old man emu

With the 50 cal machine gun fitted, and on a swivel, I wouldn't be reliant on maneuvering to escape it.

The English Police use a slightly modified Reliant Robin

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Reliant Rugged Robin • Gear Patrol

Getting back to old mate Donny.

If there's one good thing he can lay claim to is it that he is the only POTUS who has done anything to ease relations between the USA and North Korea in nearly 70 years. Sure, he started off with a p!ssing contest, but once that became a dribble, he's had more meetings with the President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea than any other POTUS. At least the two Presidents are sitting down at the table together. Their philosophies are an alpha/omega pairing, but if they can reach the middle mu/nu pairing on peace, then Don will have done his country, and the non-Communist world a great service.

Have a look at the hardly-used, council-owned sports grounds and in any city or town. Sport is being subsidised in that way at the grass roots.

Perhaps it's up to the governing bodies of sports associations to encourage spectators to go to female sports events. More gate takings means a bigger pot from which to ladle out financial rewards to the players who bring in the crowds.

I liked the Two Ronnies, but the script of that skit makes me cringe.

And our law is, if you do something to a pregnant woman, and the unborn dies, you killed it.

The Soviets were helped early on by Lend Lease until their industrial capacity got up to speed.

Getting back you young Donald -

People say he isn't intelligent. I think he is as intelligent as the average Yank. Unfortunately, the intelligence of the average Yank isn't very high compared to other countries.

I wonder how Gay-Bashers would like it if their sexual antics were broadcast to the world.

Does being LGBT adversely affect a person's ability to effectively carry out the task they have been employed to do? I think not. Would the Enigma code have been broken of Turing's thinking had been befuddled by his sexual orientation?

I'm beginning to believe that anyone who takes a the violent stance in word or deed against another person simply because of their sexual orientation is, in fact, making a display of their own inadequacies.

The only things I dislike about some LGBTs is foppish behaviour in males and male bashing in females. As a matter of fact, I'm getting sick and tired of females on both sides of the fence continuing to nag about how badly done by they are.

He's saying that teh Venn diagram would probably show that a high percentage of people who voted No to SSM would also be the one who donated money to the ACL campaign.

That's where comment.

Of course the value of crumple zones is limited by the Force of the impact, which is mainly dictated by the velocity of the bodies at impact. The reason for having crush zones is that they extend the time over which the impact force is applied, thereby reducing the rate of acceleration (or deceleration in an collision) of the struck object. In occupant safety, this reduction in the rate of deceleration helps the human body to survive the collision forces.

In classical mechanics, impulse (symbolized by J ) is the integral of a force, F, over the time interval, t, for which it acts. It is the rate of change of Momentum

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Momentum = mass x velocity

M = mv

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where

F is the resultant force applied,

t1 and t2 are times when the impulse begins and ends, respectively,

m is the mass of the object,

v2 is the final velocity of the object at the end of the time interval, and

v1 is the initial velocity of the object when the time interval begins.

The longer the time over which a force is applied reduces the magnitude of the impulse.

Imagine you are playing golf. The idea is to move a ball of known mass over a distance. The usual way is to apply a large force to the ball for a short time:

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The impulse, J, is high because the force is applied for a very short time. And because the golf ball is very resistant to deformation, the majority of the force is used to acceleration the ball, i.e. to increase its velocity. Try getting the same distance when you hit a squash ball, which will deform at when the golf stick hits it.

Another function of crumple zones is to dissipate the impact force by using it to deform the structure of the body and create noise, which is the result of directing impact force to the surrounding air to dissipate it as energy waves in air.

In the G.O.D.s if you hit something solid in your car, chances are that you would be severely injured as a result of your body colliding with the interior or the car. Now we travel securely attached to the inside of the vehicle with parts of the interior designed to pop out at you to restrict how far you move. The interior of the car is covered with energy-absorbing material. The cabin of the car is designed to remain undeformed while the rest of the car progressively crumples to dissipate energy and to reduce the momentum pulse.

The introduction of random testing for alcohol has dramatically reduced the usual blood alcohol levels of affected drivers from pre-random testing levels. In 1982 the number was 1253 (23.6 deaths per 100,000 people). RBT was introduced on 17 December 1982, and from then on the fatality rate has steadily declined. In 2018, 353 lives were lost in traffic collisions in NSW. Unfortunately, the explosion in the use of drugs by that section of the population which has the least experience in driving has not reduced the crash rate.

There will always be a base line of road fatalities due to unforeseeable circumstances (medical causes; true accidents, and vehicle or roadway failures). It is the foreseeable causes - intoxication, fatigue, stupidity that we must try to eliminate firstly by education, and secondly by penalty.

Why doesn't that surprise me?

Petrol jumped from $1.23.9/L to $1.65.9/L.

Well, it's Melbourne's turn to pay the high price. Fuel in southwest Sydney is down the the mid-$1.20s. It always amazes me that the price of fuel is always lower in areas where people of Middle Eastern origin have chosen to live in Sydney.

Yes, the younger generation is wealthier, but does it enjoy a stress-free lifestyle? I think that's where the Australian lifestyle we enjoyed in our youth has gone. It seems to me that our young people are intent on scrambling over each other to make loads of money, which they use to gratify themselves immediately. Ask those youngsters you know when was the last time they made up a picnic of sandwiches, small tasties and the makings of a hot drink and went out to relax in the open air. They'll probably tell you that they would prefer to spend the day at a cafe with a view, eating and drinking nouveau cuisine or its current equivalent.

I know that we bemoan the lack of employment in traditional occupations, but these youngsters are creating new occupations. Although my thought is that these new occupations seem to concentrate on ways to separate others of their generation from their money.

I was taught that even the worst of sinners can turn to God and God will accept them with open arms.

Luke 15:7

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

I wonder how Folau would take it if he was constantly referred to as a "coconut" of a FOB?

What I'd give for a fine stiff!

Here's what I sent in reply:

Thanks for your thoughts on Brexit. They are worth considering since they come from someone "in the know".

I can see why those of our generation would want out. I have some young Brit relations who also support getting out. From way across the Seas, I see the exit as a door opening to the members of the Commonwealth of Nations to re-establish the trade links that were broken by entry into the EEC. I wonder if Britain can pull up its industrial bootstraps to get back to its industrial strength of the mid-20th Century. The thief in the night is the USA which has to be the greatest war-mongering nation on the planet.

Admittedly, the loss of easy of travel across the Channel will affect both the young and old of Britain, but they can get used to using the Foreigners' line at Immigration just as we citizens of the Commonwealth do at Heathrow.

And he said:

I wish that your scenario could come to pass, but I have my doubts. There is nostalgia for the past, but in mid-century the UK was a slowly but steadily declining economic force, Commonwealth links and all. PM Thatcher got the UK into the EU as almost a desperation measure to try and stop that decline. Industry was hollowing out. While globalisation has continued to make manufacturing jobs disappear since then, the revival of the motor vehicle industry was due precisely to the UK’s entry into the EU. Those car companies are now rethinking their investments because of Brexit. It is just hard to see how being inside the largest and richest market in the world is worse than being outside it, or how the Commonwealth will compensate for that. The UK’s trade is mainly with the EU, and the UK will now have to renegotiate all its trade relations (tariffs etc) with a much bigger and stronger trade bloc. Agriculture is a good example of how things will be tricky. Some Brexiters are strong free traders but others are in favour of the existing level of EU subsidies continuing, which will be costly and which the UK will have now to pay out of its own budget.

Having said all that, it is the case that the EU is far from perfect. I think it will stumble on as an institution because its members will not be able to agree on how loose or tight they want their relationships to be (i.e. a United States of Europe, or a looser association of independent nations). It may fail in the end. But meanwhile I suspect Brit politicians will miss being able to blame ‘Brussels’ in future!

I have a schoolmate who, before he retired, was near the top of the European political/economic tree. I asked him for his opinion of the effects of Brexit, and this is what he said:

As regards Brexit, I am not a fan, for so many reasons, – economic, social and institutional. Business decisions will mean a slow but steady drift of companies and investment out of the UK and slower (albeit hard to measure) growth than would otherwise be the case if the UK had stayed.

Younger people, who feel comfortable with being ‘ European’ as well as being British, were outvoted in the referendum by older, white, English people, either nostalgic for an England that no longer exists, or simply want to put into practice their long-held (but no longer valid) feeling of superiority over mainland Europeans. These Brexiteers will not pay the price for their decision….younger generations will.

There is a real risk to the stability of the United Kingdom, with Scottish independence claims now actually having a valid basis, rather than just some long-held anti-English resentment. The Irish border issue is very relevant but no Brexiter has come up with a solution to it. Finally, while the EU itself is far from perfect, it has been patient and reasonable in the negotiations to date, hoping no doubt that Brexit would not in the end occur. I fear that whoever becomes PM will seek to cover up all the UK failings in addressing real issues by being aggressive to, and then blaming, ‘Europe’ for whatever happens next….which is wrong, but fits neatly with the feeling of superiority referred to above.

I suppose his opinion sounds a warning to the British - Invest in your country, or go under.

Pucker up, Hot Lips

Old Fart

Let's go have a look what Laws the God of the Isrealites made for them:

Ten Commandments: King James Version

God's Law, the Ten Commandments, is expressed in Exodus 20:2-17 (KJV) with the following:

“I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

6. Thou shalt not kill.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s."

The only law that directly related to sexual relations is No.7. Any other law that a society makes is a Law of Man, which, if God is supreme, then the Laws of Man are inferior.

Later, the Son of God warned

Matthew 7:1-3 King James Version (KJV)

7 Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

So, in the colloquial sense, Christ said, Watch out for Karma. It'll come back and bite you in the rrs

Then there's the other Tapestry

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You really can't malign most youngsters. Given encouragement they will work hard when it's needed. The problem is that the philosophy of the education system has been that everyone should get a diploma or degree. Nowadays, when a person completes a trade orientated course they have met the competencies that enable them to be given a diploma of qualification. In the majority of careers, qualification at the diploma level is sufficient to begin the life of a tradesperson, as long as the person is willing to maintain a level of continuing learning, be it through attending courses or by gaining experience through doing the work.

If one was critiqued some professional degrees realistically, it would be found that the same skill level could be reached by completing a diploma. It's only the snobbishness of doctors and lawyers that demands a Degree level education in order to practise.