Come have a listen to what a group of singers combining both youth and maturity* can do after just a few days of intensive rehearsals. 

* actual maturity may not be included

In contrast to the regular seasons of singers aged 18-25 from around Australia, this is a group of singers aged 19-well-beyond-25 from all over the world - but all of whom have at some point in the past couple of decades been part of NYCA's main season.

Merry Christmas Jon. Looks like a sensational one.

So I wrote this, and it's the best thing I've ever written.

"We will resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole."

That right there. That tells everyone how Trust & Safety is going to act, and it gives T&S profound latitude. They're not there to rules-lawyer or first-amendment.

…has the express goal of extracting as much value as they can for their executives and shareholders. In the US, private insurers are both access control *and* motivated to deliver as little as possible to anyone else in the system. That is not a conflict which the NHS or Medicare share.

The goal of the system affects how access control/budgeting/resourcing are applied - and it’s somewhat disingenuous to omit that. Given a certain availability of resources (infrastructure, skilled workers, funding to keep the above going), it makes a massive difference if someone in the middle…

peacock jumping spiders?

All sorts of things get dropped in cups of water in Vladivostok: phones, polonium, novichok...

It triggers a loud alarm, but I keep right on walking. I figure the least I can do is create as many false alarms as possible, to provide cover for anyone who actually needs to shoplift food.

Our local Coles has the auto-gates at the self checkout. Except they don't seem to work about half the time. I scan and pay for my groceries every time, but half the time as I approach the gates they stay shut. So I push them open (they're designed to swing rather than let you break them).

"Fair Work finds United Workers Union’s industrial action had affected employees who wanted to return to the work site". Not employees: scabs. It affected scabs. No one else would have wanted to cross the picket line.

Nah - just pop the MyHealthRecord database and find them that way.

We’ll call it “the C3 election strategy”

Also, I recommend using the “sort by proportion” option, which isn’t the default sorting of results.

Oh and our government is about to introduce the most absurd legislation to ban under-16s from social media. Of course there is no way it can work even a little bit, but that's never stopped the Australian government from legislating something to do with the internet!

Which of course means that no-one can ever trust an Australian IT product not to have a government-mandated backdoor in it. It does not surprise me that it is a condition on Australian domain registration to have the registrant information publicly visible.

Australia is a trashfire for computing/security related rules. We already have legislation in place which the government could use to secretly order any Australian company to introduce a backdoor in their product and it would be a heavily-punishable criminal offence for the company to tell anyone.

Fair point! I've just turned them on for my .com and .net domains... but it doesn't look like it's available for .au domains.

Now seems about as good a time as any.