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AusGAF 2.0 - Twice the price, a year late but still moving forward
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Could be. They're losing mostly outer Sydney seats, which is more the working class crowd (31% in Riverstone, holy fucking shit). They would skew older than the inner city seats that they are managing to hold on to. Mostly guessing though.Bernbaum said:
No. Greens only give Labor preferences if that's how you personally decide to distribute your preferences. Unlike Federal Elections, you can "exhaust" your preferences by only voting 1, or 1, 2, and leaving the rest blank. It's easier at state level to vote Greens without endorsing Labor at all, just stick 1 next to Greens and leave it at that. Yet that appears to have been a very unpopular option among the previously Labor faithful.markot said:
It quite obviously was.markot said:
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Jintor said:
I had a good laugh when I saw their name in the senate section...and wow they had a lot of members.
Fredescu said:
That didn't really surprise me, I think most people just wanted labor to GTFO (completely understandable) so they voted for the party that most assured that outcome.
Given that, I'm kind of disappointed that the greens didn't pick up the two seats it had a solid chance at (because now the government is even more DOMINATED by the right).
Fortunately one of my good friends managed to pick up 17% of the vote in his electorate (willoughby) beating even labor, pretty nice result for him.
You have to have 15 members to qualify to fill in one of the groups on the NSW Legislative Council (equivalent to the Senate, but that's federal) ballot. Otherwise, people can only vote for you by voting under the line. Thus, pretty much everyone forms these gigantic groups as there's no way you'll be voted for otherwise.The Storyteller said:
The rule was set up after 1999 when there was 81 columns on the ballot (there was only 17 this year, so imagine the paper being almost 5 times longer). Did anybody here actually vote in that election? I was still living in Queensland at the time.
For this and other useful election trivia and analysis, ensure you check out Antony Green's blog. He puts up some amazingly interesting stuff on there. Definitely the leading electoral commentator within Australia.
legend166 said:
It would have been pretty stupid of NSW to give the Liberal party every seat in parliament. Call me cynical but I would have thought that giving either party as much power as has just been given to the liberal party is a bad idea, they have been voted in in such a majority that its going to take 2 elections to get them out. I did hear Mr O'Farrell's acceptance speech and it sounds like he will do a good job(will take a Victorian to fix up you lot). In saying that Baillieu our recently elected Liberal leader in Victoria who i didn't really have a problem with as someone who considers himself on the left side of politics. Ran on a platform of transparency and 'open book governance', he has since broken a couple elections promises, hired a few of his mates in cushy positions and is looking squeamish when it comes to the transparency promised
tl;dr Politicians can't be trusted
The liberals have been such incompetents in opposition that Labor was able to stay in power for 16 years. Its only that Labor stinks so much that has given them this victory...... They havent swept people away with promises, with grand ideas, with visions of the future, its been 'Send labor a message'.legend166 said:
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Pretty much every politician is full of shit, will say what they need to say to get into power and then say, "Whoops, sorry guys. You believed that horse shit? We are going to do whatever the hell we want until you guys kick us out again. Have fun!"guidop said:
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When are people going to learn?markot said:
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Internet browsing and typing in general has been the really surprising thing about the iPad. Probably the most easy to overlook feature, but the extra screen real-estate really does wonders for Mobile Safari. I've always liked iPhone typing and autocorrect, though, so your milage may vary.
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One really cool thing about my gf's Android is that when I rotate the screen it automatically word wraps the text on screen to the dimensions I have zoomed in. Makes reading NeoGAF an absolute joy compared to on my iPod Touch. Does it do this on the iPad as well? Might be something for me to think about if any other decent tablets are on the market.Rez said:
Also Crysis 2 is fantastic, all my fears were for nothing (well, once DX11 is patched in). Along with Bulletstorm it has been the best shooter I've played since COD4. Great fun Jelly hunting, Cloak-Stalk-Armour-Shotgun to face-repeat. Pure awesome.
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There's a fantastic Safari-app thing that makes GAF viewing really great, I haven't actually visited the vanilla NeoGAF yet. Try this on any iOS device:
secondapps.com/neogaf
secondapps.com/neogaf
Yes, it's being prepared. My Pilotwings/Lego Star Wars III order is also prepping. Unfortunately, it seems DHL doesn't pick up on Sundays, so they may ship on Monday morning, but we can still hope they hit some sort of late evening target...commanderdeek said:Hey Clipper, is your 3ds order from amazon being prepared for shipment?
I've been charged and Pilotwings is being prepared for me, but not the 3ds
Edit: I'll just add that a Monday morning shipment does translate to a Thursday morning delivery by my calculations, and possibly earlier. Thus, we should get it on the Aussie launch day at the very latest.
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Rez said:
Yep a must-use on the iPhone and still my default way of viewing NeoGAF on the iPad. ckohler is a champ for making it.
reptilescorpio
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Yup been using it for the last few years on my phone. I actually prefer the regular version though.Rez said:
So far the Victorian election gives that feeling a bit of weight to it.Jintor said:
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reptilescorpio said:
Don't you get sick of zooming in and stuff?
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Only use the full version on PC and iPod but yes the zooming gets annoying, that is why I was impressed by the Android version where you can zoom but it also wraps the text for you. Best of both worlds. Secondapps has been a godsend on my crappy old phone but I've found it can be delayed and very glitchy some days. Probably more to do with my Samsung F410T than secondapps itself. Basically when I want to check neogaf somewhere other than my PC I'll grab my gf's phone rather than mine or the iPod Touch because it seems more comfortable.roosters93 said:
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Idle Thumbs got me onto it back in the day. Half the fun of it was the eye-candy for me, but man did it taste good.legend166 said:
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