nomadpete

I'm not so kind, Nev. In my work life I have repeatedly seen foolish contractual conditions on multi million dollar projects. In those cases, really costly over runs were due to binding contractual conditions that the business allowed a supplier to put into the deal. Hindsight is one thing but falling for the same clauses in the next contract smacks of incompetance, whether it is a government or private project. In these cases I don't blame merdok.

Well I gotta say... Trump delivers! He is already delivering more entertainment in politics, ethics and human rights than ever. I see a great future for this thread!

Don't bring logic into it. Car purchase is an exercise in trying to make a logical excuse for an emotional decision. If it looks nice and sounds great, it is desirable. Just like women.

Marty, please. This thread is called "But I Like Donald Trump". You are starting to sound like you don't.

Or to hold a backstabbing knife. Look how far we have ad-Vanced since we came down out of the trees.

Obviously infrastructure is a long term investment. The fact that everyone expects cost blowouts on every major expenditure, shows that as Red sed, "Either their estimates were w-a-y off, or they mismanaged the whole thing. " Successful builders do their contingency plans to protect themselves from all known possible unexpected blowouts. Such things as tunnel geological holdups should be reasonably scoped out by geologists. They claim they do this but are repeatedly caught out. The poor track record of most government projects suggests that they consistently fail to do comprehensive professional planning and contract writing.

That's a nice thing to say Nev..

This thread is so unfair. For instance.... I just got a picture of yet another school reunion. All I could make out was a bunch of wrinkly, grey haired old blokes sitting in a pub, with walking sticks lined up around the table. Glad I didn't go. There was nobody I knew there!

Not arguing the importance of infrastructure. But ...... Spending exceeding income always equals misery.

Self assassinated by failure to immunise?

She was a beginner. The smarter ones don't make the call until they have at least three identity facts about you. I'd love to know how a scammer got my whole name and correct rego number and phone number. Luckily my mobile phone identifies most odd phone numbers and alerts me of suspect frauds while it still rings. But it is only a matter of time before they start spoofing better caller id.

Long term? Well last time Vic was going broke, Kennet sold off every asset he could. Back again going broke, but this time there isn't anything left to sell off. That looks like Victoria is only slightly worse off now than they were 40 years ago. They just have to stop trying to build infrastructure they can't afford.

Long term vision is something we really lack. Also, many places do gain from the long term consistency provided by a unimpeachable dictator. But that advantage wears thin when compared with the negative side of dictatorship.

Sadly, all governments (& hopeful gov'ts) have trained the voter to believe that 'only they' can fix the problems of the day. That is how they get elected. Subsequently, when the winning party (or pres) fails to improve the things that are outside their control, they get voted out. Hence the regular irrational turnover of government & consequent lack of long term stability of policies.

Every time you say that..... it does!

It was the workers who were living on peanuts. Whilst good old Joh made his money by renting harvesters to nut farmers.

C'mon. Leaving a sinking ship is a sensible move. Doesn't make anybody a rat.

Some modern jazz, and some modern 'classical' sounds to me like random din and discords. I'm just not sophisticated enough to appreciate them. I love most kinds of music. Just don't play country or western. Or opera for same reason as OT's.

Which kind of jazz can they do? I once worked alongside a capable muso - when I asked him to play jazz, he said nah, I'm not that good!

That was before Joh came into power and stabilised Queensland.

PS. Sorry but I exceeded the ten line attention span of forums.

Here is a new one, allegedly with bipartisan support, which makes me suspicious.... "Labor will introduce a bill to parliament on Monday to change electoral laws, with caps on donations and campaign spending." (From ABC news) Sounds great in theory. But it only limits Party and Candidate donations and spending. The USA has PAC system whereby an arms length organisation gathers money to pay for advertising, and not being part of the party, choose to pay for their own advertising to 'help' someone to get elected. And no lifetime limit for candidates.

Every system has it's weaknesses, Spacey. Linux is less likely to be affected by most hackers. But it still can be done. There are a couple of documented hacks (compared to very many microsoft ones). And Linux can sometimes accidentally spread microsoft malware (to microsoft computers) that didn't affect the linux computer at all.

The rampant roller is gathering steam way before the starting flag falls. The Two a-Egos are looking better organised than the last time. Interesting times indeed!

All very well as long as you can spread it and ovelay it with fines to fill the gaps. How are you planning to compact it to stop it washing away?