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Fair call. Both major parties need to lift their game!
Fair call. Both major parties need to lift their game!
Question time has always been a spectacle demonstrating just how badly our elected officials can behave and I’m glad someone is calling it out. Of course, it should come as no surprise as to which party is the worst:
Figures provided by the Speaker’s office show there have been 198 ejections during the 47th parliament as of Tuesday 20 August. Of those, a Guardian Australia analysis shows 161 have been Coalition members, 36 Labor and one from the Greens.
ABC News segment on the theme remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoEHf21KgFk
If you’re happy with OpenDNS logging your traffic, you could set the router to use them as the DNS server (assuming your network is DHCP and your father-in-law’s devices just use whatever DNS server your router says). As long as one of your devices keeps OpenDNS updated with your IP (the one provided by your ISP), then you can look through the traffic to see what is being accessed (and even enabling category content blocking if you wish). Of course, if your father-in-law is IT savvy, he’ll just manually set the DNS server on his devices.
The crew should come back on the Dragon and Boeing be required to solve the problems and carry out another test flight. It is unacceptable that Boeing wants to bring the astronauts back without understanding some of the failures on the Starliner.
As someone who has inherited code like that, I would like to strangle the first programmer in the comic.
It’s way better than nothing and (last I saw) was still quite effective at preventing hospitalisation and severe disease, but definitely suffers a significant drop in preventing infection and symptomatic illness.
This is why you do staged rollouts of updates… not the entire planet at once.
Make sure it’s not whitespace sensitive and requires explicit typing, just to mess with everyone.
This measure of 199 out of 200 is the US population equivalent of 1,650,000 people.
So, roughly in the ballpark of how many COVID has killed thus far (best estimate I could find was a little over 1.2 million). Even that didn’t really motivate people, unfortunately.
Unless the human mortality rate is much higher than COVID, this is just going to be the same thing all over again. Vaccines take time to prepare and even though this is a flu strain (which should give us a headstart), there doesn’t seem to be much happening with this yet (even the US has only just started getting organised with an order of 4.8 million doses, which is a drop in the ocean if their burgeoning outbreak amongst livestock manages to jump to humans). Waiting until we have rampant human-to-human transmission to order vaccines will be too late.
I have actually encountered those sort of potential differences between ground planes. They can indeed wreak havoc under the right circumstances.
I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry.
My understanding is that we actually don’t have much of a warning (under an hour), since a CME has to reach the satellite at the Lagrange point between Earth and the Sun for us to know it’s about to hit Earth. According to the article below, this includes power companies, but I remain skeptical that there’s enough organisation in place to shut down the North American, European or Asian grids in 15 minutes.
In general, people are appallingly bad at weighing up long-term vs short-term stuff, both in terms of risks and benefits. It’s even worse when, as you say, there’s no definite deadline or it doesn’t directly affect those who can do something about it.
I agree. There were articles and documentaries about 20 years ago that I remember featuring these sort of events. The continent affected would take 20-30 years to rebuild its electricity grid.
Not necessarily. My cats love my office chair as well and sometimes I just grab another chair since I don’t have the heart to disturb them.
Ugh.
My experience has been that Coles paper bags were already weaker/more prone to tearing than the Woolworths ones, so looks like they are doubling-down on their inferior product.
Disagree. I have used the online chat function (am in Australia) and chatted with a rep a couple of times. In both cases they quickly solved my problem. I would prefer to buy elsewhere, but in some cases Amazon is the only way to get items from overseas and not have a massive hassle if they get damaged en route.
I’m not even American and I’m keen to see what the debate will be like. I seriously doubt Trump has enough self-control to stop himself lashing out at Harris, let alone the presence of mind to listen to his advisers!