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But the motor vehicle industry grew on the foundations of a century-old manufacturing sector. Motor vehicles were just another product. The same can be said for the British aviation industry. What about the production of portable digital devices? Fifty years ago most of those types of products were only in the development stage, at best. However, once the designs were established countries with an existing manufacturing basis started to produce them, or set up manufacturing centres where the costs of infrastructure and labour were less than in the designer's home land.

That's the formula for the creation of a banana republic. You have to remember, too, that a population of 27M does not create a domestic market that promotes a manufacturing sector, but the application of technology means that 27M can support very profitable raw material production. I have been thinking about the exchange rate of the Australian dollar against the currencies of our trading partners. New Zealand seems to be the only country where one unit of our currency buys a fraction more than the other's. In Jan 23 the AUD was trading around 0.70 USD. on 24/12/24 it was trading at o.62 USD. That's a 12% decrease, which means that our imports are 12% dearer.

Notice that the things onetrack talks about are mainly extractive activities. When Australians try to establish a manufacturing sector those foreigners manage to stifle it, either by buying out the manufacturer, or using their greater manufacturing output elsewhere to bring in competing products. Look at the agricultural manufacturing sector. Chamberlain set up a tractor manufacturing business, which was eventually sold to John Deere. Sunshine Harvesters was bought out by the Canadian Massey Harris Company. We've recently mentioned the Donaldson-Tippet, and we can't forget the Furphy water cart of rumour-mongering fame.

Or would be if they could be.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas.

Based on his prior history, one could conclude that Dutton's nuclear policy is simply smoke and mirrors aimed at trying to convince the electorate that his mob have any sort of policies to handle what a government should handle, as well as a way to divert the attention of any other Party or Independent from working towards good government.

An old dieting tip was to push your chair away from your plate. Nowadays, it's 'don't drive into the drive-through'. Maybe every fast food outlet should be required to display this sign at its entrance:

If one of your brothers or sisters is in a long term family relationship, which used to be called a de facto marriage, is it correct to refer to the other half of that relationship as an in-law? Given that our Family Law considers such relationships to have the same legal standing as relationships formalised according to the Marriage Act, shouldn't our day-to-day terminology reflect that standing? Call me out-of-date, but I shudder when I hear those people referred to as "partner". To my mind, the use of "partner" was a euphemistic way of describing the other half of a same-sex relationship before they became more accepted and the Marriage Act was amended.

I think Asimov's Foundation series is good sci-fi because it deals with humans in an environment where the sci-fi elements are mainly background elements and it is the human reaction that are the story. That's if I recall the gist of the series correctly. Long time since I read it. No bug-eyed monsters or non-human invaders.

I heard the same broadcast. A reason not to defund the ABC.

I thought a "cage" was a frame enclosed by mesh. Plenty of air flow.

When you are dealing with an essential service such as electricity supply, it's a good idea to consider Murphy's law in planning. I'd bet the cost/benefit analysis of redundancy comes out strongly on the "benefit" side. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

That only applies if the worksite is on a nudist colony.

I needed to pop into town today to grab a few things from a couple of shops. I realised that I really didn't need to put on good clothes if I put on a Hi-Viz shirt and work shorts. Since it's a weekday, people will think that I'm a worker wearing the standard sort of worker uniform. I hope that fact that I was wearing thongs, not workboots didn't destroy the illusion.

Originally, battery comes from the Latin battuere , via Old French baterie "beating, thrashing, assault" with an alternative meaning referring to bashing fortress walls to an term for a unit of artillery. In 1748 Benjamin Franklin was experimenting with electricity added the meaning of "electric cell" perhaps from the artillery sense via notion of "discharges" of electricity. In the military sense, an artillery battery is composed of a number of canon, so the idea of "a singular containing a multiple" is reasonable. However, a collection of individuals is often now called and array since "array" can mean an ordered series or arrangement, as in "an array of photovoltaic cells constituting a solar panel".

It all boils down the the disciplined application of information that we already have. The biggest problem is sorting the wheat from the chaff in that information.

Unfortunately, you must remember that it took years to make yourself obese, therefore getting un-obese will take time. For most of us, weight loss is a matter of changing habits. We have become overweight by eating servings that are too large for our needs. We also need to allocate time to the preparation of our meals so that we don't give up and head off to the local takeaway to get a serving of food for our self which could actually feed two persons.

You are correct in saying that there is no backup if the lines are damaged, or a local transformer fails. I was just trying to find out what a competent planner should do to look for ways a system can fail, then make plans to deal with the failure.

A good system always has a backup just in case something goes wrong. If you were connected to a community battery and for whatever reason it went off line, what would be the backup to supply electricity to the community overnight until the battery was returned to service?

Please explain what this is.

The fourth and fifth pillars are simply "feel good" statements of the type usually included in this sort of Statement of Values waffle. They don't set goals and are not quantifiable. They are public relations bullshit. If we are going to be realistic about methods of power generation, we will have to admit that, although nuclear is an option, Howard made sure that we missed the boat. We should accept that and take advantage of the advances in solar generation and the storage/distribution of electricity so generated. Expanding hydro generation might prove impossible due to Australia's low rainfall (he said ironically) and topography not suitable for water storage. Not to mention the costs of building dams and the changes to the environment from flooding suitable catchment areas.

Technically, yes. Someone who holds the Office of Constable is an independent entity, answerable only to the Monarch. However, to enable efficient and effective law enforcement, those independent entities are bound together in an organisation. By being bound together in an organisation, there can be standardisation in the many areas such as operational procedures and administration. I am using the term "constable" to include persons holding NCO and Commissioned ranks within the organisation as their powers of arrest are the same as the newly attested constable. When it comes to law enforcement, it is the individual constable who brings an allegation before a Court. In other words, if a constable brings a person before a court using poor supporting evidence and the allegation is dismissed because of a want of good evidence (not on some technicality) then the constable could be made to pay the legal costs of the person accused. Normally if an Order for Costs is granted, the police organisation pays on behalf of the constable. So. The individual constable has the ability to use discretion to deal with a breach of the law as circumstances dictate. That can range from simply a direction to move on, with no further action if the direction is obeyed, to apprehension and initiation of proceedings. However, this ability to apply discretion has been eroded due to the very many independent overseers of police activity, whose raison d'etre seems to be to vilify everything constables do. This has resulted in the development of a culture of "covering your arse", which leads to the abandonment of discretion and automotin-like action. It was the opinion of working police that they did. When I joined the NSW Police, I was trained at the Redfern Police Academy. The curriculum dealing with Law and Police Procedures could be equated to an apprenticeship in which experienced police taught recruits what they needed to know to operate as General Duties police. There was no mention of policing theory. As for ethics, the teaching was simple: "There are three things that will get you into trouble - gash, bash and cash. Avoid them". When the Police Academy moved to Goulburn, training became more academic. Great emphasis was placed on integrity. These recruits were indoctrinated to believe that everyone who had gone through Redfern was corrupt and that it was the duty of Goulburn graduates to record and report any type of action that wasn't on the straight and narrow, no matter how little the deviation. As a result, the use of discretion was looked upon as deviating from the One True Path, so its application withered away, resulting in the black and white law enforcement we see today.

My reason for pointing out to a driver that they had offended, but giving them absolution (Catholic reference there) was that they would have a great story to tell their mates around a bar-b-que, and that the interaction between themself and the Police and also the reason for the interaction, would be remembered, with the hope that a recurrence would occur. But then, I worked a stretch of the Hume Highway where I could "fill a book" in a shift, so, like a recreational fisherman, I could throw the occasional one back. However, one had to be careful that the speeding motorist wasn't a undercover member of the Professional Integrity Unit, aiming to lay some allegation of corruption on you.

Neither the car nor the road caused the car to travel at an unacceptable speed. It was the driver. Punishment does have an effect on reasonable people, but there will always be a few unreasonable ones amongst us. I suggest that the punishment must include re-education, or in fact, education as well as penalties. I also feel strongly that there should be a greater effort made to change the "book him, Danno" approach to law enforcement which is the culture of traffic law enforcement. Perhaps if Australian police adopted the British approach and only prosecuted the outrageous, but were prepared to do more waving of the angry finger at minor infractions, then perhaps overall compliance might be improved. I have to agree with Spacey in that governments rely very heavily on income from traffic fines to meet other Budget requirements. Declining to issue On-the-Spot infringement notices is one of the best tactics police can use as a bargaining chip when trying to negotiate employment awards. A week's worth of income from fines would often meet the extra expenditure of pay rises.

Thanks. That is sufficient answer to my question. I do realise that the number of photons striking the generating surface is dependent on the angle between the Sun and the surface. If I remember my traffic radar training correctly, this difference is due to cosine error, which introduces a numerical factor resulting in a lower actual value than the theoretical value. I would have thought that heat would have a positive effect on solar electricity generation, since heat increases the energy of a substance, making it more likely to shed electrons. Perhaps the opposite is correct and heat lets the substance hold on to its electrons more strongly.