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Congratulations. Whether it makes the Best Seller lists or not, you must be pround of your achievement. At least you have created something that will last into the future. You nver know. Maybe at some time in the future your work will be included in the bibliography of a doctorial paper on the history of mineral exploitation in Australia.

And you can get anything you want At Alice's Restuarant, Exceptin' Alice.

I looked it up. The name is thought to derive from Troyes, France, a major trading hub in the Middle Ages, with usage dating back to Roman times. A Troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams. There are 12 Troy ounces in a Troy pound, or 373.24 gms. 373.24 grams is approximately 0.823 lbs or 13.17 oz (avoirdupois). .

The Rat Bike style is merely another manifestation of the owner's self expression in the same way that choppers or cafe racers were. They are an art form, and it is up to the viewer to like or dislike them, in just the same way the viewer likes or dislikes other other styles of artistic expression. Being an art form, one can dismiss the idea of riding them safely because they are not meant for that function.

I meant Troy or avoirdupois. I couldn't see which scale of units was used. I never ate my carats.

From the dark recesses of my dark and twisted mind. Therefore, in the current climate of teh information highway, it must be true. If the oil in USA fields is good for everything, what is produced from Venezualean oil?

The problem for the USA is that the oil on their own lands is not suitable for modern vehicles.

Wouldn't you like to still be in the game with gold at $5000/oz? What sort of ounce is that?

They had him down on the ground and under control, and his gun removed. There was no need to put 10 bullets into him after that. I can't go back into my viewing history to pull up a source video, but I did see one that mentioned what had happened previously. However, since I didn't watch the video I can't confirm for which side of the argument it was produced. But what is said to have happened back then did not happen on the day he died. Further, were those ICE agents involved in his death the same ones who were involved in the earlier incident? I would suggest that those associated with the events of his death are not likely to have positively identified him since over that period they no doubt swa and interacted with very many other persons. This back and forth can only be stopped by a full and impartial investigation of the incident. Unfortunately, in present day USA finding an impartial examiner seems like finding a unicorn horn in a pile of rocking horse manure.

It's true that a First World society is in a position to use more energy than othr societies, but I get a bit sick, as a membr of a 27 million strong society, of being accused of being an environmental vandal when in fact most of the energy used in this world is being used by the billions living north of the Equator.

I want to make the distnction between governments making trade arrangements - government to government - and the actions of corporate giants like Nestle, the motor industries, the oil companies. Those entities have no respect for what governments do. They just go on their machiavellian way enhancing their bottom lines.

The problem is that the US debt is owed to the rest of the global economy. If the US goes bust, then the global economy goes bust. While corporate America is a major player in the global economy, don't forget the corporate giants of the EU and Asia.

I think that I have found an indication that Trump's policies are starting to effect the strength of the US dollar. For quite some time, the Australian dollar was buying about 65 to 66 US cents. Over the past month or so, I have noticed that the AUD has been buying more US cents. Today, 29/1/26, I heard the AUD quoted at 70 US cents. The increase in value of the AUD is not likely to be the result of a strengthening Australian economy. Is it a sign of a weakening US economy? I throw the discussion over to Jerry.

COVID also produced measurable decreases in atomospheric pollutants.

Maybe they are "the worst of them" at teh present time, but go back through history and there are any number of human groups that have done the same things to others in their own eras. Humans are a nasty bit of work.