Search results

  1. withoutaface

    Credit points for working in Student Govt?

    HSC: 2008 Stop spreading your ignorance. If there were any credit point benefits for holding student positions, anywhere, I would know.
  2. withoutaface

    Do you buy a yearly train ticket?

    If you buy one to the City it will say City. If you buy one to Central it will say Central.
  3. withoutaface

    Carbon Tax versus Emissions Trading

    The Authority: This is what carbon taxes do. They heavily tax the big emitters and let renewable operators run for practically nothing. Graney: 1. Humphreys advocates a revenue neutral tax, so we could bump up the income tax threshold by a fair bit to compensate, thus mitigating the effect upon...
  4. withoutaface

    Carbon Tax versus Emissions Trading

    Brendan Nelson would be rolling on his backbench!
  5. withoutaface

    Carbon Tax versus Emissions Trading

    Also just for the record, ETS is far less market based than a tax, because it puts more discretionary power in the hands of the government to appease specific rentseekers (the coal industry being one).
  6. withoutaface

    Carbon Tax versus Emissions Trading

    The entire point of any climate change policy is to make burning coal more expensive and drive people to renewables. Why shouldn't those who emit the most be the most deeply affected?
  7. withoutaface

    Carbon Tax versus Emissions Trading

    This could shape up to be an interesting debate if the Coalition decides to run with a carbon tax policy and/or the Senate inquiry concludes that ETS is not the best way to go. Some resources on the subject: http://www.cis.org.au/policy_monographs/pm80.pdf this is written by John Humphreys of...
  8. withoutaface

    I have a friend...

    Repent and find Jesus.
  9. withoutaface

    Credit points for working in Student Govt?

    No, why the fuck would you? If you're doing it for the lines on your CV or for the money you're doing it for the wrong reasons.
  10. withoutaface

    Great Laptop Deal

    Ring them back and ask what's happening. With mine they had the guy managing my refund leave the company, not pass on the fact that my money needed to be refunded, and they didn't forward his emails to the general pool, so essentially I was trying to communicate with a non-existent employee.
  11. withoutaface

    Not Being Able To Feel Butterflies.

    You're chainsmoking guys either because you'd spent 5 years with only one of them and you want to break out of that in the most dramatic way possible, because you're not used to being alone or because you want your Mr Right and you want him now. Any of these or a combination are going to make...
  12. withoutaface

    Great Laptop Deal

    If it doesn't appear on the next CC statement (as they've guaranteed it will) will be giving instructions to a Solicitor.
  13. withoutaface

    Smoking a turn off?

    Stale cigarette smell all over their hair, clothes and hands, and the taste of tobacco. Showering and brushing of teeth often does not get rid of this.
  14. withoutaface

    Great Laptop Deal

    Never, ever buy HP. 4.5 months on, still waiting for a refund on my defective laptop.
  15. withoutaface

    How to ensure INFO1903 lectures are recorded?

    If you need to attend lectures to understand the content in IT subjects you shouldn't be doing IT. It's all in the fucking slides you nonce, and if you need clarification you use the textbook or Google.
  16. withoutaface

    How to ensure INFO1903 lectures are recorded?

    INFO2820 had pracs? It was just tutorials on predicate logic which is not assessed. OP is a retard.
  17. withoutaface

    Semester 1 Timetables

    Re: Summer '08-09 Chatter Thread 4 day timetable + 1 clash, one of those days being a single maths lecture. Problem with third year maths lectures is you're usually fucked if you can't attend.
  18. withoutaface

    bos o-week meet

    Will be there on Wednesday now.
  19. withoutaface

    Anti-Privatisation

    The average person does not claim back as much as they pay in premiums. This same person also pays back more on their home loan than they borrowed in the first place. Surprisingly enough they also get less public healthcare than they pay in taxes towards same. The consequences of paying a small...
  20. withoutaface

    Anti-Privatisation

    This one time on ACA they had a story about how health insurance companies take more in premiums than they give out in healthcare.
Top