Open Thread – Weekend 9 July 2022


Bosphorus by Moonlight, Ivan Aivazovski, 1874

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Megan
Megan
July 9, 2022 12:03 am

Welcome to Bosphorus country.

Megan
Megan
July 9, 2022 12:05 am

Lovely representation of the Moonlight Serpent. So appropriate for NAIDOC. Week.

Megan
Megan
July 9, 2022 12:07 am

Pondering the mischief I can get up to all alone and unsupervised in the OT after midnight.

Whilst knitting. I’m not just partying here.

Megan
Megan
July 9, 2022 12:12 am

Was it something I said?

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
July 9, 2022 12:15 am
Nelson_Kidd-Players
July 9, 2022 12:23 am

Like what you’ve done to the place, Dover.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
July 9, 2022 12:24 am

Anyway, can’t let you have all the fun, Megan.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
July 9, 2022 12:25 am

In the last few minutes, I’ve heard two songs on the radio referencing Saturday night. Bit early…

Megan
Megan
July 9, 2022 12:57 am

Knitting project finished. Scotch finished . Heating turned off and cold is creeping up from floor level. Time to retire gracefully.

Bon soir, Nelson.

Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 4:09 am
Ed Case
Ed Case
July 9, 2022 4:39 am

Reasonable to assume that the real reason Johnson is getting turfed has to do with Ukraine.
Speculation elsewhere is that he’s looking to sign a LendLease deal with Zelenskyy while the latter still has authority to sign such a deal.
If so, it’s pretty disgusting and Johnson’s hands are covered in blood.

Ed Case
Ed Case
July 9, 2022 4:49 am

Boris in cartoon.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 9, 2022 5:58 am

Thanks, Tom. Interesting that some of the Americans are keeping their eyes on the well named UK.

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 6:00 am

1st

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 6:02 am

Morning inmates.
skid steer

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 6:18 am

Peak woke?

Wishful thinking.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 9, 2022 7:03 am

I hear on the opinion, what used to be called the news, Benny Wrong picked up the big ALDI bag.

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 7:13 am
lotocoti
lotocoti
July 9, 2022 7:25 am

Watching Once Upon A Time… We Kicked Goddam Hippy Ass last night,
it occurred to me the FBI’s mission statement is a bit different, these days.
Protect the Government of the United States and identify its enemies
seems about right.

calli
calli
July 9, 2022 7:32 am

Katie Hopkins talking about picking monsters. Like here the “conservative” pool is very shallow.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 9, 2022 7:32 am

The Dutch held their charts very close. Cook was believed to have a Dutch map in his possession as when he had to replace one of his masts sailed straight from NZ to Maryborough,a place he’d never been.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 9, 2022 7:33 am

stolen Dutch map

duncanm
duncanm
July 9, 2022 7:48 am

sfwsays:
July 9, 2022 at 7:43 am
Elons bailed.

as many predicted – he’s exposed Twitter’s false user numbers and outed the bot infestation without spending much at all.

Well done, that Elon.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 9, 2022 7:48 am

Confirmed: Twitter is a sewer.

Bring On The Lawsuits: Elon Musk Terminates Deal To Buy Twitter (9 Jul)

Late on Friday, Elon Musk decided to resolve the debate by effectively breaching his contract signed three months ago, and making a Delaware lawsuit inevitable, by announcing in a 13D filing that he is terminating his Twitter merger agreement, and claiming that “Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of that Agreement, appears to have made false and misleading representations upon which Mr. Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement, and is likely to suffer a Company Material Adverse Effect.”

Like the ABC the place is run by slimy slithering venomous employees who should all be fired immediately.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 9, 2022 8:09 am

The Legend of Joe Burgundy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 9, 2022 8:15 am

One for Cat farmers. Looks like the green wokerati have colonized John Deere.

John Deere Engineers Really Aiming To Build Battery-Powered Harvesters? (8 Jul)

As Pierre says: it’s hard to believe this is true, but then a lot of other insane stuff has been happening lately.

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 8:16 am

Just stop using Twitter, simple.

Dot
Dot
July 9, 2022 8:23 am

… and Facebook.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 9, 2022 8:25 am

… and The Cat, if you think it is full of spastics.

Dot
Dot
July 9, 2022 8:30 am

Like Dennis Leary said.

I am a spastic, and I am proud of it.

calli
calli
July 9, 2022 8:32 am

I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for the first time last night.

A good movie, not a great one. And at least an hour too long.

A trip down Memory Lane as far as the fashions, music, advertising and media. What struck me was the endless noise in the background.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 9, 2022 8:34 am

An early start for Rabz’s Radio show.
For the many spazzos watching.

132andBush
132andBush
July 9, 2022 8:35 am

BoN
The “quoted conversation” reads very much as a made up scenario in order to highlight the points, although in this epoch of stupidity maybe it’s true.
My harvester is the same as the one pictured and will average 60-70lts/hr when in good crop, 50-60 in light crop and peak over 90 in tough going and unloading on the go.
Some interesting conversions back to battery size there for a Saturday morning.

Deere have been developing small battery power autonomous tractors with spraying operations in mind, which I would suggest is the limit for ag, despite what some may regard as huge advances in battery tech.

calli
calli
July 9, 2022 8:35 am

I’m surprised Dover didn’t choose this for the new OT.

Swept away too soon.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 9, 2022 8:43 am

callisays:

July 9, 2022 at 8:35 am

I’m surprised Dover didn’t choose this for the new OT.

I had a post eaten by the WEF/Davos spaminator last night.
The story of the ABC “Asian expert” who was being interviewed by another ABC dweeb to push the ABC’s issue du jour (climate, Trump, whatever).
The “Asian expert” referred to Shinzo Abe but pronounced his name “Abe” … as in “Abe Lincoln”.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 9, 2022 8:44 am

Bruce of Newcastle says:
July 9, 2022 at 8:15 am
One for Cat farmers. Looks like the green wokerati have colonized John Deere.

Sounds unlikely.
Headers are mostly electric over hydraulic drive systems for many shafts.
Belts and chains from the motor for the big threshing components.
Propulsion is hydrostatic.
Running all this from an electrical source would still require oil for the hydraulics motors.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 9, 2022 8:45 am

132andBush.
There is also another little issue.
At a time when every minute of machine uptime counts, how long will it take to re-charge a header battery?

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 8:46 am

John Deeres owners are closet fruits, G&T snorting MAFS groupies.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 9, 2022 8:48 am

Beware armed squeegee men.

Man gunned down after confronting Baltimore squeegee workers, cops say (8 Jul, via Lucianne)

A motorist who confronted squeegee workers with a baseball bat in downtown Baltimore was gunned down in a heated confrontation, police said.

Timothy Reynolds, 48, was pronounced dead at a hospital Thursday following a late afternoon encounter with a group of youngsters cleaning car windshields for cash at Light and Conway streets near the city’s Inner Harbor, Baltimore police said.

No arrests have been made as of early Friday in the open and active investigation, a police spokeswoman told The Post.

Police Commissioner Michael Harrison told reporters Reynolds drove through the intersection and parked before hopping out of his car with a baseball bat, the Baltimore Sun reported.

Reynolds then “swung the bat” at one or more of the workers, Harrison said.

“In return, one of the squeegee workers pulled out a gun,” the chief continued.

I can see why squeegee pan-handlers might feel a need to carry a piece in Baltimore. Also I can’t say I’m surprised that no arrests have yet been made. The whole place is a pesthole.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 9, 2022 8:49 am

Gez, 132.
Just a guess, but maybe John Deere engineers are looking at “mild hybrid” to scavenge energy from the big spinning bits when they aren’t under load to charge a battery.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 9, 2022 8:53 am

bespokesays:

July 9, 2022 at 8:46 am

John Deeres owners are closet fruits, G&T snorting MAFS groupies.

We’re gonna need our nuclear flash sunglasses if Kenworth ever go all electric.
My 16 speed road-rager cashbox skills down the drain in an instant.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 9, 2022 8:53 am

I wonder how the remaining shareholders, now aware of how rotten Twatter is and how they have been dudded, and how an agenda was pursued at the expense of their returns might feel.

A resuscitated Twatter would have been in competition with Truth Social. Now there is one natural home for the right, and the two must now compete.

calli
calli
July 9, 2022 8:53 am

I love it Dover, along with so many others.

The Great Wave dominates, dwarfing the mighty Fuji-san. It’s only when you look closely that you see the three tiny, fugitive boats and their crews, challenging the inevitable disaster.

It’s one of art’s masterpieces. And all done in pen and colourwash.

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 8:56 am

Kenworth make cab overs so they aren’t all that bad.

calli
calli
July 9, 2022 8:57 am

It’s also a great example of the Fibonacci sequence and art composition.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 9, 2022 8:58 am

Sancho Panzer says:
July 9, 2022 at 8:49 am
Gez, 132.
Just a guess, but maybe John Deere engineers are looking at “mild hybrid” to scavenge energy from the big spinning bits when they aren’t under load to charge a battery.

Dynamos are very heavy for what they do.
Cotton pickers or other machines are easier to electrify than a grain combine.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 9, 2022 8:58 am

From the Gateway Pundit

“Canada to Destroy 13.6 Million Doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Because No One Wants it Domestically or Abroad”

Article mentions Canada ordered Vax for 5 X the population and rich countries hoarding whilst few overseas people had access. It appears some of the stock never left the manufacturers warehouse. Note can’t give it away.

Note how we have never seen any detailed article in MSM analysing how many we have ordered, how much used, how many sent overseas, how much etc. Earlier in week saw that we still had about 13 million of the original jabs and need to use it up, hence the 4th jab approval.

Indolent
Indolent
July 9, 2022 9:00 am

Here’s the Los Angelos Times with an article on how the real problem is the Constitution. And, for them, it is.

Column: Hate the Supreme Court? Our problems actually start with the Constitution

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 9, 2022 9:01 am

Gez all the functions on a harvester can be run by electric motors at a much higher efficiency. The problem will always be battery capacity until a quantum leap is made. Now a tiny nuclear reactor is a much better idea.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 9, 2022 9:01 am

‘It would be like destroying my children’, says grazier Ian Bebbington

Charlie Peel
Rural Reporter
@charliepeeled ?
6:27PM July 8, 2022
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To Ian Bebbington, the thought of culling his entire herd of Charolais cattle, carefully bred on his Darling Downs property since 1976, is almost beyond words.

But the growing threat of foot and mouth disease after it was detected in Bali this week has raised the terrifying prospect for many Australian cattle breeders and graziers of an outbreak among their herds.

“It is very scary,” Mr Bebbington said. “If it got into Australia it would be absolutely devastating.”

Mr Bebbington’s Mountview Charolais bull stud at Cambooya, south of Toowoomba, has been in his family since 1896 and runs 130 breeders, each carefully selected for desirable traits.

“It takes a long time before you get the genetics,” he said.

“If it got into our herd, that’s just … I don’t even know how to describe it. If tomorrow I had to go and shoot every animal in our herd, it would be absolutely devastating.

“It’s like shooting your kids. It’s your family, your livelihood.”

Aside from the emotional turmoil of having to destroy carefully honed gene lines, CSIRO modelling estimated an outbreak of FMD in Australia would cost the livestock industry $80bn.

Any incursion would put an immediate stop on all red meat exports and leave a long-lasting mark against Australia’s traditionally clean brand.

Confirmation of the virus in Bali on Tuesday, two months after it was found elsewhere in Indonesia, put authorities on high alert and prompted the federal government to tighten security measures for incoming flights.

Foot and mouth disease affects cattle, sheep, goats and pigs and can be transmitted directly by animals or carried in mud sticking to footwear or clothes.

There are calls for the government to ensure that farmers are guaranteed compensation in the event they have to cull their herds to stop the spread of the virus.

Mr Bebbington wants the federal government to stop at nothing to prevent FMD arriving in Australia. “I don’t care who is inconvenienced by it, it (security) needs to be ramped up,” he said.

That could include suggestions by Nationals leader David Littleproud for mandatory disinfectant foot baths at airports for passengers arriving from Indonesia, or mandatory inspections of passengers, as suggested by the National Farmers’ Federation.

Federal Agriculture Minister Murray Watt met with industry leaders and biosecurity experts on Thursday and committed to “implementing any sensible measures to prevent an outbreak here”.

“There’s a whole range of good ideas that came out of those meetings and we’re looking at those now,” Mr Watt said.

“I’m more than willing to do whatever is necessary … to make sure that this disease doesn’t get in the country.”

While the priority is still keeping the virus out, talk has also turned to what to do if it arrives.

The federal government has advised anyone working with livestock to monitor for the signs of FMD – “blisters on the mouth and drooling or limping animals”.

Industry groups Meat and Livestock Australia and AgForce have already told farmers to prepare for a local outbreak and to enhance biosecurity measures on their farms.

I hope the warm and fuzzy feeling the Gilliard Government got, when they banned the live cattle trade to Indonesia, based on fake footage, was worth it.

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 9:01 am

Looks like the green wokerati have colonized John Deere.

I’d say they’re being driven down this path – as ridiculous as it is – by the prospect of tighter regulations on agriculture as countries attempt to meet emissions reduction targets under the Paris Agreement. That’s essentially what’s behind the Dutch situation. With ag “responsible” for c. 15% of our emissions, Australian farmers and graziers have already been warned: the Albanese government will “work with you” to reduce emissions.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 9, 2022 9:02 am

Domesticated Cats and Kittehs

How can peppermint tea stains be removed from carpet?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 9, 2022 9:03 am

Mother Lodesays:

July 9, 2022 at 8:53 am

I wonder how the remaining shareholders, now aware of how rotten Twatter

I imagine they’ll be feeling a bit like someone who has had a $54 takeover withdrawn and their stock is trading at $36.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 9, 2022 9:03 am

Another big problem with big electrics on headers is the possibility of static charge build up and combustion.
We drag chains on machines to reduce the static for fire safety, though most header fires come from the exhaust systems.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 9:04 am

Valid questions from the corn cocky, in BoN’s link:

He said: “Ok, I have some questions. How do I charge these combines when they are 3 counties away from the shop in the middle of a cornfield, in the middle of nowhere?”

“How do I run them 24 hours a day for 10 or 12 days straight when the harvest is ready, and the weather is coming in?”

“How do I get a 50,000+ lb. combine that takes up the width of an entire road back to the shop 20 miles away when the battery goes dead?”

There was dead silence on the other end of the phone.

The piece doesn’t mention what style of ponytail the JD salesman had.

Crossie
Crossie
July 9, 2022 9:07 am

I just watched Katie Hopkins’ clip posted by a commenter where she explains that politicians don’t care about anything except themselves and that they are all monsters. That is why I thought that Trump would do the right thing by America.

Being an egotist he wanted everything he does to be a success and so he found out what the voters want. That got him elected but he actually proceeded to deliver knowing full well that is the easiest and quickest way to re-election.

This makes him the same as all the other politicians but he knew who needed to be convinced, who were his voters. Both Turnbull and ScoMo had the same egos to feed but they refused to find out who were their voters and what they wanted.

People who imagine themselves so clever are just snobs.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 9:08 am

Early blockquote fail.

First time, every time.

Crossie
Crossie
July 9, 2022 9:08 am

I forgot to mention that the link to Katie’s clip is in in the comments to Cassie’s post from yesterday.

rosie
rosie
July 9, 2022 9:10 am

<a href="http://museudearteantiga.pt/collections/art-of-the-portuguese-discoveries/namban-folding-screens&quot; my favourite Japanese art (best thing that ever happened in Japan)

Crossie
Crossie
July 9, 2022 9:15 am

Calli commented recently that her husband is looking for a battery for their home that is likely to cost $9000. That’s OK for people who can afford it but once again low income people and renters do not have that option.

It is the same with solar panels, subsidies only make it worse in the sense that, once again, low income earners and renters are locked out. Even worse, the subsidies come out of their taxes and are paid to those better off.

I have always maintained that subsidies for renewables are immoral.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 9, 2022 9:15 am

Is it too early to make a meme with Abe and the caption “I have information about Hillary which will send her to jail”?

Indolent
Indolent
July 9, 2022 9:15 am

Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
·
“The next crisis is just around the corner — it’s the climate crisis.”

His eyes are finally being opened to the fact that there is more than stupidity and incompetence involved here.

Frank
Frank
July 9, 2022 9:15 am

I am a spastic, and I am proud of it.

Reminds of one of the identities from the golden years of blogging that had the tagline “as stable as a canoe full of spastics”. It was a different time back then, the young kids wouldn’t understand.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 9, 2022 9:18 am

GreyRanga says:
July 9, 2022 at 9:01 am
Gez all the functions on a harvester can be run by electric motors at a much higher efficiency. The problem will always be battery capacity until a quantum leap is made. Now a tiny nuclear reactor is a much better idea.

Cheap too.
You should see the wiring harnesses on the bastards now.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 9, 2022 9:19 am

We’re not spastics.
We’re “otherly abled”.

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 9:20 am

Link broken rosie.

Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 9:20 am

Kenworth make cab overs so they aren’t all that bad.

The cab over was designed by an anally retentive homosexual trying to impress a fleet accountant he didn’t like.

Real trucks have big snouts with growly engines under them, just as God intended.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 9, 2022 9:21 am

He said: “Ok, I have some questions. How do I charge these combines when they are 3 counties away from the shop in the middle of a cornfield, in the middle of nowhere?”

Whinge. Whinge. Whinge. Complain.

You truck out a diesel genset and, bingo, 8 hours later you’re back doing whatever it is farmers do…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 9, 2022 9:23 am

The piece doesn’t mention what style of ponytail the JD salesman had.

Way back when, we brought a JD harvester that gave nothing but trouble. Confronted with a list of problems, the dealer issued a blanket denial – “you are the only customers having any trouble with the machine.”

My father placed an advertisement in a well known rural newspaper “Anybody having trouble with a JD harvester, model no ###, please ring ##### at ##### .” We received so many replies that John Deere flew a design engineer from the Eastern States. At the sight of the harvester, working in a paddock, he stood open mouthed. It was the first time he had seen a harvester working, up close..

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 9:25 am

‘It would be like destroying my children’

No it would not.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 9, 2022 9:25 am

I’m surprised Dover didn’t choose this for the new OT.

Kanagawa isn’t quite as exciting on the Tokaido.

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 9:26 am

It is the same with solar panels, subsidies only make it worse in the sense that, once again, low income earners and renters are locked out. Even worse, the subsidies come out of their taxes and are paid to those better off. I have always maintained that subsidies for renewables are immoral.

Modern politics is an ethical void.

It’s also a world where lobbyists have much greater access to politicians than voters do.

Without a voice to represent them in the halls of power (a voice? what a brilliant idea!) ordinary Australians have little say over policy and the legislation which puts it into effect.

rosie
rosie
July 9, 2022 9:27 am

The ‘Plenary Council’ laity if their agenda was fully exposed would have priestesses, same sex marriage, abortion, ‘mercy killing’ a rewritten woke bible, and every other load of rubbish on the woke agenda foisted on faithful Catholics.
Go away, the lot of you Marxist choristers.
The Church’s form of leadership is not the product of ‘cultural bias’ … No, this structure was put in place by God, it has a Divine mandate, that is not and cannot be limited by cultural or history,” writes Sandy Wallace.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 9:27 am

You just know that right this second, Ed October will be melting Wiki while looking for some special insight into combines nobody else apparently has.

Any flamer ‘connection’ will, of course, be the jackpot.

P
P
July 9, 2022 9:27 am

Boris Johnson, St. Thomas More and Heavenly Medicine
‘The King’s good servant but God’s first’ and other saintly links to the outgoing prime minister’s life.

It does seem that dates and saints appear to have run strangely parallel to Johnson’s political career. It seems to continue. The day on which Johnson’s premiership effectively crumbled, as his cabinet deserted him, leaving him prime minister in name only, was July 6. It is the day on which St. Thomas More, patron saint of politicians, was martyred at Tower Hill, a few miles downriver from the Palace of Westminster. More reminds us all too well that it is better to be faithful to the True King than to solely serve any earthly one. Perhaps, this morning, that sentiment is not lost on the incumbent of No. 10?

As St. Thomas More wrote: “Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 9:32 am

Musk wouldn’t have been playing with Twitter all this time.

Would he? The Hun:

Tesla chief Elon Musk is pulling out of his $A64 billion deal with Twitter saying he would terminate the $US44b takeover saying the company has failed to provide information the would-be platform’s chief needs to determine the true number of fake accounts run by spam bots.

The announcement by the world’s richest man caused Twitter shares to fall by 6 per cent in extrended trading on Friday US time.

Mr Musk said Twitter was “in material breach of multiple provisions of that agreement” and appeared to have made “false and misleading representations” when entering into the agreement, accdording to a letter from Mr Musk’s lawyer filed with securities regulators.

Franx
Franx
July 9, 2022 9:33 am

Spooner does not have it that involvement in the affairs of the Ukraine war is one of the spectres dooming Boris and the ship of state.

sfw
sfw
July 9, 2022 9:33 am

The cockies here can tell me if my figures are wrong. The article says that a header weighs around 25tonne, assume that the engine and fuel is around 5tonne, that leaves 20tonne for the rest of the machine. Now electric cars need batteries that weigh around half the car mass to get a reasonable range. So a 20tonne machine would need around another 20tonne of batteries? That makes all up mass around 40tonne, lots more problems there straight away, soil compaction, operating range in hours etc. I can’t see how they would be practical.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 9, 2022 9:34 am

I hear on the opinion, what used to be called the news, Benny Wrong picked up the big ALDI bag.

Old Faustus’ Almanac:

Australia’s Pacific Islands engagement policy will become as nuanced as Unzud’s.

Golden Fortune lies ahead for the Shenzen Grid Storage Battery Corporation – and a Great Reset for the Huawei Renewable Grid Control and Espionage system.

A Prime Minister will claim that adults have restored Australia’s standing in Asia.

calli
calli
July 9, 2022 9:34 am

I knew I’d cop some flak about the battery.

The discussion that I tried to start was not a two legs good four legs bad one, but a discussion on the economics and cost/benefit of a domestic battery. I prefaced it by saying that it is uneconomic for a normal household to buy one without it being heavily subsidised. In addition, the other driver will be the price of electricity and whether or not it goes up to the point of making such a purchase viable.

Are gensets going to be enough? Will they change the cost of electricity for households? Are they only good for one thing and not another?

After a lifetime of watching lefties sup on my tax contributions – personal, company and payroll and a plethora of fees, charges and levies – I am not unduly concerned about clawing a tiny fraction (which as I mentioned, will be repaid interest free) back.

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 9:35 am

Go away, the lot of you Marxist choristers.

Join the Uniting Church.

(Which they won’t do, of course, because the goal is to subvert and occupy the institution of the Catholic Church, with the help of useful idiots in episcopal vestments. We’ve seen the same in the Anglican Church.)

Zipster
Zipster
July 9, 2022 9:35 am

Recently, a team of researchers from France’s National Health Insurance program launched a population-wide study to investigate the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis due to COVID-19 vaccination. Tapping into a suite of nationwide hospital discharge and vaccine databases, the group analyzed 1,612 cases of myocarditis and 1,613 cases of pericarditis identified in the European nation from May 12, 2021, to October 31, 2021. Conducting a retrospective matched case-control series studies, the team discovered the risk for both myocarditis and pericarditis spiked the first week after vaccination. The increase in these cardiovascular-based adverse events increased even further after the second dose. Comparing both Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) and Moderna (mRNA-1273) mRNA vaccines, the study results, peer-reviewed and published in the journal Nature, indicate both mRNA vaccines introduce greater risk for myocarditis with the Moderna vaccine as compared to the Pfizer-BioNTech product.

rosie
rosie
July 9, 2022 9:36 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 9:37 am

Nick Kyrgios complaining that he isn’t being drawn into the pantheon of great Australian tennis players, who have rightly called him an arrogant disgrace (Hun, again):

“They haven’t always been the nicest to me personally. They haven’t always been supportive. They haven’t been supportive these two weeks. So it’s hard for me to kind of read things that they say about me,” he said.

Nick. This is happening because you’re a fuckwit.

Frank
Frank
July 9, 2022 9:38 am

Spastic and colon are two words that don’t go together very well. Nasty business that one.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 9, 2022 9:40 am

I have always maintained that subsidies for renewables are immoral.

Absolutely but the bogans keep voting for that shit so fuck’em.

JC
JC
July 9, 2022 9:40 am

James Caan- one of the craziest fucks ever. What a life.

Caan was married four times. In 1961,he married Dee Jay Mathis; they divorced in 1966. They had a daughter, Tara (born 1964). Caan’s second marriage to Sheila Marie Ryan (a former girlfriend of Elvis Presley) in 1976 was short-lived; they divorced the following year. Their son, Scott Caan, who also is an actor, was born August 23, 1976. Scott Caan’s godfather is Colombo crime family boss Andrew Russo. James Caan and Andrew Russo were friends since the early 1970s.

Caan was married to Ingrid Hajek from September 1990 to March 1994; they had a son, Alexander James Caan, born 1991. In a 1994 interview with Vanity Fair, Heidi Fleiss claimed to be in a relationship with Caan during his marriage to Hajek in 1992, visiting him on the set of Flesh and Bone in Texas. Caan denied any involvement with Fleiss.[citation needed]

In 1994, Caan was arrested and released after being accused by a Los Angeles rap artist of pulling a gun on him.

Caan married Linda Stokes on October 7, 1995, they had two sons, James Arthur Caan (born 1995) and Jacob Nicholas Caan (born 1998). Caan filed for divorce in 2017, citing irreconcilable differences.

Caan was a practicing martial artist. He had trained with Takayuki Kubota for nearly 30 years, earning various ranks. He was a Master (6 Dan) of Gosoku-ryu Karate and was granted the title of Soke Dai by the International Karate Association.

He also took part in steer roping at rodeos and referred to himself as the “only Jewish cowboy from New York on the professional rodeo cowboy circuit.”

Caan supported Donald Trump during the 2016 United States presidential election. He described himself as “ultra conservative”.

According to a profile of Barry Minkow in the magazine Fortune, during the production of the biopic based on the investor’s life, Caan socialized with Minkow and was made aware by him that the financing of the film involved illegally obtained funds. Nothing suggests Caan had any involvement with any illegalities.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 9, 2022 9:41 am

Modest is the word of the day, apparently.
Don’t have Faceplant and transcribing a bajillion alpha-numerics to verify isn’t high
on today’s to do list.

rosie
rosie
July 9, 2022 9:41 am

The vaxx ghouls obviously scour the msm for deaths of people aged 53 and under which they can attribute to vaccines, whether or not they have any idea if the person had ever been vaccinated, don’t bother talking to their families or any other courtesy.
Donna Taylor, 38, had been suffering from headaches and high blood pressure, but her family said her death was a complete shock

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 9:42 am

Absolutely but the bogans keep voting for that shit so fuck’em.

One of the “learnings” of the last election was that the more bogan you were the more likely you were to vote right of centre.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 9, 2022 9:43 am

Now a tiny nuclear reactor is a much better idea.

I’m onto your game GreyRanga.
You’re proposing a steam powered harvester.
Just as long as I get a steam whistle.
Toot toot:
-Need a truck
-Paddock finished.
-Where’s my lunch woman?

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 9, 2022 9:43 am

calli, home generator electricity is expensive, but improves with scale, but melted down fridge and freezer food likewise. I’m looking to get over the rolling blackout scenario not the SHTF.
Your development could possibly deal with that for a few weeks while a black grid is brought back up at considerably less cost than individual home generators.
How many houses in the development? Do you have any designated open space?

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 9:43 am

It’s the…ahem, educated middle classes who vote Labor/Green/teal.

JC
JC
July 9, 2022 9:44 am

How could he not be crazy, he was born in the Bronx.

Caan was born on March 26, 1940, in The Bronx, New York City, to Sophie (née Falkenstein; 1915–2016) and Arthur Caan (1909–1986), Jewish immigrants from Germany. His father was a meat dealer and butcher. One of three siblings, Caan grew up in Sunnyside, Queens. He was educated in New York City, and later attended Michigan State University (MSU). He was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity during his two years at Michigan State. During his time at MSU he wanted to play football but was unable to make the team. He later transferred to Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, but did not graduate. His classmates at Hofstra included Francis Ford Coppola and Lainie Kazan.

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 9:47 am

Real trucks have big snouts with growly engines under them, just as God intended.

Cab over have there uses and iv no need for a phallic symbol.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 9, 2022 9:48 am

If these folk get their idea working we will have nuclear fusion powered cars, harvesters and individual home power units.
https://www.avalanche.energy/index.html
I’m following it as I’m a fan of Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) fusion ever since seeing Doc Bussard on Youtube give a talk about it at Google in 2006. The Avalanche guys have a slightly different take.

calli
calli
July 9, 2022 9:48 am

How many houses in the development? Do you have any designated open space?

About two hundred over five different strata plans and one community plan. Some are in condos and apartments, others are in individual, torrens title land but still controlled by the strata plan.

There is plenty of open space.

Getting an emergency power plant to cover even a tithe of it will be more difficult than achieving peace in the ME. 🙂

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 9, 2022 9:50 am

Getting an emergency power plant to cover even a tithe of it will be more difficult than achieving peace in the ME. ?

Wait until after an extended power outage lasting a week or more.

JC
JC
July 9, 2022 9:51 am

A couple of mafia deaths in the past few days, Dover.

Paulie and Sonny.

Get this. Paulie’s real life bro.

From your twitter link.

Robert Sirico is his brother, an openly gay priest who founded a far right think tank in Michigan. Very interesting family

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 9:53 am

Paulie Walnuts:

-Tony Blundetto: It’s hard to believe. My cousin in the old man’s seat.

– Paulie ‘Walnuts’ Gualtieri: It’s like “Sun-Tuh-Zoo” says: a good leader is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

– Tony Blundetto: What?

– Paulie ‘Walnuts’ Gualtieri: “Sun-Tuh-Zoo – He’s Chinese Prince prince Matchabelli.”

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 9, 2022 9:53 am

calli, a 1.5 MW or so diesel generator will do the lot. Maybe a couple of 750KW would be better. That’s around 1000hp each which isn’t a huge unit.

calli
calli
July 9, 2022 9:54 am

Yes, Eyrie.

By that point gensets of any sort will be scarce due to high demand. And knowing the way governments behave, fuel prices will have gone to astronomic prices and will also be scarce.

Mater touched on supply last night, focusing on piped natural gas. We should also be aware of petroleum products and the ease with which they can be withdrawn as well.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 9:54 am

– Paulie: That’s why dinosaurs don’t exist no more.

– Feech’s date: Wasn’t it a meteor?

– Paulie: They’re all meat eaters!

– Christopher: Meteor, meteor.

– Paulie: Take it easy.

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 9:54 am

He also took part in steer roping at rodeos and referred to himself as the “only Jewish cowboy from New York on the professional rodeo cowboy circuit.”

I didn’t know Caan was Jewish.

Caan must be a contraction of Kahn/Cohen.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 9:55 am

The best line of that series:

– Big Puss: What’s going on with that Princess Di?

– Paulie: Last time I take a limo in Paris.

– Christopher: Like you were ever in Paris.

– Paulie: I went over for a blowjob. Your mother was working the bonbon concession at the Eiffel Tower.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 9, 2022 9:55 am

By that point gensets of any sort will be scarce due to high demand

Looking at the MaxWatt website that already seems to be the problem. Lots of models out of stock.

JC
JC
July 9, 2022 9:59 am

Dover
You lived in the Bronx, right? Near the Bronx.

You in 16 years I never went “inside” the Bronx except on the outskirts driving along the Westside highway.

Bronxville is really nice in parts, which isn’t the same thing . Just across the river.

JC
JC
July 9, 2022 10:02 am

Roger

Authorities mangled names when immigrants arrived at Ellis Island. The dude at the counter may have written down the name phonetically. There are tons on mangled up surnames.

rosie
rosie
July 9, 2022 10:05 am

The PP of the parish I attend in qld has already rejected the woke, I’ve heard the words re respecting elders from his own mouth.
Ditto my Melbourne parish, it won’t happen.

JC
JC
July 9, 2022 10:06 am

Only in America.

Brother 1 becomes a member of the Colombo crime family, goes to jail and ends up becoming an actor.

Brother 2 becomes a priest, ends up gay and starts a far right group.

Where else can you possibly get such a combination.

That’s why you just have to love the place.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 9, 2022 10:07 am

KD at 9:37.

Nick. This is happening because you’re a fuckwit.

Weird.
He spews abuse at people then goes with a self-pitying bleat that he is being bullied.

We see more and more of that these days.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 9, 2022 10:07 am

Comment, over on the Oz, about the proposed “Voice” to Parliament.

Ian
35 minutes ago
Those pushing “The Voice” are the same ones that said “Dark Emu” was an irrefutable fact…this will end in tears

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 10:08 am

Authorities mangled names when immigrants arrived at Ellis Island. The dude at the counter may have written down the name phonetically. There are tons on mangled up surnames.

Yes, I know, JC.

I have a Gaelic surname which has been anglicised in several different ways over the centuries.

Caan is also a Dutch & Scottish surname, so I (wrongly) figured one of those must have been Caan’s ethnic ackground. Interesting character!

Rabz
July 9, 2022 10:09 am

Paulie’s hairstyle truly set him apart from his confreres. Here’s hoping Li’l Stevie hasn’t upset the Clintons.

Zipster
Zipster
July 9, 2022 10:10 am

“The next war in Europe will be between Russia and fascism, only this fascism will be called democracy by the Western world!”
Fidel Castro.

Crossie
Crossie
July 9, 2022 10:14 am

calli says:
July 9, 2022 at 9:34 am
I knew I’d cop some flak about the battery.

Calli, I expressed myself poorly. I didn’t mean that getting a backup battery is the wrong thing to do but that people are forced to protect themselves from consequences of our governments’ idiotic decisions. I meant that some people are better able to do that. There used to be a time when our governments looked after the people who could not. Today, our governments are in the business of humouring domestic and international cranks, lunatics and carpetbaggers.

JC
JC
July 9, 2022 10:14 am

Acton Institute isn’t far right.

The Twitter comment appears to be bullshit. He’s not gay and is a catholic priest according to his wiki page.

Where did you get he’s Protestant?

Rabz
July 9, 2022 10:16 am

Riddle me this, Cats – how is Biden’s handlers gifting of a chunk of the US SPR to the chinese commies not treason? Fatty Trump was impeached for way, way less (well, nothing in fact).

Also if you’d told me even ten years ago that we were going to be increasingly at the arbitrary whims of a bunch of globalist tyrants led by a cartoonish hitlerist determined to enslave the bulk of the citizenry in Western nations, I would have laughed in your face.

As for gerbil worming, 33 years of fact and evidence free anti-scientific horse manure. The greatest hoax in human history.

Yet here we are.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 9, 2022 10:17 am

Tom at 9:20.

The cab over was designed by an anally retentive homosexual trying to impress a fleet accountant he didn’t like.

I think it was in response to overall length regulations.
Less cab, more trailer.
Although Conway Twitty will no doubt show up to refutate my theory.

Rabz
July 9, 2022 10:19 am

Have there been any hypotheses posited as to why the former Japanese politician was murdered?

Hopefully not Arkancide (again).

miltonf
miltonf
July 9, 2022 10:22 am

Absolutely but the bogans keep voting for that shit so fuck’em.

One of the “learnings” of the last election was that the more bogan you were the more likely you were to vote right of centre.

People voted against that shit in 2014, 2019 and we got it anyway

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 10:23 am

He spews abuse at people then goes with a self-pitying bleat that he is being bullied.

Yep. For a start, it’s not ‘bullying’.

That word has had its meaning changed over recent years. If you don’t get what you want, and immediately too, it’s ‘bullying’. Differing opinion? bullying. Wearing the same outfit to work? A microaggression, and bullying.

Fat HR chicks across the country have made careers out of this fashionable horseshit.

miltonf
miltonf
July 9, 2022 10:24 am

I’ve been interested in going off grid for many years as opposed to having your cake and eating it too. It’s things like the electric oven, the iron and the washing machine that are the challenge.

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 10:24 am

Today, our governments are in the business of humouring domestic and international cranks, lunatics and carpetbaggers.

Just reading this over at Quadrant…

Speaking of Nigel Farage, that ardent Brexiteer told Fox News that Boris was elected as a conservative but governed as a liberal. Alas, that is largely true. Boris’s craven subservience to the “Green agenda” of the climate change fanatics and eco-nuts betrayed the country and help sow economic chaos. Deep down, I suspect, Boris must have known that (in the words of the commentator Robert Bryce) what the world needs now is cheap, abundant energy, period, full stop, end of discussion. In short, fossil fuels are mankind’s friend. The unpleasant irony is that their exploitation has made the world so rich that we have to put up with busybodies skirling about the dangers of climate change as they jet hither and yon to enjoy the fruits of a fossil-fuel-supported economy….

Roger Kimball

m0nty
m0nty
July 9, 2022 10:26 am

as many predicted – he’s exposed Twitter’s false user numbers and outed the bot infestation without spending much at all.

Well done, that Elon.

A billion dollars well spent.

calli
calli
July 9, 2022 10:26 am

All good, Crossie. No offence taken…at all. I like robust discussion, particularly problem solving ones. 🙂

I think it’s a discussion that’s worth having. As I see it we are faced with two inevitabilities:

– hugely increased power bills (including all forms of energy)
– inability to supply in the form of blackouts and shortages

So – what to do? Again, we have some choices:

– address the power bills by using less power, finding electricity from other sources, finding a cheaper provider, paying the bill and whinging loudly, suffering in silence

– address the short supply/blackouts by using gensets fuelled by petroleum products

It’s a Gordian knot tied tightly by stupid government policy. It won’t loosen any time soon. Even nuclear, which appears to be the best option, won’t come online for at least ten years, if ever.

Commenters here have been opining that, on energy supply, we’re up shit creek without a paddle. I agree with them. I’m just looking at plugging the holes in the canoe.

Frank
Frank
July 9, 2022 10:27 am

Fat HR chicks across the country have made careers out of this fashionable horseshit.

Like there are any skinny ones.

Rabz
July 9, 2022 10:28 am

Sacré bleu! Just when I thought the world couldn’t get any more insane, adidas decide to trash the legacy of one of their most famous shoes.

The “Gucci Gazelle”.

Absolutely perfect for all the Edies and Patsies on this planet.

The Horror.

m0nty
m0nty
July 9, 2022 10:30 am

Have there been any hypotheses posited as to why the former Japanese politician was murdered?

Could be anything really. Leftie annoyed by him being a bit militarist, rightie annoyed that he wasn’t militarist enough, or just a loon.

Hopefully it doesn’t become the new Archduke Franz Ferdinand event.

Frank
Frank
July 9, 2022 10:31 am

The deaths keep coming today.

Larry Storch, ‘F Troop’ Actor, Dies at 99

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 10:32 am

As I see it we are faced with two inevitabilities:

– hugely increased power bills (including all forms of energy)
– inability to supply in the form of blackouts and shortages

There’s a third inevitability that follows on from the above…a very angry electorate.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
July 9, 2022 10:34 am

I’ve said it a 1000 times ‘god invented fossil fuels’ , so burning them is doing gods work. Its righteous.

Anders
Anders
July 9, 2022 10:35 am

A billion dollars well spent.

He could have used that money to build no road.

rosie
rosie
July 9, 2022 10:35 am

‘Openly gay’ maybe but as a Catholic priest he has braced chastity.
“In the early part of the decade (70s), Sirico held Left-leaning political and economic views, even becoming involved with Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden and their Campaign for Economic Democracy.[19] However, after reading Friedrich von Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom, he became a libertarian”
He also went from Catholic to gay activist to protestant ministry in the MCC before returning to the church.
Robert Siroco’s life is even more interesting than his brother’s.

calli
calli
July 9, 2022 10:36 am

Roger, an angry electorate won’t supply electricity, just hot air.

If only we could tap into the house on the hill in Canberra.

Why did the people in the Hunter vote for Labor? Why did the people on the floodplains vote Green? People may be “angry” but they’re also stupid.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 9, 2022 10:37 am

Larry Storch, ‘F Troop’ Actor, Dies at 99

Vale Burglar of Banfffffff. We loved F Troop after school.

rosie
rosie
July 9, 2022 10:37 am

The murderer of Shinzo Abe has been identified.
Sounds like a loon with a personal, no doubt delusional, beef.

miltonf
miltonf
July 9, 2022 10:38 am

Well there is certainly too much of ‘because one side is bad, the other side must be good’

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 9, 2022 10:39 am

Once again munty you’re down at Bunnings looking for more rakes when you’ve already them all. I’ll type slowly so you can understand if that is possible. Musk offered $54 a share amounting to $62B conditional on them not lying about fake accounts and bots. Guess what genius they lied. Price today about $36. Company now worth $41.3B. No wonder you failed Economics. Musk just saved himself $19B.

rosie
rosie
July 9, 2022 10:41 am

Or he saved himself 54 billion

Rabz
July 9, 2022 10:41 am

There’s a third inevitability that follows on from the above…a very angry electorate.

Hopefully followed by a fourth – HOP Time™.

m0nty
m0nty
July 9, 2022 10:41 am

Why did the people in the Hunter vote for Labor? Why did the people on the floodplains vote Green?

Probably because the Libs abandoned them when they got gazumped by climate change.

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 10:41 am

Roger, an angry electorate won’t supply electricity, just hot air.

On the contrary…politicians ignore angry electorates at their peril.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 9, 2022 10:42 am

About two hundred over five different strata plans and one community plan. Some are in condos and apartments, others are in individual, torrens title land but still controlled by the strata plan.

Good luck getting agreement on anything. I live in a strata quadruplex with 4 owner-occupiers and cannot even get the front gate painted.

Dot
Dot
July 9, 2022 10:42 am

Caan was a practicing martial artist. He had trained with Takayuki Kubota

Good lineage.

Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 10:42 am

Larry Storch, ‘F Troop’ Actor, Dies at 99

Comic genius. What a splendid innings.

Dot
Dot
July 9, 2022 10:43 am

Tzu! Tzu ya freakin’ idiot!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 10:44 am

On This Day, 1500 years ago – global warming:

551 – A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affected the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths.

m0nty
m0nty
July 9, 2022 10:45 am

Musk just saved himself $19B.

He has to pay a billi0n dollars to Twitter for welshing on the deal, and they are suing him for more.

His net worth has dropped US$70 billion this year.

Spinning this as a win for Musk is just silly.

Dot
Dot
July 9, 2022 10:46 am

1. Listen to Sunty Zoo.
2. Steal lawnmower.
3. Put maintenance man on worse contract than before.
4. Tell the King of Breadsticks to go pound sand.
5. Get your pain in the rear soldato to set him up, revoking his parole.

That is how one wins without fighting.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 9, 2022 10:46 am

Why did the people in the Hunter vote for Labor? Why did the people on the floodplains vote Green? People may be “angry” but they’re also stupid.
Same as blacks voting Decromat. If only Stalin knew. People are more stupid than first thought. Nah I thought they were that stupid from a young age observing my parents.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 9, 2022 10:46 am

Mercedes From Hell – Last I’ll Ever Buy

I’ve been a happy Mercedes Benz driver for about 40 years now. A couple of the old mechanical diesels (built like a tank and many going 1/2 million to 1 million miles); a couple of gas wagons, a “baby benz”. The latest is the newest, a 2008 ML320 Diesel (CDI) bought to be a Tow Vehicle (there was a long mulling over in prior postings).

Between the turbo fix and the sporadic misfiring, there was the day the car just did NOT want to unlock or open up at all. The Battery was DEAD. How, after driving 3000 miles, did it die when parked for a couple of days? Well… At the Mercedes (st|d)ealer I was informed that if left for a single month, most new Mercedes will kill the battery (partly it depends on how many Mercedes key fobs walk by and need interrogation / partly on if ANY of a few dozen things get stuck on sucking juice). I got a nice new battery installed and that was “only” about $400. See, it is under the passenger seat. It has piping to bring it cooling air. You get to cut the carpet under the passenger seat to get to it. Oh, and you get to re-train things like windows and such after a battery swap. To jump start it, I had to discover there’s a “Special” set of connectors under the hood. But I digress.

It is POSSIBLE that the battery drained from the rear hatch closing motor / relay thing sporadically trying to latch the rear hatch. Sometime after the dealer visit (and perhaps during it…) this latch failed. The Benz Forum says they fail all the time. Getting a couple of years on one is about what to expect. Dealer wants $1000 for the part… I found one on-line for “only” $280. It’s about an hour of DIY labor or about $300 at the dealer shop to have it installed. So that might be it. Or not.

By this point I’m about $2500 of “repairs”. Call it about $1 / mile. BUT, there’s a lot more to come..

Looking into all this, it seems the car has 3 (or maybe more?) SAM Modules. Signal Acquisition Module. Near as I can tell, these are the tiny little brains that decide to allow things to work when you make requests via the nobs, switches, levers, etc. When they fail, all hell breaks loose. It seems they fail often. But don’t worry, usually it’s under $1000 for one of them. They have been using them since “the mid 90’s” so be warned..

A long Saga of woe – worth a read especially list of Here are a few problems caused by a bad SAM unit:

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 10:47 am

Caan was a practicing martial artist. He had trained with Takayuki Kubota

Links to Hattori Hanzo remain unproven.

miltonf
miltonf
July 9, 2022 10:49 am

Inspite of all the slagging off here about Victoria, it’s WA, Tas and the Territories that push pushed the senate to the far left left.

Dot
Dot
July 9, 2022 10:50 am

Funny how Spacey got a very ham fisted me too after his breaking the fourth wall soliloquy about Bohemian Grove.

Nixon was right. Goddamned perverted stuff.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 9, 2022 10:51 am

Probably because the Libs abandoned them when they got gazumped by climate change.

Oh good grief M0nty, that’s so beyond dumb it makes Dumbo look like a gorilla. Hunter is part of Ncl, it has been rusted on Labor for well over a century. The most amazing thing is that the PHON tradie almost knocked off Joel in the election before last, which had a fun effect on Joel’s love of coal.

This election the Nat seemed to think he had a chance, since they spent money in the electorate for the first time in ages. But because the Nats are wet zeroes as well we didn’t vote for them.

Roger
Roger
July 9, 2022 10:51 am

On the contrary…politicians ignore angry electorates at their peril.

The one thing governments fear more than external threats is internal unrest.

Once the standard of living begins to decline precipitously, the competence of the government that presides over their fall is in question, as indeed could be the legitimacy of the present assumptions that underlie teh way our government functions.

One of the great opportunities that arises from that is the questioning of the international treaty obligations that have led us down this path.

Megan
Megan
July 9, 2022 10:52 am

I’m just looking at plugging the holes in the canoe

We are doing the same. Thought natural gas might be the least troublesome option if not the cheapest but Mater’s comment last night has highlighted the flaws in that approach. Deisel genset now looking the most useful, and affordable possibility. More work needed.

miltonf
miltonf
July 9, 2022 10:52 am

The ACT not the NT I should have said

Frank
Frank
July 9, 2022 10:54 am

It is a bit premature to suggest that Musk will have too pay twitter a billion if he abandons the deal. They are potentially on the hook for making false statements to a few agencies which could carry a penalty.

Dot
Dot
July 9, 2022 10:54 am

monty

Explain how Twitter will successfully sue Musk.

Rabz
July 9, 2022 10:55 am

had a fun effect on Joel’s love of coal

Fitzgibberin’ – another disgusting bought and paid for labore quisling.

Dot
Dot
July 9, 2022 10:56 am

Good luck with penalty clauses regarding rescission and equitable remedies like unjust enrichment.

Interesting to see how US law works. It is similar but obviously divergent.

Tom
Tom
July 9, 2022 10:57 am

Dot explains that arguing with a troll who’s here only to troll is the libertarian thing to do.

Dot
Dot
July 9, 2022 10:59 am

Tom

You never know, The Daily Kos might know more than Musk’s lawyers.

miltonf
miltonf
July 9, 2022 10:59 am

Fitzgibberin’ – another disgusting bought and paid for labore quisling.

Nothing compared to Kelly Hoare

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 9, 2022 10:59 am

Outdoor stuff!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 9, 2022 11:00 am

Munster a court case decides whose wrong. If Musk is right he gets his money back plus costs. Musk knows how to make money, most of us don’t. How much is your net worth? Could you survive losing 10-50%?

Zipster
Zipster
July 9, 2022 11:00 am
Rabz
July 9, 2022 11:01 am
miltonf
miltonf
July 9, 2022 11:02 am

One of the great opportunities that arises from that is the questioning of the international treaty obligations that have led us down this path.

yes going right back to Whitlam and the Lima Declaration- makes you think our political class want to please international organisations and not the people who elected them. Consider also the way they lecture us on ‘our’ international obligations.

Rabz
July 9, 2022 11:03 am

Horse face’s

fate sealed by New Zealand’s economic collapse

Barking mad collectivist bint gets installed, economy collapses.

Gee, no one could have predicted such an outcome.

JC
JC
July 9, 2022 11:03 am

Abe’s killer was a Trump supporter according to CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, CNN.

Megan
Megan
July 9, 2022 11:04 am

My much wanted and long saved up for Merc A class cured me of the brand in only three years. Nothing but trouble and expensive fixes, one after another. When the transmission failed at 80K MB denied all and any responsibility for their crap machinery and I got rid of it.

The Beamer 180d that replaced it was, by far, my most very favourite car. Almost 100% reliable, fun to drive and service support was consistently fantastic. The current Beamer is ultra reliable but as boring as the ABC on a good day. Crook joints entailed a move to a vehicle I could actually get in to.

Even the sight of the Benz star gives me post traumatic shudders.

bespoke
bespoke
July 9, 2022 11:04 am

On the contrary…politicians ignore angry electorates at their peril.

The response will be more mony for renewables.

JC
JC
July 9, 2022 11:06 am

He has to pay a billi0n dollars to Twitter for welshing on the deal, and they are suing him for more.

His net worth has dropped US$70 billion this year.

OMG, roughing it on $US200 billion is really doing it tough.

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