nomadpete

I have one on my fire pump (shock horror). Got it back in 2013. It gets a couple of hours run each summer, and lives outside with only a bit of corrugated iron over it to keep the rain off. Which reminds me, I should change it's oil.

Hey I'm not sucked in by false news from main stream media. Nor Farcebook! My cleaning lady told me. And her uncle's mum works in Canberra. So she would know.

CORRUPTION IN AUSTRALIA? We don't have any of that in our grand country! If there was, the NACC would rout it out immediately!

Great idea for ageing incapacitated farmers that still work our farms. The all terrain mobility scooter! But probably not so popular with other shoppers in a supermarket.

Thats a valid point. But where will you dig up a strong leader that cares about the people?

I totally agree with OME's analogy. The Sourcerers Apprentice, is out of the box, indeed.

Re: The Artificial Intelligence revolution.... I am ok with the concept in general, as a tech development. It's cool and has great potential in many ways. My concern is the fact that it is already being used for the evil purpose of manipulation of the masses. And there is no way to regulate it's use. Such stuff as deepfakes and blatant political (and profitmaking commercial) misuse. This has already shown that it is a rapid, highly believable level of reaching the masses. And of interfering with their minds. It's Faster, more believable, and harder to debunk than the older methods of communication and propaganda. In our new world of dangeroudly divided societies, we really don't need this added confusion.

Merdok press serves tomake me question what is said. And causes me to spend time looking around for better information.

And still better than misinformed.

But Bruce, having a supreme being to praise, makes life so simple. Just think of how simple your life is when you accept a king or other dictator during your mortal life, and an eternal alpha male god for the remainder of eternity. A bit like staying a child forever.

So its not likely to get reruns nowadays, is it!

I have seen a vessel named "Groundsfa" It was probably named by his ex-wife.

Wasit Aunty Jack who famously said..... "Oil rip ya bluddy arm orf, and beat ya with the soggy end!" ?

No. However, in my opinion, this is often related to education. And a lack of ability to analyse events around. Western society has a poor record for inspiring its adults to yearn constructively for answers. People with stronger analytical skills seem less likely to fall through the cracks. China's approach to the issue, is government run're-education camps. Tis a thorny question.

You need six of them to pull Santas sleigh in Australia

Refer to the title of this thread..... But I LIKE Donald Trump. We'd better at least get accustomed to his face, even if we don't particularly like the man (or his backers/followers). Let's see how far US of A slides down the 'broken democracy' ladder after November?

Oh WOW. Surely this will save lives on Australian roads by diverting and waylaying convoys of countless lumbering grey nomad caravanners. (Caravans of caravans)

Although Radiata pine and palm oil industries are in need of revusion, they are not part of the power industry. That was what the statement addressed. In the case of radiata pine (a wood that I don't like anyway), it is mostly used for making things such as furniture or houses. Would you rather see timber totally harvested from old growth forests, to avoid the monoculture problem posed by plantations? And palm oil could be avoided by ethical food production. Both the above industries definitely deserve scrutiny. Generating electricity however, is intimately connected to GDP, and world economies. And that industry is presently undergoing tumultuous reinvention in attempts to reduce pollution of nany types that directly affect the wellbeing of billions of people.

The critics of baby boomers (we get blamed for most of society's ills), seem to forget that many many post ww2 families had a tough time. Nobody cam back from war without some form of ptsd. It played havoc with a whole generation of children (and their mums).

Just pointing out that plantation trees are regenerative, so at least they don't deplete a finite resource (coal) and I suspect they produce far less methane during production (mining), and less toxins during burning. As such would be a 'least bad' option. And better than the negatives of nuclear to fill the quiet times of solar/wind power.

At least the trees can grow back. Dare I use the word 'renew'? Coal mines do not.

I haven't heard of it. But cabin fever makes for desperate need to get out of the house... without freezing important body parts off. Hence midwinter parties.

Oh I forgot, Winter, Season of dancing naked around a roaring solstice fire, insanely chanting for pagan gods of fruitfullness to awaken from slumber in the apple trees, to bring forth new growth and fruit for summer harvest. (Except fot the naked bit, local Willie Smith Appleshed puts on a great midwinter party and music festival highlighted by massive bonfire) Big Willie Burns, he is about 10 metres tall. Next morning is a muddy adventure. Mobs of hungover partygoers trying to get 5000 bogged cars out of the parking paddock! A lot like Woodford Folk Festival but colder.

Ode to Seasons, by A Taswegian Oh joyous Summer sun! Her brief smiles light the dank and boggy soil, But fail to warm, each season of mist and rain And Autumn, A Season of mists and rain, Of of anoraks and woodsmoke filled valleys bereft of summer sun Then Winter, Season of mists and rain, of icy hail and frigid gale, Cloaking dank and boggy soil with crisp white blankets of frosty beauty Of Spring, Season of mists and rain. Of yearning for wintde's depressied eternal wet grey to lift, Season of hope for the warming touch of summer's warm breath

Well nobody seems to notice... Just my way of blending in....