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“I pay the tax I am required to pay, not a penny more, not a penny less. If anybody in this country doesn’t minimize their tax, they want their heads read because, as a Government, I can tell you they’re not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.” - Kerry Packer

Wise words.
Don't get me wrong I minimise my tax as much as the next person. and I'm not about to take up smoking and pokies so I can pay more of it.

The thing is everyone wants new and better infrastructure, healthcare, welfare, schools, Gonski, police, the NDIS... the list goes on and sure better productivity in the public sector plays a role in that, but that's as high as it's ever been and we still want more. So the only other alternative is higher taxes. which I wouldn't force upon the working poor, But I have 3 kids a mortgage earn less than average as does my wife and would be willing to pay more in tax if everyone else did . But unfortunately for politicians it's political suicide.
 

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Try and ignore hoops random gibberish. Decimal time is an awesome concept. It uses hours minutes and seconds just with different (and better) values for each.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

It would be too much of a hassle to institute now but I certainly wish it had been done 100 years ago. Those arguing against it really are taking the exact same viewpoint as grandpa Simpson.
 

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Try and ignore hoops random gibberish. Decimal time is an awesome concept. It uses hours minutes and seconds just with different (and better) values for each.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

It would be too much of a hassle to institute now but I certainly wish it had been done 100 years ago. Those arguing against it really are taking the exact same viewpoint as grandpa Simpson.
Still prefer my millidays to the decimal hour, minutes, seconds. 10-100-100 WTF that. still better than 24-60-60 we currently have
 
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I don't think that opinion is unpopular depending who you ask. :p

I always thought homework was generally useless and unless it was a marked assignment I never did it. My school claimed 3 hrs a night was normal in Year 12...ha. I couldn't have done that if I tried.
I'm in Year 11 and half the homework I get is worksheets that are never marked/checked by teachers and that have little relevance to what has been covered in class. If homework is to be beneficial it needs to engage students, teach relevant information, and be set in moderate amounts so that kids can receive plenty of exercise and leisure time. As far as I'm concerned it does none of those.

Plus, I find it hilarious how so many people crap on about childhood obesity rates yet think that kids should be locked in a room for 2 hours a night without adequate exercise and outside play.

Don't know why so many people continue pushing the idea of homework when it is nothing but an outdated concept that has been shown by numerous studies to provide little benefit. Should be much more opposition to it than there is.
 

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You're having your steak overdone. Or the wrong cuts. Or both...

Come to Walshy93's steak palace and you won't be saying that again.
I agree, I've had good steak. Not enough people know how to cook it (me and all my family included!)

Out of curiosity, which cut and how cooked do you recommend?
 

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I'm in Year 11 and half the homework I get is worksheets that are never marked/checked by teachers and that have little relevance to what has been covered in class. If homework is to be beneficial it needs to engage students, teach relevant information, and be set in moderate amounts so that kids can receive plenty of exercise and leisure time. As far as I'm concerned it does none of those.

Plus, I find it hilarious how so many people crap on about childhood obesity rates yet think that kids should be locked in a room for 2 hours a night without adequate exercise and outside play.

Don't know why so many people continue pushing the idea of homework when it is nothing but an outdated concept that has been shown by numerous studies to provide little benefit. Should be much more opposition to it than there is.
Isn't homework more about building good habits? I pretty much cruised through high school with barely a thought to homework (top of my class in a few cases), but when it came to years 11 and 12, and an attempted stint of Uni, I could not get myself to do it!
 

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I think we should pay more tax.
Don't get me wrong I minimise my tax as much as the next person. and I'm not about to take up smoking and pokies so I can pay more of it.

The thing is everyone wants new and better infrastructure, healthcare, welfare, schools, Gonski, police, the NDIS... the list goes on and sure better productivity in the public sector plays a role in that, but that's as high as it's ever been and we still want more. So the only other alternative is higher taxes. which I wouldn't force upon the working poor, But I have 3 kids a mortgage earn less than average as does my wife and would be willing to pay more in tax if everyone else did . But unfortunately for politicians it's political suicide.
Love these two posts. Without getting into any political discussion, if more people had views like this I'd like to think the world would be a better place.
 

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i'm a big fan of decimal time. it would make much more sense if that's how it was down from the start.

obviously would be waaay to hard to implement now. although maybe not, the metric system slowly took over everything.

i'm not sold on hoops idea of millidays though. 100 seconds to a minute, 100 minutes to an hour, 10 hours to a day. 100,000 seconds in a day. there is currently 86,400. By my calculations that means Usain Bolt's 9.54 record would be 11.04 in decimal time.
 

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The term 'political correctness' is just another way of saying "offending anyone is unacceptable unless they are white, male, and/or straight".

Society's just catering to Marge Simpson and Helen Lovejoy types so it's basically the goody goody's who are allowed the floor everytime.

FWIW, I barely publicly use these "derogatory" terms because I choose not to lower myself to their standards.
 
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