The Dreamer, Casper Friedrich, 1840
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I’ll have such a tattoo – on my arze!
Might have been the Chinese copy.
Definitely not the country we grew up in. ” A Sydney tattoo parlour has offered free tattoos of Hezbollah leader…
I know a bloke who broke wind – loud and long – during a “Welcome to Country.” His nickname, ever…
Shatterzz, your stories of swimming were part of my motivation to get back into ocean swimming after a long……long absence.
Keep going “old fella”, and many happy returns of the day.
“Also, make sure you’re wearing clean undies in case you’re run over by a bus…”
At the Simpson’s apocalypse…
Marge: “Bart, are you wearing clean underwear?”
Bart: “Not any more.”
Cassie, every word of every one of your posts is absolutely perfect.
I put up the WSJ piece yesterday.
The WSJ editorial page is incomparable to anything in the MSM. There’s nothing quite like it.
The only concern I have is that Bloomberg is making noises that wants to buy it. If that happens the MSM hatch will be closed. He’ll turn it left.
In 2023, we must take on the technocrats– too damn right but how?
But don’t you go talking about apartheid in its broader sense! No, no, no!
It only means South Africa, regardless of its use worldwide as shorthand for racial/economic/political segregation.
Yesterday was very instructive.
I wonder what she’s doing for work now … ?
and, from the comments.
Diversity and Inclusion takes all sorts.
The sacred NHS is the envy of the world.
Apparently.
Happy Birthday Greta!
How does it feel to be twenty and still considered a “child”?
Shatterzz, your stories of swimming were part of my motivation to get back into ocean swimming after a long……long absence.
Always in awe of folk who ocean swim .. I’m not much chop at it too used to the calm of the enclosed pool .. went to the beach (Mascot) with grandees last week and the swell was around a metre and the water looked very bleak .. “going in Grandad” sez one .. “Not today, bit too rough for me I’ll stick to the pool” ..
“Yesterday was very instructive.”
Indeed, opposing the Voice makes me a supporter of South African “apartheid”.
one of them is still on wiki trying to work out what kinematic viscosity means
Slowly but shirley, eventually even Rosie will wake up;
There should, of course, be much more evidence on early spread. The World Health Organisation in June 2020 called for early spread to be properly investigated. However, very little has been done, and particularly in the United States, the various Government agencies have made no efforts to investigate early spread as part of their general neglect and squashing of all investigations into Covid origins.
Such silence and obfuscation only raises suspicions. And there is no shortage of reasons to be suspicious. The lack of genetic diversity in early samples, the high degree of adaption to humans from the outset, the absence of animal reservoirs and the presence of unique features that make the virus highly infectious among humans suggest that it was not natural but engineered, and thus either leaked from a lab or was released. Who was involved in the research that created the virus and the course of events that led to its getting into the human population is therefore a question of great importance that must continue to be pursued.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-evidence-covid-19-was-spreading-around-the-world-in-late-2019/
PONZI!!!!!
Come on down population ponzi – Dan needs a new pair of shoes!
Can we refer to the unipary as MAPs – Migration Addicted parasites?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/03/migration-to-australia-set-to-rebound-to-pre-pandemic-levels-report-finds
Australia has lost 473,000 potential migrants as a result of Covid, but net inward migration is now on track to rebound to pre-pandemic levels of 235,000 people a year, the Centre for Population has found.
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, said the centre’s 2022 statement, to be released on Friday, confirmed migration was “part of the solution” to skills and labour shortages.
The report finds that Covid travel restrictions resulted in the loss of 85,000 people in 2020-21, Australia’s first net migration loss since the second world war.
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After borders reopened in late 2021, a “sharp increase in migrant arrivals” resulted in a net inflow of 150,000 in 2021-22, it said. This is on track to increase to 235,000 in 2022-23, the pre-pandemic trend level.
Happy Birthday Greta!
Lucky girl .. she’s in good company .. me & Kyle Rittenhouse.. LOL!
To call it a “story” doesn’t do it justice. It was a series of loosely connected tales, with the central theme being the mobile ablutions practices of Indian truckdrivers.
The first episode was the story of the Kenworth maintenance shop in Adelaide (or maybe Melbourne) where the mechanics discovered holes cut in the floor and a mysterious substance coating the engine below.
Episode two was the epic story of four (4) Indians sharing the driving to Perth non-stop in a similarly modified vehicle, fitted out with a fully functioning tandoori oven.
The third episode sees our intrepid bronzed Aussie hero stepping in some squishy stuff at a Hay truck-stop. Once on the road again he identifies the substance as Indian poo and throws his soiled trousers out the window.
Soiled by others.
Not him.
Almost certain to land a plum job among the 300,000 of Dan’s minions.
Once on the road again he identifies the substance as Indian poo and throws his soiled trousers out the window.
Soiled by others.
Not him.
Shadows of Joe Biden..
“Security – trump has shat in my trousers again”!
Happy Burfday Shatterzz!
How many laps do you do when you’re swimming and 70+?
Asking for a friend.
For me, it depends on the size of the bowl.
How many laps do you do when you’re swimming and 70+?
Prairiewood, which is just a walk away, 20/30 ..
Fairfield, bike 1 hour each way, 12 (600mts) to allow for the trip home .. LOL!
U.S. attacks Russia again…
I don’t see this not ending in a nuclear exchange unless the U.S. and NATO back off….
We’re closer to WWIII scenario than we ever were during the cold war and western leaders don’t see it.
Drunk on their perceived invincibility…
It will kill us all.
10% of the population per decade, we will have been fully replaced within another 50 years
An Australian mong sets out to lecture the yanks on how their constitution is a poo-poo head and all wrong.
Im tempted to post this over at Instapundit to see if theyd like to correct some of his assumptions there.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnational%2Fthe-us-constitution-s-flaws-about-to-be-put-on-show-20230102-p5c9u0.html
No passage has been more misappropriated than the Second Amendment, which notes that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”. As people will hear, however, the primary focus of the founding fathers was the creation of a “well-regulated militia” rather than the firearms they would carry. The intention was to guard against a standing army, which in post-revolutionary America was seen as a tyrannical throwback to the days of British rule.
For almost 200 years, then, the Second Amendment was often referred to as the “lost amendment” because in an America that ended up creating a professional fighting force, the US military, it was considered obsolete. Not until 2008, following a decades-long propaganda campaign by the National Rifle Association to twist and falsify its meaning, did the conservative-leaning Supreme Court make the Second Amendment the constitutional basis for individual gun ownership.
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The irony is that the court’s hardline conservative justices are driven by a philosophy of jurisprudence known as originalism, which determines controversial rulings, such as the overturning of Roe v Wade, based on their interpretation of the original intent of the Constitution.
He actually goes the whole – if conservatives respect the court then the conservative court can never overturn a liberal “right” made up out of whole cloth…
Dr Nick Bryant is the author of When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present.
Gabor:
He had no answer, unless I missed it, to why someone has to dress as a ‘queen’ to read to children.
The real question Munster should address is who/what characters and their human coat hangers would he not want his or any other kids to sit down with for story time?
There is no congruence between queered “Snow White” reading to tiny tots, for e.g. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and Julie Andrews starting as Mary Poppins, Judy Garland playing Dorothy or Stallone as Rambo.
So, to what end is he there and what message is his presence sending out to his “audience”?
So much for Albanese’s pre-election promise to the working class to cut back immigration and upskill locals.
I suppose it was “non-core”, although nobody in the media seems to have asked him about it.
BBS, the “message” is simple:
– you are nothing, your objections are nothing
– your children will be ours
– we rule you and you will obey
Many happy returns, Shaterzzz and congratulations on 42 years of sobriety.
715 comments so far – all but three opposing the “Voice.”
Gardener’s thought for the day.
I can’t see too many of the immigrants to this place supporting elevation of Aboriginals over everyone else.
Fiona Patten accuses Adem Somyurek of being a Muslim and opposing things antithetical to his faith.
I guess if islam is a race, she’s a racist.
Bigot would have been better.
Despite her high profile she only got 16,000 odd first preferences, the people have spoken.
Looking forward to some background profiles of these “everyday Australians.”
Yes yes the vaxxes are bad and saved no lives in 2021.
I’m not bothered about the antigen thingy because it isn’t relevant to people who got the astrazeneca vaccine (now called Vaxzevria)
Which I see is being used as a booster overseas and apparently getting good results.
Not available in Australia though.
Professional protesters and agitators you reckon? Tell me it ain’t so…..
Yes it’s a fantastic effort Shatterazz.
Of the three alcoholics of my acquaintance one stayed sober until he died of an unrelated cause.
The other two died too young as a direct result of their alcoholism.
Very sad.
idiot
I don’t know why indigenous folk aren’t against mass immigration as a matter of principle.
Doesn’t it just further the colonialist agenda?
The Paywallian is hardly representative but I just cannot see this being a re-run of poofta marriage.
Anyone rocking up to my place to urge a “Yes” vote for the Voice will have the dogs set on them.
I’m not bothered about the antigen thingy because it isn’t relevant to people who got the astrazeneca vaccine (now called Vaxzevria)
Also, rosie: I’m not bothered about the Jews in camps thingy because it isn’t relevant to people who aren’t Jews in camps.
The activists I’ve had anything to do with, and a significant chunk of others, see it as a “screw whitey”. No longer term thinking how it’ll screw them as well, just hate on white people.
Isn’t it the committing a crime that draws one into the criminal justice system?
As to early intervention, all well and good in theory, but removing indigenous children to stable white foster families where they can be diverted from criminal patterns of behaviour will produce howls of protest from the usual suspects.
That has to be one of the stupidest analogies I’ve ever read
I was talking about my personal circumstances in response to Big Nambas. Nothing else. I’m getting a booster this afternoon, as I may have mentioned before Christmas.
Go find someone else to attack you pathetic git.
Children end up in prison because their parents have completely abrogated their responsibilities.
No elders past present or emerging, no Voice will make an iota of difference.
Hard to wring white guilt out of your average aspirational migrant, I should think.
Can someone with an Oz sub please post the full text of this article? We could all do with a laugh.
What…and pass up the opportunity for a reasoned debate?
For some reason I can’t link the paper. Of course it’s a concern for the continued use of mrna vaccines.
Bzzzt…Godwin’s Law.
Calli:
Boambee John:
Monty tried to change the subject about four times yesterday. He was moderately successful each time. Leftards get a lot of practice at changing the subject when it doesn’t go their way.
The major problem was that he got into deeper water every time he did it.
It was one of those days when he should have stayed in bed.
I’ve read another quote from Picasso that suggests he was not averse to playing up to the thirst for novelty of the art buying public of the day in order to make a lot of money. I don’t have it to hand, but along the lines of “the more abstract my paintings got, the more interest there was and the more I sold.” Also, he moved from one style to another every couple of years, which again meant he sold more paintings.
Fatboy, you think it’s as funny as Rudd being appointed as ambassador to our most important relationship? Possibly not as funny as it will invariably end up in ruin.
I’m happy to be proved wrong, but I see the referendum passing on a general wave of maudlin feeling of goodwill towards the ‘oldest living culture”, weren’t citizens or allowed to vote until 1967, their “souls will be crushed if the referendum is defeated.”
The day after the referendum is passed, the demands for a treaty will commence.
In an otherwise thoughtful analysis of the Government’s problems with The Voice, Craven gets this bit quite wrong: the Government’s self-inflicted problem is certainly ‘trickery’.
It’s routine Retail Politics 101 trickery in that Albanese is trying to sell a turd sandwich to the voteherd without revealing the ingredients. And, as Craven himself points out, Albanese is also ratting out the proponents of the Voice by waving the Langton-Calma report around in public as though this is the definitive detail of what will happen on the other side of a successful referendum.
In reality there is no way on God’s green Earth that Albanese can implement the Langton-Calma Voice. The proposal would create a huge political and legal consultatory edifice that:
– puts an unelected 35-region body spearheaded by “Local and Regional Voices” directly into the policy and legislative development of the Commonwealth, State and Local governments – at any level of detail the Voices locally chooses; and then
– expects the results to somehow (because the proposal expressly rules out any role for the Voice to mediate between 35 contending opinions) be incorporated into legislation that comes before the Federal Parliament.
Implementation would require Team Albanese to herd States, Territories, and 537 LGA’s into a legally binding agreement which would render Australia ungovernable. Worse, it would trample the awesome power of the Labor Conference to formulate ALP policy from on high.
Not going to happen; but obviously that can’t be said.
So, the months ahead will be a bravura display of folkloric deception, obfuscation, mealy-mouthed political untruths, and straight lies.
Luckily, Albo is just the man for the job.
(Those interested in detail should read the Executive Summary in the linked document.)
Aboriginal persons only
should be doing the doorknocking
Roger, what you’re saying is that Picasso was a better salesman than Ken Done.
And especially those that claim to have a 1/1024 of Aboriginal ancestry so we can ask them why they need special privileges.
Greg Craven is a pom pom waving Lefty. He can read the writing on the wall. Albo’s best hope it doesn’t take it with him. There is a reason why every PM since Howard was content to kick this can down the road.
Err … Because of her high profile she only got 16,000 odd first preferences, the people have spoken.
Watch her public noises carefully.
They will be a hint as to the already agreed to role for her that Dan will announce shortly.
U.S is to rectify 20 years of CCP’s distortion of world economy/Apple’s new hubs: India and Vietnam
china insights
For many business owners, decoupling from China won’t be easy, but they should start preparing now because China may no longer be the world’s factory in the future. The first signs of this have become evident by the end of 2022.
Exports are one of the main drivers of China’s economic growth. Lower exports are bound to affect foreign trade and the Chinese economy.
And a better painter 😀
I haven’t checked, but I would imagine he acquired the greatest fortune of any 20th C. artist.
Interesting, for a Communist.
Or is it?
Amazing how these Indian actresses get around.
Sloppy, gullible ‘journalism’ at work.
h/t Shy Ted at Adam’s.
Quite.
I suppose with his background one would have to declare for one side or another, and it was never going to be for Nationalism/Fascism.
I don’t think he thought much of his comrades.
There are some conservatives still making good decisions;
https://www.conservativereview.com/florida-warns-venues-not-to-allow-children-to-attend-showings-of-a-drag-queen-christmas-2659035748.html?utm_source=cr-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CR%20Weekly%202023-01-02&utm_term=ACTIVE%20-%20Weekly%20Daily%20Combined
“Ubuntu’ed out for the day.
Pros: -like the appearance.
– something different.
-free.
– basically works ok.
..
Cons: – it’s nerd shit.
– won’t play mp4s
– has a driver for the WI-Fi device installed, but it still only works intermittently.”
To quote Yoda: “Do, or do not – there is no try” and “Once you start down the dark path [of Windows], forever will it dominate your destiny” 🙂
For the mp4’s, I’d suggest you install VLC – if that doesn’t play them, not much will.
There is a “learning curve” for Linux, but it’s nowhere as steep as it used to be* – certainly with Ubuntu, it’s really no worse than, say, moving from Windows to Mac OS. It’s “annoyingly different”, but IMO worth it. And don’t forget that Mac OS is based on a Linux variant itself, just a customised and “simplified” one. Ubuntu is less simple, but also more “open” – you can change much that Mac OS won’t let you change.
And all the Linux’s are much more resistant to virus’ etc, so there is that.
* when I first looked, kernel version was IIRC, 0.6 or so, and I wasn’t nerdy enough to do much with it, although the build/system tools like gcc and make were great for making cross-platform builds ( SunOS on SPARC, 68k and i386) of the custom software we used in the lab. Less than 5 years later, I was using Linux as the base OS for a couple of windows VMs that ran my SOHO business IT stuff – one VM ran “mission critical” stuff, the other was “exposed” for email, web browsing etc. I kept a copy of the exposed VM and every time it “broke”, just copied the known working one back and viola, fixed.
</ nerd/geek stuff >
Smart move by Albo, he has effectively muzzled the Ruddster. No more tweetstorms against Murdoch, his job is to clink champagne flutes and shut up.
It’s the World Cup Final, and a man makes his way to his seat right next to the pitch. He sits down, noticing that the seat next to him is empty. He leans over and asks his neighbour if someone will be sitting there. “No” says the neighbour “The seat is empty”. “This is incredible” said the man “Who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the Final and not use it?” The neighbour says “Well actually the seat belongs to me. I was supposed to come with my wife, but she passed away. This is the first World Cup Final we haven’t been to together since we got married”. “Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that. That’s terrible… but couldn’t you find someone else, a friend, relative or even a neighbour to take her seat?” The man shakes his head. “No” he says. “They’re all at the funeral”.
—
A child asked his father “How were people born?” So his father said “Adam and Eve made babies, then their babies became adults and made babies, and so on”. The child then went to his mother, asked her the same question and she told him “We were monkeys then we evolved to become like we are now”. The child ran back to his father and said “You lied to me!” His father replied “No, your mum was talking about her side of the family”.
IIRC Andrews offered the skank a job in his Government the minute she conceded. I would wager that had been pre-agreed for her earlier loyal support for his Covid police state.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
KANEEDDDAAAAAAAAAA
– Tetsuo
TETTTSSSUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOO
– Kaneda
Might want to have a plan first but…
I suspect that Albanese is betting on the development of Government Dependency Syndrome over the past 30 years (hi, John Howard).
Not only does government now give out Free Stuff on a 100% no regrets basis, the experience of past three Covid years has shown the bastards that Govern Me Harder Daddy is a politically popular strategy.
m0nty=fa
Smart move by Albo, he has effectively muzzled the Ruddster. No more tweetstorms against Murdoch, his job is to clink champagne flutes and shut up.
Good luck with that, KRuddy thinks that God reports to him.
A belated Happy New Year to all.
Being back in the office on January 3 is unaustralian…
Mmm…yes.
A man who never saw a pie he didn’t want to stick his finger into.
3-D chess from a man (Albanese) who hasn’t mastered draughts yet.
You can’t have reasoned debate with the Left.
..
I built a PC to go in the shed (once it’s rebuilt) and thought I’d take the opportunity to try a different operating system.
I think I’ll leave the Ubuntu on it and add another drive with Pop too. I’ll keep Windows 10 on my other PCs because they already work OK with the video editing software I use that I already have licences for.
But at the same time I’ll start the process of seeing what video software is out there for Linux.
I don’t think he offered her a job, per se, but made some comment about it “being a pity if her considerable skills were lost to Government” or somesuch.
Wink, nudge.
And yes, a done deal when she ticked off the Covid powers. Will the Libs refer any job offer to IBAC to establish if it was given for political favours?
Yeah, nah.
Senator representing the parasite territory of caberrahhhh is against anything that will slow the wads of other peoples munni flowing to them.
David Pocock wants stage-three tax cuts revisited in light of shrinking workforce
ACT senator suggests ageing population with proportion of taxpayers declining means situation has ‘changed significantly’ since cuts legislated in 2019
The bald headed flog is a perfect representative of the swill “state”.
That’s his job description.
Unlikely to be his mission: Rudd knows the World needs On-the-Spot Guidance like fish need water.
Hmmm 98% chance of a 7-point quake hitting California in next day or two:
http://www.quakeprediction.com/Los%20Angeles%20Earthquake%20Forecast.html
…it is anticipated that the quake forecast to hit California could result in $10 billion dollars worth of improvements.
At least he isn’t ambassador to Beijing.
2023 is going to be bad enough as it is.
Lol. No he hasn’t. Rudd is an out of control loon told to us by countless liar party members.
He’ll single handedly ruin our most important relationship. It’s actually very concerning.
Perfidious Albinosays:
January 3, 2023 at 11:39 am
I think you are correct PA. I am really grateful Adem beat the thing. Two great results from the Victorian State Election:- Both Meddick and Patten no longer a visible irritation.
Indeed. I think having someone who has been described by many as a psychopath and sociopath is very concerning. Particularly given his Chinese business interests as well.
10% for the big guy?
KD at 6.55am
Right. Properly sorted out.
On longish trips, one requires the ability to fart with confidence.
I hope you’ve got the travelling ablutions worked out for the cabin. Reverse hinge on the seat, serviceable hole in floor of chassis. Just so you don’t need to stop at a service centre.
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Oh Rosie;
The complaint for global crimes against humanity, filed and accepted by the Superior Court of Justice of Canada (see link below), has begun. A team of more than 1,000 lawyers and more than 10,000 medical experts, led by Germany’s Reiner Fuellmich, one of Europe’s most powerful lawyers, has launched the biggest complaint in history called “Nuremberg 2”. against the WHO (World Health Organization) and the Davos Group (World Economic Forum headed by Klaus Schwab, aged over 80) for crimes against humanity.
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich is a German-American lawyer who has won multi-million dollar lawsuits against the Deutsche Bank scam and the one against Volkswagen for the Dieselgate scam. He is one of the founders of the “German Crown Inquiry Commission”. Fuellmich and his team have collected thousands of scientific evidences demonstrating the complete unreliability of PCR tests and the fraud behind them. Fuellmich then spoke of vaccines and noted that “they have nothing to do with vaccines, but are part of genetic experiments”. In addition to faulty tests and fraudulent death certificates issued by corrupt medical personnel, the “experimental” vaccine itself violates Article 32 of the Geneva Convention.
According to Article 32 of the Fourth Convention of 1949, “mutilation and medical or scientific experimentation which is not necessary for the medical treatment of a person” is prohibited. According to article 147, carrying out biological experiments on human beings constitutes a serious violation of the Convention. The “experimental” vaccine violates the 10 Nuremberg codes, which provide for the death penalty for those who break these international treaties.” Fuellmich also added that this was all long planned to be implemented in 2050. “But then” , the strings have become greedy and have decided to anticipate the plans first in 2030 and finally in 2020 in this rush that they make so many mistakes.
For example, the vaccine manufacturers had not anticipated that there would be so many side effects and deaths.” “Europe,” continues Fuellmich, “which is the main battleground in this war. This is because she is completely bankrupt. The pension funds have been completely plundered. That’s why they want to take over Europe before people know about it. What is happening “.
But who are these people pulling the strings? According to Fuellmich, this is a group of about 3,000 super-rich. The Davos clique around Klaus Schwab is part of this group. What do they want?
Total control over the human being. They bribe doctors, hospital staff and politicians. “People who don’t cooperate are threatened. They use all kinds of psychological techniques to manipulate people.”
“The mainstream media,” Fuellmich summarizes, “tells a false reality and says that the majority of people are in favor of measures and vaccines. That is certainly not true.
For example, almost everyone I talk to in Germany knows that a mask does not protect against anything, because in the meantime almost everyone is informed by the alternative media. The old media are dying.”
Fuellmich’s advice?
“Spread the truth and the facts as widely as possible.
Even better if you can retain the discharge on-board and dump it at the next truck stop. Preferably about two metres inside the front right corner of the semi parking bays.
“Want to update a driver?
Download four different programs and follow instructions that although appearing to be in English, you just know there is some kind of smug insider incomprehensible thing going on here.
Are you shitting me?”
You should be able to avoid this if you use the Software Updater – you may need to reboot after it runs (if it says so, do it).
If it’s not in the official Ubuntu repositories yet, then it may indeed require along the lines as you say – but in Windows, if it’s not officially sanctioned in their updates, it’s no better.
Here’s a Windows “OMFG!” moment that demonstrates the point:
If you have a Kindle, you can (USB) plug it into Windows 7 and depending on what option you select from the Kindle screen, it appears as various “devices”, but they all work.
If you plug the same Kindle into Windows 10, at least one of those options doesn’t work – you need to download drivers and instructions, and follow the instructions to make it work.
No joke.
Known issue for at least 18 months (probably longer) and counting…
Really handy for all those Kindle owners who “took advantage” of a “free” upgrade to Windows 10.
Technical stuff (“here be dragons!”):
In Windows versions up to 7 (and maybe even 8), it sees the USB device ID as an “RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget”, and will even automatically download and install the required drivers correctly. But the same USB device ID in Windows 10 is said to be a “Serial port”, even after you manually force a “find updated drivers”.
How they managed to break this and keep it broken with driver updates is beyond my meager ability to understand – perhaps it is part of the “Q: How many MS support engineers does it take to change a light bulb? A: Have you tried the dark upgrade?” style end-user support system MS appears to use.
Thanks Big_Nambas for the update on Nuremberg 2 and, thankfully, I note Fuellmich is still alive.
I hope you’ve got the travelling ablutions worked out for the cabin. Reverse hinge on the seat, serviceable hole in floor of chassis. Just so you don’t need to stop at a service centre.
The only questions left.
Vindaloo for texture or Korma for ease of passage?
Sacre bleu.
Live crosses are always a bit dodgy.
Absolutely spiffing day here. Nice and cool with southerly winds. Plenty to do outside. I’m just in for lunch.
I thought you would all like to know that! 🙂
Arky: “But at the same time I’ll start the process of seeing what video software is out there for Linux.”
I use “Handbrake” (in the Ubuntu repos) for transcoding, but haven’t tried editing with it, although it certainly appears to be capable of it.
.
It’s just amazing to me that they have produced free software as good as these Linux ones.
Most people just probably aren’t going to explore it all unless they have some old PC to refurbish on a budget.
?
Surely you’re having a lend.
How did those 4th July 2021 international criminal court ‘Nurnberg Trials’ go?
Or the PCR pandemic?
Arky, most ppl don’t know what an operating system is.
Just re-read the guns of August.
Spoiler: It doesnt end happily.
One bit that struck me though was the number of senior officers the French churned through in that 2 month period.
Compared to the failed wars of Afghanistan where the same command team seemed to be making the decisions and following the same losing strategy with fairly high continuity.
It seems a reluctance to remove ineffective commanders (probably to avoid politicians looking bad) or those couldnt grasp he type of war they were fighting.
2022 US Inflation is Final – 32% for the year
From Armstrong Economics –
“Our Independent Inflation model has calculated that the combined rate for everything from food to transportation came in at 32% for 2022. That is a far cry from the official number. This is simply calculated by Socrates from an unbiased perspective. Thank you, COVID & the Russian Sanctions. What a new wonderful world the Biden Administration has created.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/economics/2022-inflation-is-final-32-for-the-year/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The “experimental” vaccine violates the 10 Nuremberg codes, which provide for the death penalty for those who break these international treaties
Nice, pretty keen on the death penalty at the moment!
FM – I’ve always wanted to read that but I presumed (?) it was about how technology had changed and neither side realised… but were continuing to use antiquated strategies…???
At least he isn’t ambassador to Beijing. 2023 is going to be bad enough as it is.
If anyone could get a full bottle nuclear exchange started, the Kruddster could.
Ratzinger, book excerpt from 1969:
She (the Church) will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes . . . she will lose many of her social privileges. . . As a small society, [the Church] will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members….
It will be hard-going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek . . . The process will be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution — when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain . . . But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church.
Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.
And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of faith. She may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but she will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.
Breaking: American football live now. Player down and receiving CPR and may have passed away on field. Other players in tears and likely game will be canceled.
Just like old times!
I wore out the treads on a new pair of redwing boots, I fixed them over the break by gluing 1/2” by 1” Bunnings rubber mat chunks onto the sole with some very nasty gorilla glue.
Let’s see how it holds up!
Breaking: American football live now. Player down and receiving CPR and may have passed away on field. Other players in tears and likely game will be canceled.
Paging rosie! Urgent page for rosie!
Wormwood in plain sight.
Lysandersays:
January 3, 2023 at 1:07 pm
Not really.
It covers the German initial plans to destroy the French army (make the right wing strong as possible and the centre and left just to play a holding battle) via the sweep through Belgium.
Bit of political stuff as well as a bit of dwelling on the French armies insane “plan 17” (to sum up- attack everywhere, at once, all the time – to the extent they werent even issued entrenching tools)
The Russians genuine heroics in attacking into Prussia way ahead of any timetable foreseen by the Germans which ended in absolute disaster, but may have drawn away just enough troops from the Western front to ensure the Germans couldnt obtain victory as they panicked and sent some units East.
The Poms being terrible turds and being largely concerned with keeping the army they did send intact, rather than joint operations – until the battle of the Marne.
And it all ends on the depressingly accurate note that both sides original plans failure to succeed just locked in 4 years of awful slaughter.
1 in 28 Frenchmen dead. 1 in 32 Germans, 1 in 57 for the Poms and 1 in 107 for the Russians.
Worth a read.
Demar Hamlin. He took a hit just before collapsing but IMHO it wasn’t that hard a hit…
Head case:
First I’ve heard that particular detail.
Care to give us a link to an authoritative site?*
*Grand nana is not an authoritative source for what appears to be bullshit to stir up the gullibles.
Thanks FM… tis another book I need to add to the list (I am currently traversing The Brothers Karamazov so, depressing seems to be the theme of the month! :P)
thefrollickingmolesays:
January 3, 2023 at 1:04 pm
Just re-read the guns of August.
Spoiler: It doesnt end happily.
One bit that struck me though was the number of senior officers the French churned through in that 2 month period.
But they kept Joffre on for another two years.
24yo NFL player has a pulse and has been taken to hospital… though he was not breathing “on his own.”
Pretty terrible scene.
Like most stocks, some things will go up (by more or less) and some thing will go down (by more or less) but not a great start to ASX for 2023:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/big-losses-asx-1st-session-014304970.html
Taking a helmet to the chest isn’t good for anyone regardless of pads.
The force with which these offensive players run the ball is explosive.
Raising the vaccine issue at this time is really premature.
Joffre was a strange beast.
Up until the battle of the Marne he was crap.
Then he got the big decisions right.
Just how insane was French doctrine??
Attaque à outrance (French: Attack to excess) was the expression of a military philosophy common to many armies in the period before and during the earlier parts of World War I.
This philosophy was a response to the increasing weight of defensive firepower that accrued to armies in the nineteenth century, as a result of several technological innovations, notably breech-loading rifled guns, machine guns, and light field artillery firing high-explosive shells. It held that the victor would be the side with the strongest will, courage, and dash/energy (élan), and that every attack must therefore be pushed to the limit.
Bern
I don’t attribute his collapse to the vax as that certainly would be premature!!!
I have seen plenty of hard hits but I don’t recall CPR on the field.
Having said that, sometimes life deals you shitty angles. I think of Phil Hughes; if that cricket ball had been one inch higher or lower, he’d likely be alive and well today…
If Phil Hughes collapsed today, all the shills would be out claiming the jibby jab…!!!
Lol and by the Americans against us too. 🙂
I think so bern. Had a look at the footage. It didn’t look like a hard hit, but straight to the chest, and possibly the chin.
People are so antsy these days they’ll claim anything, imagine anything. The low trust result of long term gaslighting.
The early French attacks were mainly in the south=east, towards the upper Rhine. They lost up to 250,000 dead in the last months of 1914, a high proportion in those attacks.
It’s pretty rare, bern. Never before in my limited exp. They go hard but they’re fit as.
And as somewhat of a retrospective disclaimer… I do think the jibby jab has caused more adverse reactions than what is reported. To what extent, though, I have no idea.
Didja hear how 100+ Russians all died from sudden heart failure in Ukraine today, musta been the jab I tells ya.
Arkysays:
January 2, 2023 at 10:44 pm
If the Chinese were to copy Windows XP and pirate a few drivers, then sell it as a $20 OS, Bill Gates would be broke in a month. Block out any links to Google and he’d be broke in a fortnight.
Just sell a boot disk with a link to their site back in the Middle Kingdom, and Old Bill would cut his wrists in 24 hours.
(NADT)
Different kind of contact, but this one hit on Antonio Brown wrecked his life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8iFSP_S5h8
The NFL players are gladiators.
The curtain is opening up to a very steady, easing going 23.
Matrix Transform:
And I appreciate the help. It’s just that it failed at the second, third and fourth hurdle.
Excuse me while I reload MS DOS.
The helicopter prang on the Gold Coast.
Any thoughts?
(If only this site had access to an Aviation Expert).
Who’s your team?
The Simulation must be having a lend. The name of the old owner of the NY Giants (think he sold out) is Woody Johnson. No male porn star ever came up with that combo, but the simulation did. 🙂
Just out of pure morbid interest…
The angle of attack.
Good to see nothing’s changed here. Low loader cruises past with 30T excavator on it, not chained down, after having driven past the front of the terminal.
I pointed out to the engineer that having the excavator slip off and squash 20 tourists would probably be bad day!
Saw this happen on the road out of Jackson’s airport in PNG, dewy morning and excessive road camber just near the welcome to POM sign. Excavator on side in the table drain. Driver and co pilot parked further down the road rivet to their seats with a 1000 yard stare: “I guess we just got fired?” “Yep!”.
On Kruddster.
Yes, he will be bound not to make direct public statements without approval from Canbra.
But be prepared for an avalanche of “highly placed diplomatic sources” and “a senior embassy official familiar with the issue” stories.
They sound like fragile egotist looking for a safe space.
Good thing Lathem didn’t join.
It’s the jab wot did it for sure.
I can say that with as much confidence as ATAGI declaring it’s safe and necessary to vaccinate children.
Vaccines are administered in such an insidious and unnatural fashion that there is no way to know how they affect any one person. They are of course supposed toelicit a permanent physiological reaction (which they do even though the reaction is not what immunologists think it is) but people are so entranced by them they make up bizarre rationalisations that they can’t possibly cause long term injury.
The point is that excess deaths are telling a horrific story but for most people who die there will always be a chance to say “well not him!”
I can’t believe people are still getting boosters.
Rosie’s not a commie so I really wish she would stop.
Monty: you should keep getting them.
Mara owns 50% of the Giants now JC.
I used to follow them but I’ve just followed players, like Tom Brady for the last 10 years.
You’re guessing.
The first thing the tin-kickers will look for is vaccination certificates.
Doc Beaugan:
I’m not sure, but there was a novel about ten years ago where all the freaks who hadn’t gained the confidence of their unit members were just tied and left for the enemy with a descriptor tied to their shirts. It had something to do with the Gulf war, but damned if I can remember the name.
Lysander trading in January is fraught with danger as every budding billionaire to be is buying the latest thing they heard of from their pissed relative. October is much the same with reporting season. A week before the share price accounts for expected dividends but not lower than expected results.
Imagine how often the loon would be contacting the Albanian to offer advice. Not that I can or do, but I actually could feel sorry for the Albanian for having to have put himself through this torture. It will be torture unless he blocks him.
I was checking the ATSB Sancho but there’s nothing up there yet on QLD heli accident. It was obviously the jab wot did it. 😛
anyway, while I was there I noted this incident:
Speaking of the choppers colliding.
Watching a channel nine clip on YouTube they said they weren’t going to show the moment of impact.
Click, click, you could see it everywhere.
I wonder if it’s a ACMA rule.
LOL Ranga!!! That’s hilariously funny and very likely true!!! 😛
JC says:
January 3, 2023 at 1:48 pm
The curtain is opening up to a very steady, easing going 23.
Prigozhin next leader? ‘Worse than Putin’…
ASX down 111.5 points (1.50%) at the moment. Not the start we had been hoping for. 🙁
As for Prigozhin, should he assume (more) power that would confirm Putin was actually a ‘moderate’.
Arguing for drag queen story hour for toddlers is small beer compared to arguing on behalf of signing them up to Grindr.
JC is that simulated NFL or simulated pron. Both are about as interesting as Fantasy Football.
Watching the hit, the offensive player lowers his helmet & drives into the defensive player with that last stride.
Totally legal.
Defensive player got caught in a shitty position.
As mentioned above, like Phil Hughes.
No male porn star ever came up with that combo
The best slogan the NBA never used: “Marvel at our Johnsons”
There were, and still are, a lot of Johnsons aiming for the hoop.
Thanks Speedbox.
I have no real idea about about the “Kremliners”. I just posted a few headers amused how 23 is starting out. No different to 22. I think it’s going to be a shit of a year. But it’s just a hunch.
Some light reading from 2009 before getting on a plane…
Apparently the captain forgot to carry the one in his calculations. The ATSB photos and diagrams are quite scary; showing skid marks into the grass and that the plane went below “ground level” for a moment into Brimbank Park before having enough speed to climb…
neither pilot paying attention to location of the other aircraft
A mate’s been vaccinated four times because he has bad chest reactions to the usual flu. He feels like shit and has been this way all last year. His partner had the same regime and feels listless most days.
The neighbours wife can’t get out of bed for more than a few hours each day and has all the tests you could poke a stick at. She’s only in her forties with two teenage kids. I spoke to her a few months ago about the shitness of the vaccines and she expressed surprise that I had such a negative attitude to the 100% certified medicine show elixir.
She’s a lovely girl and I hope she back on her feet soon.
“The best slogan the NBA never used: “Marvel at our Johnsons””
Almost as good as the Dicken’s Cider ad: “My girlfriend love my Dicken’s Cider!”
I occasionally see a load which is obviously heavy, and will have yuuuge momentum forces in a bend at 100 kmh.
Now, I am sure those tie-down straps are as good as chains.
But I never pass him on the outside of a bend on a dual carriageway.
Salvatore:
Because he does it repeatedly to others?
Because he constantly drags up shit from the past which he thinks people don’t remember?
No.
It’s just because he’s a malevolent jerk who delights in causing fights – unless he’s in the same room/punching distance of the people he insults. Then he’s a gentleman, as others have described him from a previous Cat meetup.
He’s just a coward. And a very nasty one at that.
Momentary distraction.
I have noticed that Alan Jones has put the contents of his Fitzroy home to auction with Lawsons. I know that he has had spinal surgery once again in 2022. Anyone know anything further?
There are those who love him, and those who hate him. But he was always fearless in exposing political hypocrites and other mendacity.
Lord, where’s the iodine.
The family of the kid involved in the incident at Kings that got Jones sacked probably don’t belong to the former category.
I was serious, sheila I used to know regularly lost 30k around January for a few years. Woke as they come. Liars party aficionado in Sussex Street. Husband put a stop to it. It was a joy to behold. A bloke lost a quarter mil on the sayso of his receptionist wife in a start-up. Kept putting in good after bad money. I belonged to a small group of traders following the market.
JC says:
January 3, 2023 at 2:05 pm
Yes. Things might change of course but overall, the current financial pointers for 2023 are not promising at all. On the plus side, this does represent opportunities for portfolio consolidating and strengthening.
I remain the eternal optimist about the bourse. Sooner or later, the pain will be worthwhile. 🙂 Accumulate, accumulate, accumulate.
That’s my preferred outcome. We’ll see.
Lysander.
That incident caused Runnybum (who has obviously died of Covid) to dub me Biggles.
The point was, this wasn’t about flying as such.
The Maximum Take Off Weight (MTOW) of an A340-500 is 380 tonnes. This was a long haul flight to the Middle East, so you would expect that it would have been close to MTOW. A crew who was tuned in would have straight away said “Wut!?! 275 tonnes? That’s bullshit. Let’s work that out again.”
So they simply set take off power for the lower weight and, surprise, surprise, the take off roll was a tad sluggish.
You’re right.
They came within a few feet of a catastrophic prang.
Any person familiar with the key parameters of their job should spot a 25% – 30% error intuitively.
Truckdriver, pilot, header operator, whatever.
He did and he left on good terms. He was true to his principles and he is doing good work.
Estimate: China COVID Infections Could Hit 600 Million; US Weighs Airline Wastewater Testing
00:54 Estimate: China Infections Could Hit 600 Million
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05:41 Hospital Staff: Many Patients Getting Reinfected
06:31 Returnees Scuffle with Police at China Airport
07:23 Taiwan Offers Help to China Amid COVID-19 Surge
09:02 Chinese Jet Within 20 Feet of U.S. Military Aircraft
10:50 N. Korean Leader Promises Larger Nuclear Arsenal
12:07 South Korea, U.S. Discuss Nuclear Exercises: Yoon
13:13 NBA Draws Backlash Over Ties with CCP
JMH @ 12:43
Sorry, you can’t outdo the weather right here today, JMH.
Both the sky and the water were blue and clear; just the right waves and the slightest of a sea breeze this morning. While, off the coast, 7-8 beautiful coal ships waiting to sail into port! Pure magic.
Those College Bowl games were good yesterday.
A shame Big M didn’t get up.
A mate’s been vaccinated four times because he has bad chest reactions to the usual flu. He feels like shit and has been this way all last year. His partner had the same regime and feels listless most days.
Yes Gez, it breaks your heart when you come across such situations. But when they have never considered the possibility that a monumental medical catastrophe has occurred, it is well nigh impossible to even bring up the possibility.
There is still at least one (perhaps more) person in my city social circle who thinks I am some sort of potential “super spreader” because I remain unvaccinated. She must have a conviction that I am some sort of “Typhoid Mary” who harbours the dreaded virus but shows no symptoms.
I don’t think these people will concede anything until the government releases a united “mea culpa” & releases the actual data, and further reveals that VAERS flaws (& deliberate concealment and/or official instructions in GP practices) that prevented accurate recording of adverse events.
Cheers, Dot.
What do you think of the bickering?
The Zimmerman Telegram is next on my re – read list.
Speedbox.
I don’t disagree with your summation. The world seems to be getting along with most of the dislocations. I suspect the overly forecasted US recession won’t be big and if it looks like holding around consensus then there could be a big upswing in the US markets. Also, Europe could also surprise maybe. The thing I worry about is international politics..
I’ll put up a long wonky piece from someone who’s developed a following on Wall Street. It’s a little sobering but possibly also close to the make possibly. At the very least , it’s interesting.
Those College Bowl games were good yesterday.
Ohio State offensive line was the first team this year to neutralise the Georgia monster.
Tulane beating USC today was awesome.
Routine, repetitive flights, with pressure to load and unload quickly and get the next batch in the air.
In fact, I wondered if the benign conditions played a part. If winds were stronger, departing and arriving helicopters would each be flying into the wind on departure and landing. If winds were light and flukey, maybe there was less adherence to a standard arrival and departure direction.
But just guessing.
Every vehicle has blindspots.
No sympathy for Germany. If you don’t stand up to the politicians who betray your nation, you deserve everything you get.
Shirley you are taking a lend;
Before the pandemic, Fuellmich, who runs his own law firm in Göttingen, central Germany, and also lives and works part-time in the US, was best known for his involvement in high-profile corporate fraud cases against companies including Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen.
But last year, as the pandemic swept the world, drawing vast numbers of people down conspiracy-theory rabbit holes, his career took a surprising turn. In July 2020 Fuellmich launched himself as a vlogger and founded the corona ausschuss – roughly translated as “corona committee” – to investigate “crimes against humanity” committed by governments and corporations regarding COVID-19.
The committee’s “findings”, which are broadcast weekly on his website in multi-hour-long sessions, read like a glossary of every COVID conspiracy going. Hosted by Fuellmich and three other lawyers, it comes across as an official-looking enquiry – similar to what a government might set up after a national disaster.
France had the highest casualty rate of the victorious powers – over 70% of all soldiers mobilized were casualties. Might explain why they weren’t too keen on a re – run in 1940.
Part 1
TBH bern
I prefer College Football to NFL.
Mike Rowe and Tucker react to TikTok ‘influencer’s’ ‘My Day At Work’ video
Key questions for 2023.
What will the reactions be to:
The US cycling negative (pcp) inflation data at some point;
US house prices turning negative (yoy) as defined by the Case-Shiller index;
How long it takes for the world to adjust to the BOJ forcing up Japanese bond yields.
Keep in mind the US cycling lower energy prices in 2023 will be a huge relief.
Part 2.
Sorry it’s long everyone.
rosie says:
January 3, 2023 at 12:57 pm
Actually a very real person and a true skeptic, not a member of Rosie’s mRNA church, that’s for sure.
Farmer Gez, I got the first and second jabs as late as possible when Diktator Dan made them mandatory to work. I didn’t want to, but unlike the purest of the pure here I didn’t have a choice if I wanted to keep a roof over the families heads and pay the bills. After the second one I got shingles, some of it in the worst possible place and ever since I’ve struggled for energy. Things I used to love doing no longer interest me much and I have to force myself to get out and work and do things. I’ve always enjoyed working and never understood people who don’t like work.
Anyway I thought it was just me, however over the past few months I’ve been talking to others and I’m amazed at how many have a similar malaise. The last week or so I’ve felt a bit more energetic so hoping it’s on the way out.
x1000 Dot.
Dean MacRae is being a very good State President. He’s a bit bewildered and slightly miffed like me.
The SGM to bring things to a head is a good idea.
Last one part 3.
You’re a legend…
…let’s hope not.
“m-CBDC Bridge project”
JC, you’ll set Custard off.
Or maybe JC is Q …
On Kruddster.
Yes, he will be bound not to make direct public statements without approval from Canbra.
But be prepared for an avalanche of “highly placed diplomatic sources” and “a senior embassy official familiar with the issue” stories.
Can you imagine the “leakage” if Trump (or any republican really) actually became president again?
Krudds diplomacy would consist of not only spitting the dummy and overturning the pram, but setting the pram and a shitty nappy alight on the white house lawn.
What do you mean dot?
The US will be cycling lower energy prices.
While Australia will be cycling higher energy prices.
Ken Block dead.