coljones

Very encouraging news, Octave.Electric vehicles are certainly in the news, but the LNP might find it easy to exploit ignorance about their potential. Tonight's local TV news showed lots of people didn't think EVs would be viable in rural areas for decades to come. Limited range and lack of recharging stations was a common complaint.

 

Another colossal furfey: there's a shortage of qualified maintainers. Ignoring the fact that EVs are simple and likely to require little maintenance.

where is the power coming from to charge your batteries COALthat lying shorten on the cancer scheme it is all free NOW

 

you sheep better start asking your idiot leader what is the COST his con on climate change it HAS not been costed

 

about 90% or more off the power you are using tonight is from COAL

 

I am waiting for the vilification of my opinion neil

There's the flip side to suffering from alcoholism, that's tee-totalism. By choice, I didn't drink for close on thirty years, just about all through my working life. As a result, I have no social life with others. I didn't mix with colleagues after work; didn't join registered clubs; didn't go to pubs. My father-in-law enjoyed good wines. I never joined him in a sampling. Even in response to our wedding toast, I did not drink. The day I retired, I had a celebration dinner with my family, and had the first drink they had ever seen me have. It was quite a shock to them. Now I still rather drink tea or coffee for refreshment. I enjoy sipping a glass of wine after dinner, and may have a schooner if I have a meal out.

In the Anglo-Irish Australian culture declining to drink alcohol is social suicide.

Good drunks are well practised in camouflaging their addiction and intoxication. Just because they appear sober doesn't mean they are not drunk.

Here is something to mull over.

There is an interesting construction involving the verb "to go" and a subsequent action which is dependent on the doer initiating an action. This construction has two forms:

 

1. I will go and ...(do something). e.g. I will go and get a spanner.
    
   
2. I will go to ...(do something). e.g. I will go to get a spanner.
    
   

 

Is one of these correct and the other incorrect, or is there a subtle difference in the meanings, such that, in their place, both are correct?

"This aversion to paying tax? IF you go to an event, say car rally, you pay an entry fee which covers various things and that's ok,"You are Joking .

 

I'm Not paying those stupidly high fee's , if I can't sneak in I'm out of there !. LoL

 

I did think of the "Chinese dancers show" but no way could a government pensioner afford the Hundreds of dollars they want for a couple of hours entertainment.

 

NOW "woolies" are putting up the milk price, (only for their suppliers), which means lots of Pensioners will either go elsewhere, or Go without.

 

Will the government raise our pension to match Woolies increase,?. I doubt they would even think about it.

 

spacesailor

I really like my new electric bike. It cost $800 and has a 10 amp-hour battery at 36 volts. It can be ridden as a normal bike and is legal on footpaths. But when there is a headwind or an uphill bit, the electric boost is wonderful.With footpaths and bikeways and painted bits on roads, we riders are well catered for around here.( not on country roads I admit, where riding a bike puts you at the mercy of drunken lawyers in 4wd's)..

 

But in the suburbs, you don't need to mix it with cars and trucks, yet there are hardly any bike riders around.

 

Why so few? I notice that there are few pedestrians too, everybody is in a car.

WHO is this "everyone" person. Seems to be quoted often but none find him/her. It's like Nobody's perfect but he's on this site. and available... so ask him."Silent majority" don't make any noise about anything. Squeaky wheels get oil. The left wing has equal influence on an aeroplane in flight.. Solar Panels aren't a silly con. THAT'S what they are made of (one of the most common substances in the earth's crust

 

Neil is fighting a losing battle with this topic. Even the Business Council of Australia want stuff he hates.

 

Wind farms make you sick, endanger the spiflicated warbler and cause climate change, ( if they are turned up too far), and they blow powerlines over in SA. THOSE winds were not a natural climate event. They didn't happen before windfarms .. 2+2 make er something or other. Anyhow it's obvious the two are connected. It just doesn't add up if you can't see that. Blind Freddy CAN see it. It's as plain as the nose on your face

 

Coal is the answer to poverty in the developing world but will make a few millionaires a lot richer as well, (especially the generous ones who kick in for the Party) if we don't let the POOR to get solar first. ALL the talk about pollution is made up by greenies who have a vested interest in having trees to hug.THEY want Timber mills to close down, before all the forests are used up. What a waste.!.

 

Another thing.... Queensland has a great future as the landfill capital of the world. All the big coal mine holes are potential GOLD mines really, Like they will make GOLD (money) get it? if you have eyes to see.. We need as many big holes as possible for the future disposal of the stuff from Bunnings, plus, 3 year old cars, birthday presents for last year. PLASTIC..bags. Hospital waste. etc. You don't want it down the end of your street, do you? (By the way the last question is NOT in the exam . It is too contentious and divisive, I am advised. Nev

well o k just goes to show there is two sides to every story sorry neil

We are looking at the introduction of European diseases to Aboriginals as though it was a deliberate case of biological warfare. It wasn't. Don't forget that those early European immigrants had as much knowledge of the microbial causes of disease as did the Aborigines. I'm sure that if we were time-traveled back to Sydney Cove in 1819, we'd be retching within a few minutes as we mixed with the Great Unwashed. It wasn't until the work of Pasteur in the 1850's that the germ theory of disease took over from the ancient miasma theory that disease was caused by "bad air" arising from rotting material. Vaccination for Small Pox was carried out in England from around the time of the First Fleet, but it is unlikely that the Lower Classes would have had access to it, or were convinced of its value.

The Aborigines had their own pharmacopoeia using naturally occurring plant-based chemicals. 40,000+ years of isolation didn't let them experience diseases like tuberculosis, Small Pox (and other minor poxes) and the STDs. It wasn't until 1980 that Small Pox was said to have been eradicated, but I bet it still lurks somewhere. In Australia we had a program to eradicate tuberculosis. There are around 1200 to 1300 cases of tuberculosis each year, which means we are among the lowest-risk countries in the world. People who were born and grew up in Australia are very unlikely to get TB, unless they have close contact with a sick person. The low humidity and heat of our climate help kill off the TB germ in the environment. The people most at risk of TB in Australia are those who have spent their early years of life in countries with high rates of the disease. The arrival of immigrants from those countries is the reason we can't eradicate the disease here.

List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions - Wikipedia

If China wanted to increase their per capita emissions to equal Australia or USA its total greenhouse emissions would be enormous. There is a moral obligation on the US and Australia to reign in their per capita emissions to at least that of Europe or even China.

I lived in Newcastle for a while. We once (only once) left a window open. BHP never offered to clean to house, the furniture or the washing as their compensation for the foul pollution they were dumping through the house and the rest of Newcastle..

The Republican referendum that Howard put up was destined to fail. One sticking point was that a lot of the population wanted a popularly elected leader to deliver an all powerful Trump like presidency.

Howard told us it was a minimalist proposal, ie: just scrub out GG & Queen and write in President. Unfortunately, Howard was having a bob each way. He didn't want a Republic, but if the referendum passed, he wanted to shift more power to the PM. At the time I had a copy of the constitution, so was able to cross check the proposed changes that they mailed out. On a few of them, the wording Governor General was replaced with Prime Minister, not President as we were told.

 

Probably the worst one was the power of the Prime Minister to sack the President. He could do this without providing reason to Parliament, who had a set time in which to approve or not approve the PM's call. But here's the kicker: even if the Parliament didn't ratify the President's sacking, the Prime Minister was under no legal requirement to reinstate the sacked President. In other words, the PM could unilaterally get rid of any President without providing reason. Howard was a tricky little chap.

 

That's not compatible with a popularly elected President, but the problem with popular election is that the President then has a political mandate and we're in that US style of semi dictatorship posing as democracy. It's quite interesting looking at polls taken among young people about democracy. I think it's getting towards a majority of them think we don't need democracy.

I was told "all prices have to be in euro's"Never saw ONE petrol pump with "pounds & gallons", including Wales, over the tree months I was having a look-a-round !. (lots with bank-card slots)

 

Never got a pound-note out of my bank account while there, and don't know any-one still there getting paid in P, S, & new pence.

 

Still they (bureaucrats) can have all the fuel pumps thrown out as quick as London can get every-one into Electric cars.

 

spacesailor

Here are our last Two Leaders. . .

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Theresa May was Home Secretary for 7 years. . .she never stemmed Unlimited Immigration, in fact she allowed it to increase exponentially. NO very small country can absorb so many people of a Totally Different mindset in such a short time and expect them to even Partially Integrate. . .It just Isn't feasible.

 

You say that you feel Sorry for her ? ? ? I don't. She is most obviously out of her depth and I can only deduce that she is working to a completely different agenda, to which the British people voted, With Vastly different values and instructions. In complete opposition to what she promised to deliver.

 

Watch the media in the next few days to see if her Total Surrender to the Lunatics in the EU will get past the Parliamentary vote.

 

I for one will feel a little sorry for her of she succeeds in making the UK a Vassal State. . .for if she does, she is Finished, along with her Conservative ( sic ) Party for a generation, And will herald a Labour Government, which will put us all bak to the Commuinst days

 

How this once sensible country has fallen is amazing to me. .. . .I wonder what the WW1 dead would have thought. . . .

The usual last retreat is "Well, I'll be dead by the time that happens". Don't a lot of them have Kids? I've even heard bringing THAT up is emotional blackmail. There's thousands still dieing NOW in coalmines and plenty outside of them die of other air pollution effects. One of MY ancestors died of silicosis, SLOWLY from the effects of coalmining in Newcastle. The truth is "There's money in coal so you all can go see a taxidermist, because we want to keep making money". Those coal seams are sedimentary and as well as CARBON which forms CO2 which makes the earth warmer and the Oceans ACIDIC there are heavy metals and other toxic substances released when it's combusted. There's mountains of sulphur produced from refining OIL Though "Bunker fuel" has about 7% sulphur still in it and if you live in Mosman you're copping that from cruise ships parked there burning it for the generators etc. It only forms sulphuric acid so don't worry. It brings in income for somebody. and that makes it OK. Nev

Close Jerry, but no cigar. The Sunshine Coast Airport is several k's north of there, across the river. Used to be called Maroochy Airport or Maroochydore Airport.

I've got a vague memory of a grass strip being out the back of Mooloolabah many years ago, but if it was there, it would be all houses now.

One is one too many. People are genuinely scared. But not going out at night means the thugs win. Many people I know are fed up with the lenient treatment being handed out. Slap on the wrist with a wet lettuce leaf. Social media is full of complaints. Many shop keepers are giving up and getting out after being robbed 3 or 4 times, often by the same gangs. And how many of those caught plead "I have a mental illness."?

I was listening to Triple-M this morning (Aussie time; this Sunday evening on my drive into London - UK time) and apart from the well-composed assesment of @octave, many listeners who were long-lifetime LNP voters called in and explained that they had changed for an additional two reasons than those above:1) Andrews seems to do what he says he will do... and is tendering today for some ring road linkk..

 

2) They were sick of the liberal party being essentially a Sydney run party and taking a Sydney attitude to everything.. They were miles out of step with Victoria and people were saying they didn't want the draconian laws introduced in Sydney re pubs etc (I am not sure what they are) as well as all the other stuff that seems to have at least throttled Sydney a little over the years.. I may have that out of context... but it was an interesting viewpoint.

The NSW issue is an attempt to wind back some of the excesses of the Bob Carr Labor Party which insisted that the local pub should have 24 hour trading and become a casino - without consideration of or agreement by the nearby residents - vomit on your street smash, up your car, scream your booze fuelled demons to the moon at 4am - sure, why not. The nanny staters in NSW want some of this rubbish rolled back.

The Liberal Party is NSW run? They have to be joking, the liberal party seems to be run by right wing idealogues and nutters everywhere other than NSW (we do however have that cuddly Tony Abbott)

Judgement in favour of the Defendant. Case dismissed.

You are partially correct. Both the 2nd Person singular and 2nd Person plural forms in the past tense of the verb to be are "you were". The 1st Person singular past tense form is "I was". So the use of "I were" is a grammatical inexactitude.

MEDIA RELEASE ...

OPERATION - TIN PAN ALLEY

 

The Commissioner for Grammar has approved Operation - 'Tin Pan Alley". Grammar Police have been tasked with exposing grammatical errors contained within the lyrics of popular songs. Intelligence gathered so far indicates that these errors are manufactured in the United States and imported to Australia concealed in physical and digital formats. The errors are then supplied to the public by radio broadcasters and pushers operating from premises in regional shopping centres. The Public is asked to support this important operation by contacting Grammar Police on 1300- ERRORS when such grammatical errors are discovered. The Public is warned not to approach the perpetrators of these errors.

 

Errors so far exposed include:

 

"If I were a rich man" - Fiddler on the Roof. Sung by Tevye. Words by Sheldon Harnick. Plural form of the verb used instead of the singular form.

 

"I ate it up and spit it out." - 'I did it my way" Sung by Frank Sinartra. Words by Paul Anka. Present tense of the verb used instead of the past tense.

 

"If I were a carpenter" - Song title the same. Written by Tim Hardin. Plural form of the verb used instead of the singular form. Female version "If you were a carpenter" sung by Joan Baez. Same error.

Allso a Steam car has maximum torque at throttle opening, Killed off by bureaucracy, Tax by weight.Sounds like RAA, "wing load restrictions" for AUF 95-10 aircraft.

 

1930s Doble & Stanly steamers did 100 mph., mr ford,s did 40 mph down hill.

 

spacesailor

Col I'm at BNE airport awaiting a flight; I'll post a response when I get settled in NTL.

The Koran says that stuff, so yes Old K does have an authoritative source.

bruce close on two hundred years ago wind power alone was not a good idea think before you bite neil