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Thy will, be done. On earth as it is in heaven. By then A.I. will be so logical that it will remove the plague of humans and bring lasting peace to Earth. So, it would indeed work very well.

I spent 3 months in the U.K. in 1985, mainly in London. I was there July, August and September and it was beautiful warm sunny weather. I left the first week of November and the last three or four days there had cooled down to the point of wearing a coat. But before that it was three months of T shirt weather. The locals called it an Indian summer and said it would happen only about every 20 years, so I've been there but never experienced the cold rainy weather they often get.

This image gives an idea of the airflow direction. Not visible from the outside is the plenium, described here as the air gap, which is an empty compartment above the fuel tank, and receives the air circulating down through the side tubes. The air from the tubes via the plenium to the burner is force fed air, very critical to how they burn. Without that system they'd just be a glorified candle like the wall mount type lamps that are called a dead flame lantern as they don't have any forced air, just drawing it in from the grate at the base of the burner.

Yes they do, and very loud. Not as loud as the butcher bird's but close. They wake you up at night. For years I thought the sound was some weird bird up in the roof ridge cap until I did some googling and found out it was the geckos. I originally thought they were the native gecko, dubious dtella. but with more googling and some close up inspection I'm fairly sure they're one of the introduced Asian species. They moved in here when I built the place in 1996 so are probably into the fifth generation by now.

Thaty's the principle behing the Stirling engine. A Stirling engine is a heat engine that is operated by the cyclic expansion and contraction of air or other gas (the working fluid) by exposing it to different temperatures, resulting in a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work.

It's THOU will be done. Experts see risks with AI. I will trust the experts like we do with Most other things. Fully competent and with NO vested Interests. Nev

Our deep south sounds positively balmy compared to your riding environment. Last year I folded to sensible behaviour and sold my bike. No sensible 70 year old would be so silly as to have a motorbike! I finally gave in to my pining for a ride. Collected a little 250, (a lighter thing to pick up if it falls over). A pleasant enough 8 degree day. It's heated grips worked all the way home. Of course as soon as I hit the highway the clouds closed in and the previously nice winding roads had me nervous because I was still getting used to handling this light responsive bike, on wet roads. Home in one piece. Nice hot shower, hot cuppa and happy. For future adventures, I will include a weather forecast in my flight plan.

Good luck to you blokes who have had rain. It looks like my area is set for a drought this year.

Those Indian summers are far more frequent these days. But even when the summers haven';t been the best, the days are long with sunset going past 10pm, and sunrise a little after 4am. Combined with a more relaxed approach to drinking (at least where I lived in London and where I live in the South West), made loverly long but relaxing summer days, often watching them attempt to play cricket. Happy days!

Thanks for that red , won't explain it'd just be best. But eh Jerry , yep, that is a complicated one , should've known it'd involve women ha ha. Nottttt, that l regret being married but it did change so many things and huge decisions, especially financially whichhh, has put me in this position now, not going into it tis what it tis doesn't matter now. Does still hurt though that we would've been multi millinaires buttt, spilt milk. Funny, ex wifey said to me the other day no regrets and l thought well darlin, that's a really good attitude l guess, so her, she's a glass half full. Soooo, l'm trying to take a leaf out of that one atm myself for the situation now. lt wasn;t only that anyway it was stupid me that did a really bad deal on my new house later and got stuffed up in that all by myself. But eh, that involved a woman to. l didn't think l'd retire for yrs yet either was still enjoying work but l took off caravanning 12mths got really lazy and now l don't wanna go back ha ha. My brothers 50s and hasn't worked 2yrs now either and having trouble going back too reckons he ain't doing it now if he can find a way out of it. He does own his place though and has some savings, his gf's got plenty of money too. Funny, we were having some beers just today and chuckling about how lazy we both are now.

I think there's a real market for a new political party, without necessarily experience of running a government, but with solid central policies that foster innovation/entrepreneurship and ensure the risk/reward formula rewards well those who take risks and succeed, but also ensures that those that participate are not left behind - i.e. striking the right balance. The right balance is different for different people - I get it - but at least the rational conversation to try and strike that balance. While I agree that it would be good getting someone in who has experience running the country, by being in parliament, you do get that experience even in minor or major opposition as you are exposed to the machinations indirectly and directly through parliamentary committees and the like. So, you would want them not to take government day 1, but maybe after one or two elections where they have had time to get that experience and build their numbers - and also prove their mettle - or not - to the electorate. The other reason is that (hopefully) they would come with little political baggage. For example, the issue Jacinta Allan in Vic has in tackling the CFMEU is just that.. a lot of this happened under her watch (and prior). also, when you represent the old guard, coming out and changing things is admitting you were wrong the first time, and the press love that; and people naturally question your competence. She is not the only one - Dutton is a second (although I think he didn't see any wrong he and the government he was very senior in did). For some reason, the electorate hates it when pollies admit they were wrong and learned their lesson and will do better - it's as if everything we try and teach our kids goes out the window when it comes to politics.

I have to admit.. as a bit of pyrophobe, I am happy they are not in common use anymore, but the engineering is interesting.

In addition to kerosene lanterns, we had a kerosene fridge. It was my job when I was in high school to keep the kerosene tank filled up.

There used to be LOTs of them in Cairns, mostly upside down on the ceiling. Nev

Here's a bloke who specialises in "oil" lamps, which description seems to cover any type of lamp or lantern that is fossil-fuel-powered. https://www.oillamps.com.au/

I think the light output is a bit like our refrigeration expectations nowadays. When we lived without electricity he light from one of these would have beaten a candle by tons, better than a campfire. Imagine people having to live without electricity, having a coolgardie safe only no to keep their food, and maybe an underground cellar. hey Willie, do your geckos make audible sounds. We ha geckos all over a villa in the Maldives that called to each other all night. Never heard lizards making any thing other than hisses when threatened.

We already have laws that place some restrictions on speech. Free speech has never been absolute. These are things you could have problems with threaten people incite violence harass or intimidate defame others. These restrictions have been around for many years. Why are you not all nervous about these restrictions? Have you actually read any of the bill? The Bill would introduce a new aggravated offence for religious or other leaders who advocate or threaten force or violence against groups, members of groups, their close associates, or their property, in contravention of sections 80.2A to 80.2BE of the Criminal Code Act 1995. The offence applies if a person, in their capacity as a religious or other leader, advocates or threatens force or violence in the course of providing religious instruction, or religious or secular pastoral care.