nomadpete

Me too. I used to wait until mum went out, then borrow her antique engraved brass bowl to melt down scrap lead on the kitchen stove. I cast little ingots in old matchboxes. Then later I'd take them down to the scrappy to boost my pocket money. My issue is when I ask a doctor what long term impacts it might have. Lead is deposited in bones. Doctors don't know enough to say.

Although we have drifted away from Israel, the Pig Iron Bob parallel is relevant. I found this ABC opinion piece rather interesting. It relates the Pig Iron Bob event, to a China issue where we are supplying iron ore to China. Also, the expectation that once China gets its new massive African steel industry functioning, we can expect our Iron export income to collapse. In a very few years time. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-15/australian-iron-ore-could-save-taiwan-beijing-verrender/101332312

So are you suggesting that adding to the violence in a distant part of the world (by selling military hardware which has no humanitarian use) is OK, so long as someone is getting rich from it in our country? Axiom: Ethics ends at the hip pocket.

Brothers-in-arms..... Dire Straits.

I am still puzzled by the news that Australia authorised 52 military shipments to Israel this year. Also, I previously confused the two Shoebridge people. I previously posted a Aljazeera piece written by Michael Shoebridge. As it happens, it was Greens senator David Shoebridge who got an admission by Defence about arms to Israel. Brothers-in-arms ?

I bought my Navara with dealer fitted tray back. The tray is OK. But the lights were wired with a adaptor cable between the Nissan socket and the plights plug. Neither end of the adaptor was waterproof. Ultimately the plugs corroded (no surprise) and when I fitted the LED lights, I cut off the old connectors and replaced the plug/socket with a waterproof pair. As long as your cheap LED lights are ADR approved (otherwise you risk unroadworthy and voided insurance), and bright enough, and you don't mind replacing them when they fail, and you double your order when you buy, they are still cheaper than Narva.

Peacefully good, absolutely. Keeping her kids in check, I'm not so sure. And her grandkids? No wonder her hair went grey.

Yes, the Narva part is 'plug-n-play'. These are not suitable . I used two 18 ohm 5 watt resistors for each flasher circuit. The pic shows them fitted to a trailer plug, which I used to rest the success. Regards the wattage at 14v, these resistors combined will dissipate 21 watts (same as the incandescent lamp the LEDs replaced). At a duty cycle of 50%, due to flashing, they average 10.5 watts, which is acceptable. They don't get very warm. PS It does work. You could use 2 x 22 ohm resistors in parallel (or a single 10 ohm 10 watt resistor, or a flasher bulb in a box) but I have not proven that. I do know that a single 15 ohm resistor does not consume sufficient power to restore my standard flasher rate.

All thought of a "final solution" is total fallacy. Violence breeds hate and divides communities. Even uninvolved communities start taking sides. And then it is all doomed to repeat itself.

This is what three REAL monarchs look like.

My experience has not been good with Chinese (locally sourced) lights. Poor reliability - LEDs dropping out, or dim. Use them on my trailers because they are still more reliable than dreaded festoon bulbs. I now have Narva on my Ute, but bought them off gumtree for $40. Resistors. Being part Welsh, I refuse to pay extortion for resistance. I went down to Jaycar and bought four five watt ceramic resistors. They didn't have ten watt ones so 2 of these in parallel go across each blinker feed. However, the pigtails are too fragile to leave exposed to weather, so they are installed someplace inside the body. And put in a cheap plastic box (also from Jaycar).

Spacey are you the one to blame for wearing out all those unfortunate monarchs?

Please please, Stop pickin on poor old trumpet. After all, he's just another grumpy old, bitter and opinionated old bloke. And we'd probably enjoy bantering with him on our forum anyway.

Making money from selling weapons might be influencing our local politics. Albanese is soft talking rather than condemning the mass killing of innocents. Quoting from Aljazeera:- "What is known is that Australia has issued 350 defence export permits to Israel since 2017, including 52 this year alone, according to the Australian Department of Defence. That information was only made publicly available after direct questions from Shoebridge during Senate hearings this year." Darn greenies! Are they against everyting profitable? We have already taken sides by selling arms to one side of the war.

There's nothing new under the sun..... Melbourne vs. Sydney " Melbourne. -- Hundreds of thousands of people fell down on their knees expecting the end of the world when a ray of sun broke through the clouds for the first time in 50 years..." (Kings Cross Whisper, Issue No. 97)

Random thoughts....... Anybody remember the Kings Cross Whisper? Australia's purchase of the troubled F-111 jet fighter "All problems with the controversial F-111 aircraft have been solved except one... The only minor problem remaining was to get the aircraft off the ground." (Kings Cross Whisper, Issue No. 118)

Has the lad done any work experience? At that age, his interests are what will motivate him in whatever path he takes, and therefore give him greatest chance of doing well at it. As far as employability goes, trades are in great demand. Last stepson did plumbing, got instantly employed, now self employed mostly doing commercial work, and is making inroads on his mortgage. Stepdaughter di degree in soil hydraulics and environmental science. Got a well paid job straight out of uni. They did what worked for them, even though at first they had misgivings and almost threw in the towel. One of Nev's favourite sayings.... "You make your own luck". So I can't help you with this one, OME.

My egg supplier is strictly cash only. They don't put EFT POS machines on roadside honesty boxes...... Yet

Most of those seem to be simple autocorrect bloopers. Or maybe voice-to-text bloopers. Or Jerry has been lending his keyboard out.

And here I was, thinking that even natures own nitric acid was bad for living things.

Alert! I am not saying that our entire digital world is hanging by a fraying thread. I am suggesting that there are a couple of unlikely digital world failure events that could, in the worst case, paralyse our economy. And I cannot see a disaster management plan to deal with it, otherwise the Optus outage would have been mitigated promptly. Cash as a fallback would be nice, but many businesses already prefer to close the door snd go home if the EFT system goes down.

Remember also a secondary effect - most retail businesses use the POS input for stock control. Automating reordering, and running their BAS for GST, etc. That would be lost. So an prolonged loss of data will take a lot of manual typing up of the non electronic stock movement, money movement, accounting. That assumes they wrote a paper receipt for each sale, including barcodes. A potentially big impact on a small business. Not much issue for butcher but would be for retail sellers.

More probably a careless backhoe operator pulling up a bunch of fibres somewhere down the road. Note I expect they would have several diverse service providers on different fibre, just in case there is a failure. In reality, I have seen some instances where the diverse comms routes share a common pit or even share a common duct! I know where Murphy would make the failure.

My apology, Jerry. No offence intended by the RJ45 comment. Of course most major data delivery is via fibre. But most IT people in Aus are hired under the general umbrella title of "telecommunications specialist" which is a gross misnomer. Until now I haven't met a IT specialist who had any idea what happens between one access point and another. I discovered this when I applied for telecommunications jobs and found they actually wanted IT skills.

So I keep some cash in the house in case my bank account gets hacked. So I can still buy stuff until I sort it out. But I don't fret about low probability doomsday possibilities.