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I'm just going to live with the Americanization of English. It's gone too far to stop when you hear ABC announcers saying "Skedule" instead of schedule. And in what way are frites different from chips? They are both pretty bad for you as Nev says.

with in 150 kl of me there is over 3000 thousand hectares of proposed solar set up mostly good grazing or irrigatable land that will be barrenwho is the manufacture of the turbines and where are they made

 

at moment demand for power vic 5076 wind and other 30

 

just as well ford holden Alcoa steele mills closed down cause they would have to work every third day neil

Every third day? Day 1 the power will come from Sale, day 2 from Geelong and day 3 from Mildura and if it gets a bit hairy from the Snowy - you never walk alone.

The best simile to describe the English language is that it soaks up foreign vocabulary like a sponge soaks up water.

I wonder how much radioactive material would leach into aquifers if the material was placed in the old underground coal mines around Sydney.

I bet that there has never been a study to find out how much change to background radioactivity comes you get if you bury radioactive waste.

The good "Toongabbie Spares" Shop was shut & padlocked by the Terror-office, after they refused to leave their creditors out of pocket, instead of paying their provisional tax on time, they had asked for a seven day extention, The Terror-ist locked it up after midnight.spacesailor

Spacesailor, be very careful if you ever bring anything back. I know a guy who went to jail for bringing back some overseas money and not giving the taxman his cut. In Bathurst jail he was deprived of his prescription drugs for a kidney condition.The fact that no Australian infrastructure was used to earn that money and it was brought back to provide employment here in Australia cut no ice. The first judge said that this was not a jailing offence, but the taxman appealed the community service sentence. The victim was already bankrupted and he couldn't defend the appeal and went to jail for 18 months.

Yep space, they can do things "legally' which if anybody else did then it would be criminal. As I said, their basic job is demanding money with menaces. Dutch thinks this is unfair criticism, while I say its just an honest description of what they do. Why else would anybody send them their money? In many cases, they go broke from the tax demands.I say, blame your local MP, regardless of the party.

To begin, I am NOT asserting that our Tax Office is a terrorist organization. But here's what has got me thinking... This couple at our gym had a message on their phone to ring the tax office at the number provided. When they rang, they were told that an audit of their returns showed they owed $1400 and they had better send the money forthwith and that in the meantime the police had their names on an arrest list.

They were seriously distressed, but having a wider group to speak to, they found out ( before sending the money) that it was a scam and nothing to do with the real tax office or the real police.

 

But here's what I reckon... this scam has its impact because the population is actually afraid of the tax office.

 

I don't think they should live in this fear.

That's what the powers that be want. Introducing a 30kph limit in Melbourne(if you can get up to that speed), and banning cars altogether from a large portion of the CBD. Pedestrians and cyclists rule. Won't be the world's most livable city for much longer.

The car probably tells the mechanic if condition 1 or 2 is imminent, when they hook it up via USB.

We bought a 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe last year, my mechanic tells me they need servicing at maximum 7,500km intervals, which was a bit of a shock to me. And that doesn't even turn the engine off at the lights.

This was a favouriite poem of my Father, Walter Henry Perry He was a self made engineering industrialst . And a staunch Conservative.

The Stranger within my gate,

 

He may be true or kind,

 

But he does not talk my talk--

 

I cannot feel his mind.

 

I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,

 

But not the soul behind.

 

The men of my own stock,

 

They may do ill or well,

 

But they tell the lies I am wanted to,

 

They are used to the lies I tell;

 

And we do not need interpreters

 

When we go to buy or sell.

 

The Stranger within my gates,

 

He may be evil or good,

 

But I cannot tell what powers control--

 

What reasons sway his mood;

 

Nor when the Gods of his far-off land

 

Shall repossess his blood.

 

The men of my own stock,

 

Bitter bad they may be,

 

But, at least, they hear the things I hear,

 

And see the things I see;

 

And whatever I think of them and their likes

 

They think of the likes of me.

 

This was my father's belief

 

And this is also mine:

 

Let the corn be all one sheaf--

 

And the grapes be all one vine,

 

Ere our children's teeth are set on edge

 

By bitter bread and wine.

 

The poetic amongst you will recognise the author as Rudyard Kiplng. . . .

Octave, perhaps I should have said 'legislators and other rule makers'.Although the op was quoting an advisory document, I would expect it to probably become the equivalent to a condition of employment.

 

In my last employment we had similar types of 'advisory' instructions. For instance they used the anti-discrimination and sexual discrimination LAWS to dismiss an employee who used offensive language in a location where a female overheard him. He was not aware of her presence. She was out of sight but not out of earshot. The guideline was broken, and an unforeseen 'offense' had occurred. She chose to be offended by an eavesdropped conversation that did not involve her.

 

So a lot seems to depend upon the interpretation and application of existing laws that restrict speech and behaviour.

Hi Phil,I have almost no free time in the next 24 houirs but I wanted to answer this so if it seems terse it is only lack of time.

 

In the story, it says that qantas is ADVISING to use certain language but in this post, you refer to it as a DIRECTIVE. It seems reasonable to me to suggest better ways of addressing their customers I am assuming it is not a sacking offense not to. Also these things get exagerated. It is not necesaarily that people will be angry and offended but rather will feel like they have received better service

 

Example. As you may know 9i am a music teacher. Recently I took on a new student, a man in his early 60s. He is from overseas and is only here for 3 months. He is a great guy and I really like teaching him. Whils making small talk I enquired as to whether traveling alone. I guess a few years ago I might have said "are you travelling with your wife"? (he was wearing a wedding ring) But, being good at my job I asked if he was travelling with his partner, turns out he has a sa,me sex partner. Now had I said wife I can garauntee that he would not of being offended or complained about me but it may have been slightly uncomfortable for him and pretty embarrasing for me too. If I was in charge of employing other teachers I would "ADVISE' them to use language that will make the customer feel at ease. I feel I dealt with this customer in a rational and caring way, this is why I keep my customers

 

I don't believe this is some kiind cultural war it is just bussiness.

 

OK got to go, wish I could spell and grammar check, also have more points to make but no time

You have to take some German stuff with a grain of salt. Remember, they did say to the polish people, "we're here to help", in 1939. Some of modern neo-nazi stuff is even more phony.

The trouble with big grids Col is that they empower the forces who rip off the average consumer to deliver obscene money and perks to those who control the big grids.

I'd like to see some of them have a crack at Goonoo Goonoo. One of the most commonly mispronounced towns in Victoria is Warrnambool. Usually mis-pronounced Warner-Bull

When more people fall off the grid it raises the price for the rest. Less customers for same fixed costs mean higher price per customer.

I think we're arguing about 2 different things. To me the current definition of a "grid" is the entire power network - large power stations & associated hardware with millions of users, joined up by thousands of kilometres of power lines.

 

I like the idea of mini-grids like the one they're planning in SA. 50,000 homes which are all relatively close to each other, powered by solar on every roof with batteries on every house. I'm assuming some sort of smart tech will balance out the usage - houses not using as much power will export more to the rest of the grid while those using more will draw more. Power price is about 30% less than current (pardon the pun) which will provide a return on investment for the capital outlay and (again I'm assuming) maintenance for the system.

 

The advantage of having many isolated systems, as opposed to an interconnected grid, is that you don't have transmission losses where the lines go hundreds of kilometres to a few users, which despite them costing many times the average, still pay the same for their power. Also you don't have failures like the recent one in SA where power for the whole state goes out for 4 or 5 days.

 

As has been stated we're the sunniest continent on Earth. How bloody silly are we if we can't use this free ener

Who knows. They get uptight about some things but let others go through to the keeper. I'm a bit of a greeny myself, but 1/2 of something is better than the lot of nothing but concepts.. If we turn the whole place to $#!t, we will ALL be standing in it, with standing room only. Nev

Good stuff there kg but wrong about costs of nuclear..The cost of pumped hydro is very high. Nuclear ( especially the coming hybrid fission/fusion stuff ) will be much cheaper, even with the artificial cost extras added.

There was the case of a hospital reusing breathing tubes with inadequate sterilisation. Who should bring the hospital into line - the insurance company who will make a decision on economics, the hospital who will make a decision based on PR or the government bused on their responsibility to the community? Just a thought.

nev that's what they were doing while people were on the operating table and you need a piece paper that you are qualified to do that job of checking the back up power neil

And therein lies the problem... I have a Volvo V50 which I used for my commute between Somerset and London. As you know, modern cars have all sorts of engine management and safety control systems. The common problem is if the mass airflow fliter gets bunged up, the car just stops. I was driving along the motorway back home and while the car was happily trundling along at nighr and a "tad over" 70mph, the on-board computer decides to shut down the engine. Car starts decellerating and cars behind are coming up quicker than anyone is comfortable. After hte obligatory "WTF?", I indicated and started moving to the left lane. I decided to keep rolling while I worked out what was happening (left lane is for slower traffic).. Nothing on the text display to show any fault, what sparese gauges I have read normal (have fuel, temps OK).. Could be a fuel block, so while rolling, switch off and switch back on again and with bit of relief, I am on my way again (with about 100 miles to go). Must have repeated the process maybe 10 times. To the garage with an imemdiately suspected mass air flow filter. Nope - it is fine. Took a bit of elimination but it seems that if the fuel pressure drops slightly for more than a few seconds, the programmer (and obviosuly regulators) thought what a good idea to just stop the engine without any notification or the fact that sufficeint fuel was still being delivered to carry on comfortably. There are many other "design features" that make me worried about totally autonomous vehicles with no override.

I think wihen these autonomous systems get themselves in a situation where they think there is something wrong, they should do the same as an ab initio student with an instructor: "Your vehicle" and let the driver take charge. Of course, that is simpler said than done given the time for the driver to wake up to the issue.

Still can't see the point of "driver-less cars", I f a person doesn't want to drive, jump on the bus, & relax.Hate to see a car diving along a road that's been "realigned" like the Michael highway, on the way to Narromine, (from Sydney).

 

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