Is the rest of Australia really not aware of WA's Domestic Gas reserve? In short: 15% of gas extracted in WA is reserved for the people of WA. As a result, our power bills are a bit under 25c/kwh + ~$1/day supply.
I think this about sums everything up. I just pinned it to the top of Local with the non-satire post. 😀
4chan isn't exempt. They're simply refusing to comply. Frankly, I see their perspective. If Qatar introduced some law that required us to do this, we'd ignore it (if we even knew about it). What are they going to do?
We are complying because we are 100% in Australia. We run this little project as a side gig and can't risk our careers by becoming a potential example for other forums. You can't do the sort of IT work we do with a criminal record.
Hotties live north. I don't need no silly map to tell me what I already know.
It's to do with the definition of Social Media in the legislation. If you can make comments that anyone on the Internet can read from your account, then you qualify as social media. That's an incidental aspect of what GitHub does, so it makes perfect sense for that site to be excluded from the ban.
From this article, I learned that the first full length feature film in the World was from Australia in 1906
Yes. Explain to KP Oli how messing with Gen Z's Internet has no bearing on politics, since they're not voting for years.
WA has a decent claim to Hawke. He went to school and university here, his uncle was WA premier. He wasn't born in WA and didn't represent WA in parliament. But he was a good WA boy.
In my lifetime? Or in my voting lifetime?
If the former, Whitlam. He's not a popular choice according to history, and he was blocked so frequently in what he was trying to do. But if you look at the actual policies he killed conscription, introduced free health care, free university, legal aid, equal rights and animal rights. Lots of these policies were unpopular with politicians at the time, but are a given in society today. He's mostly remembered for "The Dismissal", which is a crying shame.
If the latter, it's a little nuanced. PMs have been more stymied by their parties in the past 20 years than I remember happening in before the Hawke-Howard years.
Rudd's an interesting one: By all accounts, he's a raging arsehole to work with. But, he was really trying to spread the wealth and break up the monopolies. He was just getting going when the mining companies fired him for having the audacity to suggest that was all our dirt they were digging up and the profits should be shared with all Australians. I'm still mad that his party didn't stand with him on that one.
I think Turnbull could have been one of the greatest PMs of all time. A total technocrat who wanted to put experts in their fields into assorted roles. That was unpopular in his party and he spent his whole prime-ministership trying to manage his party instead of the nation. He also stood by his word - if he agreed that he'd support a bill if conditions were met - he did so. Even crossing the floor to support climate legislation. I'd love to see what he could have achieved if he had his party behind him.
Gillard is another one who would have been great, but she spent her whole tenure with a cloud over her head - either from the way she wrested leadership from her predecessor, alienating the electorate, or from being in a minority government most of the time, needing to do deals for everything. For all that though, wow she got shit done!
In terms of popular/least hated prime minister in my voting life, I have to give it to Hawke. He cared. You really felt like the guy was in your living room talking to you over a beer and working on your behalf. I know and acknowledge that my childhood politics was shaped a lot by my parents, and those days were very much "Labor good, Libs evil". But for all of that, Australians really felt like the guy was there batting for us. He wasn't all roses: He took away free university but he re-introduced free health care (Menzies privatised Medibank after Whitlam). He was deeply in the USA camp, which is weird as he was a polar opposite to Regan. He cried on TV, showing that he was human.
I really want to see how Gillard, Rudd and Turnbull went in their respective alternative universes where they had their parties were behind them. I think they all could have done great things.
Banks are mercenary. They have zero positions they "disagree with". They refuse to do business with companies and organisations for only one reason: It's unprofitable.
There are Millions of people who will alter their banking behaviour over things like "Bank X is the Nazi bank". I would. It's the same story with porn (not so much in Australia, but absolutely a thing in the USA). A reputation of being the "porno bank" would lead to millions of people changing their bank. And so, banks won't do business with porn providers. If the people didn't care, neither would the banks.
You won't often catch me defending Telstra, but here goes: they didn't let the copper network fall into disrepair. They did genuinely maintain it at a standard that was pretty close to if not as good as what Telstra did. Those copper cables though were designed for telephony and never designed for the Internet. Some of that copper is over 100 years old. If all the lines needed to handle were plain old telephone, Telstra was doing ok.
We'll never know whether Telecom would have gone to the Internet at all, as they were a telephone company. I can see Telecom in that alternate universe being all-in on mobile Internet though. It's an interesting thought discussion.
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What does a bunch of Aussies enjoying a holiday at the beach have to do with Israel?