nomadpete

Further aurora sightings The purple pic (on the anti-gripes thread) was taken in our yard, visible to the naked eye, and it lit up the reds of our autumn leaves on the deciduous trees. Last night I went down to the river and took a picture of Franklin town.

My positive for today.... I have been lusting to see an aurora for many years. On the rare occasions when it coincides with clear sky (this is Tasmania after all), I have slept through the event. Until today. For some ungodly reason I was awake at the ungodly hour of 4 am. (Mrs Nomad had woken up and wanted a cup of tea at 4am). So I was awake to see the aurora! It was even visible at dawn. During the day there were several interplanetary shocks (betcha didn't know that) and tonight there was another visible aurora. Absolutely made my day!

Hi Jerry, I have been agonising over this for years! Very keen to hear your thoughts. I have a suspicion that it might be best to get my own domain but have no idea how to set it up nor how to maintain it. So I would have email address xxxx@nomad.org Or similar. Please keep me posted. I still dread having to go through advising the whole bunch of businesses and agencies of the change but on the pos side, it would reduce the liklihood of identity theft!

Taxes for people who cannot do maths. And wishful thinking.

Not Donny, I'd say.

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I have seen an Australian scrap metal yard stripping circuit boards out of computers - back in the 1990's. I quizzed the bloke and although he didn't go into detail, he did tell me what quantity of precious metal was recoverable. He wasn't sending it overseas at the time either.

OME it is more likely our recycling waste that they are using. If we dealt with our own waste here, it would be far more kind to the planet.

Pretty sure if it was, I'd be a lot smarter now than I am.

Desperation and hunger does this

Ignorant? I think not. I know a Knucklehead when I see one. I used to work for the public service, you know.

At the end, most of the packaging workers were children. Also, apart from the primitive factory equipment and obvious inefficiencies, I am amazed that it takes so many people to produce an item that probably only returns about $5 each item. When it sells in myers for $99, the middle men get rich and the poor buggers that actually made it get sfa. (Like farming)

They'd never allow me to. Deforestation is reserved for the state owned logging industry, so they can send those ugly untidy old growth forests overseas to be converted into pristine toilet paper.

I don't think I can carve a pressure cooker.

Would it help if I go down the paddock and chop down an old gum tree, to carve my new porridge bowl?

Did the moderator delete the comma after 'Harley' ?

It aint all bad down here. Note that we have a glut on the red wine market.

Gave you a sad emoticon because.... Now you are using fund manager skills to try to beat the professional gambling industry at it's own game. Tis high time you moved to a more relaxed life in the antipodese.

I'm not saying everything social media is bad. But it generally is at best a mixed bag.

The dog that adopts you is the one that will make life better.

The world of sushul medua doesn't tell you jack shit anything about a person's ethics. Or whether they are worth waking up next to, without knawing your arm off to prevent waking them up.

Well doesn't that help you to narrow the field a fair bit?

Some women are more honest than others.

I find it odd when I see a fast sunset on an American TV programme. The sun slants the wrong way down to the horizon. Our gliding club once had a very experienced pilot come back from europe and unwittingly popped out of the last thermal-of-the-day the wrong way (didn't check his compass), flew away from the strip before realising his mistake. Outlanded. At the time I didn't understand how that happened. Now I do.

Well, so far, the thread has highlighted one of the biggest systemic problems with DV. Unless you know personally how soul destroying a toxic relationship can be, there is no way to begin to understand that DV is the 'visible' tip of a mutually painful progressivly destructive relationship spiral. Jerry, your experience with youe ex girlfriend would be a simple starting pount of one type of a dangerous relationship. if I develop the progression, you might begin to see the potential long term pattern. DV is not the result of bad men who always go around hitting and killing women, except cases of extreme psychopathy. It is mor likely a outcome of long term psychological abuse. And it might be the female or the male that causes the physical harm in the end. It might also be either party that runs the mental abuse.