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I'm not obliged to answer your questions, Lentern. But I have answered them implicitly anyway, not that I know why you're blathering on about them. To recap: I have a dim view of the Australian Liberal Party and its leaders. I simply acknowledge that they didn't run the economy into the ground...

Smart tactical move. I'm sure he's well aware that young people and migrants vote heavily in favour of Labour. I doubt he'd do it otherwise. I think it's a good move, though. Gets people involved in politics and thinking about their world at an earlier age. Proposal to lower voting age to...

Do I look like I'm about to vote for them?

Keating was sure as fuck better than Costello, but Keating was nonetheless a grumpy asshole.

Re: Why is there dust everywhere?

Hmm, good points.

No, it would just mean they were acting like the Liberals always do in opposition: vote against any good ideas that weren't put forth by them. :o

Rudd certainly has the longest popularity/approval streak in Australian history: The Long View – Pollytics

Re: Holy mother of dust storms The dust storm covered most of NSW. It hit Bathurst, Albury, Wagga, Orange, and Canberra at the very least. 16000 tonnes of dust was blown across NSW.

Even if we do fix Afghanistan, the problem is that the Taliban has just moved to Somalia. And if we go into another long, bloody peacekeeping mission in Somalia after Afghanistan, would the Taliban then just move to, say, Yemen? And that's assuming Pakistan doesn't collapse in the mean-time...

We could, but all the processing power will be spent on analysing the SKA's data. Even then most data will need to be dumped once analysed in real-time in memory, since no storage technology currently exists that wouldn't fill up to max capacity in the first day of use. An exaflops...

I'm not particularly impressed by Rudd's team. Howard's days were mediocre. He could've fucked the country up like Bush did America. He didn't. Howard wasn't bad by any means. But he barely saved anything (though the fact that a country/government is saving at all is a credit to it), and...

One thing I would love to see is a world full of democracies, or there-abouts (e.g. Singapore or some fictitious corporatist/anarchist states) where everyone is free to come and go from one country to another as they choose. The attitude against immigrants from the vocal bogan element in this...

Of the major advanced economies (OECD), Australia is the only one to stay out of recession so far, has the second-lowest unemployment, the lowest debt, and the lowest deficit. Also, Australian owns 4 of the worlds 9 remaining AA or higher rated banks.

You had to make quite a lot of leaps of faith and assumptions to get to your conclusion there. Feel good about yourself now? Any chance you can come back to these forums when you're not so shit?

Seriously though, I'm pretty convinced of an impending technological singularity.

Yeah, why is New Zealand so far behind economically? They're like Portugal. I mean, Israel and South Korea are behind because they had to build everything from scratch after WW2, so what's NZ and Portugal's excuses?

That's pretty good even for something with a tablet. Did you do that?

But this is a democracy; we can change it. It's been done before, and it will be done again. In fact, the beauty of democracy is that instead of being forced to adhere to an ideal no matter the cost, and see it through to the bitter end (e.g. communism), we can change the ideal as we go...

You're not even making sense Neb. You haven't even read the fucking thread. The SKA is the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope. Just go back to being banned son.