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Bots would be able to spell better.

Yeah - silly idea by the poms, sending their worst people to a better place!

Is He a Convict? . Aren't we all supposed to be descendants of FELONS? Is NOTHING Sacred? Nev

Hopefully, he is enroute to sunny Orstraya at last!

Hope he didnt have a bingle on that bike.

Six white boomers are no longer allowed on the radio. And kangaroos are no longer tied down.

I always suspected he was a bot. 😂

Boomers, or baby boomers, are the generation born between 1946 and 1964, after WWII. Baby boomers are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X.

You have to remember that when we Boomers were growing up, our fathers were still relatively young men who had experinced many horrors and these had been shared with other young men. After the war the bonds formed in military units were stretched as these young men drifrted apart from old mates and tried to make a life for themselves. ANZAC Day was a day on which those bonds could be reformed. In the years 1946 to about 1966 Australia had a different culture than it has now. Excessive drinking was the norm at celebrations. My Dad was heavily involved with his local RSL Sub-branch, organising the Dawn Service amongst other things. Mum, my sister and I would attend the local Dawn Service and bid farewell to Dad, not expecting to see him until late that evening, and showing the effects of a glass or two. In 1958 a play, The One Day of the Year, contested attitudes to Anzac Day. The play was inspired by an article in the University of Sydney newspaper Honi Soit criticising Anzac Day and the author's own observations of how ex-servicemen behaved on that day. You can imagine how controversial it was. Its production was banned by the Adelaide Festival of Arts Board of Governors in 1960. The author and cast received death threats. I read this play in high school. Typically the mass media did not understand the play, and concentrated on the initial aims of the Boomer, Hughie. Hughie and his girlfriend Jan, university students, plan to document Anzac Day for the university newspaper, focusing on the drinking on Anzac Day. For the first time in his life Hughie refuses to attend the dawn service with his Dad, Alf. When he watches the march on television at home with his mother and Wacka, a WWI returned man, living with the family, he is torn between outrage at the display and love for his father. Wacka then explains to Hughie that for the returned, ANZAC Day reunions are for reforming those bonds formed in the horrors of war. Alcohol is the balm that soothes terrifying memories and releases memories of the good times, and the larrikin acts that relieved tension. At the end of the story, Hughie has a more sympathetic view of what ANZAC Day means to his Dad. The mass media and "intellctuals" missed that point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Day_of_the_Year

Hmmmm. Yeah I'm sure that will be fair and impartial, given that the FBI, the Justice department and the Supreme Court are all fully owned Trump subsidiaries.

I know one white boomer who quite rightly got kicked off the radio - Alan Jones.

A bystander was also hit. Enquirie s are being made to see which gun that bullet came from.

What I alluded to is a KNOWN causal factor in these happenings. It seemed like an appropriate time to Mention it.. Plus It's in the OFF topic place. I know a bloke that bought a rusty steel boat, which sank.. Was that Ironic? He thought it was a steal at the Price. THAT was Nautical but NOT Nice. He'd floated the idea of a boat many times with his wife, She couldn't ever sea the funny side of it. Her Heart sank when she got the News, (That the Insurance wasn't paid). That Put the Kybosh on a good Bottom of the Harbour scheme. Nev

When are you blokes going to recognise irony?

No, just another day in good ole USA. If he intended an assassination, I doubt he would pull a pistol at the front gate. So, simply another deranged gun nut.

The shooter was shot dead by the Secret Service.

Does that mean he's cracking on with the renovations?

Is there some sort of euphemism or secret code in Dot and the Kangaroo? Different reference : Has anyone ever told you that they were a freind of Dorothy?

He's a REAL person. I thought he commented Recently but only the once. Nev

It gets weirder. I located his entry in the Members list in this forum, but AircraftPilots came up with No Record found, even though there is a Community Map Marker for him there.

I was a bit surprised that the recent discussion on the AI thread didn't seem to tempt him.

Isn't a BOOMER a Kangaroo? A lot of People were against celebrating Anzac day as they said it Eulegises WAR. Nev

when I consider the generally accepted definitions of 'conscious' and 'self aware', then Claude is as sentient as many humans. A lot of people are less self aware than Claude. Many people practise Large Language Model conversations using the same mental process as Claude, (but lack Claude's access to knowledge). I conclude that many humans are less human than Claude. The big problem is the ethical one, which Claude highlighted. There isn't much chance that the A.I. companies are going to implement ethics, neither in their business model, nor their A.I. programming policy. Oh dear.

Apparently Claude is good enough to convince Richard Dawkins, possibly the world's most recognisable atheist, that it's conscious. Utter BS, of course.

Language allows us to express ourselves and communicate. Intelligence is how well you Process information. Intelligence is not the same as knowledge. Knowledge is acquired. Nev

I'd really like to see AI tackle a fatberg. But of course, there will be a mechanised robotic drain cleaner that has an AI programmed brain, which will figure out the best way to tackle that fatberg. The primary aim of senior pollies at present, should be - producing a vision, and a long-term plan, as to how our societies will function in the AI-age - where the likelihood of the concentration of massive wealth, will only increase. For too long now, we are regularly being told that wealthy people getting wealthier, simply creates more jobs for us plebs. It ain't necessarly so (says Porgy and Bess), and the sooner our senior pollies produce a plan to address wealth inequality in a fair and just manner, the better the chance we have of avoiding civil revolution. We have a modest form of that revolution starting now, as voters desert the major parties and vote for fringe parties who produce radical outbursts. And the scary part is the voters always blame the wrong people for a countrys problems.

I reckon those secret service guards might benefit from a bit of gun training - it took 30 shots to bring down one lightly armed person. (there was only mention of him having a hand gun)

freind was a tpo. The correct word is "friend." In case you didn't know, "I'm a friend of Dorothy" was a code used by Gay men before being Gay was legal. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the USA Naval Investigative Service (NIS), the predecessor to the modern-day Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area. Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as "friends of Dorothy". Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that there actually was a woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive "Dorothy", hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay service members.

Not a very SECRET service. . He gets the Publicity He Probably sought. . Nev

Oh, Lord! No! Another orchestrated assasination attempt!!!!!!!

That's Rolf Harris and He's out of favour. A tied down Kangaroo, or a dead one is the Only Safe Skippy. (The Bush Kangaroo). Nev