Marty_d

Magnolias

Speak for yourself. The other senator is just as much an Australian as Hanson and has a right to her opinion. While her comment was a bit bolshie, that's because she's a Greens senator and probably nothing to do with her country of origin. And if you think about her words they are 100% correct, and also stand up for the original Australians. Pauline responded in your classical racist manner and deserves to lose. Maybe she should give up HER well paid position, her overseas holidays, clothes, plane and food all paid for by a billionaire buying influence, and piss off back to Ipswich.

So the Iran invasion achieved its purpose.

There was some discussion on RN's Future Tense about it today. One presenter made the point that pre-AI, hackers needed a fair amount of knowledge to do damage, and still do it at human speed. Soon there will be the ability for anyone to buy off the shelf AI hacking tools, which will work thousands of times faster, with no knowledge whatsoever.

This one's for @red750. Just watching an episode of "Around the world in 80 days" (latest series, with David Tennant). Anyway, for some context, this is PG rated and very mild. The scene is Phileas Fogg and his companions rolling up to Government House in Hong Kong in a carriage. Miss Abigail Fix exclaims "Look at the security! It's like fucking a palace!" Well that's what the subtitles said, anyway. She actually said "Buckingham palace". 😂 Made me laugh!

Or, give your kids the choice. If they want to keep the policy going, they pay the premiums.

Jerry? Is that you?

I have always considered life insurance a scam. As you say Peter, if you've been paying premiums for 45 years and you've worked out you could still save the amount of the payout in 7 years, imagine how much you would have now if you'd never paid them anything.

Yep. Glad we've got ours. Nice to drive too, although sometimes tries to be a bit smart for its own good.

Australia's 'burbs are overwhelmingly detached houses. Thousands of hectares of them. All with roofs which in many cases already have solar panels. Cheaper than nuclear or new gas or coal to fund neighbourhood batteries and more solar, and smart boxes on each property. Batteries could still be connected to wider grid for importing or exporting when demand changes.

Which is why neighbourhood batteries and a more distributed grid in general makes sense. Keep generation, storage and usage close where possible.

The classroom

They should find ya humerus somewhere between ya shoulder and elbow.

I can see customs getting a bit suss as he's shuffling his passports looking for the right one...

Can we have some video of OME leaping like a gazelle?