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After the First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove, things didn't go well. English crops did not grow. If you know Sydney, you know that its environs are no good for growing grain. So food got short and eventually everyone was on short rations. Govenor Phillip sent out a hunting party to shoot some kangaroos for meat. The party came back with a couple of young kangaroos. Apparently the shot from the muskets wasn't powerful enough to down an adult roo.

What good does it do a man to be the richest person to be buried in the cemetery?

See what I mean? First I acknowledged that you were making a distinction between giving a gratuity and wagering on horses. I wasn't rubbishing your making that distinction. Then I referred to the age of the joke. I heard it as a kid from my Dad. Would you have been less offended if I had simply used the 'Groan" imogie? I admit that I do comment on a lot of what you post. I also make a point of indicating when I agree with you. Recently you said that the Australian colony had a currency based on rum when I had been talking of a much later period. I posted the information that teh rum curency ended in 1808. I was nearly going to point out that your comment, and those of some other members, on the topic indicated the general lack of knowledge we have of our early history becaasue we've been fed a myth for so long. As I said, I don't want to start a blue, so lt's leave it at that.

Nev, I don't want to start a blue with you, but the second part of that post is what causes people to strike back at you. It sounds aggresive. I often wonder if you don't stop to consider how what you post could be interpreted. I often feel that I need to walk on eggshells in some replies I make so as not to me misinterpreted.

Anything is possible, which leads to a probability. However, that law was saw a change in the idea that a person who simply over indulged was to be punished to a concren for that person's immediate welfare. Don't forget that around that time law enforement agencies coming under scrutiny relating to deaths in custody. Holding intoxicated person, who may actually be suffering from severe alcoholic poisoning which could result in death, was not a good situation for law enforcement. Besides, what was the penalty for a charge of public drunkeness? A pittance and dealing with drunks took up expensive court time. I would imagine that all States came to a similar conclusion as NSW and amended their laws.

Does "bias" mean having a different point of view from that held by others? In a lot of things, the ABC presents and promotes things that I do not agree with. However, it also presents a lot of material that is informative or entertaining. Hanson's call to close down the ABC surely does not take into account all the good stuff it does. I wonder if she has ever spent time watching or listening to the material the ABC broadcasts other than that which is related to politics.

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).