Marty_d

I'd prefer someone pushed Putin out of a window. Preferably above the 10th floor. That would have the benefit of being both a traditional Russian firing, and poetic justice.

Well, I guess it's easy to keep clean.

Put it this way, if I did meet someone who was pro Trump, I'd be very suspicious about their judgement. Probably the kind of person who would vote for Clive Palmer here.

The president has always had the ability to pardon someone. And in this case, although it's not a good look, he did it because his son was being hammered far more than any other person doing the same crime, for purely political purposes.

For once he's probably (partially) right. If it wasn't for the knowledge that things are going to be a lot more unpredictable in 5 days, there probably wouldn't have been that impetus. Plus on this one issue there's bipartisanship. Biden wants the ceasefire before he leaves office for his legacy, Trump doesn't want the mess when he starts.

I may have to apologize here, although fiercely argued in other places too (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1847834/is-a-negative-number-squared-negative for example), it does appear that the exponent is resolved on the absolute number first and then the negative applied to the result. So yes - you're right Rob!

A negative multplied by another negative is a positive. I respectfully disagree with RGMWA, if the negative was outside the bracket then -4 would be correct, but a negative squared is a positive.

First is 39, second is -2

No idea. But maths is international, not USA vs Australia.

What? Everyone is taught that way, not just Americans. There's no such thing as just solving it left to right. Parentheses first, then exponents, division/multiplication, addition/substraction.

Did they find you, Peter?

I'm tempted to say "This comedian is shit", but it's probably "toilet humour".

Jaysus, how much time do you think I have??

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Still missed one...

Short attention spans are Trump's greatest asset.

Ah, the whole "religion is a good argument for atheism" situation. Basically if those brainless twats are the best supporters that god can get, either he's incompetent or non existent.

How's your acting skills? Become a "true" convert, work your way up into senior leadership, then hollow the bastards out from the inside. Start trickle feeding some logic and fact in, then move on to progressive agenda items. Before you know it you'll have an ACL float in the Mardi Gras!

Pots and kettles

I'd suggest that's either made up, exaggerated, or some idiot staff member got reamed out for doing it.

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I've just applied for visas for an upcoming holiday. I thought they did it pretty well - you upload a photo of your passport (info page) and a photo of yourself taken that day. It scans the two and gives a % similarity, and if it's over some level, it lets you continue. I scored 78% with different beard and hair colour (my passport is from 9 years ago - hair is a lot whiter now!) Obviously the problem there is that not everyone has a passport. But if you have a driver's licence which most people do, it can compare the details from that to the state's records to ensure the licence is valid, then compare the photo to one taken today, compare your address to the electoral rolls then take you to a secure area to cast your vote.

We do banking and pay bills online. There's more incentive for criminals to go after money than change votes. There would be ways of making it secure and trustworthy.

Even snail mail for voting is so last century. In any sort of business vote - RA-AUS for example, or companies you're a shareholder of - you can vote online. It shouldn't be beyond the imagination and technical ability of the AEC to come up with a way to verify your identity then cast your vote online. Let's face it, at the voting booth you give your name and address (which you can see in the book if you can read upside down) and they cross you off. They don't ask for ID and they don't know you, so theoretically you can walk into a dozen polling places and steal people's votes.