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  1. I wonder what role the Palestine Liberation Organisation is having in this HAMAS-led conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization
  2. Will a little child of 10 years old ever forget the trauma experienced over the past two years? Look ahead five to ten years and that child will still carry the mental scars of those years. Only a fool would believe that peace and understanding will exist in that part of the world.
  3. AI, being a tool, in a similar class to robots, should adhere to the Three Laws of Robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
  4. The problem wiht the use of AI is that it is a two-edged sword. It seems that it can be incredibly useful if the uses to which it is put are not malicious. However, there are those amongst us who have a malicious mentality and use good things for evil purposes. Unfortunately, the anonimity of the Internet precludes us from defeating thos evil purposes.
  5. Because someone is off rocker.
  6. Give tne many examples of Trump's recent speeches, doesn't this tweet appear to be too coherent to have come from his mind? Who is writing these things in his name?
  7. I couldn't help noticing today as I walked through a shopping mall in Dubbo, how many retail chainstore premises had closed down. I must admit that most of these were clothing stores.
  8. Not many of us know just how many migratory birds move from Australia to Asia as part of their life cycle. That's a source of infection that really can't be stopped.
  9. Regarding CTP insurance, we are lucky how it is applied in Australia. The insurance coverage applies to the vehicle, not the driver. In otherwords, if the owner of the vehicle paysthe CTP, then anyone who drives the vehicle is covered under teh vehicle's CTP policy. ( I don't know how that works if third party is injured by a stolen vehicle, but I think there would be a work-around in the legislation.)I was watchingsome traffic court cases from Texas and it sewem that there, the individual has to be personally covered, not the vehicle.
  10. Question: If Sovereign Citizens do not accept the system of government and laws created by those governments, how can they use the legal system based on those laws to seek redress for alleged wrongs?
  11. It rained here today. I suppose there'll be mozzies by the weekend.
  12. There's lies. Damned lies, and there are statistics. Those figures look like misinterpretation of statistics. For example, 135 firearms were seized. If they were unregistered firearms (most likely), then possession leads to action being taken on the status of the fireams licence. So that woul abccount for many of the 44 licences. Similarly, improper storage could also result in cancellation/suspension. There is no reported data on the number of "unfit person" cancellation/suspension matters. I recently assisted in transporting five registered fireaarms to a gunsmith. I don't have a firearms licence, so, technically I committed an offence buy physically carrying the firearms to and from the car they were carried in. Since I was helping my older sister to carry the firearms to and fro, I suppose I could have used the "reasonable in the circumstances" defence. An aside: As my sister and I were driving from the gunsmith's with the firearms in the boot of the car, we were stopped for RBT. My sister was driving, and her licence was in her bag on the back seat. In a moment of confusion she told the constable , "My licence is in the boot." I yelled out, "Don't look in the boot!", which had the constable laughing. It would have been OK as my sister has a firearms licence and she had all the registration documents in the car with her. Also, each firearm was secured with a trigger guard lock.
  13. Police stationed adjacent to the borders of our States and Territories are usually sworn in as Special Constables in the other jurisdiction. So that in a pursuit, they can effect an arrest in the other jurisdiction, but have to hand the arrested person over to the local police. For example, NSW Police attached to Queanbeyan, NSW, could easily be involved in a pursuit over the border into the ACT.
  14. What's the bloody use of those minute insects that hide by day and come out at night to swirl around the lights in your house? They don't seem to be a food source for any larger insects. The warm weather brings them out to flit around every illuminated light. If you are working at your computer, they dive-bomb you screen after circling around your head and making forced landings on it. Flyscreens on windows and doors don't keep them out because they are smaller than the holes in the flyscreen mesh. Then you turn the lights out to go to bed, and they seem to just drop dead. You come out in the morning and have to sweep their carcases from the floor and flat surfaces.
  15. She does use a product called Oral 7 which is a gel. Doesn't use it all the time. She didn't tell me why she wanted chewing gum. Maybe she heard the song , "I'm forever blowing bubbles ..."
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