old man emu

Yeah, but you emmigrated for a better place to live.

I wonder what law was alleged that Maduro has broken. He has been indicted in a US Court, but what is the jurisdiction of that law? Here is the indictment. https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1422326/dl The last few ages nominate the actual part of a law that it is alleged to have been broken.

Council turns AJ Burkitt Oval into an aquatic centre. Saves ratepayers a fortune.

You lusty Lethario!

The Chairman of the NRMA was quoted today saying that we can expect petrol prices to drop to about 2020 levels simply because there is a it of a glut in the market. He did not atach the cause of that glut to Trump's latest actions. Perhaps EVs are causing a drop in demand, or maybe Trump's tariff attacks on oil producers are causing the producers to sell in other markets. If the USA cannot meet its own domestic demand for sour crude, then we might see lots of Yank tanks abandoned on the side of the road. Look out for the Amish to take over long haul transport!!

Imagine if they built a car with the mechanical engineering knowlege learned over the past 60 years (passive passenger safety, aerodynamics, weight minimisatione etc.) but without the electronic bells and whistles they have been sticking into cars recently. I reckon they would end up with a simple, easily maintained vehicle at a "low" price. Wouldn't matter if it was an ICE or an EV.

Didn't think of those. It was too early in the morning for analytical thought when I posted.

The Yanks simply have to differ from the rest of the world in most things. One of those is how they write dates. While the rest of the world goes DD/MM/YYYY, the Yanks go MM/DD/YYYY. There is only one day of the year (I think) when the Yanks' format is the same as the rest of the World's - the first day of the year 01/01/YYYY. Also have you noticed that the Yanky way of saying a date is becoming more common? How often are you hearing a date spoken of as Month/Day/Year, as in January First?

The actions of the USA in South America have been empire building under the guise of protecting South American countries from becoming parts of the empires of European countries. It all stems back to what is caled the Munroe Doctrine of 1823. I am short of time this morning to post about the Monroe Doctrine and history arising from it. I'll post something tonight (5/1/26).

The ironic thing about what Trump has done is that the majority of Venezualians are celebrating the arrest of Maduro. But remember that a lot of Sudeten Germans celebrated when Hitler annexed the Sudatenland.

At the start of this video, Trump confesses that war crimes were committed at his say-so.

Prince Valiant ?????

Unfortunately such a list would require more bandwidth than this site has in order for that list to be posted.

It's too late! The e-Horse has volted.

Given the mentality of MAGA people, one has to wonder how many of them supported the importation of Venezualian drugs.

Trump has invaded Venezuala! Now we know that we can't trust the American Military to act lawfully!

Batteries for recycling have some amount of dollar value. If we sent our batteries to the USA, woulf the recylcing plant in the USA have to pay a tariff on them?

On the topic of snail mail, Trump is allegedly going to take the fact of that delay to get rid of mail-in votes. The current system is that for a mail-in to be counted it has to be postmarked on or before election day. The problem is that there is often a delay between when a vote paper is dropped in a mail box and when it is stamped. That means that votes posted on or near voting day might not get postmarked in time, so the vote is not counted. The only way that a person voting near election day can be sure of their vote counting is to hand the envelope to a post office and see that it is postmarked then and there. Not many people would do that. Of course, if they had election day on a Saturday, and didn't gerrymander the electorates, they might get a fairer election. But fair elections aren't what US democracy is about.

Pulling down the East Wing to build a ballroom an name it after himself; adding his name to the JFK Memorial Center, and calling his New Your Building Trump Tower, is a clear indication that Trump suffers from an Ediface Complex.

When you are President, you don't need a spray can to tag a wall.

My Dad told me of a notice that used to be displayed at unrinals in public toilets. Please do not throw cigarettes butts into the urinal. It didn't take long before there was a scrawled addendum to the notice, It makes them soggy and hard to light.

I don't know about the original arrow, but I was lead to believe that nowadays the location of the image of a fuel bowser on the instrument panel performs the same function.

There are three living species of zebra: Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi), the plains zebra (E. quagga), and the mountain zebra (E. zebra). Zebras share the genus Equus with horses and asses, the three groups being the only living members of the family Equidae. The skin of the zebra is black. The stripes are the result of differences in the concentration of melanin in the hairs - more melanin = black, less melanin = white. The differences in concentration can be explained by the concept of the Turing pattern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern . Sometimes this effect goes wrong and a zebra has a coat without stripes. In those cases the coat looks brownish, but may have feint stripes or small spots. Why does the zebra have stripes? Zebras suffer the scourge of flying, biting insects. Laboratory experiments have shown that alternating aras of black and white visually confuse these insects and they do not land on striped areas. Other experiments in which horses have been covered with striped horse rugs reduce the numbers of insects landing on the horse. (There's a commercial opening! Make horse rugs with a zebra pattern. I wonder if a checked or tartan pattern would work.)

Go back and watch the video for an explanation of how varience in a biometic feature is caused. The differences are not influenced initially by genes. The genes allow the production of the causative chemical, but it is the random distribution of the chemical within the organ that causes the varience. That explanation does not deny that genes are responsible for the correct formation of a substance. What Turing's idea is that the genes allow the production of a substance, but the biometric feature is the result of the density of the substance as it diffuses through the organ. Imagine pouring 10 mls of black ink into a litre of clean water. Do that several times and you will never get the exact same distribution of concentration of ink in the water initially.

We all know about the English mathematician, Alan Turing. He's the bloke who was very instrumental in developing a machine to decode German military messages created using Enigma machines. But what did he do after the war ended? Well he want back to being a mathematician working on developing computers. However, he must have got bored with that field of study. When Turing was 39 years old in 1951, he turned to mathematical biology, finally publishing his masterpiece "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" in January 1952. "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis", which describes how patterns in nature, such as stripes and spots, can arise naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern Turing proposed a model wherein two homogeneously distributed substances (P and S) interact to produce stable patterns during morphogenesis. These patterns represent regional differences in the concentrations of the two substances. Their interactions would produce an ordered structure out of random chaos. There's an explanation of this process in the attached video. Go to timestamp 3:18 It is interesting that the stripes of an individual zebra are unique to that zebra, in the same way as your fingerprints are unique to you. This individuality is also the basis of eye pattern recognition used in security systems.