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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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9govup-IG3c

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?

I don't think our system of preferential voting is the fault. The fault with modern elections is the contributions made to Parties by organisations. Dose an organisation have a franchise to vote? Is an organisation a person? We are coming to the conclusion that donations to political parties by organisations are bribes - a rose by any other name.

There's a De Haviland Dragon Rapide that went down in WWII still undiscovered out there. Just think of the Southern Cloud as another example of 'lost in the bush'.

You'll have to avoid a barber for a few months while your hair grows long enough to comb over the big round bit.

While I agree with your sentiment, what I was disgusted with was the emphasis which was placed on getting a sensational headline. You can hear that emphasis in the repeating of the question. What none of these reporters considered when seeking information was that the Deputy Commissioner they were speaking to would have only scant information passsed on in a short briefing from the command centre. Also, since the death was a matter for a Coronial Inquest, he couldn't just blurt out unconfirmed information. He did he best to be open about what he could say, but the answers to many questions were sub judice, meaning that saying anything likely to be wrong would be contempt of the Court. You can hear that emphasis in the repeating of the question. For example, possible cause of death. The deceased lay in inaccessible country. I doubt that a doctor had attended to formally declare the person deceased. which is the first step in a Coronial Inquiry. A post mortem had no been carried out. Yet these reporters wanted to know the ins and outs of a duck's rs, such as time of death. Information about all these things has to be collected, documented and placed before a Coroner who will decide, based on the evidence produced, 1. The identity of the deceased. 2. Time of death (if it can be established). 3. Place of death (if a fixed place or general locality can be determined). 4. Cause of death (results of post mortem). 5. If any criminal act was involved in the death. No doubt the Press will howl for an examination of the conduct of the search. It will be looking for ammunition to fire at the responding agencies. Don't expect the Coronial Inquest to be completed for at least six months. That's a pretty usual time for one of these to go through the system.

More money and more delay. A new route is sorely needed, but the Minns government stopped the planned construction of a tunnel which would replace Victoria Pass. Gotta get those Metro trains built! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQq8QRbAOOI There is a diversion in place, but it is a narrow road and earlier this week was closed due to an collision. If I decide to go the Sydney, I am going to take a longer route coming into the north of the Metropolitan Area. According to Google Maps it would take me an extra hour to get to where I want to go on the southern side of Sydney

Yes. Each carriage on one of those trains would carry one container which would be one less truck on the road. It would reduce the number of trucks on the inland road route between Melbourne and Brisbane, but not so much on tthe Sydney-Brisbane or Sydney-Melbourne road routes. They did say that they would establish a transfer station at Parkes to link with the rail to Sydney, but I don't know if that railroad could bear the weight being carried. There is still a great deal of local road heavy haulage going on along that inland route.

Yeah. Not a word of praise for the people who risked injury to carry out the seach, and the effort needed to retrieve the body. I thought the the Police officer controlled his emothions pretty well. He seemed to be empathetic to the fact that the woman had died, and how the parents felt. But he really showed self-control when these hacks kept pushing the mistaken message line. You have to remember also that he wasn't at the command centre, so he was dealing with relayed information and most likely had never been in the area himself. I'm not just sticking up for him because I remember working with him when he was a fresh-faced Constable. I lost track of him thirty-odd years ago.

The sad news today was that an 18 year-old young woman who had been missing in bushland southwest of Sydney was found today, deceased. Police participated in a meeting with members of the Press. It appears that all the Press could focus on, and seek to blame Police for, was a report that a message had been passed to her parents that she had been found alive. However, within eight minutes that error had been corrected and the parents given the sad news. The members of the Press, who struck me as being young, posed questions that seemed to be aimed at making the police look incompetent. The senior officer who was speaking to them obviously did not have every minute fact, since the deceased had been found in wild country. I know that country as it was part of my patrol when I was a policeman. It is what some call 'tiger country'. Dense bush, steep cliffs. If any of you has flown west of Camden, or come in on the Bindook locator, you will know how bad the country is. Searchers, who were SES, Police, Army and volunteers were using handheld radios for communication. Ther would have been no 'line of sight' from down in that steep country to the Command centre above. Mobile phones would have been useless. Nevertheless, these budding journalists, none of whom were likely to have any knowledge of the terrrain searchers were working in, kept plugging away with a line of quesioning that seemed to have only one object - to make out that police incompetence had cause undue distress to the parents. This would have been held in the afternoon since the deceased was located about 11.30am. The Police officer tried to give as much information as was available, but I doubt if by that time he had to details that the Press might have been seeking. The deceased is in such an inaccessible location that recovering her might recuire her to be carried out as an air lift does not seem safe. I noticed that the evening news broadcasts concentrated on that incorrect information. Here is the report of the meeting.

When you do, some of your questions might be answered. I thought the information in the video was straight-shootin' (unbiased).

Just found this video filmed at the Janus facility in NSW. Very interesting. It does mention the fact that most trucks on our roads are involved in local work only. It also shows how a battery exchange depot could be set up. I'm less cynical of the idea now.