What is NATO’s exit strategy for this disastrous war they engineered? With the politicians involved its hard to see a way out.

Farmer Gez
I know nothing specifically about harvesters, but having nil experience never stopped catallaxians from participating in discussion before so it won’t stop me now. 🙂

There are some aspects of design common to a wide variety of machines, so making for a good first guess when diagnosing an unfamiliar type.

Basically I lend my vacuous support to 123AndBush’s advice. If the controller had been programmed in stereotypical fashion to “fail-safe” when any important sensor input is not available/reliable, the absence of any of those sensor inputs would cause the shutdown. So it may pay to follow all signal cables back from the controller to see which sensors they end in, and check all those sensors.
The rotor tachometer is the obvious one since the rotor speed did not show on the display, but you could be unlucky and have two sensor failures, either one of which may trigger shutdown. Whether that is likely depends on whether there is an indicator/display of every sensor’s outputs. If there is a display for every sensor and the rotor speed was the only one erroneous, well that tacho is likely the single cause.

Jay Bhattacharya: What I discovered at Twitter HQ

Roger

Lockdowns bad, herd immunity good, protect the vulnerable, anti-virals, live with the virus.

If you listen to them unerringly, perhaps one day you will hear RN say that these have always been the covid policy.

Long way to go yet (decades) for nuclear fusion but the impact if/when successful will be immense.

In a discussion with Tammy Ma after the successful NIF experiment.

“Very early that morning — 1:03AM on December 5th — NIF shot 192 laser beams at a tiny target filled with fuel and achieved “fusion ignition” in a controlled setting for the first time on Earth. That means that they’d been able to generate more energy through nuclear fusion than the laser energy used to kick off the reaction. By producing fusion reactions in the lab, Ma and her colleagues essentially recreate the way stars generate energy. And one day — albeit likely decades from now — that process could power our world with clean, theoretically limitless energy. “

What challenges need to be overcome next?

We also have to build up many of the underlying technologies that will support a fusion power plant in the future. But that means cheaper targets that we generate at high volume and that are very robust and good quality. Bringing in lasers that can run at a high repetition rate. The NIF only shoots once every four to eight hours or so. But it’s envisioned that a fusion power plant would have to shoot 10 times a second or more. So, you can imagine, we have to figure out a way to speed everything up. It’s a big challenge. And so we do have to work not just with a huge team at the lab, but we work with universities and academia. The private sector is getting interested now, too. And so we need all of that expertise to come together and make it happen.

/Tammy Ma, a physicist and lead for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Inertial Fusion Energy Institutional Initiative

The top three Jaapies in the shed. 3/27.

Straya bowling first at the gabba. The last time a team won the toss and bowled – and won – was 1985.

4/27.

The deck doing what it looked to do.

Rex
Seems the Battletech story was more ambitious than the Fallout 4 universe:

By 2053 the efforts of Karl Oslow and his company Mass Fusion bore fruit, as the first “fusion” distribution boxes and sources of power entered the market. Through cunning and dedication, Oslow’s company eventually cornered the energy market in Massachusetts, becoming the primary power provider for the state by 2070.
…
The first fusion cell was revealed in the Summer of 2066, as an offshoot of the U.S. power armor project.

Flying cars have sort-of arrived, but not at the same level of performance as the Jetsons which was set in the year 2062. There’s still time for the Jetsons flying cars to happen.
There’s still time for fusion power to happen a la Fallout timeline.
Battletech peaked too soon.

Battletech peaked too soon

Well, given that the setting describes some 300 years of technical regression on a galaxy-wide scale between the collapse of the Star League in 2780 and 3028 when the Helm Memory Core was recovered, I figure that meteoric development only puts the subsequent stagnation into a sort of techno-feudalism into a more tragic light.

Then a pack of assholes (as Tex of the Black Pants Legion describes them) party-crashed the place in 3049 and ran amuck for 3 years. Until a telecom company with delusions of totalitarian splendour slapped them back into timeout corner.

And technical development was back on again. 🙂

#NeverForget

Rex A

capering cavalcade of cretinosity

I love the sound of alliteration in the morning.

Re the Qld shootings

https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/thursday-open-thread-130/#comment-2615061

“GreatAuntJanet” (and following)

Listen to Glenn Greenwald’s Rumble Ep3 today – all about how the politicians and media stop at nothing to ascribe political motives for heinous acts, even when the evidence is not yet collected. Lots of good examples.

This trio carried out evil acts, but solar panels and water tanks and living off grid would apply to lots of people in rural Australia. In fact, isn’t this what the government encourages the public to do?”

“another ian (me)
December 15, 2022 at 3:14 pm · Reply
Can anyone find an aerial picture of the house?

They were up yesterday and I don’t recall seeing an astonishing number of solar panels.”

“another ian
December 15, 2022 at 3:35 pm · Reply
Have a look at the second last overhead photo here

https://www.couriermail.com.au/breaking-news/photos-emerge-of-property-where-two-police-officers-killed-in-chilling-ambush/news-story/7f779895f19bd2a6fd2d09d6bf74bbfc

Looks more like living off the grid as Great Aunt Janet says”

Check the number of water tanks and solar panels.

I grew up in the era of Tilley lights, pre-32 volt electricity, no reticulated water from bore or dam, rain water tanks on each corner of the house and careful recycling of grey water to what garden there was.

And I wouldn’t rate what you see in that photo as anything sensational.

And I’d also mention that there is a considerable difference between “Anti-any-vaccines” and “Anti-this-collection-of-“vaccines” –

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/wayne-root-confronting-evil-simple-challenge-dr-fauci-cdc-fda-big-pharma-democrats/

As to “Why 4 police” – might want to take “local knowledge” into account there

Re: latest TwitterFiles,
Does anyone know which firm or county Orange Man was talking about in this allegation? https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857712638529536
The actual tweet is https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1315981668784709632

Perhaps if he’d only alleged harvesting it might have passed without comment, but it’s the “count” part that raised hackles. Did employees from that firm get deputised into election “officials” or was he just talking rubbish? No action was taken in this case, but without supporting evidence one could argue action should have been taken – at least to supplement the tweet with a link to true information.

Hey, when everybody else stops posting excreta from Albrechtsen, Bolt, and Bettina Arndt, I’ll stop posting rebuttals.

Rebuttals doesnt mean “Made up shit I just pulled from my arse” Grigglebot.

Crack pipe dreams arent reality either.

KD has serious issues.

He sees sovcits everywhere.

They’re found under his bed, lurking in the tool shed and rooting the ex wife.

He’s got some hang ups that’s for sure.
He knows all about them, how they think, what they are up to and what should be done with them.

There is no middle ground.

If you want to ignore tyranny and stand silently at your cenotaph so as not to empower it. ..well you’re a cop killing psychopath.

He sees them everywhere.
They are all the same.

I’m sure one is pounding his ex.
No one’s that worked up about them otherwise.

Or one beat him in the courts when he was a Vicplod thug and he ran away to Darwin to hide and hiss at the world.

We could ask him to open up…..to let it out….no good keeping it all bottled up in collectivist rage…..but I fear on this subject it’s way too early in….what would be therapy. …for him to grab a kleenex and let it all out.

Coffee with oldest daughter, discussions on 3D printing. Maybe you should start trying to market all the WWII vehicles I 3D modelled for you little brother?

Walk through of 3D printing area ….. Hurricane IIC waiting for assembly and air brushing practice. Hilarious!

I’m sure one is pounding his ex.

He’d want to bring a big old bag of SovCit flour and some relentless determination, because she’s porked up big time – now that she’s living in regional Quenthland.

Like you, St. Ruth, she was a bit too clingy. Perhaps you two should hook up, and get a reinforced bed frame.

he ran away to Darwin to hide and hiss at the world

Said the bloke who used to live in…. Alice Springs.

And the good nazi trophy wife is now going to ignore me after claiming I have gone over to the dark side.
How convenient.

There is superficial decency…..and actions usually expose it.

KD.
You poor emotional throbber.

I have drifted nowhere and maintained my stand on what has happened throughout.

You may find people that are firm on their principles disturbing but you need to ask yourself why that is so.
Wipe the tears away, look un the mirror and ask yourself. ….what has Vicplod done to me?
Why do I go bunter every time someone suggests resisting tyranny?

and the usual….
Why does my arse hurt so much?

https://www.mining.com/web/recent-nuclear-fusion-news-is-more-about-hydrogen-bombs-than-energy-related/

Buried further down (and in other news coverage), the story hints at a more nefarious purpose; the creation of a thermonuclear weapon and the maintenance of the US nuclear arsenal:

Officials stressed that the main purpose of the facility where the breakthrough took place was to study the behavior of thermonuclear weapons as part of the “stockpile stewardship” program. To do that, it needed to achieve ignition.

Why do I go bunter every time someone suggests resisting tyranny?

I actually encourage resistance to ‘tyranny’. Fiercely anti-mandate. Could not see my own father buried only last year, albeit I didn’t threaten to mow down border checkpoints in someone else’s Kenwurf.

Went to all the D-Town protest marches. Took the hit so I see my sainted mother. Aaand so on. This has all been dealt with.

The reality is you take hysterical, portly offence to people who disagree with you on other issues, and you remain massively butt-hurt because:
a) You do not have the millions-strong following you feel you deserve;
b) You are demonstrably proven wrong on some of your most ardent flag-wavery;
c) You resort to emotional abuse when this happens (‘fuck them’, ‘get a clot and die’, ‘shallow cock-smokers); and
d) You then accuse other people of being emotional. It’s Grade 2 Alinsky stuff.

On top of this, you absolutely cannot abide being made fun of, and that’s very much the best bit.

Your defence of the fictional ‘I knew it was an Indian human turd the moment I stepped in it’ roadhouse story should be one of the all-time great internet moments, and there are plenty of B tracks to back it up.

Sorry little fella. It’s not working for you. Perhaps if you had a ‘hearty Aussie’ German schnitzel and a dozen Dark ‘N’ Stormies you’ll feel better.

“Now you’re lucky if the shop assistant can make change without a calculator.”
Some 10-15 years ago, I was driving through SW WA. I stopped at a corner store to buy a couple of ‘candy bars’. The young male shop assistant hauled out his calculator (being moderately adept in mental arithmetic, I had already worked out what I owed), but he got it wrong. Three times.

By crikey criminy bejickens.

Darwin Airport, about three klicks away from me just got smacked up with 65mm in 40 minutes.

Zero in the backyard gauge.

I haven’t missed a day of work for about 2 years.
Yeah, Traffic on the main roads was significantly quieter for a while, but where were the cops?
Presumably practicing Social Distancing and working from home, but they weren’t cruising the highways and freeways at peak hour or any other time.

JCsays:
December 17, 2022 at 3:11 pm

Everyone involved in the vax bastardry is still employed/promoted.
They will pay no penalty for it in this lifetime.

If the meth-Trains had popped into the local parliament and shot at a few of the bastards who inflicted this Id almost have sympathy for them.

I don’t half live in KD’s head.

Zipstersays:
December 17, 2022 at 2:35 pm

Conspiracy theories don’t turn ppl into raging homicidal maniacs, we have our own conspiracy nuts here and nobody is expecting them to go postal any time soon.

Nobody here, perhaps.

But don’t expect Canberra to take a relaxed position, based on years of online contact, to determine who is, or isn’t the next Train leaving the station. Particularly when careers are on the line:

A former long-serving national security official, who asked not to be named and spoke before the emergence of Gareth’s videos, says he is “utterly baffled” that other posts on publicly available websites were not on the radar of authorities.

“I suspect they were not really looking at these sites – or if they were, they did not understand what they were seeing,” he says.

The former official says Gareth’s posting and “narrative arc” seemed to exceed the threshold where he would be considered a threat.

“As for the three sites so far identified as places where Train posted … you do not see a lot of people making replies,” he says. “It would not be a big task to mirror these sites and monitor the posters comments, and warrants are not required as they are public. The analytic tools are available.

The Government and Opposition are in lockstep on suppressing Rightwing extremism. And Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil foreshadows great things:

“Mark Dreyfus and I are working together to look at some of those laws and see whether there are legal changes that will be needed to capture violent conduct in the rightwing terror world that perhaps is not being caught by what’s going on in religious fundamentalism,” she said.

O’Neil and Dreyfus on Thursday declined to detail what those changes could include, but it’s understood two new home affairs taskforces on national resilience and “strengthening democracy” will be involved in any response.

I’m all for lunatics like the Trains being strained out before they do harm.

But it remains to be seen whether climate change heresy, or opposition to patently stupid renewable energy policies, or questioning The Voice or the Great Brinny Payout are viewed as symptomatic of membership Rightwing Terror World and in need of a bit of ‘democratic strengthening’.

Personally, I expect the temptation to use the fallout from Wieambilla tragedy to split the Coalition and clip Dutton’s wings will be too strong for Team Abronese – and ‘pandering to the Far Right do you really want blood on your hands‘ will become political garlic against any opposition to ALP/Green policy.
How that applies to speech in the public square remains to be seen.

and here is the desired outcome from spineless liberals, nothing to do with government fascism but its the conspiracies what done it!

Nah, this is Dutton the ex-cop tongue bathing his cop mates. God forbid the informed public seeing crime scene footage and critiquing the saintly Qld Police.

I’d agree frolics but only if it was a lot more than a few.

But it remains to be seen whether climate change heresy, or opposition to patently stupid renewable energy policies, or questioning The Voice or the Great Brinny Payout are viewed as symptomatic of membership Rightwing Terror World and in need of a bit of ‘democratic strengthening’

All party enthusiasm for a major crackdown on on-line “disinformation and extremist views” (meaning conservative content) is a given, I said this a day after the event.

GreyRangasays:
at 3:40 pm
I’d agree frolics but only if it was a lot more than a few.
Killing people you don’t agree with?
Are you out of your mind?

Claiming that losing a job/career/vocation/sunshine lollipops rainbows is losing your “future” is pure hyperbole. Using that to then justify cold blooded murder is something else again.

Strawman.
These people owned their home, quitting over the Vax Mandate wasn’t a big deal, her registration as a teacher wasn’t cancelled.
Bottom line:
if you’re scratching around in the dirt trying to find reasons for what happened, it’s more likely that your source information is wrong.
Slandering dead people isn’t a Christian thing to do, but you don’t seem worried about that.

I’m more than happy to slander Pol Pot and Caligula too.

That’s because I don’t believe in oongy boongie debbildebbil dead people sanctity.

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Morsiesays:
December 17, 2022 at 3:40 pm
It wasn’t Krakatoa it was Tambora in 1815 that produced winter

My mistake, I thought Krakatoa was a bit late in the timeline, but couldn’t remember Tambora.

A person’s “future is destroyed” when they die. Up until that moment, they have a future.

taken at face value then nobody would commit suicide because there is always something to live for. unfortunately the human psyche is not so easily pigeon holed. but clearly people commit suicide all the time because they rightfully or wrongly think they have no future to live for.

further clarifying the context of what happened is not “justifying it”. we can talk about the causes without “justifying” the outcome.

the shooters stuck around knowing full well that retribution was coming, so basically they committed suicide by cop. its hard to argue that they felt they had some sort of future to live for by looking at the actual facts, rather than what we wish they had reasoned instead. They could have made a run for it, but they chose to make a final stand.

blogs like this are now at risk because this becomes just another excuse in the left’s war on free speech. free speech comes at a price.

I’m all for lunatics like the Trains being strained out before they do harm.

maybe just leave them the fuck alone, its not like they were out in the kingswood doing laps of the main in search of jesuit spooks.

still need some explanation of what more than one “safety check” was about.

Me and me mate are gionf fishing for the weekend, stop at the pub for a belly full. Mates driving, gets pulled up, right on the limit but not over. The same cop who has been transferred 160km away. He asks me if I’m ok to drive, me knowing full well I’m over and he will put the bag on me. He drives mates car with us in it to local cop shop. We go into the cop shop and here’s the local sergeant sitting down. He looks around seeing us and sez, hello Bob to me mate, going fishing? They’re old mates. The useless cop starts carrying on about how he’s right on the limit. The sergeant says to him, drop them off at their fishing lodge there’s a good lad. Is he pissed off again? More to come.

the potential harm is beyond significant…

Agreed and very likely permanent.

Dutton is way ahead of Albanese, he’s said nothing to antagonise liberals, and he’s handled the National Party internal politics at arm’s length.

Sure, they’ll bring back Barnaby Joyce, who will seek to white ant Dutton, but there’s a cost for the Nationals in doing that.
Antipathy to Joyce was the Teals major selling point, Dutton clearly has good relations with them and Joyce is poison to women voters.

Same cop get put in a station about 60km up stream. He upsets all the locals. One of the places we fish the farmer is up and down the road on a unlicensed 3 wheeler all the the time. The cop has taken to driving his own WRX so people can’t see its the cops. He sees the farmer on the road and chases him. Farmer turns off across a little bridge on his property that crosses an irrigation ditch. Cop turns to drive over the bridge only to discover the farmer has removed the deck timbers to stop us driving across his land even though its a surveyed track on the map. The timbers are only wide enough for his 3 wheeler. Cop drives car into irrigation ditch which is about 1.5m below ground level. Find out later insurance won’t pay out coz he was using it for work in pursuit. This guy cannot take a trick.

Government: “We’re worried that these people are becoming extremists who think government is watching their every move, so we’re going to drop in on them regularly….”

NewsCorp said it was a welfare check originating from family member[s] in New South Wales.
The lies are starting to mount up.

Okay but in all three cases the state of Israel or the deep state have a clear motive. But never the protagonists in the story.

Hi Bird! 😀

In my collection of lockdown videos is at least one, possibly more, clip of police with QPlod logo on their shoulder, body slamming a middle class housewife to the footpath, for walking the dog around the block.
Option 1. Post the video

Option 2. Admit that you’re a lying sack of shit.

Bird and Franger doing their Unz Dog & Pony routine?
Well I never?

‘What a tragic day’: British nurses strike in bitter pay dispute
First walkout in nursing union’s 106-year history

National Health Service nurses in Britain staged a strike on Thursday, their first ever national walkout, as a bitter dispute with the government over pay ramps up pressure on already-stretched hospitals at one of the busiest times of year.

An estimated 100,000 nurses are striking at 76 hospitals and health centres, cancelling an estimated 70,000 appointments, procedures and surgeries in Britain’s state-funded NHS.

“Good King Wenceslas” adapted by The Marsh Family in support of the NHS and fair negotiations on pay

Cassie, the removal of the “Report Comment” was the catalyst.

And no, I don’t use it. Except for the appearance of the commenter who gloated over my grandchildren being “sent to a location far away in boxcars”.

This little old duck holds no grudges, ever. Except one.

And the reason Man Haron Monis and Abdul Jabbar and that Vicco kid who got blown away for trying to ambush and stab a vicpol copper back around 2015 or so all did what they did, was because they wanted to.

Nuffies like you cannot stand the idea that free will exists, and that people can and will use it to commit the most nefarious acts for the most apparently (to you) banal reasons.

Those perfidious…CENTRAL BANKERS! didn’t put them up to it, Bird. Nor the Trains.

They chose to do that all by themselves.

Now go away and resume your plotting of grandiose schemes of mass land renewal using goat biomass or something…

The Americans are always two cheers and no cigar with their military now. It is like they are suffering from a wrestlers or rapier delusion.

Every person who has faced the Western arsenal in the last 30 years, unfettered by the restraint of public perception (including Vlad Bae’s minions right now) might beg to differ, Graeme…

They did it because they wanted to. Rex confirms no motive

Wrong.

You are not magically compelled to do some thing Because Cause [X] Demands It!

You still choose your actions and response. Free Will again escapes your limited cognition.

It is unfortunate that you are too stupid to look at anything beyond a simple dichotomy of Black vs. White…

FBI releases statement on ‘Twitter Files’

Rex the Americans couldn’t even beat the Taliban and even with their superior logistics and ISIS mercenaries they couldn’t win in Syria. They were forced into a stalemate.

You are also unable to differentiate between political and military strategy.

If your political leadership is unable or unwilling to push an issue (remember that after Bush and Obama admin inertia vs sudden Trump positive action vs Biden capitulation), then all the work at tactical and military strategic level fails.

Again, you cannot cogitate anything beyond simple dichotomy.

Return to your grand plans to build canals across the Moon. You’ll enjoy it better…

Khawaja gorn, 3-27

Quite amusing, people who refer to The Australian as “far-right” or “right-wing”.

I ask them why a far-right publication would employ Phillip Adams for decades.

D. Warner please the Australian public at large no end by a mercifully short, and inept (for an opener) stay at the crease.

Marvellous staff.

*pleasing*

Sorry…I was not a fan of the memorial at the cricket.

Plenty of other cops have been murdered on the job. The “wireless” news declared it was to pay respects to all serving police (why?). Plus the news item glossed over the murdered civilian if he was mentioned at all.

Manly Boys High Pride Week Iron Man.

If it’s not a thing, we know in clown dimension (our quadrant of the simulation), it soon will be.