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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.
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I'd rail against an attachment like that!
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Random ethics thought: What would you do if you checked your bank account and found a $1 million dollar deposit?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The climate change debate continues.
old man emu replied to Phil Perry's topic in Science and Technology
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. -
The Michelin Brothers???
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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
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The climate change debate continues.
old man emu replied to Phil Perry's topic in Science and Technology
Why not "black holes"? Black is beautiful. -
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.
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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"
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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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If you laugh at this then you have been indoctrinated to accept an insidious change in the idea of equality. Once again an idea coming from the Land of the Free and the Right to Free Speech, is causing a lot of problems in the workplace. Just consider what is being said in this video:
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He's nae a Scot! He's wearing underpants.
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Spotted this advertising sign on the Barton Highway coming out of Canberra. Looks like Canberra is Party Central. (Click on the picture to read the sign)
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Mine safety is a fine example of how strict supervision of safety factors by Unions and Government has made working in that industry safer. As PMC said, the rock strata being mined through is composed of relatively weak material, so it would be expected that sheets of material would fall from the roof. That's why they would bolt and mesh. Also this is the first time I have heard of these safety capsules that the miners can get into to protect themselves. Unfortunately, it's only the blokes who didn't have the roof cave in on them who could run to the capsules. No doubt the two miners involved were either underneath the collapse, or a bit slow to take off. As for farm injuries and deaths, it was today that NSW WorkSafe raised the very points that willedo pointed us to. Quad bikes as big sources of injury and deaths as well as side-by-side 4-wheelers
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Don't get me wrong here, But I LIKE Donald Trump.
old man emu replied to Phil Perry's topic in Politics
But this is the very problem described in this podcast: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/12/how-trump-could-manipulate-military/676341/ One point raised in that podcast is that if a military commander told Trump that they would refuse to carry out an order that was unlawful, Trump would simply relieve them of duty and parachute in a Yes Man who would. And don't forget Kent State in 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings -
When I heard that it was a rockfall, I wondered what the geology is at the depth the incident occurred. I thought gold was found amongst metamorphic rocks, which, having been baked by igneous intrusion, would be a lot harder than sedimentary rock. PMC, "Please explain".
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Don't get me wrong here, But I LIKE Donald Trump.
old man emu replied to Phil Perry's topic in Politics
The tinder to start a civil war is definitely being heaped up. Unfortunately, we can't sit back and say, "Dumb Yanks. Let's let them destroy themselves and we will sit back and watch". Quite simply, a civil war in the USA, even if it is confined to the 48 contiguous States, will see the collapse of the whole of the world economy. It would usher in a generation's length period of economic turmoil which the rest of the world will, I am optimistic enough to believe, drag itself from and reinvigorate to pre- civil war levels, but without the former USA being the force it is today. Beyond Thunderdome? -
Does the complexity of an idea translate into the monetary value of a product? The theory behind a process might be complex, but once you have done the design work to make an item, and created the tooling (physical and digital) to make it, then the cost per unit is the product of (R&D costs + Blueprint creation + Tooling costs + raw materials cost)÷ number of units produced. Back in the 70's Honda introduced CVCC, or Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion to its carbureted engines as a means of reducing emissions. This technology allowed Honda's cars to meet Japanese and American emissions standards in the 1970s without the need for a catalytic converter. It passed into history with the introduction of fuel injection, but in its day was a useful, economical means of getting a more complete burn of the fuel/air mixture. Technology has advanced since the 70's, but who is to say that Ford's system is not the next step forward? That's still millions of engines, which could still keep ICEs as an economical alternative. As for a liquid fuel, why not use known technology to make liquid fuels from the coal of which we have an abundance. Synthetic fuel plant capacity is approximately 0.24% of the 100 million barrel per day crude oil refining capacity worldwide, mainly because in order to be economically viable, projects must do much better than just being competitive head-to-head with oil. They must also generate a sufficient return on investment to justify the capital investment in the project. A central consideration for the development of synthetic fuel is the security factor of securing domestic fuel supply from domestic biomass and coal. Nations that are rich in biomass and coal can use synthetic fuel to offset their use of petroleum derived fuels and foreign oil. That's Australia, isn't it?
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Don't forget that Capital Gains Tax is pretty hefty for the individual. On component in the calculation of the tax payable is your current taxable income. This will help determine the tax rate at which the capital gain on your asset will be taxed. It's important to note that any capital gains amount will be added to your current income before calculating the tax rate — i.e. a capital gains amount could force you into a higher tax bracket. This might be minimised by purchasing a property as a couple, so that the capital gain amount is split. Someone mentioned the need for Australia to take in people with skills. The Department of Immigration does. It is the other government departments, and professional bodies that fail to recognise those skills resulting in us having the most highly educated Uber drivers in the world.
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What do you expect in a country where the people believe in incarnation? Death is a means to an end.