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It must be a bit hard for a reported to get the opportunity to ask a Prime Minister a question during one of these opportunities. Why waste the chance by asking something so inane that experience would tell you that the politician is not going to answer. In the current situation of confrontations with politicians, I would have thought the reporter should have been more concerned with what acrtions ar being taken to protect politicians (of all sides) from them. First and foremost, these attacks are being made upon people being present to carry out a job that the community has given them to do. It also seem that our male law makers are prone to mysogeny based on what our female politicians are saying.

The Australian Jillaroos defeated England 78–0 in their Women's Rugby League World Cup Pool A match at HBF Park in Perth on October 24, 2026. Did the Lionesess take to the field? A team wouldn't cross the try line that often during training.

I wtch a lot of English renovation videos and it strikes me that these houses suffer badly from moisture. Mould seems to be rampant. I don't think that their drainage systems work too well. It seems also that when their woodwork gets wet, the wood worm moves in to eat it out. Just as bad as out termites, in those areas where we have them. I suppose that using the same wood that the worms evolve with doesn't prevent attack. The other thing that astounds me is the plumbing. There's plumbing for getting water to washing bathrooms, kitchens and laundries, but also for providing heating using fluid radiators. These places seem to have nearly as much pipework as an oil refinery. Then there is the way they handle waste water and sewage. It all seems so primitive to me. I will say, however, they they have some really interesting tools and materials. I can't get over the fact that they will install plasterboard and then apply coats of plaswter render. And why would you render over brick work? All that does is prevent the brickwork from breathing. And I hate pebble dash. Jerry, the sooner you can get back here to a nice brick veneer four-bedroom single storey place, with reverse cycle heating/cooling, plasterboard-lined internal stud walls and tiled roof, the better.

I was talking about our Middle Eastern organisations. You don;'t hear much about teh Cosa Nostra these days. At 6:00 am the sky was clear. By 7:00 am it was 9/9 overcast and windy. By 9:00am it was broken low level cloud and still windy. I decided to risk doing my weekluy laundry, since I figured that the wind would speed drying. The wind seemed to die down mid-morning and the cloud broke up. Now at midday it's 9/9 overcast and the wind is picking up. At this stage I still don't think that the clouds look like producing any rain. The forecast is for thunderstorms across the centre of the State, but I don't hold out much hope. I'll update this evening.

I wonder if it was because it did not pass the vehicle standards that have to be met by all vehicles. I think the vehicle was banned in the UK for such failures. Anyway, our crime bosses prefer Italian sports cars.

No. All I am saying is that Society has to come up with rules to deal with new situations where safety is concerned. Remember back in the 60s when the wearing of seatblets was not mandatory? When it was realised that wearing one improved survivabilty in crashes, the Regulation to require wearing them was introduced. My neighbours down the local road from my place have two ways to leave the area by road. Both roads have creeks which can flood and block them. There aren't enough Police locally to guard those seldom used crossings.

Not that I am aware of. Road closures are usually made by the local government for a number of reasons - flooded roads, processions like ANZAC Day or even severe damage. The creek which runs through my place crosses the local road nearby. The local council has erected a Road Closed sign when the creek is in flood. If a person drives around the sign, they are on their own as to consequences. It's pretty clear that closing a road is done for safety reasons, which is a duty of care that a local council bears.

That would require police or SES to be stationed at each and every place that flood water flows across a road. In my opinion, if you tell people not to do something and back that up with a penalty for doing it, people won't do it. Or have we become a society in which it is wrong to punish disobedience? You can post any number of 'yes, but what about ..' situations. First you have to have a rule in order to describe exceptions.

Aren't the drink/driving laws legislation to enforce commonsense? Aren't all the traffic regulations laws to enforce comonsense? Didn't your flight instructor tell you to never turn back in the event of engine failure during take-off? Those are examples of a dangerous situations being pointed out to the inexperienced and creating a prohibition to deter the inexperienced from entering them. These are the people whose inexperience, or maybe bravado get themselves and others into danger. Nuff said.

In NSW, when I was doing Crash Investigation as a specialist, the offence was called Culpable Driving. One of the elements was 'impact' - easily proved. Other elements were things like dangerous driving or driving while intoxicated by alchol or other drug. Even negligence through poor vehicle maintenance, or fatigue could be raised as elements. This offence was introduced in place of manslaughter since the public perceived those elements not to reach the higher standard of manslaughter. If however, the cause of the impact is due to really terrible actions, such as evading arest, or using the vehicle as a weapon, then manslughter is appropriate. I believe that knowingly driving into floodwaters is a premeditated act. There has been enough publicity of the outcomes for a reasonable person to know such an act is highly dangerous. The level of danger is akin to driving past a red traffic light to pass across an intersecting road. Sure, disobeying a traffic control light signal is an offence against the Regulations, but the Regulation is there to make using the road safer for all. Perhpas you think me overly harsh in calling for a charge of manslaughter in such cases. Let's at least agree that the road rules should include a prohibition of driving into floodwaters. First, let's get a law to protect others, then we can argue the toss about an appropriate penalty.

I think you should reconsider the physics in play in the situation. The situation is one of change of Momentum. Just think about trying to land an airplane with a 90 degree crosswind. The faster the windspeed, the greater the momentum of the airmass, since the value of the momentum of an object is the product of its mass and velocity. The airplane has momentum also. The Law of Conservation of Momentum states that the total of a system, here the airmass and the airplane, remains constant. To calculate the momentum of floodwaters yoiu would need to know the flow rate past a reference point in litres per unit time, and the speed of flow in metres per unit time. I can't quote figures off the top of my head, but use your imagination to distinguish between a lot of water moving fast and a small amount of water moving slowly. You can do it becasue you have experienced it every time you take a shower or fill a bathtub. If you consider the case where a lot of water is moving quickly, you can soon see that the water provides the greatest amount of momentum to the water/vehicle system. Therefore, the water is going to change teh vehicle's momentum more than the vehicle will change the water's. Just think of the situation of a grasshopper hitting the windscreen of a B-Double. So, if the vehicle is moving slowly, it has less momentum and will be affected more by teh water. That's why we often hear that a vehicle was swept away afte stalling in the floodwater.

You've backed me up! Yes. Under normal circumstances there are many places where flowing water can be crossed - when the water volume is small and the flow rate is small. But you can't tell me that a watercourse holding rapidly moving flood water is a normal situation. If it was 'normal', you would not be seeing images of it on TV newscasts. Watercourses are lower than surrounding ground. Why not sit out the flooding? Better to arrive late, than dead on time. I don't see a lot of these incidents being ones involving locals evacuating homes. More often it seems the victim is trying to push a big duel-cab ute across a watercourse - because the victim has seen his make of vehicle doing so in a TV ad. My point is that by entering floodwaters, one is either suicidal, homicidal if being accompanied by others, or oblivious to the safety of those seeking to effect a rescue.

What about the education program about drink driving? The vast majority of people have learned that lesson, yet some have not. The results of driving into flowing water have been publicised widely in news bulletins, a modern form of education. The lesson has not been learned by many. By creating a punisable offence for doing this dangerous act, Society enforces the requirement to learn the lesson.

So, to Trump and his Isreali mate, it's not a case of war halting elections. It's a case of elections halting wars. How sick is it that both these war criminals have decided to scale down their military actions until the elections which may or may not keep them in power are held?

I reckon that it should be made illegal to drive a motor vehicle into flowing water. Just look at the news from Queensland of the number of rescues of people who had driven into fast flowing water. The example I saw only involved the driver, but how many time in recent years have we heard of both driver and passenger being drowned? Not only the lives of the vehicle occupants, but the lives of the rescuers are put at risk. I believe that the death of a passenger after a driver drives into flowing water should be dealt with as Involuntary Manslaughter. This is a homicide where there is no intention to kill, resulting instead from criminal negligence or an unlawful and dangerous act where a reasonable person would realize the act exposes someone to a risk of serious injury. Am I being too harsh? I think that through the publicity of the results of driving into flowing water, a normal person should know that such an act is dangerous. Harming another person by an act that is dangerous is accepted as being wrong. We know that the Law evolves to deal with new situations. This practice of driving vehicles into flowing water is one of those new situations.

Which fortune-telling meterologist told you that? I won't believe it rained until I see the dampness in the gauge.

Think of the number of political Parties we have, and the number of Independents. With that number of differing opinions as to what is best for the Country, is it any wonder that there is no consensus? In this country, each of us has the Right to an opinion. One can amalgamate with those holding similar opinions. One can debate with those who hold differing opinions. The trouble is that just about everyone correctly identifies the problems to be solved. The conflict is in the way to solve them.

Putin's Pinocchio - a lying puppet.

Would you believe it? About an hour ago the sky close by to the North has covered with clouds as black as. For a moment the wind came up and a few drops of rain fell. By 'few', I mean count them on one hand. Now the clod have moved away. I guess they are teh clouds hat are gong to dump on Port Stephens, cause that's the direction they are heading.

Given what is already known in the public sector about Trump's finanacial and sexual behaviour, could the response to anything Putin could publish be anything more than,'Ahh, yeah'.

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And this is supposed to be a grain producing area! I was speaking to a friend who lives about 10 kms south of my place. The other night they got about 3mm while I didn't even get humidity! There is a major creek which runs through the southern side of my place. It drains quite a large catchment. I have mentioned before that storms seem to move along the southern bank of the creek, but don't cross over that few hundred metres to moisten my place. Isn't supposed to rain heavily from this coming November?

Its bloody frustrating to see the sky covered with white, puffy cumulus clouds which form during the day and not get a drop of rain from them. It's not summer yet, but my place is Sahara dry.

I'm astounded by the civil violence in Europe over teh weekend. What is concerning is that all the protests seemed to relate to various components and effects of Cost of Living. Hs this become a common thread across the Globe?

Ukraine betrayed for 300,000 tonnes of diesel. One piece of silver equates to 10,000 tonnes of fuel.