nomadpete

Not only 3AW. When working, I spent long hours driving in regional and remote places. Sadly, too often the only commercial radio available was the infamous John Laws or Alan Jones. These chaps invariably irritated and annoyed me. I feel their long term (divisive, biased shock jock) influence remains, and might still influence voters.

The big problem that I see is lack of timely pumped storage. Queensland put in 600MW of pumped storage way back when the state gov't owned all generators. But since then none of subsequent governments want to spend on big social essential infrastructure. There has not been any more such projects. Hence we have a nationwide lack of energy storage. Rising prices are mostly a result of lack of proper planning and commitment by governments. Had they planned over the years, there would already be storage in place that would minimise the power generation gas bills. I give up. I am costing up a private solar plus battery. For me, it's an investment. Even if I die (or move) before it pays for itself, the resale value of the house will be higher. Meantime, I am insulating myself from the problem.

Oh dear. So, post Trump, when the political pendulum swings, will USA be condemned to many years of "well-meaning but ineffectual mess"? I fear I might not live long enough to see the end of the show!

Here's a random thought. If the USA collectively had half a brain, they would immediately support Ukraine bigtime in exchange for some of their weapons development. Otherwise the US weapons industry will lag far behind the rest of the world. Proven testing of missiles that utilise ground following flight at 40 mtrs altitude.... Proven testing of marine drones that make big submarines hardly necessary.... etc, etc.

So that's not the spelling committee?

That's some serious riding, Jerry! Good onya.

So, since blind freddy can see that the MAGAts are unlikely to swing anything in the U.S. midterms, what do you think might be the next ploy?

Stolen from another forum. But i had to laugh.... "....allow your international underlings the occasional cackle at the fact that in your great nation, Donald Trump has now become president, twice. When you lot shit the bed, the whole world has to lie in it – so do at least have the delicacy to realise that once dignity has gone, a good laugh is how the rest of us get by. Come along and join us: you’ll like it if you try it." ...giggle.....

What? I am aghast! (Sp?) Unfknbeleeevable! Our most qualified and trusted IT/coder/computing expert is not a Apple adopter? No. I don't believe it.

I have seen pictures of deer, roo or donkey, etc that have gone straight through the windscreen. There are less complicated ways to prevent unwanted pedestrian or animal entry via windscreens. Way back, a friend bought a Citroen ID19. The bonnet didn't match the rest of the car. "Oh," said seller, "I hit a horse, it rolled up the bonnet and went over the roof!" The beast had deformed the bonnet but I think the roof is glassfibre so it just flexed. Personally, I have been hit by a car and my biggest fear at the time was that the driver predictably hit the brakes and as there is nothing on a windscreen to hold onto, I slid off the bonnet and nearly went under the vehicle. All these newfangled mechanisms are unlikely to prevent this.

Sounds very therapeutic Jerry. It's definitely improved your typing. And every time you mention CBT, I am seeing 'Cognitive Behaviour Therapy'.

I'd say the same about your motocross track..... that you call a driveway.

Attitude?

I believe some european vehicles (eg Volvo) have a front bumper bar airbag for this purpose. The plastic bumper drops and the airbag pops up.