Jerry_Atrick

Thanks for asking. The floors are proving to be quite a challenge. The builder had to do otehr work he had promised customers, so, my partner, who is very creative took over. Prooblem is the floors are quite old and have a lot of imperfections. So, she has been working on it for about a three weekksm trying to get it into shape. It should be finished this week ready for the top coat of clear satin oil. Decorators are in fixing the gympsum based plaster, painting and stuff. They are doing a great job. Another builder starts next week and will be doing work in the basement.. Things are moving... Lime plasterer can't start until Feb. Speaking to an agent this weekend. about 1/3 of the windows are installed.

Unless you use seriously advanced features of Office, need cloud storage, or write lots of VBA, you're a lot better off with Libre Office.

Here;s an example of weak leadership:

As Albo is learning, too

Nev, to be honest I am not sure what you post means (genuinely).. .But my BA, who could probably out-trade most of the traders in our firm, is probably more "woke" (i.e. has a social conscious) than most people on this board. For him, risk management is a passion.. For me, working with risk management pays the bills.. For a reference point, I could probably out-trade.... none.

As long as the holes of the swiss cheese don't aligh, I am happy...

Geometry + trigonometry = games programming.. Many billionaires made from it.

Here ya go... You may no longer have your FRTOL, but you can get hours of enjooyment listening in.. Especially, when you're at Temora: https://www.clearprop.com.au/avionics/radios-scanners-and-gps/50-600mhz-full-band-scanner-radio/

I am led to believe is a sexologist.. This is how far I go back.. she used to be on 3XY radio in Melbourne.

About 8 weeks ago, my best business analyst, and one of the most intelligent and contributing people I have worked with, came down from a meeting with our internal stakeholders, market risk, and said he was offered a one year secondment with the market risk team as a market risk manager and that he wanted to take it. I was a bit gutted as I investged a lot in him.. As a bit of a back frop, he has an at times debilitating menthal health condition. I worked alongside him about 6 years prior to joining this motley crew, and I had no idea he had a problem. However, over lock down, it festered to the point he would go AWOL regularly. I have to say, the firm we work for were fantastic with him. I had become his manager about 3 or so months after joining and his ex manager gave me the low down, including how they threatened to rip up the heath corproate health insurer's contract if they didn't keep paying for his treatment. One of my first meetings with the head of Market Risk was quite tense over his performance, and he was in a bad place. It turns out she also worked at the previous firm we both worked at and she was non-too-happy with him. She didn't know him that well, and I assiured her to have faith because when he is firing on all cylinders, he moves at twice the pace of anyone I have ever worked at. Well, there were many bumps on the way, but with a bit of nurturing, and of course, him finding a partner (with kids, who reminded him he now has responsibilities), he has lifted himself right out of the hole and has hit the speed I knew he could. He has been like that for a bit, so he owes me nothing.. And that same head of market risk offered him the secondment! That was fantastic in itself. We don't expect him back because he was a market risk manager in what was one of the worlds biggest banks by balalnce sheete with very, lets say assertive traders, and he held his own well. Tio put it into context, his is only just now turning 40.. he has achieved far more than many, especially given his condition. Well, having moved on Monday, my team had its Christmas dinner on Tuesday and of course he was coming.. it turned out to be a bit of a farewell dinner to him. It was weeird today speaking to him in a meeting as astakeholder.. darned gamekeeper has turned poacher. But, on Tuesday night, we walked back to the office after dinner, and were yapping, and as we were on different floors, in the lift well, he turned around, grabbed my shoulder, shook my hand and said, "Thanks mate, I could never have done it without you." Iy was a genuine thanks, and I brished it off as his own doing.. I steel feel as chuffed as I did when he said it..

Nope.. But we should patronise his clear prop store for all our aviation needs. Seems pretty well priced.. When I get back, its an Icom transciever.. (I have an 8.33mhz one here).

I use ABCs Android app mostly, and it is fine. I just got on their website and it seems OK to me.. they use some more contemporary icons for functions... but I can find what I want and discard wha I don't want easily; the blog format is familiar. Ther are the most scrutinised news organisation in Australia. They do occasionally get it wrong but, despite being run by a media icon who may align more with commercial interests, if all our news sources were held to the same account, IMHO, the world would be a better place. You're welcome to your opinion. My experience is that they provide an important source of less biased news and balance against other sources that do the bidding of large and mostly foreign corporations buying our pollies and government.. also the standsrd of language is far better than many others. So I would increase their funding and institute a press regulator with teeth to cover all press organisations. Out of interest- what news organisations do you trust?

I can't say I agree with everything the Ausdie or state parliaments do, but what have they done that deserves the traitor moniker?

So, sexual abuse is tolerable or even OK especially when allegedly committed by a person with disproportionate power?

Maybe because statistically, you're more likely to be killed by a horse or cow: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-27/sharks-snakes-crocodiles-horses-australias-most-dangerous/10534786

Biden's recent legacy is holding on too long during the campaign as a runner and leaving it too late for the Democrats to pick a leader and take a strategy to the people, thereby allowing Trump in. We always save the worst for the reminders. I have to admit, you can throw the middle east and Ukraine conflict on ineffectiveness, as he really dragged his heals on both. And, then of curse, there is Hunter Biden issue, too. But let's not have too short memories - the egregious pardons by Trump in his last presidency, and the ones he promises for his next tenure leave Biden's way in the rear view mirror. However, domestically, his inflation reduction act brought economic respite to very tough times and is forward thinking in infrastructure investment as well as tackling real issues about the environment. In addition, his general economic policies, social agenda, etc have so far born fruit as just about all economic indicators are up from the previous "administration" The long term cost of the inflation reduction act is to play out.. A lot more debt on an already debt-burdened country can result in outcomes not consistent with what is being sought.

The justice department's policy is to not pursue criminal proceedings against a sitting president. So much for equality of the law. US courts and judges are politically appointed. The fact Biden didn't interfere with the process speaks volumes. I am not entirely defending Biden, but how many of us would act differently in his shoes compared to acting differently to what Trump has done and is likely to do

There are no doubt some acts or consequences that are binary. Strict liability offences, the most common ones being road offences, only requires that you do the thing - e.g speeding and you are liable. It is binary Are you going faster than the limit even by a small amount - yes,, you can be done if the policeman is not in a good mood But most criminal offences and almost all civil wrongs (not all), will have a lot left open for interpretation. Yes, for some offences, the outcome has to be binary - you can't have a murder charge without a dead body - except you can.. People have been convicted of murder despite there being no dead body, so even murder requires a binary outcome - the missing person is presumed dead. But for many areas, it is malleable, or at least not black and white. In criminal law, you need the actus reus (guilt act) and the mens rea (guilty mind); except for strict liability offences and attempted charges, where you intended the guilty act, and did something positive to commission the guilty act, but it didn't come off. As you mentioned in this discussion - what is the presenter or interviewee introduces some vague truth connected to the untruth. At what point does the introduction of truths nullify the untruths? You will often see in legisation the term "material" or "materially".. And then you have this thing called intent to prove - all beyond reasonable (which is a higher bar than the average person) doubt. When cases go to court, there is nothing about the law to argue - everyone more or less knows the law - the question becomes, based on the facts of the case, what about the law applies, and is the person guilty of it. And then, what was the harm done. To take our Joe Rogan interview above, what if the interviewee had been entirely accurate about the PEPs but inaccurate about the debanking stuff? Of what happens if he had of preceded most of his points with "in my opinion... " or, "I think... ".. What happens then? Ultimately, the lawyers will argue their version of how the law applies, taking into account the legislation and any precedents, and attempt to sway the judge/jury of the answer... Often you will read an article about some case where the outcome seemed to defy all reason and at odds to previous decisions. One has to remember that the judge and, if applicable, 12 ordinary members of society have heard all the evidence provided, and reached a conclusion of facts and how the law applied to them.

I have a good quality mask with filters that were just replaced.. The crap on those boards probably includes all sorts of ship. Like most things done by my predecessor, the original flooring is oak - old stuff, so quite hard. And she placed some pine in between when things needed to be repaired as it was cheap. I scratched the surface of the pine first, and then thought you beauty - easy peasy. Well, not quite.. The area is too small for a floor sander to do anything meaningful, so will probably belt sand it with 40 grit... and then 80 and then 120

Heard of contributory negligence? In criminal it is often the case that there will be multiple charges for the same act so as to get them for something But even if guilty or not as a binsry iption, the application of the law to facts can be very difficult with the decision no certainty

I agree.. which is why I think rushing this through without full public consultation is dangerous. I would argue they don't have to have factually complete conclusions; they can be totally illogical as long as they aren't concealing facts or mistaking them We can make up our own minds with the facts. If a media organisation purport to be telling the facts they should be held to account as they are an unelected force in our political system

This is a common misconception. If the law was black and white, we would have no need for different methods of statutory interpretation nor a need for precedent.. and civil law is far more nebulous than criminal..

Trump said he'd be a dictator for a day.. he is living up to that promise

I don't think I am trying to reduce everything to black and white.. it's a question of how far to go without infringing on a right to free speech. Does the introduction of a verifiable fact that is very loosely connected and doesn't alter the total untuthful message absolve someone from liability? As an example if the interviewee said PEPs are both left and right of the political divide, but maintained the untruth of what a PEP is and why it is bad for consumers, would that be OK? We already have laws against lying in court - perjury.. how do they go about proving the facts? Th US banking system ensures there are a good number of independent regional and local players, which is very different to Australia's system. The ads and their websites employed deceptive advertising using common parlance to claim they were banks, with the small print saying they weren't, and claiming deposits were covered by the FDIC,when they weren't. I don't know too many people that look up ASIC or the PRA to check if the newly launched bank is really a bank. And defunded enforcement agencies that people have become accustomed to can't keep up. The law doesn't protect foolishness, but it would seem reasonable to protect the average person in the market especially where a person's financial wellbeing is involved