Play Nice Random Chat Thread V

[Twinkletoes]

I don’t know sh*t about computers and the internet, but I’ll always remember that when Labour was outed not long after they started rolling out their version, think it was some really expensive fibre (sorry can’t remember what it was called), we were going to have one of the fastest in the world...then Liberal came in and scrapped it for the NBN, my mate who’s into that stuff told me that what the Libs were rolling out would be obsolete before the project was finished. He was 100% spot on. 3rd world countries have faster Internet then us. Embarrassing really.

Yeah, they (Turnbull and co.) ended up signing off on the cheaper coaxial (old tech incapable of handling high traffic and speeds) cable from the street to the home option, rather than fibre all the way from base to node to streets then homes, which would’ve maximised the speed. The crap option was always going to be rubbish.

I was in NYC, just after the announcement, where their high speed fibre optic network allows instantaneous upload and download speeds. That was 2013 ffs.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

Yeah, they (Turnbull and co.) ended up signing off on the cheaper coaxial (old tech incapable of handling high traffic and speeds) cable from the street to the home option, rather than fibre all the way from base to node to streets then homes, which would’ve maximised the speed. The crap option was always going to be rubbish.

I was in NYC, just after the announcement, where their high speed fibre optic network allows instantaneous upload and download speeds. That was 2013 ffs.

Yeah, I remember at my workplace in 2013, we had a couple of tech guys in a meeting and they were pulling their hair out at the poor decision.

 

[Val Keating]

Our bloody governments just change stuff up when they come in and we end up with some half arsed crap. The east link is another example. I curse those basterds every time I’m sitting in traffic on Alexander parade or Elliott avenue.

 

[Forever North]

Nice.

FMD, let’s draft this guy.

 

[goalieboy82]

Scamper from my yesterday:

he was hunting a mouse (don't know if he got the mouse)
from my today, since i wasn't able to see him last week and he was all happy to see me today (this was taken while during my lesson itself)

 

[goalieboy82]

 

[goalieboy82]

my family has this book, no wonder he got fat at the end (the drugs help a little too)

 

[giantroo]

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Good.

 

[Del191229]

Victorian Government establishes Australian Institute of Infectious Disease

Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

www.abc.net.au

I recall having a long discussion with Snake_Baker about the relationship between politics and science.

Here we see spelled out how science needs politics in contemporary Western capitalist societies like ours.

 

[andana]

PARIS (Reuters) - French forces have killed Bah ag Moussa, a military leader of al Qaeda’s North Africa wing, during an operation in northeastern Mali, France’s Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Friday.

The former Malian army colonel, also known as Bamoussa Diarra, was a right-hand man of Iyad Ag Ghali, the leader of Mali’s most prominent jihadi group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), which has repeatedly attacked soldiers and civilians in Mali and neighbouring Burkina Faso.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing intelligence officials.

 

[B4Bear]

SA taxing electric vehicles based on KMs driven. How dumb can you get?

They don’t pay fuel excise, so contribute nothing to road maintenance.

Not agreeing, just telling.

 

[Del191229]

PARIS (Reuters) - French forces have killed Bah ag Moussa, a military leader of al Qaeda’s North Africa wing, during an operation in northeastern Mali, France’s Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Friday.

The former Malian army colonel, also known as Bamoussa Diarra, was a right-hand man of Iyad Ag Ghali, the leader of Mali’s most prominent jihadi group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), which has repeatedly attacked soldiers and civilians in Mali and neighbouring Burkina Faso.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing intelligence officials.

First is most likely true.

Second is almost certainly bullshit.

 

[Themanbun]

They don’t pay fuel excise, so contribute nothing to road maintenance.

Not agreeing, just telling.

Yeah I understand that aspect of it. This article does help put to bed some of the arguments about the hit to government coffers, though: https://electricvehiclecouncil.com.au/electric-vehicle-tax-myth-busted-by-new-ey-analysis/

 

[goalieboy82]

3 more likes until 10000 likes.

 

[goalieboy82]

3 more likes until 10000 likes.

there 10000 likes.

 

[rickety]

there 10000 likes.

Now you have bookends

 

[Del191229]

So jury trials werent permanently scrapped.

see see

Legal system celebrates the return of 'wonderful' jury trials

The suspension of jury trials means there is a backlog of about 1000 accused people awaiting trial, many in custody.

www.theage.com.au

 

[goalieboy82]

So jury trials werent permanently scrapped.

see see

Legal system celebrates the return of 'wonderful' jury trials

The suspension of jury trials means there is a backlog of about 1000 accused people awaiting trial, many in custody.

www.theage.com.au

how about a Kangaroo Court then:

 

[Sopwiths North]

I think the world needs more "Strandbeests". They're kinetic sculptures created out of plastic bottles and pvc tubing by Dutch artist Theo Jansen. His original intent for them was to help prevent shoreline erosion.

As he puts it: "The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds."






"The walking Strandbeest is a body snatcher. It charms people and then uses them so they can’t do anything else but follow, and I am the worst victim, you could say. All the time I think about them. Always I have a new plan, but then it is corrected by the requirements of the tubes. They dictate to me what to do. At the end of my working day, I am almost always depressed. Mine is not a straight path like an engineer’s, it’s not A to B. I make a very curly road just by the restrictions of goals and materials. A real engineer would probably solve the problem differently, maybe make an aluminum robot with motor and electric sensors and all that. But the solutions of engineers are often much alike, because human brains are much alike. Everything we think can in principle be thought by someone else. The real ideas, as evolution shows, come about by chance. Reality is very creative. Maybe that is why the Strandbeests appear to be alive, and charm us. The Strandbeests themselves have let me make them.”

 

[Chadwiko]

Yet another example of how Trump and his cronies on the right distort the truth & lie to push an illegitimate agenda.


You may have seen this tweet from Trump yesterday;





The tweet from Andy Ngo he was quoting was this one, which appeared to show a man being attacked for no discernible reason;





However, in a shocking twist, the full video has now come out and the man in the original video was (drumroll please...) the aggressor all along.

 

[giantroo]

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Yet another example of how Trump and his cronies on the right distort the truth & lie to push an illegitimate agenda.


You may have seen this tweet from Trump yesterday;

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The tweet from Andy Ngo he was quoting was this one, which appeared to show a man being attacked for no discernible reason;





However, in a shocking twist, the full video has now come out and the man in the original video was (drumroll please...) the aggressor all along.

Andy Ngo is a campaigner.

 

[andana]

Hi vis animals now

Biofluorescence, in which short wavelengths of light are absorbed and longer wavelengths are re-emitted by living organisms, has been observed in a wide range of fishes (Sparks et al. 2014), reptiles and amphibians (Gruber and Sparks 2015; Lamb and Davis 2020) and birds (Pearn et al. 2001; Weidensaul et al. 2011). Within mammals, biofluorescence of the pelage under ultraviolet (UV) light has been previously documented in nocturnal–crepuscular New World taxa including marsupial opossums (Meisner 1983; Pine et al. 1985)and placental flying squirrels (Kohler et al. 2019). Here we document the discovery of fluorescence of the pelage of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)—to our knowledge, the first report of biofluorescence in a monotreme mammal under UV light.

 

[rickety]

The 12th man on World Movies - a fantastic war story. Imo.