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roosters93
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So I just found an album by Fannypack in my iTunes library. If you don't know who that is, they had a hit song with cameltoe lol.
P4k likes them too!!!
P4k likes them too!!!
The best thing about the nuclear policy is this:
1) It's the right thing to do. Nuclear power is completely viable in Australia. It's clean and safe, and we already have our own uranium. It's a no brainer.
2) It gets rid of the entire carbon tax debate in one fell swoop. We won't need a carbon tax if we shift to nuclear power to get the reductions.
3) It'll make the Greens really, really angry. And that's always a fun thing to do.
1) It's the right thing to do. Nuclear power is completely viable in Australia. It's clean and safe, and we already have our own uranium. It's a no brainer.
2) It gets rid of the entire carbon tax debate in one fell swoop. We won't need a carbon tax if we shift to nuclear power to get the reductions.
3) It'll make the Greens really, really angry. And that's always a fun thing to do.
Planet_JASE
Member
Ahhhhh, Salazar was being way too clever for me. Nice one.Gazunta said:
Also, I seemed to have ordered the LotR trilogy by accident. I had it all lined up and was making my decision, decided to press the Switch to AUD button to see the price and hit Place Order in AUD instead.
So... yeah.
Also, I snagged that Zavvi thing early this morning, even though I don't think it will be hornoured. It's got to be a type, right? If not, one of those bargain sites will have ruined it by buying 20 copies each.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Gazunta said:
Kinda screws over people in regional areas, no?
reptilescorpio
Member
Come on dude! LotR trilogy is a pretty spot on substitution for Green Zone...Rahk said:
And a mass switch to renewable energy just isn't viable yet. The technology isn't there. We should use it where we can, but it's simply way too expensive.
I used to wonder why we hadn't done it, since a lot of people paint it out as something really simple to do. It just doesn't work yet.
Go nuclear!
I used to wonder why we hadn't done it, since a lot of people paint it out as something really simple to do. It just doesn't work yet.
Go nuclear!
roosters93
Member
reptilescorpio said:
Cmon man, LotR isn't that bad.
Omi said:
That was a decision based on the back of political cowardice and the result of ridiculous fear mongering.
I mean, Fukushima was basically the worst case scenario you're ever going to get. A 9.0 earthquake, followed by a tsunami hitting a 40 year old plant that was due to be decommissioned soon. And the death toll from the actual plant meltdown is 0. This dude says it better than me:
http://asiancorrespondent.com/53036/the-fukushima-death-toll/
Fred, I would live near one. If anything it will just help lower property prices, which is a good thing
legend166 said:That was a decision based on the back of political cowardice and the result of ridiculous fear mongering.
I mean, Fukushima was basically the worst case scenario you're ever going to get. A 9.0 earthquake, followed by a tsunami hitting a 40 year old plant that was due to be decommissioned soon. And the death toll from the actual plant meltdown is 0. This dude says it better than me:
http://asiancorrespondent.com/53036/the-fukushima-death-toll/
Fred, I would live near one. If anything it will just help lower property prices, which is a good thing
trinest said:
Mmm, Germany hasn't built a new since the 80s from memory either. Thats some long running fear mongering.
I am not saying that I am anti-nuclear btw, I am just concerned people think that it is some sort of silver bullet solution. Of which there is none.
roosters93
Member
hey legend,
My yr12 physics teacher (so don't kill me) told us that nuclear energy is expensive and isn't really environmentally friendly.
He said something along the lines that in the first 5-10 years of a nuclear power plant it requires regular coal production of electricity also to be sustainable (thus emitting radiation for 10 years) and then once it's up and running by itself it has a short lifespan and then the process starts over again.
Is there any fact in this? lol
My yr12 physics teacher (so don't kill me) told us that nuclear energy is expensive and isn't really environmentally friendly.
He said something along the lines that in the first 5-10 years of a nuclear power plant it requires regular coal production of electricity also to be sustainable (thus emitting radiation for 10 years) and then once it's up and running by itself it has a short lifespan and then the process starts over again.
Is there any fact in this? lol
The people who own the property getting devalued by living near a planned powerplant construction won't agree with you. Just look at how much trouble they have getting a site for the second Sydney airport. Badgerys Creek is a wasteland, but people protested that until they were blue in the face. NIMBY is a powerful force in politics.legend166 said:Fred, I would live near one. If anything it will just help lower property prices, which is a good thing
bodyboarder
Member
roosters93 said:
The song/video is as bad as I remembered.
roosters93
Member
video hits and sports tonight have been axed. Interesting.
roosters93 said:
For someone whos father built his empire on taking sports and making them exclusive to his pay television realm, Lachlan really doesn't like sport does he.....
does not make sense. This i believe is probably in response to Murdochs fucking hissy fit that Channel 10 does not have the AFL anymore.
So on Sunday I decided to learn how to program network applications in Java. Which also required learning how to multithread and create GUIs*.
All things considered, I think I did pretty well.
I want to add a user list, and timestamps, and make the server side of it a little less clunky, but otherwise it totally works. If I can be bothered (I can't), I could even use this to make multiplayer text based games with. Or I could learn how to import graphics and make a little 2D adventure game (this would be very hard I imagine).
At the very least, I should be way ahead of what we get taught this semester at uni.
* I used Netbeans to make and place the GUI objects for me because I'm lazy.
All things considered, I think I did pretty well.
I want to add a user list, and timestamps, and make the server side of it a little less clunky, but otherwise it totally works. If I can be bothered (I can't), I could even use this to make multiplayer text based games with. Or I could learn how to import graphics and make a little 2D adventure game (this would be very hard I imagine).
At the very least, I should be way ahead of what we get taught this semester at uni.
* I used Netbeans to make and place the GUI objects for me because I'm lazy.
Omi said:Considering they only hold the balance of power in the senate, I would be interesting to find out how they could fuck up so badly.
Then again, I don't live in choc-ville
holding the balance of power in the senate is more powerful then the house of reps. They can block everything they don't like and force double dissolutions. Although JG would be to gutless to go to a DD right now
Personally I find it more interesting that they axed Video Hits. It's 3 or 4 hours of free content and advertising money.
Unless what they mean is they axed the actual Channel 10-generated content with the young people saying words like 'rad' and 'cool' to intro / outro each video clip, and instead they'll just be playing the video clips, which makes sense.
Unless what they mean is they axed the actual Channel 10-generated content with the young people saying words like 'rad' and 'cool' to intro / outro each video clip, and instead they'll just be playing the video clips, which makes sense.
bodyboarder
Member
roosters93 said:
Seems a bit drastic to axe them. Couldn't care about video hits, but liked sports tonight.
roosters93
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So there is a special refugee themed episode of Q&A on Thursday night after the screening of a documentary called Leaky Boat. This sounds fine. Then, there's the guestlist:
Chris Bowen, Minister for Immigration
Scott Morrison, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
Sarah Hanson-Young, Australian Greens Senator
Najeeba Wazefadost, Afghan Refugee and Advocate
David Marr, Journalist and author of Dark Victory
Piers Akerman, Columnist for The Daily Telegraph
I kind of hate Q&A's mandate to have a balanced panel. I'd rather not have a dolt like Akerman voicing his bigoted opinions on TV about one of the most controversial issues in Australia. I don't really care for Scott Morrison either but I can live with him.
Chris Bowen, Minister for Immigration
Scott Morrison, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
Sarah Hanson-Young, Australian Greens Senator
Najeeba Wazefadost, Afghan Refugee and Advocate
David Marr, Journalist and author of Dark Victory
Piers Akerman, Columnist for The Daily Telegraph
I kind of hate Q&A's mandate to have a balanced panel. I'd rather not have a dolt like Akerman voicing his bigoted opinions on TV about one of the most controversial issues in Australia. I don't really care for Scott Morrison either but I can live with him.
