Happyflyer

Nope, I don't think so. I just drove over 1 km on a perfectly good road at 25 kph, not a worker in sight, then turned off onto a bumpy dirt road with no speed limit posted (100 kph). I haven't owned a gun for 30 years and don't feel the need for one. Two different things.

Australian mining company takes over third world mine and brings new OH&S standards.

You only have to look at the overkill of traffic control in Australia compared to comparable countries to see what happens when the OH&S departments get out of control. Of course OH&S is important, but in Australia, once good OHS had been achieved, the safety departments had to justify their continuing existence and expansion by more and more regulation. Unions in some industries use safety as an excuse to get what they want from the bosses and government. We are drowning ourselves in red tape, bureaucracy and OH&S and our pollies are too busy with their snouts in the trough to do anything about it. We live in a wonderful country but it's a shame we can't keep the good and free ourselves of some of what's not good.

In the 70s beards and long hair were often worn by hippies and anti Vietnam war protestors. They were not popular with the establishment.

And you could add the colonialism of the English, drawing lines on maps, creating countries, not taking into account ancient lands and religious and tribal boundaries. A recipe for instability when they were eventually kick out.

Maybe, but that's exactly what they said after WW1, the war to end all wars.

I agree that the money for the subs could probably be better spent. However, they are definitely there to sink ships from an invading country to the north. If the automatic torpedoes you suggest exist, I do not know of them. We have 20 P3 Orions that are submarine hunters. If your weapons existed why wouldn't we have them to replace the Orions. If they do exist how many would be need to surround Australia? Could they be trusted to sink only enemy subs? One British submarine sure did put the wind up the Argies in the Falklands war.

Yeah, but I didn't offer that as a link. The party in power always has to cough up the numbers every budget. The greens have never had to do that.

Thanks for that link. Unfortunately there are no numbers in in.

Yes, sorry I did miss that. Can you give me a reference so I can have a look at it please?

Yes the Greens have lots of good ideas, just no idea of how to pay for them. They are not in government and not likely to be so never need to come up with a real budget. Sarah Hanson-Young as the gate keeper?

You deserve a knighthood for your loyalty.

What, none of them were armed with knives, baseball bats, iron bars, replica guns or anything?

Unfortunately police commanders now have "safety" so imprinted on their brains they are loathed to act until something forces them to (such as a hostage being shot). This means they are almost always reactive not proactive. I'm sure it is very frustrating for the copper at the coal face. Police commanders get promoted by kissing behinds, not stuffing up and office politics, they are usually not the risk taking type. SAS may have handle this better but that won't happen anytime soon in our nanny state.

It was a joke! Maybe not to your taste but I laughed. Probably not politically correct but hey, who cares?

Agree with Dazza that it is really bad. But it was made this bad by Bush and Co invading Iraq and supporting the uprising against Assad. Saddam and Assad were/are bad but saints compared to ISIS. Concentrating all forces in Afghanistan against Bin Laden would have been much better. We cannot bring our values to the Middle East. Democracy does not work there. Democracy has trouble working when religion is involved to the degree it is in the Middle East. Seal the borders and let them sort it out.

I started reading the link on calculus Promising start A bit of humor, good Then I Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I've decided my grey cells stay more active when they are trying to keep me alive while flying! Probably not enough grey cells to do calculus.

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales was found guilty of the murder of 16 civilians. He did a plea deal to reduce the penalty from death to life without parole. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandahar_massacre

The hypocrisy of our politicians and others over these executions is breath taking. Our biggest trading partners kill many more people than Indonesia. China kills over 1000 every year, the US killed 35 last year but not a peep, no candle light vigils. Plenty of holiday makers still going to those places (and plenty of Pollies on 'study trips'). The media has been working itself up into self righteous frenzy (and behaved appallingly to the families of the executed). I suppose Australian lives are worth more than American or Chinese lives. As to whether the death penalty is deterrent or not. The publicity that this has stirred up surely will deter many from offending. It is a fact that not one person executed has ever re-offended.

The story I heard was that the designers were philosophically inclined to insist on the recovery chute for the Cirrus and the easiest way to ensure the aircraft could only fly with the chute in place was to forgo the usual spin testing and just say pull the chute. Extensive spin testing has been done in the SR20 I believe ( http://www.peter2000.co.uk/aviation/misc/3-105960-Cirrusstall-spinreport.pdf ) and it recovered within one turn in over 60 spin entries. I have stalled the Cirrus and it reacts normally to all inputs but as it wasn't mine I thought I had better not push it too far.

Don't know much about the laws of cricket so forgive me and hopefully someone more knowledgeable can explain. I presume OME that you say it was a dead ball under: 23. (iii) a batsman is dismissed. The ball will be deemed to be dead from the instant of the incident causing the dismissal. However as you said, "Taylor appealed the LBW decision and on review the decision was overturned and he was NOT OUT." So, if Taylor was not out, it follows there was no dismissal, so law 23. (iii) does not apply, so the ball was not dead. Therefore the dismissal for a run out was still possible.

I'm sure what you say is correct in the main, but how much thinking, planning and committee work went into Mr Abbott's paid parental leave scheme or his bringing back dames and knights or his knighting of Prince Phillip?

Aircraft have always been imported from the USA. They like newer aircraft and we buy the stuff they don't want. If their industry is dying we have been dead for a long time! Hope to see you at Oshkosh this year.