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Should we continue to be able to anonymous online? Death of anonymity online has net users fuming

Your exam mark would be the higher of the exam mark you would have got and your assessment mark. So if you missed the exam, you would have received 0, so your assessment mark also becomes your exam mark.

Re Cranick Fire example: What if there were people trapped in the house?

PNG used to be Australian territory. Shouldn't have given them independence.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2011/32.html http://www.news.com.au/national/high-court-rules-malaysian-swap-deal-unlawful/story-e6frfkvr-1226126528979 THE High Court has vetoed the Malaysian asylum seeker swap in a ruling that has smashed the Government's entire strategy to...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/service-the-buzz-as-woolies-nails-hardware-with-new-retail-chain/story-e6frg8zx-1226125925549 Woolworths enters the hardware business.

The school will submit your raw marks to BOS and BOS will calculate a rank from that themselves. Schools do not determine the ranks. If your school arbitrarily declares somebody first it will only matter internally (school prizes etc) and will not affect your HSC results.

The candidate number is not the same as your school student number. Candidate number is issued by BOS. Look for it on letters you've received from BOS or your School Certificate beneath the NSW coat of arms.

http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/community_issues/domestic__and__family_violence/what_is_stalking

Censoring mobiles and the net: how the West is clamping down San Francisco officials cut off phone signals to train passengers to thwart protest over police killing

Schools use the net to eavesdrop on students (SMH, 12 August) I guess the wider question to come from this revelation is whether the out of school activities and lives of students are any of a school's business. What do you all think?

Confidence. If you have that, it doesn't matter if you are good or a jerk. (Most jerks display confidence, that is what girls find attractive, not the fact they are a jerk.)

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/soundwave-revolution-cancelled-20110809-1iknd.html Rock music festival Soundwave Revolution has been cancelled with organisers citing the last second pull-out of an un-named, unannounced, headlining act for the event's downfall. The...

Send in the army.

That is happening because only your top 10 units are used to calculate your ATAR. ATAR is a rank of students scaled aggregates. In that calculation only 1 unit of either General maths or Industrial is counting towards the calculation, so it doesn't affect the scaled aggregate that much...

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/evans-to-be-crowned-tour-winner-in-paris-20110723-1hu43.html

Should the drinking age be increased? What should the age be? 18-year-olds too immature to drink (The Sunday Times) See also recent calls to further regulate alcohol much like cigarettes: Cigs war won: Now cancer campaigners set their sights on beer Do we need more regulation of...

With the end of the shuttle era, the United States now has no manned spaceflight capability. Was dumping the space shuttle program the right decision? The new Obama policy is to foster the development of private space vehicles. Can the private sector fill the hole left by the space shuttle...

Works fine on Chrome here. In fact it's pretty much always instant.

Re: Israel & Palestine http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-ramps-up-campaign-against-gaza-aid-flotilla/2011/06/28/AG59dbpH_story.html