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Gary Varvel..
Matt Margolis.
A.F. Branco.
Brett Lethbridge.
Miltonfsays:
January 12, 2023 at 12:17 pm
Some people here seem to have way too much time on their hands.
Nah,
just in MEL enjoying Elder Daughter & Son-in-law and Grandkids 2/4/6 Company – Brought down Lock picking Kit including tools (had to put in bag through hold for Flight down), Book How to & 6 Test Clear locks for No 6 Granddaughter – who learns quickly and can pick 1 of the test locks in 4 secs, Grandsons as politically incorrect as I, current getting an early start during holidays studying for VEC & Year 10. Daughter working from home, so time on hands – booked for Squires Loft Dinner tomorrow night – Prime Rib in my case, and will get back to watching politically incorrect shows when boys finish study this afternoon
I’m liking this new congress already.
NSW Labor has promised to cut red tape for small business.
NSW LABOR has promised to cut red rape for small business.
Bridges will also be sold at a discount.
Been away but I saw this comment above:
But blaming Pell for it (the abuse of children in the Church) is brain-dead stupid and mendacious and evil.
Pell did more than anyone else in the Australian Catholic hierarchy to get rid of the pedophiles who had infiltrated the church and its schools.
It is more significant than that. How many other organisations have come across such people and such crimes but have done nothing.
Cardinal Pell acted when there was no great clamouring for such purely out of his sense of justice, and while offering compensation explaining to victims and their families that whether they accepted some money or not they were in no way discouraged from reporting what happened to them to the police as well.
That’s what I said to my companions at dinner last night. They were a bit dubious until I gave them other examples like the Bourke jerk and Bill Shorten.
Dan Andrews would not be welcome in any case and I suspect all of Cardinal Pell’s family and friends would completely reject the notion of a ‘state funeral’ from the people who persecuted him to the grave and beyond.
Shane Warne is still getting a state funeral per week.
It’s against the law in qld to name them until committed for trial.
Connected to Canberra, apparently.
So state funerals are at the whim of the premier in vic, now.
Comensoli should challenge this.
Being offered a state funeral by TaliDan would be a good enough reason to reject it.
And that’s why he is being interred in Sydney. If Dominic were really a Catholic he would offer a state funeral here.
m0ntysays:
January 12, 2023 at 12:33 pm
To be taken seriously by the voters, however, the special commission or committee or whatever that is empaneled must consist of and be led by serious and sober members.
It won’t.
It isn’t being organised by the DemonRats, so there is at least a chance that it will.
Knuckle Dragger says: January 12, 2023 at 7:51 am
That suggestion was definitely the type of proportionate response for which police are well known.
Perrottet will offer the smallest possible target up until the election. A state funeral will not be on the cards at all.
Courage is not his strong suit.
H B Bear says: January 12, 2023 at 12:34 pm
Yes but they’re fake coins and so don’t jiggle in her pocket.
In my lighter moments I like to play at composing responses that Churchill would have made in response to Dan Andrews wretched babble.
It would have been the most fertile ground that the great man had ever tilled.
While I find the exercise to be cathartic, the truth is that Andrews would have jailed him, the MSM locked him out and Milligan would have campaigned on behalf of a 1922 deb whose memoirs suggested the Churchill dropped an olive down her empire line bodice.
The truth being, we don’t need a Churchill, just a few Liberals with values.
‘proportionate response’
Happy for you to suggest a better line for ladies told to undress in public by work colleagues, ‘Colonel’. Perhaps a military-themed one.
Every time Andrews is given an opportunity to be a decent human being, he proves his worth.
The whole thing was a set-up.
Tame j’ism asks Dorothy Dixer about State Funeral.
Dan Xi-Man then delivers a thinly veiled five minute character assassination.
MSM runs with it for the rest of the day.
If queried as to why he said anything at all he simply says “I was just responding to a question”.
The ABC’s pathetic attempt to normalise ‘dying suddenly’ can be seen in its coverage of Jeff Beck’s death:
Guitarist Jeff Beck dies after suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, aged 78
Three years ago, would the word ‘suddenly’ be in the headline?
You can even see the deliberate (albeit hasty) effort they went to to insert ‘suddenly’ into the story:
Oops.
flyingduk says: January 12, 2023 at 11:28 am
What a humblebrag. Those were the good old days when criticising a political decision got you a visit by a uniformed person with an actual face to have an English conversation with you.
These days the pressure is done remotely by cyber stalking, harassment in car parks, and things going bump in the night. A stern talking to by a plod? Sheeer lux-reh!
Bert Newton.
Shane Warne.
And Michael Gudinski, FFS.
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Yeah?
Have you raised this with Dover wrt posts he deletes? Which he does at times, just with a different threshold than I had.
Or does it only concern you when the person doing it disagrees with and openly shows his dislike FOR YOU.
In other words, it isn’t about censorship, it’s about you.
A couple of days ago JC posted a brief synopsis of John Steinbeck’ work, generated by AI bot, ChatGPT.
I am a fan of Steinbeck and thought it was pretty good I thought, so I opened a free account and tested the AI against some simple technical and engineering challenges. In its present form it’s probably not going to displace anything other than Indian essay writers, but I still think it’s pretty good:
* It does basic maths: trigonometry, algebra, solves quadratic equations, and performs calculus (not sure to what level as I’ve yet to work out the notation the system uses to push it).
* It correctly states the main ways to calculate deflection in a beam (although it didn’t include finite element or empirical tables – possibly because it doesn’t view these as ‘calculations’).
* After a lot of waffle it eventually gave a simplistic (but correct) answer to ‘compare Mohr’s Circle with Cauchy’s quadric‘.
* Asked to ‘specify the stable slope angle for a 5m deep by 1000m excavation in soil‘ it used a ‘rule of thumb’ method to produce a reasonable estimate – and vaguely mentioned the need to consider soil conditions (the response was also covered in warnings about local laws and guidelines and the need to obtain professional geotechnical advice).
* Asked to ‘specify the stable slope angle for a 50m deep by 1000m excavation in soil‘ it produced a more conservative answer and (impressively, I thought) referenced my previous query to explain the additional safety factor – but didn’t raise the obvious questions about was there really 50m of soil, or better estimation methods that account for rotational or slip failure. So not especially intelligent.
* One of its skills that seems particularly well developed is coding. It will produce code to solve a (correctly specified) requirement in any one of about 30 programming languages and translates function from one language to another. It also picks up and suggests fixes for buggy code.
Again, not sure how deep this skill is – but this application certainly has me sucked into considering a commercial subscription.
All up, pretty impressive for a browser bot. In 10 years’ time these AI tools will be tearing up the professions – I can easily see why Google wants to get its hands on this sort of technology.
The downside (and for me a major one, because I see this already with non-AI digital solutions) is that lazy, or unskilled users will end up trusting the system in a Wikipedia way and blindly accepting stupid or inadequate solutions.
The system is also designed to be politically correct. I tested ‘what are the main difficulties with climate modelling‘ and received back a brief precis of the technical problems of modelling a large chaotic system (notably excluding the fact that climate models are fitted to the historical data and don’t work from first principles) – and an unasked-for finger wagging:
The Ghost in the Machine.
Lord, sorry about the wordwall.
The system is also designed to be politically correct. I tested ‘what are the main difficulties with climate modelling‘ and received back a brief precis of the technical problems of modelling a large chaotic system (notably excluding the fact that climate models are fitted to the historical data and don’t work from first principles) – and an unasked-for finger wagging:
Despite these difficulties, climate modeling has advanced significantly in recent years and has become an important tool for understanding and predicting the Earth’s changing climate.
The Ghost in the Machine.
And wot’ baat’ the Question of Number 42?
Err, no.
Because it is his blog.
Just as AdamD edits comments at Lollipop blog. I am sure C.L. would do the same at his place and NFA and St Ruth would delete comments at the Furniture Store (if they had any, that is).
If the Great Ubuntu gets some of his inane ramblings published here, that is the beginning and end of Ubuntu’s rights.
Ubuntu has no rights to edit, delete and move subsequent commentary.
Well, not any more.
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Move, eh?
Like with what Dover did in creating a seperate “duelling” thread?
Like that you mean?
You need to raise that with him.
I decided long ago that dickheads like you made pushing “publish” on anything Inwrote with an open comments thread was a fool’s game.
The whole thing was a set-up.
Tame j’ism asks Dorothy Dixer about State Funeral.
Dan Xi-Man then delivers a thinly veiled five minute character assassination.
MSM runs with it for the rest of the day.
If queried as to why he said anything at all he simply says “I was just responding to a question”.
Seven goals to NIL. Is that a problem for yer’ Desperate Dan from China…………………I mean Chinktoria…….
What about pissing about with the upticks on SOMEONE ELSES blog? Which you admitted to doing.
Got any opinion on that?
Sancho Panzersays:
January 12, 2023 at 1:13 pm
Yeah?
Have you raised this with Dover wrt posts he deletes?
Go and play in the traffic at Rush Hour………………….
Knuckle Dragger says: January 12, 2023 at 12:58 pm
Certainly. Plenty of options would be better than grand-standing some hollow threat of grievous bodily harm with a firearm that she wouldn’t ever really do because nobody would accept that bloody violence was the ‘proportionate response’ to what was simply an unpleasant request made at a distance.
A proportionate response would be to simply tell the truth. “You are either too stupid to not know such a request is upsetting because you are horribly unattractive and it changes our working relationship and calls into question the ethics of yourself and this whole workplace’s culture and management, or you are malicious in knowing all of that and proceeding to ask such a futile question anyway with the implication that aiming for mutual benefit is not part of your action plan.”
I admit nobody would think of this on the spot.
What? They can be manipulated?
Did I?
When?
I might have baited The Great Ubuntu by pretending I could do it.
I have no idea how to.
Do you, oh great computer whizz?
The arrangements between Dover and myself in regards to how my articles on his site were moderated are between Dover and I.
If you have a complaint, as you keep pointing out, it is his blog, take it up with him.
Or put your own arse on the line and contribute your own work and time to publishing and moderating on this blog.
How about that?
Anyone have any views on the historian/author Tom Holland?
Worth reading much of his work?
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So it’s between liar, or cheat and hypocrite.
Which is it?
You seem angry, Ubuntu.
You should channel that emotion into something constructive.
And wot’ baat’ the Question of Number 42?
So, programmed with a Kevin Rudd sense of humour.
Louise 7nilagain failed the Munster School of J’ism. But, But, But I got everything wrong so why didn’t I pass. Well you did pass but it was a grogan that stunk more than mine. You could always start a Fantasy J’ism site on the web. I have and the ALPBC picked it up so now I can spread my J’ism everywhere.
Some can. I’ve witnessed a few long serving crims start fresh productive lives. But this only by removing themselves from temptation and accepting people have right to be suspicious.
The longer people are involved in politics, the more mentally ill they become.
Krudd is a great example.
Sancho Panzersays:
January 12, 2023 at 1:24 pm
You seem angry, Ubuntu.
You should channel that emotion into something constructive.
So should you Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. Get back into the Rush Hour traffic where you belong………………….
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A retreat into phoney are you OK.
Just responding to your sneeering. If you think that sneer of yours doesn’t come from anger, you are clueless.
So which is it, did you lie about it or did you fake the upticks?
I have screen shot your admission today for future interactions with your worthless self.
Some of my previous comment may have contained falsehoods but, but, but not as many as munty and 7nilagain.
‘bern, I would love it if the Sussexes teamed up with Krudd and did a podcast about how they have been wronged.
The toppering would be epic.
I hope AnAl was VERY CAREFUL on the stairs.
The longer people are involved in politics, the more mentally ill they become.
Krudd is a great example.
He/She/It/Whatever was mentally ill before getting into The Swamp. And it is still the case……………….
And what admission was that, oh Great Ubuntu?
A man walks into a bar and sits down next to another man. They get to talking and the second man says “You know, this bar has a really unique feature”. “Oh?” says the first man “What’s that?” “Well, the way the air currents loop around the building, you can jump off the roof and float down to the street unharmed”. “Bullshit” says the first man “I don’t believe you”. “I’ll show you” says the second man.
So they go up to the roof and sure enough, the second man jumps off and gently, gently floats to the ground.
“That’s amazing!” shouts the first man “I have to try that!” And he jumps off the roof, hits the street and dies.
The second man walks back into the bar. The bartender looks up and says “You sure are a dark motherf*cker when you’ve been drinking, Superman”.
if we are done rehashing the sidetracks you threw, back to the reason for the distasteful task of replying to you in the first place, Sancho of the Upticks.
Are you really so clueless as to how people remember your comments as to think you can get away with saying you EQUALLY, rather than reluctantly, or possibly not at all, pursued the fake Covid deaths at the height of the stupidity?
Are people that forgetful?
I think not.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
– Sydney J. Harris
You can even see the deliberate (albeit hasty) effort they went to to insert ‘suddenly’ into the story:
everybody, and I mean, EVERBODY dies SUDDENLY .. FFS! ..
One second your breathing .. the next your NOT .. it’s quite SUDDEN .. LOL!
Yes, certainly worth reading his non-fiction.
Can someone ask ChatGPT how one anonymous blogger should respond to another anonymous blogger regarding activities on an anonymous blog months ago?
What do I remember?
I remember someone flouncing out of here in favour of the Lollipop Blog where standards were soooo much higher.
How did the proprietor there respond to the offer of shared Leadership, Ubuntu?
The one year flounce seems to have promoted lots of mental health.
Well, actually they aren’t. That’s just you trying to set the rules. He decides what he would like to disclose and in any event we saw you in action. If the plug hadn’t been pulled the blog was gonsky.
You didn’t own it then and neither do you now.
LOL.
Fat arse more appropriately. We’ve seen your contribution, smokey. No one really missed the enthralling comments and threads. Get over yourself, Mr Nafink.
Use an anonymous sock.
Then uptick it.
Many, many times.
As George Pell was a Cardinal Archbishop of the Catholic Church – and its most senior prelate – set to be interred in the crypt of St Mary’s Cathedral, the state was never going to have anything to do with his funeral. That would be beneath dignity. Also, St Mary’s isn’t in Victoria.
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Faustus, your 1:05 pm is fascinating and rather disturbing.
I think I will leave it there, oh Great Ubuntu.
I don’t believe you are debating in good faith.
JCsays:
January 12, 2023 at 12:07 pm
The sea is very angry today, my friends.
Jerkoff Codswallop – You have no friends here.
C.L. the question of a state funeral was a Dorothy Dixer from a friendly j’ism to give Andrews an opportunity to slag off.
If offered it wouldn’t be accepted.
And it was never going to be offered.
After all, Pell wasn’t a chain-smoking legspinner, a spiv music promoter or a hair-challenged fading TV ‘star’.
So KC or Dr F, can you ask the AI a hypothetical common law case question? That should be a real forecast to see if it 1) can crunch through lotsa data and give a considered reliable answer, and 2) is free from the influence of coercion and corruption…. for the time being at least
And that’s why he is being interred in Sydney.
Not really something I’m interested in but wouldn’t he qualify for one of them pyramids/temples or whatever they have in the Vatican for the higher -ups? ..
seems a hassle to bring him all the way back to Oz when they’ve (I’m assuming) umpteen mausoleums in the Vatican set aside for his level of closer-to-God folk ……!
Any word from the crook today, you useless troll?
Pity Lindsay didn’t show him how that POS Dan fell down the stairs.
Do you mean Martin Armstrong?
Because he is a crook.
shatterzzzsays:
January 12, 2023 at 1:38 pm
You can even see the deliberate (albeit hasty) effort they went to to insert ‘suddenly’ into the story:
everybody, and I mean, EVERBODY dies SUDDENLY .. FFS! ..
One second your breathing .. the next your NOT .. it’s quite SUDDEN .. LOL!
Yes and it was by an ‘Unknown Cause’. Apparently, this is new. I would just love to see what all the Death Certificates now show. Sounds like Fiction to me and a Big Cover Up…………
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You are fantasising. While sidetracking.
What a multitasking little sneerer you are.
If you think I offered anything to Adam, who has done a great job of moderating his version, I did not. Feel free to ask him. I have not had any correspondence with him about the moderation or proprietorship of his blog. I doubt I have corresponded with him at all. Unless I sent him a post, which if I did, it was not published, which is his prerogative. But I can’t remember any such. I correspond with a great number of people.
Nice bit of smearing though. Bit of hard to disprove innuendo.
What else would one expect from you?
As to Adam’s opinion of, me, I wouldn’t have a clue, nor would it be any of my business.
Now, care to reply to the reason for this discussion in the first place? Because I really am having a hard time holding my breath against your stench. I mean, you really stink.
Do you really expect people on here to remember you as having vigorously opposed the fake Covid deaths at the height of the stupidity? Are you really that stupid? Or do you think they are?
Sancho Panzersays:
January 12, 2023 at 1:51 pm
Any word from the crook today, you useless troll?
Do you mean Martin Armstrong?
Because he is a crook.
Keep skipping over my posts as I know that you cannot read anyway or to get new stuff into your thick head. Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, just get back into playing in the traffic you T.W.A.T…………………….
Thank you Mrs Stencho Pantyhose and I will now post more to annoy you. You Big Fat T. W. A. T.
Wow, Surovikin demoted from leading the Russian forces in Ukraine to return to the failed Gerasimov. Surovikin had actually been doing a very competent job, albeit not with much flair or daring.
I guess Russia is going to start a new offensive, which will probably go as well as its last offensive.
The lack of bonhomie and good humour today is most disheartening.
Yahoo News: Resolution to condemn attacks on crisis pregnancy centers is an ‘anti-abortion’ measure
And just for Stencho Pantyhose and His/Her/It/Whatever deluded followers……………………..
Hoards in History
From Armstrong Economics –
QUESTION: I find it fascinating how you bring much more detail to life in your work. I have read your latest book Plot to Seize Russia. I knew many of those events took place but never the background. What an excellent job. You have to get this out in paperback for the world to see.
My question is about hoards of ancient coins. What was the biggest hoard ever discovered?
PH
REPLY
: The First Edition is sold out. We are rushing the Second Edition to our publisher and it will be on a less expensive paper to try to bring down the cost. It will then be available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, etc.
The biggest hoard of Roman gold coins ever discovered was the Hoxne Hoard is the largest cache of late Roman gold found anywhere in the Roman Empire. It was discovered by a metal detectorist in Hoxne in Suffolk, England, in the east of England in 1992 containing 14,865 late-4th and early-5th century AD Roman gold, silver, and bronze coins. There were also 200 items of silver tableware and gold jewelry items. The hoard amounts to a total of 7.7lb of gold and 52.4 lb of silver.
The metal detectorist reported his discovery immediately and the cache was professionally excavated by archaeologists and conserved soon afterward so the vital context of the objects and their condition were preserved. The coins were the source to date the hoard to the early 5th century AD in the aftermath of the end of the Roman occupation of Britain. Hence, the political chaos inspired the owner to stash his fortunes. Obviously, he did not survive.
Perhaps one of the most famous discoveries from Pompeii is known as the Boscoreale Treasure. This discovery came to light in 1895, when the treasure was uncovered among volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79 AD. In 1895, excavations at a Roman villa at Boscoreale on the slopes of Vesuvius unearthed a remarkable hoard of coins, 109 items of silverware, and over 1,000 gold aurei, the latest of which dated to 78AD with many pieces dating back decades prior, such as the gold aureus of Nero (54-68 AD) with Claudius as Caesar. The villa that held the coins lay undisturbed until 1876, yet the coin hoard lay undiscovered for almost another 30 years. The original owner hid the treasure in a wine tank prior to the eruption, so it was not immediately discovered.
Unfortunately, there was never a formal study of the Boscoreale coins prior to being dispersed into the market. Consequently, we do not know the full extent of the find. Nevertheless, the coins are easily identifiable for a distinctive feature of this hoard from Boscoreale is their deep red toning, and the term “Boscoreale” is now used in auction catalogs to describe similar discoloration on any Roman gold. The coinage of Boscoreale does tend to be well preserved. Here are three gold aurei. Not the deep red toning from the heat of the volcano.
Boscoreale Cups
The Boscoreale treasure included a remarkable set of tableware reflecting the quality of Roman silverwork in the 1st century AD. The decoration on these two cups illustrates a most curious theme. There are Epicurean maxims (engraved in dots) and the skeletons of poets and Greek philosophers, representing an invitation to enjoy the present for death comes to us all.
These two silver cups pictured here, are famous for their strange decoration. A Latin inscription on the base of one of the cups gives their weight and the name of their owner, Gavia.
The ring of skeletons depicted on these two cups has similar and complementary decorations depicting tragic and comic poets, as well as famous Greek philosophers, beneath a garland of roses. Greek inscriptions engraved in dots form captions and are accompanied by Epicurean maxims such as, “Enjoy life while you can, for tomorrow is uncertain.” Clotho, one of the Fates, looks on as Menander, Euripides, Archilochus, Monimus the Cynic, Demetrius of Phalera, Sophocles, and Moschion provide a caustic and ironic illustration of the fragility and vanity of the human condition. But the main message of the cups’ decoration is that life should be enjoyed to the fullest. Zeno and Epicurus, the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean philosophies in the 4th century BC, confront each other before two mating dogs — a detail of some significance, as it represents the triumph of Epicureanism.
Silver and gold coins from ancient times have survived, as well as bronze. Silver can be affected by the sea and at times when it is debased. Bronze requires certain conditions to survive in good form. So if you intend to bury your gold and silver in the backyard, keep in mind that humanity has been doing this in times of trouble since before recorded history.”
George Cardinal Pell was made a cardinal in 2003 and served as as the eighth Archbishop of Sydney (2001–2014).
He will be buried in the crypt of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
A NSW State funeral would be fitting.
(BTW,
Dominic Perrottet was educated at Catholic schools Oakhill College in Castle Hill and Redfield College in Dural.
Matt Kean attended Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview.)
Past State Services (from 1991)
Was Emperor Albatine most displeased with apparent lack of resupply progress?
Emperor Albatine made sure to swim in the pool, not the sea.
Less chance of Holt Effect that way.
It is so easy to take a pop at Mrs Stencho Pantyhose as that person has such a weak chin and leads with it so often………………..T. W. A. T…………………………..
JR, monty check your emails.
We need to discuss Sancho’s drift into a sentient AI chat and identifying everyone as Operating Systems.
Who watches the watchmen?
Martin Armstrong.
Convicted thief.
………………………………………. LOL!
What makes you think that, Dos?
Pope Francis always stood by Cardinal Pell.
Perrottet also ruled out ‘state funeral’.
Who needs that rot when they can have a requiem mass, or many requiem masses.
My parish priest is saying his tomorrow.
Cardinal Pell saw this clearly. He is the one who started this. Then he had to stay for almost two years in Australia because of this slander they made against him – he was innocent, but they made him an ugly, poor fellow – and he walked away from this administration, but it was Pell who provided the blueprint for how things could go forward. He was a great man and we owe him many things.”
Talk about sidetracking. The lollipop owner made it obvious Ubuntu wasn’t welcome there as nearly interactions were followed with direct comments from Adam and he wasn’t nice to him. In fact he was hostile. He just didn’t like him.
Except that wasn’t what Sanchez was pointing to.
Yea, he can’t stand you.
Yea, leaving voice messages, laughing that although you’ve been permanently blocked you can still leave a voice mail. So, so disturbing.
How about from you, Dickhead.? Voice mails, coveted doxing, denials. You weirdo.
It’s obvious, he considers you the closest thing to a brain tumor. He’s right.
And don’t forget Cardinal Pell also died suddenly.
Sancho Panzersays:
January 12, 2023 at 1:58 pm
The lack of bonhomie and good humour today is most disheartening.
Well how about being a non T. W. W. T. for once…………………………….Dickhead………………….Lead from the front and not fart from the back………………………..
Correct. It is between Arky & Shanta-struth. (who has just weighed in on behalf of the blog owner)
Driller
Don’t you have a pool to clean?
Sancho Panzer:
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Weren’t you done for the day?
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Sounds like a flounce.
Are there any journalists in Melbourne who are unfriendly to Andrews?
I mean, even Palaszczuk gets a grilling fairly regularly.
Why do I get the feeling that Albo’s new billionaire friend is wining, dining and entertaining him in the pool in an effort to pry some taxpayer millions or billions for his venture?
The Northern Territory government said it has been offered “big assurances” by Sun Cable that the $30bn renewable project would proceed after its sudden collapse into voluntary administration following a spat between its two billionaire backers.
Sun Cable planned to build the world’s largest solar farm and battery storage facility in the NT by 2026, delivering an economic boost to the local economy and opening the path for a major clean energy export industry to Asia.
Acting NT Chief Minister Nicole Manison said it had been assured by Sun Cable chief executive David Griffin the development would still go ahead.
“We have been given big assurances from the chief executive that they’re confident that they will get through this voluntary administration process swiftly and that we can have confidence in this project going forward and they will have significant interest for investment,” Ms Manison told reporters on Thursday.
“We need to take a deep breath here and realise that this is a $30bn project,” she said. “It is going to be globally significant and we make no apologies backing it and working alongside a project like this that looks to deliver renewable clean, green power.”
Oz
Dumb question
Can a laptop battery get better the more and longer you charge it? Even on /at full charge???
It doesn’t make sense to me, but that’s what the battery report from the windows cmd module says comparing a few days of data.
Bruce explain how this BS can work.
Laptop batteries AFAIK do not have the ability to (self) recondition like an expensive car trickle charger.
Cardinal George Pell has died in Rome this evening at the age of 81.
Edward Pentin – Vatican – January 10, 2023
The Australian cardinal had been admitted to Rome’s Salvator Mundi hospital, about one and a half miles from his Vatican residence, for routine hip replacement surgery on Tuesday afternoon.
The operation was successful and he was in good spirits, chatting with hospital staff, but he later suffered a suspected cardiac arrest and died at 8.50pm, according to his personal secretary, Father Joseph Hamilton. An autopsy report is expected to give the precise cause of death.
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The Pope said he recalled with “heartfelt gratitude” Cardinal Pell’s “consistent and committed witness, his dedication to the Gospel and the Church, and particularly his diligent cooperation with the Holy See in its recent economic reform, for which he laid the foundations with determination and wisdom.”
Beware the Ides of Stairs.
That sexual harassments claim, I don’t know where to start. Is it going to be made illegal to look at women?
For me it’s always been the other way round; I couldn’t count the number of times women have groped me. You can either be dignified or make a joke of it. Sometimes I thank them for the compliment.
This is good, ja?
Is the cost pat for the course though???
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02524
A Highly Reversible Low-Cost Aqueous Sulfur–Manganese Redox Flow Battery
Jiafeng Lei, Yanxin Yao, Yaqin Huang*, and Yi-Chun Lu*
Cite this: ACS Energy Lett. 2023, 8, XXX, 429–435
Publication Date:December 8, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02524
© 2022 American Chemical Society
Redox flow batteries are promising energy storage technologies. Low-cost electrolytes are the prerequisites for large-scale energy storage applications. Herein, we describe an ultra-low-cost sulfur–manganese (S–Mn) redox flow battery coupling a Mn2+/MnO2(s) posolyte and polysulfide negolyte. In addition to the intrinsically low cost active materials, the polysulfide negolyte removes the long-unresolved metal dendrite issue of metal–Mn batteries (e.g., Zn–Mn2+/MnO2(s) batteries), enabling substantially improved cycling stability at a high areal capacity (50–100 mAh cm–2). Due to the low cost of both sulfur and manganese species, this system promises an ultralow electrolyte cost of $11.00 kWh–1 (based on achieved capacity). This work broadens the horizons of aqueous manganese-based batteries beyond metal–manganese chemistry and offers a practical route for low-cost and long-duration energy storage applications.
“We need to take a deep breath here and realise that this is a $30bn project,” she said. “It is going to be globally significant and we make no apologies backing it and working alongside a project like this that looks to deliver renewable clean, green power.”
Another Taxpayer Cockup. How abaat’ getting the Darwin Harbour Lease back from the Chinks…………………You T.W.A.T.s
cohenitesays:
January 12, 2023 at 2:25 pm
That sexual harassments claim, I don’t know where to start. Is it going to be made illegal to look at women?
For me it’s always been the other way round; I couldn’t count the number of times women have groped me. You can either be dignified or make a joke of it. Sometimes I thank them for the compliment.
I always wear sunglasses even when I don’t want to look at young women. And I most certainly do not look at Priests, Pollies. Lawyers. Judges unless they are Hot Women. No Priests though as they are just kiddly fiddlers………………………..
Vomitous bigotry, Rotten.
That’s when Rottenhead is busy ogling over Thai ladyboys.
rickw:
It’s the culture, rick. The SubContinental culture is classist, racist, and it believes in treating anyone with less power than you like shit.
As well as overbearing and arrogant.
I come to that conclusion from many years of working with them – it’s not an attitude I came up with one Sunday morning.
Don’t believe a word you hear and keep your passwords and the contents of your wallet secret.
“It is normal for men and women to check each other out.”
And for any situation, it’s important to examine your own, perhaps unconscious, biases.
For “discrimination”, whether it be sex, race or whatever, change the role of one, then the other, then both – ie, initial is male vs female, what about M v M, F v F, and F v M. If your initial reaction is different than the initial case, you may have some bias!
Tim Pool gives a good example: Male walks up to another male at work, claps him on the shoulder and says “Have you lost a little weight? Is that a new haircut? New clothes? Looking good, mate – looking GOOD!”. Same male walks up to a female and does and says the EXACT same thing, complete with same emphasis, eye contact etc etc. Chances are, when said to a male there would be a grin and “Thanks mate” said back, but said to a female there is a good chance she will take exception – and maybe say he’s a creep, a sexual harasser etc. Not always for sure, but if you had to bet which was more likely to result in a “bad” outcome, it’s the male talking to the female, wouldn’t it?
JCsays:
January 12, 2023 at 1:49 pm
Johnny Rotten says:
January 12, 2023 at 1:46 pm
JCsays:
January 12, 2023 at 12:07 pm
The sea is very angry today, my friends.
Jerkoff Codswallop – You have no friends here.
Any word from the crook today, you useless troll?
Hello Jerkoff Codswallop (JC) and I trust that you had a nice time at the Pub. You seem to be rather late here today and more pissed than usual. Please go back and play in the traffic. You do not own this Blog BTW so you will just have to accept Free Speech. T.W.A.T………………….
Speaking of Ubuntu, I like Pop OS better.
But I still need to run Windows alongside it because I can’t get some of the add on functions I need on Excel on the Linux spreadsheets.
There will be a solution, but I’m too lazy to find it yet. That Wine program, I think.
This channel has been great while I did the Linux thing from zero previous experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4QRBm0C_8
Dotsays:
January 12, 2023 at 2:39 pm
Vomitous bigotry, Rotten.
Dotty Dot, get back in your Box along with Mrs Stencho Pantyhose and Jerkoff Codswallop. You all deserve each other.
Arky says:
January 12, 2023 at 2:48 pm
That’s the reason I don’t use any Linux, for our business we need to use Windows because the apps we use rely on it.
Why complicate things using a simulator when we can use the real thing?
Probably a bit different for experimenting.
Well how about being a non T. W. W. T. for once…………………………….Dickhead………………….Lead from the front and not fart from the back………………………..
Johnny, are you signed up to some sort of ellipsis frequent flyer program?
If so, you should have qualified for the six steak knives by now.
I once thought Johnny Rotten was Memory Dolt’s puppet, now it seems to be…skinsuitsy and central coasty.
Johnny do you own a Bichon Frise?
..
The Linux spreadsheets program I use opens Excel spreads OK, but I’m not sure I’d rely on this alone if it was for business.
I have come across too many time consuming glitches along the way in just the week I have been at it. And I have no idea how to plug in the data analysis add-on I use regularly on Excel.
Hi Cats!
Still alive, still unserious. 🙂
And shunting parcels van traffic for one of the biggest courier mobs in the country (Not that one– He only uses containers). Nobody tell Struth- His Kenworth might have a seizure.
And thought for the day- If I am ever to be publicly arrested for Crimes Against The Revolution, if the arresting officer does not fly-kick his way through the windscreen of my shitbox and then Systema-roll back off my bonnet, I’ll be personally offended. Somewhat miffed, even…
Daily Tele:
Premier Dominic Perrottet has made a shock admission that he dressed up in a Nazi costume at his 21st birthday party.
The Premier apologised for the offensive gaffe, saying “it’s a massive mistake” and “I’m not the person today that I was when I was 21”.
Rumours were swirling on Thursday about the existence of a damaging photo involving Mr Perrottet, with speculation that it was set to be leaked to damage the premier ahead of the election.
He said the issue was raised with him two days ago.
Yes, but what sort? Waffen SS? U-Boat captain on the bridge for the last time. ME262 pilot?
But then again they weren’t necessarily Nazis.
And was the uniform Hugo Boss?
“Laptop batteries AFAIK do not have the ability to (self) recondition like an expensive car trickle charger.”
Not sure about Li-ion batteries, but ye olde Ni-Cads were “conditioned” using a pulse charger – instead of 1 mA for 1 second, it would be 10mA for 1/10th of second, then nothing for the other 9/10ths (well, that style, not those numbers). Idea was, battery got killed by “whiskers” of metal that “grew” between the two electrodes on charge/discharge, so a high current pulse would burn them away like blowing a fuse and “fix” the battery.
AFAIK, Li-Ion almost always have a charge controller chip built in these days. Not sure if that includes any “conditioning” circuitry, but it might I guess. If such exists and is in the laptop (or battery) it’s possible. Or maybe the battery charge controller chip is just lying (unintentionally, of course!)
Biden in trouble again………………………..
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64244007
m0ntysays:
January 12, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Wow, Surovikin demoted from leading the Russian forces in Ukraine to return to the failed Gerasimov. Surovikin had actually been doing a very competent job, albeit not with much flair or daring.
Field Marshal Lord m0nty=fa, VC and 5 Bars, GCMG, Lion of the Staff College, Hero of a Hundred Battles, has made his assessment. Prepare the firing squad.
Sorry.
I should have explained it more clearly for you.
I meant I was breaking off discussions of who done what on a long dead blog.
I wasn’t leaving here altogether.
As if.
I think your Wishful Thinking module has gone into overload, Ubuntu.
Likely that the “stoush” between Byron Bay Jesus and St Twiggy is aimed at shaking loose some Albo-cash.
I’d like someone to ask the following question:
If I tell someone his pants are on fire, what should he do to decide if I’m telling the truth?
Limited and glitchy but that was some time ago, Arky.
Never heard of Pop OS before.
Dotsays:
January 12, 2023 at 3:00 pm
I once thought Johnny Rotten was Memory Dolt’s puppet, now it seems to be…skinsuitsy and central coasty.
Johnny do you own a Bichon Frise?
Dotty Dot you are deluded as usual. Please keep it up as it is quite funny.
If a liar tells me his pants are on fire, should I fetch a hose?
Can someone ask the Ubuntu why he needs a spreadsheet? He doesn’t work as far as I know.
If I tell someone his pants are on fire, what should he do to decide if I’m telling the truth?
At least think abaat’ where the heat is coming from. Maybe the ass………………..lol
“Laptop batteries AFAIK do not have the ability to (self) recondition like an expensive car trickle charger.”
Batteries of different chemistries have different issues.
NiCads tend to “grow whiskers” through the electrolyte, so a “pulse” charger that burns them away like blowing a fuse can “recondition” them.
Lead acid batteries typically fail in one of two ways – either the electrode physical structure or chemistry changes meaning they don’t hold a charge (typically when completely flattened), or they get a conductive “sludge” across the bottom that makes them “self discharge” at varying rates (typically just age).
I don’t know about lithium ones, other than to say that most modern ones have a charge controller chip built in, and this is likely what Windows is querying and reporting on. The chip may be mistaken about what is going on, or it may be accurate – I don’t know enough about them or have sufficient experience with them to say, but undoubtedly time and usage will tell. If you are concerned about it, just make sure you don’t leave it anywhere a fire is going to be catastrophic 🙂
Dunno why you couldn’t ask, but here, Doc.
If I tell someone his pants are on fire, what should he do to decide if I’m telling the truth?
Sounds pretty reasonable.
I also asked this:
Yea well, we’re not exactly racing to the next job ad.
This is perfectly true.
“Don’t you have a pool to clean?”
“I am here to clean ze pool”
“We don’t have a pool”
“I said, I am here to clean ze pool!”
Sounds like a bad porno movie… does Sancho have a side job he’s not telling us about?
My most recent non-work use of a spreadsheet was as a contact register for a long-winded insurance claim, and to keep track of renovation costs.
Apart from that I only use one to record my dividend receipts to make sure my tax is roughly right each year.
Did I mention I got yuuuge BHP dividends last year?
Massive.
Top Ender:
The white elephant is dead, but we will still keep shovelling hay down its throat, and evacuating shit from its arse in an effort to keep the appearance of life.
Yes, it’s a good answer. It does miss the allusion to ‘Liar, liar, pants on fire’, but the literal answer is not bad. It also fails to suggest sniffing for the smell of burning fabric.
For something that knows about the world only what human beans have said about it, it’s impressive.
A Catholic cardinal was never going to have a secular state funeral.
The question was only asked to set up a slagging off by Andrews.
I don’t know how to access the program, JC, thanks for doing it for me.
The only other question I have for it is:
How does the fact that SU(2) is a double covering of SO(3) explain spin one half particles?
NYT doing a soft take on the Hunter Biden business dealings.
They reach back to a 21st birthday party 20 years ago? The same people who gave Prince Harry a pass for doing something similar?
It’s not just because I’m old that I think the world has mental issues – it really does, and cancel culture is a symptom of civilisational decline. The media will feast on this like the hyenas they are.
Here doc
Go here and sign in. That’s it.
Is it just me or are others having trouble with loading? .. no probs with other sites but Cat taking several minutes or timing out to main page and repeating the several minutes to access the thread/post ..
I’m using W10 on the desktop with BRAVE browser …..
Indeed. Every Dem speaker on the floor I’ve seen simply ignores that the bill in front of them concerns a child that survives an attempted abortion and is now located outside of the womb, and yet they simply regurgitate platitudes about privacy, bodily autonomy, etc. This indicates that they understand that recognizing a duty of care for the child in a failed abortion raises questions about what the child in utero is owed. Recognizing the danger this places the abortion license, they are quite prepared to deny any care to the child now outside the womb in a failed abortion. Extraordinary.
Nazis are ok these days as long as they are Ukrainian.
Tucker Carlson: Biden, Classified Docs, and UPenn’s China Ties – Full Trascript
The first question here is: Why were Joe Biden’s lawyers doing this in the first place?
We can’t say for sure because they haven’t told us, but it is weird. Lawyers don’t typically search locked closets. Yours probably don’t, but Biden’s lawyers did, and we guess they did because they understood that Republicans were about to win back the House and with it, congressional subpoena power. They were likely conducting a cleanup operation preemptively trying to get ahead of a scandal they knew was coming and, of course, they hid what they found in that closet until after the midterm elections, because there’s no reason to influence voters too much with information. So, there’s that, and then there’s the question of the so-called Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
What is that exactly? The whole idea of an academic Biden center is pretty funny. Joe Biden is a moron. He’s always been a moron even before the dementia. For decades in Washington, ask anyone who lived there, Biden was famous as the dumbest member of the Senate. People made jokes about it. So, why would an Ivy League university name a think tank after a man who can’t think and then pay him nearly a million dollars a year for not doing anything? Hmm. Good question. Well, more on that in just a minute, but first, a word about classified documents.
Joe Biden, we learned today, was not holding on to the kind of cocktail napkins found at Mar-a-Lago. He had actual classified information about a bunch of countries, including Ukraine, from his time as vice president. Why? Why is it always about Ukraine? What is going on in Ukraine? Don’t talk about the biolabs. What is that? Why the obsession with Ukraine going back long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, going back many years?
Well, in this case, it turns out that three days before Joe Biden left his job as vice president in January of 2017, the Ukrainians were also a little bit confused about the focus on their country.
In mid-January 2017, State Department officials circulated a report from Ukrinform. That’s the Ukrainian state media organization and the report said this, and we’re quoting: “Literally on the last days of his term, the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is going to Kyiv. How can we explain this attention to us?”
So, even Ukrainians were confused. Why is the president of the United States, the world’s richest country, spending so much of his life focused on Europe’s poorest country, Ukraine? What’s going on?
Well, here’s one explanation.
Well, in April of 2016, one of Hunter Biden’s business associates explained the purpose in an email to Hunter. He said that the Penn Biden Center “operates like the Clinton Global Initiative without the money raise.” Oh, so all the upside, none of the downside, without the money raised, really? So, you don’t have to fly around the world raising money, but as the Washington Free Beacon has reported, actually, there was a lot of money being raised and it was being raised by the University of Pennsylvania and it was being raised from foreign governments after the Biden Center opened
See the connection here?
We’re quoting from the piece: “Foreign contributions to the University of Pennsylvania tripled since the Penn Biden Center’s soft opening in March 2017, rising from $31 million in 2016 to over $100 million in 2019.”
Now, where did all that money come from?
Where do you think? The largest foreign contributor was China and if you go to the web page for the Penn Biden Center, you get some idea of what that money bought.
On the site, there’s a section called “Addressing Threats to the Liberal International Order.” Russia and Vladimir Putin are mentioned as threats to the liberal international order, but China, which is currently committing genocide, is conspicuously not mentioned as a threat to the liberal international order.
So, all of this aroused our suspicions naturally.
Whoops.
Here doc.
https://chat.openai.com/chat
“That Wine program, I think.”
Oracle VM Virtualbox – you can install Windows on it, and run what you need to without having to reboot. Or install the same in Windows and run Linux on it.
When I had my business, I used this on a Linux base to give me 2 VMs – one for mission critical, one for browsing, mail etc. Because you can set up the networking appropriately, I made sure the mission critical machine could ONLY see our bank and our ISP’s website, while those were the only two places you couldn’t go on the browsing/mail one. Plus a couple of other bits and bobs like transparent caching proxies for DNS and web, because the Linux versions are more robust and easier to set up to help protect you from things like cache poisoning of DNS (no longer an issue, but it was back then).
“That Wine program, I think.”
Oracle VM Virtualbox – you can install Windows on it, and run what you need to without having to reboot. Or install the same in Windows and run Linux on it until you get comfortable with it and have everything “sorted”.
When I had my business, I used this on a Linux base to give me 2 VMs – one for mission critical, one for browsing, mail etc. Because you can set up the networking appropriately, I made sure the mission critical machine could ONLY see our bank and our ISP’s website, while those were the only two places you couldn’t go on the browsing/mail one. Plus a couple of other bits and bobs like transparent caching proxies for DNS and web, because the Linux versions are more robust and easier to set up to help protect you from things like cache poisoning of DNS (no longer an issue, but it was back then).
I noted the use of “looks to”.
Euphemism for “never gonna happen”
I sincerely hope Kristina Keneally has rediscovered the “presumption of innocence”, a presumption she denied Cardinal George Pell.
Ex-Premier Kristina Keneally’s son faces lengthy legal battle
By ADELAIDE LANG
The son of former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally is facing a lengthy legal fight after he was charged with faking evidence that led to a man’s wrongful imprisonment.
Police allege Daniel John Keneally fabricated evidence while he was working as a police officer in Sydney in 2021.
The 24-year-old allegedly falsely accused a member of the public of threatening to kill a police officer during a phone call to Newtown police station in February.
Charges were laid against the man and he was imprisoned for three weeks before he was given a formal apology by the state.
Mr Keneally was charged with fabricating false evidence with the intent to mislead a judicial tribunal after an investigation by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission.
The police officer has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
He did not attend in Sydney Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday, where he was represented by a lawyer.
The crown prosecutor told the court there were outstanding continuity statements and witness statements which were necessary to proceed with the matter.
The court heard the charges will need to be adjourned for three weeks to settle the brief of evidence.
NSW Police confirmed Mr Keneally’s employment status is under review.
The 24-year-old is the son of former NSW Premier and ex-senator Kristina Keneally, who held a senate role from 2019 until April last year.
She served as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate for three years, from 2019 until 2022 when she lost her seat of Fowler.”
Mom fatally shoots home invader to protect her 2 kids: Sheriff
Tucker: Air travel is a disaster
The newspapers reported Mr Albanese had lunch with the logistics industry leader and had a swim.
Just a practice then ..! .. 2 of them falling down the steps might appear suspicious ..!
Cassie of Sydney says:
January 12, 2023 at 4:15 pm
I sincerely hope, that you are realistic enough, to realise that she will not.
Not in their make-up.
So, all of this aroused our suspicions naturally.
We decided to get a closer look at the University of Pennsylvania and its ties to China. We took a look at text messages from Hunter Biden’s laptop to see if we could find an answer and we found messages between a senior professor at Penn’s International Relations Department to Naomi Biden. That would be Hunter Biden’s very young daughter.
The message from the professor begins this way: “Dear Naomi… I’m writing to you tonight to invite you to take part in a major conference in China at the end of March. I’ve been asked… to help recruit a prominent young leader. They” — the Chinese government — “will fly you business class and of course provide all your accommodations… I don’t think it would surprise you that they are interested in you thanks to your family name. I would not take offense at that. It is truly the Chinese way (and frankly, better you than that dolt Tiffany Trump). If you are interested, can you send me your c.v. and/or a bio? I would forward that and you could expect an official invitation from Li Baodong, the secretary general of the forum.”
Pretty remarkable — as far as we know, that has not been previously reported.
Here you have an employee of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school, sending an invitation apparently on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party to recruit Joe Biden’s granddaughter for an influence operation, saying that she’d be flown to Beijing and stay in Chinese government-controlled accommodations. So, a lot of people on television seem very concerned about national security at the moment.
All these former CIA and NSA and FBI employees are going on CNN and MSNBC to tell you national security implications are first in mind. Are they concerned about this? Will they ask a single question about it? Of course, they won’t. So tonight, we’re going to begin by asking fact-based questions about those classified materials that Joe Biden apparently had at the Penn Biden Center and what they tell us.
Tucker: Air travel is a disaster
Time out 504 error & some small print with Ubantu at bottom. 3 times in a few hours. Hamsters are coming to a halt.
Satellite Images Show Busy Chinese Funeral Homes; China to Remove Paxlovid from Insurance Drug List
China in Focus – NTD
00:55 Satellite Images Show Busy Chinese Funeral Homes
02:59 China to Remove Paxlovid from Insurance Drug List
04:31 House Creates Bipartisan Committee on China
07:19 House China Select Committee Aims to Counter Threats
08:06 Japan Tours G7 Nations for Head of State Talks
10:05 ‘Germany Won’t Arm Taiwan’: Senior Lawmaker
11:50 Chinese Warships Spotted in South Pacific
I’m not sure this distinction is operative. Ted Whitton’s funeral was at St Patrick’s in Melbourne in the mid-90s. A state funeral is just the addition of public/ civil recognition and possibly pageantry given the deceased’s public contribution. Was Mannix given a state funeral? Probably not.
You know Im beginning to think that Epstein may not have killed himself..
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/11/jes-staley-had-profound-friendship-with-jeffrey-epstein-court-documents-claim
1,251 days
10 August 2019 – 12 January 2023
Since he was Arkancided, and not a single leak of the visitors to loli island bar the initial flight manifests.
It took less time for the Russians to steal the tech for the atomic bomb than for Epsteins secrets to be revealed.
Jes Staley, the former boss of Barclays, has been accused of having such a “profound friendship” with Jeffrey Epstein that it could “even suggest that Staley may have been involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation”, according to documents filed in a US court.
Staley, who resigned as chief executive of Barclays in November 2021 after a preliminary investigation by the UK regulators into his relationship with Epstein, is now accused of regularly visiting Epstein on his private Caribbean island and continuing to “corresponded with Epstein while Epstein was incarcerated”.
The documents submitted in federal court in New York by the US Virgin Islands (USVI) in its lawsuit against the Wall Street banking giant JP Morgan – where Staley was head of its exclusive private bank and had Epstein as a client – include fresh claims about the extent of Staley’s friendship with Epstein.
“Between 2008 and 2012, Staley exchanged approximately 1,200 emails with Epstein from his JP Morgan email account,” the USVI said in freshly unredacted documents. “These communications show a close personal relationship and ‘profound’ friendship between the two men and even suggest that Staley may have been involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.
“They also reveal that Staley corresponded with Epstein while Epstein was incarcerated and visited Epstein’s Virgin Islands residence on multiple occasions.”
A spokesperson for Staley declined to comment, but a lawyer for Staley had previously said “we wish to make it expressly clear that our client had no involvement in any of the alleged crimes committed by Mr Epstein”.
Staley developed a relationship with Epstein in 2000, when he was hired to lead JP Morgan’s private bank, which handles wealthy clients. Staley stayed in contact with Epstein for seven years after the latter was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008, and visited Epstein in Florida while he was still serving his sentence and on work release in 2009.
That relationship continued after Staley left JP Morgan, where he had spent 30 years of his career, in 2013. Staley claimed their contact started to taper off after he left the Wall Street lender, with the two men meeting for a final time in 2015, when Staley took his own yacht, the Bequia, to visit Epstein’s private island.
Jordan Petersons Has To Be Reeducated
Oddly enough, the comments are still getting through the 502 ‘Bad Gateway’ and 504 ‘Time Out’ errors.
Top Ender beat me to the news, also reported at the Grauniad https://t.co/BsUyXiVFzp and on Twitter where the phrase “at 21” was trending in Australia an hour ago for a mysterious reason that has only now become known to me:
One could even say it was a… mass grave mistake!
Many reacting by pointing out they knew the Nazis were bad when they were 21 so youth isn’t an excuse.
Mmm, yeah, about that.
Look we’ve all been there, done that, when youngsters. Just imitating anybody famous was considered funny. And if his mates reckoned he might go into law or politics one day, wouldn’t that just make it even more funny? Many people were (and still are) imitating the accent and mannerisms of the Godfather just to be funny and nobody tells them to be ashamed of imitating the real mafia bosses of violent shakedowns and drug-dealing upon which the character was based. Imitation is not done solely for flattery of the imitated. When we laughed at Trudeau’s leaked blackface scandal, it was mainly out of hypocrisy of the Left and not because it is impossible for what he did to have been (past tense) funny in the context of the time he did it. We’ve all been progressive in our social views and sensibilities since then and that doesn’t change our interpretation of past events so much as it changes what we would do going forward. Sensible people take an originalist interpretation of historical documents.
Almost goes without saying that if he was a Green/Labor puppet you’d never hear of this from the Guardian.
And yes (before OCO/Struth/Indolent/etc gets in here to say it), it’s hypocritical for the Guardianistas to scorn DomPer for merely dressing like a Nazi when he was 21, since less than 3 years ago these fully grown MSM adults were champions of: fooling people into taking a
showershot that would be bad for them, demanding the withholding of medical care from political enemies, preventing people from entering businesses without the right papers, strong-arming doctors, CEOs, and the professional classes into supporting policy, running internal checkpoints and walls-of-steel around cities, requiring people to wear an item of clothing to identify their allegiance in public, and … okay I ran out of vague analogies to the Nazis, but you get the point. The scorners today really did far more than simply dress for the part of Nazis.If DomPer has done anything Nazi-esque since he’s become Premier, please regale us, but my impression from afar is that he’s mainly been unwinding what was done before him.
And the arsehole will walk into the sunshine with nothing foul dripping from his back.
The judiciary in this country is an absolute disgrace for wont of a better word like ‘corrupted’ !
where’s Johnny?
An Aussie and a Maori walk into a bakery.
…The Aussie steals three pastries and slips them into his pocket. He turns to the Maori and says, “Pretty slick aye, bro? The owner didn’t even see me.”
Unimpressed, the Maori replies, “Typical dishonest Aussie, bro. I’m gonna show you the honest way and still get the same result.”
The Maori calls out to the owner of the shop and says, “Bro, I want to show you a magic trick.” Intrigued, the owner comes over. The Maori asks him for a pastry, which the owner gives him, and the Maori eats it. He asks for another and eats that, too. He asks for a third and eats it as well.
The owner says, “C’mon, mate. Where’s the magic trick?”
The Maori points to the Aussie and says, “Check his pockets.”
I blame Roger or Rex.
Silly man. He should have worn stilettos, fishnets, a cute satin slip and a peacock feather stuck up his bottom.
They’d love him for that.
He’s in good company with Trudy and the Spare. Also John Cook our UQ climate guru.
Spare has been getting some stick for that but not holy lefty warriors Trudy and Cook.
6 stabbed in Paris; no motive or apparent link to muzzie crap:
The identification process was still ongoing because the suspect was registered under several identities in a fingerprint database based on his declarations in previous cases involving him, suggesting he could be born in Libya or Algeria, the statement said. He is about 20 years old.
FMD.
Parrothead should have put on blackface. Oh wait, putting on blackface is reserved for leftist and progressive politicians and they always get a free pass.
The Sun Cable scheme has been discussed here before, but there seems to be a dearth of understanding out there as to whether it would work.
The line I’ve been running is:
Have these people ever seen what happens if you connect a bedside light to a power point – and then alternatively to 500m of extension cable? The light is then a dim travesty of its former self.
The same immutable laws of physics take place with long – the longest ever attempted – undersea cables. As well as more loss from switching from DC to the AC needed for consumption. And storing electricity in a battery loses still more.
Is this anything more than a scheme to get governments to invest – and lose – money?
Then again maybe they sell it on the basis that they will have a motza of energy, and even if the setup does lose 50-70% of its power there will still be a heap being delivered.
Comments?
“6 stabbed in Paris; no motive or apparent link to muzzie crap:”
Far-right Calvinists?
bespokesays:
January 12, 2023 at 4:59 pm
Time out 504 error & some small print with Ubantu at bottom. 3 times in a few hours. Hamsters are coming to a halt.
It won’t be Rex. he’s been too busy darning his socks.
Roger?
Thanks, JC, no more questions.
The answer this time was facile and said “the right words” but showed no understanding. It works like an arts graduate, it tries to say the right thing whether it makes sense or not.
I bet, like my son who’s a similar age, he was a fan of the Blues Brothers and Indiana Jones. None of these kids admired the Nazis. They wanted to make fun of them, just like the movies.
When will these morons stop capitulating to the far left woke gestapo. What’s wrong with simply ignoring the crap? That’s what I would do, plus extending a middle digit to the MSM scum in there for a feed.
DrBeau, I was hoping to get an answer for my question.
It’s a puzzle – trust and deceit, practical response, moral implications of justice and punishment. I was also anticipating something about “the boy who cried wolf”.
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Roger.
Good to see French Police still don’t hesitate to use deadly force against terror suspects.
Shot twice in the chest and once in the arm.
Given his current performance as Premier of NSW it may of been Sergeant Schultz’s uniform?
“I bet, like my son who’s a similar age, he was a fan of the Blues Brothers and Indiana Jones. None of these kids admired the Nazis. They wanted to make fun of them, just like the movies.”
Correct, it’s just utterly ridiculous. I’m not outraged.
Desertec. Giant turkey which Twiggy obviously didn’t study before he committed to his silly idea.
Which is an even bigger turkey.
As distinct from fabricating real evidence?
“Given his current performance as Premier of NSW it may of been Sergeant Schultz’s uniform?”
LOL…good one.
m0ntysays:
January 12, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Wow, Surovikin demoted from leading the Russian forces in Ukraine to return to the failed Gerasimov. Surovikin had actually been doing a very competent job, albeit not with much flair or daring.
I guess Russia is going to start a new offensive, which will probably go as well as its last offensive.
Was a couple of interesting bits i read which could mean nothing, be bullshit or actually may mean quite a lot..
Apparently the Russkis are supposed to have decreased shelling along the front by 75% in Ukraine.
The story I read was crowing “they must be running out of ammo” (which might be correct), but I was thinking it could be a little more sinister than that, and possibly they are stockpiling for an offensive spearheaded by mass bombardment.
Its awful that its difficult to take any of the info you read at “interpreted” value.
Waiting for m0nty=fa to tell us that both the Biden classified documents business and the U Penn “Biden Centre”, complete with Chinese donations, and just “nothingburgers”.
Okay. I just can’t help myself.
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Men At Work
Gosh! That was ten years ago! A PM and the Ambassador to the US.
What a world.
are just noth …
Waiting for m0nty=fa to tell us that both the Biden classified documents business and the U Penn “Biden Centre”, complete with Chinese donations, and just “nothingburgers”.
The hive has sent out the message…
Colbert on Biden v Trump documents: ‘It’s comparing apples to orange-man’
Late-night hosts discuss the discovery of classified documents in one of Biden’s offices and McCarthy’s weak speakership
“Come on, Joe. Classified?” Colbert worried. “Is this just what every president does now? Just scatter a trail of intelligence like Johnny Document-seed? Are these classified files everywhere? My God, this is stressing me out. I’m sweating bullets here.”
t’s still unclear what the handful of documents, which Biden said he was unaware of and were promptly returned to the National Archives, contain or pertain to, “but given Biden’s age, I assume it’s the Spanish-American war and the digging of the Panama Canal”, Colbert quipped.
Pathetic lickspittles tounging the anus of a decaying old career grifter.
Yes?
Bowen and Albo doing a top job of keeping power prices down. Just got notification from my gas supplier that the consumption charges are going up by another 10% in February.
I can afford it but I wouldn’t want to be in a business that uses a lot of the stuff.
Just disgraceful.
T.E. mused:
I’d guess the transmission efficiency is unimportant relative to the cost of the energy inputs since the energy itself arrives for free, but efficiency is still very important to the return on capital investment and O&M expenses due to all the infrastructure that has to be firstly built and then maintained (clean the solar panels after dust storms etc) in order to gather that energy.
With more efficient transmission you need less money sunk into it to get started for meeting a fixed consumption target, and then lower cost of production (no matter what the consumption target was).
This would have to be compared to fossil/nuclear efficiency which isn’t great either, like steam turbines which are roughly 60% efficient, but that doesn’t sound as bad as the 30% efficiency being suggested for solar+cable.
The main problem would not be transmission efficiency but simply reliability of supply from a semi-random source. Absent of any discernable topography for hydro-storage, only an enormous battery could smooth that out, and that would cost a fortune in itself with any known commercial technology.
Only by finding a customer that is willing to vary their production in synch with power supplied could this deficiency be side-stepped.
Dems should just concede the 2024 election now, they can’t fight that quality of argument.
Make me a sandwich!
monty, what is your argument against treating children that survive an abortion?
It does highlight what a Jewish spokesperson said in response – there’s a need to edaucate each new generation in what the Nazis did (not just to Jews) and the Holocaust. Especially now with anti-semitism and neo-fascism on the rise.
I’m a generation older than Perrottet. We grew up in the shadow of WWII, with grandfathers who’d fought in it. Thus I’d never have dreamed of dressing up as a Nazi for fun. What was he thinking?…or not, as he intimated in his apology.
Forgive and move on, but we cannot forget.
Frolicking.
Bulldog Durham is still investigating.
This unpublished info may be still sub judice.
Perrottet deserves to lose the upcoming election. Never apologise, especially for something so minor.
What’s worse is that he had warning that this was coming, so he wasn’t caught off guard.
m0ntysays:
January 12, 2023 at 5:42 pm
Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog
Democrats actively oppose any law guaranteeing medical treatment to infants born alive after a failed abortion. Nearly all of them think that such children should be left to die. This is their actual policy position. Never forget that.
Dems should just concede the 2024 election now, they can’t fight that quality of argument.
m0nty=fa supports infanticide by neglect. So much kinder and gentler than just sticking a probe into their brain.
Biden aides find second batch of classified documents at new location
On Monday, the White House acknowledged a “small number” of classified documents had been found in an office Biden used.
It looks a pretty shallow sort of thing, Calli. A sort of smoothed up system of hooks and tags. That said, a lot of human responses aren’t any better these days. I’m afraid that an educational system that trains ppl to give robotic approved answers is going to be inferior to something trained on a much larger corpus to do the same thing.
Yes.
GIVE THEM NOTHING, AND TAKE FROM THEM, EVERYTHING!!!