Jerry_Atrick

I just don't see the problem it is solving. Are you expecting the working day to be aligned as well so that we are all started to work at 9am on 135th Meridian time zone? West have to get up early while the east get to sleep in? Or will people conduct business in the same hours but just call them different times. I am not saying its a bad idea - I just don't see what the change will gain? People who work in areas where they have to bend to a different time zone already do it (I gave the trader in WA as an example).

Wrhoo? Ne'er heard of em.

That's an insult to mad monks 😉

Maybe I am underthinking this one, but I don't think it really matters. Let's take the extermities in Aus; Perth and Sydney, which is a 2 hour time difference. If I am stock trader inPerth and I want to trade on the ASX, I just have to be ready by 7am... But I have stopped trading by 2pm or thereabouts and spend the next couple of hours doing my after-trading stuff. If I am a purxhasing clerk, I know I have to get my orders into the Sydney office of a supplier by 3pm while it is 5pm for East Coasters. I can't imagine my retail shop getting terribly busy at 7am with people buying shows or whatever, because that is 9am in Sydney when the shops open. If we all had the same time zone calibrated to the East coast/Sydney time, I would probably find myself in Perth opening my doors at 11am and dtaying open to 7:30pm.. (well I know these are no longer the hours we keep, but you get my drift). If I am a dairy farmer, cows will do it to their time, I guess. To take the logic further, we may as well do away with a local time zone all together and use UTC.. At least I wouldn't have to calculate UTC for flight planning.

He might get a bit of a tummy ache if he goes to Woolloomooloo

Wharapilla (assuming you meant in the order but not in sequence).

And a landslide victory in 2013 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Australian_federal_election#:~:text=This election marked the end,along with the Abbott Ministry.

Welcome too my nightmare

And Abbott.. or abutt

I am not sure 1m people being without mobile phones is going to take them back 20 years. Firstly, today's societal ills will still be here, they will probably find accessing many services more difficult if they are not excluded from them, as a result.. services they may have had ready access to in earlier days. So, maybe it would take them all the way back to the war years or something.. Was there less corruption and greed 20 years back? No way. Its just people are less willing to punish those who facilitate it. And the press, which have corporate interests, have moulded most of us to be ideological nutjobs one way or another. I was originally a Luddite when mobile phones came out.. but now I wouldn't be without one. I can connect to the world from almost anywhere for £20/month unlimited. Add £5/month and I get roaming in most countries I would visit. Sadly, particularly the older people get left behind with technology (my mother is a good example). When I was at Bendigo Bank, I laughed when they said they still operated [expensive] passbook accounts.. but they reminded me very quickly elderly people rely on them... Sadly our cultural changes are not the product of a mobile phone,

What's brown and sticky? . . . .. . A stick!

The photo of the car in Birchwood looks like a GTR-X, but the Hurricane is a seriously cool looking car... from teh front. The back would need some work and the petrol cap would have top be moved, but as a prototype, it looks to have some great potential in its day. It would be intersting to read why they didn't take it forward.

Or may buy shares for a short hold in mobile phone retailer.

Hopefully none as a time machine owuld be an advanced bit of kiot, and they hopefully considered someone entering a dud date and not have a breakdown.. Otherwise, a.

I believe in the Roman times.. https://www.romanbaths.co.uk/ Despite common misconceptions, the English are a hard lit.. they shower in cold water (they can't afford hot water ;-))

Probably the most inaccurate stereotype floating around these days...

When I worked for AV Jennings, this was the system I worked on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_30 They decomissioned it not long after I left (can't remember how long I was there - maybe a year or so).. As I recall, there was a tall filing cabinet sized disk, which held a whopping 64mb - or maybe it was 128.. it was some time ago. Gigabytes were not for those However, while that was the oldest system I used (had core memory which where like ferris doughnuts), the fiirst system I worked on that got my career started was a Prime 750 (last photo here): https://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acd/icf/mums/p014.htm That big box to the left is a line printer - oh the fun we had with thise thinhs... The phot above shows the removable disk drives we used - they were a whole 300mb each... And they were heavy. The latest in the lineup I used was a 9955 Mod II here: https://www.banjohangout.org/photo/71150 Their downfall was they claimed they had a 64 bit system,. but it was really 32 bits... they just moved two "words" (32 bits) at a time to make the operating system think it was 64 bits.. Of all the systems I worked on, I still preferred the Primos operating system the most. Rock solid, easy to use, and super flexible in programming.. Apols for the thread drift... Here is a corny joke to make up for it: Why is Cinderella so bad at football? She keeps running away from the ball.

And no exposure to the public..... Nothing makes sense.

Not really... It should read, "... are an immigrant."

An interesting event one doesn't hear of every day: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/russia-state-emergency-mystery-radiation-leak-khabarovsk/

Large country, small population... has its disadvantages. Nev's pretty well on the money.. though it looks like there may be a better bus option for you than waiting around until 20 past 6 at Southern Cross: https://www.rome2rio.com/map/Melbourne-Airport-MEL/Pyalong#trips Arrive at 11:35; on the Bus at Tulla at 12:06 (so hope your flight isn't too late and you're off quick smart). A few hours in Melb and arrive at Pyalong at 18:20... Assuming the site is accurate.

You're referring ot the 90s if your referencing Keating's famous line. Fraser was in until 1983. As I recall, his last term in office - unitl 1983 - he and his cabinet where known as thee razor gang. @onetrack, feel for you and that part of the left side. Read that the water desalination plants are being used to truck drinking water, but there's only so much they can produce, and they're not the most environmentally friendly things. Obviously with the heat, the air can hold more moisture before it ha to let go. Sadly, it is not lookng too good for the future: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-03/more-megadrought-warnings-climate-change-australia/103661658 Price of food will get more expensive.

I have a Galaxy A21. Bought it about 4 years ago for £169. It stull runs well; batteris is still good.. But I bloody dropped it and smashed the screen and apparently beyond repaid. Buggah!

I am not so sure it is about money. The large defence industrues and fossil fule companies love this sort of thing. Deferring sending aid to Ukraine defers their revenues, defers their profits, defers their additional bonuses, etc. This is more ideological... Can't let it be seen that Biden is doing good.. make him look bad and when the repubs come back, turn the stuff around and look how good they did... In other words, it is power and ideology... Yes, the yanks like to make money where they can.. but they don't seem too different to others in that regards. They are more brazen about it.