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Spacey, the only time Australians were conscripted for National Service was during the Vietnam War period. At all other times and even to the present day, joining up was a voluntary decision. You must also learn that very many of those who served in Vietnam had made that voluntary decision to join the Defence Forces. I have a mate who did three 12-month tours in Vietnam. That's two more tours than the average Nasho. Admittedly he had joined the army at 16 years old and had done a full trade course before he was attached to an operational unit. We often forget the involvement of the Navy and RAAF, neither of which had conscripts.

Jeezuz! I thought Drop Bears were bad enough.

Punctuating the above sentence get you, "I WOULD not put up with that", is more straight forward. In that version, the "that" has not been identified. If there was a preceeding sentence mentioning what the "that" was, the version would be OK. Remember that what we say or write must communicate our thought clearly to the recipient.

That hoary old chestnut relating to ending a sentence with a preposition has been debunked. It arose from a Victorian era grammarian's wish to have English emulate Latin. In Latin, prepositions are included in the various Case of nouns in Latin, so they do not exist as words themselves. That depends on witch skool you went to...... "Went to" is a phrasal verb. A phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (eg, turn down, run into, or sit up). So it makes no sense to split the phrase. Likewise "depends upon" is another phrasal verb, so you could twist the sentence to "Which school you went to is what it depends on." Rather awkward. So claiming that "up with which I will not put" is the correct form is something I'll not put up with.

Sydney in drought?????? I don't believe it.

From the list above it seems that the occupations with the best outlooks are those which involve, broiadly speaking, providing personal service to others. It is not an exhaustive list. I wonderwhich list military service would fall into. AI won't bring peace, unfortunately.

Remembrance is a two-sided coin. On one side we remember the brave act those people made to enlist to protect their principles. On the otherside we realise the futility of armed conflict. Perhaps in the 21st Century we might instil in people the futility of armed conflict. Probably a forlorn hope, but still a hope.

Hey Nomad! What was sad about that?

Apparently the modern meaning of the term "queer" is a person who possesses an extra sex chromosome, which results in a number of physical abnormalities. "Intersex" is a broad term for a variety of conditions where a person's chromosomes, gonads, or genitals don't fit the typical definitions of male or female. Being intersex is not a choice of behaviour. It is similar, but not the same as Downs Syndrome which usually arises from a defect involving chromosome 21, usually an extra copy (trisomy-21).

A positive to celebrate!!! Today I attend Gilgandra's Remembrance Day ceremony. We have an early education centre in town which seems to have a good enrolment. The older children were walked to our memorial and sat down to listen to the ceremony. Not that they attended to it without distraction, but they were well behaved. When it came time for the laying of wreaths, the little ones lined up and came to the memorial with commemorative poppies which each child placed in the memorial. It wasn't "cute". I doubt that any one of them knew the significance, but by involving our young ones from an early age is a way to maintain links with the honourable histroy of volunteer military service of our forefathers. This link is a particulary strong in Gilgandra as it was from here in 1915 that the first of the locally organised recruting marches began - The Coo-ee March. https://www.mrl.nsw.gov.au/learn/historical-research/world-war-one/coo-ee-march https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_marches

Has battery-determined range become yesterday's problem?

Agrovoltaics is best combined with grazing, rather than cropping simply because croping now requires unobstructed spaces. I've said before that solar panels + sheep (or goats) is a workable combination. Cattle might find it difficult to get to fodder under solar panels. We don't usually free range pigs and pouiltry might not be protected from foxes id free ranged. I can't confirm that solar companies are now offering farmers around $1500 per hectare per year rent, but if it is true, then that is money that is independent of seasonal weathr variations. Grammar Police note: Although "agrovoltaics" ends with a "-s" it is always a singular word. OED's earliest evidence for agrivoltaics is from 2011, in Stock Journal (Adelaide).

I simply meant it as other descriptor in the class of "he bats for the other side", or "he's a shirt lifter". Those two really come from a time gone by when people did not openly announce their sexuality. Nowadays, that calling someone Gay is acceptable and not considered offensive. My reference to shirt buttons was just an example of my weird enjoyment in creating catchy bons mots.

That situation is called an "unavoidable accident", and as such, no blame could be placed on the driver. Since it happened on a motorway, a reasonable person (driver) would not expect there to be a pedestrian. On a motorway, 90 kph is well below the signposted speedlimit. At that speed a vehicle is travelling at 24.93 metres per second. There isn't even enough time for an extrermely alert driver to respond to start braking. Further, will maximum braking effort on a dry road surface, a vehicle could not stop from 90 kph in 10/20 metres. I don't understand what you mean by "falls". Did the person fall off the edge of a road cutting?

I volunteer at a OP Shop and one of my tsaks is to sort clothing donations into male, female and kids piles. I've learned that the buttons of men's shirts are on the right hand side and those of women's are on the left hand side. Would it be inoffensive to describe a Gay man as having his buttons on the left side?

That explains what Dustin Hoffman's "I'm walking here" in the movie Midnight Cowboy. That line wasn't in the script. Hoffman came out with it because a taxi didn't stop as he and his partner were crossing a road during the shooting of a scene. It was an unconscious response to a common situation.

You're a Smartie.

We forget that in cold climates, the population dresses to keep warm. The clothing Jerry will buy will be designed for the conditions. If you wore it during an Australian winter, you'd die of heat stress.

Onetrack posted this graph elswhere. The blue line shows what the US Stock Market is doing, and the red line shows employment. The froightening thing is that it inicats that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. It makes me wonder if the value of stocks is in fact a reflection of the real value of actual things, or if it is an indication af rampant speculation. If people are not getting employed, what is creating value?

I wish that you had posted this in the "The End is Nigh" thread. It relates more to that topic. Instead of the curve appearing as a J-curve, it has now become a K-curve. There is a lot to say about what the graph means, but what is said would be best in that other thread. Thanks for posting the graph anyway.

Thanks for that explanation. Unfortunately, like most people, I did not understand concepts whose word describing them was not defined. That's not a complaint against you. It just means that to understand it all, one has to be involved in it. It's a bit like looking at musical notation. I can't understand what it means, but when a musician interprets it, I can enjoy the sounds. The thing is, is the use of derivatives something that could go bad and destroy the global economy?

As a lifetime renter, I offer this: if the tenant has been satisfactory; paid rent on time and looked after the property, then renew the lease. A good tenant is a bird in hand. If you sell the house, you will only end up with a wad of money that is decreasing in value due to inflation. If you have already paid off any mortgage on the house, then the $400 per week is mostly yours, after allowing for maintenance and agent's fees. And don't let the agent con you into upping the rent. Agent's only do that to increase their cut. If your tenant has been good to you, why not give a reward by not increasing the rent. You can always let the tenant know that it might go up later if costs rise too much.

James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helical structure of DNA passed away on 6 November at the age of 97.

I'm still waiting for a decent rain event. The isolated thunderstorms have bypassed my place, or hve been so small as to only give a pattering of rain. I'm a good enough neighbour to accept a delay in the graning of my wish for rain until the local harvest is completed.

I think that it is OK to consider what is being said. Isn't the purpose of a warning to generate a degree of fear of what might happen, and suggest that preparations be made for a bad situation? If the bad situation does not eventuate, what is the loss? Here's another video by the same creator. It seems basically factual, or at least not radical. It describes the causes of the cyclical nature of boom and bust. Just take a look at what is happeneing in the Stock Market. Stock values are rising, but where is the productivity one which the value of those stocks should be based? While the Stock Market values are rising, the rest of the economy is suffering from lessening affordability.