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  2. Posted

    A fair fight is a fair fight, no matter which way you look at it, and fine in my books, but clobbering people on the back of the head without them expecting it, threatening rape, massive weight of numbers, thats just something you don't do. Really, how pathetic are some people?

    The whole thing really questions the morals of the people involved, besides it being pretty awful.

  4. Posted

    Don't get me wrong, what I said was not my personal opinion, but how I was assuming the public view to be formed in regards to whether he should be sentenced to death or not.

    would your view extend to aussie women, or gay people, serving time (or losing their lives, or being mutilated) in accordance with Saudi Arabian local islamic laws, for example, for "offenses" which are tolerated or even celebrated, in some circles, in liberal society?

    What makes a person homosexual? who knows, science doesn't even know exactly, but its most likely not a choice the person makes knowing the punishment, likewise with the sex of a child, its not a choice the person makes, so no that view obviously wouldn't extend to those circumstances.

    my own view is that dumb or cruel laws should be denounced as dumb or cruel, cultural sensitivities notwithstanding. Call that my disgraceful culturally imperialistic hitchens-esque bias ;-)

    allah knows there are some bloody dumb laws Down Under too, and we don't feel disinclined to criticize them, do we? even if a vast section of the population is in support of said dumb rules.

    people are people, so laws are laws. And laws & punishments should be denounced for what they are, when appropriate, in my opinion..

    If this was such a stupid law, where has the fuss been for the last 20 or so years when the first Australians were convicted to death? Maybe this guy will serve as a martyr to change, sadly that seems to be the only way people respond, is to these sorts of extremes, just human nature I guess.

    And by the way I almost totally agree with your culturally imperialistic bias: A society that tolerates little is an intolerable society.

  5. Posted

    Personally I am of the opinion that the general public view is more sympathetic than it seems by saying he deserves death. I think its more the acknowledgement that that is what the law says in Singapore, not whether it is right or wrong. From that perspective he should serve the punishment, and as a foreigner visiting that country you have to accept that and the consequences, after all it is a different country and a different culture.

  6. Posted

    Some Dandy Warhols:

    Well my friends do me so right

    I'm lucky this far

    maybe it's karma

    I get over them, but

    only at times

    and I thank my lucky stars

    I wish I may, I wish that I might

    just keep an open mind

    all of the time

    my old man told me one time

    you never get wise, you only get older

    and most things, you never know why

    but that's fine

    when the future is frightening

    and I seem to be fighting it

    well soon as it's brightening

    then I, I feel fine, and then I

    I feel fine

    I want a god who stays dead

    not plays dead

    I, even, I, can play dead

    Again and again I get up and say

    I only want to get it right.

    I only want to do the right thing,

    but are these demons, I ask myself.

    I wonder today, I'm alone, but then

    No one can make their own life.

    No one can say that they're an island

    When all this freedom that you get is a lie.

  7. Posted

    I'm pretty sure that you have to accept a job if you're offered it now, or at least turn up to an interview if offered one while on the dole, unless you want to lose your benefits now, so that sounds the same.

    The thing I most fear about this proposed IR reform is that instead of getting or asking for wage rises, people are looking towards selling back their own entitlements just to get by, which in my opinion should be a last resort rather than what it is being made out to be now: as a legitimate way to get more cash in hand for workers.

    In turn that is going to increase productivity, efficiency by having the same people in the same jobs instead of temps, results in more of these "assistant" or lower paid roles, execs and bosses reap the rewards, very little if any seeps back to the real workers, the rich get richer, take their holidays which they can afford to because they can afford to not cash them in, while the general population of peasants struggle to live off the land.

    Sounds Midievil. All hail King Howard or face the consequence: :crux:

    But hopefully society has come far enough to realise that its the peasant roles that actually turn the wheels rather than steer the cart of a society, and they get suitable compensated.

  9. Posted

    I think its quite pathetic of someone to seek validation of their actions in this way, regardless of who they are. In a way it could be quite incriminating for a normal person if they were found to be sane, yet "blaming" their actions on a higher entity rather than themselves shows they knew what they were doing was wrong, either morally or legally. In a way its kind of similar to a trait that some serial killers have been known to possess.

    Still how are you supposed to learn from your mistakes if you're not responsible for your own thoughts and/or actions?

  10. Posted

    I think compulsory voting is a good thing cause it makes people stop and think (at least for a second) about how this country is going to be run.

    Thats a great point because it can keep the general population educated about the politicians and keep them accountable for all sectors of society, but its also a bad point because how many people before the last election were scared into voting liberal by their "labor raise taxes" advertisement campaign, even though it was a moot arguement due to no labor government in power with a gst?

    It also raises the point that if voting is voluntary, are their limits on the number of terms, as in the USA, and does Australia have a high enough population for it to work?

  13. Posted

    waterdragon:

    so are these people actually guilty of something? if so go and arrest the fuckers. whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? does anyone really think that these laws, like all others before them, will not be abused? locking people up without charge, what fucking country are we living in?

    incredible that the fucking idiot beazley was going for something even more draconian than howard, who is he trying to impress?

    Yeah thats what I've been thinking, how can you prove that someone is not a potential terror threat?

    :confused:

    Far too ambiguous to be of any use.

  14. Posted

    One thing I never understood after the London bombs was the talk of searching public transport passengers bags (for bombs presumably) which was never logical.

    Imagine it. You're prepared to die, sitting on a bus with a bag containing a bomb in it, wanting to blow it up when it gets somewhere preplanned. Someone asks to look in your bag. Guess you'd give it to them, just to have it blow up in their face, like some sort of last sick joke.

    If it has/does/will go ahead that will be another well thought out deterrent.

  15. Posted

    You're location says Adelaide, so I would take a guess and say the last 3 months have been too cold and not strong enough sunlight around to wake the cacti up.

    A few of my older pachs just started growing again the other week after being repotted, and they hadn't been moved anywhere over the colder months.

    But maybe your cacti are just lazy. :D

  18. Posted

    Torsten:

    My stomach churns when they say "I made it because I had god on my side".

    Maybe they are extremists, capable of potential terrorist activities. The governments should take heed and watch them closely. :rolleyes:

    But I've always thought that religion and god was more about hope and strength for something better than what exists now, rather than it being an actual being. In this case, sort of like saying "it was gods will" rather than "shit happens".

    In my opinion, the looting says a lot about the underlying fabric of a society though, basically that of a mentality to capitalise for oneself under any circumstance

  21. Posted

    Torsten:

    why did the govvy state it as a 'power surge'? especially since one explosion was on a bus.

    The bus explosion occured after the initial train bombing(s?) and reactions were that it could have been a power surge, maybe they could feel similar, never experienced any of them personally so I have no idea. And maybe to also stop a spread of mass panic by initially talking down the severity of what had happened.

    I also heard that Israel had warned of attacks that same morning.

    What I don't get is the timing of it, it is in no way going to detract from the g8 summit thats going on, because there has been too much fuss over that previously with live 8 and other world involved build ups, and far too many nations involved with that for it to be let to be a distraction and for the nations involved to escape the need for African aid as a result of it.

  22. Posted

    A good call on average minimum to maximum temperatures would be 5-12 degrees, but there hasn't been many cloudy nights.

    To post a photo you either need to have the photo posted on your own personal image site and link to it from there, or upload it to the link posted up a few posts.

  24. Posted

    strangebrew:

    Had a look just before all this last rain - diddly squat, not even a fly!

    Only a few laughing gyms. :(

    I saw a heap of flys on the sunday just been, in a lot of various stages.

  25. Posted

    I've never been sure how expansion of the universe is plausible? Isn't it just another term for the light from that distance of "expansion", which takes what billions of years to reach earth, finally reaching here, after being fractured and refractured, bent, even slowed down or sped up through different gases that may not exist anywhere in our solar system, thus causing the appearance of an expanding universe.

    And then if the universe is expanding, why are we the center of it, wouldn't we also be getting further away from stars on the other side of the sphere of the universe, and keeping closer distances to the stars that are, at a given time time, the same distance from earth and our sun, but on the same side of the expansion.

    sorry, bit of a hijack and ramble at that. :rolleyes:

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