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by bdm
Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:27 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Adelaide - Wikipedia
Replies: 6
Views: 2635

Exactly. You can only put copyleft images on Wikipedia, which more or less means you have to release all rights to them.

Copyrighted pictures are deleted as soon as they're found.
by bdm
Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:11 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Trading Laws
Replies: 13
Views: 4103

A better solution to enliven the city would be a much more effective pubtrans system that funnelled people in from suburban hubs and shopping centres. Our lines and routes almost always miss the mark--as far as I know only the O-Bahn goes to a large suburban centre. Our 'shopping shops' should close...
by bdm
Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:14 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Trading Laws
Replies: 13
Views: 4103

Changing shopping hours won't make a difference when there's convenient suburban shopping centres to go to instead.

Like I said, it isn't a 'ghost town' because of the shopping hours. Sigh.
by bdm
Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:49 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Trading Laws
Replies: 13
Views: 4103

Better to leave them as they are.

I hate awkward trading hours; doesn't anyone give a damn that poor bastards are getting paid sweet f-a to stay up late and selling crap.

The CBD isn't a ghost town because of this.
by bdm
Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:32 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: SA's Population Growth Hits A 14-year High
Replies: 47
Views: 16275

A bloated public service? There's hardly enough public servants left to offer a public service. Dying manufacturing industries is pretty much a fact of life these days. If there's something to be made that everyone is going to want - cars, whitegoods - they can be made overseas and imported cheaper...
by bdm
Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:00 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: SA's Population Growth Hits A 14-year High
Replies: 47
Views: 16275

Bdm, if Labor doesn't deserve any praise, who are we to thank for the fact that things are moving ahead? Who is driving? If we're 'moving ahead', we're doing so at a ridiculously slow pace. None of the parties deserve any real praise because there hasn't been and real moving ahead. If we were stagn...
by bdm
Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:31 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: SSC IS DEAD!!!!!!!
Replies: 27
Views: 9200

Shout out to the rock-solid hosting for SA. SSC is a joke.
by bdm
Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:30 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: SA's Population Growth Hits A 14-year High
Replies: 47
Views: 16275

Bdm, if Labor doesn't deserve any praise, who are we to thank for the fact that things are moving ahead? Who is driving? If we're 'moving ahead', we're doing so at a ridiculously slow pace. None of the parties deserve any real praise because there hasn't been and real moving ahead. When someone, re...
by bdm
Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:17 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: SA's Population Growth Hits A 14-year High
Replies: 47
Views: 16275

I didn't say the Liberals were any better, and I didnt' vote for them last election. I'm just saying that Labor doesn't deserve any of the praise you're giving them.

Its you guys who've turned on the 'class' factor, not me.
by bdm
Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:16 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: SA's Population Growth Hits A 14-year High
Replies: 47
Views: 16275

"thanks god for Mike Rann and his vision!" What a complete joke! What a stupid remark! Mike has no vision. Mike is a spin doctor; in the 1970s, Dunstan's media secretary; in the 90s, a tool of the unions; and in the new millenium, the shrewd 'media Mike'. What innovation, what vision, what...
by bdm
Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:49 pm
Forum: Metropolitan Development
Topic: News & Developments: Elizabeth & Salisbury
Replies: 264
Views: 154366

The greatest opportunity we have for a satellite city with good growth potential is Mount Gambier, current population 25,000. It has good water reserves, an attractive landscape (both natural and man made), to attract tourism and new residents - unlike the drty sheep paddock at Monarto, which was s...
by bdm
Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:19 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: SA's Population Growth Hits A 14-year High
Replies: 47
Views: 16275

The figures are a joke. We have one of the lowest birthrates in the country, we lose thousands of young people and families interstate every year (take a look at some other statistics - see the huge gaping whole of 18-35 year olds in the Adelaide area). Crawf, you get super-excited, and super-happy ...
by bdm
Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:21 pm
Forum: General Development Discussions
Topic: News & Discussion: Planning Issues & Challenges
Replies: 146
Views: 87838

Not everyone wants to be a latte-sipping, greens-voting, professional asshole living in a small, shitty, inner-city apartment. Families want a house and a backyard. But how many of these homes actually have families in them? The vast majority. Only students, singles, the elderly and those DINK assh...
by bdm
Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:58 pm
Forum: General Development Discussions
Topic: News & Discussion: Planning Issues & Challenges
Replies: 146
Views: 87838

Not everyone wants to be a latte-sipping, greens-voting, professional asshole living in a small, shitty, inner-city apartment.

Families want a house and a backyard.
by bdm
Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:10 pm
Forum: General Development Discussions
Topic: News & Discussion: Planning Issues & Challenges
Replies: 146
Views: 87838

There is one more necessity. Rebuild the Housing Trust into what it was during, and for a while after, the time of Tom Playford and his advisers. Then let the urban footprint grow. Because Elizabeth and Salisbury have been a smashing success! Elizabeth and Salisbury are a "failure" not be...