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Random Note 185,884 — The medium is the message — T-Shirts, Teachers and the politicisation of the classroom
"The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in any message it would transmit or convey, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived" About...
Reality Bites
Although it's a meme and these days with so much fake news it difficult to tell, Obama actually did say this and similar in tweet and speech. But of course that was then, when Hillary was a shoo-in and it was game over, or so they thought. Funny how reality has a...
We have reached peak stupid — Golden Gate Bridge $142 million suicide net has big loophole — American Thinker
The Golden Gate Bridge authority is spending $142 million on a net surrounding both sides of the bridge to prevent people from jumping off and killing themselves. For $142 million, the net must be spun of gold. But it's an incredible waste of money that will...
If Only Sharks Ate ‘Experts’ — Walter Starck, Quadrant
If their proclaimed expertise included any practical knowledge of sharks and shark fisheries they would know nets are not only effective but pose little risk to overall shark populations. It simply causes them to avoid the netted area. Half-baked notions of environmental evangelism being presented as sound science by self-proclaimed “experts” have played a major part in driving a majority of our small primary producers out of their industry.
Bernie Sanders Gets It — Donald Trump Won Because People Are Tired of Political Correctness — Reason.com
Sanders was explicit: Trump’s criticisms of political correctness spoke to the American people’s legitimate fury toward a political class and media regime that is overly-scripted and beholden to the powerful.
Warren Mundine Gets It — This isn’t racist, Islamophobia or cruel. It’s commonsense — The Daily Telegraph
Warren Mundine — “..Donald Trump’s victory demonstrates the media and commentariat are disconnected from voters. Almost without exception they failed to anticipate the presidential election outcome — and had little influence on it. Their message that Trump was unfit for presidency largely ignored. Australia’s political media and commentariat are also out of touch. Listening to them you’d think Australians are preoccupied with gay marriage, offshore detention, carbon emissions and identity politics. Most are preoccupied with their families, their homes, their jobs, the monthly bills and their kids’ education and job prospects..”
Australians have far too much in common to divide over a treaty — Gary Johns, The Australian
Australians will be going back to the polls in the next 18 months or so, perhaps, maybe, possibly to vote on the Recognition referendum and if some activists get their way, a treaty. Just how a treaty works out of a war time situation or with educated, some highly, city based Aboriginals who have had much of the same opportunity as everyone else, no one has really explained.
Checkout this timelapse video of the construction of Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport.
In a separate post the other day I asked the question as to why it takes government enterprise 10 years or more to build Badgerys Creek airport but only 19 months for private enterprise to build the 2.7 kilometre, 747 capable air strip, aprons and associated infrastructure at Wellcamp west of Toowoomba?
Study: Half of people “remember” events that never happened
The study experimented with implanting fake (but relatively harmless) memories, such as taking a childhood hot-air balloon ride, pulling a prank on a teacher, or causing trouble at a family wedding, into the minds of study participants. Researchers told them about the imaginary events as if they were real, and about 30 percent of participants appeared to “remember” it happening, even elaborating on how it occurred and describing details of what it was like.
