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Amoeba102 posted:The ALP ha been trialing plain packaging for politicians for a while.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 01:57 |
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ewe2 posted:I'm cool with it cos I gave up smoking but Sinclair Davison (paid consultant for Big Tobacco) has a GRAPH: It's really too early to know if plain packaging has had a real impact. It won't really be possible until the people who were 12-16 or so when plain packaging came in are in their 20s and you can compare their smoking rates to the current ones.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 02:02 |
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I think NSW is worse than QLD politically because we got rid of Campbell Newman pretty quickly and actually paid attention to all the poo poo he was doing. NSW seems to be under some hypersleep and Baird is ticking off every single Conservative wet dream one by one while still being extremely popular. On top of this, the worse QLD has to worry about is one or two Katters whereas NSW has to deal with Shooters and CDP
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 02:05 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:How do you feel about plain packaging? Ha ha, what's the point if the racks still have the logo (that would be on the box) anyway? For R Rated games I don't mind it, especially if the back cover has some salacious screenshots on it you don't want a kiddy seeing. As long as you get the proper box when you buy it.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 02:07 |
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I'm fairly sure one of those games is Watch Dogs and I approve of anything to have less people waste their money on that corporate disasterpiece
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In news that will surprise noone, pensioners are ripping off millenials all round the world http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/revealed-30-year-economic-betrayal-dragging-down-generation-y-income
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Lid posted:I'm fairly sure one of those games is Watch Dogs and I approve of anything to have less people waste their money on that corporate disasterpiece Glad I got it free with my video card, I couldn't even bring myself to finish the bland story. It was the Bill Shorten of games.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 02:20 |
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ewe2 posted:I'm cool with it cos I gave up smoking but Sinclair Davison (paid consultant for Big Tobacco) has a GRAPH: What the gently caress does that graph even mean?
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QUACKTASTIC posted:Glad I got it free with my video card, I couldn't even bring myself to finish the bland story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T4__svBnTw
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 02:32 |
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I need to remember to check tags before clicking unlabelled youtubes.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 02:54 |
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holy gently caress
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 02:57 |
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4edgy8me
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 02:59 |
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I have the Wii U version I am going to play it and finish it.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 03:00 |
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Lol if you go to shops to buy things that aren't clothes.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 03:15 |
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Endman posted:What the gently caress does that graph even mean? I think he's trying to argue that bringing in plain packaging made no difference to focus groups asked the question "do you like the packaging" comparing plain packaging and their branding because apparently that's all that matters now, because somehow we can avoid talking about the carcinogenic product in said packaging. I'm wondering whether he's taking a section of the graph ala CC deniers to make it look better, but I cbf checking the data because I'm not a statistics guy.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 03:44 |
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To be fair pack attractiveness is the kind of measure people in favour of plain packaging use as well. In the absence of any real data about smoking rates it's all that's left. e.g. http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_2/ii42.full
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 03:51 |
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AFR screech piece by John Stone, my bolding (gently caress, he's 87, he must keep his phylactery well hidden):Right wing looney John Stone whined posted:The Turnbull government has repeated the policy laziness of Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey by mulling tax cuts without spending cuts. Stone got in as a Nationals Senator in 1987 after annoying everyone as a Treasury Secretary whereupon he gave forth what he thought of asians etc. Tried to move to the Reps after only 3 years and failed miserably hahaha. Fucker sends a memo to a govt and wonders why they screwed it up in a ball. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Mar 8, 2016 |
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ewe2 posted:AFR screech piece by John Stone, my bolding (gently caress, he's 87, he must keep his phylactery well hidden): The continued existence of the AFR baffles me. You can get better journalism and technical anaylsis from other sources, and don't have to put up with all the shilling for rent-seekers
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evilbastard posted:
The classic hornets have about 2-6 years of flying left on the airframe depending on the specific aircraft. They need replacing sooner rather than later. We could save a poo poo ton of money by buying less 35s and throwing more money to Boeing for super hornets instead or by going for something from Europe that we could build here.
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Mr Chips posted:The continued existence of the AFR baffles me. You can get better journalism and technical anaylsis from other sources, and don't have to put up with all the shilling for rent-seekers It's got good writers (eg Chenowith and Tingle), but for-profit-print-journalism is going to die, yeah.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 04:11 |
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The worst is Robert Gottliebesen in the Australian: "now here's what my good mate Harry Triguboff told me about the apartment market".
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 04:17 |
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Mr Chips posted:The continued existence of the AFR baffles me. You can get better journalism and technical anaylsis from other sources, and don't have to put up with all the shilling for rent-seekers Never underestimate the draw of the rusted on. It's far stronger a pull than critically thinking about the world around you.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 04:24 |
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Australia's airstrike capability exists mainly so that when America bombs some brown people they can say it's OK because other white people are doing it too. Like that's an oversimplification obviously but RAAF pilots are already flying American drones in Syria. Just a matter of time using Reapers against refugee boats becomes a cool and good policy in the eyes of Australians.
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Negligent posted:Australia's airstrike capability exists mainly so that when America bombs some brown people they can say it's OK because other white people are doing it too. Like the only reason Billy Hughes was allowed into the league of nations is because he'd say all the racist poo poo USA wouldn't. Surely we've earned a couple of free fighter jets from being the Donald Trump of international relations over the years
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 04:44 |
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I saw a father and son in Target and the kid who looked about 5, in earshot of me at the counter and therefore the cashier serving me, says "thats the game I want daddy, GTA 5" and he brings it up to the counter and the cashier says 'this game is R18, I cant sell it to you if its for your son'. the Dad says "oh. well. its for me?' and the cashier just rolls her eyes and says 'ok' So yeah not sure why we spend any money on this poo poo when parents dont seem to care (until they see their child playing a game with boobs in it then holy smokes someone should ban these games from children!!1)
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 05:16 |
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It's cool that auspol is turning into Jane's Defence.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 05:18 |
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The whole classification system is just legislating morality and is incredibly open to abuse. It should be abolished and replaced with a voluntary, industry led and funded, system that media producers can buy into if they think it will help with marketing.
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open24hours posted:The whole classification system is just legislating morality and is incredibly open to abuse. It should be abolished and replaced with a voluntary, industry led and funded, system that media producers can buy into if they think it will help with marketing. Yeah. No one seems to give a poo poo about it besides christian lobby groups who would rather the content just be banned anyway, or parents well after they've purchased COD/GTA/<violent/sexual game of the week here>. as an adult I dont give a poo poo what a game is rated and really any game that relies on violence or sex to sell usually is garbage anyway (ie. Hatred, thrill kill)
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open24hours posted:The whole classification system is just legislating morality and is incredibly open to abuse. It should be abolished and replaced with a voluntary, industry led and funded, system that media producers can buy into if they think it will help with marketing. Isn't that what America has? And isn't their setup just as insane and arbitrary because it just comes down to the judgement of six old guys and nobody will carry a thing they haven't rated?
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Cleretic posted:Isn't that what America has? And isn't their setup just as insane and arbitrary because it just comes down to the judgement of six old guys and nobody will carry a thing they haven't rated? It's all voluntary and self-organised so I don't know what you can do about that. Theatres don't have to show movies if they don't want to. Maybe you could appeal against it due to anti-competitive behaviour or something?
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open24hours posted:The whole classification system is just legislating morality and is incredibly open to abuse. It should be abolished and replaced with a voluntary, industry led and funded, system that media producers can buy into if they think it will help with marketing. I can't tell if you're serious or not. Auspol is buried under so many levels of irony and disingenuous rhetoric that I'm completely unable to interpret anything at face value.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 05:50 |
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Graic Gabtar posted:It's cool that auspol is turning into Jane's Defence.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 05:51 |
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Endman posted:I can't tell if you're serious or not. Auspol is buried under so many levels of irony and disingenuous rhetoric that I'm completely unable to interpret anything at face value. I cant either and that scares me.
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Endman posted:I can't tell if you're serious or not. Auspol is buried under so many levels of irony and disingenuous rhetoric that I'm completely unable to interpret anything at face value. Do you support book banning?
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 06:05 |
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I guess its been long enough since an IWC rereg that everyone forgot the signs.
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 06:07 |
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open24hours posted:Do you support book banning? It depends. Which books?
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Box Hill Strangler posted:I guess its been long enough since an IWC rereg that everyone forgot the signs. not subtle enough to be iwc imo
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 06:11 |
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Cleretic posted:It depends. Which books? Any book. Should it be possible for a government to ban a book assuming it doesn't depict an actual crime like a snuff book or whatever?
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open24hours posted:Any book. Should it be possible for a government to ban a book assuming it doesn't depict an actual crime like a snuff book or whatever? Are you talking about banning OJ's book?
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# ? Mar 8, 2016 06:18 |
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I can think of a book the government would like banned.
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