Jerry_Atrick

Per capita - yeah.. but concentrated at one end of the field and a lot outside of the cricket ground.. Check the Corruption thread.

Well, well, well.. Not to be outdone, the NT has got ito the act. This fella dumbs it down a bit, but if this is even 1/2 true, forget Trump.. At least he is honest about his corruption. Scum floats to the top, I guess.. but we all pay for it. When I did a couple of weeks in Abu Dhabi, at least their govenment made ure fuel was free to the locals. I guess I know what they mean by fossil fuel subsidies.

I agree with the post, but I can't help thinking the small target strategy, despite them denying it, is Albo's and he is holding others back from being more inspiring.. and part of it could be the threat he perceives them to be. Chalmers, Marles, Burke, Bowen (to a lesser extent), and Pilbersek strike me as being able to competently go about their work and can, given the right lattitude, make their mark, which would strenghten Albo... but they seem to be on a long and tight leash..

Nope.. they have prob left it too late to switch leaders to give themselves a chance.. Best to hope for is a minority government

It would suggest the NK army is 100,000 men over-supplied. My money at the moment is on arms companies.. Lots of restocking to do and a lot of frayed nerves

I think it will depend on the quality of the touchscrreen itself. Some touchscreens seem to be very responsive to touch, while others seem to randomly decide when they will respond to touch or not. A quick search did not yield minimum design rules for touchscreens used for driving functions. You think they would have worked it out byy now. Of course, if there are such rules, I would happily stand corrected. I did find this, though: https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/safety-authority-will-punish-carmakers-for-relying-on-touchscreens Again, touch screen, like many other tech advances are not limited to EVs. Tesla is sort of the Apple of the car industry - it has been revolutionaty in the human interface between driving, regardless of EV bit. I have test driven new ICE cars that are touch screen for many things. Even EVs still have pedals for stop and go.

Yeah, but you don't want them going postal

Wasn't Cleetis on the Dukes of Hazard? Anyway, for yer 'ngineerin' types https://youtu.be/mQDpWvnAeRQ?si=7BNoG_SuVBY11XXu

I fell in love with another woman on Thursday... in a totally plutonic way, of course. After alighting the morning train at Waterloo, I was walkign briskly behind the new love of my life, not really paying much attention to her, nor most things around me. Suddenly, she looked towards the train and, then darted towards it. As I was close to the train, I couldn't see until I passed her, but she stopped her London frenetic paced walk to help an elderly man who was clearly struggling to step down from the train to the platform. It was a heart-melting moment. Seriously, if there was a flower vendor on the platform, she may well have had herself a bunch of flowers.

Never driven an aicraft with one

H. Those IO540s are music to my ears...

I've mentioned it before; one one contract I did for a Vic statutory authority, we put together a RFP and tender for a complete systems overhaul. When the responses came in, we diligently graded them on technical and commercial criteria (ESG wasn't around then). Curiously, a well known German software provideer in the integrated applications space (think ERP, EAM and the like) put in a quote that was by far the most expensive and they actually didn't have the functionality to meet requierments - in other words, all new build. They were competing against well established operators in the space that were significantly cheaper. So, naturally, we put them last in the assessment. The Cheif Information Officer came down to see us, furious we didn't rate this company first. But, even as contractors, we stood our ground and were supported by our immediate management. There was no basis in which commerically and certainly technially this company were in the mix. Sensing that it could cause him trouble if he took it further, he took off in a huff. A couple of days later, ha canned the project, citing the need to cut costs. They paid out our ocntracts. This firm is well known for offering lucrative consulting jobs to client executives after the implementation is completed. They are rumoured to have been done in corruption with Telstra execs, and I see on the BBC News website, they have been fined $220M in bribery charges.

Incompetence or corruption?

Aren't they going to burn all the books?

Had my first ever scamming caller to my landline today. An Indina sounding woman with an urgent tone explained to me that payments for my phone servicec were behind and I was about to be cut off. Smelling a rat, I asked which company she was from. She got that right. Next question - who are you speaking to? "You don't understand sir, our systems are minutes away fron cutting off your phone unless you make a payment now..." "OK, I understand that.. but to be sure you have the correct customer, what is my name?" *click* and she was gone.

c. dr + name does not make a word

If that is as bad as the Vic government can get, surely, it's not that bad? However, I do understand the public angst... Quite what a 15th c. religiou head has to do with the lake is beyond me. May want tp provide a grant to build a shrine or something for prayer.

Will have forgotten which ear...

I largely agree with this, and one of the disadvantages is that democracies with frequent elections don't lend themselves to governments performing long term planning of strcutural changes to the economy - e.g. short term poain for long term gain - as they are only judged about what happens in society, more or less within x. months of an election. Regardless of climate change, renewables in the long term will deliver huge cost reductions over fossil fuels.. It may be a 20 orr 30 or 50 year return on investment.. .But tell the electorate that you will have to fogoe a few more cents in the dollar to make it work,, and you're voted out. But the benefits for our kids, grandkids, and so on, would be enormous. Sadly, we don't think like that. And lawmakers can set interest rates - al l it takes is a change in the law. Central banks weren't always independent, and if Trump has his way, the Fed won't be for much longer. I am not quite as hawkish as you are, and I think it will be segments rather than the whole economy that will collapse..but throw AI into a largely service based economy, and yess, there are many headwinds gathering. Almost every country that has had elections this year has seen a turnover - the electorate eeither blame the incumbents, or they perceive them not to be doing enough to help. The trick for incuments in these times to to show the population that if it was the other guyy, they would be worse off. Of course, the other guy doesn't have to offer any policies at the moment, but incumbebnts (i.e. Albo and Harris) have a track record of the opposition, and can show how poorly they handled the good times, that them handling the bad times was a virtual certainty to end in many more tears than now. What they needed to do was tap into how they were better handling it than the opposition ever could. Going off on cultural and identity politics when people are worse off, regardless of how that comes about, is not going to win votes. Althogh I am sure Labor has handled the economy better than the LNP would have, Albo, IMHO dopesn't have it in him to make the case, and is trying distraction. The QLD state election should be a very big wakehup call to the ALP.. As it is probably too late to change their leadership, they had better start changing their tactics, or Aus will have Dutton as PM.. And he is no statesman, either.

As usual, Americans have to Americanise everything. The potential myth of the English waving their two fingers is because the French were alleged to have cut off both fingers and not one. The middle finger goes way back in time https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16916263

https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/gb/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/linux-mint-website-hacked-iso-downloads-replaced-with-a-backdoor Linux is by far more secure than Windoze, especially for home users, and because it has a smaller market share by far, there is less effort, but the attempts roll in... especially for commercial servers, but the above is one successful hack. If you Google it you will find one attempt that would have infected almost every Linux install, but was identified, ironically by a Microsoft employee

Reminds me, years ago when I was in the guppie set... A few of us took out a Mel Symphony Orchestra season ticket or some such thing.. Went to the first Friday night performance. I am wrestless at the best of times and after a hard week at work,settled in with my glass of chateua de p155. The orchestra played for about 3 hours with an inermission. I can't remember what it was, but think of a run over cat laying and whining for three hours until it finally died.. that was what it was like. I was fidgeting in the seat the whole time.. At the (finally) end, whe the lights were on and we finally stood up, the lady next to me (no idea who she was) was in tears. I figured she was really into her music and said something like - "Ahh.. that was quite moving.." her response was "it was bloody you who was moving - all the way through - ruined it for me." I didn't respond, but at that point, I was thinking she needed to get a life is she would normally have enjoyed that carp. That was th eonly concerrt I went to on that season ticket.

I have to admit, I don't get art outside of the traditional types.. In year 10, a school excursion took us to the art gallery in Melbourme, where people were fawning over a bigh white canvas painted white. Apparently the gallery paid big bucks for it. My response was, WTF?

Albo is rescuing kids from social media.. here is another take