pmccarthy

The same people who wanted to put masks on cows now want us to build AI centres. By the same people, I mean loonies.

AI is a bubble that will burst within a year or so. Every person using it for free, or paying $200 a month or whatever, is being subsidised by the billions (trillions) of dollars being speculated on the investment market. All the AI companies are running huge operating losses and are not disclosing their profit and balance sheets. At some stage the true cost of infrastructure, power, water etc has to be passed on to consumers. When we have to pay $2000 or $5000 a year each for our AI subscription guess what? We will realise that we don't need it so badly. The whole thing will crash.

Some states require engineers to be registered, so they need their qualifications to be recognised. Although I have worked on design/construct projects in Queensland in the past I could not do so now as I am not a Registered Professional Engineer Queensland. (not that I want to!). I the UK you can do your own house wiring.

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy

In the last 60 years we have been told many times that the minerals industry is in decline and that some new industry is about to take over as Australia's new domestic and export industry driver. It has never happened. What happens instead is that investment in exploration and mining is discouraged and the investment returns from mining go flat until the next "boom". The main result of this has been that domestic investment is driven out, and foreign owners gradually get control of Australia's resources, because they are nimbler in reinvesting when conditions improve.

I'd like to teach the world to sing

I think any car pre about 1984 is ok as they have no computer on board. My house is a greater threat as my vacuum cleaner and pool robot could rise up against us.

Norco's the name for purity Nothing beats Norco brand Butter with wholesome goodness Fresh from Norco's dairy land.

I hope they have the chants. I love the chants, timed to the hammers hitting the rocks.

Too much mass of metal per person is every electric Toorak Tractor taking kids to school today.

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I always wanted a Chev ute like that but am now too old and lazy to take one on.

I have a single wind on the way out too.

Can you donate to beer?

You rotten twine…..

Afraid not

Jerry that makes no sense to me. The outcome is either random or it is not. The next number is not dependent on previous results.

When it rains it pours

Cooking up at home

I still carry two Avgas cards for flying but havent needed them for years. Most sites use a phone app or credit card. But if I ditch the Avgas cards I am bound to get caught somewhere. I guess it is the same with EV charging.

When I was travelling for work I discovered that many ads are voiced and adapted locally. For example, "Kiwi kids are Weetbix kids". And many US ads were given Aussie voices, but these days they tend not to bother as we seem to have accepted US accents. And racially inappropriate actors in Aussie ads, which are simply run here without change.

This is an interesting short film about Broken Hill, made in 1953. Where I lived for 12 years.

But you can’t make beer out of the hops.

When people say that wind and solar are free, they need to explain. Oil gas and coal are just as free, they are sitting in the ground waiting to be taken. On a cost per unit of energy, oil, gas and large open pit coal can be very cheap. So it is simply a choice based on lifetime capital and operating costs for the whole energy system. We distort that by applying subsidies.

Agreed, it didn’t interest me.