nomadpete

HE won't be pleased. I expect to hear more calls to subpoena/jail/sack/impeach a few rogue (disobedient but ethical) judges.

The needle is stuck. You should apply to the government for a humidity grant. We have had Relative Humidity around 80% for days now, and it's still drizzling. But that's normal around here.

Export them to arab countries... or Guantanamo, I say. They are illegal aliens

Poor Krys (THE croc) was shot dead by Krystina Powlowski, an otherwise nice looking young lady. Krys found fame as 'One Shot'. The petite 5'4'' crocodile hunter killed up to 10,000 reptiles over a 15-year hunting career - all while wearing long red nails. Legend had it the mother-of-three only missed three shots in her lifetime. She was also able to skin a croc faster than anyone at the time. Which shows you can't judge a book by it's cover.

Aaaah well that's different. If we get to choose, I can think of a couple that would greatly benefit humanity by swimming with the crocodiles.

I believe a big motivation to cull crocs would be safety of humans at our famous Australian beaches. It has taken quite a lot of years for saltwater croc population to recover from the 70's. Now the crocs have been extending their territory further and further down the east coast, it is just a matter of time before we start losing humans to crocs. Bear in mind, crocs can live a long time. And they keep growing throughout their lives. Soon, some management will have to be implemented. Just think how popular something like Kris, the 8.5mtr Normanton croc, would be if he appears at tourist filled beach!

That's what Noah said.

Shirly you mean the top structure that is placing orders for these devices?

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.