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Hmm. That's not what "nork" meant when I was growing up. It was only used in the plural and usually preceded by the words "phwoah, look at those "

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Yep, pipe work for nuclear power stations.

I came across another photo repair website which offered a free trial. I uploaded one of the most damaged photos I had, of my wife's aunt and cousin. here are the results.

Plenty of other used for Nickel. Nev

If sodium batteries beome the standard, what are shares in nickel and cadmium mining companies worth?

Toyota has been banking on its Solid State battery technology that it has been developing for a number of years but there have been constant delays & 2027-28 is the current launch date. Meanwhile they have teamed up with arch rival BYD to use their tech in Toyotas. Toyotas main effort in the BZ4X aka Subaru Solterra has met with poor sales due to a number of factors including price & range. Japanese manufacturers should have cleaned up the market with Nissan Leaf being one of the first EVs & Toyota the biggest & longest standing Hybrid manufacturer, but they were caught & overtaken & largely pushed aside by the Chinese. Chinas electrification plan began back in 2001 & no-one took any notice & the legacy automotive market has been blind sided & left in the dust.

Guess what! A splayd is an eating utensil which combines the functions of a spoon, knife and fork. It was invented by William McArthur in the 1940s in Sydney. I've still got the boxed set of Splayds that Mum got back in the day.

Quote from Jerry's source: Toyota remained Australians’ most popular car brand in August. In second place was BYD, up 68 per cent to 8231, followed by Tesla, up 160 per cent to 7685. Quoting the raw numbers creates a distorted picture of who is buying EVs. Toyota's sales are heavily impacted by the purchase of work vehicles by the various branches of government and also mining and agricultural businesses. One might say that a great many of those sales are accomapanied by an ABN, and tax deductions. BYD's sales market is the private buyer, as is that of other EV sellers. From the above article, it seems that the private buyer is in fact going EV.

The knork is a combination knife/fork with a sharpened side to cut food and eat it. It was developed for Horatio Lord Nelson who had lost his right hand and allowed him to eat without having his food cut up for him. The original one had a knife blade attached to a fork with a screw.

My last ride wasn't very exciting at all. It was on a battered old postie bike down the driveway to pick up the mail from the letterbox. Uneventful trip down but broke down halfway back up and that's where it stayed for a few years. Haven't had a road registered bike for quite a few years now. Still remember my first ride (175cc BSA Bantam) and some of the more exciting ones. Some memories I cherish, some involving hospitals I'd rather forget.

Interesting: https://www.theage.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/the-shift-is-now-absolute-china-s-byd-says-australia-just-passed-its-ev-tipping-point-20260905-p60urd.html

Starting a new topic, similar to the "tell us about your last flight" on the sister site, but for motorbikes. (Or whatever else you've been riding. Just remember it's a family site 😜) Had a lovely ride this morning, met @nomadpete and his better half for a coffee then down to Dover. From there I took the Esperance Coast road (which I've never done before - but it was a beautiful riding road), which comes out at Surges Bay. Beautiful day, no pesky cars in the way for most of it. Pure fun!

Actually, I am the lowest paid director in my department. There are people working for me that get paid more. But that is the story of another gripe - of my own doing..

And that's why you get the big bucks. Good luck! (seriously)

Hawks comprehensively beat the dockers in a qualifying final - in Perth. The Hawks were not given much of a chance. Bloody bewdy!

I take a day off on Friday and the software release on Thursday eve - a normal regular one - went pear shaped due to simple effing mistakes that I pay professionals not to make. So most of my day was stealthily directing the team and I have to face the music with a cackle of senior management on Monday. Nice day off!

If Donny sees how small Greenland really is, will he still want it?

Randomly, should we ditch Mercator's famous projection? Maybe use less distorted country sizes at the higher latitudes? I see USA doesn't like the idea.

I understand if they Pass the required inspection they go back into service for another 10 years. That's the situation with LPG Tanks in vehicles. Number of cycles matters in aircraft Hulls. That's related to metal fatigue. With hydrogen you get embrittlement of the metal. Nev

Motivation I would say, How would you know they had the ready money? Maybe they borrowed it? Nev

Here's a thing. Following th disaster in Nepal a few Nepalese residents of Australia have flown back to Nepal to search for relatives. One chap is reported to have hire a helicopter to use somehow. Makes me wonder how these people manage to stack away the ready money to do trips back and forth. I've got to save up the money to pay for the petrol to to go see my kids.

I know that LPG gas bottles have an 'end of life' number of years. Does that also apply to cylinders for compressed gasses used in industry?

Before a bottle is refilled its inspected and tested. IF you don't use much, you miss out on the Inspections and are being charged for something you aren't getting.. Acetylene is more complex than Oxygen. (more Unstable) and risky. .Nev