Optimisation

I am running an optimisation in MATLAB. its taking a long time, also its a little silly because it calculates values before working out if they fall within the constraint set. so it breaks my code a bit.

Also it takes a long time.

So while waiting for that ill talk about optimism:

Optimistic: believing the ALP might win on saturday night. Unrealistic: believing they still have a shot. :P

When i cast my vote on saturday, i thought to myself, hmm, should i not vote for the person who i most want to represent me in the house of representatives, and having heard some (not alot) of the Sex Parties policies, i like them abit more than the others (for some reason i really dont like the greens).

The sex parties freedom of sexual expression add on youtube was very funny, i liked their sex worker anti-discrimination stuff, even tho i make use of the cliche "dirty hooker" stereotype in random jokes sometimes. and i liked their lighthearted approach to politics. I didnt agree with their removal of state from religion, i believe religion is integral to the human psyci, all people have subjective, and therefore not purely rational, opinions and beliefs. if its a representative government then its should also contain elements of the populations beleifs.

Then i remembered that my seat was a bit of a swing seat, and i heard labour may loose and i knew i didnt want a liberal government no mater that i also wasnt keen on a labour government. So i voted labour, because i thought it would be important to help my seat swing to labour.

So in the end, i felt i was being pragmatic, but it was fear of a liberal government, rather than optimistic hope that i could get the sex party candidate (plus there wasnt one in my electorate and i didnt like the other parties) elected that made me vote labour. I was worried i would waste my vote by aiming for something unachievable, but believed it may contribute if i put it towards a near shot. (labour gained my seat so i was sorta right, although i did absentee so it hasnt been added to the total yet),