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The original Intoxicated Persons Act 1979 in NSW has been repealed. Police powers to detain and care for intoxicated people in public places are now governed by Section 206 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 (LEPRA). Under this law, officers can detain a drunk person in public if they are disorderly, at risk of injury or damage, or need physical protection. However, there is no offence. The detention is meant to be a means of protecting the intoxicated person. Such a person could be taken to a police station and held until sober then released. They could be taken to a hospital, but hospitals never had the staff or facilities to care for drunks. In a small town, or if the person lived near, they could be taken home and handed into the care of a responsible adult.

I know you weren't. That joke has whiskers.

Tipping is an insidious custom foisted on us as a result of the practice of paying slave wages in the USA. In Australia the amount one might give as a tip in the USA is included in the price of the food we buy. It is up to the employer to pay the employee a living wage based on a reasonable hourly rate. With the coming of US-style fast food chains and their desire to employ under-18s, the failure to pay corect wages seems to be a corporate style. That is not to say that the giving of a tip, or more politely called a gratuity, should not be considered if a person provides an above standard degree of service.

The way I see it is that I have $100 spare cash that I don't think I'll need for sometime, I have to choose betwen several places I can put it. 1. Savings account at the bank's interest rate for such accounts. 2. Term Deposit with the bank at a higher interest rate. 3. Government bonds about which I know little, but which have a stated interest rate. 4. Shares from which the return is dependent on the dividend per share as a percentage of the price I paid for the share. Obviously, the return on my money from each type depends on the risk to me of losing my money. As one of teh uninitiated, I see shares as being the one with the most risk. As you say, the management might decide to invest all profit back into the business and ther would be no dividend for the period in which the profit was made. One would hope that reinvesting would ultimately result in higher profits in subsequent periods.

The term "artificial intelligence" was formally coined in 1955 by American computer scientist John McCarthy. He used it for a 1956 academic conference at Dartmouth College. The phrase combines two Latin roots: artificialis (made by human skill) and intelligentia (understanding or comprehension).

Ultimately the need for hemp was diminished by the introduction of steam power and later oil and nuclear to propel ships. It is interesting that the commercial cultivation of hemp is being revived as a renewable source of fibre for products ranging from clothing to bulding materials, foodstuffs and many other things. With proper processing hemp can be like the farmer's pig from which every part is used except the grunt. There are several species of hemp, some of which produce theTHC that is the narcotic. I haven't found out which species is the non-THC producer that is grown for fibre etc. The plan to develop hemp production in thenew colony wasn't mentioned, and continues not to be mentioned in history classes is due to the maintenance of the "crowded hulks" myth. No Nev. The use of rum as a currency ended in 1808 when Macquarie became Govenor. I imagine that the need for the colony to produce food for its people took a higher priority for some time. It looks like it ws not until nearly forty years later that the colony was established enough to look at hemp as a suitable product to grow. Britain still ruled the waves up until WWI, and don't forget that Britain's mercantile marine has always had heaps more ships than the Navy and in the 19th Century, even up to the early 20th Century sail ruled.

My daughter who is a CPA sort of explaine stocks to me. She said that a person buys a share with the expectation that the company will make a profit of some amount and each share entitles the holder to a portion of that profit - the dividend. The share itself represents an amount of money. The amount of money each share is worth depends on how much someone who wants to buy it is willing to pay for it. The size of the dividend depends on the amount of profit the company makes from providing its product or service. no product is sold, or a service is not taken up, then there is no profit. I recall an old business saying, "No one makes any money until something is sold". It seems to me that some of Musk's businesses don't sell much.

Here's a bit about Musk's wealth. What I found more interesting is the comment relation to stock and the stock market.

A: abbreviation of artificial intelligence. Earlier in 20c. it stood for artificial insemination (pregnancy without pleasure).

Just to clear up the terminology. "Tariff": A tariff is a tax applied by a government to goods brought in from other countries. Key purposes include raising government money, protecting local businesses from foreign competition, and acting as a tool in political trade talks. Other names for the same thing are "import tax" and "custom duty". Most countries employed tariffs, but it seems that in recent years global free trade arrangements and globalisation of manufacturing have reduced their importance to individual countries, unless as a political weapon as we have seen with the USA. "Export duty": An export duty is a tax charged by a government on goods leaving a country.

A little update on this topic from some further research. I said that one reason for the colony was to provide a base from which to establish on Norfolk Island for access to those tall pines for masts and the flax for sail canvas. Wood and fabric were not the constraints on both the naval and mercantile fleets of Britain. It was the amount of rope needed to operate the sails. A Man-o-War could require 80 tons (yes old measure) of rope in its rigging. Britain was getting most of this from Russia, but in the early 1780s, Catherine the Great of Russia began limiting trade in hemp with Britain. At this time Russia was starting to expand its territory and Britain was an obvious competitor. When plans were being made to establish a presence in Australia, the growing of hemp for rope-making was high on the agenda. Sir Joseph Banks supported this plan and supplied hemp seed as part of the agricultural supplies sent with the Fleet. Hemp was most likely planted by settlers William and Archibald Bell in 1823. The hemp cultivation was part of Australia's early colonial economy, as Cannabis sativa seeds first arrived in Australia in 1788 on the First Fleet at the request of Sir Joseph Banks, with the British envisioning Australia as a commercial hemp-producing colony.

I heard of a trick that a university lecturer played to test if his students were regurgitating AI stuff. The basis of the trick was beautiful in its simplicity. When we produce a document with a word processor, we normally accept that the colour of the text will be black on a white background, as you see here. However, if the text colour is selected as white, then the text is not visible, despite the text being present on the page. There is a word within these brackets ( word ). You could see it if the font colour was not white. Wht the lecturer did was to include a word it his document bu hid it by changing the font colour. An AI helper does not take into account font colour, so the word was included in his students' responses if they simply copied and pasted what AI had produced.

Strewth! Chinglish has ben replaced by AI garble.

Should that apply to the Party or the candidate? Politcal Parties do not have many members compared to the whole population, so membership fees cannot fund the advertising needed to conduct a campaign. Sad truth, but a truth nonetheless. Should there be a cap on the amount a donor can give? Probably the best solution. Does promotion via the various media types count as a donation? Getting into freedom of speech there. Because the bookies pay tax as well. You won't kill off gambling.

I think that you have identified the problem. The electors have been shown so many examples of corruption in its many forms that they see all politicians are corrupt. Not being corrupt themselves, the electors have no faith in whatever politicians say.