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Things do get nicer once August hits, though. It should be alright weatherwise if you do the more northern parts of the holiday first, and then go south later.

If you go to Adelaide, the South Australia museum has the world's largest collection of aboriginal artefacts. It was also the first completely planned British colony, so the character is somewhat different from other places. The architecture in the inner suburbs is also quite distinctive - plenty of...

The accident is heavily affecting ticket sales for the high speed rail ( sohu ). 早报记者曾在铁路客户服务中心网（以下简称“客服网”），查询7月4日上海开往北京的列车余票情况。其中，上午8点始发的G12次、9点始发的G2次、10点始发的G14次、以及11点始发的G16次列车，二等座票数量均显示为“0”，即已经售罄，同时，观光座、一等包座和一等座票也所剩无几。 　　然而，昨日当记者再次登陆客服网查询余票情况时，已很难发现二等座票售罄的场景，唯一几趟出现余票“0”的高铁，也是杭州开往北京南的“G”字头。 　　记者查询8...

People who rant about the Chinese having never invented anything are hilarious in their implicit admission that they have never picked up a book in their lives (books being made from paper and the printing press - both Chinese inventions). Also, these days Chinese knockoffs do actually contain new f...

Southern China often has issues with trains during the summer months. There's heavy rain, high temperatures and mountainous terrain, which leads to issues. Usually the issues tend to be things like minor the ground beneath the tracks being washed away, rather than train collissions though.

Lusy-chan: Being vegetarian certainly isn't for everyone, but I think most people could go vegetarian relatively easily, and (on top of that) most people who say they can't go vegetarian could if they wanted to put in the effort, but simply don't want to put in the extra time/energy to care about t...

You care? You really really care? Honest to goodness give a shit about Global Warming? I'll give you one simple thing you can do to right now to fight climate change: Go vegetarian. If you really care, go Vegan. This is good advice in general. Especially if you branch out into non-western food, it'...

I tried really hard to give Enterprise a fair go, I really did, even though the first few episodes were blindingly mediocre. Then they aired the episode where they tried to dress genocide up as the "moral" choice, and I never tuned in again. That's what made me despise the show, in any case.

While I extend my sympathy to you for what yo went through, you are a perfect example of why rape victims are not of questionable credibility. Not only do you start slinging around unfounded nonsense when you hear things that aren't unadulterated sympathy, in your case you leaven it with arrogant p...

Stigma doesn't just take the form of "blaming the victim", you know. It can also take the same kind of stigma that you get from suffering from mental abuse. Sure, people will be nice to you, but if you want to get a date? Well, you'd better damn well make sure they know you really well bef...

You're pretty accurate with your description of the hukou there. The system also keeps parents away from their children. Since children are registered under the hukou of one of their parents when they are born, they're expected to go to a school wherever their hukou is registered. I believe there ar...

Indeed, my sympathies. It sounds like the pain from this incident still remains with you Lusankya. Is there anything we can do to help? Thank you both for your thoughts. I'm doing mostly ok these days. I'm very fortunate in that I have parents both willing and able to help me to achieve what I want...

There might be wage increases, but there's also reasonably strong inflation at the moment, which is pretty much cancelling out most of those wage increases. Personally, I think the CCP should repeg the yuan against the US Dollar in order to ease pricing pressure, though I do understand that a curren...

The reason that I rarely talk about being raped by my ex is because I cannot separate the rape from the two and a half years of abuse that surrounded it. The rape itself was not particularly more or less traumatising than, say, having him handcuff me to the basin and threaten me with a knife, or the...

I still remember the story of the Swedish girl who was raped and then rejected by her community , all because her rapist was from a more popular family than hers. And I also still remember the board's reaction to the accusations of rape against Julian Assange, where every action taken by the women i...

Basically, a couple of boats from the Tongan navy (basically the Tongan navy) showed up in disputed territory and now Fiji's telling the Australian PM and the NZ Minister of Foreign Affairs what they think of them. Surely you mean Australian and NZ Foreign Ministers, and not Australian PM and NZ Mi...

Was there any meaningful character development the 'real' Amy has missed out on this season then? How long has she been a duplicate? I think it might, just might have been when the Silence took her from the orphanage, and when she woke they said she had been there 'many dayssssss'. No. It was befor...

Nog also didn't really have enough money to develop the land at the time, and with him being just a kid and all, I find it hard to believe he'd have an easy time attracting investors to develop the land for him.

OK, this is where the stupid begins. The idea a person can "choose" their sex when they grow up. First there's physical sex - you are born with that. It's a fact. You can examine a child and determine if there is a penis, a vagina, or in rare unfortunate cases, something that's not quite ...

Even thought he Doctorganger will, once stabilised, become a near perfect replica of the Doctor, the Doctorganger's cells will still be "younger" than the original Doctor's, and would not have undergone any regenerations. The BBC's got to be starting to think around this stage, "How d...

Eh. That stuff was probably "it's the first episode of the season, and we have to remind everyone who's forgotten what this show is about that this guy can Time Travel". Also, it all seems like something that the cute Doctor would do. It fits in with his quirky sense of humour. He also pos...

1) Trade would be mediated through Grace and the rest of the xenobiology team. They may not have wanted to try too hard to sell consumer goods to the Na'vi because they know what happens then: the Na'vi become dependent on the stuff and their culture declines, as happened around the world. 2) By th...

No no, I didn't mean that it was the ganger Doctor from the current episode - I meant that the Doctor used the same tech to make a regular remote control ganger and used that . Not a sentient living ganger, but one he uses as an avatar himself. So the future Doctor would be sitting in a harness som...

By and large, the First World Human Way has been the most successful way by far to organise human society. Both in terms of material prosperity and in terms of guaranteeing human rights and liberties. No competitor comes even close. Thus, I take issue with the various ideologues who think that it i...

Well, if they were apologising for choosing that sort of party, then I can understand why the apology is necessary. For one thing, the article only mentions sales men , which leads me to believe that one of the following is true: a) either this company is so male-dominated that whatever selection pr...