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Tough call! A certain number keeps coming into my mind - 1984.

Furniture from the 50s is called Mid-Century Modern. Speaking of words we use without really knowing what the thing is the word describes, would you know what an algorithm was if you tripped over it?

Histroy has given us Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Vlad the Impaler and Ivan the Terrible. Now we have Donald the Destroyer.

I stood upwind. The incineerator was in a rural area. I stoned the crows.

I did identify the plant just after nomad posted the picture, but I clicked the wrong button and left the thread and could not remember which one it was. I remember clearing out a house which was being used to grow these plants hydroponically. I think the count wa around 300 plants. They were beautiful specimens of the species. If it was legal to grow them, they would have walked away with First Prize at any horticultural comptition. Too bad I had to take them to an industrial incinerator and burn them.

Have you noticed that trhere never seems to be any videos in which a Democrat politician says anything to advance the Democrat cause? We nver hear anything about the Democrats' campaign for the upcoming mid-terms.

Back in the early days of the Internet, we relied on dial-up modems and bulletin boards? Do you remember which search engine you used? I can recall one called Ask Jeeves. Founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California, the service became one of the earliest prominent search engines on the World Wide Web during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The "Jeeves" branding was discontinued in 2006 and relaunched as Ask.com, focusing more directly on competing with major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! Search, and MSN Search. Ask.com was shut down on May 1, 2026, ending nearly three decades of operation.

President John F. Kennedy delivered the famous "We choose to go to the Moon" speech on September 12, 1962. The moon landing occured on July 20, 1969. Compared to setting up a steel plant from scratch, that was pretty quick. Trump can make all sorts of artillery announcements - "we're gunna ...", that sound great, but how long would it take to make those announced projects come to fruition? Ten years represents the balance of his Presidency and two more Presidential terms (no matter which Party wins the Presidency).

The bloke I was talking to was a volunteer at the railwya museum. https://www.nsw.gov.au/visiting-and-exploring-nsw/locations-and-attractions/tocumwal-railway-heritage-museum I would visit the aviation musuem first, of course.

I met a bloke from Toc who came into the Op Shop one day. He told me that there is also a railway museum there. I've been meaning to go to Toc. It's a 6 hour drive from home.

Be careful of accepting what is in that video. It has all the hallmarks of AI Slop. I start to get suspicious as soon as I see that bright yellow band on the bottom. I've seen heaps of videos with that identical design. Also if you open to the first bit, you will see hands that are too clear. It appears to be an image created by AI. If it was fair dinkum, it would be from a TV source and would be a bit fuzzy.

If my dog escapes from my yard that I have taken all reasonable steps to secure, and bites the postman, I'm liable.

I don't need to quote a AI source. I have seen that quoted in a documentary about Colman's business, but then again, that documetary was on Youtube.

Why is it that the number of slices in a standard loaf of bread is uneven? If one uses two slices to make a sandwich, and the end crusts are whole, one ends up with a single slice left over when all the pairs of slices have been used.

That is the taskthe Crown must complete in order to gain a conviction. There's manyu an offender who has not been prosecuted because the Crown says, "We know you done it, but we can't connect all the dots to prove to a jury, without allowing for an alternative, but reasonable, explanation of the evidence the Crown has gathered.

Bail refused. Kept on Remand until the Trial has been completed. It takes a long time for such very serious cases to come to Trial. Two years from time of charging would be quick. Witht eh number of charges involved it will take a long time for the evidence to be collated in a format that can be placed before the Court. The wheels of Justice grind slow, but fine.

On another topic, Trump has banned certain media organisations from attending the White House. Those organisation are, of course, taking the ban to Court on the basis of their being contrary to the First Amendment, which creates prohibitions on Congress making laws in three areas. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. I wonder how these legal actions will go. While one could reasonably argue that the ban vio;ates teh First Amendment, Trump could quite easily counter by saying that the grounds of the White House are restricted areas for security reasons and that entry entry thereto by any person depends on that person gaining the appropriate security clearance. And we know that the grounds for deny the clearance in Trump's world are pretty flimsy.

This is a double-barreled post as it could go here or in the AI thread, but Trump has declared that reported concerns about uncontrolled AI are fake news. Call me cynical, but that makes me wonder how much the Trump Organisation (the private family business) has got invested in AI companies. Also, he has indicated that mastery of AI is a race between the USA and China. It seems that AI has become the 21st Century's Arms Race, with the common people being the victims.

Here is a real content creator illustrating how AI has created content by cloning his voice and even mimicing the studio set in which he creates his material. Needless to say that the real person has been attacked by those Free Speech champions who support the White House administration.

Trump makes Idi Amin look like a Nobel Lauriate.

It's ironic that the game created in Victoria, and derided for so long by the followers of other codes in other States, will have its 2026 competition decided by teams from at least one State which was amongst the deriders.

I heard that it has been suggested that Australia and New Zealand also become associate members of the EU. Probably just an idle suggestion floating around in the wake of the offer to Canada.

I read Jerry's "conversion" for pilots to mean converting from, say FAA licence to Australian licence. I don't think he meant type conversion.

Don't forget that these centres run 24/7, so basically you need the number of employees per shift multiplied by three. Then you have to add in for holiday and sick leave and other approved leave. The imgaes that are sometimes posted of one or two people walking through rows of servers probably hide the real numbers on site.