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As an Australian, I am so grateful for compulsory voting.

> Should Australians brace themselves ? Australians are currently paying him billions for 2nd hand nuclear submarines (which are not likely to ever be delivered), so that they can …

My first thought was about Children Of Men https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/ (Which is a harrowing, yet brilliant, film)

Mel Brooks did not even try to defend against this. He is a huge admirer of her. He thought it was appropriate to pay her and apologise for any offence she may have taken from the …

It is wealthy people in highly affluent harbourside suburbs who are the customers for cocaine in Australia. It is not being consumed by 'junkies'. https://au.news.yahoo.com/affluen…

The 'flys' are the enormous curtains and backdrops used in theatre productions. They are raised and lowered to set new scenes in a production. They need a large space to be raised …

I wasn't sure what you were discussing. Like, what is a fly tower? So I went down a barbican rabbit hole and found this part of a video, where one of the theatre fly techs describe…

Indeed "It turns out that GPS must account for both special relativity and general relativity to deliver position at 1-meter level and time at 100-nanosecond level to its users." h…

I recall reading Kay Cottee's account of her solo unassisted circumnavigation in 1988. She was the first woman to do so. Part of her preparation was removing the labels from all ti…

> The use of mathematics to produce sounds resembling real instruments quickly became obsolete once we could just go out and sample the real thing. Sampling is a boring, brute-forc…

The article mentions Sydney harbours 18 foot racing skiffs. These are very light 3 man racing vessels with far more sail than boat. They are very fast and require all 3 crew to be …

> A lot of prescience is just paying enough attention Terry Gilliam said much the same thing when talking about making Brazil in the 1980s. "People think I am a prophet and that Br…

Jessica Watson's attempt (16yo) was non-stop, but fell just short of the required 21,600nm for an official record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Watson

This trial has its own website too. https://www.avatartherapytrial.com/what-is-avatar-therapy

What you really need is a Non-Linear Junction Detector. These can detect an unshielded device with transistors, even if it's off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_d…

This is how Australia's public broadcaster is funded. But it means politicians directly decide its budget, which makes it a political football.

Typically, they were managed based on level of fame, health, and age. Any notable persons named in recent news reports for matters of health were kept near the top of the pile. The…

> draft obituaries ready for all living celebrities, which have to be constantly updated I was responsible for doing this for a news radio network 30 years ago. Mostly I was able t…

My understanding is that pagers are typically radio Rx-only, and that it is not possible to track their location like a cellular device -- which is likely why Hezbollah chose to us…

I'm not sure that Infinite Fun Space is used to simulate the real. I got the impression that IFS is where Minds go to unwind and play in synthetic universes with rules of their own…

A Culture Mind would be deeply offended if you called it "An AI" to its avatars face :P

> You might want to live there, but I wouldn't. Virtually all humans in the books [...] are kept as pets by the ships, for amusement, basically as clowns. I got the impression that…

Do people at Antarctic research stations ever hear this sound?