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Just to let you know there is no AI on the site, there is only NI

To do that would require constituitional change incurring a referendum so one would hope the people would come to their senses for that. An election is one thing but a referndum on constituitional change would be a whole new kettle of fish. My opening post was asking what it would be like for example could a member Cross The Floor and if so what would that look like...also wouldn't there still be an opposition but it would be internal rather than a defined party so bills may still not get passed? Would parliament become less of a child zone and be more professional because you could be more for the country rather than the against another party by still debating a bill but without the name calling and childish behaviour because you are in the same party? Just some thoughts and questions without having the answers 🤔

Just out of interest what would happen here in Australia if one political party won every one of the 151 seats and also the senate at an election. I know that just wont happen but for example would there still be an opposition? What would happen at Question Time, would that still exist? Etc etc

Can we paste the actual video in the post?

Here is a link to a news story listing all the great Australian inventions...for example I didnt know that Google maps was an Australian invention https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/the-incredible-aussie-inventions-that-changed-the-world/image-gallery/f5e1b01c5c03a551c28ecea6c7a2ad9a

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I think I will stick to the blue or yellow pills although they can also cause a problem with ladders, just look at that pole vaulter

I decided to learn about chemistry and physics so I bought one of those science kits from Temu, BAD MOVE, the quality just isn't there

The sites has now been moved over to the new server, hope you finding an improvement in performance

Kangaroos...bringing beer...hop, hop, hop

I really cracked up laughing when I saw this

Does Leo still have a CT...say hi to him for me will you Nev

The registration page would be blocked so existing users are fine and any new members outside of Australia and New Zealand could still be registered by myself manually

Will do

I am not sure what happened but the last time i did a major upgrade to the site the Movies and TV Shows section went offline, probably because of a clash with the server php version. Anyway I have fixed that and turned the section back on. Hope you can make good use of it

Nev is recovering from his Knee surgery in rehab so he will be back with Bells on very soon. Life would not be the same without Nev

Firstly like everything else why should just a few pay money to get the benefit when so many others get the benefits for free. The solution to that is every member has to pay to access the site but the outcome of that will be a closed shop that will kill a site off very quickly. If we compare the site versus the facebook points previously made: FB: Posts on FB are generally no longer than one sentence. SA: Not only does this site promote longer posts but there is also better formatting of posts like new paragraphs, bold, italic, colour, centering etc, in fact I can add many more if you want FB: Facebook is open to anyone on the planet. SA: This site is open to anyone in Australia and New Zealand and if any user would like specific friends in another country to be able to access the site, just let me know and I can manually add them FB: You can find the profile of a friend or relative, and select them as a "Facebook Friend". You can search for people you know, and send them a "Friend Request" SA: You can search for another user and follow them as a Friend basically the same as FB but there are also badges, reputation, etc plus I can add some more user and friend features unlike FB, tell me what you want FB: make you post available to "Public", "Friends", "Specific Friend", "All Friends Except" or "Custom" SA: Unfortunately FB has it over SA in this area. Not sure what I can do with this BUT FB: With items flagged as public, you get inundated with trolls SA: Moderation is enforced here on SA so Trolls against a user's post is extremely rare FB: People are suggested based on mutual friends, or common things in their profile, such as attended the same high school SA: Again FB has it over SA in this area. The only thing is you can see a users friends by looking at their profile BUT the thing is, SA has far more privacy and security to prevent unwanted targeting. I could relax this a bit with extra profile fields if we got many more users and friend/family groups were created...let me know how you would like this to go FB: how easy is it to post pictures? Actually, it's quite simple.When in the comment entry panel, an icon (as shown below) opens the Add photos box, where you select the file to upload. SA: It is much easier to post pictures on SA plus you can also attach different types of files and you do have the Gallery where there are categories FB: usually short video clips are uploaded in posts and show as a freeze frame. I cannot address Youtube type videos, I've never tried to upload one. SA: You can link most types of videos including YouTube ones. let me know if there are any you can't. Actually uploading a full video is hard because SA does not have the server space like FB FB: Absolutely littered with adverts. AI monitors your web searches then bombards you with adverts that are barely related. SA: Not here on SA at all FB: There are complaint groups for things like Australia Post and Foxtel. SA: We have Groups here that are far superior than FB for users to create, you can even have a Family Group that is locked to just Family users etc FB: A downside for some people may be that on FB people usually use their real name and perhaps some folks value anonymity. SA: A user can be completely anonymous to every other user but NOT to myself as I value user security to the highest level I can, unlike FB There are many more Pros and Cons of both platforms like cost, easy access, access to many other things etc. I comes down to that I can create just about anything you want here but to do so would need a massive more user registrations to make it viable. For example a "complaint group" as mentioned above is useless if only say 2 users access it or contribute to it. Thanks and I am so appreciative of the comments being made here as a collective.

The first one "No advertising is allowed"

No advertising is allowed, there have been many new registrations just to post about there business to get free advertising and not post in the general forums