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Doesn't registration in Australian states also include 3rd party insurance? It doesn't here, but as they give electic motorcycles free registration, then give ICE ones are lighter and have less impact, there is a movement pressuring the guvmint to remove registration fees (officially called Vehicle Excise Duty) for ICE motorcycles. With the amount of potholes here, I would suggest that they pay us to repair our bikes riding on thir shippy roads.

Lots of accidents. Nev

My Gripe.... I just re regustered a motorcycle. Cost? $750 p.a. Why does it cost that much? How much pavement do you think it wears out every year?

Trump doesn't know the difference between "incursion" and "excursion". He has referred to his war on Iran as a "military excursion". Cambridge Dictionary defines "excursion" as a short trip usually made for pleasure, often by a group of people: My class is going on an excursion to Niagara Falls. The definition of excursion is a sudden and unwanted entrance to a place or area controlled by others, esp. in a military attack Some officials in the White House said that they are afraid to correct the president on his gaffe, and others said a correction wouldn’t even matter.

You may be right - or it may have ended up in the same outcome. For us to come up with a hunch, we take inputs, compare them to what we would expect, and arrive at a hunch. It is quite possible and AI could have come up with the same outcome if it were pure AI and not just a discrete program directed to retaliate on identifying a missile launch. In fact, you could argue if it wasn't Petrov on duty, but some other commander, we would unlikely be reading this today, as well.

If there is a country in the World that needs a regime change, it's the USA. Unfortunately, replacng the Republicans with the Democrats will not change the American culture which is the source of the problem.

My daughter is a CPA. She'll protect her dear ol' dad.

Close, but not quite there.

Is that a positive? The ATO are going to be after you, now! 😉

But that doesn't make them sweet, and one can eat the bones of many small fish. Or are you saying OME should throw it back? 😉

Maybe be born again? He'd lose his raison d' etre. Nev

Feeling busy. Nev

What's it going to take for you to take off the blinkers and see the light?

Sure. Trump is a gift from heaven and a true Man of God, who fixes everything. Ha Ha. Get real. The GOP are gutless. Nev

Small fish are boney and undersize. Nev

There's lots of answers possible. Nev.

Somehow or other I seem to have shares in IAG, the insurance company. I can't remember how I got them. As I was looking at my bank statement the other day, I noticed a deposit of a bit over $20.00 from IAG. It's not a massive amount, but as my Dad used to say, 'small fish are sweet'.

This is rare - someone has actually reduced their annual fees this year. The RACQ has reduced my membership plan fees by $20. This was at the head of the bill: 'Thank you for your continued trust in RACQ. We’re proud to support our members with dependable service and peace of mind on the road, wherever your journey takes you. As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering value and in response to ongoing cost of living pressures, we’ve reduced the price of our Roadside Assistance products. Whether you’re commuting locally or exploring Queensland’s hidden gems, we’re here to ensure you’re covered with reliable support and member-first value.' Most likely they've had a membership drop, no doubt due to those cost of living pressures they cite, and are doing this to encourage members to stay. Either way, it's a good thing to see.

Way off the mark.

That's right, death to America.

What a tiny boner? 😄

what a hand biter. Nev

Very good.

Cast your mind back to September 1, 1983. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was on a routine flight from New York to Seoul via Anchorage. It accidentally crossed into Soviet airspace. At the time, NATO had a policy of continually flying its bombers directly at Eastern Bloc airspace and then diverting at the last possible moment. The Soviets were kept on perpetual high alert. When Flight 007 accidentally crossed over the line, the Soviets, fearing an American bomber incursion, shot the plane out of the sky. The 269 civilian passengers died. The world seemed to be teetering on disaster. On September 22, 1983, the Toronto Disarmament Network issued a public warning of the danger of escalating tensions: “A miscalculation, a computer error, an itchy trigger finger could lead to the murder of not hundreds but millions of innocent civilians.” (WW3) In the immediate aftermath of the Korean jetliner disaster, the Soviets anticipated a retaliatory action, and their radar crews were trained to respond quickly in the event of a serious incursion. The crews knew that if they hesitated, the Soviets would be wiped out in a first-wave attack. On September 26, 1983, Soviet radar crews detected a large group of incoming missiles. But Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov broke protocol by refusing to immediately launch the counter-strike. He suspected the blips on the screen might be some kind of computer error. Petrov was correct. Had the automatic rapid military response been controlled by A.I. You would not be reading this now. It is equally possible that human error might start MAD WW3. But I cannot trust computer to control it. In Iran, a missile landed on a park that was marked on the town map as "Police Park". It is alleged the target was chosen by A.I. Which begs the question "who targetted the school, human or A.I."?