Jerry_Atrick

John Laws?

The anarchy has started here already https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/riots-protest-police-uk-today-rotherham-bolton-lancaster-weymouth-liverpool-b2590884.html

Just came across a 3 part series and this debrief of a couple who took their model Y Tesla across Australia and back. The infrastructure is expanding and seems they had little problem finding electricity but it did require some forward planning

I have been quiet the last 3 weeks.. I have suffered quite some losses; almost all games decided by less than a goal. I haven't deposited any money in the account, but am now just a smidge over my original investment. The one thign about betting against playing the stock market (in shares that is, not derivatives) is that my system requires a lot of wins to make up a loss as the odds I pick are usually between 25% and 33% return. Rounds 19 and 20 smashed me around a bit, so came off, but still played on paper. My picks this week would have been Melbourne, West Coast (at 2.5 : 1, but would have put a small amount on as a speculative),. North, Geelong, Carlton, Sydney, Hawthorn, Essendon, and Brisbane. However, the odds would have knocked out Brisbane and North as they were way too short. The results for the round: @old man emu - I think you need to have a chat to Carlton - They have come right off the boil Lost by 3 pts, Haks lost by 2; At least Essendon won by 1. This has been a year where the clubs have converged in terms of performance making it difficult to apply predictive logic. But also, look at the ladder; the difference between first and 12th is a mere 4 games... Sheesh, how is a punter supposed to screw the system?

I was with TPG when I last lived in Aus, which admittedly was 18 years ago. It was a great service then. I just checked their website and they offer TPG Fibre, which I imagine is not NBN? I don't even know what NBN really means - is it Telstra providing the backbone? Oh, the joys. In London, one can get 900mbs download for about £50/month. Where I am only attacts 67mps for about £30 month. Usually totally reliable but I am breaking contract with my current provider who has had two catastrophic outages in 3 months with us. In Aus, I see Starlink (yes, an Elon Musk business) is 135/month. I think it is about 400mbs unlimited. If TPG or similar can't come up with the goods, it will be Starlink. The $600 setup fee is a little steep, though. Just looked at TPG; plans seem OK https://www.tpg.com.au/fttb

I also have two middle names. Dog knows why - I never use them.

No idea about this free stuff; over here, the power companies had to provide them for a period. But they just upped the bills. Anyway, already have some LED lighting and will be installing about 30 LED downlights in the kitchen, laundry, and bathroom. I think it was about £150 for the downlights if that and I think are guaranteed for more hours than I can reasonably estimate I will live for.

Oh, and one more:

And another:

If I posted this before, I apologise:

Thankfully, never met Nico...

Not all Murdochs are OK with it, but the patriarch is wanting to change the rules of the trust so only the chip off the old block can run the empire.

Quality Aussie Manufacturing: https://rode.com/en/about/about-rode I had no idea and had already puchased some of their more professional audio headsets. I only realised they were Australian when I just received sone boradcast quality wireless mics and say the Made in Australia logo. So, not only Aussie owned, but they haven't yet moved their manufacturing to China! And they are pretty well world renowned in the audio industry.

My guess is the latter, but in this case, unless you're in the frame, how do you know. Though, call me a conspiracy theorist, but I am sure he has photos of his enemies within the Republican party because surely they wouldn't change stripes because they think he is the only thing that can keep them in power.

I was at work a couple of weeks ago and got into a conversation with a normally progressive chap about Trump. Turns out he is a Trumpophile. It was an insight into the what sort of sway Trump can exude onto the disaffected. Every claim be made was able to be debunked with verifiable fact, to which he dismissed as political subterfuge. I had to stop and ask him why only Trump is subjected to it from the judiciary he and his republicans appointed or why a Republican governor of Georgia didn't come out to defend Trump for trying to steal the election.. "Political subterfuge and keeping the political class employed" was all he could answer. "Where's your evidence, apart from someone who is a proven criminal claiming it?" It is all a gang-up against Trump was all he could claim. This from a man who is normally progressive and debates the facts (I have had many conversations with him in the past). And then he was alleging I was either part of the conspiracy or subservient to it. Again, I asked him for the evidence - but it was only, effectively, that is what Trump, as a victim of all this claims. I kid you not. I was absolutely flabbergasted, but for some (many) people, Trump clearly knows which buttons to push. Or, as even Stephen Fry has indicated, that democracy is not achieving its ideals (well, democracy y itself is representative government, sp maybe social progressiveness/liberalism is not achieving its ideals) and people are getting pissed off. The 4th pillar of power - the press - which is unelected and arbitrary - doesn't help, either. I always get worried when a pollie says their implementing something the people want/have asked for. For the most part, the popular perception is based on what the press report (and often just the headlines or 30 second TV/radio segment - or some social media echo chamber), and, not only not grounded in fact, but often from the antithesis of fact. Pendulum of humanity always swings.. Never stops in the middle.

I understand getting ND8S support is not easy. But milking the system may be easier: https://ndismarketplace.com/ndis-businesses-for-sale/

This is the closest I could find, but it is hardly a ringing endorsement of Putin by Obama: https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-slams-us-barack-obama-for-excuses-over-russia-policy-war/

You'd be surprised at hoe many people would agree with him.. Survival of the fittest, etc.

Whether or not one thinks the NDIS is a good thing (in principle, anyway, as administering it seems to be a ball ache and open to all sorts of fraud and corruption), is, I guess a matter of one's values. Should the taxpayer pick up the tab for those who are chronically and debilitatingly disabled? I guess that will depend on a few things such as: What our social conscious is - do we want to look after those genuinely in need or do we want to let them fend for themselves Assuming many can't afford the necessary care and treatment (pricate health insurance doesn't seem to be as good as it used to be despite being seemingly more expensive - and there are caps on everything), do we want to overburden the public system anyway and hinder that being able to treeat accute health issues? Do we want to leave people languishing and their family and friends also affected to the point that it could impact macro-economic productivity? Is the cost of the scheme more than the econcomic activity it protects and, indeed produces (or can produce)? Also remember that in around 2010, the tort law system was altered radically due to pressures of insurance premiums, for which there was no real evidence proffered by the Ipp report to suggest that tort cases and compensation payouts were the direct result of such premium increases and I think it as AIA Insurance going bust; Since it is now extermely difficult to sue for the cost to cover ongoing treatement of a permanent and debilitating injury, and most workers comp and traffic accident comp schemes are clamping down, is NDIS simply solcialising the otherwise compenstation payments that would be made under the laws of negligence? Even if the farmer didn't consider himself disabled, it does not mean he is not disabled. They get on with their life, but they need support, whether that is a prosthetic limb, that has to be maintained, etc, or a blind person needing guide dogs and home help to clean the house, to a sever anxiety nuerosia patient needing cognitive-based therapy to be able to manage what most of us consider very duull and mundane activities. If someone cannot function normally without some form of support or aid, they are disabled. They may not be debilitatingly so, but they are. The use of the NDIS should be limited to those with debilitating disabilities (IMHO), which can only be defined as sunstantial or material impact on the person to lead a normal life without ongoing assistance (or something like that). Personally, I would be very happy for my taxes to go to the NDIS and less to corporate welfare, even if it meant I had to pay a little more for petrol and groceries.

Oh No.. there's more

And, who can forget this

Now, I am guessing a lot of people won't like these artists, but this is a good one: [edit] Though, doggo just left the room

Now you blokes have got me started:

And one to @ClintonB's chagrin (BTW, I like MC Hammer)