Longmactoppedup

In addition to what slazer said, in Australia once you earn over a certain amount you get hit with an extra tax if you don't take out private health. The conservative coalition brought that in a long time ago because their donor mates in private health asked them to ruin our public health care and this was their first step towards that.

I still have private cover as it seems like the least bad option even though it pisses me off. I guess that's the point.

Since my work "upgraded" to windows 11 the task bar is the bane of my existence.

We all run a laptop docked with two monitors. In windows 10 I would set a monitor as primary, drag the task bar to the laptop screen. That would result in the most real estate for the software I use with out clutter.

Can't fucking do this is 11. It's either primary or all monitors for task bar. Someone suggested auto hide the task bar. Holy shit even that has been fucking ruined in 11. It turns off randomly and frequently. Plus notifications seem to over ride the hiding.

Surprised that the religious right haven't put them in their sites.

I hope that they do a better job of managing tenants who cause problems than they would for those in the suburbs.

There must be plenty of non problematic tenants that can go in these large buildings.

I feel that while no one wants to be next to problem neighbours, at least if they are in a detached building then their impact is on less people.

The word yacht or the way it is pronounced.

Pears said the energy rating stickers “have a lot of credibility with people” and is “relied upon” by consumers.

Really?

I've never really bothered much with appliance ratings.

Any time I see star ratings on anything that the govt has been involved with I automatically assume it's a load of bullshit that was guided by industry with their wants put well ahead of consumer needs. At best star ratings just dumb down actual metrics.

See:

The absolute joke that is food rating stars.

Home energy star ratings. Why not just state use the passivhouse standard? Or just state energy used and air tightness in changes per hour etc.

Vehicle star ratings where fucking human crusher 4wds still somehow gets 5 stars for vulnerable road user protection because it has some sensors in it.

The city of mining and fossil fuel.

Really?

Things have definitely changed in the last 15 or so years.

It drives me nuts when they decide to burn huge patches of forest that are no where near anyone's property resulting in terrible air quality in major population centres.

It will be something that in 50 years people will look back on in wonderment at how wrong the DBCA were.

Pipe dream:

Tax income generated from accumulated wealth the same as income generated from actual work. I.e. a rate somewhere in between the two. No more CGT discounts.

End negative gearing for existing structures.

No more tax breaks for commercial vehicles

Curtail corporations from off shoring profits to tax havens.

Tax on exported gas

UBI

I've heard that part of the initial justification is it's going to make access to and from the Perth stadium a lot better for people coming from Mandurah.

Good to see us considering something that's in favour of digital rights for once.

Also as an android (Graphene) user it is good to get this precedent in place because Google is steadily turning android in to an awful walled garden too.