Well you can't really expect Australians to pick fruit or be hospitable.
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I've retired self funded but why work when you can "have nothing and be happy" on the roll
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But yet they do to keep the country going in its time of greatest need just like the first ANZACs.
Such sacrifice by so few for so many. I hope we can get support for a Wall of Honour where they can be named and we can pay homage.
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I read today that the NDIS Scheme is now costing more than Medicare. We really should acknowledge the sacrifices these Australians picking fruit and being polite are making so they can pay truck loads of tax to keep the whole thing afloat until after the election.
The back room power brokers need time to think up the next agreed bipartisan lie.
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The back room power brokers need time to think up the next agreed bipartisan lie.
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I might have shared this video a few months ago but it gives a little insight to computer challenged people like me, about analog vs. digital. The bloke mentions a computer company called Mythic which I think we have touched on before.
I emailed the host who is part Australian about how Brainchip has made advances in Spiking neural networks and the type of situations our tech can be adapted to. Hopefully it might motivate him to explore the future with Brainchip. BTW these videos each receive 4 to 6 million views.
And for something totally different yet fascinating, here is another Veritasium video done recently partially about some venomous Australian snakes. Scared the pants off me!
I emailed the host who is part Australian about how Brainchip has made advances in Spiking neural networks and the type of situations our tech can be adapted to. Hopefully it might motivate him to explore the future with Brainchip. BTW these videos each receive 4 to 6 million views.
And for something totally different yet fascinating, here is another Veritasium video done recently partially about some venomous Australian snakes. Scared the pants off me!
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Now there is a lie for them to run with universal income. They could claim to be paying the dole to 300 million low income earners on distant planets around the universe how would we ever audit it. LOL
The naivety of the Australian electorate is staggering on the Solomon Island China issue. In the Wheat Board scandal the defence was the only way we can compete when selling to the tin pot regimes that pass themselves off as democratically elected is to pay bribes just like China and others in this space.
Australia was hauled over the coals for the payment of bribes to sell Australian wheat for Australia and made scape goats of those at the Board. The fantasists here in Australia joined with the United Nations in decrying this conduct with nations like China and Russia cheering them on as they just continued on their merry way paying bribes and assassinating people who disagreed with their democratically elected leaders.
Now ignoring the past and all the evidence it is Australia's fault that China has been able to hijack the Solomon Islands. The worlds former greatest Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern who was lauded by the left and middle of politics here in Australia with the way she has embraced her island brothers and sisters in the Pacific was also blindsided on this yet it is all Australia's fault.
We here need to accept that outside Australia the majority of the World's population live in countries where they do not play by the rules. They do not prosecute their own soldiers for killing the wrong people in fact they give them medals. They do not play fair in trade and bribery of corrupt officials is only criticised if they miss the deal because they did not offer enough to secure the required agreement or sale:
"The AWB oil-for-wheat scandal (also known just as the AWB scandal) refers to the payment of kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein in contravention of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Humanitarian Programme. AWB Limited is a major grain marketing organisation based in Australia. For much of the 20th and early 21st century, it was an Australian Government entity operating a single desk regime over Australian wheat, meaning it alone could export Australian wheat, which it paid a single price for. In the mid-2000s, it was found to have been, through middlemen, paying kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein, in exchange for lucrative wheat contracts. This was in direct contradiction of United Nations Sanctions, and of Australian law.
AWB delivered 90% of the Iraqi wheat market, before its practices were questioned in 2005. United Nations investigator Paul Volcker found that the Australian Wheat Board, and later AWB Limited, were not the only, but certainly the largest source of kickbacks to the Iraqi regime. The Australian Government also launched a Royal Commission, which recommended that criminal proceedings commence against 12 people. Ultimately, criminal charges were dropped by the Australian Federal Police. Several Australian civil cases were however successful. Since the payments were discovered, AWB Limited has undergone a major restructuring, losing its monopoly supply of Australia wheat exports, and appointing an entirely new management. However, its profitability continues to suffer.
Although AWB and by extension the Australian Government were not the only entities to be implicated in the Oil-for-Food scandal, the event earned a place in Australian political consciousness"
Our share market is allowed to be the play thing of overseas institutions on the spurious basis that we need liquidity and competition what an absolute joke.
Then these foreign manipulators transfer the profits offshore, do not pay tax, then bring back their ill gotten gains and buy our assets because it is great to have a safe harbour outside their own countries with the rule of law and a stable democracy that will protect their property rights and not imprison or prosecute them without due and fair process which requires evidence even though the whole world knows what they are doing.
The purpose of the above rant is to ensure ordinary retail investors understand that they cannot compete all they can do is try and get on the life boat before it is launched and stay seated even when while being lowered it starts to tilt because someone on the ship has stuck a spike in one of the rollers to try and make room on the life boat by tipping out and drowning a few retail holders who panic and let go of their seat.
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HopalongPetrovski
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I have just retired recently too, after 46 years in the workforce and am also self funded but don't think I'd be very "happy" trying to survive on $40 a day. For some people circumstances are just hard and sometimes "things" just turn bad. From my perspective I want there to be a decent safety net available for "hard times" which can befall any of us. I have had need of it at a certain point in my life and benefited from it, although found it to be very poorly administered at the time. I worked my way out of that situation but only through "knowing someone" who gave me a much needed break, allowing me an opportunity which I seized and ran with. I don't want a dog eat dog society that just spawns more problems. We have evolved beyond that. GLTAH
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I just read a very informative article in the Betoota Advocate about this very subject!
Bondi's Pommy Backpackers Left Heartbroken Now That Sydney Is Basically Glasgow With No Good Pubs — The Betoota Advocate
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After two years of closed borders due to the pandemic, it seems Australia’s recent climate-changed aided weather patterns are doing very little to encourage wide-eyed young foreigners back to our shores. Whether they are ustudents that come from disgustingly...
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Agree entirely but the system is flawed and abused. I never had a true career criminal client who was not also receiving government benefits of some form. Why not it is a nice little earner and takes little time to put in place when you are happy to lie and can thereby manipulate the system. One family enterprise of parents and two brothers a real case. The brothers did Break Enter and Steal as their primary occupation and had been arrested a number of times over the years. They shared the carer duties of their two parents and received carers pensions. Their father was on long term Workers Compensation benefits and their mother on sickness benefits. When they came to me they had been arrested again for a series of break and enters which in accordance with their previous form they could not have possibly committed unless there was DNA or fingerprint evidence as they were with their parents all night. The brief of evidence was served and of course there was DNA evidence so their alibi defence was abandoned immediately and they then wanted to rely upon their carers duties as being a reason they should not go inside again. They moved on at that time when they were told they would have to pay my fees as legal aid would not provide a private solicitor grant and used the legal aid solicitor again paid for by your taxes. They were all young enough that they would be now able to take advantage of the NDIS scheme. Experience makes some of us very cynical as to the ability of the system to help those who both you and I know need such assistance.
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So now you're unmasked as Rumpole.
And we thought John Mortimer was making it all up.
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No not a lot of fiction in the works of John Mortimer that is why I loved Rumpole and refuse to watch most Australian police shows well actually all of them much to my wife's annoyance but she accepts that this is better than my constant corrections of the script. LOL
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Something for you to either watch or listen too @Fact Finder
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AI in Law Enforcement – presented by Monash Tech Talks
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HopalongPetrovski
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I'm sure the system is abused and understand that cynicism develops amongst those caught up in it and in those trying to assist.
It is often notably present in medical practitioners too.
I guess I view it similarly to any system or process whether in nature or by design, in that, none of them are perfect and all are subject, at the least, ultimately to entropy.
Lights produce heat as an unwanted by-product of their function, many suffer and die, apparently randomly, in nature, as evolution enhances a species adaptability to changing environments. I don't expect systems to perform flawlessly or without waste or inequities, and even though it may be considered a Pollyannaeristic view I merely hope for better things for all of us. But I recognise it as such, and would not knowingly put my hand in a lions mouth expecting other than to be bitten.
We do what we can for others, accepting that there will always be the poor and sick and unwise amongst us.
I am sure you have managed much good in your time as evidenced by your contributions here and though we oft rage against the machine, for some, wisdom comes as by-product of our being.
Thank you for what you have done for the greater good.
GLTAH
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Sorry I switched off after a short time. I have been jaded by the system.Something for you to either watch or listen too @Fact Finder
AI in Law Enforcement – presented by Monash Tech Talks
When I studied law one of my Professors was fully immersed in the campaign to close mental hospitals and create safe houses in the community for these lost souls. I argued with him in a tutorial that from a practical point of view I was against the idea simply because my limited life experience told me that out of sight out of mind was a government embraced concept and that closing down such hospitals would allow lip service but in the end these community houses would be underfunded and understaffed and we would find increasing numbers of these lost souls in the prison systems.
My idea was shut down by the Professor who lived in his academic tower with higher ambitions and well today we have academics decrying the numbers of mentally ill in gaols around the country. These artificial think tanks are full of these academics and PR Cops now engage with them rather than confront them because of politics as they are simply there to try and create credibility and appear caring and responsible.
This is not the role of a constable at common law. Police enforce the law they do not make the laws. Injecting Police into the process of making the laws is fraught. If they are given a law that is impossible to enforce for some practical reason they hand it up the chain of command to the Minister for Police setting out the practical issues. Then it is up to the Parliament who represent the people to sort out.
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I recall somewhere Sean saying the business would be a net user of revenue until 2025, perhaps in relation to funding sources such as LDA. I may have injected my thinking into this so take with a grain of salt - but if it was accurate then something would have had to change to make it breakeven in 2022 or even 2023. I'm hopeful of more revenue in the next quarterly but still don't expect to shoot the lights out until 2024.
Of course, our SP should move ahead of a 2024 revenue explosion so I'm still excited under my scenario above.
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