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Language evolves. It's evolution depends on the source and viability of the mutations that cause the evolution. Take a look at the words I used in my post above. A lot of them have mutated.

When was the last time an Australian or British movie was promoted in picture shows? (I refuse to use "cinema".) I haven't been to the fleas and itches for years. If I pass by a picture theatre, all I seem to see are posters for American flicks whose stories revolve around a dystopian America.

But it is not the Law according to trump, so it's OK. (He said with a soupcon of irony.)

Dear Newcomer, Members of this forum have personalities that others recognise after having been on the forum for several years. In my case, I often post items about the etymology of words that pop up in posts. Those items could be classed as trivia, but exposure to them increases the general knowledge of members, thereby diminishing cluelessness. Also, since the proliferation of AI generated stuff being posted on forums like ours, we have become pretty adept at spotting it. I am happy to say that your posts show all the indicators of posts generated by a human. That's why you have been welcomed. Just sit back for a while and observe the personalities of other members before making comments about a member's post that could be taken as not nice.

Whoops! I forgot to say that the meanig of "guy" as the effigy of Guy Fawkes, dates from 1806 and in 1836 had the meaning "grotesquely or poorly dressed person", which could descibe an effigy made of old clothes.

He's just declared the airspace of Venezuela closed. Since when did the USA control the World's airspace?

I thought it was witty.

I caught myself using the word "guy" recently, and chatised myself for using an Americanism. However, I soon recalled the Gunpowder Plot in which Guy Fawkes was a key figure in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up British king and Parliament (Nov. 5, 1605). His capture and eventual execution is celebrated every year on the 5th of November. Effigies were paraded through the streets by children on the anniversary of the conspiracy. I don't know if the fireworks are still used in Britain, but I recall that kids used to go about asking "a penny for the Guy?". The American use of the word meaning "fellow" appears from 1847.

The European theatre in WWII was won by the incredible manufacturing and agricultural production possible in the USA due to the USA being out of range of effective attack by the European Axis powers. That's not to deny the contribution of the British. The Axis powers (really only Germany) suffered the direct opposite and so lost. I reckon it was a bit different in the war against Japan since the problem there was to dig out the Japanese from their defensive positions. You could say that the Yanks in their land operatoins were working in spaces where there was not room to swing a cat. I think that one of the greatest manufactured item leading to the Allied victory in the Pacific was the very humble Marston matting which enable the Allies to establish air superiority very rapidly, and to be able to repair any bomb damage to runways very quickly. Have you ever given thought to who started the war in the Asia/Pacific? Most people who don't know the histrory of the first 40 years of the 20th Century will blame Japan, but American corporate interests were very much involved in preventing Japanese economic development. The Asian/Pacific war was a trade war, not an ideological one like the Europena war.

G'day randomix. Just to let you know, "arse" is a fine ancient word in English. Old English ærs "tail, rump," from Proto-Germanic *arsoz (source also of Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse ars, Middle Dutch ærs, German Arsch "buttock"). Using "ass" to describe an arse is just an example of American misprounciation.

I posted an explanation of what the term "Nett Zero" meant. It is possible to continue to use fossil fuels as long as suitable alternatives are found to reduce pollutants already created. It is quite clear that the correct solution is a mixture of renewables and non-renewables. Does anyone ever consider the temperature raising effects of the combustion of fuels? Isn't the fundamental reason we burn fuel the production of heat? Even if we use renewably sourced electricity for smelting, we are still putting heat into the environment.

How bloody stupid! Imagine the damage done to a vehicle dropping suddenly into what amounts to a lane-wide pothole. Even if it was only a blown tyre, the sudden loss of control could prove fatal.

Sadly for Australia, there has been a suggestion that Rudd had at some time a connection with Epstein. That might be a fake. I can't produce evidence of it.

Words cannot express the outrage one should have for this "plan". It's not a plan. It's a ransom payout, with no assurance than the victim will be returned. The sooner Australia breaks ties with the present US administration, the better. It a new administration shows itself to be civilised, then negotiations to restore old ties might begin. I know some will say that we are too enmeshed in the USA, but isn't it time Australian people said, 'enough!'? If Australia continues allying itself to the USA as the USA is behaving at the present, Australia's name within the global community will be mud.

Insurance is a system whereby the high value of a risk is covered through small contributions made by very many people. It's a sort of 'manmy hands make light work'. If the insurer is the government, as is the case with Medicare, at least each person contributing a small amount knows that a chunk of that small amount is not being stripped off and handed to investors, as it is with insurance companies. Of course, not 100% of contributions to a government scheme is used to pay medical expenses. There has to be an allowance for administration costs. But that is better than a system which adds investor returns to outlays and administration costs.

Unfortunately, History is being written by the hour and fantasy has become fact.

I guess this was way too subtle for you blokes. The positive I celebrated was that my Mother reached the age of 100 years and is still mentally acute. I have been so lucky to have had the past three years since I came up here to reunite with her after sparse contact for forty or so years. She received greetings from everyone in government from King Charles to the local Shire mayor.

I wonder what is the total wealth of the Trump family.

Put another way, 'money is made round to go around'. For argument's sake, let's say that each person employed on these projects pays income tax at 25%. That's a lot of moeny being returned to the Treasury. Then, of the other 75% of take-home pay, quite a lot more is returned to Treasury in the form of GST payments arising from living costs. One way for the costs of these major projects to be recouped might be to encourage Austrlian companies to replicate the international construction countries so that the profits from creating the projects remains in Australia. The reason we have foreign investment in these projects is simply because ther are no Australian players in the game.

It would be great to have the Party in government having the similar things.

I went to my Mum's birthday party today. We were going to put candles on her cake, but 100 candles would have set off the fire sprinkler system.

Once again the debate has been sullied by a failure to educate the Public as to what "nett zero" actually means in practice. Attention is always given to the word "zero", with scant attention being paid to the adjective "nett". When that adjective is used in the context of this debate, it alters the meaning of the word "zero" from 'nothing' to "no increase". We have heard of the business accounting term "nett profit". A nett amount of money is the amount that remains when nothing more is to be taken away. That is, all costs have been deducted from all the income earned. We also hear of it in "nett taxable income", which is the income which is subject to tax after all legal deductions have been made. The following simple equation shows that, contrary to the idea that nett zero means no emissions, the term simply means that if the total amount of emissions either removed, or not created in the first place, is equal to the total amount of emissions generated, then there would be no excess of emissions. The level found at the beginning of a sampling period would be the same as at the end of sampling period. "Nett Zero" recognises that emissions will be created. Emissions will continue to be produced. Therefore it is logical to say that "nett zero" can never be reached. However, all efforts should be taken to have Total Emissions approach a zero value. In other words, reduction of man-made emissions, no matter how great or small, is a worthy endeavour, but reaching zero man-made emissions is a practical impossibility.

Tha Bill simply says to release the files. It does not describe the condition of the released files. Invoking the Privacy Act will allow the use of the black pen.