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.

54 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Hmm.. I am thinking of changing my email address. I have been with yahoo for years - long before gmail and others were a twinkle in their creators' eyes. I remember people suggesting I should change because gmail has released calendars (been using then in yahoo for ages), a messaging app (yep, yahoo had that, too), and many more features where gmail seemed ot be copying yahoo. It did go through a rough patch for aboput 6 months after an ownership change where it wasn't sending or receving email reliably and it did start to fall behind on the services offered - after all, they decided to become a content business and stop their search engine, which although older than Google, wasn't quite as good as Googles. They had fallen behind what Google offered.

 

But, I persevered as it is a faff to change primary email addresses. But now, I really am tiring of yahoo's email, because, it no longer filters spam and scams like it used to.. and it is not entirely sophisticaed email spoofing/phishing that is getting through. I have had emails from amazon.uk where if I hover over the from address field, it is clearly a naff email. Screwfix is a hardware supplier I buy a lot of stiff from and I have been receiiving scam emails from those so badly purporting to be them, that I can hardly make out it is supposed ot be from them. Yet, they appear in my inbox and not my spam box.  I like yahoo normally.. Their finance content is very good (they have an API that allows me to programatically get prices and volumes to determine my other "betting" addiction).  They no longer have all the other apps they used to, and they have even got rid of their calendar.. but their email was fine.

 

But, it is time to say see you later...

 

But, I am dreading the experience.. as @willedoo has had above. I have been searching for some utility to make it esasier even if I have to pay.. but not yet... I'll keep you posted.

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!

3 hours ago, red750 said:

Powerball jackpotted last night. $100,000,000 next Thursday.

 

 

 

 

 

Taxes for people who cannot do maths.

And wishful thinking.

11 hours ago, facthunter said:

Who "Works" in the Public Service?   Nev

Not Donny, I'd say.

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3 hours ago, old man emu said:

One can only say that their efforts do add to the recycling of the First World's waste. However, the energy inputs and pollutant outputs make it questionable if the efforts are of benefit to all of humanity.

 

And next time you dump a computer or other electronic device, think of this:

 

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.

3 hours ago, old man emu said:

One can only say that their efforts do add to the recycling of the First World's waste. However, the energy inputs and pollutant outputs make it questionable if the efforts are of benefit to all of humanity.

 

And next time you dump a computer or other electronic device, think of this:

 

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.

35 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Same.. Was that me you observed?

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

5 minutes ago, old man emu said:

This is what you get when the value of human life is so low.

Desperation and hunger does this

31 minutes ago, facthunter said:

You're showing your ignorance, chaps. I while back I did say I'd keep you informed.   Nev

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)

20 minutes ago, old man emu said:

Have you got the correct permit from your local Council and the EPA to undertake  such rampant deforestation?

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?

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

That's a Harley Knucklehead.   Nev

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.

1 minute ago, spenaroo said:

Oh yeah,

you have no idea how scary some of these can be....

 

cant share here as too public, but often screenshot the most shocking and share in a chat group with friends.

its pretty unbelievable.

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

Some women are more honest than others.

41 minutes ago, spenaroo said:

there is a lot of women who have no issue with being bold and to the point

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.