/03/2007 7:33:10 PM Miketrees, If governments were not involved in the supply of water, then the situation wo.....
» 16/03/2007 9:49:39 AM It's a tad simplistic to argue that "We are building a very large recycling plant, a .....
» 5/03/2007 8:28:36 AM Another thread hijacked by Ludvig's population hobby-horse. I've discontinued email alert.....
» 4/03/2007 2:07:59 PM Steel, Banjo has identified a specific issue related to the fact that there is a law agai.....
» 4/03/2007 11:24:00 AM Steel, There is no corresponding offence of male genital mutilation, so the issue of immu.....
» 27/02/2007 8:52:43 PM Banjo, Initial investigation would be a matter for the police. Prosecutions would be the .....
» 27/02/2007 6:43:35 PM Banjo, You commented that you think that "it is more a case of medical personel not .....
» 27/02/2007 11:35:20 AM Banjo, The legal problem is that it must be proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that a speci.....
» 26/02/2007 9:46:26 AM The problem with trying to hold the parents responsible is that they are not, legally. On .....
» 23/02/2007 10:44:45 AM Where are the costings? It makes little sense to suggest that doubling the price of water.....
» 28/12/2006 8:04:19 PM There is no doubt that many people seem to like Paris Hilton. So it's no surprise that re.....
» 28/12/2006 1:21:05 PM No more references to her being paid a fee for picking the Bikini babe, though. Previous.....
» 27/12/2006 1:06:49 PM My guess would be that "The Simple Life" is scripted from front to back. Why tak.....
» 21/12/2006 11:53:37 AM If you want any replies of substance, you'll need to provide some references to relevant d.....
» 13/12/2006 10:06:22 AM Nuclear power is moderately less economic than coal fired power in Australia. It is not by.....
» 12/12/2006 8:40:43 PM Radioactivity is a health problem even at low levels? Hard evidence of that seems to be sc.....
» 4/12/2006 9:54:27 AM Well, I wasted my time reading this article, because it says nothing of substance. Sylvia.....
» 26/11/2006 4:06:25 PM From the costings quoted by the council in their advertisement [see * below] it appears th.....
» 26/11/2006 8:51:08 AM Perhaps the optimimum remaining solution then is suggested by a comment by Mr Beattie in t.....
» 25/11/2006 5:46:37 PM There was a "no" case published. It can be found on the council's web site http.....
» 25/11/2006 11:30:39 AM I have been reviewing some of the material on Toowoomba Water's website. http://www.toowo.....
» 24/11/2006 9:34:41 PM Forest Gumpp Perhaps we're slightly at cross purposes here. My point about recyling was s.....
» 24/11/2006 3:09:47 PM Forrest Gumpp The thing is that towns do not really consume much water, in the sense that.....
» 24/11/2006 11:00:42 AM Forest Gumpp On my understanding, the next 'practical' place to build a dam that would s.....
» 23/11/2006 10:41:57 AM I wish people would stop talking in terms of "Olympic swimming pools". I don't k.....
» 23/11/2006 10:24:24 AM Generally, I support the idea of using desalinated water for our costal towns. However, To.....
» 17/11/2006 12:06:10 PM Divorce Doctor, The case recently before the High Court had absolutely nothing to do with.....
» 16/11/2006 1:38:10 PM Iluvatar "Don't men a have right to NOT pay for the support of children NOT conceive.....
» 16/11/2006 10:35:09 AM As Roama has indicated, it would be wrong to see the Magill decision as being one where th.....
» 14/11/2006 10:25:06 AM If someone photographs you on the beach then *they* hold the copyright on the image. If th.....
» 14/11/2006 6:50:58 AM eftfnc Of course there's a law regarding the Road Rules. If there were not then you could.....
» 12/11/2006 11:12:03 AM Ludvig, Yes, the question of whether a woman would necessarily be exposing her genitals .....
» 12/11/2006 8:13:11 AM Ludvig, First a note: I am not a lawyer; I just have an interest in law, and I've extensi.....
» 12/11/2006 7:47:48 AM Ludvig, I'll continue this in your rule of law thread. I think we've diverged a bit far he.....
» 11/11/2006 8:13:39 PM Ludvig "It is one of the silliest and sickest aspects of our society, that nudity pe.....
» 10/11/2006 8:56:22 PM Ludvig, There is no specific prohibition in QLD state law against nudity in public. Ther.....
» 10/11/2006 12:20:21 PM Ludvig, you ask "Why do we tolerate the many situations where the law doesn’t match .....
» 10/11/2006 11:57:24 AM I take a position midway between complete freedom in respect of photography and complete p.....
» 9/11/2006 6:21:26 PM I'm rather echoing Fencepost's sentiments here, I think.. "The increasing detail of .....
» 9/11/2006 7:59:12 AM Gonzo, I still think it will be defeated by economics, at least in most places. The Dead .....
» 27/10/2006 11:03:06 AM sneekeepete please don't misrepresent what I say. I did not say I was offended by full fac.....
» 27/10/2006 9:19:59 AM Humans have evolved to have expressive faces. You can tell a lot about a person's emotiona.....
» 25/10/2006 7:02:27 PM Religious Right The religious right sometimes seem to have trouble with their knowledge o.....
» 24/10/2006 9:09:50 PM I have to wonder why the NSW Health department thinks that anything useful can be learned .....
» 24/10/2006 8:48:05 PM Is it necessarily true that people who kill themselves are not in the right state of mind?.....
» 24/10/2006 1:15:28 PM Rather than addressing my responses to individuals, I'll just add some musings on what's b.....
» 24/10/2006 9:21:59 AM Forrest Gumpp You mean that by publishing instead of patenting, I've forfeit my chance to.....
» 23/10/2006 9:58:04 PM Forrest Gumpp, I promise you it's no hoax. That energy can be extracted from a combination.....
» 23/10/2006 5:20:35 PM Deborah, I'm somewhat puzzled as to why you think your small children would care if there.....
» 23/10/2006 5:14:11 PM Gonzo, I don't know that the concentration gradient between RO input and RO brine output.....
» 23/10/2006 2:10:28 PM First a declaration of non-interest. Some people here may be aware that I was a founding m.....
» 23/10/2006 1:43:43 PM Well.... You can use salt to power a desalinator. http://www.cryogenic.net/spdesalinator.....
» 13/10/2006 1:06:43 PM Tao, It's true that there are companies that have put profit before the public interest, .....
» 12/10/2006 5:05:51 PM TurnRightThenLeft You're misrepresenting the "city dweller" position. The posit.....
» 12/10/2006 10:28:50 AM Clearly Betsy Fysh should be referring her complaint to the Telecommunications Ombudsman r.....
» 12/10/2006 9:28:48 AM Tao, I'm just going to ignore your posts until you can make them without comments like &q.....
» 11/10/2006 11:36:24 AM Tao, Many industries operate under a set of strict rules designed to ensure that they are.....
» 11/10/2006 9:48:46 AM Forrest Gumpp See this paper about primes: http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/manindra/alge.....
» 10/10/2006 3:23:04 PM ChristinaMac it's hard for me to comment without some reference. Can you cite documentatio.....
» 9/10/2006 5:17:44 PM Ventures like Virgin Galactic may be giving the impression that getting into space is easi.....
» 9/10/2006 2:15:32 PM Celiva, It's probably true that this thread has run its course, and that the later off-to.....
» 9/10/2006 1:06:38 PM Graham, Yes, the off-topic posting problem is much like Gobach's conjecture. The problem.....
» 9/10/2006 10:02:21 AM It would seem an odd change to the law. The prohibition on incest really has nothing to do.....
» 9/10/2006 7:49:53 AM Goldbach's conjecture states that every even number other than two can be expressed as the.....
» 8/10/2006 9:41:20 PM "This is terrible. I totally disagree. In saying things like this you are effectively.....
» 6/10/2006 5:49:17 PM Tao, This is a thread about truth about the financial aspects of nuclear power. I have st.....
» 6/10/2006 3:53:07 PM Clearly, the request that responses be confined to the topic should have been addressed to.....
» 6/10/2006 3:29:59 PM Tao, Please confine your responses to the topic. I am not the subject of this thread. Sy.....
» 6/10/2006 11:12:45 AM Some of the things said about the financial aspects of nuclear power show a considerable l.....
» 6/10/2006 8:57:42 AM "What? No response? Hopefully you have gone away to reassess some of your erroneous b.....
» 4/10/2006 8:16:20 AM "Do you only do things because of the profit incentive? Perhaps you wouldn’t get out .....
» 3/10/2006 9:08:20 PM tao, Nowhere have said that financial considerations are the only ones that sbould be use.....
» 3/10/2006 11:16:19 AM Celivia There's something of a myth going around that solar panels are produced in a sort.....
» 2/10/2006 7:33:15 PM It's not 50cents/kL, it's an additional 50 cents/kL on top of what the Sydney Catchment Au.....
» 2/10/2006 10:29:28 AM Ludvig The forum rules require that responses remain on topic. In a thread about finance,.....
» 1/10/2006 8:51:55 PM Pragma, We already know the cost impacts of a desalinator. The costings have been done, .....
» 1/10/2006 2:38:18 PM Ludvig, The thread is about finance. In the quoted sentence, you cut off the trailing wor.....
» 1/10/2006 2:03:46 PM ALAMO Certainly my approach to presenting this is not classical DCF, and I reached the li.....
» 1/10/2006 11:59:52 AM OK, I'll have a go at explaining this. I'm going to make some assumptions here. Anyone who.....
» 1/10/2006 11:42:00 AM Pragma, How much does it cost to construct 2 m deep reservoir of say 15 x 10? That's 300 .....
» 1/10/2006 9:26:02 AM Reservoirs are not about catching water, they are about storing it. If you catch stormwate.....
» 30/09/2006 9:18:30 PM Exactly......
» 30/09/2006 2:08:40 PM Ludvig, the reason the merits of water supply systems are being discussed here is that tha.....
» 30/09/2006 1:37:48 PM ...cont But it is right. Discounted cash flow is the reason our base load power stations .....
» 30/09/2006 1:37:27 PM I wrote this for the SMH "Heckler" column, but it seems that it will not be publ.....
» 30/09/2006 1:31:20 PM It is far from clear to me that a dam has less net impact on the environment than a desali.....
» 30/09/2006 9:27:22 AM Pragma, I take you're annoyed that I've undermined your argument that desalination is too.....
» 29/09/2006 8:08:52 PM "Desalination on a large scale is far too energy demanding" Such vague claims c.....
» 25/09/2006 5:48:58 PM Ludvig, I wasn't thinking about the total economic product. The problem of an aging popula.....
» 25/09/2006 3:33:24 PM Foundation, I certainly favour a free market in water. It just seems to be difficult to d.....
» 24/09/2006 9:59:12 AM Leigh, it is certainly true that the restrictions have no scientific validity. In the pa.....
» 23/09/2006 6:16:12 PM An article in today's Daily Telegraph http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,.....
» 1/09/2006 5:13:07 PM Shorbe, Your attempt to refute my position using logic fails because you start with a fa.....
» 31/08/2006 9:19:18 PM Shorbe, it's a strawman. You sought to characterise my post as being an "argument fo.....
» 31/08/2006 5:11:50 PM Shorbe, Nice attempt at a strawman. It's only an argument in support of our existing fo.....
» 30/08/2006 8:33:00 PM One of Haradine's major premises would appear to have been that the electrorate would be &.....
» 28/08/2006 8:39:18 PM I'm going to posit that people seek to maximise their standard of living. I doubt many wil.....
» 25/08/2006 10:00:08 AM The function of the courts is to implement the law. If society thinks that confessions sho.....
» 22/08/2006 1:26:48 PM ChristinaMac is confusing Narcissist with me The recent report from ANSTO http://www.an.....
» 21/08/2006 4:39:28 PM As I've indicated elsewhere, I think the author's costing assumptions are somewhat on the .....
» 21/08/2006 2:41:45 PM "Once initially high capital costs have been met" This expression should be sum.....
» 21/08/2006 11:09:08 AM Here we go again. Same old, same old. Where are the costings? What is the significance.....
» 16/08/2006 10:37:53 AM Perseus, I have repeatedly tried to get people at least to believe in the ideas behind DC.....
» 15/08/2006 10:26:32 PM Greg, You cannot add together amounts of money that relate to expenditure at different t.....
» 14/08/2006 2:52:19 PM GC, It is not correct that mains water consumers do not pay for the cost of the supply n.....
» 13/08/2006 5:40:49 PM Greg, you commented "I have proposed that the cost of rainwater is $0.40/KL with an .....
» 11/08/2006 12:38:11 PM The issue faced by the government when it comes to building water supply infrastructure is.....
» 1/08/2006 3:16:58 PM One significant issue with making biodiesel from waste cooking oil is simply that it does .....
» 15/07/2006 12:16:39 PM I thought I use one of DEMOS's suggestions to show what happens when people come out with .....
» 14/07/2006 11:45:31 AM Well, it's easy to wave one's hands in the air and allege that a particular technology is .....
» 7/07/2006 3:45:11 PM Cootha "overstepping the mark" is an expression. I was not saying that they onl.....
» 7/07/2006 1:54:24 PM The first things all the commentators should have done, before opening their mouths or app.....
» 21/06/2006 8:19:53 PM Alchemist, fusion has already been created in the laboratory - many times. It was achieved.....
» 21/06/2006 1:32:02 PM Others have beaten me to it on the point that Hydrogen is only a way of storing energy, so.....
» 30/05/2006 3:41:48 PM Perhaps Steve Shallhorn should post his costing and safety estimates for windfarms, and ot.....
» 30/05/2006 1:29:41 PM The author wrote: "What is the net present cost of safe storage of thousands of barre.....
» 22/05/2006 10:43:01 AM The High Court would surely find that the word "marriage" in the Constitution re.....
» 4/05/2006 4:41:31 PM Narcissist, The purpose of the R&D tax concession is to address the fact that, left to it.....
» 4/05/2006 12:52:26 PM In the industry that I know, IT, the R&D tax concession is massively abused. Typically, wo.....
» 3/05/2006 1:01:34 PM "Carbon dioxide reduction targets can be met without nuclear power through demand red.....
» 28/04/2006 3:41:04 PM M3RBMW Ah, that UK research is probably what the RTA was referring to when I raised my co.....
» 28/04/2006 2:02:43 PM It doesn't help that the justification for the presence of speed cameras is based on flawe.....
» 11/04/2006 10:23:39 PM My main concern with the article is that it is discussing the potential benefits of a syst.....
» 31/03/2006 7:28:07 AM Tough Cookie "Being threatened verbally, like I was by my X, that he wanted to kill .....
» 30/03/2006 6:30:43 PM Ozib, you're quite right of course about the significance of the wording. The author must .....
» 14/02/2006 6:26:54 PM I think my browser must have cut part of the article out somehow, because I cannot for the.....
» 9/01/2006 11:47:44 AM I sometimes wonder whether those who claim to want to protect our freemdoms are only happi.....
» 22/12/2005 9:03:28 PM Will this be a constitutional change in Victoria? If not, it's smoke and mirrors. A Bill.....
» 13/12/2005 7:13:22 PM Bosk, I would be interested to read Justice Kirby's specific comments on the sedition law.....
» 12/12/2005 9:07:36 PM Chris shaw posed some questions. Question: Is it subversive of me to say that our PM and .....
» 12/12/2005 6:10:44 PM So much of the posting is based on a flawed understanding of the law that it is difficult .....
» 21/11/2005 12:02:52 PM I would have to wonder whether the net energy return for conventional oil production takes.....
» 11/11/2005 10:21:32 AM It seems very few people have actually bothered to read the text of the Bill. Most seem co.....
» 8/11/2005 2:32:29 PM I cannot see in the legislation where there is any prohibition on reporting the existence .....
» 26/10/2005 8:57:33 AM An odd thing about this debate is that science is characterised as being a search for trut.....
» 21/10/2005 12:11:20 PM What can I do with ID? It appears to make no predictions that I can use, or test. A criti.....
» 25/09/2005 1:41:24 PM There was never any reason to think that people on a plane have some special need to be pr.....
» 23/09/2005 7:21:32 PM So John Howard said "But people have to understand that if they get caught with drugs.....
» 23/09/2005 10:49:01 AM The Government might be trusted more to do this right if other security related laws, and .....
» 10/09/2005 2:58:16 PM In my article I asserted that sticky tape is not yet prohibited. I have subsequently reali.....
» 9/09/2005 9:55:20 AM David, If the Supreme Court overturns the VCAT decision, then that would further show ho.....
» 8/09/2005 5:30:47 PM Most people never read statutes. Their understanding of the law comes from reading comment.....
» 2/09/2005 11:40:27 AM My immediate thoughts about this is that teaching it to children would be a waste of their.....
» 8/07/2005 8:27:26 AM Taz, I find your position on the issue of staffing to be inconsistent. Maybe I've miscontr.....
» 7/07/2005 9:59:56 AM I would expect that there is plenty of overseas expertise available on nuclear power plant.....
» 5/07/2005 12:08:54 PM This document from the ABS http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/0C2AA58A90E887B3CA2.....
» 3/07/2005 9:15:12 AM The Big Fish, I think you're confusing two very different areas. Things that might exist.....
» 2/07/2005 3:11:01 PM I'm sorry if I seem dismissive on occasions. What I try to do, and I seem to annoy a lot o.....
» 1/07/2005 1:48:37 PM I think I've finally come up with a resolution for this. We install cutout devices on eve.....
» 1/07/2005 9:07:46 AM Although fusion power is promising, the reason fusion power is not mentioned is that it ha.....
» 29/06/2005 6:43:59 PM Martin, Clearly we're not going to agree. You think I'm overstating the cost of using win.....
» 29/06/2005 1:03:24 PM Alchemist, at this point I'm starting to suspect you're just making it up as you go along......
» 29/06/2005 12:00:10 PM Martin, I think there is little doubt that wind farms could provide the required amount of.....
» 28/06/2005 6:10:18 PM Already we're seeing a number of agenda surfacing, complete with misinformation. Martin, .....
» 28/06/2005 11:35:28 AM The first step in having a reasoned debate is to establish the context. I don't think the .....
» 27/06/2005 1:46:32 PM Federal finance minister Nick Minchin has said that there is no economic case for nuclear .....
» 26/06/2005 4:13:14 PM I wonder how many times I'm going to see the same naive ideas trotted out as being the sol.....
» 25/06/2005 6:48:51 PM I think Fickle Pickle's comment illustrates part of my initial point. The issue for an inv.....
» 25/06/2005 9:35:02 AM The economics of all renewables mean that they must be aimed at base load generation. No o.....
» 23/06/2005 1:38:13 PM A sensible debate must be an informed debate. I've only written once sentence, and already.....
» 21/06/2005 4:39:01 PM It's far from clear that the Australian people have a consistent view on what kind of repu.....
» 21/06/2005 4:01:37 PM There is an essential difference between the Child Support Agency and other government bod.....
» 20/06/2005 2:18:29 PM Timkins "This is why I would also go for mutually agreed Parenting Plans which incor.....
» 19/06/2005 5:37:30 PM Timkins, Certainly the government has not sort to impose the child support formula on any.....
» 19/06/2005 12:43:54 PM Sam, Even if it's true that society wants what is in the best interest of the child to be.....
» 18/06/2005 11:22:47 AM ... continued In most cases, the reason that the custodial parent experiences a drop in s.....
» 18/06/2005 11:14:46 AM One of the most striking things about this debate is the way in which it is argued holisti.....
» 13/06/2005 5:02:58 PM Try as I might, I still cannot see how this will work. The original article said that the.....
» 12/06/2005 9:36:15 AM Fickle Pickle, It does seem that I've misconstrued the sentence that discusses how vouche.....
» 8/06/2005 3:25:20 PM It is perfectly feasible to have protections in place. It would clearly be inappropriate f.....
» 8/06/2005 9:11:57 AM Bozzie You comments misrepresent my attitude towards value judgements. "You may vie.....
» 7/06/2005 9:41:24 AM Arjay, You have misattributed to me a sentiment that I quoted from someone else's posting.....
» 6/06/2005 4:24:27 PM ‘Every person - 100% - who commits suicide is profoundly mentally disturbed at the time. I.....
» 6/06/2005 9:00:56 AM How about a compromise then? A person with depression is provided with treatement for a s.....
» 5/06/2005 11:13:31 AM We stuck with the fact that people go through repeated bouts of depression. This belies th.....
» 3/06/2005 10:59:09 PM Kalweb, The 'ad hominem' argument is straightfoward enough. Imagine that I say that two .....
» 3/06/2005 7:55:50 PM Robert, It's natural for polygraph promoters to claim that they can detect methods used t.....
» 3/06/2005 7:40:13 PM Let's suppose I'm one of the consumers who uses less than my allocation. So I receive rewa.....
» 3/06/2005 3:04:18 PM klw, I've commented to you before about my objection to ad hominem attacks. You apparentl.....
» 3/06/2005 1:58:15 PM Geoffrey I did misconstrue the intent of your article, in that I assumed you meant that C.....
» 2/06/2005 9:38:32 PM I think klw's response just emphasises my point. These people with depression are people o.....
» 2/06/2005 2:53:40 PM "Yet depression - a treatable condition - is one of the major factors driving the sui.....
» 2/06/2005 2:18:39 PM Buttonbright, I was making no assumptions about Corby's case. For the purpose of discussi.....
» 2/06/2005 11:17:42 AM As far as the written law is concerned, the situation seems straightforward enough. If Co.....
» 1/06/2005 3:05:53 PM Just a comment on prenuptial agreements. As far as child support goes, they're really lim.....
» 30/05/2005 2:16:39 PM trade215 You are concerned about my comment "I would propose that the Government es.....
» 30/05/2005 9:06:19 AM Timkins, My proposal was very specific - the money should be spent to reduce the financia.....
» 28/05/2005 10:30:10 PM Chris Apgood says of "Lolita" and "Desperate Housewives" that "Ho.....
» 28/05/2005 8:40:18 PM klw, I am unconcerned about the misquotation per se. What I was unhappy about was that yo.....
» 28/05/2005 7:49:52 PM klw "I found your remark that children are " ... only for economic health".....
» 27/05/2005 9:20:03 AM Kartiya You ask about the issue of commitment, and comment about the 4 to 1 rate of wife .....
» 26/05/2005 10:43:22 AM There are two separate aspects to a risk. The first is the probability of an event occuri.....
» 25/05/2005 8:14:29 PM I suppose I'm not particulary surprised by some of the reactions to my article, though I r.....
» 24/05/2005 9:50:10 PM Arjay, You indulged in an ad hominem argument. I felt no need to respond to it then, and .....
» 24/05/2005 8:46:03 AM Seeker, The NLP, being a state party, cannot offer anything to do with families, which ar.....
» 22/05/2005 8:55:34 PM People are not generally noted for being receptive to advice as to their romantic interest.....
» 22/05/2005 10:30:14 AM Wishing things were different doesn't help much. Nor does telling people that they should .....
» 21/05/2005 10:17:57 AM On the income splitting aspect, I think it rather unlikely that people are going to stay t.....
» 19/05/2005 5:55:10 PM Laurie, the people who marry (including starting a long-term relationship) are not the gro.....
» 15/05/2005 8:19:28 PM Silent Minority Di said "I never expected to meet Mr Right that way." There wa.....
» 15/05/2005 1:24:12 PM I saw an impromptu media interview with the muslim cleric in question. He was trying to cl.....
» 13/05/2005 1:43:30 PM Paragraph 61 seems nothing more than a finding of fact, and the issue of the woman wearing.....
» 13/05/2005 10:52:04 AM It's never a good idea to form an opinion of judicial actions based on reports in newspape.....
» 11/05/2005 10:53:33 AM Daniel says "Young men are not receiving the message that to be a young dad with a pa.....
» 21/04/2005 7:39:28 PM Thanks Antony. I got the impression from your article that its effect had been reduced, bu.....
» 21/04/2005 6:02:05 PM Firstly, thank you Antony for the guide on what the Naturist Lifestyle Party may have to d.....
» 21/04/2005 5:29:02 PM What impact could this be expected to have on the behaviour of individuals who provide hig.....
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