Jerry_Atrick

I was also thinking bullets as well..

New battery that held almost all of the charge while I was in Aus. When I shut down the workl computer this eve, I will check how the charge is holding so far (after two weeks back). That is my next check.. Sort of..There are two wires from the controller, but they go to a make connector and meet two wires from the battery to go a female connector. So, I will check resistance across both sets of wires connected.. and if I get resistance, will check each set individually to find the recalcitrant cable. This is the interesting bit. At the connector between the controller and battery cable, the voltage rises... I think it is a tad over 14.4v, but can't remember. However, at the battery terminal, the voltage drops from its 12.7v or thereabouts at a constant rate. Although, it is possible I blew the controller by crossing the cables when I took the reading, I guess.

He seems to come across a lot of them..

Buy yourself a majority in both houses and it is a virtual dictatorship...Yes, if you are not elected, you can't participate, but with the right amount of money, you can buy yourself an election. Even Chump was elected.. by an outright majority of voters who turned out as well as the Republicans taking both houses - legal and so suggestions of interference - unless you count campaign donations as interference. Once in, even within the constraints of the constitution, they can achieve a lot of their aims, which is enrichment. And even operating outside the constitution, as we have seen in the USA, is possible. If, Should Pauline managed to get power, a judge says to her something she did is unconstitutional and she has the confidence of both houses, who will stop her doing it? The AFP? Doubtful as the head of the AFP is appointed by the GG on the advice of the government. The armed forces? Doubtful for the same reason... and then it would be a military coup. Chump tested the limits of enforcement of breaches of the US constitution. So far, he has won out He and those like him have no regard to rules as they apply to others.. Have you forgotten the Robodebt commissioner referred some for criminal prosecution.. and nothing has come of that yet. It appears allegedly acting illegally is less important in Australian politics than it once was. So, yes, it is entirely possible, especially given how many people in the polls seemed to endorse Pauline before her popularity started to abate. Thankfully she and her party have started to implode before gaining a lower house seat. My point was that, like Chump, Farage and Pauline have made inroads into politics of their respective countries thanks to a) being bought and b) having a lot of money behind them to influence the public. Thankfully, their inroads are abating. In Pauline's case, thankfully her ineptness has resulted in the abatement before gaining a lower house seat, which will hopefully stop any chance of her team winning We will find out later this year if Victorians are prepared to back her.

Please explain how my politics is on an other planet about Australia? Isn't Pauline their puppet and the billionaires buying them?

At this stage, it would appear than most countries have the same issue, although thankfully abating in the UK thanks to Andy Burnham; and in Australia due to Pauline's own ineptitude.

To be honest, I doubt he would care as being a narcissist, he probably wouldn't believe it anyway, but he has made himself and a his mates far more richer than before he started office. Not being a man of the people, he is unlikely to come into direct contact with the plebs much, so he may as well be peering down from the top floor of Chump towers at the destruction he has and continues to cause. It does show that it takes a long time for people to change their minds when the evidence is placed in front of them by the person/subject of which people were warning against because they wanted whatever he was pedalling to be true. Regardless of attempts to subvert democracy, looking at polling numbers from Ipsos, it is unclear that despite is increasing unpopularity, the democrats would even gain control of either house let alone ride a landslide in, which in any other western country would be the case.

The walk from my house to the pub is 5 minutes. The walk back, however, is 30 minutes. The difference is staggering!

That's is good advice, but unf, they have a yard and they would just leave it outside until they could work on it. I have since lodged a claim in the county court (equivalent ish to the small claims tribunal) to recover 50% of the cost of that sojourn as they billed work which was clearly not done and they left the bike worse than when it went in. The claim was to be heard today and they literally settled on the steps of the local county court... It had to be ratified by the court as the action was lodged and the clerk, as he signed to doc mentioned something about them being a regular client of the court. They are obviously scoundrels because pre-hearing settling means they don't receive what is known as a county court judgement; if they get one of those and they need any form of credit to keep the business alive, then they would go broke as it is on their credit record and once on, they have to wait something like 5 years for it to come off. Normally, I would say I may see my money or I may not, but the clerk gave them 10 working days to pay, and if they don't, I am to report it to the court and they will enter a county court judgement of default. So, I suspect it will come in Tuesday week. But, the bike is still not able to be ridden too far and I am not taking my son's 125cc to London because a) it would be painful; b) it has no luggage racks and carruing luggage + a heavy duty chain is not really viable; and c) it is a desirable model to those who enjoy appropriating others' bikes. I have checked the stator and it is fine. I have replaced the regulator and the DC coming out of that is fine - but it is not getting to the battery. I have checked the fuses; The only thing I haven't checked is the resistance from the battery cable to the regulator as I think about it. I am guessing the shop tugged a little hard on it or something. I will check it on the weekend.. if it is not the issue, I will have to wait until the 2nd August where I have the bike booked into the last mechanic I will have tried in this town. If that doesn't work, I will rent a trailer and tow it to my old mechanic in London.

Your daughter is correct in the sense that a share entitles the shareholder to a share of the future profits (earnings) of the business; in proportion to the ownership of the company that represents. It also entitles the shareholder to the same proportion of proceeds available to shareholders in the case of liquidation - which is usually not much once the ATO, secured, and unsecured cr4editors are paid. Therefore, the share price is a function of the market valuation of the company against the representation of a) the ownership it conveys of the company; b) any special rights or constraints of the class of share (e.g. preferential shares generally give you a right to profits before ordinary shareholders, but as a preferential shareholder you will normally forfeit voting rights); and the future earnings (profit) expectation of the company. One qualification to the right to profits - it is only the rights to distributed profits (dividend). If the executive management of the company decide to reinvest every penny of the profit and do not distribute a dividend, then the shareholders are not entitled to any of the reinvestment or withheld profit. There are companies listed on share exchanges that are non-dividend shares... This is normally in US markets and a far number of them are on Nasdaq. These derive their value from the "intrinsic" value of the business as adjudged by investors, but there is no dividend payable. The price is usually lower on a price/earnings ratio basis versus dividend shares as there is no income returned (which, to me, makes them worthless as anything other than a speculation share rather than a genuine investment share).

It has always been rare that a brand new venture has come fresh to the stock markets (which is really a share market, as stocks include all cash instruments - debts, futures, etc.. Another American misappropriation of the English language). When they do, they normally go the the "second" boards. The ASX no longer has one as these are less regulated boards and they are literally for investors who can throw whatever investment they have down the drain. Often dubbed penny stocks, you can make a lot of money or lose everything. The London Stock Exchanges operates AIM, but it is subject to tighter rules than most secondary boards, and hence it is more for companies seeking earlier cash than would float on a main board. I am not an equities analyst, but I would suggest that Tesla's stock price is reducing thanks to lower earnings forecasts thanks to robust competition in the EV market and probably the electricity storage market. Their first mover advantage is probably waning. The SpaceX loss may be temporary or permanent - who knows. As I understand (and I just skimmed one news article, so take it on that basis), shortly after the listing SpeceX issued a sizeable chunk of bonds, which is debt. Firstly, it changes the capital structure of the firm and puts the debt holders in front of the shareholders if the company goes belly up.. and of course introduces fixed costs into the business in interest payments. Secondly, as I recall, the planned bond issue was not in the prospectus, so it caught share investors off guard and as large bond holdings effectively dilute shareholder claims to the assets, it further reduced the price. The second point is interesting. I would not be surprised if some of the larger initial investors or early on after listing purchasers of the shares have consulted their legal advisers. Planning a bond issue takes some time as it has to go through all sorts of hoops legally, sounding investors, roadshows, and the like. It wold hardly be something that wasn't in the planning before the IPO. If they could prove on the balance of probability it was in the planning or discussed at board or risk committees pre IPO, then that would amount to a fraudulent omission of the IPO prospectus and could land a lot of people in hot water.. including the bookrunning banks should they have known but not disclosed. This may be a case of watch this space. In terms of the share price, it could rebound based on investor sentiment of longer term earnings.

Nothing wrong with that. Understood it perfectly. I am sure it was written by my brother

Sorry - I didn't see this... There are two ways - human and machine learning. And Machine Learning is often automated feedback loop between humans and machines, but can be, for example, response to external stimuli. Human learning, or tagging, is where a human takes the output and if it is inaccurate, explicitly tags the output to the degree it is inaccurate and corrects it. The data held to calculate the probability will be updated as a result. For machine learning, it is where the machine works it out for itself. For example, if a LLM answered your prompt, but answered the wrong question and you corrected it, it would update the statistical data where it think it went wrong. For non-human interactions, and to take an extreme example.. Say a self driving car predicts the person on the side of the road is not moving in front of it (say moving away from it) but ends up hitting it, it will use the data it received through the camera and radar to adjust the statistical data and learn whatever triggered it "thinking" or statistically deducing it would move away from the car, actually meant it would move toward the car and update its map accordingly... automatically. This is an oversimplification, as it would feed some central AI DB that would recompute the data maps and download it back or something similar. But the concept should be clear enough. It isn't inconceivable. But it would require almost autonomous and dextrous robots to do so, and I don't think we are quite there yet. In the future though, it may well be the case. Without context, the presenter is not making an entirely accurate statement. Yes, AI will work a lot quicker and uncover more vulnerabilities. But firms and governments are already using (and have been for some time) AI to scan networks and systems looking for and patching vulnerabilities. In addition, AI has been deployed to monitor real time behaviour to determine id actions being performed are likely to to be cyber breaches of some sort. So, it will settle down to a bit of like it is now, where vulnerabilities are found by those looking for them from both from a defensive and offensive/nefarious point of view and, like today.. some of the nefarious ones will get through, and some won't. The good thing is that AI will be a far better defence - especially monitoring real time activity that is suspicious. Also, the number of "hackers" (crackers - hacking is what I used to do - programming with "short cuts") that really know the nuts and bolt of what is happening is a relatively small percentage and most of the systems/networks hacking is already available in automated tools - usually free - that can be downloaded. Khali Linux is a cybersecurity "optimised" version of Linux for penetration testers. Basically it comes with most, if not all of the major available hacking software. Not many of these 16 year-old bright sparks know much more than how to download Khali Linux and point it to a server and run the software.. a real cracker would know how to cover their tracks and not get caught - like some of the ransomware gangs... So, this is already available today. And note, at least in today's world and I suspect when the AI between nefarious and defensive actors catch up, the weakest link in cybersecurity is humans.. social engineering (phishing, vishing, smishing and the like) are by far away the most common cause of breaches rather than the stereotyped hooded cracker at a keyboard. Real time AI monitoring will be much quicker at finding this (and already is). What will happen is you Windows Defender will become AI enabled. I found it ironic that Hugging Face, an AI cybersecurity start up was breached so easily. I think that may have damaged its reputation somewhat. The bigger threats on the horizon will be with quantum computing. This is a game changer.

Let's hope

I think you should re-read my posts.. .I have never said that he should just go for the ETA. How many times have I said someone not knowing they are a citizen.... or words to that effect