old man emu

2 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Practice deeper breathing.

A bit hard to actively control your body when you are unconscious because you are asleep.

32 minutes ago, octave said:

I think most of the pure EVs are still in the evaluation phase so if they are not up to the job they will surely be rejected. This is good, isn't it? 

Yes, it is good that they evaluate all vehicles for suitability for the task, but will you concede if they don't come up to scratch?

You seem to think that I am anti-EV. I agree with the concept, but also recognise the economic and practical disadvantages they have, AT THE PRESENT TIME.

https://www.police1.com/police-products/vehicles/patrol/articles/electric-vehicles-prove-they-can-handle-police-work-kh6xMkZRKTGuuZzF/#:~:text=Can electric vehicles handle police,serve as regular patrol cars.

This article references a county of Bagersville Indiana, with an area of 48.5 sq km. Where I was working, Goulburn City Mulwaree has an area of 32220 sq km. Big differences in distances to be travelled.

8 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

And, ome, what is black?  Is it a black woman?

My answer:

6 hours ago, facthunter said:

Don't ask. Nev

As for masks, I have one that covers my mouth and nose because I tend to breathe through my mouth, or at least I used to before the CPAP. I use masks with a foam rubber seal, not the silicone ones. 

When they are setting you up, they will let you try the full face one, or the nose only to see what you like. 

Honestly, you'll wish that you'd been put on CPAP years ago. 

I really think that using a CPAP slows down the development of dementia because your brain is oxygen-starved when you stop breathing due to apnoea. 

I passed a Highway Patrol car yesterday and it brought back memories of my time as a tyre biter, Today I travelled through my old hunting grounds on the way to have lunch with my kids. These things made me realise that the Police will be one Government agency that will not be taking up EVs for patrol work.

The reasons are two-fold. First, the police need their vehicles to be instantly available for use 24/7. The average Police Patrol is only allocated one or two vehicles for General Duties, and a HWP unit might only have half a dozen vehicles attached to it. To ensure that the General Duties police always have a vehicle to use, each vehicle they presently have would need another two - one being charge, and one charged ready for swapping with the one that is out on the road. Having to do that would triple the vehicle purchase cost for each Patrol.

The second reason relates the the HWP. I worked the Hume Highway. It was normal to clock up around 250 kms each shift. At the end of the shift, the car was refuelled and handed over immediately to the next shift, ready to go. Also, that sort of duty required many high speed runs during a shift as I chased down an offender. It is common knowledge that such high speed running quickly drains the battery of an EV. Perhaps a battery fully charged at the beginning of a shift wouldn't last the full shift. In the case of the HWP, you would need at least one more vehicle for each one it already had. And don't forget the costs involved in wiring up a police car for its radio and lights as well as the signage.

I agree that some units, such as Defectives, Crime Scene, and the bosses could use EVs, but these are in the minority.

On 18/05/2024 at 3:38 PM, octave said:

I think Red's camera analogy is correct. 

It is correct in as far as it relates to items that are not considered expensive. I remember buying my first pocket calculator for about $75 in the 1970s. A lot of money for a student then, but worth it. I also later bought a calculator programmable in GW-Basic. Now that sort of technology costs pennies.

However, for the average consumer, the purchase of a car, regardless of motive power, is an expensive outlay. It won't be the want to stop burning petroleum, nor adoption of whizz-bangery technology that stops the common person buying an EV AT THE MOMENT, It will be the neuralgia coming from the hip-pocket nerve.

As for the late 2023 dip in EV sales. Let's see the figures come June and July 2024 to se if there is a discernible trend. 

2 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

I'm going in for the test soon and I'd like some advice....  

What they will do is fit you up with electrodes like an ECG and put a breathing mask on you. Then you go to sleep and while you are sleeping they will collect a lot of information about how often you stop breathing and for how long. From that data they will work out how much air pressure is needed to keep your airway open while you are sleeping. After that they will either rent you or sell you a CPAP (Continuous positive airway pressure) device which you wear at night to keep your airway open. That will reduce the time that you are not breathing, and also reduce your snoring.

I have been using a CPAP device since 2017 and I won't go to sleep at night without it. I will take an afternoon nap without it, but those naps are only for about 20 minutes. I've felt much better since I began using it. I sleep like a log - meaning that I wake up in the same position in the morning that I was in when I closed my eyes. I am regularly getting 7-1/2 hours' continuous sleep each night.

First the CONs:

It takes some getting used to wearing the mask. It is a distraction as you begin to go to sleep, but pretty soon you'll drop off very quickly. I'm usually asleep in about two minutes.

Buying a CPAP machine is a bit expensive, a bit over $1200 or so.

You have to buy replacement masks and cleaning wipes.

It doesn't eliminate that need to pee in the early hours of the morning

The Pros:

You will have refreshing sleep.

You won't get tired in the afternoon 

Your sinuses will be unblocked.

If you share your bed, you won't be disturbing your partner with your snoring.

Getting a CPAP machine is like once you've had Black, you'll never go back.

Good luck!

3 minutes ago, nomadpete said:

This week I am drying out.

Becoming a Dry White in a sec.

2 minutes ago, nomadpete said:

Maybe if overproduction of early models continues, there will be piles of unsellable 'early model' EV's.

And will the environmentalist zealots be running that horrendous waste of energy and resources up a flagpole and saluting it?

But are we talking of hundreds of Eastern Europeans, or a couple of gangs of up to fifty or so in total membership?

3 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

if they win, just cash out.... or... maybe if they win... it is a sign and I will keep going 😉

 

And here we have the birth of another problem gambler. The next thing, he'll be selling those heaters he hasn't installed yet to bet on Molonglo to beat Pipers Flat.

http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/poetry/mdougal.html

Seems people trust the Chinese more than they trust the Yanks.

The number used to report BYD's sales might be larger than that for TESLA, but which way are the numbers going?

How can anyone say that the whole concept of producing EVs is environmentally friendly when you tally up all the resources that have been mined, refined, moved and manipulated to make the numbers of units that are sitting unsold around the world? In a few years we are going to be calling EVs the BetaMax of the 2020's.

58 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

it appears 'all. ' the Melbourne shop fire-bombings are reportedly( TV ).Eastern Europeans work .

Those fires are simply part of war between gangs for the control of the illegal tobacco market. Notice that nothing similar seems to be happening in Sydney, Brisbane or Adelaide. Maybe there isn't a similar market in those cities. 

Why does it appear that immigrants are involved in more crime? Simply because they are willing to get off their arses and do something in order to survive. Gaining the proceeds of crime, especially crimes that deal with heavily taxed items like tobacco and alcohol, is a pretty safe and reasonably undetected way to make big quids.

From some of the comments I have heard about the Budget, the theatrics of presenting it to Parliament, followed by the Opposition response and then all the hangers-on saying that it didn't do enough for their special interest group, sound like a rehash of the rearrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic. 

Don't forget that the Budget is the same as the expense planning that any sound enterprise, profit or non-profit, should undertake. This year more money came in than the Government planned to pend when it formulated the 2032/24 Budget. That gave the Treasury a surplus. For the 2024/25 Budget, the Government is expecting a deficit. 

I don't mind a deficit budget if the deficit arises from contemporary borrowings to be used for bricks and mortar community programmes, or to provide training and employment. However if spending on "Look what we are doing. Aren't we great" advertising and knee-jerk responses leads to a deficit, then "I'm aginst it. Whatever it is, I'm aginst it."

As for a Labor leader, I think Penny Wong has earned the right to be offered the job. She's been pretty steady in the way she handles Foreign Affairs. However, I think that she is too astute to accept the poisoned chalice.

Why is it that when a team is not performing to expectations, it is the coach/manager who cops the blame?

No professional club would engage a coach/manager off the street. The coach/managers get there through years of apprenticeship learning and gaining experience. Instead of blaming the coach/manager when a team runs dead, perhaps the clubs should put a rocket up the players themselves. Professional footballers are a different breed from those foundations players who established the clubs. Too much money and too little real life experience. I remember when I was a kid, the players for the top clubs had to work during the week to support themselves. That stopped them from galavanting around the celebrity circuit and getting into strife.

9 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

those of different ethnic cultures are probably even lower than the median per 100K?

There are a lot of things to look at when you start to analyse the data looking at several other factors. Regarding population growth, how much of it involves family units? It's possible that a lot of those immigration numbers are made up of people whose marital status is "single". That would be the case with workers and students. There are many examples of people from other cultures being involved in DV homicides.

The more you think about the published data and questions the "what ifs", you start to see that it is not so finely analysed. For example, would looking at the number of incidents in the various major sub-groups instead of the number of victims show a different picture? 

4 hours ago, red750 said:

Religious differences (Muslim/Judaism/Christianity) and crim-v-crim are two significant factors. 

I disagree with your claim that, in Australia, religious differences are involved in the figures in any significant way. I also wonder if homophobic murders are at similar rates as in the past. I think that those presently the age group that in the past was responsible for "poofter bashing" are more accepting of homosexuality.

6 hours ago, spacesailor said:

SO , We're , do we put that " BUT " . when not entirely agreeing with the subject ! . My nephew is a great " guy " . even  though he is gay .  spacesailor

If he's a great guy, there's no BUTs abut it.

This is an unbiased forecast by a qualified prosecutor, of what will is likely to shortly happen in the current trial. 

52 minutes ago, Marty_d said:

Not sure why you emphasised heterosexual there either, as the recent double murder in Sydney proved, this is not a phenomenon unique to hetero males.

Domestics involving non-heterosexuals are probably as common as a percentage of relationships as for the other group, but the numbers of non-heterosexuals is said to be about 10% of the population, so that group is smaller than the hetero group. Also, for fairly obvious reasons, domestics involving homosexual men do not have a female as the intimate partner. 

The reason I placed the emphasis on hetereosexual males is that the agenda covers all males, like the Canvas and Tarpaulin Act. It would seem that the mantra of the women making the most noise, without consulting the unbiased facts is:

All men are bastards.

Bastards or worse,

And we don't want them

In our universe.

One thing that annoys me about the analysis of the data is that it does not break down the non-DV cases into other subsets. For example, how many homicides also have an organised crime link? I'd wager that the trend in that subset is upwards.

The proponent has been quoted as saying something of the style of "Some of my best friends are LGBTQ+ etc"

You can't have missed  headlines like these.

"THE MURDER RATE IS SOARING !"         "SURGE IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RELATED HOMICIDES"

They are as factual as "POLITICIAN SELF-REPORTS OWN CORRUPT ACTIVITY"

If you are a heterosexual male, as are the majority of males in Australian society, then are you happy to have it claimed to the World that you are a homicidal, controlling sex maniac? That's what the Media is portraying you as. You are being blamed by politicians and certain members of the female persuasion for an alleged increase the rate of murders that is being trumpeted in the Media.

First, let's get a handle on the way data  is are compared. There are two numbers used to give a value to the data so that trends can be observed. The first is simply the number of homicides that occur in the year under revue. The second is the size of the population in that year. The calculation for the value is determined is simply:

(Number of homicides) divided by (Size of the population)

Since the population is a very large number the unit of size is 100,000 people.

Who analyses this data and produces the rate? It is an Australian Government authority called the Australian Institute of Criminology, which amongst other areas of crime, runs the National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP), which is Australia’s only national data collection on homicide incidents, victims and offenders. The NHMP has collected and analysed information on all homicides (murder and manslaughter, excluding driving causing death) in Australia since 1990. 

What the analysis shows is that, since 1989/90 there has been a steady decline in the homicide rate. The number of homicides has decreased from about 300 to roughly 225, while the population has risen from approximately 17 million to 27 million. As a result, the homicide rate has fallen from 0.68/100,00 to 0.3/100,000. 

The number of domestic-related homicides has fallen from around 110 -115 from 1989/90 to 2010 to around 80 from 2020. This is a fall from 0.68/100,000 to 0.3/100,000, a fall of over 50% based on population increase.

All the figures I have quoted can be found in greater detail here: https://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide Look for the complete data using the links in the 'Featured Data" 

This data is freely available to anyone. However, it appears that those intent on driving some sort of gender-based agenda haven't the computer skills to find it, or are unable to accept facts that undermine the rhetoric that powers their agenda.

Of course, I have to end this with a caveat. Humans have always killed humans, and will continue to do so, but to sensationalise an agenda that vilifies one portion of humanity is a completely different thing to denying the facts that the habit is dying out slightly.

6 minutes ago, nomadpete said:

does this make sfm an official trumpet?

More like a political whore, otherwise known as a sTrumpet.

Last night the Council rescinded the motion on a vote of 12 to 2. And a Motion to moe the book to the adult section was lost.

33 minutes ago, willedoo said:

I wonder how long it would take Gina to earn $300.

Nanoseconds.