Only an idiot or a supporter would be confused.
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It’s a pity the people in charge don’t stamp out this piracy the way it used to be done: “You…
Albanese has just gifted Timor-Leste fifty million billion dollars because something something growing economy partnership something. So, we can assume…
A fascinating and superb read – Thanks Bill.
Septacaemia after the last of a dozen rhinoplasties was botched?
ASEAN nations, specifically.
(How timely as they’re just now in Melbourne!)
A development not without political challenges for China.
US still around 16% acc. to OECD figures.
T.A.A.S.T.A.A.F.L.
Crossie:
You only use them when you go to town, Crossie. They’re a device used to empty your wallet at the local watering hole.
By elections are correctly, I think, seen as referendums on the (at the time) current government.
The Federal (or state) opposition should not conduct itself as a parallel universe government. They should not be releasing prescriptive policies.
That just gives the government of the day a way to shift the focus from their ineptitude (manifesting itself daily in humanly tragic fashion) to anyone that exists in a purely hypothetical sphere.
Dutton raised the prospect of nuclear power. Good. Imagine if he had detailed a complete program of works – all that minutiae beneath which Bowen and his malformed entourage could hide while the bird-smashing pin-wheels rattled about their axial either too slow, or too fast, to produce an ampere. Or the vast fields of solar arrays carpeting the desert from horizon to horizon above which, when the sun is at a workable angle, the air scintillates, sparks flashing where life force of birds are struck from their bodies, as beneath the blacksmiths hammer, and mere cinders drift with indistinct shape earthward.
Anyway, point is that government and opposition parties are not equal and opposites in by-elections. It is at best a test of whether a government has lost some of its lustre and we can debate, when it does, how much is due to opposition has done to them what Bowen’s scorching puritanical black fields have done to the birds.
My suspicion is that what Dutton has or has not done would contribute little one way or the other to a Melbourne, and what I get the feeling (from my impression) is a ‘The Capital’ (a la Hunger Games), electorate like Dunkley.
Still, it looks like Greens votes bled to Labor, and some of Labor’s votes bled to the Libs.
Roger
Mar 4, 2024 1:17 PM
Remind me to get out the old Sound Van and play the Call to Prayer at 0546 all this week in that lovely Green suburb.
Well, sure, but what of the challenges for the US? Consider how dependent Asian countries are to Chinese exports. What are many of these countries going to do in the event of a war and any possible sanctions regime/ blockade?
Depends…which of them will China attack?
😀
So, it looks like Drumgold is going to join the line at the Public ATM.
No winners.
Who was the former NSW Chief Magistrate who ended up in jail?
Goodness me.
Where is Sir Richard Burton when we need him to read for us?
Chief Magistrates? Huh – In Western Australia we jail former Premiers – from both sides of politics!
It has to be asked, what on earth was Walter thinking?
LOL, I see brane genius Peter Dutton has announced that he will spend all his time leading up to the next election figuring out which marginal electorates he will personally choose as sites of nuclear power plants. Presumably the electorates who don’t get their own plants will be sites of nuclear waste dumps.
He’s an electoral savant, that strategy can’t fail!
A New Era for the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: Beijing Responds to Export Controls:
If they solve this challenge the implications will be monumental. RTWT.
BJ:
Anti-Air:
https://www.navy.gov.au/capabilities/weapons/sm-2-standard-missile
https://www.navy.gov.au/capabilities/weapons/rim-162-evolved-sea-sparrow-missile
You also have Close-In-Weapons Systems such as Phalanx but basically that’s last-ditch stuff.
Anti-ship
https://www.navy.gov.au/capabilities/weapons/rgm-84-harpoon-block-ii
https://www.navy.gov.au/capabilities/weapons/agm-114n-hellfire
You do have naval gunfire too but it’s more in support of land targets these days.
“Optimally crewed” seems to be the latest buzzword that someone picked up from the USN. It looks like a Humpty-Dumpty word to me – it can mean whatever you want. But a few comments I’ve heard mean you send a ship to sea not fully manned for combat if you’re not expecting combat – eg: leave the embarked air flight at home.
Nikki Haley wins 97% Democrat voting Washington DC.
Rooster, can you please link to the story.
Are you OK, Dover. You seem cranky today.
It’s becoming more brazen now. The hotel terrace lift-off is getting a little too boring.
Death count since 2022 in suspicious circumstances. 51.
WSJ.
As an election strategy for inner city seats Albo & Bowen will spend their time choosing which parcels of irreplaceable agricultural land they’ll destroy for renewables.
Surveys say it sells well to the fantasy football set.
I know you’re being facetious but any conflict between China and the US will deeply impact countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, economically.
That WSJ article is hilarious. Really lifted my spirits.
Really? There’s dislocation in a major war?
Let’s be brutally honest.
It’s as bad as those Chinese mobile execution vans.
Lifted your spirits that a murder was committed on a Spanish street by Russian security services? You’re perfectly fine with that, yeah?
mUnty
Good to see that the Liars have already got their lies ready, fully workshopped.
You really don’t know much about nuclear power, do you? (Neither do the Liars idiots who made that up.)
PS, as a j’ismist, you should know that electorates are not persons, and should not be referred to as “who”. Try “that”.
Sky:
“Marginal seats” m0ron?
m0ron relies on selling lies for the talking points he is repeating.
Modern nuclear reactors use waste as a fuel, see the integral fast breeder reactor.
Bombshell as judge in charge of the inquiry into the Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins case is slammed for his ‘communications’ with high-profile columnist
When your a member of the legal “club” always worthwhile chasing a bit of extra retirement capital ……
One way of enticement would be to pay those regions where nuclear reactors would be established. Free rates perhaps and or other direct inducements to the residents. Local and state government would need to be by-passed to ensure the people received the full inducement.
Have regions big for them (re: the inducement package) as that would cancel out the bullshit.
big = bid.
It does not exist, Dot. The project to develop it was canned 30 years ago.
Such is the way for most of this stuff.
Nukes as a policy in Australia is as dead as a Fukushima safety worker.
But hey, Dutton pushing that wheelbarrow of radioactive waste around the country helps out Gina’s ranking in the rich list, and isn’t that really what the LNP is all about.
1/ What, all of a sudden extra-judicial murders in foreign lands aren’t de rigueur? 2/ He got two of his crewmen killed in the act of betraying his country. Something the WSJ fails to mention in what you excerpted.
What did he expect, a parade?
Thanks.
I was expecting to see rather longer ranges in the anti-ship missiles. IIRC, some of the anti-ship ballistic missiles (A2/AD) are claimed to be much longer ranged, though since they seem to be shore based, size and fuel loads would be less of a problem.
It seems to be still a matter of “Engage the enemy more closely”, but does the old adage that ships should not engage shore batteries still apply?
As for “optimally crewed”, it sounds like a buzzword that implies “inadequate”.
JC, I have no problem removing the Russkie pilot, he was a traitor.
and
https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1685670503800000512
Get a load of this.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1685670503800000512
https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1685670503800000512
Happy place, happy people. Totally motivated.
Ranga
They shot him on a Spanish street!
They are de rigeur seeing that it’s Putin’s hit squads doing all the extra-judicial murdering these days. And no, they’re not something you should be cheering about.
You go through the proper channels or it’s tough shit. You don’t go around shooting people in another country because he committed a crime.
Try educating them. Hossenfelder remarked that she would rather live next to a nuke plant than a chemical one because with a nuke plant it is very easy to monitor the risk. I find it odd that people are scared of nuke plants but think having a dental x ray every 6 months is fine. Below is recent, I’ve seen research going back many years indicating a possible risk. There is no way to do a gold standard analysis of this risk. The medical profession does x-rays where warranted, not as a standard procedure yet I’ve seen dental clinics advertising regular x-ray exams. The individual risk is low but given widespread use the public health implications are unsettling, especially given that thyroid cancer rates are increasing.
Repeated exposure to dental X-rays may increase the risk of thyroid cancer and tumours in tissue covering the brain and spinal cord, according to new research.1
Memon A, Rogers I, Paudyal P, Sundin J. Dental x-rays and the risk of thyroid cancer and meningioma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of current epidemiological evidence. Thyroid 2019; DOI: 10.1089/thy.2019.0105 [Epub ahead of print].
Concluding remark in abstract:
There is a difference between “the technology does not exist” and “does not commercially exist”.* Furthermore the technology is over 30 years old and proven.
There are no nuclear power stations in Australia – which doesn’t mean they can be written off as ever existing.
*In the west, or commercially.
Russia operates a “burner” reactor for the purpose of destroying nuclear power stockpiles and it generates up to 880 MW of power – BN800.
And don’t focus on one. There are another 50 suspicious deaths around the world.
Really? Treason has a very strict definition.
You’d be fine if the USSR wasted Viktor Belenko in Japan or the USA?
from Wiki:
Murray Farquhar OBE (7 July 1918 – 3 December 1993) was an Australian jurist. He was the Chief Stipendiary Magistrate of New South Wales between 1971 and 1977.[1] Farquhar was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales. He attended Broken Hill High School and served in the Australian Army in the Second World War. After his military service, he studied law, practised as a solicitor and was appointed a magistrate in 1962. He was appointed Chief Stipendiary Magistrate in 1971. A Royal Commission conducted by Sir Laurence Street into the alleged involvement of both Farquhar and Premier of New South Wales Neville Wran in the acquittal of former head of the Australian Rugby League Kevin Humphreys,[3] who was on fraud charges, resulted in Farquhar in March 1985 being sentenced to four years’ gaol for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.[4] During his trial, it became clear that Farquhar had deep roots in the criminal community, including connections to George Freeman and Nick Paltos.[5] Much of the investigative work in the Farquhar case was due to the efforts of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corners program and The Sun-Herald newspaper. In March 1991, Farquhar was acquitted of receiving stolen paintings. He had a fatal heart attack on 3 December 1993 while on trial for conspiracy to obtain stolen passports.
When the US or Israel conduct extra-judicial executions are they going through ‘proper channels’?
Serious question. Should we then shut down Lucas Heights?
Uh oh. It’s like the plastic recycling scam all over again.
The only moral thing to do is to get a dual purpose IFR for waste disposal and power generation.
The swamp sure knows one of their own. Now everyone can work out why Republican voters won’t have a bar of her.
It was more than likely contracted – local hoods collecting a bounty with intel supplied by FSB. Just like CIA using Mafia hoods.
Nukes as a policy in Australia is as dead as a Fukushima safety worker.
Which is why they need to legislate against the possibility of one being built rather than ever allow a case for one to be made.
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998 and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 both prohibit nuclear power.
Anti-scientific idiocy.
Top Ender
PS, re “optimally crewed”.
If this is all that is implied, they should not be counted as a separate group. Leaving the air flight ashore could apply to any ship with such a flight, not requiring identifying as a separate “class”.
There is something else behind the slogan, it would be interesting to discover what.
You were 25 seconds late in my anticipation you’d bring up either the US or Israel.
Mother Russia was not in danger from this man, traitor or whatever you want to label him. Hardly the same thing, but nice try though.
Now, tell us about the other murders committed in other countries.
Talking about getting the message across in terms of the Russian pilot, there’s a story doing the rounds that during WW2, General Patton was driving through an artillery emplacement and his Chief Medical Officer was giving him Hell about the head injuries he was getting in the Casualty Clearing Stations.
“Perhaps,” said the CMO “we should send a memo to all the Regimental Commanders making the wearing of helmets mandatory?”
“Stop the car,” says Patton. He gets out and walks over to a Lieutenant and slaps the cap he’s wearing off the mans head, then proceeds to give him a tongue lashing about “Don’t you men read the memos I send out? Everyone has to wear their helmet!” Apparently the verbiage was something else. Then he gets back in the car and gets driven off.
CMO: “What was that for? You haven’t sent a memo out, you gave that poor man a really hard time for something he didn’t know anything about.”
Gen Patton: “No, but you can bet the message will be heard by every son of a bitch by sundown this evening. Your memo will still be sitting in your out tray.”
As mum used to say, there’s more ways of skinning a cat than by stuffing it’s arse with butter.”
Crossie:
Crossie
Mar 4, 2024 3:48 PM
Bourne1879
Many many upticks!
Was that in the 3rd or 4th season of the Sopranos?
Firefox plus AdBlock works. The occasional ad slips through, but rarely, At least 95% of the time, no ads.
And where is Old Ozzie? I miss the diverse articles he reproduces – with info I would not have been able to access.
I am an information junkie…….help…Old Ozzie….!!!
Dover.
With due respect.
Ya head deep in a nihilistic orifice.
Go out and do something constructive.
Re: Tom’s Toons, this one is worth repeating.
Biden is demented; his Sundown Syndrome is very obvious.
I think he may be off to Italy to play tourist.
Given that it would realistically take 30 years to fire up a nuclear power plant base in Australia, it is politically a non-starter. A waste of everyone’s time to even contemplate it.
It is, however, an excellent radioactive squirrel to distract libertarian jagoffs from the LNP’s actual problems.
@ Roger:
“Depends…which of them will China attack?”
The catch is that “frontal attacks” are rarely their main game.
LOTS of “battle-space ” preparation by “influence”; bee it blackmail or general subversion.
The catch for those who sold / gave-away their “souls is that NOBODY in their right mind will ever trust a traitor..
Once the deal is “sealed”, the “interesting times” really get rolling.
Choose wisely, kiddies. Again, as per Irma Bombeck:
“Well may the grass be green over the septic tank, but it is greenest over the mass graves”.
I count only 5 high-rise, out of the window or terrace “suicides” in the list of suspicious deaths 2022- 2024.
Nukes as a policy in Australia is as dead as a Fukushima safety worker.
You’re such a retard dickless, especially when you try to be witty. Tell us how many Japs died from radiation after Fukushima.
Given that it would realistically take 30 years to fire up a nuclear power plant base in Australia,
You’re such a retard.
As usual you ascribe sainthood to all things US.Those days are long long gone. The US are the hoods now too.
As usual you ascribe sainthood to all things Putin.
How many “traitors”/defectors has the US shot on foreign soil in the past two years, Mr Putin Apologist.
Go!
Sure, JC, Israel and US have been in danger every time they conducted one of these operations.
You can answer that same question too, Dover.
How many defectors has the US mowed down in the past two years on foreign soil?
Go!
cohenite, you are thicker than the pig fat they put in McDonalds thickshakes.
I think he may be off to Italy to play tourist.
Ah yes…I think I can recall him saying that was on the cards….thanks Crossie.
it would realistically take 30 years to fire up a nuclear power plant base in Australia
So what you are saying is mong obstructionism by brain damaged leftists for the last few decades has prevented us from saving the entire world by building a couple of nuke reactors?
Why do green mongs hate Gaia?
That’s not how they work.
Six years with all environmental approvals in the US.
12 months of that is civil works, construction, installation and commissioning.
72 hours from stopped cold to fully operational.
This might be better than building a dam.
John H
Everyone has an IQ of 150 plus when it comes to money. 🙂
I barely comment here on some days but today you want to offer me gratuitous advice because I’ve made around five comments, some of which you don’t like. Thanks, but no thanks.
He’s a damned fine “laweyerist” though. He put me on the right path in saving some potentially wasted cash.
Use him as he’s good, that’s if he would take you on as a client. Beg him.
Defectors are not as bad as terrorists or traitors. The moral scale cannot even compare.
Defection from an evil regime is good. The question is, who has migrated to or defected to Russia? Virtually no one. Tens of defectors and millions of emigres.
Yes I’m aware in current circumstances that’s relative and not absolute.
As for Putin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Up_Russia
Don’t be cranky, Dover.
I’m just concerned.
If it were only that to be of concern. How many thousands of civilians have been killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and elsewhere thanks to US “interventionism” and corrupt US neocon warlords. How many men slaughtered in Ukraine because the US has prolonged that conflict to launder money for their corrupt elites? How many US citizens have been murdered on home soil (Arkancides and Epsteined) to protect the corrupt US elites ? Both the US and Russia states take state sponsored action to eliminate their political opponents (don’t talk about the ugly , corrupt US justice system ffs).
So one self confessed traitor is dispensed with in Spain? FMD, get a grip. You carry on like Putin himself gunned down Mother Teresa in a Calcutta cathedral.
Far from apologizing for Putin, what I’m doing is highlighting that both regimes have plenty of brutality and tyranny to answer for. Similarities in their sinister behavior. Whereas your love affair with the saintly US uber alle is sickening in it’s overt bias.
cohenite, you are thicker than the pig fat they put in McDonalds thickshakes.
I defer to your culinary experience dickless.
Baghdad Bob is morphing into Moscow Alexei and Moscow Yuri.
Well yes, that is the concern/comparison. Stop waffling and give us the numbers, Moscow Yuri.
The Higgins Saga unmasked Drumgold, that is all.
I won’t say anything that could be construed as defamatory.
Stealth missile, can be launched from fighters and also look up Operation Dragon for a mass launch via c130 pallet delivery.
The LRASM is based on the AGM-158B JASSM-ER, but incorporates a multi-mode passive RF, a new weapon data-link and altimeter, and an uprated power system. It can be directed to attack enemy ships by its launch platform, receive updates via its datalink, or use onboard sensors to find its target. LRASM will fly towards its target at medium altitude then drop to low altitude for a sea skimming approach to counter missile defenses. The AGM-158B JASSM-ER were estimated that the maximum range is 500 nmi (930 km),[2][14] However, LRASM’s range is shorter than the JASSM-ER it’s based upon, due to the extra space for the navigation/sensor/passive radar needs. Lockheed Martin has claimed the missile’s range is greater than 200 nmi (370 km).[15]
Only for you, so who cares. One dead traitor in Spain? Meh.
A defector isn’t a traitor, not necessarily and not so with conscription and rigged elections.
The wharves problems must be close to sorted ..
received 2 packages from China today .. both posted mid October 2023 ……
I thought the word was “optionally” crewed. That certainly is the case when talking about some of the new aircraft in development.
You obviously care, by responding with nonsense disclaimers.
Yes, and it took the Yanks 20+ years to build the physical and human infrastructure of the domestic nuke industry to reach the point where that timeframe is theoretically possible.
We are starting from square dot, Dot. Your equations aren’t worth the imaginary napkins they are written on.
Renewables can’t work without either coal, gas, hydro or nuclear spinning big turbines.
Massive batteries could provide a base load signal but the cost of this method is mind boggling and the fact batteries degrade from the day they’re made make it an endless high cost option.
Snowy 2.0 had to be commissioned to provide extra base load as the alternative was an expansion of gas.
You can be self sufficient in your own home with solar through a battery and a quality inverter but you simply cannot run a grid on renewables alone.
I haven’t even mentioned the ridiculous over spend on weather vulnerable transmission builds for renewables.
You may not like the nuclear path but at least if leads to a reliable power grid and not a Meccano set facsimile that Bowen has on his desk.
Pleas note I think the establishment in D.C. who think Snowden is a traitor, also think that life ought to be cheap and the individual ought to be a tool.
Be loyal when you can; the regime is going to mess this up for you. Go where you are treated best. Nevertheless a whistleblower is loyal but has a government in the way.
Not me JC, I’m hopeless with money. My siblings have the money smarts.
Err, pleasE.
Snowden appears to be pretty safe in Russia. No dropping out of an high rise.
I actually support what Snowden did, but that isn’t the point.
China has already constructed a prototype high-temperature gas-cooled pebble-bed (HTR-PM) 200MWe SMR at the Shidaowan site in Shandong province.
Construction of the world’s first commercial, land-based SMR, “Linglong-1”, started on the island of Hainan in 2021.
You make a very unconvincing concern troll, bespoke.
Nah. Think of it as a learning opportunity I freely provide. To correct your ignorance.
There’s no equations. That’s just how long things take. Six years.
How do you know this? You’re just saying anything to advance your argument.
It took 12 years to go from a nuclear weapons test to full scale US operations by civilian power generators. It only took six for a demonstration plant – actually a breeder reactor (1951).
In the USSR, it took just under five years to go from a successful nuclear weapons test in 1949 to an operational, grid connected power plant in 1954.
They were years behind and simply didn’t have a nuclear weapons programme for most of WWII (until then, just a thought bubble that was underfunded; , nothing was really done until 1945 before the bombings of Japan).
It takes years to get a new housing development through Commonwealth, state and local government approval processes. Do you agree that we should not even try to get new housing developments underway? A “waste of everyone’s time to even contemplate”?
Pull your head out of your rectum and try to look to the future.
And the future is not solar and wind, though if we fed you enough baked beans you might be able to keep a bit of power available.
Rich, coming from someone who failed Economics 1. How thick does that make you?
America was not building a civilian nuke industry in 1934 let alone the late 1930s.
The first atomic pile was created in 1942.
12 years from scratch to get to operational civilian power generation. Six years now, with approvals, one year of actual construction, three days to go from 0% output to 100%.
It does not take 20 years plus another 30+ years to build a nuke plant. This is just fantastical raving.
Photograph in the Oz of Albo, shaking hands with the Malaysian Prime Minister – Albo dealing out a big, hearty, two handed handshake, seen as very offensive to Malaysians…..
Okay fifteen back then and nine to get to a demonstration phase – whilst inventing the entire industry.
Russia went from go to whoa in six back in the late 1940s.
Here’s a possible one, Spanish authorities …
Diogenes at 12:55 – Simon Benson in Teh Paywallian said the Greens basically ran dead In Dunkley which would have helped the Liars primary vote. A very different dynamic at a General Election.
China builds them in five years, and they want to get it down to four.
We should buy some off them, Monty likes the Chinese.
Poll just opened at the Oz:
Which film should win Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards?
Oppenheimer 57 %
Barbie 9 %
The Holdovers 5 %
Killers of the Flower Moon 6 %
Anatomy of a Fall 6 %
Past Lives 2 %
Poor Things 3 %
Maestro 5 %
The Zone of Interest 6 %
American Fiction 1 %
219 votes
John H.
That’s more the kind of range I was hoping to see on these new ships, launching from height does give a significant range advantage.
Which raises the question, if these can be sent as a mass attack launched from aircraft standing well off, what is the purpose of the new ships, other than to locate the enemy fleet (if this has not already been done by satellites)?
Being married I’m used to being ignored so I’ll put it up again:
China has already constructed a prototype high-temperature gas-cooled pebble-bed (HTR-PM) 200MWe SMR at the Shidaowan site in Shandong province.
Construction of the world’s first commercial, land-based SMR, “Linglong-1”, started on the island of Hainan in 2021.
3 fuking years.
I don’t think the Chinese would want to build nuclear for us when they are looking forward to the enormous pleasure of owning the control box to our renewable grid.
Canned Rabbit
Interesting and funny story.
Murray Farquhar was the one tied up with Lionel Murphy. A very timely death one might say.
Without corrupt unions to deal with. Who won’t be interested if there is no chance of windfalls for care and maintenance ala desal plants.
The ASPI article says “Optimally crewed”, but “optionally” might be more likely.
Dot, no one seriously believes a nuclear power station could open in Australia by 2030.
You are a useless idiot for the rentseeking billionaires of the dying coal industry.
Ha Pogria.
I don’t think I’ve eaten so much as a single slice of salami since Ive been here.
Italians seem to live a long and healthy life on a diet of cured meats though.
I finally had a granita yesterday, in the duomo piazza.
Everything a bit nuts after that, realised at 8pm I’d received a text at midday from the ferry company that my 4 March 14.00 ferry had been rescheduled to 7.45 which I could not make. 90 minute bus ride from Siracusa to Pozzallo for a 6.45 boarding? Not possible.
My phone only works outside the apartment so after a fruitless hour outside along with a couple of emails I gave up and booked another night in Syracusa expecting to catch the inconvenient 21.30 ferry on the 5th.
Got replies to my messages at 3 and 5 am, checked their website again.
Turns out the 14.00 was rescheduled to 7.45 and the same day 21.30 rescheduled to 13.45 so I’ve forfeited my accommodation and as long as the bus is on time will easily make the 13.45, my 6 am email requesting that booking was promptly confirmed.
Apparently this is because the night crossing cannot go ahead because of forecast bad weather.
Hopefully not too bad in the day time.
I’m going to the station ridiculously early. Will be very happy to be arriving on Valletta this afternoon, I have a driver organised to drop me to my accommodation, hopefully that rescheduling the reschedule message gets through. I have his number, JIC as long as Italian Vodafone works in Malta.
There will be coffee.
mUnty
Enough about Labor Party infrastructure planning processes (see NBN and the nuclear milkman).
Who bothers with this nonsense?
The coal industry in Australia is full steam ahead exporting to India, China etc for their new beaut coal fired power stations.
Coal generation is only ‘dying’ in Australia due to the green dreamers.
I don’t know what the point is. Aircraft like the RC 135 can do a much better job at tracking ships. I don’t know why the USA is planning to build 100 new stealth bombers at 700 million each except that the capability is such that a single bomber could probably take out the 3 Gorges Dam. Somewhere in the documents justifications must be present. The advantage of ships is that they can stay on station for days and weeks. A modern military aircraft does a sortie and then spends several hours(30 man hours?) in the hangar.
Another well thought out, erudite, post from the token Lefty on the blog. Good of Dover to leave him here to amuse the rest of us.
Here’s a delicacy I hadn’t heard of – canned rabbit:
and
Canned rabbit is indeed an interesting concept to modern minds. But, it highlights the appetite for protein in Britain at the time, which could not be satisfied by local production.
I remember reading Enid Blyton books set in post WWII England featuring all kinds of canned protein, like potted shrimps (?) and ham and corned beef.
BTW, I love wabbit as a meal, best done in French restaurants. It’s a bit bland, though – the breeders might throw a wild buck in among the does to add a bit of flavour.
Wabbit pie is delicious!
They should have a none of the above option.
Don’t suppose that would be good for attracting advertising though.
Dot
No, itis the result of decades of Liars/Slime hysteria about regulations and environmental protection.
How far has the Labor Party fallen since the Whitlam government wanted to establish the full nuclear fuel/power cycle in Australia. These days they are too frightened to light a match indoors. And (like mUnty) too stupid to understand that solar and wind can never provide reliable, continuous, electricity generation, putting aside all the ancillary problems like frequency control and new transmission lines.
Albo dealing out a big, hearty, two handed handshake, seen as very offensive to Malaysians…..
…to do with low latitude custom of cleaning ones fundament with the second hand? I hope that Wong chap will dial back the handshake machismo a little.
Yes, “optionally” is right…the same waffle weasel wording…
Lehrmann wanted his keys and pretended the minister was waiting with him in order to get in to get them.
I don’t know that that is a ‘serious’ lie, if anything it is confirmation that his purpose in entering the building was to get his keys.
Certainly not as serious as lying to the court about a legal settlement.
Great to see another canned rabbit enthusiast among us.
cohenite, you are not serious in the slightest.
We don’t let China put its Huawei stuff in for our Internet, and you want them to build our nukes?
You have shit for brains.
Look, we all understand that you are quite thick, but how does advocating for nuclear help the coal industry?
Or did you fail Economics 1 before they got to the bit about competition?
Quite so.
Just heard – and can’t link.
ABC regional radio Victoria. Apparently 7 Niligan’s 3 Corners ‘hit job’ on the Cranbrook School has already hit some legal hurdles. On tonight, apparently. I won’t be watching, of course.
You have shit for brains.
I deer to your experience with shit for brains dickless.
It’s one of the most remarkable moments I’ve had here. Shilling for nuke power, is shilling for coal.
???
Wow.
I wonder what Professor Barry Brook would think about this slur.
Here’s an article that says “optionally”.
https://www.twz.com/sea/australia-to-bet-big-on-heavily-armed-optionally-crewed-warships
I wonder what Professor Barry Brook would think about this slur.
Who gives a fuk; he belongs to the schizophrenic society of scientists who can rationally support nuclear while being totally dither brained about global warming.
The reason for buying B-21 Raiders is that there are some things the B-52, which will stay in service, can’t do.
Dot
mUnty is hysterical (in both senses of the word) on nuclear. He is as stupid as idiot Ed Case, who recently claimed at CL’s blog that building a power reactor in Australia would commit us to burying the world’s nuclear waste in the Lake Eyre Basin.
I’d suggest he study the subject, but there is no chance of even the slightest level of comprehension. What was it he said earlier? Oh, yes, “thicker than the pig fat they put in McDonalds thickshakes”.
Tim Pool
@Timcast
Jessie Smollet 57.0
I’m losing count of all the leftist hate crime hoaxes
I have explained this many times before, Dot.
The point of Dutton flying to Gina’s party and then re-flinging the tired old radioactive squirrel is that the more nukes are discussed as the future of power generation, the less real action is done about moving on from coal.
Its uselessness is a feature to her. She loves the fact that it is a complete white elephant of a policy.
Rinehart’s end goal is to stop progress. She pays inordinate sums to fund gridlock in Canberra, like Palmer has done with great success, because the status quo benefits billionaires at the expense of regular Australians.
The stillborn nuke debate is but one aspect of this wide-ranging plan.
The findings of Justice Kaye in the matter of Dumgold against Sofronoff have been a bit misreported in earlier comments. From the Hun – may be paywalled.
Walter Sofronoff’s “private and secret” text messages with a columnist at The Australian gave rise to “a reasonable apprehension of bias” against the former top prosecutor Shane Drumgold, the ACT Supreme Court has found.
But the majority of the Sofronoff inquiry’s damning findings against barrister Mr Drumgold – who was in charge of prosecuting Bruce Lehrmann – have been upheld.
Former ACT director of public prosecutions Mr Drumgold had sought to challenge scathing findings made about his conduct during the prosecution for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins.
The Sofronoff inquiry last year made “several serious findings of misconduct” against Mr Drumgold SC including that he “at times lost objectivity and did not act with fairness and detachment” throughout the case.
In August, Mr Drumgold resigned from the top job and mounted a legal challenge against the inquiry’s findings.
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
So the Justice Dept has rolled up both the FBI agent overseeing Hunter’s corruption & the FBI informant testifying to Hunter’s corruption.
Just watch Goodfellas man. The Blob Mafia is cleaning up all the loose ends after the Lufthansa heist.
It’s pretty clear that these alliances are nothing more than a marketplace for the US MIC.
Thanks, that clarifies the issue.
ASPI seems to have stuffed up.
How the Government Used ‘Track F’ to Fund Censorship Tools: Report
This Is How Metastatic Immigration Kills a City – This is Everyone’s Future
it would realistically take 30 years to fire up a nuclear power plant base in Australia
Adding 20+ years or regulatory crap is not “building” anything.
Heres a place, right now.
Has water, has energy infrastructure.
Even the Australia institute says you are full of crap on coal exports
Stupidity combined with rampant paranoia.
Tell us again mUnty, how ruinables will provide the reliable, continuous, electricity supply required to run a modern industrial economy. Will Fantasy Footie be viable when the sun sets and the wind doesn’t blow?
BBC News – obsessive, biased- and unaccountable
Monty is fun. His expertise in energy generation is awesome. And nuclear engineering! Perhaps he can explain quantum mechanics too, I always have trouble with the math.
UK Telegraph: ‘The American revolt against green energy has begun’ – There’s no such thing as a wind or solar ‘farm’, just an ugly industrial site (3 Mar)
Don’t read it Monty, you might catch energy reality cooties.
REVEALED: Chinese gangs are behind THOUSANDS of illegal weed farms across the US – sparking fears that CCP could become new cannabis kingpins
Rinehart’s end goal is to stop progress. She pays inordinate sums to fund gridlock in Canberra, like Palmer has done with great success, because the status quo benefits billionaires at the expense of regular Australians.
There it is folks: billionaires are bad; except if they’re twiggy, cannon-brookes and other lefties. Dickless is a shill for commies.
Miranda Devine
Hunter Biden’s Chinese legal ‘client’ threatens to sue unless first son pays back $1 million
Partly in jest on my part. The B 2s stealth bombers are awesome and the B21s are a qualitative improvement. The B 52s are missile trucks now, long range stand off but far too vulnerable. The former two have precision strike capability anywhere in the world. The intent is obvious, no matter where you are, we can get you.
Does that mean the R.A.N. won’t need the press gang?
Rosie, they are not green dreamers but red tyrants.
the more nukes are discussed as the future of power generation, the less real action is done about moving on from coal.
So Elbow could play 7 dimensional chess and bankrupt Big Gina by calling the Libs bluff and fast tracking about 3 nuke plants tomorrow?
Saving the planet at the same time!!!
Dr. John Campbell
Excess deaths, MPs request data
“We are where we are because our culture is special” Konstantin Kisin LIVE in Melbourne
Expendables 4 102%
If what we’re experiencing is progress then more power to her!
Monty likes the Chinese. Yes, I think he sang about it.
I’ll guarantee there’s more than one currently employed j’ism graduate who finds those phrases indistinguishable from each other.
Malcolm Roberts
Luxury EVs for ASEAN-Australia Summit a PR Stunt
If our government had followed Switkowski’s recommendations in 2006 we’d already have one up and running, if not two.
Not a serious country.
Too lucky for too long.
Lance Pigeon on thermometers and the bullshit dribbled by every official climate source:
Air temperature fluctuates in the order of seconds.
50 second long video shows differing rates of thermometer response time. If you pause it at 0.01 to read the thermometers the mercury thermometer on the left is at about 21. The alcohol thermometer, right is just above 20.
They are then put into the warm liquid for a short time. Pausing the video at 0:21 you see when they are taken out the mercury on the left reads close to 42 while the alcohol reads close to 47. The alcohol was faster.
They are then put into the cool liquid for a short time. Pausing the video at 0:48 then you see when they are taken out the mercury on the left reads close to 21 while the alcohol reads close to 16. The alcohol was faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md-RGYwf8IM
Before settling on the idea that alcohol thermometers are faster watch the first few seconds of this experiment with far hotter liquid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs2PGp1gewI
Different thermometers are involved in the two videos but there is another difference. The time and magnitude of change. Are there two interactive time constants, lags in a glass thermometer? The first would vary with the medium. EG: Humidity and wind speed or in the videos the liquid.
For those who are familiar with electronics compare this to two RC filters in series. One being the thermal resistance between the liquid and glass and the thermal inertia (capacitance) of glass. The other being the thermal resistance of glass to alcohol or mercury and the thermal inertia of alcohol or mercury.
Even on a still day the air flow past the thermometer will fluctuate even roll over like a lava lamp according to the pulsating rates dictated by cavity resonance in a box and air temperature.
At this Royal Meteorological Society link below. There is a list of time constants given by the BoM for alcohol and mercury thermometers.
There being two time constants or two thermal delay times in series means the formula to calculate what they do should look a little less like the formula at 1.2(1) here.
Notice also the table at the to of that page showing the platinum resistance thermometer to be fastest.
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…/10.1002/qj.3817
A little more like this. With the values from the top left of the picture. The values in the bottom right are to make the calculator approximate a 1st order filter/
http://sim.okawa-denshi.jp/en/CRCRtool.php
That could have been the other more talented Monty.
Gotta love these mouthy idiots who after 12 months know nothing and slag off just before they leave. I’d say the bloke had a preconceived idea that Aussies were horribly racist and never was going to be convinced otherwise. Also special shout out to the DM, LOL if you are too gutless to open comments then don’t publish it in the Oz edition:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13152553/British-backpacker-Australia-racist.html
Tucker Carlson interviewed about his Russian visit.
Spot on, John.
Life is getting tough very quickly for many folk as the per capita recession deepens.
Albanese & Chalmers – let alone Bowen – have no idea.
Monty, you seem like an expert on power generation and know everything about it. With solar and wind power being intermittent due to their nature how many large scale battery storage facilities will we require? What would be the costs (initial investment and ongoing maintenance or replacement)? If you could get back to us with approximate numbers that would be great.
“You NEED TO Know What BlackRock Has Planned- Whitney Webb’s Last WARNING
He failed Economics 1, but he did learn the part that starts “First, let us assume an infinite supply of batteries at a nominal cost …”
Game of Thrones is on Focks – the Red Wedding episode, no less.
mUnter is the Cat’s Walder Frey.
Why would we buy B-21s when we’d be better off with IRBMs if we want a long-range strike capability?
Dover
Who suggested that we should?
The anniversary of the sinking of HMAS Yarra is today. When will Robert Rankin and Ron Taylor be given medals for their bravery?
You’re not wrong. Backpackers who post this sort of stuff almost always have pre-existing intractable “issues” that are nothing to do with whatever bit of bitching they’re confecting.
This particular backpacker’s social media profile has lots of photos of pairs of young men standing/reclining very close side by side, naked from the waist up, depilated torsos, etc. 😉
Bitching indeed.
Haley win Washington DC which is 98% Democrat – What do You Expect
“Nikki Haley has finally won none other than the LEFTIST stronghold – Washington, DC. If you get pulled over by a cop there, you may hear that line coming from the new movie Civil War – What Kind of American Are You? The Democrats have been funding Haley, and anyone with common sense would end their campaign. So why is Haley going endlessly? Because the word is if the Supreme Court or all the legal cases somehow manage some way to prevent Trump from running or he magically contracts COVID version 35 and dies before November, Haley will take the nomination by default. The Democrats will rejoice along with the Neocons, who will be popping champagne bottles for they will get World War III fully on board.
She has already come out and said she will NOT support Trump if he runs in November. If you have children or grandchildren, their future will be uncertain with Haley as President. Victoria Nuland will rejoice.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/haley-win-washington-dc-which-is-98-democrat-what-do-you-ecpect/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
There’s no such thing as racism in the pubs in Liverpool, Newcastle or Glasgow, is there?
Dear Dover,
I very much need the up/down thumb function to recognise the many excellent comments posted on The Cat this afternoon – and to scoff at the losers (you know who you are).
Yours sincerely,
Delta A.
A UniParty hypothetical.
The difference between Spud going to a party at Gina’s and Albo going to a Katy Perry gig at Raheen is …
Fighting words.
Does that mean the R.A.N. won’t need the press gang?
Never did.
Also never had the rum ration. Or flogging.
Sad really.
IRBMs are too easy to intercept.
And oh, dear Dover I especially need tickability for Rosie’s excellent travel posts.
Monty, you seem like an expert on power generation and know everything about it. With solar and wind power being intermittent due to their nature how many large scale battery storage facilities will we require? What would be the costs (initial investment and ongoing maintenance or replacement)? If you could get back to us with approximate numbers that would be great.
MontyPox Virus will just use the same numbers as provided by the Department of Blackout Bowen’
Fantasy Numbers from a Fantasy Football eggspurt…………………………….
If by “get his keys” you mean give Potato Nose a good rogering, I agree with you 100%.
ASPI for one.
From “The Spectator.”
Top Ender
Mar 4, 2024 7:01 PM
Does that mean the R.A.N. won’t need the press gang?
Never did.
Also never had the rum ration. Or flogging.
Sad really.
Sodomy?
And, Dover, I need more tickability for the Cat MVP, IMO (from a vast and closely contested field).
Take a bow, cohenite.
Woddenhead, If I were you, I wouldn’t be jumping on a soapbox to attack Fatboy. You’re not exactly a highly valued commenter on this site. You recently lied by suggesting that a convicted felon isn’t one, while spamming the site with his useless commentary. Try being a little more humble, you dickhead.
And the funniest/cleverest Cat? …hang on, this might take some time to decide.
(Tickability would help.)
Most trusted finance guru?
JC, by a country mile.