nomadpete

Yeah. We will look like turkeys, bringing a submarine to a drone fight.

In recent times, I agree. Worse still there seems to be some cases where police use a gun (or taser) on an unarmed person.

Only a single example in a complex social issue, but here goes.... Some years back, there was a significant number of tall dark, elegant folk arrived in town. Possibly from Ghana but thet doesn't matter. Generally nice people who were glad to escape a bad place. My friend ran the local gun shop. A tall dark chap came in and after looking around, asked in broken english "You sell guns?" "Yeah, we are a gun shop." "Sell me AK47...please." "Sorry, I can't sell you one of those." (He didn't have them anyway). "Sell me something smaller?" "No, I am not selling you any guns. Not allowed." "Sell me knife, then? They call me names. Not fair. I make it right." I suspect that process happens a bit. As well as other individuals with criminal intent trying to avoid harsher penalties when caught with weapons. And OME your example was before my time, but I suspect that handguns were not so easily obtained back then. Besides, if you want to be sure of killing anyone with a pistol, you nearly have to be close enough to stab them. And guns make too much noise.

Anyway, if something really big is about to collapse, I don't want to be standing near it.

Jerry, that's a bit depressing. The other option (just as depressing) is mass population readjustment by pandemic. Forget Melbourne, relocate to the Simpson Desert.

No it's not crazy. On the first spacships we should send our bureacrats, world leaders, investment bankers, car salesmen and hairdressers. We need them to be there first, to set up the essential services for us. Then we wait until they are functioning before sending any normal people.

It was programmed by nerds. It yells "Marm, Marm the hots gone cold agin!!! Fix it mum!"

Quote: "They will have to tame what they do or it will be coitins" ................................ Little does that poor Goon know, I've already got some coitins.... (Eccles) I think the US economy is unlikely to recover. The death throes have hardly started. China has learned how to use capitalism against an opponent, just like US used to. Now that US has woken up it's way too late to balance trade.

The old goanna didn't wait for Lady Luck to make him wealthy. And I always loved that speech!

For once I agree with donny's tariff on chinese graphite. According to Australian Mining Review, china has been product dumping their govt subsidised graphite into USA in order to squash competing local production of graphite. Early this year they reported..... "Some Australian firms made waves in the global graphite industry recently, joining ranks with American graphite companies in a petition urging the U.S. Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission to investigate China’s alleged dumping of graphite products at unsustainable and unfair prices. Experts at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, the law firm handling the case, estimate dumping margins as high as 920%. If the investigation proves conclusive, The U.S Department of Commerce will assess the use of additional tariffs equal to the extent of unfair pricing."

I wonder if donny will apply tariffs to Aussie grapfite, too? Australian battery graphite from mine to market "International Graphite is on track to be the first producer of battery anode graphite in Western Australia. "

My take on the rise of knife/machete crime..... This should be expected in a country ehere we have relatively stringent gun control. There have always been violent offenders. When guns are (a little) harder to obtain, knives are the next choice. Also, dare I say the trend of our changing immigration sources, creates a higher percentage of people coming from regions where knive crime is more common. No, I am not suggesting that every migrant is a violent machete weilding criminal. Just that there will always be a dangerous minority in any group. When I was young, most migrants came from western europe and their greatest wish was to integrate as 'new Australians '. Sure, even then, there was a minority of mafia (etc) that arrived too. And of course we always had 'home grown' crims, as well. Of course, the media avoids publishing ethnicity of offenders, so I am making a generalisation. But I am not the least surprised by a slight but highly publicised uptick in knife attacks. At least a knife can only attack one person at a time. Unlike a gun. Doesn't make it ok but at least it's not as bad, overall.

Are you sure about that? Donny owns the supreme court, and has got a lot of legal firms trembling in their boots.

Yeah, but we aren't all delinquent bogans Jerry. (I hope)

Just in case anyone misunderstood, when I marked Jerry's vid as 'informative' - that was for it's insights into the delinquent social life cycle of Escooters & Ebikes. Not for the video's misinformed BS about battery fire risks.

Thanks Jerry. There's a couple I haven't been to.... yet.

I agree with that. Which is why education is so important. For instance, Instead of simply learning the dates of explorers or events, I would have benefitted greatly if I was also taught the political policies of the time - the background reasons for world events. Expecially with modern history.

I'd rather live in a country that serves the needs of the majority (even if I'm not one of them) than live under a system that only serves the dictator/king/president. That seems to be the only options available. You can please some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time. Nobody can please all of the people all of the time.

Yep. That's the general idea.

Quite agree, after watching Australian dashcams, I sold my motorbike. Just too many pig ignorant, stupid drivers out there - it frightened me.

For once the thread hasn't drifted far from topic. IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE.... Old age, that is.

As the actress said to the bishop, 'I've seen a cockatoo!'

Simple inexperience/inadequate training is a big part of younger car accidents. Yesterday I turned out to a head-on collision. At the highway at the end of my street. A young P plate driver couldn't explain why she ended up on the wrong side of the road, colliding with a oncoming vehicle. The other driver, more experienced, saw the situation unfolding, and moved as far as possible to the left, but she still managed to head-on him. The road was wet. It might have been a little icy. When the girl's ute lost rear grip, she didn't know what to do. 1. She didn't think to drive slower when conditions dictate. 2. Didn't recognise loss of grip. 3. Didn't automatically steer into the skid. Worse still, she still won't know what to do next time it happens. Lack of training. On another occasion in the past, I was present when a young P plater lost it on a wet corner, and rolled a little hatchback. She said it was the second time that had happened. On the same corner. In a different car. Then she blamed the car for it. Ignorance! - due entirely to poor training. Training isn't the all encompassing problem, but it's a significant part of it and most importantly it is a clearly addressable safety issue.

That is age discrimination. The stats show that per capita in each age group, the younger drivers are involved in a higher percentage of road fatalities, than the older ones. If they wish to reduce road injurie/fatalities, they would increase the real driver training and add biennial reviews. I guess lives don't really matter enough to properly address the problem.

C'mon now Jerry. Why on earth are you scrolling British real estate ads? Looks like I might as well start opening your Wolfie welcome pack if you aren't coming home.