Jerry_Atrick

Sadly,, not.. The tested it for about 10 minutes, and the new regulator burned out. This is consistent with what happened in my case.. I was getting positive charge, and then nothing. One lives and learns, I guess. The shop put it back on their bench regulator, and it is no longer charging like it was... They are thinking one of tow things.. the stator is, once it warms up, over exerting itself or there is a short in the electrical system. We are on a bank (public service) holiday weekend, so no one will look at it until Tuesday. F! I am in three minds now... Sell it.. I will still get about £1200 for it, because apart from this issue, it is in bloody good condition and it is a superb riding bike. But, I would have to buy another... And yes, a BMW is not out of the equation... Let the shop diagnose this issue. At the moment, their theory is the stator is surging.. they will inspect it on Tuesday anyway. But if that is not the issue, then there is a short somewhere, likely in the loom or some ancillary wiring - less likely.. Just get them to replace the loom and ancillary wiring. A new loom is is about £130.. Actually, at the same time, upgrade the stator, which is about £200. The issue on those CBFs is the flywheel behind the stator doesn't allow enough oil flow to cool it properly, but the fix for that, unles syou can find the right flywheel at a breaker (wrecker) is £500 for the part alone. I am thinking number 3.. But.. Number 1 may come into play - because the same shop have a tidy used NT1100.. but that would mean about £6K that could be better spent on finishing the main money pit (house).

I had a random thought today about @old man emu - happy wildcard round today. I can't say I would ever support a team who until the constitution of the AFL had the zone to build and the sponsorship of the old money to buy premierships, but the turnaround when they finally allowed someone who could coach to coach has been great to watch. If only because despite the old money that still flows to the club, they couldn't normally manage their way out of a paper bag... I know my team are punching well above their weight and expect them to fall in straight sets.. so, unbelievably, I find myself wishing the Blues the best for the finals. . . . . . . I thought I would add - Wolfie has returned (well, it is Mr. Wynns actually).

If ON get in, for some, yes.. For most, including - dare I say it - yourself, no, unless you want to be worse off than you are now. Regardless of the outcome, the differential between the primary vote should be a very star wake up call to both Albo and the LNP. And it is not a wake up call to lurch to the far right.. it is a wake up call no one can take votes for granted anymore. Over here, admittedly with a press dead against him, but a purely technocratic apprach, Starmer conceded a lot of ground to Reform and Restore (the breakaway part of Reform - both as bad as each other). Like Albo, his management of the economy and social cohesion was better than his peers and certainly very good given the constraints he faced compared to Albo. Yet his continual pursuit of economic prudence within constraints they had to promise less the press during the election campaign would have hung, drawn, and quartered them for at the cost of the middle and lower class population. Their attack on the vulnerable to appease the right wing press was duly castigated by the right wing press (well all of the press). And with each prudent move to save in relative terms, a pittance, was met with abhorrence from even his most ardent supporters. He is no longer, Burnham talks the talk and has taken small steps, and suddenly the protest vote Reform is, had tanked.. Burnham in the polls is by far the preferred leader.. If the Tories can sort themselves out, they will depose of Reform altogether. And you know he has got something right by at least talking about looking after the masses, as even the right wing MSM have stopped calling for a general election as he was not elected as leader for the prime ministership. Albo is better than Starmer, and has turned out better than I thought he would.. I will concede that. In fact, I would generally say he has been a good PM for Australia. He has proven that immigration is not the issue when it comes to property prices (purchasing at least). And despite everyone in the real estate industry saying rental properties will decrease and rents will go up (they have been anyway - at the same time house prices have been which is considered an economic inversion) there appears to be signs investors are returning to the market - with lower prices for the houses because their yield calculations have changed. However, the ratio of home buyers v. residential investment property buyers has definitely shifted in favour of the former, so the house prices will return to some semblance of normality. I will give Albo super credit - it took guts because a lot of recent home buyers are now in negative equity - investors and residential purchasers alike. My advice to wither is if you are not under some mortgage contract to top up a margin (and some will be), then, as long as you can make the payment, stay put. For both of you, the investment is long term. OK, if you just bought a one bedroom place and the wife is pregnant, this will prove a challenge.. and if you are into negative equity territory, this will be devastating. My first born in London was in the same position (although - at least until the money I have sunk into this place - I have never been in negative equity) where if I sold, I would not have had much to show for in in moving up the property ladder. You may have to have the cot in the corner of your bedroom or stick it in the living room.. You will get through it.. and if you hang out, you will make money.. but at the same time your brothers and sisters will also be able to put a roof over their and their newborn's heads. But the reality is, everyone today wants immediate results. So there are other things Albo can do immediately. The Gas Excise (those calling for 25% is too low in my estimation); reforming the tax take so things like funds transfer are mitigated, etc.. pouring money into people rather than foreign corporations, direecting the spend to stimulate Aussie owned innovation, etc etc.. These are not huge things to do.. but will go much further than the sponsorship the ALP (and LNP) gets now. Until he (and Angus) address that, Pauline - who I have to say - I admire her tenacity - will get a look in.. And I believe Clive sees an opportunity and is preapring for another tilt. @Grumpy Old Nasho - should PHON get in, I hope you have a significant amount of cash stashed.. because there is very little she really offers that will do anything but make life more difficult for you..

that i something I would believe.. though I am not sure they can produce it at the intensity of the players - though I am guessing there would be some relative to body size that would bring it closer than we (or I) think. I recall in year 8, Jack Leahy - my then English teacher - was telling us about an experiment where a bunch of toddlers/early walkers were put in a room behind one-way mirrored glass with a bunch of toys (those plastic type cars, balls, etc), and a bunch of relatively fit adults on the other side of the glass with the same sort of toys (obviously where necessary increased in size for the stature of the adults) and the adults had to mimic/copy everything their assigned toddler did throughout the day.. By the end of the day, apparently the toddlers were still more or less going strong, but the adults were completely stuffed. Of course, when the toddlers slept, the adults could only rest - but apparently some did fall asleep during those breaks, too. I have no idea if it is true or not, but he was one of the best teachers I had, so I have no reason to doubt him.

OK, I am going to show my workings now, because I obviously, got one of my sums wrong in the penultimate question. Assumption: Despite appearances, this is not an equilateral triangle and despite the absence of the degree symbol, the 3x's and 4x denotes degrees of the inner angles of the triangle. As the inner angles of any triangle always add up to 180 degrees (I am sure there is some theorem that disproves this), then 3x + 4x + 3x = 180; therefore 10x equals 180. Therefore, x equals 18. The angle of y is the difference between 180 (straight line) and 3x, or 3 x 18 or 54. 180 degrees take away 54 degrees = 136 degrees.. Oh wait.. that is where i went wrong in the last one.. it is 124 degrees.. Darn it.. I have been working with computers for too long! Think about this.. if I got this wrong, and I am involved in implementing market risk systems, which are quite mathematical, what hope has the global economy got?

That would be correctly named "Swamp"

pfft! This is the money pit. I have stopped counting how much I am putting into it as it will just depress me (and it has eaten into reserves already). Latest is on my return from Aus, I went straight to work .. partner calls in a panic - power put... Sparky called.. Whole basement had to be rewired... All work stopped for a week as power required for a lot of what was going on.. Thought it was going to be £7K, but "Happy" mates rates brought it down to £4k. Current builder spent 7 hours in last two weeks as he had a roofing issue at his own house. A decorator started today. This is the longest finals to landing I have ever been on.

I think its 150, but could be 170. Geometry and trigonometry were never my strong points (pardon the pun).

Normally, I go for function over form 😉 Normally.. Can't say I have had that much function on the current bike. 😞 I would mandate everyone has to learn to ride a proper motorcycle before they can touch a car. Can I have your vote now?

I actually don't disagree with some of the sentiment above. But picking on immigrants is not going to solve the problem. In fact, foreign corporations welfare - so to be clear - lining the pockets of foreign shareholders - using things like tax breaks, grants, subsidies, and funds transfer (legal avoidance of tax). That is a lot to research, so I thought I would use some water and get AI to do it. Here is the summary - and its confidence in each number (a nice trick - I wished people would use this when quoting facts - maybe AI has some advantages): For transparency, I included my response and its initial response. And here is a link to its hole answer https://chatgpt.com/share/6a907746-4178-83eb-a04f-be64bfef4444 We have to take the second line of the summary above out of the equation because that includes pensioners and longer term immigrants, and to properly account for that, we would have to measure the input into the economy and deduct that from the $30 - $40bn per year. For the sake of argument though, let's assume that it is the same as recently arrived immigrants, at around $3bn a year. So, the total in welfare attributable to immigrants is say $6bn a year. The confidence in that figure is low. So lets more than triple it to $10bn a year. That should be more than what it is, but since some here have expressed a dissatisfaction with lefties cooking the books, lets err on the side of caution. Lets only take the bottom line (pardon the pun) as all of government assistance to foreign firms and assume the second from the bottom like is for some reason singling out the commonwealth portion. It is a reasonable range guess. On the low side, it is below the adjustment for error in the immigration cost, and on the high side, it exceeds it. I would guess there are far fewer foreign corporations, so the amount paid per "head" will be a lot higher. Of course, if we assume the numbers provided are near accurate, which in their own words are of low confidence, corporate welfare is costing between 4 and 7 times immigrant welfare - every year. That adds up. Of course, you could argue that corporate welfare provides jobs. Yes it does, but why give it to foreign corporations? Why not give it to Aussie owned corporations and use it to build up Aussie industry and Aussie assets? Also, welfare to immigrants is spent locally. There is none sent back as profits to foreign peoiple (yes, some immigrants do send money to their families from their homeland - but they will by far mostly be those working and not given "handouts"). Thinking about it.. I do agree with the meme. Get the immigrant corporations out and get Aussie ones in their place.

BTW, if you really want to stop the rent takers of the economy, start using cash for as many purchases as possible. Every card transaction - and I do mean every one - results with some going to one of two payments companies in the US. Even our dear eftpos has to pay a fee.

Although largely correct, my understanding of stablecoin is that it has to be backed by a liquid asset to derive its value. In other words, we would treat it as a derivative financial instrument when pricing it. I am not sure how the inversion of the dollar value would send the stablecoin up in value. It effectively becomes a proxy for directly buying US Treasuries in this case. There is no mandate for a stable coin to buy anything.. but on issuing more of the currency the stablecoin can do one of two things.. not buy any, which will dilute the value of the already issued coin as well as that of the newly issued coin, or top up their reserves of whatever is backing the stablecoin - in this case US Treasuries. These holding represent hedges against the loss of value of the coin against the currency they are stabilised against. Importantly, they don't have to buy up new US Treasuries (or whatever currency they are stabilised against), and they don't have to buy the debt - they can hold cash reserves - though that is far more expensive. I am nto sure about the retail market, but any intitutional interest in a properly hedged stablecoin as a result of a decrease in the demand of the asset backing it would not lead to an increase in demand.. In fact, it would go the other way. In the above case, if they saw the dollar dropping, they would probably take short positions in that coin (note, assuming this is not speculative) because even if it took a while for the hype of the retail investors in the coin to wear down, the coin would drop to its actual value... Also, for the coin to remain a stablecoin, as it dfoes not have cash as a hedge, it would likely have to buy more US Treasuries to maintain its stable status, and that could squeeze its finances and eventually cause it to break from the claim of stablecoin, which would then kill demand and value as it becomes another meme coin after that, or go into massive debt to hold its value. If the dollar stayed long term depressed, either way, the coin will eventually go with it from a retail investor perspective. That is my favourite. Errr.. Yes they did.. They knew tariffs were coming, and from his first stint in office, they knew he was going to be a lying, corrupt con artist. The fact this bit was not in his policy did not mean he wasn't going to try to use the presidency to disproportionately enrich himself corruptly. It could have been any myriad of ways to do it.. And yes, you just had to listen to his policy speeches (rallies) and realise he was all about tanking the US economy through increased debt and tariffs, and being a dictator. It seems that people are really no smarter than any other animal - you offer them a morsel of bait with a giant hook in it, they will not see the hook and just take the bait, hook, line, and sinker (in fact, some animals seem smarter as when they see the hook, they nibble at the bait but not take the hook). And then they will start thrashing about trying to get off the hook as they are drawn to the usually inevitable conclusion. In the aftermath of the initial policy implementations, it was educating to see how many people who voted for Chump say they didn't vote for the policies he implemented - the very same policies he was very clear about implementing before the election... Teachers voted for slashes to the education budget, government workers voted for DOGE, undocumented immigrant families voted for ICE.. those on SNAP having it withdrawn, and the list goes on. It was absolutely mind boggling when they would turn up on youtube and MSM and say they didn't vote for that... What they thought for some reason is it wouldn't happen to them.. when it was clear it would. And the funny thing was they often said they would still vote for him... They are getting exactly what they voted for.

Although to smaller extents, there are a few more countries I could think of that could fit that bill.

80 doesn't seem to be a good number for celebrities this month

I am sure Iran will happily purse Chump himself, but apparently, there is now a bounty of his son, Baron.. so he has succeeded in drawing his own kid into the line of fire: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/barron-trump-threat-iran-bounty-war-b3038679.html I bet whichever of his wives is Baron's mum is ecstatic at the idea.

Think of all that GST they can reclaim without a penny of revenue?

As with everything, ultimately the consumer and more broadly, the general population ends up carrying the costs

Dolly Parton has passed away aged 80.. in very long article on the ABC news website, it only mentioned health issues. SWMBO will be devastated

Just got a call from the shop. Apparently the connectors on the loom side of the regulator were knackered (though I thought I checked them... so when I pick up the bike I will see what I missed).. And also, the new regulator itself is a dud. So they are taking a video of it so I can use as evidence to get my £ back... The company that supplied me the regulator should be OK with it though, as the shop is replacing it with one from the same company I purchased from and they have good reputation. Regulator won't arrive until tomorrow and I will not be able t collect until Thursday afternoon... So to London by train this time.

I thought I would ask the question of ChatGPT. Here is the link of the question and answer. https://chatgpt.com/share/6a8d541b-5b14-83ed-b954-fe3fef4f12b3 Not much in it.

The bike went to its next mechanic yesterday. I spoke to the mechanic looking at it, and he was a little stumped. He thinks it may be the stator though as he has a hunch whatever is happening is happening with "random regularity" rather than just intermittently. Today he will be pulling out the stator and putting it through a "sniff test". Apparently, a single wind can be on its way out and cause all sorts of mayhem.

Sounds like drinkable yoghurt.

Drop the prompt/question answer verbatim in here - would be very interesting

Actually, I know many Aussies who lived in the UK because they could earn more here and regularly send money to Aus mostly to buy a house. Most have moved back to Aus