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McLovin said:
Of course there is, but they're not two homogenous, discrete entities. It's nuanced like I said with a big overlap. I'm fairly certain that "the left" (why is the definite article even used?) do not condone crashing vans laden with gas tanks into the offices of those with whom they disagree with.
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Yes, overlap. Many traditional Labor voters have right wing views, likewise Liberal voters left wing views.

However, there is the phenomenon of attitude polarization which pushes people out to the relative extremes. Most people either identify as either left or right, Horace being a very good example. A fair few of his could be considered fairly right, yet he strongly identifies with the left.
 
Looks good. Never seen this forum software before but it looks clean and easy to use :cool:

Are the formatting commands the same?
 
PZ99 said:
Looks good. Never seen this forum software before but it looks clean and easy to use :cool:

Are the formatting commands the same?
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Mostly, although I am fairly new to it as well. Take a look at the help section for BB codes: https://www.aussiestockforums.com/help/bb-codes

The posting interface should be relatively familiar, but if you have any specific questions please feel free to ask.
 
wayneL said:
Yes, overlap. Many traditional Labor voters have right wing views, likewise Liberal voters left wing views.
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Personally I'm somewhat to the Right when it comes to economics and somewhat to the Left when it comes to social issues.

Freedom, personal responsibility, genuine free markets etc are things I'm in favour of.

But there should be a welfare safety net for those who, for whatever reason, find themselves in need of help. Likewise nobody in Australia should go without medical care regardless of their financial circumstances - in a reasonably wealthy country we ought to be able to look after those who are sick. As for issues like gay marriage, well rationally I'd expect a political party which supports freedom, personal responsibility etc to be a strong supporter of that one or at the very least not to oppose it.

If an election were held tomorrow then:

Federal - I'm undecided. Neither major party impresses me at the moment. If either side comes up with a credible long term vision and a realistic plan to implement it then they'll have my vote.

State (Tas) - Labor certainly. Not that I'm overly keen on the present Labor leader at the state level but I do think he's learned something from his past mistakes so may as well give him a fair go. If the Liberals weren't trying to hide the deficit then I'd have a more favourable view of them but I'm none to keen on this caper of shuffling problems into the future for whoever is in government at the time to deal with.
 
Joe Blow said:
BREAKING NEWS: ASF Changes Forum Software - World Shocked! :eek:
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I like it Joe.

I like the like feature after being on FaceAche for so long now.

I wish there was a feature where you could like the fact that someone liked your post.
 
wayneL said:
I like it Joe.

I like the like feature after being on FaceAche for so long now.

I wish there was a feature where you could like the fact that someone liked your post.
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Honestly, this software is like a breath of fresh air. vBulletin had become a stale, festering remnant of another age that has long since past. While in its day it was great, the company that owned vBulletin (Jelsoft Enterprises) got taken over in 2009 by a company that didn't have a clue (Internet Brands) and ever since then it has been a very slow, painful ride down to the bottom. Towards the end, I learned to hate the software and was counting the days until ASF could migrate to Xenforo.

Incidentally, the developers of Xenforo are the very same developers who originally developed vBulletin but left after Internet Brands bought out Jelsoft Enterprises. They saw the writing on the wall and started work on Xenforo - got sued by Internet Brands (of course :rolleyes:) - and eventually triumphed and now Xenforo has become the market leader in the field.

For the first time in quite a while, I'm excited about the future of ASF. I love this software and every day I discover new features that I had no idea existed. When I get the time, I think I'm going to start a thread highlighting as many features as I can to use as a reference for both existing and new users.
 
wayneL said:
Yes, overlap. Many traditional Labor voters have right wing views, likewise Liberal voters left wing views.

However, there is the phenomenon of attitude polarization which pushes people out to the relative extremes. Most people either identify as either left or right, Horace being a very good example. A fair few of his could be considered fairly right, yet he strongly identifies with the left.
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I don't "strongly" identify with "The Left" at all, because again you assume that one who agrees with some ideal of what you could call "Left" policy agrees with them all.

I said I believe in State ownership of essential services and public infrastructure, power/gas/water . I would prefer to have a government elected by us run these things that some shareholders offshore who don't give a stuff about us, or their own backsides when it comes to election day.

I dislike political correctness, welfare bludgers, loud minorities putting their hands out, I prefer traditional family values, but I do appreciate a balance between ecology, industry and sustainability.

I think we should be using tariffs to level up the playing field . If other countries taxpayers subsidise their exports to us, then I think we have a right to apply a subsidy tariff. If other countries exploit their workers then I think we can apply an exploitation tariff etc,

Considering these views I think I'm pretty much in the mainstream, ie the Centre, one who couldn't be described as either "Left" or "Right" in the overall spectrum.
 
Agree Sir Rump, our most basic needs of food and a place to live should be available to all and ensured by our Government. This probably sums up my political position also

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Shooting at Fort Lauderdale airport baggage carousel/collection area

5 dead
8 injured

Gunman - ex-military, Hispanic, Muslim, ISIS inspired.
 
SirRumpole said:
I don't "strongly" identify with "The Left" at all, because again you assume that one who agrees with some ideal of what you could call "Left" policy agrees with them all.

I said I believe in State ownership of essential services and public infrastructure, power/gas/water . I would prefer to have a government elected by us run these things that some shareholders offshore who don't give a stuff about us, or their own backsides when it comes to election day.

I dislike political correctness, welfare bludgers, loud minorities putting their hands out, I prefer traditional family values, but I do appreciate a balance between ecology, industry and sustainability.

I think we should be using tariffs to level up the playing field . If other countries taxpayers subsidise their exports to us, then I think we have a right to apply a subsidy tariff. If other countries exploit their workers then I think we can apply an exploitation tariff etc,

Considering these views I think I'm pretty much in the mainstream, ie the Centre, one who couldn't be described as either "Left" or "Right" in the overall spectrum.
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I'd say we're pretty close then, agree 99% with the above
 
wayneL said:
I'd say we're pretty close then, agree 99% with the above
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I forgot to mention that I believe in human induced climate change, so I guess that's spoiled the party. :)

I don't see why this has to be a Left/Right issue. The evidence is pretty clear to anyone who makes an unbiased assessment of it.
 
This was brought to my attention a short time ago. Map shows radiation monitoring data for the USA. Note the abnormally high reading over 100 and an "alert" at a site in the north-east of the country.

The original is here (constantly updated) http://radiationnetwork.com/

I can't confirm the accuracy of any of this one way or the other, just posting it as something that might be happening. Either the data is wrong or there's a nuclear issue happening of some sort. Hopefully it's just a measurement error.

PS - Tried posting an image of the map but had issues. For reasons unknown it kept changing once posted, despite being just a cut and paste image, making reference to any specific values a bit pointless. Hence I've removed it and just posted a link.
 
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Smurf1976 said:
For reasons unknown it kept changing once posted, despite being just a cut and paste image,
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Copy/paste may have brought the live chart across; it is being updated by the minute at the site you linked to. I've just taken a snapshot (Alt-PrtScrn) and turned it into a stable graphic. It's no longer above alert level, but still rather scary.

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Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, 134 Alert level....shocking place to have a nuke plant...
 
Smurf1976 said:
This was brought to my attention a short time ago. Map shows radiation monitoring data for the USA. Note the abnormally high reading over 100 and an "alert" at a site in the north-east of the country.

The original is here (constantly updated) http://radiationnetwork.com/

I can't confirm the accuracy of any of this one way or the other, just posting it as something that might be happening. Either the data is wrong or there's a nuclear issue happening of some sort. Hopefully it's just a measurement error.

PS - Tried posting an image of the map but had issues. For reasons unknown it kept changing once posted, despite being just a cut and paste image, making reference to any specific values a bit pointless. Hence I've removed it and just posted a link.
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It would be interesting to see a Time Series of the levels in the area of Pilgrim plant. They seem to be back to normal now, but they went up to 123 that I saw.

Measurement error ?
 

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