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I saw it. Took 30 seconds to focus.

Australia has some previous form with book bans. I don't remember the exact case details as it was a few years back, but we've had books banned that are legal in every other part of the world. I also don't remember the exact state or book title but there was a case a few years ago where a book was state banned and legal to buy in every other state and territory.

I had my own domains for quite a few years via GoDaddy.com. They were good and cheap to start with but eventually their prices crept up which is understandable. I've only got one with them now which is parked up for possible future use or sale. The problem with domain names is all the basic ones are already taken. For example nomad.org is already taken. GoDaddy has a simple search function and also lists other similar available names. https://www.godaddy.com/en-au

A bit off topic, but I'm in a shared room in hospital with an ex Victorian who played AFL from the age of seven & currently coaches a local women's team. I've had some interesting conversations with him about AFL & footy in general and learned a bit about the Aussie Rules game. Our TV screens in the room are about 2 metres apart and last night at the same time he was watching an AFL match while I was watching the NRL Dolphins vs Manly.

It's like that lately at the museum I volunteer at. Most volunteers are getting on a bit. I started there in 2015 and we lost one bloke soon after, but no more until the last 18 months thereabouts where we have lost several. They are a big loss to the museum due to their past industry or service history and experience, plus all good blokes as well.

It's been said that these Russian 'Turtle' tanks are becoming more common. It severely restricts turret movement so they must be getting concerned about their tank losses.

So far I think their casualty rate is ten times the total in Afghanistan.

I was listening to Nightlife on the ABC radio and the presenter had a lengthy three way conversation with Bill Browder and Professor Paul Dibb on the state of the Ukraine/Russia war. Paul Dibb said he was expecting it to be a long war which could run for several more years. As it stands, it's over ten years since the start of the conflict in Crimea and the Donbass and more than two years since the start of the full scale invasion.

Thanks Peter, great to hear he's ok.

Still no sign of onetrack. It will be three weeks tomorrow since he was here, and almost as long since he was on the other site.

There's been a lot on the radio lately about criminalising coercive control. It would be a tricky one to legally set a line there, but in general the intention is good. I have seen it years ago in a couple of my friends who have long since divorced. Coercive control was the biggest factor in that marriage failing.

If you wind the clock back far enough a stimulant drug like methamphetamine was rare in the general recreational drug use community. In the 70's for instance, there were the pot smokers and heroin addicts in the regular use category. Back then, speed was really only prevalent among interstate truck drivers and their use was mainly limited to just taking enough to stay awake and do their job. The pot smokers were usually too stoned to be violent and the heroin addicts were only a small percentage and mainly concerned with just getting the next fix. Drinkers made up the majority in DV cases, but the grog would only be a primary cause in a smaller percentage of cases. I think the grog was more of an enabling factor in people with underlying frustration and aggression. These days the use of speed derivatives is so widespread that the numbers are showing up in DV cases just as alcohol once did and still does. I don't know enough about methamphetamines to comment on whether it can turn a normally peaceful person violent, but there are anecdotal stories of some ice addicts being violent.

All ex presidents are entitled to Secret Service protection for life. At one stage they sunsetted it to something like 10 years for all post Clinton presidents, but Obama reversed it and now they are all eligible for life long protection. If Trump did go to the big house, it would have to be in a secure section with 24 hour Secret Service oversight. Bubba would be disappointed.

It would be interesting if he was jailed to see how Secret Service protection would work in a jail environment.

I'm having a mixed degree of luck changing my email address in various accounts. I thought I'd successfully changed it over in Facebook, but not so. It's allowed me to add the new email address but won't let me delete the old one and they are still sending email notices to the old address. The problem is my internet plan has dynamic IPs, not static. Every time I connect I'm assigned a different IP. That makes Facebook think I'm logging in on different devices. For security reasons, they say they will only let me change the email address after I've logged in a few times on the same device, which is never going to happen.

The photo of Pierce Brosnan is of him in character for an upcoming sports drama. Added glasses, hair made to look thinner, different hairstyle etc.. https://people.com/pierce-brosnan-unrecognizable-playing-prince-naseem-hamed-trainer-movie-photos-8639080

One of the first things I did when I got Windows 10 was to uninstall onedrive.

Blowing smoke rings in a Bangkok bar always creates a bit of male interest.

It sounds like AFL needs a good shake up. That sort of thing in NRL would result in being sent off to the sin bin,and being put on report for the match review committee to make a penalty decision. A six week match ban possibly.

Cook was one ship with 100 men on an exploration mission with no brief to stick around, so I'd say 26th. January. That was a fleet intending to colonise. I can't see Cook as any more of an invasion than the French landing in W.A..

Pierce Brosnan.

Another option is that he's away from home somewhere and doesn't have his computer. He might be like me in that I can't log in or access this site on the mobile phone. It's the laptop or nothing. I can use the phone as a mobile hotspot to access via the laptop, but can't do it solely with the phone.

His last post on the other forum was April 14th.. I think he is normally fairly regular there as well.

I wonder what the technology is like these days for removing tattoos if they decide later they don't want them or some of them. There's a growing trend these days among young women to get small, perceivably (in their eyes) cute tattoos. The ones I'm referring to are not full inked, just fine outlines. Things like their grandmother's initials, a small cowboy boot, little stars and dots on the back of their hands and stuff like that. It's less disfiguring but some girls don't know when to stop so it can get to the point of looking like graffiti. You would think those small, fine outline scribblings would be reversible to an extent. Quite often the process of getting more and more tattoos is linked to the influence of peers and becomes a joint fashion thing. A person in a relationship with someone into tattoos can start going down the same path if their partner and a lot of their friends are getting them. I don't know how factual it is, but some say our Celtic ancestors had a lot of tattoos.

Admin would have an email contact probably. It's concerning. He's a regular on here and is usually only not heard from for a couple of days at most. It was two weeks yesterday since he's been on here, very much out of character. He was flying to Melbourne on the 7th of May I think to pick up a truck, but even if he'd brought that forward, he probably would have contacted before leaving.