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external hard drive. and we have online storage of our best photos at a site called smugmug. also, free sites like Imgur etc. but for the hundreds of thousands of photos we have, all are on external backup hard drives linked to our home network

obviously never heard of Auburn council then...

but sadly we are strangling industries out of existence trying..

sad thing is, i have been racially abused a few times, while travelling through Oz, and i have no choice but to take it, lest i be labelled the racist.

but also, by their own book, death by your own hand is a burn in hell offence.

speaking of ignorance, apparently, there is no where in the koran that approves of suicide, you take your own life, your going to hell with the infidels... Suicide bombing began with Al qaeda, and have been the weapon of choice for jihadis ever since.. so to me, says that those who commit these atrocities, have no actual idea of the religion they are killing and dying for, but are doing it as their religious teachers have been telling them this is what they have to do... funny how their usually always young men, easily influenced and brainwashed.. ISIS is trying to build up racism in the west with these actions. Every time they hear a redneck politician or radio jock screaming against "muslims" is another victory for ISIS. The more they successfully get "middle white [insert country]" to demand retribution against muslims and create divisions in western societies the more ISIS celebrates. They don't want a conventional "war" they want massive civil upheaval and use that to recruit those that feel vilified as they feel they are given no other course of action. Every shock jock slandering the broader muslim community is actually doing ISIS's work for them but they are too redneck to realise it.

A death cult has declared war on the West Whatever this is, it is not a clash of civilisations. The concept of "civilisation" scarcely comes into it. Nor is it a struggle between competing sets of values, or a religious war, or a battle with an alien culture. There is no debate here – as there was in the Cold War – about how it is best for men to live: the enemy has stated explicitly that it does not revere life at all. On the contrary, it is in love with self-inflicted death, which it sees as the highest moral achievement. Civilians are not collateral damage in this campaign: their deaths are the whole point. This is not even war in any comprehensible sense. Where are the demands, the negotiable limits, or the intelligible objectives? A bullet hole adjacent to the La Belle Equipe cafe in Paris. Photo: Andrew Meares It is not the modern world versus medievalism, or the secular enlightenment trying to deal with fundamentalist religion. It isn't anything that can be encompassed in the vocabulary of coherent, systematic thought in which we are now accustomed to describe the world. This is just insanity. Advertisement There is no point now arguing about the historical or theological roots, about correct or incorrect interpretations of the Koran or even the social role of Islamic leadership. When the lucid try to impose logic on behaviour that is pathological, they will be driven into a dead end – or waste time coming to blows among themselves on matters that are no longer relevant. What we are faced with is a virulent and highly contagious madness, a hysterical death cult which has, almost by accident, fallen on the fertile ground of global circumstances: chaos in the Middle East, confusion and lack of resolve in the West and the awakening of a ruthless, opportunistic power base in the East. Le Carillon in Paris on Saturday. Photo: Andrew Meares But there is no time any more for international recriminations or parochial introspection. The old enmities and suspicions – between the West and Russia, Turkey and the Kurds – are going to have to be put aside in the name of one unified, relentless effort to stamp out an epidemic of murderous lunacy. Civilians are not collateral damage in this campaign: their deaths are the whole point. This time there isn't even the "logic" of the Charlie Hebdo attacks whose pretext was the blasphemous depiction of the Prophet. Just the slaughter of random innocents, many of whom may have been Muslims themselves, carried out for the sheer nihilistic thrill of it. It is that thrill – the brief absolute power of anarchic terror – that is going to have to be forcibly suppressed with all the weapons at our disposal. Francois Holland declared that France would provide "a merciless response to [these] ISIL barbarians". But the question remains: how do you respond to unreason? All the things that make an enemy – however evil and malign – predictable, analysable, and intelligible are missing here. The actions make no sense in any terms that are within common understanding. The prospect of free, unchecked movement between EU countries was one of the great attractions of those thousands of people who arrived at the un-policed external borders. Once having set foot on European soil it is possible to move from one end of the Schengen zone to another, to become effectively untraceable, seeking out the most favourable circumstances in any country at any moment. It is an economic migrant's dream, which may be no bad thing, but it is also an open field for terrorists – a thought which obviously occurred to Hollande when, on Friday night, he closed the French borders, presumably indefinitely. The wire services are reporting as I write that a Syrian passport was found on the body of one of the terrorists. If this turns out to be true, it is going to raise fresh controversy about the EU policy on migration – even about the accommodation of Syrian refugees who had been considered one of the most unambiguously deserving categories of asylum-seekers in the current wave. France and its attitude towards Islam are already being analysed and dissected for all they are worth. Is it the willingness of the country to become involved in action in the regions claimed by Islamic State that has incited this terrible vindictiveness? Or the enforced secularism of the society in which such a large Muslim minority lives in alienation from national civic norms? Armed police guard the Bataclan Theatre after Friday's terrorist attack. Photo: Getty Images Was it the French military intervention in Libya, or the banning of the burka that was responsible for this havoc? Maybe none – or all – of the above. But none of this speculation is to the point. France has the honourable and consistent foreign policy that it has. It is a proudly secular republic which made the decision to separate civil life from religious observance several centuries ago for what it believed then – and believes now – to be historically sound reasons. And what is the alternative that is being demanded? Sharia law? The subjection of women? An end to liberal democracy? Are any of these things even within the bounds of consideration? What could be accomplished by national self-doubt or criticism at this point, when there is not even a reasonable basis for discussion with the enemy? If there is any need to argue about these matters, it should come at some other time. This debate cannot be conducted at the point of a gun held by a madman. Whatever the attitudes of France's authorities, whatever mistakes might have been made in the assimilation of North African or Middle Eastern minorities, the French people did not deserve this, just as Americans did not deserve 9/11. It is wicked and irresponsible to suggest otherwise. The indiscriminate mass murder of civilians must put an end to that. The sane people of the world – even when their ultimate objectives differ or conflict – will need to join together now to stamp out, by whatever means are necessary, a threat to all varieties of civilised life.

Give me a modern car any day over an old solid built like a brick outhouse older car.

i wonder if they have implemented water restrictions yet?

still a kickstarter project, a long way to go yet, others have promised the same and failed so far....

years ago when i had a turbo petrol subaru forester, the manual stated any fuel octane above 95, i usually ran it with 98. but one day, the independent servo up the road advertised that E10 was also 98 octane. on the usual 98 unleaded, i would get around 450Km to a tank, and plenty of power. but on the 98 E10, i was lucky to get 300Km from that tank, and at full throttle and boost pressures, the ECU would retard the timing and other controls to the point where it would no longer accelerate. felt like the more throttle you gave it, the more someone was ripping on the handbrake. i decided that the cost saving for using the E10 was no where near worth the loss of economy and power. either that, or i just happened to get a bad batch of E10, either way, never used is since in a petrol car. (also, im not a fan of mandating a food substance to make automotive fuels)

yeah mine was the last shape, only got it then as it was the last that was not required to have the Diesel particulate filter or use the ablue fluid. though im pretty sure the newer ones dont require it either, cant comment on the 2015 models though. it now has 110,000km in 3 years, and still averages 5.1L/100km over all those Km's and with 280Nm torque, just a little less than a V6 Commodore, makes it perform more than expected, especially on highways.. Last week i was at Cameron Corner, and watched as someone filled up his petrol V8 Landcruiser, towing a huge off road camper, that was an expensive fuel stop. as for modern hybrids, i cant understand why they dont use small diesle engines in place of petrol, especially when they are doing nothing but turning a generator to provide the car with electricity, eg, Holden Volt.. or even the Mitsubishi PHEV...

i am cringing at those numbers, thats why i love diesels, and especially cars, im driving it to hard if i get over 5.3L/100Km economy, a good Hwy run at 4.3L/100Km and im happy.

please introduce cyclist rego, i cant wait to cycle right down the middle of the road on my way to work..... i will be paying, so its my road as well... /end sarcasm even though i pay income tax, and rego on 2 cars already.... so technically, i will pay more tax towards the roads than motorists.... whoohooo! i am entitled to more road when on my pushbike! (dont forget, in NSW, road funding comes from consolidated revenue, so every taxpayer pays for the roads... regardless if they own a car or not)

so, not as entitled as a car driver doing 70 kph on a 100kph stretch of single lane highway?

funny how no one mentions irresponsible car driver? just search the web for dash cams Australia, you will be surprised! cant believe how some get their licences.. i dont understand the hatred by motorists towards cyclists, i ride to work, on combines cycle paths and backroads only, i do not ride on main roads, its simply to dangerous. but even on 40kph limit backstreets i still get abused by motorists, even stuff thrown at me, even though im riding at the speed limit, and not slowing traffic as the road is easily wide enough...constant yells of "get off the road you phuckin cyclist!" though if i ride on the footpath, you get, ride on the road you phuckin cyclist!' from pedestrians.. (who funnily enough walk all over the place deaf to the outside world with headphones on or earbuds in and dont hear my warnings that im passing them even though the paths are combined cycleways and i pass them with at least a 6 ft gap) it seams to be a uniquely NSW and QLD thing... not so much in Melbourne, but not heard of in Europe. i guess its an Australian cultural thing, the same type of thinking exists in the aviation community, GA Vs Raaus etc et... just imagine how the aviation industry would advance if we treated each other as equals.. just like the aviation industry in the USA... no one at Oshkosh whinges about "those bloody ultralight pilots!!" airline crews dont whinge about "those pesky bugsmasher pilots!" the reasons i ride to work, its easier to loose weight keeping fit than save weight when packing the savannah!! and i dont spend money on fuel.. every Kg i loose, is another Kg of gear i can pack on a fly away!

nope, cant see it, no mention of keeping to the left of a LANE anywhere.. all i read is keep left of the road (unless overtaking) or on a motorcycle. so, keeping as far left as practicable, which in the case of pushbikes, sometimes can be the middle of the lane, someone opening a car door can on you can be fatal, as it throws you into the middle of the road. so, for safety reasons, the middle of the lane it is in some situations, such as narrow bridges maybe.... where riding in the far left will mean an inconsiderate driver will try to squeeze past, risking a collision with the cyclist, or forcing the cyclist off the road...

just imagine if car drivers actually followed the rules, and made room, or god forbid, actually slowed down to accommodate cyclists! as they legally have to, as cyclists are considered vehicles they actually have the right to take up a whole lane, that is the law, like it or not... imagine if the cyclist was a truck, you would drive differently... and if you think bikes should be registered, well then, that will just make it harder for car drivers, as a cyclist myself, if i have to pay rego, i will take all the lane all the time, as my rego entitles me too. as it is now, i ride to be safe as possible and considerate as possible, (something i wish most car drivers would) sometimes the safest course of action is to move into the lane to protect me from cars driving too close and pushing me off the road into whatever may be beside me. be it a car door, or wall, or fence, whatever...

ohhh politics... ill get the popcorn! Ps, there all as bad as each other, too many professional politicians and not enough leaders!

get as much evidence as you can, and see the company Human resources manager, they are obliged to help you, and keep things anonymous

something you dont see everyday from the air on the east coast, this between Gerroa and shoalhaven heads south of Sydney.. A nice tornado path right up to the top of Mt Coolangatta in the distance. fortunately no one was killed, but a few farm houses destroyed

feel like an adventure? buy a postie bike in Darwin, a few Jerry cans, some lightweight hiking tent/sleeping bag/food, then ride all the way via anywhere you want. has been done before. some all the way from syd to London.

Qantas/Virgin will fly from Ayres Rock to most if not all capital cities. dont forget, The "Rock" is 450Km west of Alice Springs.

i remember the days when my father paid drivers to relocate vans... was good fun... if you rent a 4x4, you can head south from Alice, to Odnadatta, then south east along the track past Lake Eyre, to Maree, then south through the flinders to Hawker, then Peterborough to Mildura, then across the Hay plains to Syd.