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What you say is true. I posted what I did because of the irony of the fact that for once Trump is recorded making a statement that is true, and his no one has made further comment that he did speak the Truth.

The media has let a Trump statement go through to the keeper, probably because they did not recognise it for what is was - the Truth. Thousands of column inches and TV broadcast time has been expended on calling out the lies Trump has told over the years, but it seems that the one time that he actually speaks the Truth, no one comments. In a recent speech Trump (at timestamp 0:34 in the video) told the Truth when he said that Elon Musk cannot be President. This is because of a little section of the Constitution (Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President". Elon Musk is not a natural born Citizen.

Global events are suggesting that the year 2025 will be tumultuous politically, economically and perhaps environmentally. Humans have the urge to look into the future and since time immemorial have listened to the words of soothsayers, so it is not out of the ordinary that as 2024 comes to its end, the prophets are publishing their predictions. Many are relying on the doom and gloom that can be milked from the writings of Nostradamus, and another seer, Baba Vanga, the Bulgarian clairvoyant who died in 1996 and has since become a cult figure among believers of soothsaying – and, as you can imagine, conspiracy theorists. Here's one video giving predictions for 2025 and beyond. Perhaps I should have posted it in teh "Funny Videos" thread.

For some people they are useful tools. I'm like you in that a search engine and an email account meet most of my needs, except for banking, which is accessible via my search engine.

But the motor vehicle industry grew on the foundations of a century-old manufacturing sector. Motor vehicles were just another product. The same can be said for the British aviation industry. What about the production of portable digital devices? Fifty years ago most of those types of products were only in the development stage, at best. However, once the designs were established countries with an existing manufacturing basis started to produce them, or set up manufacturing centres where the costs of infrastructure and labour were less than in the designer's home land.

That's the formula for the creation of a banana republic. You have to remember, too, that a population of 27M does not create a domestic market that promotes a manufacturing sector, but the application of technology means that 27M can support very profitable raw material production. I have been thinking about the exchange rate of the Australian dollar against the currencies of our trading partners. New Zealand seems to be the only country where one unit of our currency buys a fraction more than the other's. In Jan 23 the AUD was trading around 0.70 USD. on 24/12/24 it was trading at o.62 USD. That's a 12% decrease, which means that our imports are 12% dearer.

Notice that the things onetrack talks about are mainly extractive activities. When Australians try to establish a manufacturing sector those foreigners manage to stifle it, either by buying out the manufacturer, or using their greater manufacturing output elsewhere to bring in competing products. Look at the agricultural manufacturing sector. Chamberlain set up a tractor manufacturing business, which was eventually sold to John Deere. Sunshine Harvesters was bought out by the Canadian Massey Harris Company. We've recently mentioned the Donaldson-Tippet, and we can't forget the Furphy water cart of rumour-mongering fame.

Or would be if they could be.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas.

Based on his prior history, one could conclude that Dutton's nuclear policy is simply smoke and mirrors aimed at trying to convince the electorate that his mob have any sort of policies to handle what a government should handle, as well as a way to divert the attention of any other Party or Independent from working towards good government.

An old dieting tip was to push your chair away from your plate. Nowadays, it's 'don't drive into the drive-through'. Maybe every fast food outlet should be required to display this sign at its entrance:

If one of your brothers or sisters is in a long term family relationship, which used to be called a de facto marriage, is it correct to refer to the other half of that relationship as an in-law? Given that our Family Law considers such relationships to have the same legal standing as relationships formalised according to the Marriage Act, shouldn't our day-to-day terminology reflect that standing? Call me out-of-date, but I shudder when I hear those people referred to as "partner". To my mind, the use of "partner" was a euphemistic way of describing the other half of a same-sex relationship before they became more accepted and the Marriage Act was amended.

I think Asimov's Foundation series is good sci-fi because it deals with humans in an environment where the sci-fi elements are mainly background elements and it is the human reaction that are the story. That's if I recall the gist of the series correctly. Long time since I read it. No bug-eyed monsters or non-human invaders.

I heard the same broadcast. A reason not to defund the ABC.

I thought a "cage" was a frame enclosed by mesh. Plenty of air flow.

When you are dealing with an essential service such as electricity supply, it's a good idea to consider Murphy's law in planning. I'd bet the cost/benefit analysis of redundancy comes out strongly on the "benefit" side. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

That only applies if the worksite is on a nudist colony.

I needed to pop into town today to grab a few things from a couple of shops. I realised that I really didn't need to put on good clothes if I put on a Hi-Viz shirt and work shorts. Since it's a weekday, people will think that I'm a worker wearing the standard sort of worker uniform. I hope that fact that I was wearing thongs, not workboots didn't destroy the illusion.

Originally, battery comes from the Latin battuere , via Old French baterie "beating, thrashing, assault" with an alternative meaning referring to bashing fortress walls to an term for a unit of artillery. In 1748 Benjamin Franklin was experimenting with electricity added the meaning of "electric cell" perhaps from the artillery sense via notion of "discharges" of electricity. In the military sense, an artillery battery is composed of a number of canon, so the idea of "a singular containing a multiple" is reasonable. However, a collection of individuals is often now called and array since "array" can mean an ordered series or arrangement, as in "an array of photovoltaic cells constituting a solar panel".

It all boils down the the disciplined application of information that we already have. The biggest problem is sorting the wheat from the chaff in that information.

Unfortunately, you must remember that it took years to make yourself obese, therefore getting un-obese will take time. For most of us, weight loss is a matter of changing habits. We have become overweight by eating servings that are too large for our needs. We also need to allocate time to the preparation of our meals so that we don't give up and head off to the local takeaway to get a serving of food for our self which could actually feed two persons.

You are correct in saying that there is no backup if the lines are damaged, or a local transformer fails. I was just trying to find out what a competent planner should do to look for ways a system can fail, then make plans to deal with the failure.

A good system always has a backup just in case something goes wrong. If you were connected to a community battery and for whatever reason it went off line, what would be the backup to supply electricity to the community overnight until the battery was returned to service?

Please explain what this is.

The fourth and fifth pillars are simply "feel good" statements of the type usually included in this sort of Statement of Values waffle. They don't set goals and are not quantifiable. They are public relations bullshit. If we are going to be realistic about methods of power generation, we will have to admit that, although nuclear is an option, Howard made sure that we missed the boat. We should accept that and take advantage of the advances in solar generation and the storage/distribution of electricity so generated. Expanding hydro generation might prove impossible due to Australia's low rainfall (he said ironically) and topography not suitable for water storage. Not to mention the costs of building dams and the changes to the environment from flooding suitable catchment areas.