What is the point of having a carbon tax if you’re going to then exempt activities that burn carbon??
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-05-18/carbon-tax-needs-to-leave-out-fuel-oakeshott/2718036
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Tobacco company executives predicting the end of Australian civilization* if the federal government introduces plain packaging for cigarettes.
*That’s not exactly what they are predicting, but they’re moaning so much that it sounds much the same.
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Middle class/wealthy people who have just had their ridiculously generous 60c/kwh solar feed-in tariff downgraded to a merely extravagantly generous 40c/kwh feed-in tariff by the NSW government.
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Here’s a cryptic puzzle for those of you who like them: In Microsoft Word 2007 shade the background of a table cell with a custom colour. Close Word and re-open the document so that your custom colour is no longer in the ‘recently used colours’ list. How do you then shade another cell in the table with the same colour??
This seemingly simple task turns out to be more complicated than you’d expect. One answer is:
Use the “Reveal Formatting” pane (Shift F1) to inspect the existing shaded table cell to find out the RGB values of the shading, then use these values in selecting the custom colour for the new cell.
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Kone Ka Estate Peaberry coffee beans from PNG.
Yummmm. My new favourite.
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When is a reward not a reward? I just got a phone call from my home telephony provider offering me the “reward” of a free mobile handset… so that they can sign me up to some expensive mobile plan and suck my wallet dry in mobile call usage. No thanks.
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Ambiguous headline from ABC news online… When I saw …
“Swan breaks glass in budget grilling”
I immediately pictured an avian crash through a cheap and poorly fabricated ceramic ventilation panel … when actually it was the federal treasurer dropping a drinking vessel while being interviewed about our national finances.
Now if it was somehow a combination of these two possibilities, that’d be a story!
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Advertising = “sophisticated and sustained lying”
Case in point … I don’t care how many tens of thousands of billboards they proclaim it from across the country, chicken and salad stuck between two bun halves by an unmotivated, sleep deprived, absent-minded, pimply teenager can never be truthfully described as
“a little bit fancy”
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