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pmccarthy

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  1. Yeah Bing drives me mad. It does AI crap that I dont ask for.
  2. I have been watching colourised movies of New York and London Circa 1900. Big electric buses in 1900, electric taxi cabs in 1898, posties on powered scooters in 1900. Not what I expected.
  3. I have seen a few videos of idiots trying to drive through flooded causeways and stalling. Lots of people lined up and cheering them on, encouraging them to have a go. Even a Tesla with water up to the windows. I don’t know which part of the UK.
  4. We inherited a shit world in the 1960s. I expected to die in a nuclear war, or in Vietnam.
  5. "Because both tapes do very similar jobs, the correct name to use is often confused because "duck" and "duct" are homophones." Before we had gay dating sites, we had homophones.
  6. Gerasimov appeared yesterday in a video.
  7. My grandmother married a returned soldier in 1919. He jumped out of the hospital window a week later. Then she married another returned soldier, my grandfather, who was born in Wingen. She said he had been Wingen ever since.
  8. pmccarthy

    Brain Teaser

    Better than teasing other parts of the body.
  9. He was given one million dollars for handing over the chopper. Perhaps he was carrying it in diamonds.
  10. There is a public building in Burke with the same system.
  11. My 1985 Jaguar has a trip computer. It still works and calculates average fuel consumption, speed etc. 39 years old.
  12. So you haven’t done 100 miles either!
  13. I once read that the “road” meant the shipping route and that it all makes sense somehow. There is now a huge Chinese-built tollway between Rangoon and Mandalay but it is too expensive so no one uses it.
  14. Get your neck vertebrae fused. You will never look back.
  15. Then after you are 70, they seem to disappear.
  16. pmccarthy

    Tax Cuts

    Ernst & Young was engaged by the Minerals Council of Australia to provide a report calculating the royalty and company tax payments for the minerals sector in 2020-21. Royalties were $16.7 billion in 2020-21, while net company taxes were expected to reach $26.5 billion in the same year. In total, mining company tax payments plus royalty payments were estimated at $43.2 billion in 2020-21, a 26.5 per cent increase from the $34.2 billion recorded in 2018-19. Likely to fall this year and beyond due to fall in price of green energy minerals including nickel and lithium, with closure of mines and smelters.
  17. The power has just been out in much of Vic. Did cash registers work? Could shops still operate with cash? We didn’t lose power here.
  18. That would be fun if the drone could not hit back.
  19. The first electric locomotives were used underground in Australia in 1902. Most of the ore mined underground in Australia was hauled using lead-acid batteries until the 1970s. That technology was very mature. So it can be done.
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