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Melbourne ranked world's third most liveable city by the Economist Magazine
Sorry...but how? I mean I'm glad we've beaten Sydney at something this decade, but I can't see how that's possible. If it helps, it means we are the top-ranked in the Southern Hemisphere.
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2010-02-12, 19:36 | Link #6063 |
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"“Famous Americans are the priority objectives of Castro’s intelligence,” reports
Fernandez. “When the celebrity visitors arrived at the Hotels Nacional, Meliá Habana and Meliá Cohiba, we already had their rooms completely bugged with sophisticated taping equipment. But not just the rooms, we’d also follow the visitors around, sometimes we covered them 24 hours a day. They had no idea we were tailing them.”" See: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hf...candid-camera/ |
2010-02-12, 19:55 | Link #6064 |
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The funnel-web isn't one you come across often. Besides, it is a very modern city, it just never struck me as liveable. We have a crap transport system, traffic congestion, a rather poisonous looking river and we still get the majority of our power from coal plants in Latrobe Valley. Our weather changes quicker than a model changes clothes during a fashion shoot, and all the west end of the city has to show for itself is a massive bridge that has to compete against the Sydney Harbour bridge.
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2010-02-12, 20:00 | Link #6065 | |
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2010-02-12, 20:23 | Link #6067 | |
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Winter Olympics Luge Slider DEAD
Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luge slider competing at the Vancouver Olympics, died today after crashing during a training run and hitting a metal pole. He was 21. According to the Vancouver Sun, Kumaritashvili was traveling at speeds greater than 90 miles per hour at the time of the crash. The luge track had been called the fastest ever, and the AP notes that concerns were raised even before the fatal crash: Quote:
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2010-02-12, 21:42 | Link #6068 | |
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what's snagging my attention as questions are: 1: What is tenure? (In simpletons terms, in addition to the info that I already quoted) 2: Why are people actually trying to justify murder on the the campus president or faculty members? 3: What situation is the education system there in regards to tenure/budgets/faculty members, that drives some students to feeling that they gotta end a few lives via their disappointment? It's another American upper education 101 lesson needed here, anyone care to share light? (Not that I'm looking at your way at all Vexx...) *coughs*
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The "traditional" path for a junior faculty member can be thought of "up or out"; you either get tenure at your school, or you leave (or are asked to leave) for somewhere else. The closest thing it resembles, IMHO, is the apprentice/journeyman/master system. "Apprentice" would be the PhD student, "journeyman" would be the junior faculty, and "master" would be the tenured professor. Quote:
You are basically bounced from school to school and going lower tier-wise with every step. Unless you have the right connections, the chances of your staying at the same level are low, IMHO. There will always be the questions like "If he was so good, why wasn't he given tenure?" following him, and an university at the same tier can always find someone either better or more published.
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2010-02-13, 01:17 | Link #6071 | |
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2010-02-13, 02:01 | Link #6072 | |
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You are right about the second amendment being there for a reason. However, it just isn't as relevant today as it was when the constitution was written. Most people today don't need to fend off Indian attacks after stealing their land or defend their picinic baskets from bears, and the militia thing is covered by the National Guard. Hunting for food isn't necessary today either. The only reasons to have a gun today, unless you live in the more remote areas of the country or are a cop or soldier, are to collect them or for sport shooting. Carrying one for defense is probably either not going to be needed or will get you in trouble.
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2010-02-13, 02:10 | Link #6073 | |
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It's not guns that kill people. It's people that kill people. Guns are merely a tool. They could also use bats, knives, hammers, or even cars. It is nothing more than a tool and what it does, is decided by the user. All the reasons you listed for the 2nd Amendment is all well and good, but they are not the only reasons why it exists. There is another. |
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2010-02-13, 02:22 | Link #6074 |
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Banning guns only prevent lawful citizens from defending themselves (+ placebo effect for some, but most of our laws atm are for "placebo people," so what the heck ). It doesn't prevent a psycho from killing people.
@justinstrife: well, that reason is not valid anymore with the scale of our army... But hey the deadliest weapon atm is the AK-47, which is pretty easy to fabricate. |
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2010-02-13, 02:34 | Link #6076 | |||
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Most of these psychos turn out to have bought the gun legally or have stolen it from someone who did.
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2010-02-13, 02:37 | Link #6077 |
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Lynnie already answered the "tenure" question. Its basically a civilized agreement with the university that the professor will not be booted out what they research or what they teach or the way they do it. It has the intention of preventing the destruction of academic freedom and is much coveted. In these crappy economic times, tenure is almost impossible to get. Not to justify her violence, it probably erupted in pure frustration and a feeling of victimization.
I'd rather this thread not derail into gun rights theory arguments.... I grew up with guns (been in my family and my wife's family for generations), trained with guns (school rife club, scouting, my dad), and know them for the tools they are. In the US, the police are NOT REQUIRED to prevent crime - that's settled legal precedent. Most police officers WANT the public to be *knowledgeably* armed for self-defense (only politically appointed police chiefs toe the PC anti-gun line). That said... there are parts of the US where I don't feel the need for a gun and parts where I do. Both my wife and I have CCW permits, both my sons are trained in the subject. If I don't have access to a gun - I have access to many other tools as almost anything can be used as a weapon. But only guns permit you to derail a threat at a distance. Well... crossbows and bow (which I also know how to use... as well as mace and sword for closer issues). Frankly, I don't know what to do with crazy people other than get everyone else out of their "bubblewrap" mentality about their surroundings and how-to-be-aware.
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Actually.. its hilarious how no one almost ever thinks of them as actual weapons. I've carried swords and nasty pointy things into some amazing places with security not even blinking (Halloween, SCA events after work, NASA locations, Air Force bases, school talks for medieval history, etc).
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