Jerry_Atrick

What on earth is that about? 😉 (no need to answer - I used to watch it)

Yeah.. but what would you do in that situation where you are responsible for protecting your population? We have no idea of the 60k Palestinians that we're really Hamas. Hamas ministry of health don't differentiate in their numbers.. And badies does play down the evil Hamas is... it isn't a game of cops and robbers BTW, looks like Hamas is not wasting time to reassert itself: https://www.theage.com.au/world/middle-east/grisly-video-shows-how-gaza-peace-can-fall-apart-20251015-p5n2kq.html No Israelis needed

Apols - easy to take things out of context in e-comms... As I have said before, he is in fine company, with a notable exception of the west, being Albo (and Trudeau/Carney). However, since others have made the assertion that Israel have gone OTT on this, I will leave the post, because it's a question I would like answered if someone cares to.

They may have been, but I am just interested in what anyone in the same position (ex. corruption charges) wold have actually done instead given: The Gazans were regularly attacking israel via suicide bombing and other terrorist activities until Israel put a stop to it by building a wall and having a check point. By the way, the check points are there only on the way into Gaza to esnure no bombs.. without killing people and still allowing Gazans to go about their working and daily lives inside Israel. Gazans were still attempting terrorist acts, but because it was largely contained, again without killing people, Israel didn't respond. Almost Daily, Hamas was firing rockets at Israel, which occasionally landed, but because Israel spent its money to protect its citizens rather than hide behind them, not too many casualites (but there was the odd one that got through and killed the odd one that didn't make it to a bunker). When Hamas did get through, there was a response, but it wasn't too deady, but a warning, keep stroking the cat, and it will pounce back.. When Hamas, the governing body of Gaza did finally get through, they targeted your citizens, and rather brutally (like burning people alive; raping family members in front of other family members, axes through heads, and of course, their signatue beheadings) at music fetivals, in citizens homes rather than going for the military, only to retreat cowardly behind their own citizens to avoid the war they had just started You know they will continue and not care for their own citizens until they are either wiped out or they have met their aim of wiping you out - not only in Israel, but across the world (read section 7 of the Hamas Charter, and how they famously don't negotiate with Israel).. What exactly would you do different? BTW, in the conduct oif their war: They waited 7 days before entering to give citizens enough time to move... although Hamas moves with them. Before striking, they give 10 minutes notice and exactly where they strike. Yes, there were occasions in a 2 year war where Israel got it wrong.. but on more than a couple of occasions, blasts that killed citiznes that were initially attributeed to Israel were found out to be Hamas. Isarael were accused of shooting innocent civilians during aid distribution which thet set up because the UN wouldn't enter through safe corridors set up by Israelis. What other combatant country distributes aid to its enemy citizens? But the corrections to the story of the IDF killing Gazans (which are never the same as the initial sensationalism) pointed out Palestinians were running towards Israeli forces, presumably for protection, as Hamas were shooting their own, and stealing the aid for themselves. Palestinians were hungry - yes, but the so-called famine was hard to believe.. How can starving people run like that? How come the parents of emanciated children were not even skinny? Did Israel act perfectly? No, of course not. War is not perfect.. Did we carpet bomb Europe and kill how many innocent Germans? Did we (as in the west) nuclear bomb two cities in Japan after the emporer signalled Japan's willingness to surrender and kill how many innocent civilians? When you people are under constant threat and have acted accordingly by someone else starting a war, and your enemy hide behind their civilians, I am interested - what would you have done differently? Honestly? As Netanyahu said very close to the beginning of the war.. It would be over the minute the hostages were returned and Hamas disarmed. Apart form what is effectively a peackeeping force, the peace plan of Chump is essentially the same. How many were calling/pressuring for the release of the hostages and disarmament of Hamas to end the war compared to Israel to stop and effective just allow Hamas to re-arm and try again?

He has joined virtually every world leader fearfull Chump will do something stoopid.. You should have the ship spew from Starmer's mouth at the Whitehouse. Albo deserves respect with how he has handled Chump

You are buying protection.. or risk mitigation. You are off your rocker if, you would not take up $360 (in QLD) to mitigate virtually unlimited financial losses should an event occur, which is easonably probable.

This may seem like a GON attack post, but be thankful it only quoted 3 of the 5 multi quotes. I will keep it short: @onetrack and my uncle were conscripted as well. Did it change their lives? Undoubtedly. But they don't seemto be letting it define them not are the soveriegn citizens, so connecting conscription to jusitifying being a soverign citizen is a bit of a furphy CTP, as with any insurance policy is a transfer for of liability for a risk materialising. During your how-many years of driving, you have received that service. You don't even get to claim in this case - it would be a person you have injured or the estate a person you have killed (i.e. at fault). Cor CTP, you don't get to claim - you are paying for the service of protecting your assets in the event someone has a claim against you. You recevied that service, so why should you be due anything. Yeah, I get you may think you have had no reason for someone to lodge a claim against you (you don't get to claim TPI, compulsory or not). But higher risk activities (of which driving is) has lower differences in premium between safe and unsafe drivers, as the activity is more the risk than [most of] the drivers. Some random event can cause an accident, and they don't have to be freak events. As society has deemed, due to the nature of driving and drivers in general, it is ubiquitous, represents a real risk to drivers, has to cover situations where the driver at fault may not be insured, wants to ensure any innocent victims/estate of victoms of a crash that are injured or die will recevie requisite compensation and care, it is right that it is compulsory. By doing iut at the vehicle rather than the person, you are making sure that as much as possible, the at-fault drriver is covered. As you can't predict who the driver will be, there is no difference in premium. In short, you have received the service you have paid for; the risk profile of you has little bearing of the premium in the context, and you're whinging about the cost of doing someething. Just don't do it, then.

Blimey, if this is real, feel for the next generation https://youtu.be/gIxq03dipUw?si=quIYt4RLbJqDYs0W

I visited Chaddie on my last trip to Aus, which was back in 2018 for my mum's 80th. The last time I would have been there waas around 2008. Wow-wee had the place grown! They had added a section that wass chockers with lucury European brands, where the prices made Ralph Lauren seem like Kmart prices. The place was so big that I couldn't be bothered walking from the Myer end of the mall to the food court (or probably courts). One of the reasons for going was to replace my didlapidated wallet...which was Oroton with another. I still have it 10 years later and it is still going strong so while they are expensive, they are worth it. Was going to take a look around the mall, but it was just too big and people were queuing to get into some of the stores. Jumped into the car and headed back to the brother's place and strolled along Burke Road in Camberwell - much more pleasant.

But he has been screwin Ukraine...

They are all moving to Chaddie (Chadstone): https://www.consultancy.uk/news/12744/chadstone-shopping-centre-expansion-opens-its-doors Soon it will be visible from space if it isn't already.

Large corporations have a track record of destroying the real value of businesses they takeover. The M&A world is literally full of carcasses of the businesses that were taken over. I used to work for a large Aussie retailer, and most of the independent businesses it took over didn't realise the supposed gains, and some did depart the ASIC register. The best performing M&A type activities are where an operating company run by its owners take over acquisitions. Think turn-around venture capital firms that specialise in certain industries - and, although his Simggles chain is suffering - Solomon Lew (regardless of what you think of him - at that level, they are all the same). He has lived and breathed retail all his life, and his acquisitions tend to fare better than others, although he has had his bumps on the way. Publicly listed companies and funds are a recipe for disaster as acquirers. It is the reason why, on announcement of a deal, the share price of the puchased (prey) company usually goes up and the share price of the purcashing (predator) company ususally goes down (assiming both are listed).

Only when they break the laws of the land. Back to the Julian Knight thing.. I am findamentally opposed to making laws to permanently incarcerate named people. I understand it may have been done because, say a psychiatric assessment concluded there is no way back for him and he should never return to society to be a threat. Fair enough. However, all it does is expose weaknesses in our parole and probation systems. If these assessmnents were robust, they would be virtually giaranteeed of never letting him out anyway, unless he was genuinely no longer a threat to society. There are many cases where probation and parole have spectacularly failed in this area. I get the law can't cover evey foreseeability and maybe this one is justified, but in the backdrop of the current failures, they need to fix that whole system up.

Sadly, GON, it seems to already have claimed a big part of your llife. Life deals us blows at times. But we have to overcome them, dust ourselves down and move forward. Maybe save some of that money you pay in election fines (unless it is the same as it would cost you to get to where you need to vote) to get a little professional help (with an open mind); Often, not much is requied, but, speaking from expiernece, it can make a world of difference. You will never forget, but you can let go to the point it doesn't drive you.

He'll accept the award pot-humosly

I would be careful using that one.. it may bite

Anyone who took that as fact... well you can fill in the rest

This isn't a random thought.. but I was in a discussion with someone today about becoming an adopter of a new technology framework over the current widespread frameworks. I made the point it is highly unusual for me to go all in on the first new release of this particular vendor's product, usually preferring to wait a few releases and then only taking it on after it has proved itself and has traction in the market. His response is that we won't be able to find the developers and that we should stick with the tried and tested frameworks. My response was if that were the case, we would all still be on IBM Mainframes writing COBOL, and that as a well paid and experienced/quality developer, he should be able to learn the new framework and start productively developing in a couple of months - and with all that experience avoid the pitfalls of newbies. It sort of backed him into a corner where we were debating the technical merits of the framework. It got me thinking - how much do we hold up progress by hanging onto the old way of doing things? Forgetting the climate change argument, why wouldn't we transition to cleaner energy that would result in cleaner air and less environmental damage*? People argue cost, but if we reduced toxins in the air, which is likely to reduce all sorts of ailments from respiratory issues to cancers resulting in early deaths, how much do we save through a healthier population not dragging down finances for health care, and the opportunity cost lost on related losses from sick leave, loss of economic capacity through early deaths or retirements through ill health, etc. How many times do you see a meme that says something like "out yout hand up if you were slapped as a kid and learned to respect people"? I can recall both my partner and I were heavily influenced by our parents' parenting, which differed substantially. And after a disagreement about how to handle a situation (after it was handled), when my partner was defending her approach based on it was what her mother did in the same situation, I stopped and thought for a minute. "Don't we both complain about how our parents handled situations.. and now we're both applying what we complained about" Of course, parenting that doesn't set boundaries and implement consequences normally results in kids out of control and worse, but studies continually conclude where the boundaries are set in calm and rational ways, and consequences are applied in calm and reasonable/non-violent ways, they have a better outcome than smacking. Of course, in the field of any animal behaviour, there are outliers. I am not saying there is no place for a gentle tap on the wrist.. and I once did grab the boy by the ear when he was being particularly obstinate.. But, geez I felt crap afterwards. Of course, old ways worked then, and many are just as applicable now as they were.. but what if we are less shackled and more open.. how much better would this planet be?

I was driving along punt road towards Hoddle street that night as he was killing people. Could have easily been my then girlfriend and I. Still shudder at the thought. There are some people that should rot in jail.. and he is one of them. He's a bit older now, but I hope a real assessment was done on him and not he is older so probably not as dangerous type assessment.

Luv it

still readily available over here, but haven't stepped on any for a very long time

£20

Ding

Doh!I knew I was an ASIO reject for a reason 😉

Haven't heard from an old work colleague for some time; known him about 30 years, bu when we left the company we worked for, he headed back to the US. When my partner and I moved to Aus for a couple of years, I caught up with him as his company was doing some work for the ADF. He just pinged my on linkedin. This was their message: