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I heard that Paris Hilton's place went up in flames also. We should not make light of the losses of these rich people. Wealth is no salve for the loss your life's memorabilia no matter how much wealth you have or have not.

I wonder how Trump will handle the inevitable drop in tax income from the fourth largest economy in the World. The insurance companies will not suffer. It seems that they would not insure for loss by fire by people in those areas.

Los Angeles has been severely impacted by bushfires. Lives have been lost and the value of property destroyed is very likely to be in the billions of dollars. This is a natural disaster on an unimaginable scale. At a time like this one would expect the leadership of the Nation to provide Federal support to the people through their State and Local governments. However, giving the go-ahead for the provision of that support is the duty of the Nation's leader. At present, Trump is not actually the leader, but one would expect him to be supportive of any such decision by the present leader. Trump, however, has taken the opportunity to lay the blame for the devastation on the current Governor of California who declined to agree to some scheme Trump proposed during his previous term to divert water from its natural courses into Southern California. Trump's declared punishment for that disagreement is a refusal to provide Federal assistance to California to deal with the present catastrophe and its aftermath. As a dyed-in-the-wool climate change denier, Trump is ignoring the facts that Southern California has been in the grip of drought for several years. Australians are only too well aware of how drought increases the catastrophic potential of wildfires in both forests and arable lands. The current fire situation is worsened by the effects of the Santa Ana winds, which blow west from the mountains to the east of Los Angeles and are channeled through the canyons of the western side of the mountains towards the seaboard on which Los Angeles is built. So, the devastation is not the fault of a Governor from the Democratic Party, but is simply the cumulative effect of weather patterns. You only need to watch the first 2 minutes of this next video to see and hear what Trump has said.

Do you remember using tables of logarithms in school? I wonder what a high school kid of today would make of them.

Don't you go into town for groceries and stuff?

I don't see how living remotely prevents someone from voting. That is, of course, if you don't have ome means of receiving and sending mail. You can always apply for a postal vote which is a means to vote if you live more than 8 kilometres from a polling booth. https://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/Document 7.pdf

I find that the evening news is frequently infotainment. Not that providing infotainment is a very bad thing. It is what the populou has come to expect. IN reality, most of those broadcasts are re-readings of the headlines with little diving to the depths of the story. Current affairs shows on commercial TV are also infotainment. At least the ABC's current affairs programs often lift the covers off what some want to remain covered.

The residents of New Mexico might be wondering if they will have to change the name of their State to align with Trump's geographical name change. There could be a fight because New Mexico is a blue State.

I wonder how the increasing exposure of the activities of the rich and powerful which appear to be contrary to the benefit of the rest of the community is driving the search for truth in journalism. I think that there is a growing distrust of the corporate and political worlds, and a growing desire to rein in those bodies when their activities do not benefit the majority of the population.

And the ABC should say to the commercial media, "Et tu, Brute".

Keeps a head of it?

With the availability of other sweeteners for soft drinks, the effects of sugary solutions on teeth is reduced. The sugar is a nutrient for bacteria, which excrete all sorts of chemicals which can damage teeth. However, these drinks are fizzy. The chemical reaction between carbon dioxide and water produces carbonic acid, a weak acid. Carbonic acid is responsible for the acidity in fizzy drinks. That is what does the damage to the teeth. Also these drinks contain phosphoric acid, which also damages teeth.

This discussion seems to be focussing on the news/current affairs area of the ABC, but that is not its only area of operation. Don't forget that the ABC is the Nation's emergency information broadcaster. Which cricket commentary do you prefer? What about the ABC's support of the very many formats of music? The ABC provides the voice for the expression of Australian culture in its many forms. Tell me which commercial media organisation does nearly as much. So it would appear that there is only one department of the ABC that could have its standards examined.

Facthunter, here I go again! One has to define what you mean by "additives". What facthunter might be referring to is the idea that hormones are the additives which improve growth rates. Steroids and hormones have not been used in Australia's meat chicken industry for more than 60 years and antibiotic treatment was kept to an absolute minimum. Hormone use in meat chickens was outlawed in Australia decades ago. ACMF deputy executive director, Dr Kylie Hewson, said, "A really long time ago, back in the 50s and 60s, some people in the industry did trial using steroids or hormones to grow chickens bigger. What they quickly realised was that it was a lot more effective to use selective breeding to breed the traits they wanted in meat chickens." We have bigger chickens which are better at converting food to meat through genetic improvement and research into creating feed from which the chicken can take a higher percentage of nutrients. The permissible additives in chicken feed include vitamins, minerals and antibiotics. These things can be added to the raw ingredients for the feed in order to bring the nutritional value of the finished feed up to that of levels determined in scientifically controlled research. My final year thesis in Animal Nutrition involved a study of the addition of a vitamin to chicken feed in order to overcome a nutritional condition in chicks which caused them to drop dead if stressed. That was fifty years ago. You can imagine how much better modern feed formulations are today than what they were then, after that many years of research. Don't forget that commercial poultry growers need just about every gram of nutrient in the feed to be converted into edible meat. It's an economic necessity. I mentioned antibiotics as well. Their purpose is to mainly to promote the development of gut flora which aids the conversion of feed to meat and fat in much the same way we take probiotics to keep our gut flora healthy. Those antibiotics rarely cross the gut wall and so get into the meat we eat, so they are not a problem for us. Also some antibiotics are used as a preventative measure against thing like bird flu or other microbial agents which make the chicken sick resulting in poor food conversion.

What's that in kW per kilometre?

But it's thirty-three and a third.

There is a thing which is called a "priest". The word "priest" can refer to a member of the clergy, usually of the Catholic persuasion. However, the word can also refer to an object. PMC is correct. The thing that is called a "priest" is a tool for killing game or fish. The name "priest" comes from the notion of administering the "last rites" to the fish or game. Anglers often use priests to quickly kill fish. Priests usually come in the form of a heavy metal head attached to a metal or wooden stick. A Nulla Nulla is an Aboriginal weapon of similar appearance, but more used for ministering the last rites to another Aborigine. I came across this word while researching how to humanely kill European carp. I'm going to take up a bit of freshwater fishing and if I'm lucky I'll be catching more of them than anything else. It is against to law to release them back into waterways.

What is the thing that we call a "priest'? NOTE: I said 'thing'.

That is what is must have been. I don't know where your picture was taken, because there are a lot more objects in that photo than what I saw. I surmise that since Starlink is not as common in Australia, the number of objects in the train for Australia would be less. Luckily only recently my sister told me that she was going to Starlink because the Telstra internet connection at her place is woeful. The difference between her connection and mine is amazing. I have no problems, but I am close to the top of a rise from her place and I have a much longer line of sight towards the towers. This is the train that I saw: Timings with average visibility (past) 4:49 am, 5 Jan 2025 Starlink-217 (G12-6) (new), DIM (2.2) for 2 mins Look from WEST to SOUTHEAST (details) Elevation (from horizon): start: 40°, max: 51°, end: 10°

A bit before 5:00 am this morning (5/1/24), I observed an unusual movement in the sky overhead my place. Before you blokes start debunking my observations and my theory derived from those observations, don't forget that I have a background in observation and analysis of those observations. So here's what I saw. I saw a line of about six or eight bright white lights in a line, moving from West to East across the sky, slightly to the south of my place. The lights were evenly spaced along the line, and that spacing did not alter while I observed them. The only light was white, which was relatively as bright as the fixed stars of the Southern Cross. There was no sound coming from their direction. The line did not change direction and I gradually lost sight of them as the line moved towards the eastern sky in the pre-dawn light. The speed of the lights was very much less than meteors, but faster than a commercial aircraft. There is an international airway route which leads planes to pass to the north of my place. Planes flying this route are at about 30,000 ft. At night I can see their red and green wingtip lights and white anti-collision lights. The sound of their engines reaches me after the plane has passed. The time between the plane passing and the sound reaching me is much the same for every time I see the planes (30,000 ft divided by the speed of sound in air). Also planes flying the route are going in a northwesterly directions from Sydney. I've tracked them on Flightradar 24 many times. If there are two planes on the same airway, there is a substantial distance separating them. So here are my deductions: 1. The lights were not generated from a commercial aircraft because of direction, speed, lack of noise and absence of anti-collision lights. 2. The white light was much stronger that the white anti-collision lights of commercial aircraft. 3. The lights were not meteors because of their lower speed, ordered spacing, and that they were lost to sight as they entered the light from the Sun which at that time would have been over the Tasman Sea, well to the east. 4. That they were lost to sight as they moved to the east and the Sun, suggests they were at quite an altitude. Conclusion: I am not inclined to suggest that they were the product of an extraterrestrial technology. I consider that their speed was too fast for normal satellites or space stations, but not fast enough for meteors. Therefore, I can only conclude that they were man made, but by whom and for what purpose I have no idea.

Bugger the honey. The wax is the money maker.

Bullets cost money. I was trained to fire two shots then stop and reassess. It took more time to do the paperwork for the issue of two new rounds than it did to do the Critical Incident enquiry. The only time I went through a lot of rounds was at the annual recertification where we used wadcutters after having used what we were already carrying. That meant i got fresh rounds once a year if I never had to fire the gun in anger.

Did you read the fine print in the ad?

Cancer doctors concentrate on the cancer itself. They don't cut off your legs to deal with a cancer in your lung. I can see that there will never be agreement amongst us here. Those who have an opinion have expressed it. It we keep the topic open, we will simply continue to chase our tails. Perhaps we should close this thread.

That's true. The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part. It does not include political groups. However, while there might not be the intent to annihilate the Palestinians, the destruction of the terrorist organisations is being carried out with complete disregard to the safety and welfare of people not involved in those organisations.