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Your vote still goes to a major party; what matters is who you preference, the rest is irrelevant. And unless you're in a marginal seat your vote is not all that important. Beelzebub

Second rate is a bit harsh. I would use the words mid tier. It's not a bad uni, but it isn't as prestigious as a Melbourne or Sydney and doesn't attract the same academic talent. Nevertheless, it has a good reputation as a teaching institution with regard to Engineering etc. But full...

Yeh, RMIT. Articles like that seem to be PR driven, if you're an academic outside one of the main research unis you really strugle to get your work into peer reviewed journals and this is one of the KPIs at universities these days. PR and exposure for the Universities is a good way around this...

I'm pretty confident that the learned professor is wrong. At what institution does he do his research?

Hmm, If you read most contracts carefully, for almost anything, there is a 'force majeure' clause contained in them. This limits the other parties liability for things such as unlikely disasters including nuclear war (and yes I have read some that specifically refer to nuclear war). E.g. We will...

They can't touch North Korea because Seoul would be destroyed by the hundreds of artillery battlements hidden in the jungles and pointed straight at the city. Many thousands would die and a huge economy would be brought to its knees. If they weren't worried about WMDs why would they have...

Definitely, history has a tendency to repeat itself and nothing lasts forever. But we would need another drastic paradigm shift, I think there would be warning signs. And as for proxy wars, we are actually living through a period with the least amount of international conflict in world history...

With regard to war: There has been a major paradigm shift during the latter half of the 20th century that drastically lessens any risk of all out war between two major economies. Firstly, we still have the concept of mutually assured destruction that prevented the cold war escalating to WWIII...