Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • Elections generally tilt one way or the other based on fractions of a percentage of the vote, in fact, a single vote can be the difference.

    So, if two candidates are evenly matched, it’s possible that a whole state can go one way or the other based on just a few votes.

    Note that this is not specific to the USA and I’m in Australia.

    As far as “elections” go where there’s only one choice, that’s not an election but a dictatorship and from where I’m standing, the USA is heading in that direction at a breakneck speed.








  • For the same reason that they’re targeting Australia, money. Apparently they feel that they’re not making enough of it, so now they’re withholding specific drugs and calling it “a commercial decision”.

    In Australia certain drugs are available under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which is essentially the Government negotiating prices with suppliers and subsidising the sale to patients.

    The pharmaceutical companies have been yelling about this for years trying to frame it as anti-competative.

    In Australia with universal healthcare, that doesn’t fly.