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She's grown older. Now she's a Ms.

What shocked me was the difference between what is supposed to be an environment-saving vehicle, and the dreaded ICE. At least the bloke was honest enough to state the facts as he foind them, even to the apparent detriment of the Shark's popularity. I should be spruiking the glories of the Shark, since my son's business is based on tweeking them, but there are things I simply can't warm to. Admittedly, I haven't driven one, but from what I saw in the video, such as automatic lane management; "gear" selector on the right hand side of the column and indicators on the left, and finally the massive video screen used for user interface, I don't think I would like my first drives. Besides, I think that a dual-cab ute with a truncated cargo area is as useless as tits on a bull.

Manannán mac Lir, a sea god, warrior and king of the otherworld in Gaelic (Irish, Manx and Scottish) mythology who is one of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Just wathed an Australian video about towing with a BYD Shark and its fuel consumption. The Shark has a small battery and IC engine for charging during use. The bloke was towing a 3 tonne caravan and crossing Queensland east to west. He said that his fuel consumption was 24 litres/100km crossing the Divide, but when he got out on the flat country it went up to about 44 litres/100km. He attributed the difference to the lack of regenerative braking in teh flat country. With that flat country consumption, who could afford to use one of these for towing? As far as I can see, the Shark seems to be a good vehicle, if you are looking to drive a Toorak Tractor.

Perhaps the 2PP concept is out of date. The Greens, ON, Teals and unaligned Independents may be changing that. Perhaps we could end up like some European countries where no Party can gain a majority and must seek coalition partners, thereby watering down each Party's raison d'etre.

Nobody took his $5000 bonus for a Republican win seriusly, so he tries to bribe with the very thing that Yanks need above all else - automotive fuel. The Roman Emperors gave bread and circuses. Tump has a bigger circus that P T Barnum and the contemporary bread is automotive fuel.

I agree with that. What caused me to pose the question was how would a pilot know how high the aircraft actually was aove ground if the DA gave a calculated location that was below ground level.

I distract them by throwing in a packet of condoms.

I fully agree that temperature affects DP from sea level upwards, but in my question I was only considering air pressure at a stated temperature. Obviously the 2 degree/1000 ft cannot apply to an altitude below AMSL, unless you are doing a water landing on the Dead Sea. The upper value of the Kollsman scale on an altimeter is 31 inches of mercury is equal to about 1,050 millibars.

Nah. It's the weekend and this place goes quiet over teh weekend.

I do wash my hair with a detergent occasionally. I use Johnson's Baby Shampoo since I figure that would be the least aggressive hair wshing product. And it doesn't give me tears!

Well, that's a good reason for the ATO to object. Can't complain about that can we? But for yonks the user of the credit card paid a surcharge to the retailer. Aldi has been doing that forever.

I should have stated that the temperature to use was 15C, and to ignore temperature differences due to altitude since that would not come into the calculation in this example. The DA in this case would only be affected by air pressure. I wonder how operations were conducted when an altimeter was not really useful. I doubt if an altimeter sub-scale would go to 1040.

If a business needs to pay the ATO money, probably from its BAS, what does it matter if the money is paid by digital transfer directly from a bank account; a transfer of moeny from a debit card, or the use of a credit card.? The ATO had got its pound of flesh. Am I correct in thnking that if money was paid by a business using a credit card, then any interest charged by the credit card operator would be a legitimate tax deduction for the credit card holder? Would that be why the ATO doesn't want businesses paying by credit card??????