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Re: Semester I 2007 - Chatter Thread! Fight the system, dude!

Re: Semester I 2007 - Chatter Thread! Why were there police in OTC? I was leaving it and I had to stand aside for about half a dozen policemen, and it's not as if it's a hotbed of crime or revolutionary discontent. I was sitting in the quad during the people-talking-to-the-crowd bit and one of...

Re: The Official Union Board Elections 2007 Thread Angus McStupidMySpace-StylePhoto, in Honi: I don't understand. Why does a candidate's position on VSU affect why you should vote for them? It's not as if the union board is in a position to reverse VSU.

I barely ever use either, so it doesn't affect me very much. :)

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It was stuffing up a bit for me earlier, but it's back now. Your mileage may vary.

Ha. Yeah, I have vertical fiscal imbalance and accountability issues on the brain at the moment, which sort of explains my overly detailed response to a dry-as-dust topic.

Or if you sleep with someone who has AIDS. Who might not be a junkie, but might have slept with someone else who has AIDS. And so on down the line. Also, there are a few non-HIV STDs that are really nasty, like syphilis. It's not as common as it once was, and damage can be averted if you get in...

Is there usually much difference between the draft version and the final version? I'm hoping that my two exams don't move, since they're pretty attractively placed at the moment.

Do my essays for me?

Anyone finding it ridiculously difficult to answer one of Prof Pryor's really broad questions in only a thousand words? Thank god for doing the tute presentation on the same subject, or I wouldn't know where to start.

Dawkins and co. are idiots. Reasonable people don't lump all Christians together.

Invalid comparison. 'Secular humanist associations' don't exist to do charity work, so it's unreasonable to compare them to an organisation that exists to do just that. But there are plenty of non-religious charities, and lots and lots and lots of secular humanists donate to charity or do...

Maybe 'shambles' is too strong a word. But the system badly needs reform, because it gives rise to blame-shifting and hence confuses accountability, which is bad for democracy. I mean, how do we come to a resolution of the dispute about private-school funding if no one even seems to know which...

I agree that something needs to be done about the federal-state issue. Federalism in Australia is an absolute shambles. Negotiation would probably be a better tactic than the federal government trying to impose things from on high, but Howard and Costello control the purse strings so they tend...

If anyone wants to read Kevin Rudd's keynote speech to the ALP national conference, entitled 'A Party for the Future', it's available here.

Most courses can be entered via the full-fee route, in which you pay the entire cost of the course upfront (although you can take a loan out from the government and pay it back through the tax system). The UAI cutoffs for full-fee are normally a few points below the HECS cutoffs, sometimes more...

Big Brother normally rates pretty acceptably. 1.1m or thereabouts, which is OK for a show in its seventh season. It also brings in lots of cash from all the SMS votes from teenage girls whose parents pay their phone bills, which is presumably why they now ask the audience to vote for what...

Re: The Official Union Board Elections 2007 Thread Couple of questions from a Usyd elections newbie: -How does the balloting and counting work? (Preferential, first-past-the-post, etc. I'm an elections nerd, I need to know these things.) -Does having an Access card automatically register you as...

Re: The Official Union Board Elections 2007 Thread Can we organise a duel? Pistols at dawn would liven up the campaign considerably.