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Yes, another good nickname is "Break My Wallet".

Joe is in serious mental decline and the sad part is, he won't acknowledge it, and his wife is still supporting his run for President. She should know better. This is what you get when people get power-hungry and cannot relinquish that permanent desire for power and the world stage. The end result will be Trump will become president by default due to the lowest voter turnout in history. Sizeable numbers of people don't want either Trump or Biden for President, so they'll just stay away from the voting booths. After all, voting in the U.S. is not compulsory, and narcissists such as Trump love that.

They're owned and built by BMW and the name stands for "Bring Many Wrenches". After seeing my workshop neighbour working on his Beemer, and examining all the disassembled componentry, I wouldn't buy one for all the tea in China, they are utter crap in their construction and design. Shitty plastics everywhere (including vital engine components) and none it designed with quality in mind, just cheap as they can make them. Not to mention the dreadful markup on parts prices. $97 for a simple engine sump (oil pan) gasket. Fasteners everywhere with special heads, requiring specialised BMW tooling. One company here makes some nice earnings from selling the special tooling need to work on them. A need to dismantle half the engine just to replace commonly-worked on components, such as starter motors and timing belts. I reckon most BMW mechanics must be nut cases. https://www.ozwidetools.com.au/bmw/

There goes one bloke with major mental health problems. Disfiguring your own body or self-mutilation as it commonly known, is indicative of serious psychological damage to your brain. He won't live a long life, nor a happy one. Members of outlaw motorcycle gangs are well known for this kind of self-mutilation behaviour, and it often goes hand in hand with criminal activity, ADHD, and autism spectrum sufferers. They suffer from low self-esteem.

The secret to happy employees is building and keeping up company and employees morale. And you have to keep working at it. Way too many managers and CEO's fail to understand how effective regular doses of genuine thanks and gratitude are. Praise is in short supply in this world, but even modest amounts of praise go a long way to making people feel appreciated and useful.

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I've never seen any chicken or horse shit made into gas, to power transport - but I have seen "digesters" (equal to large septic tanks) fermenting pig shit to generate methane, that was utilised on the farm for heating or power. During WW2, "gas producers" that utilised charcoal, were promoted by Govts, both here and in the U.K., and to a lesser extent, in the U.S. - to reduce the civilian use of petrol (which was strictly rationed in Australia and the U.K.). Gas producers were manufactured by a sizeable number of manufacturers, both large and small, and fitted to both cars and trucks. The designs varied quite widely. In some cases, people built trailer-mounted gas producers to take the weight off the vehicle. Charcoal-burning and sales of charcoal became quite a sizeable employment opening during WW2. However, the slowness, fiddliness, and the need for regular and thorough cleaning of the gas producers, soon saw them fall out of favour, once petrol became freely available again. International Harvester Australia manufactured a considerable number of gas producers, under licence from a British company, "Brush-Koela". The Brush company originated its gas producer design in India, and the word "Koela" was Hindu for charcoal. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46748577?searchTerm=Brush-Koela An International model D30 truck fitted with an IHA factory gas producer - https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1469499 An International D2 utility fitted with an IHA factory gas producer - https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1469598

The further out you are, the better the opportunity for generating power via wind and solar. I can remember working gold operations South of Laverton, W.A. in the late 1980's, the wind started up at sunrise and it blew steadily all day, and on 95% of the days. Add to the vast amounts of sunshine out there, and you'd be a mug to rely on power generation located on the coast.

A Fart engine? Sounds appropriate, judging by the exhaust note.

Octave - but publically-owned power generation facilities are regularly sold to private enterprise, on the basis that "they are more efficient". The record stands that this is not true, and when private enterprises are allowed to own major public infrastructure, the end result is always outrageously increased charges and huge profits being generated by those entities. Would you like Clive Palmer to own a majority proportion of your public power generation/recharging infrastructure? The idea leaves me deeply concerned, but it is a real possibility, and one that would be highly detrimental financially to the average person, as greedy Clive sought to ensure he became Australia's first trillionaire on the back of price gouging for electricity.

We would go straight back to the Wild West of the early to mid 1800's if citizens and anyone arming themselves with a deadly weapon was allowed to kill at will. In that era, life was cheap, the murder rate was off the scale, and people were killed for virtually no reason, apart from the reason that some people simply enjoyed killing others.

A major concern regarding the charging infrastructure is in red750's Yahoo article outlining the Scottish charging infrastructure - and that concern is, that the amount of money required to fully develop a large charging infrastructure, is going to become dependent on private money. And when private money gets involved in important infrastructure development and construction, it wants major financial returns (note that many companies seek a minimum of 12% ROI, and some seek up to 35% ROI). This then, leads to excessive charges being applied by the infrastructure owners, and monopolies developing. Whilst we may have anti-monopoly laws, they're pretty weak, as evidenced by Coles and Woolworths control of the retail food market. Imagine Coles and Woolworths (or Saudi Aramco) financing and owning half the charging infrastructure in Australia - because "the Govt can't afford to develop or own it"? You would end up paying nearly as much to recharge your EV, as it would to refill your IC-powered vehicle with petrol. We have to be careful what we wish for, and ensure we retain public control of important things such as energy generation and charging infrastructure.

It's certainly a very vexing problem, this youth crime problem - and one thing's for sure, the courts and justice system are way too soft on criminals. But the reasons behind the crimes have to be examined and addressed before one can deal with it in a way that meets with general approval. 1. Many crims have some form of brain damage or are "on the spectrum", meaning they suffer from an inability to determine the consequences of their actions. 2. Much of the above brain damage/anti-social behaviour stems from poor parenting, alcohol abuse, drug abuse and general rebelliousness. More effort has to be put into addressing the root cause of these issues. 3. Many judges need to be made aware of the community desire to reduce the amount of bail handed out, and be made aware of the community desire for longer sentences, that are actually served. Unfortunately, whilst capital punishment look like an immediately attractive option, murder is murder, and we generally agree that it's not acceptable to murder criminals for their crimes, horrendous as they often are.

The scariest part of Trumps agenda is the loonies he's enabling to wage war on civilians just doing their job. People such as Ivan Raiklin, a deranged thug who is a retired Lt Colonel and Green Beret, and who claims to be a "Constitutional lawyer". The problem is, Raiklin is nothing more than a thug threatening to hunt down and kill his political "enemies". He's right out of the mold of the "Posse Comitatus" followers, constantly using the extreme right wing keywords, such as "tyranny", "deep state", "patriot", "self-determination", Christian Identity, etc, etc. He's a spreader of hatred and racism and incitement to murder. Of all the people supporting Trump, he and his like are a major worry, because they would be happy to incite civil war as a method to ensure they gained absolute control of the country. Raiklin on "X" - https://x.com/IvanRaiklin Hate Group expert Daniel Levitas discusses "Posse Comitatus" - https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/hate-group-expert-daniel-levitas-discusses-posse-comitatus-christian-identity-movement-and Raiklins appointment to the board of a radical Right Wing group called "Americas Future Inc." - which is Led by Lt Gen Michael T. Flynn, a major enabler of the "Stolen Election" lies, and a Trump ar*e-licker - https://www.kxan.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/723521189/fearless-powerhouse-and-patriot-ivan-e-raiklin-joins-americas-future-board-of-directors/

I've seen numerous IC-engine cars catch fire after a crash, thanks to the bonnet shorting out the battery terminals. It's standard procedure when you come across a prang to disconnect the battery to limit any chance of fire - even more so, if someone is trapped in the vehicle. I have no idea what the procedure is for disabling an EV battery in the event of a prang, but it would sure pay to find out. All the EV's seem to have well-protected batteries, so it's relatively rare for an EV battery to be damaged enough to short out and cause a fire. However, I'd still be concerned about damaged wiring causing major short circuits, with potential fire from flammable materials in the vehicle interior.

I can remember Rod Steigers outstanding performance in the movie, "In the Heat of the Night". Apparently he suffered from major depression for a long time.

That misspelt "plooms" is just apPALLing.

I don't know about others, but my mother always cooked nice tasty meals, and I have fond memories of what she could produce from very basic, relatively cheap cuts. We never went hungry, even though at many times we were impoverished, thanks to Dad's dream of establishing a big dairy farm from a bush block, with no working capital.

There's a story beat-up on the MSN news media about someone running their car out of battery power reserve, and a photo showing someone else charging the car on the edge of the highway, from another vehicle. I don't see what the news is. Would they make it a news item, if someone ran out of petrol? All it shows is someone's lack of planning, in not ensuring they had enough battery reserve to get where they were going. Do EV's have a "range" indicator, the same as many IC cars do today? I'm sure they do. The only thing the article needs to advise about is the stupidity of recharging so close to passing traffic and showing the cord lying on the highway side of the road. There's no way I'd be doing that, the way many people drive.

Returning to the original article - Victor Cha rates as pretty useless as a Korean adviser, if what he's quoted as saying, is what he actually said. QUOTE: "The Korean peninsula is the perfect social experiment, says Victor Cha, a top US adviser on North Korea. ‘‘Let’s take two people, the same people, the same blood, put them in two different political systems and look at how things turn out.’’ The two Koreas are NOT identical people, despite Cha's assumption. They may share a common ancestry, but the two Koreas have been divided for over 70 years now, and there is little for either group to discuss or share. The people in each country have gone down two wildly divergent paths for so long, it would be nearly impossible to envisage what any future potential re-unification would look like - or whether it would even be wanted to take place. The South Koreans see the North Koreans as imbecilic, backward, untrustworthy and a potentially massive financial and social burden on them, in the case of any attempted re-unification. A vast number of South Koreans nurse a lifelong grudge towards North Koreans and their leaders and style of Govt. They see them as permanently destabilising, and basically evil. If war ever does break out between the two Koreas, be assured that a very large number of South Koreans will be happy to see North Korea as a nation and people, wiped out.

Bringing up Tony Maddoxs' court case as regards his illegal causeway upsetting the Rainbow Serpent, and leading to a trial for infringing the Aboriginal Heritage Act - unbelievably, the judge has adjourned their decision multiple times - first it was to April, then to June 24th, now it's been adjourned again to 21st August this year. The judge obviously works on "Noongar Time" (Blackfella time, known to be highly extendable, as regards timing, appointments, dates, showing up for the job, etc, etc ....) https://www.facebook.com/NoongarsBeLike/videos/hahaha-noongar-time/318503252814375/

The article is based on products available to Americans, less than a quarter of those EV's mentioned will be sold in Australia.

Joan Benedict, a regular star of Allan Funts "Candid Camera", and widow of Rod Steiger, has died aged 96 from complications resulting from a stroke. She wore out 3 husbands, all of them dying from some form of cancer. She was only married to Rod Steiger for 2 years before he died. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/joan-benedict-dead-candid-camera-rod-steiger-1235940998/

I think OME meant to write "sycophantic".

"Cockpit" is too gender specific, and totally alpha male-oriented. I'd suggest, in this enlightened gender fluidity age, we need to develop a far more inclusive word for the driving position. However, I'm struggling to find the most acceptable word. "LGBTQIAPIT" doesn't seem to quite fit the requirement.