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Prisoners cannot be compelled to do any type of labour. If they do consent, then they are "paid" so that they can buy a few little luxuries from a shop within the prison. That's how prison industries work.

Anyone can, but few do. Old scandalsheet maxim: Never let the truth get in the way of a godd story.

I've come to the conclusion that my hypothesis is WRONG. The British did not go to Botany Bay to establish a base for agriculture and commerce. They went there to create a dumping ground to releive the congestion in the hulks and prisons which were filled with souls whose crimes we now consider to be at the lowest end of criminality. I've reached this conclusion through a bit more reading. My main source that lead me to this conclusion is the book 1788 by David Hill. (See notes below for book identification) From this book I learned thatin 1717 the British parliament passed an Act which enabled the transportation of felons to foreign shores. At that time those shores were those of the American colonies, to which some forty thousand convicts were taransported (into slavery) over the following sixty years. Convicts committed to transportatin were sold by theo goalers to the shipping contactors, who took them actoss the Atlantic and sold the prisoners to plantation owners for the duration of their sentences. In 1777, the Parliament passed the Hulk Act, which allowed for the confinement of convicts in decommissioned British naval vessels on the Thames and other English rivers and ports. This was seen as a temporary measure until the American insurrection was quashed, but those colonies were granted independence in 1783 through the Treaty of Paris. leaving Britain with no place to transport convicts to, and crowding began to get bad in the hulks. So, based on the promptings of Sir Joseph Banks that the east coast of New South Wales (as Cook named it) would be a great place, in depth plans were made to sens an advance party to establish a colony to which thousands of convicts could be sent in future. The problem with Botany Bay was/is that it is no good for agriculture. (I grew up on its shores, and I know what the soil is like - crap.) Joseph Banks doesn’t come out of it very well. He enthused about Australia as a verdant land of opportunity when (a) his own notes were less effusive, and (b) he’d seen hardly anything of the place and was only here for a week. All he had done was collect a lot of plants. He obviously knew nothing of the requirements for agriculture. If these comments raise your interest in that bit of histroy, I recommend the book to you. After reading it, you will wonder at the survival of those convicts, Marines and officials during their first few years on these Fatal Shores. You can chase up the book with these details: Author: David Hill Title: 1788, The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet, Publisher: Random House (William Heinemann) ISBN: 9781741668001

How often do we hear of any good work that our Local Member does for the electorate? As Mark Anthony was want to say, "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." If those good works were publicised, then a Local Member would be assured of continued support.

Ah! Victoria. Abandoning the Metric Systems and going back to gangs of chains.

If you look at the process of governing in a critical way, you'll soon see that a government elected by the people is only means of appeasement to the couner teh complaints of the people about the way they are controlled by faceless men. Just look at teh way multi-national corporations control your life. That's not something new. The American Revolution would not have happened if Britain's biggest corporation, the East India Company had not made the British Parliament mess about with the tax on tea and on the goods coming into the Colonies. No matter where on the political spectrum your politics lie, no Party can solve your problems.

A team can't win the flag if they don't make the final series. Glad that teh Blues have got that far at least.

What upsets me is that we are hearing not a word from the Democrats in the way of policy. It sems to me that, unlike the rest of the democratic world, the political parties in the USA are not a cohesive group. It seems to be case of 'every man for himslef', in other words, just a lot of solo efforts.

I's not 'data' in the sense of the sort answers your get if you carried out a number of tests or experiments and then analysed that data to see if it enabled you to predict a future event. AI, in one of its applications can do that, but what the Common Man sees is the results of loading an AI program with massive amounts of existing published stuff and then when AI is asked a question, it searches all that stuff to recall what it hs been fed. It will produce the results, but it is up to the human who asked the question to examine what has been provided and see it it makes sense, i.e. to verify the response. Because there is so much information floating around the Internet. Just consider how much information a lot of people have in the form of photographs on their mobiles. Even this site has masses of information that AI could possible access and add to its store of information.

Enthusiasm: a strong feeling of active excitement, interest, or eager involvement in a subject, activity, or cause. Hope is a feeling of desire that a particular thing will happen. So, share my hope.

Mark this date on your calendar - 3rd November 2026. That is the day we hope sanity will start its comeback in the USA.

Another two-edged sword, perhaps? It is clear that the use of AI in problem solving which produces beneficial results for Mankind is the good side, but most of the population is being flooded with slop that does nothing to benefit Mankind, only to benefit snake oil merchants. It is pretty clear that these data centres consume electricity at phenominal rates. Rates that the present generating system cannot match without depriving other users of electricty of that power. Some of these data cenres have had to install jet turbine powered generating units to meet demand in areas where the established grid cannot meet all the demands on it. Definitely. Electrical circuits produce heat. When you have stacks of server units in a building, their combined heat generation becomes a problem because too much heat causes failures in the circuitry. We know about cooling problems with nuclear power stations, and I suppose we should recognise the heat associated with those generating units that burn stuff to create steam - and the steam releases heat, too, when it has been used. Another hearalded benefit is employment. That's a crock. The only time there is massive employment is during construction. Once the centre is built, only a handful of people is required to monitor the running and attend to maintenance needs. Just look at the large infrastructure projects arond the place. As soon as they are completed, the workforce moves on. In fact, most of that workforce has arrived in an area solely to do the work. Few locals gain from these projects.

And his soldiers just get a flag-drapped coffin as they come off the plane.

Good questions, but I think the fiorst to be answwered is: Who owns them? It seems to me that they are owned by a couple of American super companies. What happens if the US empire collapses? Already Europe is creating it own digital monetery transfer system that will reduce reliance on Visa and Master Card. What would happen to global communication if the US companies collapse? Tjhe world is so integrated into the Internet that one can hardly do anything without interacting with it. That's my possible red herring thrown into the discussion, but would the next person deal with Nomad's points, please?

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