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I told you it was dry! I copped a dust storm today. This afternoon a fast moving front passed over. The winds were very strong and had picked up dust from far away. I went outside and could feel the grit in the air. The sky was darkened, as if a thunderstorm as about to hit. I looked up into the dust cloud and was sure that I saw a bolt of lightning. I felt sorry for the horses in the paddock next door as they stood with their rumps to the wind and their tails blowing about. As relief, after the dust cloud had passed it began to rain. Not torrentially, but enough to wet the top of the soil. That little bit will further help the feed in the paddock grow a bit more. At least there is some green where there has been brown for so long.

If she's an imitator, she mustn't have many original ideas of her own. Not much hope of progressing society if that's the case.

That post, apart from the typos, is quite coherent. The message might be crap, but it is correctly written following the rules of syntax and rhetoric. It can't have been written by a person whose inability to verbally express an idea clearly is exhibited on a daily basis. Trump's not writing these posts. He must have one of Musk's IT whiz-kids doing it.

Look out GON!

Now I've got to go onto YouTube to find out what has happened overnight.

Averaging mileage is not equitable. Compare my mileage with one of our city-dwelling members. If I go into town, it's a 20 km round trip. About once per fortnight I go into Dubbo. That's a 150 km round trip. What is the mileage for a city-dweller going to a shopping centre? That is the simplest case. What about a family vehicle which is used for transport to work each day and recreation on the weekends? The most equitable way is through the GST pad for fuel. My light car uses about 7.5 l/100 km. A family SUV, which is heavier, uses about 10. So the more a vehicle is used, the more fuel it burns and therefore fuel purchses are related to vehicle weight. This then creates a problem getting contributions to road infrastructure from hybrids and EVs. As Yul Bryner was want ot say in The King and I, "'Tis a puzzlement!"

Fiddling with the meter is something that has been going on for ages. The problem in mounting a prosecution is determining whose hand fiddled with the setting. Also, there are not enough Weights and Measures inspectors to do the checking.

An accounting nightmare. How would the rate per km be determined? The one determinate would be the mass of the vehicle since the amount of damage a vehicle does to a road surface is dependent on the vehicle's mass. But then, what about money for the upkeep of signalling devices, signage, lane marking etc? The problem is in determining how the GST revenue is distributed. If yoiu are interested, here's a link to a document about it: https://www.cgc.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-11/research_paper_no_2_-_why_states_get_different_shares_of_gst_0.pdf

At least we are lucky that GST is only 10%. Ask Jerry what 20% is like. We should resist any thought of increasing the rate. Quite simply, think of the cost of changing pricing ongoods and services due to an increase of any size. I look upon 10% GST as a tithe by which a secular society supports its government. Coming from Old Testament biblical law, it was originally used to support the Levites (priestly Class) and the poor, but today it is largely viewed as a voluntary act of faith and stewardship, often distinguished from further optional offerings. In a secular society, those optional offerings are called Income Tax.

Do you think that it wa a lesson hammered home to me in my youth? Just thought it was the simplest way to explain the relationship between Force and Momentum that Facthunter had alluded to in his post. As an aside, the reason that modern cars have crumple zones is to delay the transfer of Momentum from the initial point of contact in a collision to the bodies of the occupants who should be attached to the vehicle by restraining devices. Also the crumple zones allow for the disperal of Momentum by the deformation of the vehilce's body, the generation of sound and of heat. The Law of Conservation of Momentum, which is a special case of the Law of Conservvation of Energy, means that Momentum not transferred between colliding bodies must be changed into some other form of energy so that the total energy of the system before collision equals to total energy afterwards. Random Tought: If a bloke is subject of a Restraining Order, can he ride in vehicle unrestrained?

My mistake.

While it is true that F= ma, what does the damage in a collision is the transfer of Momentum from one body to another. Imagine that you lay your open hand on a bench then slowly place a 1 kg weight on it. Because if the slow speed of the hammer as it contacts your hand, there is virtually no pain. You just feel an increase in pressure at the point of contact. Now drop the hammer from 30 cms. The hammer will have a higher velocity and therefore greater momentum. When it reaches your hand, that greater momentum is going to create more pressure (Pressure = Force per unit area) as the momentum of the hammer is transferred to your hand, and thus more pain. Also involved is the rate of change of momentum, which is called Impulse. It's the magnitude of the Impulse on your body that causes pain. If the hammer is lowered slowly, it takes longer for the transfer of momentum to take place. Therefore the Impulse is less (Impulse = Change in Momentum divided by time) than if the time taken for the hammer to transfer its momentum is less.

Yeah, the buses run on pupil-free days, too.

So, you will bear the responsibility for the actions of the Australian Government even if that Government is not of your preferred Party? (Had to frame it that way - preferred party - to avoid introducing anti "this one or that one" comments.)