kgwilson

Presumably they are Russians and Russian sympathisers living in Australia. How the hell does a Russian fight for freedom by invading the neighbouring country. I think I'll wander next door and take over the house citing i am doing it for freedom. That'll work, Not.

The first thing I noticed were the old AKs with timber stocks. It looks like they have raided a WW2 museum.

Another crikey, that is only 0.07mm per metre fall overall. It is amazing it even flows at all. The minimum fall when putting in a drain is supposed to be 1% or 10mm per metre.

I was astounded at the level of corruption in Australia when I first arrived here. NZ used to be the least corrupt country in the world. Now that place seems to have slipped since the labour government has a large majority & does not have to rely on partners to govern. Transparency international which publishes the ratings still have Denmark, Finland & NZ as 1st equal in the least corrupt countries in 2021. Australia is slipping in the rankings and is now at No 18. The US of A is languishing at No 27 the same spot as Chile. Russia is ranked at 136 out of 180 countries. https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021

You would think he would learn from history. Stalin did the same when he purged the military and installed political hacks with no knowledge or experience of such things and it took 2-3 years to find some military chiefs by which time they'd lost several million people. At that time it was the full Soviet Union & they had overwhelming weight of numbers and their armaments factories were well beyond the German reach. Not so this time & they are running out of equipment, ammunition and willing canon fodder.

Vic is like it was here in the NE corner of NSW in March & La Nina is back. We have been spared the early onslaught & the aerodrome is almost dried out since those floods. I went flying today, beautiful weather. It looks like another system is due to hit next week but now everything is saturated in many areas out West and South Summer looks like being a washout

In Western movies a cowboy (the star) can hit a man between the eyes riding a horse flat out at 300 metres with a Colt 45. The Russians need to send their best troops to Hollywood & then redeploy them to the Ukraine front line with Colt 45s. The Ukrainians would all die from laughing too hard.😁

I am sure that Ukraine would have anticipated the missile attack on civilian targets after the humiliating bridge strike. This is pure Putin & his regimes complete disregard for innocent people and is just an extension on what they have been doing since the beginning. He know he can never win this war but is determined to destroy everything and anything to keep his tenuous position & bolster is waning support at every opportunity. Now Russia has used a lot more of it's short supply of missiles & more than half of them didn't make it to the target, none of which were military targets. History has shown that targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure does nothing to weaken your adversary. What it does is harden their resolve as occurred in Britain during the Blitz and also in Germany during the bombings from 1942-45. Most German civilians were collateral damage except for the raids on Hamburg & Dresden.

Crimea is likely to stay Russian unless there is a regime change and the Nuclear threat disappears. Nato could totally destroy the Russian military with a planned offensive in a very short time. It has overwhelming numbers, modern equipment, strategic & logistics plans that have been well tested and there is little corruption. Nothing will change unless Putin and his henchmen are eventually deposed and a new democratic regime arises from the ashes. Given Russias history of autocracy, violence and corruption that is a super long bow.

There is still a lot of anti EV sentiment out there probably from those with an inferiority complex when their expensive ICE car can easily be outperformed by most ordinary EVs. The statistics do not back up the claims of EVs being more prone to catching fire that ICE cars. The opposite is in fact true. Hybrids are far more prone than pure EVs & that is generally because they have an ICE engine that starts & stops at random & there is plenty of very volatile fuel there to burn. https://belux.edmo.eu/fact-check-do-electric-cars-catch-fire-more-often-than-combustion-engine-cars/

Drizabone? Nah use that when its wet. Drizanuns err Habit? Nah same use. 2019 would have been the year for that expression.

I read recently that there is no law in the USA to prevent trump running for President even if he is in jail. I guess that the founding fathers never thought that this would ever be a possibility so didn't put it in the constitution. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-14/the-legally-crazy-tactics-donald-trump-is-taking-to-avoid-charge/101420494

There has never been street delivery in out town even though we are only 30km from Coffs harbour so everyone has to collect mail from the post office or have a PO box. I have a PO box & they provide it at a bit of a discount, I imagine because they don't have to pay Posties.

There is also more sunshine during the day than at night. As for grazing animals and growing crops on a solar farm, studies to date have shown little reduction of animal density but a lot of benefits such as keeping the grass and weed growth down so as not to obscure the panels, provide shade for the animals and in a study near Parkes the sheep have produced much improve wool quality. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-05-30/solar-farm-grazing-sheep-agriculture-renewable-energy-review/101097364#:~:text=Solar farm trial shows improved fleece on merino sheep grazed under panels,-ABC Rural&text=Sheep grazing under solar panels,projects began%2C according to growers.

The Moriori did develop a pacifist culture based on the teachings of one of their leaders in the 16th century which made them easy prey for the war mongering Taranaki Maori who tried to exterminate them during the Musket wars of the early 19th century. They failed to wipe them out though & apparently some 700 or so people identify as Moriori most of which do not live on the Chatham Islands. The "Gentle Giants" nomenclature is a mythical romantic statement probably borne out of the attempted genocide by the Taranaki Maori as they offered little resistance.

The Moriori were just Maoris ie Polynesians who settled on the Chatham islands and developed their own culture and language over several centuries. They arrive somewhere between 1000 & 1400 AD. The Maoris nearly wiped them out in the 1800s but they still survive. There are lots of myths about them. None are true.

Only Trump is a stupid as Putin. Boris was a buffoon but not an absolute fool.

It looks more like they dropped off the truck purposely & then went on to take out the ambushers while the rest of the convoy of trucks kept going to the next engagement.

Putins latest speech has got him digging the hole even deeper and the last possible exit is all but closed now. Like all dictators he has taken the bait and is now trapped. He is now apparently giving direct orders to his military commanders and personally rejecting requests from those in the Kherson area for strategic retreat. Ukraine has surrounded the city of Lyman & cut off up to 8000 Russians in the last day or so. They seem to be slowly working towards retaking Sievierodonetsk and cutting more Russian supply lines. While Russia appears to have good defensive lines around Kherson their supply lines rely on only a couple of damaged bridges so if Ukraine was to mount a major offensive here (unlikely as they don't have the numbers) then about 30,000 Russians may be caught out. Putin is now as irrational as Hitler was when he ordered his Generals on the Eastern front beginning with Stalingrad to wage losing battles when they should have withdrawn.

Option c, but it could also have been either b or a.

Crikey soon someone will find an image of jesus on a piece of toast. Aw hang on already done.

Neighbourhood batteries are no different to a power company that has shareholders. Each household would have a shareholding in the system which is completely automatic. If existing infrastructure like poles and wires are used the battery owner would pay for its use. Each household contributor would be paid for the energy they supply just like the feed in tariff now and pay for the power used when they draw from the battery. The software will keep a tally and at the end of say a month you will either get a credit or a debit on your account. A limit would be set for both credits and debits so that you would either get payment into your bank account once the credit threshold had been reached or conversely a bill. Joining or leaving the scheme would most likely be confined to houses within a certain geographical area to minimise transmission loss and infrastructure charges.

V2L or Vehicle to Load is only the basic functionality and V2G (vehicle to grid) & V2H (vehicle to home) are the newest and as yet 2 to 3 years away from commercial availability. The cost to set up your house to allow V2L to power various items could be quite substantial but is probably worth it long term. I wouldn't go to the extent of installing a 10 to 15 kw household battery at a cost of 10-15k when I have one on wheels in the garage 4 to 10 times as big. This gives a good explanation of the technology. https://zecar.com/post/watt-is-bidirectional-charging-v2g-v2h-v2l#When will Bidirectional Charging be Available? The prices this bloke is quoting are nothing like what I pay so the savings will be completely different for everyone depending on the deal they have with their electricity retailer. Wholesale electricity in Australia increased by 300% in the June quarter compared to last year. This is being passed on to consumers now. My off peak was 23.4 cents/kwh & on 1 July increased to 32.8 cents/kwh. Peak went from 37.8 cents/kwh to 52.9 cents/kwh. The deal I have with my retailer is 23% discount on these prices. He didn't mention that there is also a shoulder tarriff which is most of the day & the grid is nominally 230 volts not 240 volts. He also assumes everyone in the street is using the same supplier as him. Also the number of people who have solar panels in Australia is the highest %age in the world so I'd be charging my car during the day off the roof & only at night if I needed to top the battery up for a long trip the following day.

They have increased the penalties for desertion etc. What a great way to motivate troops. There will be plenty of so called reservists pretty keen on disappearing so they don't become canon fodder. The "I'm not bluffing" bluff is the beginning of his desperation. I'd say there are plots for removal being worked on right now. The referenda are a joke to everyone except Putin & his henchmen and his mates are starting to openly criticise his increasing desperate measures. The only card left is the nuclear one so I hope that those who are actually in charge of the big red button stop if he ever says go.

That's good. You won't have to worry about the driving age being raised for 3 years.😁