What cheeses me off

[mrsterryn]

Oh my God I am an old whinging boomer . I think I am cheesing me off

Corrected a person about a hat worn aka not a stetson (American ) but am Akubra (Australian )
Thata kinda embarrassing lol

 

[TheRealTMA]

Oh my God I am an old whinging boomer . I think I am cheesing me off

Corrected a person about a hat worn aka not a stetson (American ) but am Akubra (Australian )
Thata kinda embarrassing lol

One has to have standards, particularly in hats.

 

[mrsterryn]

One has to have standards, particularly in hats.

We have a couple of Akubra hats at my place , one my father's about 60 or 70 years old and then my husband's which is about 15 years old

 

[Quickstatus]

All the more reason to go to electronic voting where result can be tabulated in minutes not days.

I have reservations about electronic voting
I refer to the NSW iVote system
This system has been marred by security and other issues
It was then used in the 2021 elections and some contested results went all the way to the NSW Supreme court which ordered a re-vote in 3 wards.
The electoral commission then stopped using it in the following 2023 State election.

 

[prozac]

The Australian Electoral Commission. Especially the South Australian Division. They have one job to do and get four years notice to do this. Hold State Elections and count the votes. Simples.

We had an election in SA on 21 March. A few glitches, like the electoral roll not being accessible, and so on. But after the election it emerged that many people working on the day had not been paid, 3 weeks later.

We live in Barunga electorate. It's pretty much Yorke Peninsula. We were the last electorate to be declared after a recount. One Nation was declared winner after 10 days. Ok. By 68 votes. Her members were very active in the community pre election. One town went full blown orange. So, we are done right? Nope. Today a box of uncounted votes for this electorate were found. 84 unopened ballot papers. So another recount. There is now going to be an external inquiry into the Electoral Commission.

I read about this on news.com.au.

 

[Pushka]

I read about this on news.com.au.

And? It's actually correct so

 

[Aeryn]

The electoral commission then stopped using it in the following 2023 State election.

A huge backwards step imo. There were issues in a couple of regional places; but it worked perfectly in the local elections prior and worked fine in my electorate at the state election. Online is great for those who work or are travelling, instant confirmation that ballot papers have been filled in correctly (especially useful for the giant upper house ballot where too many don't know how to correctly fill it in) and result could be known within a minute of the polls closing.

Common sense would have been to fix the issues in those couple of electorates rather than revert to slow, environmentally unfriendly paper method. Your can audit electronic ballots just like you cant paper ones; we audit banks and asx etc purely on electronic records.

The fact that so many vote early these days shows few care to participate in the ancient ritual of wasting hours of their weekend queuing for something that could be done in 2 minutes less online. And fact that someone can just lose or forget whole box or two of ballots, well that wouldn't happen online.

 

[Quickstatus]

And fact that someone can just lose or forget whole box or two of ballots, well that wouldn't happen online.

The potential was there. The iVote system was not robust enough and there were detected vulnerabilities which could allow hacker originated corruption of the voting process whereby a valid vote could be turned into an invalid vote. Vulnerabilities have also been detected in other Electronic voting systems

The problem sheets back to the Electoral commission and it's poor understanding of the required security elements and relying on software providers who also didn't fully appreciate the same.

 

[MARTINE]

More cheesy tales of queues.
Six people in front of me at local cafe which does phenomenal sweet/savory pastries/wraps all baked fresh daily.
I just want to pick up my favorite spinach delicacy and go home.
Behind me two idiots on full volume each talking to their individual friend on the phone to get the order for lunch. Continues until I get to the front and place my order. I wait for my item and watch them at counter asking the server what is contained in each item in the display, relay it to the person on phone then say back ‘Oh she does not like fetta/provolone/etc etc’. After a while server sees growing Q seething and politely asks them to step aside until a decision made. Now decision has been made but server has to remind them the items were made from scratch at 6am (its not an a la carte restaurant).
By the time I got my order they were still deciding and the Q was murderous

 

[Aeryn]

I will never understand how people can wait in a queue and then dont know what they want when they finally get to the front. You have had minutes to ponder the menu and decide FFS.

 

[JessicaTam]

Catching COVID on a cruise ship.

That is all.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I will never understand how people can wait in a queue and then dont know what they want when they finally get to the front. You have had minutes to ponder the menu and decide FFS.

That’s easy.

Cause i don’t usually have my glasses with me when out and about. I can’t see the menu boards, or read it from any distance. So can only order once at the front!

If i can, I sneak to the front to read the menu then get back in line, but that’s not always possible.