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AusGAF IV - A No Hope, Government - Double the price, region locked and now adults
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hamchan said:
Thats probably what I'll do. Being on good terms with the store helps, but some will let you buy the new one, take it home, do the transfer, then get the same trade value for the old system the next day once you copy everything over. It's a minor hassle but some will do it especially if theyre low on inventory.
If in doubt, get the manager to sign a quoted price on the receipt and you should still be able to get the deal on it. I did exactly that for the 3DS release/DSi trade in, only it turned out I had too much in DSiWare to make up for the price difference given the e-shop was delayed til long after the trade in deal expired. But now the e-shop is running, you're golden.
midonnay said:
they floated Telstra on the stockmarket. It sells things, it can make money and profits and suits to float on the stockmarket
the ABC is a non-commercial entity that does not suit the stockmarket at all. It would have to be a private by out by 7 or 9 or the like
and then mediawatch would go, and people would crack it that we do not have a so called indepedant media station.
Also ABC is incredibly INCREDIBLY important to regional australia. Its not until you talk to people who grew up there, or live there that you get how big it is out there
RandomVince said:
SBS is only partly funded by the Federal Government and is a commercial entity
its allowed to have advertising
SBS Analogue (yes i know its going dodo way) also runs on UHF and is not as accessible as the ABC
it also does not have teh billion radio stations in regional areas that the ABC has or the resources
the ABC being sold would be seen as a disaster for regional australia and even if it was coalition policy BobKat would say no
So my job situation seems to have ground to a halt. Despite it sounding all urgent on Friday, with my manager telling me they'd try and get it all worked out on Monday, nothing has happened. At this point it looks like she's stalling, hoping it just all goes away :S
So now I'm going to send an email to my manager's manager to try and get things moving.
Then, HR I guess.
So now I'm going to send an email to my manager's manager to try and get things moving.
Then, HR I guess.
legend166 said:
You should approach your boss again and remind her about 'monday' before you go to the next level. If you are pissed about the response, then go to the next level but you need to prove you have done everything you can at your level
going above your manager is a big step and there is no turning back. You need to be ready for the shit storm that could go down.
Sutton Dagger
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I was really looking forward to Dead Island (PC) but apparently the co-op isn't working and you can't even use a 360 headset with the controller atm. Looks like i'll be playing solo.
viciouskillersquirrel
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The Greens got unprecedented gains in the last election. A double dissolution election is as likely to reverse that situation as preserve it.Agyar said:
http://www.bigw.com.au/Offer/BigGam...edium=Homepage&utm_campaign=2_BigGameBargains
Dead Island $58 PS3/360 today.
Somethings telling me not to get it though :/.
Dead Island $58 PS3/360 today.
Somethings telling me not to get it though :/.
Sutton Dagger
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jambo said:Just like every other night
Hahaha, I was actually looking forward to trying out co-op though...I swear
viciouskillersquirrel
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Yes they can. Hardcore MH fans are insane.commanderdeek said:
Choc said:
all those arguments about the needs of country people were made against the sale of Telstra but really the Nationals are just a puppet party.
the Coalition would protect themselves against those attacks by compelling the new company to follow a charter similar to how Telstra is forced to maintain a basic phone service under the Universal Service Obligation.
its the perceived bias of the public broadcaster that they really want to kill off.
Furthermore, tv broadcast licenses are valuable. There are only a handful of them and they're protected from competition.
The ABC also has a strong brand and lots of other ventures like radio, retail etc.
Some dude is streaming Diablo 3 folks: http://www.twitch.tv/wigens
viciouskillersquirrel said:
Which in itself hardly provides any support for this idea of privatising the ABC.
I also don't buy into the News Ltd. heralding of The Greens destruction. They've been calling for it since the election, giving the impression The Greens are overrepresented in Parliament and managed to gain their one House of Reps Member and nine Senators through some fluke. I don't believe that most of the voters who put The Greens first are going to return to voting for one of the two major parties considering dissatisfaction with their policies and leadership had them voting for The Greens in the first place.
viciouskillersquirrel
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I just wish there were a political party out there that represented my views.Agyar said:
Ugh, you know what shits me off?
Political debate in Australia. Religion vs Secularism debates. 3DS/PS Vita fanboy wars already. GAF hysteria. Hype campaigns. Carbon tax debate. People who dont understand the meaning of the word 'skeptic'. West coast eagles/fremantle fans in WA. Blowflies. The lack of a local Skyward Sword CE confirmation. Getting up at 5am every day. All of Australia's media, every last fucking bit of it. Running over lizards by accident. Working alone all day long. Cheap coffee. And the inevitability that Carlton will win this weekend and Collingwood the grand final.
I need to play some Pac Man.
Political debate in Australia. Religion vs Secularism debates. 3DS/PS Vita fanboy wars already. GAF hysteria. Hype campaigns. Carbon tax debate. People who dont understand the meaning of the word 'skeptic'. West coast eagles/fremantle fans in WA. Blowflies. The lack of a local Skyward Sword CE confirmation. Getting up at 5am every day. All of Australia's media, every last fucking bit of it. Running over lizards by accident. Working alone all day long. Cheap coffee. And the inevitability that Carlton will win this weekend and Collingwood the grand final.
I need to play some Pac Man.
Tony Abbott no matter what he says will never repeal a carbon tax if it gets up. Politicians promise the world and deliver nothing once in office.
Labor promised to repeal the GST, didnt happen. In fact name the last Australian government which repealed a tax after winning office that the previous Government introduced?
The thing is to do it, you have to give up money coming into the government and it affects all sorts of budgets and surpluses and blah blah blah
he will come up with some excuse. Most of what abbott is promising won't happen. The DAP is significantly more costlier than the Carbon Tax plan and so he will scrap that (he does not believe in climate change, there is no doubt of this) and the NBN he can't tear up now because if he does he has to pay Telstra 30 billion
Abbott is all puff with no fire right now. No policies to speak of, no offering something better to the Government except No, and no true alternate views.
I don't support Gillard, but how can you vote for someone who has no policies? We did this in NSW (BOF who just shitted on about 10 years of labor waste and people ate up every bit of it) and now every policy he is making majority are coming out saying I DIDNT VOTE FOR THIS.
well no, you didnt because he didnt bloody tell you he would do that because you didnt force him to make policies. Don't make the same mistake Federally Australia.
Labor promised to repeal the GST, didnt happen. In fact name the last Australian government which repealed a tax after winning office that the previous Government introduced?
The thing is to do it, you have to give up money coming into the government and it affects all sorts of budgets and surpluses and blah blah blah
he will come up with some excuse. Most of what abbott is promising won't happen. The DAP is significantly more costlier than the Carbon Tax plan and so he will scrap that (he does not believe in climate change, there is no doubt of this) and the NBN he can't tear up now because if he does he has to pay Telstra 30 billion
Abbott is all puff with no fire right now. No policies to speak of, no offering something better to the Government except No, and no true alternate views.
I don't support Gillard, but how can you vote for someone who has no policies? We did this in NSW (BOF who just shitted on about 10 years of labor waste and people ate up every bit of it) and now every policy he is making majority are coming out saying I DIDNT VOTE FOR THIS.
well no, you didnt because he didnt bloody tell you he would do that because you didnt force him to make policies. Don't make the same mistake Federally Australia.
reptilescorpio
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Another day wasted because of IT problems on the other side of the continent. Joy. Tomorrow should be a barrel of fun!
Fuck you we won't do what you tell us!
Teachers are gangster.
Mildura didn't even have Channel 10 15 years ago, we had to point our antenna in the Swan Hill direction and people 20km west of us couldn't get it at all. Basically farmers grew up on ABC only changing the channel for the footy or cricket eventually. Different story these days though of course.Choc said:
Once you go double dutch there ain't no turning back. Except, maybe, for triple dutch, but that is a lot of dutch to handle.Agyar said:
Fuck the police.Choc said:
Fuck you we won't do what you tell us!
Teachers are gangster.
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
The PSV/3DS system warrior bullshit going on in today's threads is just mental. A peripheral gets announced and suddenly every idiot with a keyboard is auguring a brave new technosupremacist controconservative future. I mean what happened today was interesting, but the way some people are behaving, it's like the battle of Agincourt just happened.RandomVince said:
reptilescorpio
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We will and it will happen again next election. People don't learn lessons. Politicians say what they need to get into power and then hope the other party is too stupid to win power next election. Same thing happened down here in VIC. Same thing will happen again. In any case whoever wins we lose, none of the parties interest me very much.Choc said:
Almost worth chucking the big boy hat to Katter and seeing where we would end up with him. Would be one heck of a ride and a splitting headache the night after.
reptilescorpio
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The best thread was the one about how Sony need to fix the Vita control problems now. lols.RandomVince said:
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