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  1. I posed this question thinking of the "cashless society". As many of you have commented on the cash -v- card discussion, our financial transactions now consist mainly of the transfer of digital information (representing cash) from your accumulation to the accumulation of the recipient, represented by digital information. There is no transfer of any physical objects. When we think of "finding" something, we tend to associate that with the finding of a physical object. If any of you found a wallet with either some cash or credit cards and other things necessary to exist in society, I'm sure that your ethics would lead you to having the owner found and the wallet returned. But how do you deal with the situation of finding an unexpected increase in your financial accumulation through the receipt of digital financial information? My thought is that, in our modern society, digital financial information has replaced physical banknotes. Therefore, the entry in your account represents a "thing". Let's have a look at the way larceny is defined at Law. In New South Wales, The High Court defined larceny in the leading case of Ilich v R in 1987: “A person steals who, without the consent of the owner, fraudulently and without a claim of right made in good faith, takes and carries away anything capable of being stolen with intent, at the time of such taking, permanently to deprive the owner thereof.” The offence is committed if a person intends, "to deprive the owner thereof.” For an allegation of "stealing by finding" to be proved, it must be shown that the accused made no, or insufficient, attempt to find the owner. Merely to leave it there and say nothing is proof of making no or insufficient attempt to find the owner. What would I do? Contact the police and have them make a "Found Property" report and provide you with a reference number for that report. In NSW that is called an Event Number. Trying to explain how what you want to report as finding something could be a bit hard, but you should be able to convince even the most lethargic constable to create the Event. A benefit of making that report is that, if you say when making the report that you would like to claim the money after all enquiries have been made to find an owner have failed, then a Court could give it to you. Always a good idea if you happen to find a backpack full of money and some drugs. As soon as practicable, contact your financial institution's Fraud Unit and let them know what has happened. Because the deposit had to have been made digitally, the Fraud Unit should have the ways and means to locate the source of the deposit. While talking to the Fraud Unit, ask them how to have the deposit transferred from your account to a secure account of the financial institution pending resolution of the matter. That removes your possible liability under the Law for "permanently depriving" the owner of the possible interest the amount could be earning.
  2. I'd rail against an attachment like that!
  3. Random ethics thought: What would you do if you checked your bank account and found a $1 million dollar deposit?
  4. I thought of planetary gears, too. What about a roller tappet following a cam? - No, because in that situation the tappet is only moving along a line from the centre of the camshaft, through the body of the tappet to the valve stem.
  5. Here's my attempt: Circumference = 2.pi.r Radius of A = 1/3B Circumference of A = 2.pi.1/3B Circumference of B = 2.pi.B How many times can B be divides by A equally? The answer is found by calculating B/A. B/A = 2.pi.B/ (2.pi.1/3B) = 1/(1/3) Therefore B/A = 3 Now I'll watch the video.
  6. I remember when Holdens came out with a badge with a the numerals 179 over a flag - They were getting pinched atn attached to belt buckles. Same went for the Ford Super Pursuit badge
  7. There are two comedy programmes that highlight the follies of government and those in the Public Service - Yes Minister/Prime Minister and Utopia. Each of them can provide us with snippets to illustrate our comments. Here's one relevant to the Tasmanian election.
  8. The point is that how many cars made in the past ten to fifteen years will still be in use in another ten or fifteen. Not worn out, just exchanged for something newer. You don't see many crs from the 1990s running about.
  9. Which raises an interesting point. Is light particulate ( photon) or is it a waveform? If light cannot escape the gravitational pull of a black hole, then it implies that light is particulate because it is a component of a Force. =force =gravitational constant =mass of object 1 (black hole) =mass of object 2 (photon) ^2=distance between centers of the masses But we also know that light behaves as if it is a waveform.
  10. Not now that I am wary that anything I say can be misconstrued to be aggressive either sexually or mentally. Years of attending to domestic disputes, and being forced by those running Domestic Violence Units to always take the woman's side in a situation of He said/She said colours your perceptions. Also the constant examples of women making claims of historical offences which cannot be substantiated with independent evidence add to this perception. Women are being taught to use allegations of sexual assault as a means to an end. I recall being told by a school maintenance man that he once was telling off some young female students who were doing something when the leader of the group told him that she would tear her blouse and make a complaint that he had tried to touch her boobs. He said he downed tools and walked into the Principal's office to quit on the spot. If such a complaint had been made, how could he prove it false when the leader would coerce the rest of the group to back her story? Consider the dark concept behind this little bit of comedy
  11. My opinion is being changed by my observation of an attitude that seems to have arisen in the Millennial generation (1981 - 2005) which makes them self-centred and ready to label anything that is not bolstering their egos as a savage attack. The latest crap is this non-binary "my pronoun". Misgender someone by using the age old pronouns of English and you can end up in deep doo-doo. I don't care what a person wants to adopt as a sexuality, as long as the expressions of their sexuality does not become the dominant way they exist in Society. To me it is more important what they contribute to the Common Good of society than the type of relationships they wish to foster privately.
  12. I just went out and measured an old sheet of corrugated iron. Close enough to 0.75 mm which is as near as dammit to 1/32"
  13. Oh, Octave. You have led sheltered life. Nowadays if a female alleges that a male has said or done anything that could be taken to have a hint of harm done to a woman, the male is held to be guilty.
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