AusGAF 3.0 - Double the price, region locked and refused classification
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EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
jambo said:
But how else will I be a lazy self entitled whining Australian?
Gazunta said:
yes but then Gaz when the ABS hires data entry people for six months or whatever to enter the forms they would have to pay a higher wage to get people who can interpret foreign language.
ASX down 218 points in opening 50 minutes
its going to be a long day on the markets
Dont split the no religion result with joke answers.jambo said:
Link goes to a leftist blog. I am not a leftist but their case is valid.
jambo said:
Don't do that. Responding with junk only gives Christian lobby groups more clout when they try to influence government policy. If you don't practice a religion, put "no religion" so the government can stop being able to justify policies of discrimination by citing Australia as a country of "Christian values".
Edit: Bernbaumed.
Calm down, I was only asking. I was Googling earlier and found a wiki page about Jedi census phenomenon
codswallop
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I actually put Jedi as my religion last time. Won't be doing that again this time. Ahh, it was a simpler time back then.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
A Jedi census landslide is all fun and games until it actually starts influencing Australia and good honest Sith become poor Aussie battlers.
codswallop
Member
And I didn't even buy anything in that time from the US.commanderdeek said:So it looks like we're almost below parity.
Party's over guys
codswallop
Member
To be fair, I don't really need or want anything except for expensive things. Most of which you'd probably buy locally anyway.
Edit: However I did want that nice GPS datalogger, so I guess I lost out there.
Edit: However I did want that nice GPS datalogger, so I guess I lost out there.
In communities where there is a large amount of non-English speakers of particular languages, the census collectors will sit and help you fill it in and there's a hotline you can call to have people walk you through the questions if your community doesn't have such translators.Gazunta said:
I assume the reason they don't want to do the forms themselves in other languages is to make it easier to collect and collate the data. If the forms were written in a language other than English, so would the responses, which makes it harder for those digitising the information.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
commanderdeek said:So it looks like we're almost below parity.
Party's over guys
Bit of a bummer, but not too horrible for me. The above-parity's been nice, but as long as we don't fall too far below I don't mind too much.
Only a few more things I want to import for the rest of the year anyway.
roosters93
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Nice of the dollar to tank just before I go overseas. :/
Jintor said:
Housemate emailed me this earlier
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ms...&ll=51.558503,-0.055275&spn=0.114195,0.298691
DualShadow
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jambo said:
Choc said:
As I posted in another thread, the plant doesn't actually deal with Playstation distribution. It is primarily and as far as I understand, entirely about CD distribution.
Not that it matters either way. Seems the police are having some luck pushing protesters back utilising armoured vehicles, so hopefully these riots won't reemerge tomorrow night.
Again, not that it matters, but it's interesting to think about how this current pandemonium will influence next year's Olympic Games.
codswallop
Member
Sony just can't catch a break this year.Choc said:
What we need to do is reverse the polarity!trinest said:
Yeah >.<hamchan said:
Police are just outnumbered over there, they cant respond to all the stuff, and the rioters can organise easily and move around, start new trouble.
I hate seeing that kind of stuff though, it just makes me angry, its such herd like behaviour and makes me wonder how big the line between civilisation and everyone going mental is >.>
Choc said:
I think basically it's a double whammy, from what I can gather.
- When there's instability in the economy, people like to invest is safe things. So they get out of forex and put it into gold.
- It's basically guaranteed that we're getting an interest rate cut soon. So less reason to invest in Australia.
Marshmellow
Member
jambo said:Send the army in
Best motivational ever
No. Currency investments in general are seen as "risky" and the USD is the benchmark because of global reach. People are getting rid of their more risky invesments (foreign currency) and buying up less risky investments (gold) with the default currency (USD). This isn't AUD vs USD, it's AUD huge pool of other investments.Choc said:
edit: beaten by an AFL supporter
FallbackPants
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Choc said:
Having the dollar below parity isn't necessarily a bad thing though. It sucks if you want to import, but for export industries it will be a god send. Hey, we might even see a bunch of miners stop whinging about the carbon tax as now their goods will look more attractive overseas thanks to the low dollar.
ClivePwned
Member
roosters93 said:
look into a Cash Passport or a CommBank travelcard. you can at least hedge against it falling too much more
(yes the rates aren't that great but they are better than you'll get once you travel)
The currency thing is people buying gold rather than than buying US dollars. It'll probably turn around in a few weeks once investors balls drop and they look at which economies are more fucked than others (I'm not from the future so don't blame me if it keeps falling).
PREDICTION: Over the next few weeks, lots of sales talking about BEAT THE PRICE RISE
