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Our local Reject Shop was recently renovated to match photos of Dollarama stores, changing aisles from transverse to longitudinal. It still carries the old name but is ready to be updated.

Meta kicked me off Facebook and deleted my account. My wife passed away 4 years ago so her Facebook account and email have been deleted. I don't have banking, mygov or any other aps on my phone. My email addresses and passwords are based on my car regos, 3 cars.

Don't tell Jerry that!

The problem is that this is just not very secure. Although I don't go by my actual name on this forum, I have in the past posted links to my YouTube channel, which does have my real name. From that, I could be found on Facebook. From there, you could find my wife's name. Then you just find my wife's mother in her friend list, and there you have it. For logging into any site that needs to be secure, multi-factor verification is essential. To log in to my bank, where I keep my life savings, you need my username and password. This could be found in my saved logins on my PC. I imagine this could be hacked. But I would be saved by the fact that I must also put input a one-off code sent to my phone. A hacker would also need access to my phone. It is not too onerous, in my opinion, to use multi-factor verification. When banking on my phone whilst away from home, my fingerprint is required.

Another little-known takeover has seen The Reject Shop sell out to a huge Canadian company, Dollarama. The Reject Shop got $260M for their business, and Dollarama has plans to change all Reject Shop store branding to Dollarama. In addition, Dollarama are going on a massive expansion drive, aiming to enlarge the range of stuff their stores sell, to compete with Target and K-Mart, and even Coles and Woolworths. Dollarama plan to nearly double the number of stores from the current 390 stores, to more than 700. In addition, Dollarama promise huge savings on their product prices, due to their massive buying power. Dollarama claim that in some cases, consumers will see major decreases in pricing of products they sell, sometimes up to half the current retail price. It will be interesting to see the result, the Canadians apparently love Dollarama stores.

You can easily purchase plug-in webcams for older computers, which would give the ability to take facial photographs.

The Poms refuse to do any repair work on their houses, they mostly live in council-owned housing and they expect the councils to fix them. When they do own their own house, they always engage tradespeople to do their repairs and maintenance.

You need to set up a Corrugations Cam at road level, running continously, to record exactly how those corrugations form! I'm amused at how the Americans insist that they're called "washboard" - but all the early American publications call them "corrugations". 😄

I noticed on that unsealed road beside my place that the corrugations run from one side of teh road to the other. It's a road that only has one vehicle at a time on it so there is no need to keep to the left. Most people would drive straddling the crown. One would think that wheeltrack ruts would form and that the corrugations would be only in those ruts. I wonder why, then, that the corrugations are right across the road.

At the Men's Shed we have two old desktop PC's which were repllaced from the organisation that runs the shed, similar to the photo below, for use by members. I spend a few hours per week using one of them. The problem is so many websites now require security id by way of fingerprint or facial photograh. These machines do not have webcams or touchpads. The alternative is multi level confirmation with security codes sent to your phone or an email inbox, which probably requires a similar level of ID. Many require you to use their AP, but apps flatten your phone battery and cost money, chewing up your data costs. Surely, if you have a secure password that should be sufficient. Such passwords could be your mother's maiden name and birthday (year not necessary), a symbol, and to differentiate on different sites, a site abbreviation. As an example, for this site you could have,say, Murphy2306#SA. You are not likely to forget your mother's maiden name or birthday. This meets the requirement of 8 characters, upper and lower case, numerals and a special character. For another site such as mygov, you would use the same password up to the symbol and append MG. :- Murphy2306#MG. Another alternative is the model of your car, the rego, special character and site ID :- Commodore1JV6DZ%AP (for Aircraft Pilots).

For all their expertise in hardware sales, it is strange that Bunnings' attempt to get into the British market failed. Probably it was due to cultural differences such as we have seen with the failure of Starbucks and some other US mobs in Australia.

All of the 9xx series are Pressed up also. Nev

Is this bloke a personal friend? He seems to know you.... Another recent headline:- "Perth man still not going to concede that was a storm"

Saw a setup where the pin is pressed in and than a tapered grub screw is screwed into the pin to increase the "interference". Long time ago and cant remember if it was a crank or something different, same priciple though. I see there is after market rods available for the 503 in the states. I believe rotax don't condone it for aircraft 2 strokes but.

This is the satirical headline story from the Bell Tower Times - Perths equivalent of The Onion. The bloke may not be familiar to East Coasters - but he's John Hughes, W.A.'s longest-lived car dealer, and a legend in W.A. He turned 90 last December, and still runs personalised TV ads and asks car buyers to call him personally, and regularly states, he's "W.A.'s most trusted car dealer". He's also Alan Bonds BIL. Yes, THAT Alan Bond. But John Hughes has managed to evade any of the Alan Bond taint, in his business dealings.

Farley seems like a reasonable sort of individual with a realistic outlook, that is less hardline than Paulines approach. I'm surprised he's thrown his hat in with ON. Perhaps he'll be the sure hand on the tiller of ON and bring some stability to the Party. Or perhaps he won't last long, and there'll be a falling out, and he'll be booted from ON.

The problem looks to be more so with the twin cam example as given in the video, ie a hollow pressed crank pin with a welsh plug in the centre. I wouldn't think tack welding the pin would get much penetration and strength in the long term. Some people replace the welsh plug with a solid pressed pin in the centre of the crank pin, extending full width of the flywheel.

Popular giant Bunnings has swallowed two large firms whole in a mega merger – including the owner of Hard Yakka and Australia’s biggest industrial and safety supplies firm. https://www.realcommercial.com.au/news/bunnings-swallows-industrial-empire-whole-in-mega-merger/?campaignType=external&campaignChannel=syndication&campaignName=ncacont&campaignContent=&campaignSource=newscomau&campaignPlacement=socref

It’s not just the $50b although to be fair we don’t know whether those contracts would have been let anyway or who might have got them had no donations been involved, but it’s also about litigation that has been quietly dropped and regulations that have been amended to their advantage.

I'd never heard of David Farley before he ran for One Nation in the Farrer byelection. I read in a news article that he's an ex managing director and CEO of AACo. It was a fair while ago, he served in that role from 2009 to 2013. For those that dont't know the company, Australian Agricultural Company is Australia's biggest cattle and beef producer. been around since 1824.

It's not a circus! It's a carnival. I can't wait to see what happens when the show is over.

Modern day investment strategy - better returns than the stock market? As reported by "The New Republic": " It was always pretty naive to think the ultrarich individuals donating to Donald Trump’s $400 million ballroom project were doing so out of the goodness of their hearts. A new report from the nonprofit government watchdog Public Citizen has calculated that 14 ballroom donors have raked in more than $50 billion combined in government contracts over the last six months. For reference, that’s more than the GDP of countries such as Iceland and Senegal." https://newrepublic.com/post/211423/donald-trump-ballroom-donors-government-contracts

Spoken like DeNiro.

Press fits also Induces high stress in Parts before any extra load even comes into the Picture, from an engineering point of view.. Nev

They used to employ Nuts each side with Tapers, but it's better to Have More metal to press into The spline thing has been used for years now with No problems. Later Harley bottom ends are used for a lot of performance Specials. High interference Press fits cause distortion in what you are pressing into and you end up with unsolvable run out issues. Nev