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It loaded for me. Some of the star cluster photos are stunning, but the problem is, they're all "touched up" with color and contrast manipulation. The originals are pretty different to what we're presented with.

Agatha Christie.

This is the ENTERTAINMENT section of the Aviation site, Nev - lighten up. Yes, I know 90% of Facebook and social media is just a lot of time-wasting rubbish, but a fair percentage of the videos are genuine. I wouldn't be eating that bread that the cat kneaded, but it is funny to watch. The one of the 'roo hopping up onto the colorbond fence, and then onto the roof of the colorbond house, simply astounds me, and makes one realise, that when you think you've seen all the strange and unbelievable things that animals do, one more pops up to astound you!

I've found the radar map, but it's effectively hidden from the weather forecasting page, and it appears the only way to find it, is to search for "radar". https://www.bom.gov.au/weather-and-climate/rain-radar-and-weather-maps There's no loop controls on the radar images, unlike the old site, where a large range of controls on the radar imagery is possible. https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR703.loop.shtml#skip

The site is deficient in many, many ways. There's no way to adjust the speed of the map timing when you click on the arrow. Most other sites give you the ability to slow down the speed. The radar map doesn't display the radar returns on actually cloud formations or cold fronts, it only shows colours indicating potential rainfall levels. Then you have to select what level of rain potential you want to see. It's clumsy, inefficient, and needs lots of clicking and scrolling to see in total, what just one page gave us previously.

The general opinion seems to be condemnation of the new site - but the Bureau head honcho puts his best "Yes Minister" face on, and tells everyone the site feedback is "overwhelmingly positive", and the users who can't abide the changes will soon see how brilliant the new site is, once they adapt to the massive site changes!! 🙄 https://www.perthnow.com.au/wa/weather/epic-fail-bureau-of-meteorology-website-update-sparks-fury-across-australia-c-20443509

Tears for fears.

Only in Australia............. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HooUajdIuus?feature=share

We keep those pests right out of W.A. - along with sparrows. Any found this side of the border are hunted to extinction as fast as possible. Sometimes they get through to the swampy regions East of Esperance, and it's no fun hunting down invasive species in swamplands in chest-deep water, that is full of tiger snakes!!

You bought a Beemer??? 🙄 Where do we send the sympathy cards??? 😄

I've voted Labor and Liberal and Nats, but I wouldn't let Trump have control of anything, because he has no leadership skills, no statesman-like qualities, no ability to formulate a good vision for his country and no ability to follow through anything he promises to do. He's a bag of hot air who makes 100 promises a day, and has no interest in ensuring they come about - unless it means more money for him personally. He's lowered the global status of the President of the U.S. to one that commanded respect to one that just represents continued self-interest. He promised to end the Ukraine war in one day after becoming President. It was just all BS, and he has no real interest in stopping the war.

I immediately thought of "T-e- to the face", but no word could be found to match the first word. So I reckon it's, "They go way back".

Quicken your pace.

Yes, can't say I'm impressed with it. It's all about glitzy graphics instead of functional text. Aimed at the younger generation who like lots of moving graphics, I guess.

Wow, there's some bile in that article. I think the sad part is, that the opposition political parties in America can't produce anything worthy as a leader, to show up this buffoon for what he is. That's the reason Americans have picked him for a leader, this is the best they can find! What a sad indictment on the country.

Here's a sign in North Perth advertising a forthcoming "Marketa" business, that was promising to open in the Summer of 2020! It still hasn't opened!! That's coming up SIX years!!

The DFRDB stood for "Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme". It was certainly a very poor form of superannuation. But the big Life Assurance companies ran worse schemes. My father started Life Assurance accounts for the older brother and myself in the early 1960's, and we started paying into them as we got older and started out in business together. But the return on those LA schemes was about 1%, while the Life Assurance companies made millions in profits from our monies, and paid all those profits to wealthy Life Assurance Co shareholders! We found we could borrow against these policies, so during some hard times we both borrowed small amounts against the policies, to keep our business operational. But the interest rate we were charged was something like 8%, and because we took our eyes off the policies, it wasn't too many years before we realised the policies were essentially now worthless, because the loans and interest had eaten up the (relatively small) value of the policies! So we cancelled the policies and extracted the few miserable dollars left, and never bought any Life Assurance (or Life Insurance) policies ever again!

The latest W.A. Firearms Act is a vicious over-reaction caused by the murder of two women by a deranged, vicious gun-fondler, who should have never had any kind of firearms licence issued to him. In essence, all W.A. firearms owners are now highly likely to be criminals and murderers, according the Govt, and must be treated as such. It's made it so hard to even own a firearm of any kind, even when you're a farmer, and you need a firearm to bump off badly-maimed livestock. This new Firearms Act is a knee-jerk reaction that will only cause a lot of firearms to go underground. While I see the need to restrict firearms to only those who can demonstrate a need for them, making every firearm owner pay heavily for Govt and law enforcement failures in the past, is something that does not go down well, especially with people in the country areas of W.A. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/mark-james-bombara-floreat-shooting-daughter-speaks/103901710 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-01/floreat-murders-police-investigation-domestic-violence-analysis/104884012

Common methods of cheating at chess: Electronic assistance: Using external tools like a chess engine during a game is a common way to cheat, especially in online or remote play, as it provides instant, superior move suggestions. Collusion: Cheating can involve secret signals or communication with another person (like a spectator or another player) to gain advice or an advantage. Rule violations: Deliberately violating rules, such as the touch-move rule or attempting to sneak a piece back onto the board, can be a form of cheating. Here's an article about cheating at chess .... https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/28/sport/chess-how-to-cheating-explainer-spt-intl#

Rudds performance was the next best thing to Hara-Kiri, without the accompanying sword. He was probably wishing for one at the time.

But there's no all-black Lincolns out front?

Too much on your mind will do that. I once noticed a Landcruiser in the street nearby with the keys hanging out of the door. I stopped, took them out and went into the house alongside where it was parked. A bloke in his mid-30's came out, and when I said, "Is that your Landcruiser in the street? I found these keys in the door!", he looked aghast and said "Yes", and thanked me. He was running a small business, he had three little kids running around, and he looked absolutely frazzled. Probably working his guts out, and his gorgeous-looking missus had probably screwed him senseless the night before, as well! About 25 yrs ago, I lost a big bunch of my keys in my rented 1000 sq m industrial yard. I didn't find them for 6 mths. When I did find them, I found them sitting on an item of equipment right up the back corner of the yard. I'd put them down while I was in a brain fog, distracted by something else, and walked off without them, not realising they were gone, until long after I got home. Luckily, I keep plenty of spare keys. I was under a lot of stress at the time.

Better late than never!

Yeah, it's a whole lot different world today. But at least we didn't have to put up with drugged-out crazies, and machete-carrying criminals!

The word is that Daniel Naroditsky committed suicide. He was becoming mentally unstable due to being accused of cheating by another Grandmaster, Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik seems to be a bit deranged though, accusing large numbers of other chess players of cheating, as well. Naroditsky spent a vast amount of time online (a good enough reason to become mentally unwell, just by itself). But Naroditsky was apparently being harrassed and abused online by trolls, which often sends many "computer nerds" over the edge. A pretty sad development all round. Naroditsky was apparently well regarded for the videos he made, advising chess players on how to improve their skills.