nomadpete

I don't think that scenario was being debated.

Sorry, I fixed that before you arced up.

No problem. Presently Australia has less than 10% EV's so a 200% increase from that is not astronomical.

That's great news. And it's a faster price adjustment than I expected. As always, the early adopters pay more for the new toys. Now it is approaching affordable for the punters! A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Putin has also said that this is already a 'defacto' conflict between Russia sn the rest of the world. Isn't it already a (half hearted) global conflict? There is no rational reason for the 'west' ( the rest of the world) to prevent Ukraine from bringing down bombers that haven't yet left Russia, but are launching bombs to kill civillians in Ukraine.

Of course he would say that. If NATO did permit Ukraine to defend against glide bombs launched fron within Russian territory, Putin would be defeated.

Once again Octave you are speaking as an idealist. Of course an ambulance offers better initial care. If one is available. In my case, after I had been lying on the floor in agony for 3 hours, the ambulance despatchers phoned my wife and asked her if she didn’t mind driving me into the hospital. The real world us not as simple as you seem to think it is.

Clearly they are inter related. The CPAP won't fix poor O2 to the brain if the heart and lung combo isn't up to scratch. Likewise good heart n lung operation itself doesn't guarantee good O2 to the brain if the breathing passages have a problem. You cant blame the carby if the air filter is blocked.

Welcome back, Peterrrrrrrr

Nev, Just to add a quick insight to the crossover between medical care and the medical industry.... A while back, I had an 'episode'. Possible stroke. The hospital admitted me and did a CAT scan and said "It doesn't look like a bleed, but we cannot be sure until we do a MRI. Come back in a couple of weeks for an MRI and meantime take a quad dose of clopidogrel and stay on it". I went home. A month later an MRI confirmed residual clot signs from a bleed. The neurologist assured me this was not technically a stroke because it was at the cerebral cortex, therefore not within the brain. In spite of anticaogulants, the bleed fortunately stopped by itself. Of course the potential for anticoagulants worsening a bleed was brushed aside. In reality it had the potential to finish me off the next day. But it goes to show that the experts are not always right. And sometimes the most important thing is to get the patient out of the hospital.

I couldn't lower myself to do that - a crude lump of wood is just for peasants.

Even cheaper, when my hatch struts failed on a long trip, I got a piece of aluminium U section from a hardware. I cut it to drop over the thin (piston) part of the strut when the hatch was up.

Wow, you are really steaming ahead now. Thanks for the update.

Random..... yeah.

Wishful thinking. Folks from the top of the food chain don't seem to get the same legal treatment as normal folks.

I think the invitation only said Don Jr? And they only charge 10k for you to take a selfie with the star. What a bargain!

Back to luvvin the Don.... I wonder why a wealthy British lady would go to the trouble of ".... next month co-hosting a $100,000-a-couple London fundraiser for Donald Trump’s presidential bid." In my experience such events are seldom acts of philanthropy.

My point is that most damaging political bs gets spread widely by anonymous entities (persons, or automated bots, from unknown locations). Pretty hard to police when you don't even have a name to work with.

Is that only for politicians on MSM, or would it also apply to their hangars-on who spruik on their behalf?

I might be wrong (feel free to correct me), but I believe the only good fish oil for me is the oil from fresh fish. The health food capsules allegedly are made from oil byproducts of the fish industry, and some time ago it was found that much of this is bordering on rancid by the time it gets put in pills. My take on this is that you probably get better quality omega 3 from the fish, rather than from the factory.

We would all get used to it. Then those with big butts in jeans would already admit the truth to themselves, thereby relieving thousands of husbands from that dilemma of avoiding to answer.

It sounds like a wise move to put this new legislation in place early. Would this forward thinking legislation be a reminder of something that should have veen considered before social media went mad? For instance I see a similarity (in concept) to the issue of social media billionaires basically now saying "don't blame me for the outcomes" when their software has permitted unconscionable damage to individuals through distribution of unfettered misinformation. Had there been some legislative groundwork been laid in the early days, the internet might be a bit safer today. However, that tiger is already out of the bag.

Today's ABC headline reads..... "Misinformation posted to Twitter comes from 'superspreader' accounts, say researchers, ....." Would naming all posters help identify and avoid these blatant manipulations of public opinion? Alternatively, what will? This aspect of social media has destroyed the concept of 'free journalism' which once was a vital provider of information to the voting public. Old fashioned newspapers once had the author's name at the top of all opinion pieces. Currently, voters are swayed (bombarded) by unsubstantiated anonymous untrustworthy stuff.

Take a deep breath before you open anything

He is already scheduling that for November.