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Don't let numbers fool you. Average can be defined as the sum of all the individual lengths in the sample divided by the total number of lengths in the sample. The actual individual lengths might show a distribution from smallest to largest that would look like a bell if the data was graphed. A bell-shaped distribution, or normal distribution, is a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve where most data points cluster around the center (mean, median, mode are equal), with frequencies decreasing equally as you move away towards the tails, representing common natural phenomena like height or test scores. So some item of data might be a wee willy and another a donkey dick. Taking the average of the data values might appease those whose measurement was close to the centre of the spread of data values.

How long did it take you to attain the skill to hit a bunny at 50 metres? Police recruits come from the general population, and that is a population that has not experience handling nor operating firearms. Also police are only permitted to carry a firearm whilst actually on duty. They don't carry what the Yanks call a backup gun, and almost none would take up shooting as a hobby. That means that the vast majority would not hold firearms licences and be members of shooting clubs to attend ranges to practise regularly. Would you be able to do it, say in a competition where the prize was $10,000 for hitting the bunny? That would be a pretty good stressor to put you off your aim. It's one thing to become proficient at shooting at a safety range where that training would take place, but quite different shooting to avoid collateral damage in an area where people are running about in panic. The first rule of shooting is that you don't fire into an area where you could hit something that should not be hit. By the way. I think that the video I posted was taken by a member of the public who was in a convenient place to film. It wasn't police video.

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Spoken by a person who has not the slightest knowledge of policing. 1. the guy seems he did your jobs for you Prior to Sunday, all the local police command would have known about the event at Bondi Beach was that it would be occuring, and there would be a crowd, as well as the usual numbers enjoying the beach. No doubt extra police were engaged for general crowd control as would be normal for any large gathering. Refer to the gathering of people to march across the Harbour Bridge for political purpose earlier this year. Given the anonimity of the shooters, who could have known beforehand whart the shooters were planning? In rostering police for duty on that day, the first requirement of the commander would be to have staff to meet those day-to-day calls for service. I would imaging that a lot of the police at Bondi Beach were supernumerary. In other words, they were police who otherwise would have been on regular days off and were offered a bit of overtime. It takes time for the situation to be identified and this information relayed through radio communication channels to commanders for orders to be created, delivered and acted upon. Even if specialist SWAT police were on standby, it would have taken some time for them to reach the scene. 2. seems he did your jobs for you During the shooting the police present would have been occupied with locating the shooters. It is a big area with many high rise buildings surrounding it. Do yu tnk that you could positivley locate a shooter's position in the shock and awe of an unexpected attack. Just consider what would be going through your mind if you were witness to a motor vehicle collision. What would be your first positive action? 3. wth then don't they send marksmen out with rifles, The police rostered for duty at the event would have been all on foot, moving about amongst the crowd to deal with minor incidents. A police command is not supplied with unlimited motor vehicles. Vehicles attached to the local command would normally be kept availale for the normal general police duties, like domestics, shoplifters, motor vehicle collsions etc. The press reports show lots of police vehicles ate teh scene, but thos pictures would have been taken in the aftermath of teh actual shootings. 4. wth don't the cops have rifles in their car You watch too many American TV shows and movies. Policing in Australia is not approached on a Wild West basis. That's because the public does not have a gun culture. How many people do you kow who do not have a firearm? Many, many more than those who do. There is no need for police performing typical day-to-day duties to have access to rifles. In my career, I only discharged my hand gun three times - once to euthanise a kangaroo at the request of a distressed lady who had hit it with her car; another time to euthanise at the request of the owner a horse which had disemboweled itself in a steel fence post, and a third time I took a pot shot at a fox. 5. be trained with them as well as useless pee shooters I have doubts that you have ever received firearms training, because a statement like that indicates that you have no experience in either simulated firearms training nor actual combat firarms training. One day per year to do a refresher course on the use of a pistol does not make a person a Dead-eye Dick. Likewise, the effectiv use of a rifle is far more complicated. Perhaps GON can tell us how long it took a Nasho to qualify to use a rifle. 6. And still it goes on. Remember the Lindt Cafe seige? The investigation and Coroner's Inquest into that took a very long time. How would you cope with the mental stress of being involved in something like that? Don't forget that the police at Bondi at the time of the shootings would have been junior police with not many years' experience. How would you cope with a traumatic situation of being in a field of fire without knowing where the firing was coming from, and seeing the dead and wounded laying bleeding around you? All I can say is, do not make statements such as you have until you have walked a mile in the shoes of someone who has.

Before the shooters were ethnically identified, I thought that they might be White Supremists. That possibility was equally likely. The problem with all these attacks by an individual upon crowds is that the one individual can cause multiple injuries if adequately prepared. How do the Authorities identify that one dangerous individual within a population? How would you react to having our Authorities delving deep into your life. Take GON as an example. No one can deny that his beliefs are the opposite of most of us here. But think about this. He has only expressed his beliefs on this forum recently. Whom anongst us has any knowledge of his behaviour prior to his joining this forum? For all we know, he might rise early next election day and be waiting for the doors of the polling station to open so he can cast a vote for his local Labor candidate. His current postings give no indication that he might be thinking of doing that. The rest of us will expect him to stay at home and not vote in any way. Until election day is over, we will not be certain of what he decides to do. Similarly, I can't be certain of what any other of you will do on election day. One also has to remember that, in most cases, thinking about doing something illegal does not create an offence. Action can only be taken when the offender is in the act of committing an offence, or has committed an offence. Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 No 103 Part 8 Sub Part 100 Power of other persons to arrest without warrant (1) A person (other than a police officer) may, without a warrant, arrest a person if— (a) the person is in the act of committing an offence under any Act or statutory instrument, or (b) the person has just committed any such offence, or (c) the person has committed a serious indictable offence for which the person has not been tried. Technically, the person who disarmed the shhoter at Bondi was effecting an arrest. Unfortunatley, the shooter eascaped from that arrest.

That's a basic principle of thermodynamics. Heat moves from high to low. Normal adult body temperature is 37C. If the atmospheric temperature is less than 37C, heat flows from our bodies and we are cooled. Above 37C and heat flows into out bodies and we get hot. At 37C we just feel miserable. Humidity affects our cooling, as our means of cooling is to evaporate water from our skin and breath. If the humidity is high, then the evaporation rate is lower than if it was low. At the moment I'm sitting in 34C air temperature and 19% humidity. I simply feel warm. I do have a fan circulating the dry air in the room. I really cannot understand why people would think that a climate where the air temperature is around 30C, but the humidity is 80% or more is a pleasant climate.

Jerry, with all due respect, you are living in a different country, and have done so for many years. You have to be living where things are happening to understand what is occuring in those places. Even those members here who live in our major cities don't experience the things that we who live in rural areas do. Let me give you an example. The local indigenes in my town wanted their flag flown at the ANZAC Day service. That's sort of OK by me as many Aborigines have served. So the RSL committee which was organising the ceremony asked them to provide a flag to be flown in accordance with the protocols for displaying flags. Despite the request being made in plenty of time, no flag was made available. As you know, I volunteer at our Community OP shop. It is rare to see any Aboriginal person visiting the shop. I once mentioned this to another volunteer and was told that Aborigines have too much money to have a need to buy stuff at the minimal prices we charge. Another thing that I notice is that the local indigenes do not seem to be involved in activities organised for the whole town. There is definitely a feeling of Them/Us. I would really love it if Aboriginal people would make an effort to integrate with the rest of Society as the people from other societies have done.

Nature bounces back so quickly! I've been bitching for months about the lack of rain at my place and how the pastures have been drying up. A couple of days ago I was thinking of posting a photo of the almost bare paddocks whick looked like they had been mown like a bowling green. Then on the same day a very strong thunderstorm came right overhead and doused the ground. I don't have a rain guage, but I hear that some nearby places recorded more than 25 mm. The next day there was another, more steady fall of rain. This morning, a couple of days later, there is a distinct green tinge across the paddocks. If it does not get too hot and there is no strong wind, the plants might be able to put on a few centimetres of growth and things will be better for grazing.

Hmm. Maybe this idea might be applied in a certain Antipodean country where feeling guiltless about events three or four generations ago is considered arrogant.

Me mum's one of them.

What about Hitler's boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend or HJ)? By 1945 some of these boys were only 12 years old. By now any survivor would be in their nineties. https://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/hj-boy-soldiers.htm

I beleive he revels in the honour of mouthing the worst Cockney-ish accent in movie history.

It is clear that this issue has been seized upon by "the Other Side" for point scoring. I bet that we can easily find similar examples from the times when the Other Side was in power. Is it worth getting worked up by the "righteous indignation" of any politician? It's all bluster.

I wonder if the number of deaths and casualties suffered by the Russian forces was not as result of poor military skills. I have an impression of Russian infantry engaging in human wave attacks against Germans. That is contrary to what the Germans and Western Allies learned on th Western Front. I suppose, too, that Russian officers were happy enough to use threat to shoot slackers to move troops forward.

The parallels with Germany from 1933 are striking. However, Trump does not have to talk of lebensraum as corporate America conquered the the global community starting in September 1940 with the Leand Lease Act.