Jerry_Atrick

Gripe of the week - Me! I have been under the pump at wirk for the last few weeks.. and I have been skimming rather than forensically reading emails. Unf, I bloody-well agreed to something that I didn't want to, because I thought it was about something else. When my manager questioned if I had responded to the request, I had let her know that I hadn't even received the request. She insisted the team responsible for sending it had. As we were speaking the team member who sent the request responded they were delighted I had agreed. I hurriedly found the original email, and realised it was cunningly cloaking the subject of the email - not intentionally. You see, a similar request was being made of a subordinate, and the descriton of the person was generic and I assumed, as I was managing that and expecting the request of me to come in later, that it was about him. Confirmation bias. F! Now I have to do soemthing I don't want to, wasn't mandatory, and now I have to attend sessions that I really, really, want to avoid. In my younger days, I would have spotted that very quickly. My gripe; Getting old!

He has moved the swearing in ceremony indoors because the forecast is cold.

An oldie but a goodie

Yeah, but won't pollutants in the air corrode it?

Yet, people still vote for him Would I vote for Trump? Probably not. Reason, a lot of what he stands for that I oppose means more to me than the stuff I consider good policy. Also, he is a felon with impending charges, has manged to corrupt the system the first time around, and of course, has the backing a the more powerful MSM corporations. And of course, he has been found, albeit on a civil basis; balance of probailities rather than beyoind reasonable doubt; as a rapist. The rather long investigations would have resulted in grafting and corruption charges in relation trying to really steal the election, and of course, his business accumen leaves a lot to be desired, and his "Art of the Deal" shoud be Art of the Shady Deal.. Remember he has been broke a few times, and relies on not paying people to keep his wealth, or as OT has pointed out, corruption while int eh presidency to increase his weath. I am not sure they are the qualities I would look for in a leader that has to govern for everyone. I could be wrong, though. I do think, though, he is somewhat maligned as well. Despie his many foibles, his bellicose and bullying have got results in certain circumstances. And it's not that other presidents haven't had some of these shortcomings (OK, rape not, but sexual exploitation, definitely). At least with Trump, what you see is what you get.. .The others do what they can to hide their lesser acceptable traits. Yes, he is nuts and dangerous, but not smart enough to do that much damage without a lot of support. That is the problem this time around; the people he has got in for the jobs are a lot more pernicious than the previious lot. But, while he is irrational and random, he is not unpredictable. Follow the money or the glory or the girls, and he is very predictable. OK, blustering on about ttaking Greenland by force was a little unpredictable. The other thing about Trump is, if he does something and it does not achieve his agenda, he has no problem changing course. There is no pretence in that respect. It's not working; he "backflips." While the press and many people see that as a weakness or failure, I see it is being real and a positive. Would I vote for hi? No. Do I see him as bigger threat as a lot of democrat leaning people do (of which I would consider myself one on most policy)? No. Do I consider people who voted for him idiots or would I deny anyone who voted for him something because they voted for him? No.

Netanyahu has thanked Trump; apparently his bellicose approach spooked negotiators back to the table. Most of the papers are crediting him with it. It's a positive step.. but not yet a done deal.. there are still some things to finalise the first round to a truce and then second round of negotiations to start by th 16th day of the truce.. As I have read there are two red lines for Israel.. return all the hostages and disarm Hamas.. The first has been written about in the articles I have read but not the second. Would be a big concession for Netanyahu for that not to happen. My point is, Trump will still have to deal with this..

Do you hit the equals button in between.. if so, that is expected as you have asked it to do that equation first and then apply the results to the next equation. If you don't it may be a setting or it is a bug

PEDMAS is how I was taught from, as I recall, late primary school in the 70s.. exponents were probably not taught until early secondary school I don't tjinknit is an Amerucan thing but will check tomorrow- two maths PhDs work in my team

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The I dream of Genie actress?

Well, I am glad to see the Europeans' staunch suppor of Ukraine and making sure those sanctions are biting... Wait, I forgot.. there's money to be made, so these sanctions must only be guidelines... https://on.ft.com/4aksYDt I am now glad we shoved the French sumbmarine contracts up their posterior. Meanwhile, Trump may not have the answer to quickly resolve the Ukraine conflict.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-11/trump-waters-down-ukraine-peace-deal-commitment/104806454

I would have held the officers and commissioner of police, and potentially the CPS repsonsible for any dereliction of duty. As I have said, they are hiding behind being scared of called racist. That is not DEI.. In fact, when you think about it, it is the oppoosite of DEI.. It would acknowledge anyone can commit a crime and should be helkd accountable. That is the whole inclusion bit. There is nothing that has been reported that would suggest anyone would be held accountable as being a racist by arresting the gangs. Rotheram is one of the more deprived areas of the UK, and is up north, which means it receives a lot less attention than down south. The police and the CPS have been alleged to have not fulfilled their obligations out of laziness effectively - or apathy - ot whatever. The police have offered up the excuse of scared of being labelled racist - they are hardly going ot be objective or necessarily truthful. There is nothing in the Home Office advise and guidance, nothing of record in the local MPs or other committees records that have indicated a modicum of going easy because of their nationality or heritage. It is a buch of dicks inventing an excuse which the MSM has picked up on and driven.. and the like fo Farage have beat up - you know - just like he beat up a poor girl being brutally killed and then quoting "sources" that they weren't releasing the identity of the accused as they are Muslim to protect Muslims.. which started a bunch of riots all over the country... And it turned out the accused was not Muslim, and that it was a minor which the police could not by law divulge the identity without a court order.. .and the "source".. was no other than Andrew Tate! BTW, I think the PM scored an own goal by not allowing an investigation into how it was not addressed for so long.. Yes, he has been implicated as the head of hte CPS at the time, but, apart from the Daily Wail and the likes, no one is suggesting he had anything to do with it.

A disease.. Of course you're welcome to your opinion... I have no problems mentioning enthnicity or calling out someone out for dong the wrong thing no matter where they are from. I guess I am not racist. And there is nothing to fear for doing so.. maybe except those who fear being found out as racist?

All windows are in. Will post photos later. However, the bay window came out today. The bricks will come out today, there will be laying and strentghening the internal bricks tomorrow, and on Wednesday, the Fench Doors will be in:

I think most people conflate DEI with racial profiling. DEI is about incorporationg and including different cultural sets of society to help determine direction, outcomes, stategy, and decisions. The big categories and ones most played out, and arguably malinged, in the press, are race, sexuality, gender/sex, and possibly religious belief (or not). However, it is very context dependent, and, for instance, we also look at neuro-diversity, educational backgrounds, and the like,. In fact, I have someone on my team who is definitely on the austism spectrum and the solutions he comes up to problems with is novel and very effective. DEI and multicultrualism has nothing to do with law enforcement or mentioning ethnicity. Ethinicty is only a subset of DEI, anyway, and is not really anything to do woith racism or racial equality. Another term hijacked by the mainly right wing MSM to push a narrtive. There is nothing to suggest in DEI that there has to be, for example, affirmative action. What DEI is about is acknbowledging that there are different ways at looking that things, which can be driven of different attributes of a person, and that this is healthy.. That is about it. Of course someone investigating a crime will want to know the attributes of that person - whatever they are. Only marginal parts of society would deem someone racist for arresting a non-white on reasonable suspicion of a crime.. What is racist is not pursuing a criminal because of their race, or automatically assuming an pursuing people of a race for a crime. But, not to pursue someone for a crome because of their race would be a derelcition of duty; however, of people I know looking into Rotheram, it seemed to be more driven by laziness or lack of caring of "lower peoples of society" and using fear of being called out for racism as an excuse. IOtherwise, they would never arrest a black person, yet they are by far more arrested,subject to discretionary stop and searches than any other racial group. If you lokk at the root cause, you can woirk out the fix.. Knee jerk reactions tend to produce the wrong results. On what basis?..

You may be able to complain to the AEC.. Not 100% sure, but they should be able to tell you which govenment department is responsible for regulating political organisations in Australia.

Sorry, mate.. My questions wasn't aimed specifically at you, and I only mentioned Muslims in the context of 9/11. But let's face it, whenever there is an event involving Muslims, the DEI card is often played by the media and pollies with an agenda. Also, when peapole say "perhaps DEI", or "perhaps minority rights", or "perhaps gays", or "perhaps women drivers", etc, the perhaps really means "looks like it [could be] to me..." Otherwise, why single it out? But, whenever something comes up, the press, and mainly right wing pollies like to insinuate it is DEI (or as we xall it here, D&I). FWIW, I think it is gathering momentum beyond its utility, but it is mainly about hearing different points of view to try and get to the best conclusion; hirign a diverse workforce to achieve better results, etc. It doesn't mean favourable treatment, nor does it mean that minority groups can operate with legal impunity. In terms of your wanting to live amongst those culturally like you - can't see a problem with that. I am not sure about Sydney, but when I lived in Melbourne, there were enclaves all over the place. Brunswick/Carlton were mainly Italians, Kensington were mainly Vietnamese, Coburg and Brunswick had a big influx of Turks, Dandenong had a large concentration of sub-continental Indians, Caulfield/Balaclava was largely Jewish, etc. I believe Tullamarine and Craigeburn area these days is largely Middle Eastrern and is it Noble Park where there is a large Sudanese of Sikh population. People of like cultures like to gravitate.. In London, my brother's father in law, who remarried an African woman, lived in an area of London, which when I drove my niece there one day, was like driving in totally different, non-European country.

Why is it when something like this happens, DEI gets the blame? Are the vast majority of Muslims terrorists? Like the Rotheram grooming gangs, when you delve into the details, it is usually people being too lazy to do their jobs and hiding behind DEI, than DEI itself.

I don't, except he is the first to complain about others, like, I dunno, legal institutions, medalling in his affairs.. and of course, complaining about foreign interference in US elections. However, it appears those of more ideological pursuasion are hypocritical - claiming freedoms of whatever, usually speech, when that speech promotes their agenda, but when it goes against, they are the first and loudest to cry foul and be.. offended. Lizz Truss, who's budget of unfunded c. $45bn tax cuts per year.. and by unfunded, weren't going to be funded by borrowing or cost cutting, virtually sunk the economy as the financial markets were gearing up for a massive revision downards of the UK credit ratings from all agencies. That champion of free speech has serverd Keir Starmer with cease and desist papers to stop his free speech in saying so.. He hasn't stopped.

It's true, overhyped and yes, staff members were re-educated on British values That's the point.. the law simply says, more or less, licensees can't sell alcohol to under 18s. It does not say how the establishment must verify their age. If its in NSW, I would imagine there's little if any defence that the ID provided was reasonable to believe.

Even ascthe article alludes, Starmer didn't send them Think that Musk is going to stop at the UK? There's reports he is funding Germany's AfD, a neo- right political party and other European. Her certainly has expressed support for them. He won't stop there..

And the lady having to produce ID to purchase alcohol wad a company's decision, not a legal requirement. What that has to do with the forms of ID required and accepted to prove one's identity, I am not sure