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Let's say that those 'Trustees" work hard at their assigned tasks. I bet not one of them has the knowledge nor experience of how to make a road. All they will be able to do is throw down a few shovelfuls of cold ashphaltic concrete and pound it down. Come the next bit of rain and the stuff will be ripped out of the hole. Not their fault. Just bad procedure.

Prisoners cannot be compelled to do any type of labour. If they do consent, then they are "paid" so that they can buy a few little luxuries from a shop within the prison. That's how prison industries work.

Anyone can, but few do. Old scandalsheet maxim: Never let the truth get in the way of a godd story.

I've come to the conclusion that my hypothesis is WRONG. The British did not go to Botany Bay to establish a base for agriculture and commerce. They went there to create a dumping ground to releive the congestion in the hulks and prisons which were filled with souls whose crimes we now consider to be at the lowest end of criminality. I've reached this conclusion through a bit more reading. My main source that lead me to this conclusion is the book 1788 by David Hill. (See notes below for book identification) From this book I learned thatin 1717 the British parliament passed an Act which enabled the transportation of felons to foreign shores. At that time those shores were those of the American colonies, to which some forty thousand convicts were taransported (into slavery) over the following sixty years. Convicts committed to transportatin were sold by theo goalers to the shipping contactors, who took them actoss the Atlantic and sold the prisoners to plantation owners for the duration of their sentences. In 1777, the Parliament passed the Hulk Act, which allowed for the confinement of convicts in decommissioned British naval vessels on the Thames and other English rivers and ports. This was seen as a temporary measure until the American insurrection was quashed, but those colonies were granted independence in 1783 through the Treaty of Paris. leaving Britain with no place to transport convicts to, and crowding began to get bad in the hulks. So, based on the promptings of Sir Joseph Banks that the east coast of New South Wales (as Cook named it) would be a great place, in depth plans were made to sens an advance party to establish a colony to which thousands of convicts could be sent in future. The problem with Botany Bay was/is that it is no good for agriculture. (I grew up on its shores, and I know what the soil is like - crap.) Joseph Banks doesn’t come out of it very well. He enthused about Australia as a verdant land of opportunity when (a) his own notes were less effusive, and (b) he’d seen hardly anything of the place and was only here for a week. All he had done was collect a lot of plants. He obviously knew nothing of the requirements for agriculture. If these comments raise your interest in that bit of histroy, I recommend the book to you. After reading it, you will wonder at the survival of those convicts, Marines and officials during their first few years on these Fatal Shores. You can chase up the book with these details: Author: David Hill Title: 1788, The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet, Publisher: Random House (William Heinemann) ISBN: 9781741668001

How often do we hear of any good work that our Local Member does for the electorate? As Mark Anthony was want to say, "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." If those good works were publicised, then a Local Member would be assured of continued support.

Ah! Victoria. Abandoning the Metric Systems and going back to gangs of chains.

If you look at the process of governing in a critical way, you'll soon see that a government elected by the people is only means of appeasement to the couner teh complaints of the people about the way they are controlled by faceless men. Just look at teh way multi-national corporations control your life. That's not something new. The American Revolution would not have happened if Britain's biggest corporation, the East India Company had not made the British Parliament mess about with the tax on tea and on the goods coming into the Colonies. No matter where on the political spectrum your politics lie, no Party can solve your problems.

A team can't win the flag if they don't make the final series. Glad that teh Blues have got that far at least.

What upsets me is that we are hearing not a word from the Democrats in the way of policy. It sems to me that, unlike the rest of the democratic world, the political parties in the USA are not a cohesive group. It seems to be case of 'every man for himslef', in other words, just a lot of solo efforts.

I's not 'data' in the sense of the sort answers your get if you carried out a number of tests or experiments and then analysed that data to see if it enabled you to predict a future event. AI, in one of its applications can do that, but what the Common Man sees is the results of loading an AI program with massive amounts of existing published stuff and then when AI is asked a question, it searches all that stuff to recall what it hs been fed. It will produce the results, but it is up to the human who asked the question to examine what has been provided and see it it makes sense, i.e. to verify the response. Because there is so much information floating around the Internet. Just consider how much information a lot of people have in the form of photographs on their mobiles. Even this site has masses of information that AI could possible access and add to its store of information.

Enthusiasm: a strong feeling of active excitement, interest, or eager involvement in a subject, activity, or cause. Hope is a feeling of desire that a particular thing will happen. So, share my hope.

Mark this date on your calendar - 3rd November 2026. That is the day we hope sanity will start its comeback in the USA.

Another two-edged sword, perhaps? It is clear that the use of AI in problem solving which produces beneficial results for Mankind is the good side, but most of the population is being flooded with slop that does nothing to benefit Mankind, only to benefit snake oil merchants. It is pretty clear that these data centres consume electricity at phenominal rates. Rates that the present generating system cannot match without depriving other users of electricty of that power. Some of these data cenres have had to install jet turbine powered generating units to meet demand in areas where the established grid cannot meet all the demands on it. Definitely. Electrical circuits produce heat. When you have stacks of server units in a building, their combined heat generation becomes a problem because too much heat causes failures in the circuitry. We know about cooling problems with nuclear power stations, and I suppose we should recognise the heat associated with those generating units that burn stuff to create steam - and the steam releases heat, too, when it has been used. Another hearalded benefit is employment. That's a crock. The only time there is massive employment is during construction. Once the centre is built, only a handful of people is required to monitor the running and attend to maintenance needs. Just look at the large infrastructure projects arond the place. As soon as they are completed, the workforce moves on. In fact, most of that workforce has arrived in an area solely to do the work. Few locals gain from these projects.

And his soldiers just get a flag-drapped coffin as they come off the plane.

Good questions, but I think the fiorst to be answwered is: Who owns them? It seems to me that they are owned by a couple of American super companies. What happens if the US empire collapses? Already Europe is creating it own digital monetery transfer system that will reduce reliance on Visa and Master Card. What would happen to global communication if the US companies collapse? Tjhe world is so integrated into the Internet that one can hardly do anything without interacting with it. That's my possible red herring thrown into the discussion, but would the next person deal with Nomad's points, please?

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Then you run this load over roads that are basically tamped-down dirt covered byt a layer of stones glued together with tar.

Heavy vehicle mass limits are set for safety and to minimise the impact on roads and infrastructure, to provide for continued productivity. The defining limit to a vehicle's gross mass is the load limit on an axle. That limit basically boils down to how many tyres are attached to an axle, either one or two tyres per side

Well, we all know that you are rust free. Yoiu've told us many times already.

Therein lies the rub.

Do you recall the character in Supeman comics called Mister Mxyzptlk ? The character is a magical imp from the fifth dimension. Tricking him into saying or spelling his name backwards—Kltpzyxm (pronounced keltipzixum)—sends him away from Earth and back to his home dimension for at least ninety days.

What you are forgetting is that the money being sent overseas has already been taxed here, and it is the property of the person sending it. The owner can do whatever he wishes with his property. Just think how much money gamblers send into the coffers of bookmakers. My reason for posting that information was simply to point to something that we have never thought about. Is the practice good or bad? It is good in that it must make lives better in the destination country. It is bad because it diminishes the amount of money available to support Australia's local small businesses.

And that's not a bribe?

Those are what we expect from international trade. They are not related to the immigration question. True. They do. Those people leave money in the local economy by spending They are not the ones sending money 'back home'. The ones who send the money back home are the ones who are working here because the amount of money they can earn is far greater than what they can earn in their country of origin. Instead of spending what money is left over after what it costs to live (food, rent, transport, entertainment, goods and services) some is sent out of the country. Have you ever heard of a native born Australian sending money on a regular basis? (OK I don't count contributions to Save the Children etc.)

Here's something that is not considered in the immigration debate. Money that leaves the local economy through transfers by immigrants to families in their country of origin. In this video, (which I admit I have not fact checked, or found the original source) it is claimed that in one year $38 billion dollars left the local economy through transfer to "the old country". First thing I need to say that this money was, hopefully, money available after wages and salaries of the senders had been taxed under the PAYE method. So the sender had the right do do with the money anything he desired. Secondly, this money would have been sent digitally since it is illegal to take a large number of banknotes out of the country. So what's wrong with this? Basically it means that the local economy lost the use of that amount of credit. For a start, if it had been spent here, local businesses would have benefitted from the increase in their line of trade. Increase local business and you increase demand for goods and services and create employment. Also, 10% would have gone back to Treaasury as GST. Does this transfer of money actually occur? I had contact with Phillipino carers working after Mum when she was alive. The were sending money back 'home' to support family. There are a lot of Chinese workers in the construction industry, and what about trolley boys and Uber drivers?