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I’d agree with Roger. What better way to receive public airtime for her ego than expressing trauma after dealing with…
Respect!
40 years at the ALPBC. Talk about Hotel California Ultimo.
Haha. The new lead story at Paywallian.com: China tells other world leaders: be like AlbaneseBeijing has nominated Anthony Albanese as…
Eyrie
Mar 11, 2024 6:13 PM
Some months ago Mrs Eyrie thought we should get a more modern refrigerator as the current one is 19 years old. We were told by two salespeople in different shops not to do it as the modern ones are lucky to last 6 years. So we didn’t.
Mine dates back to 1986. Still going.
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Why you have to have a smart house that turns on washing machine and dishwasher in the middle of the day for you. And maybe pump up the appropriate heating/cooling to get the temperature right for the evening.
Bucket hat makes all the difference. The Wings, wheels and Coffee car/air show at Bacchus Marsh aerodrome is a lot of fun too. Def needed my bucket hat there too. The UV down here in summer is savage.
Still got a Mitsubishi fridge in the garage bought in 2000 and still going strong.
I like to turn the washing machine on when I feel like it.
I moved into my place 10 years ago, having finally extracted that poisonous viper now known as the ex Mrs KD in the manner of a tooth that had been subject to a failed root canal procedure.
On possession day, I turned up with the estate agent. Peering through the kitchen window, I noticed that the fridge – an older model, but not ancient – was still in the kitchen, having been left there by the previous owners.
After quickly establishing that the said fridge was now mine, I was pleased to discover that it was a cracker, and is still doing its bit to this day.
My fridge, the one I brought in, went out the back and became a repository for beer and meat. It stopped working (aside from the freezer) about four years back, and the fridge section now holds an assortment of tools, dog leads and engine oil containers.
miltonf
All good. Yea not giving up yet but as said days are numbered now, I know that. Wish I hadn’t shunned climbing that corporate tree now LOL.
Yeah na, wouldn’t have traded my experiences for quids and the places I’ve seen that sometimes few humans have done. Plus not being a company man had advantages, especially when the fit wasn’t right. You could cordially walk away and find something better.
Those flames!
BRITTANY FORCE KABOOMS AN ENGINE IN GAINESVILLE
Neil Oliver: Those Who Dare Speak out Are Branded Nazis or Fascists. Words Are Being Stolen From Us.
Given the mob in power and the attitudes of the companies & investors its hard to see any libertarian solution being made available for consumers of ruinable power.
I’d guess batteries will be made mandatory at low, low rates of interest for all solar powered folks. Power will have its way on ‘green’ power and that network rebuild at a cost of Tns won’t be done if we don’t all throw into the port …
Expendables 4 was ripped off at the Oscars.
Management sux imho. You get cut off from the really interesting technical stuff which makes me want to keep going to work (need the money too of course).
Don’t we all but what’s the point of having solar if you don’t use it to your advantage?
If I ever have solar, I’d go off grid altogether- so I can control it
I’m not as bad Rockdoctor. But do not miss hanging pipes or fishing out sump pumps.
Read Geoffrey Blainey, The Causes of War.
Wars start when two side disagree about their relative power. They stop when one side accepts that it is the weaker.
Ukraine thought that with western backing, it had the advantage. Russia thought that it had the numbers and strength to win. At some point, one or the other will accept the new balance.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Mar 11, 2024 6:10 PM
Other slogans included “eyes on Gaza,” “free Gaza”
“Gaza is homeless”
https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Paul+Gascoigne+Is+Now+Homeless&qpvt=paul+gascoigne+is+now+homeless&FORM=EWRE
Jeez, reading some of Niall Feguson’s thoughts ( Google search Niall Ferguson News) is really depressing. More so about Europe than the US. Europe looks like it’s in the shitter and perhaps not coming out.
Lol, He’s “chessing” as well as “mathing” now. Incredible brain. Puts large language models to shame.
BJ – That’s what I said. The one who is wrong is the side who will collapse. I see signs of extreme strain on both sides.
Pyrrhic victories are available for multiple parties to share.
Fair dinkum, how on earth would you expect a libertarian solution to straddle the current abortion that’s been created over the past 20 years by both political parties? This is now a late term abortion without anesthetic.
There actually is a libertarian solution. The federal and state governments to remove themselves entirely from the energy markets and promise to do so forever. This would also include the removal of any sanctions against nuclear energy.
Boambee John
Mar 11, 2024 6:47 PM
Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 11, 2024 6:06 PM
ANALYSIS HOW WILL THE WAR END
The war will end when one or t’other side collapses.
Dunno which myself, could be either of them.
The UKR is no longer a functioning Nation. It is only being being kept going by Western aid. And that aid is running low. With Victoria Nuland, the NeoCon Warmonger, now gone then maybe things are coming to a head.
Hopefully, some sanity soon and an end to this with Russia likely able to dictate better terms than the UKR.
1/10 Ukraine
10/1 Russia.
The promise would have to be done in such a way that it would be impossible for any government to ever intervene again. Perhaps through over the moon massive penalties if they ever tried it on.
Energy Anarchy … might not suit everyone unless they’re named Max and driving V8 Interceptors.
modest, practical means of transportation for the coming energy anarchy
The only way Russia will fold is if the public demand it. They won’t do that because off to the gulag. Putin can’t afford to make any concessions, he has to claim victory. He started a war and didn’t expect it to cost so much. He should have known the military was riddled with corruption, under training, and deficient hardware. Analysts were writing about that long before the war. He either chose to ignore the warnings or expected a quick win.
A young woman phoned her dad in tears:
“When I was driving to work today, my car spluttered and died. I walked home to see if Tom could give me a lift but I found him in bed with the girl from across the road. What should I do?”
Her dad replied, “well, first I would check to see if there’s petrol in the tank, otherwise the carburetor might be blocked”.
It might be worth someone’s while, such as those on Sky at Night, to ask the Police Commissioner in point form what is actually covered by the right to peaceful protest.
> Blocking roadways
> Menacing people trying to enter a shop
> Disrupting events with no connection to whatever faecal matter they are protesting
> Damaging private property – or public property since the public pays for it
> Shouting down other people’s free speech
We should also get the distinction between protests with permits and those without.
Once the Commissioner commits themselves their questioner can trawl the law books, and next time a protest occurs which breaches the list they can be pilloried on TV.
I swear all our officialdom has the same attitude – get by and collect your money. In this cause they kowtow to the aggressive and violent lawbreakers at the expense of the peaceful and tolerant law abiding.
JR – Here’s what happened this week. Zelensky booted Zaluzhny, then appointed him to be Ambassador to the UK.
Which he has meekly accepted.
Now there’s a lot in this, since Zaluzhny is highly regarded. I think the good general has plans. Before long Zelensky will have to accept an election: he will be under pressure from both within and internationally. In that election Gen. Zaluzhny will stand as a candidate. And I think he will win.
All of this presupposes Ukraine is sufficiently in the game for an election to take place, which I think will be the case. I am not seeing any signs of impending collapse. Indeed the extreme effort the RGS took to deliver Putin’s victory in Avdiivika before the election actually weakens the Russians quite a lot. They committed a serious amount of their best remaining forces and suffered significant air losses in providing the required close air support.
But the underlying message is that Zaluzhny knows the game is on, and there’s no reason for him to not play it, which would not be the case if Ukraine was tottering.
Ironic that the coffee shops and cafes have to close on Labour Day because the labour is too expensive
Problem is they are giving them away because no one wants one. The Egyptians have been pretty clear on this.
Noisy, smelly, treacherous, and providing absolutely no benefit.
Like selling stuff with BONUS DISEASES.
The other way is if the nation disintegrates. Which is unlikely but not impossible. Putin could die also, that’d offer an exit opportunity.
Ukraine could likewise collapse. There’s obviously great deal of strain, especially about conscription and sufficient warm bodies for the trenches. And the lack of ammo too.
Russia also has a warm body problem. The scams they have been running to seduce poor Indians, Nepalese and Cubans means the losses the Russians have suffered are a lot higher than some of my esteemed Cat colleagues think. They wouldn’t be incurring the wrath of those governments unless the situation was extreme. I can add that the peacekeeping force the Russians had in Nagorno Karabakh were all from the strategic missile force – button pushers in uniforms. That strongly suggested the Russians had run out of anyone else. The Azeris shot five of them dead and the rest scarpered.
Context?
NSW plod?
Look at the fuking head on this thing:
Fascist Pit Bull’: FDNY Commissioner Blasted for Planning to Track Down Firefighters Who Booed NY Attorney General Letitia James
Why are left wing women always so ugly?
I didn’t know we were married to the same woman!
I saw that filthy creature too Cohenite. Never actually put out a fire. Has a BA of course. Universities have a lot to answer for. BIRM.
There really is a manifest tendency for these awful overly political officials to be women.
To be thoroughly honest, the only surprise is that she is not black.
It depends what we mean by a Russia win. I don’t understand why anyone will be pleased with Russia winning a war that results in so much death and destruction. It is the invader, not Ukraine. Your comments point to a longer term problem for Russia. The war has raised concerns about military hardware that will reduce sales in an increasingly competitive environment. Russia is already at least 20 years behind the west in military technology and will fall further behind. The use of foreign nationals will upset many governments, and recent publications support your idea of huge Russian losses.
Upon graduation from Whittier College in California with a BA in Political Science and International Relations, she moved to New York City and lived in all five boroughs, managing and campaign consulting for non-profits, community-based organizations and unions. She earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs. Kavanagh completed the Executive Leaders Program at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Summer Institute
Jealousy of good looking women that morphs into vindictiveness against God and greater society. Misanthropy usually results aswell.
Spent yesterday walking up and down the hills of Sliema including out to ‘The Point’ on the peninsula the largess shopping mall in Malta and as boring as any other shopping mall.
It appears to have been built around the old battery, hidden under a walkway, and some sort of barracks, of which only the facade remains, walk around a blind corner you are standing over the waves crashing on to rocks.
So far as I could see there is only one tree in all of Sliema outside of a few citrus in the very few high walled private gardens.
Down on the strand there is a tiny bit of land with some grass and a couple of straggly shrubs where there is a protest sign regarding the proposal to to put a petrol station there, the only public garden in all of Sliema!
On top of the mall complex is a soccer ground for the locals, lots of boys in football kit around.
The perimeter of the harbour and peninsula is lined with tall buildings, hotels and apartments with a couple of big retailers, like Zara. Up the hills it’s mostly traditional residential, two storey with the brightly painted covered balconies, too many in a state of decay, bizarre with Malta’s housing shortage.
The abandoned shoe store with dusty shoes in the windows is still there. The retailer nearest me, the indefatigable Fiona runs at least four shop fronts, see something in one of the windows, anything from household goods, shoes, clothing, all sorts, to religious statues she’ll open up and get them for you.
Look at the fuking head on this thing:
Why are left wing women always so ugly?
Guessing full on ‘lesbiantard.’
Actually John I think it’s the other way ’round.
The Z War has been an absolute hothouse for drone development. Russia and Ukraine are now so far beyond anyone else that I suspect the West is going to get a rude shock.
We’re seeing some of this in the Red Sea, since the drone tech is percolating to iran and thence to the Houthis. Western navies aren’t quite outclassed, but they are outgunned. By a bunch of fractious peasants.
Lefty thinking allows the delegitimisation of feminine beauty as a form of masculine oppression.
Just think of how liberating it must feel to be able to wipe away, as if with a giant sponge, all those years of struggling with weight, with ill-favoured physiognomy, and with insuperable societal awkwardness.
Leftism will always be a refuge for the physically, mentally, and spiritually ugly.
Enjoying the series, thanks Rosie.
👍
Fibre Optic cable guided drones that go out to 10Km, immune to ECM are new. The Russians have them. This could probably be extended to shorter range ATGM with first person view to improve accuracy.
Amazing how much time and effort the human race goes to to invent better ways of killing each other.
Me too Rosie
Chalmers offering a sop to cost of living concerns by axing 500 tariffs that Frydenberg was too lazy to attend to.
Two cheers for that, but if that’s all he has up his sleeve he’s exposed as another mediocrity like his predecessor.
I’m beginning to think that Australia’s gene pool, when fed through our education system, is not capable of producing politicians of the calibre required to make the decisions necessary to avoid an Argentina like decline, or worse.
Our luck has run out.
Speaking of Eyes on Gaza did you know that ‘Eyeless in Gaza’ can refer to one of the following?
A quote from one of Milton’s works or
A novel by Aldous Huxley or
A 1980’s UK band
Fibre Optic cable guided drones that go out to 10Km, immune to ECM are new
I saw the story about them, awful devices.
I would have thought something like the Israeli Merkava trophy system would be effective against drones, but it seems not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmvx430HJlo
I haven’t even seen Indians, Nepalese and Cubans in small numbers. I’ve seen a few Africans but these are probably troops they’ve fought with in Africa. None of this indicates a serious manpower problem. Last I heard Russia is recruiting more volunteers per month than Ukraine can via conscription.
You neglected to mention the Holy Bible, from which all the other references derive.
Another QF72 moment? Boeing can’t take a trick at the moment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13181787/auckland-latam-la800.html
Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 11, 2024 7:20 PM
The UKR is no longer a functioning Nation.
JR – Here’s what happened this week. Zelensky booted Zaluzhny, then appointed him to be Ambassador to the UK.
Which he has meekly accepted.
Sorry Bruce, this is all being done with Other People’s Money. The West’s including the stupid Australian Government.
Just like Albo here and the Socialists. All done with other people’s money.
Z already already has his bolt hole in Florida ready and waiting. That UKR 2023 Spring Offensive seems to be taking a heck of a long time. It is now Spring 2024. And where is that Offensive now?
Game over very soon.
You’re on the battlefield, Dover?
A novel by Aldous Huxley
Our luck has run out.
it was never just luck- it was hard work, skill and vision none of which Horne had. ‘A cheeky little lout’ my Mum called him.
Embedded internet reporter, lol!
Samson, eyes gouged out and taken into slavery in Gaza.
No wonder Gazans gouged out the eyes of so many of the dead hostages.
Mother Lode:
This is the point I’ve made repeatedly with the”Sheep, Sheepdog, and the Wolf.”
What happens when the sheepdog decides it wants a quiet life and colludes with the wolf to prey on the sheep?
It still gets paid.
This realisation is now almost totally across the board with most of our institutions – not interested in doing the job they were hired for, only want a quiet life.
It leaves the sheep with only one option.
A remember some garbage Horne wrote in the Sydney Morning Vomit c1983- ‘let’s have an arts led recovery’ fmd.
I linked it for you yesterday Dover. Thousands from the look of it. The Indian and Nepalese governments aren’t happy. Even the Cuban government isn’t happy, which I thought somewhat surprising.
chrisl
Mar 11, 2024 7:20 PM
Ironic that the coffee shops and cafes have to close on Labour Day because the labour is too expensive
That is just so Ironic. And actually, moronic. Welcome to the new Australia.
If Albo removed the nuke sanctions tomorrow, there would be no serious attempt to build a nuke power station in Australia.
All such attempts in the US have failed recently. Australia would be no different.
The economics of the situation are so simple that even morons like you lot should be able to comprehend them.
Well, if they removed the prohibition, and it’s too expensive, then what is the point of the sanctions as they wouldn’t be built. You idiot.
If Albo removed the nuke sanctions tomorrow, there would be no serious attempt to build a nuke power station in Australia.
You’re such a fuking moron dickless. It’s not just the nuke sanctions its the 10+billion in subsidies given to ruinables plus the grid preference given to the stupid things. Now go and put the milko’s kiddies to bed.
Also, you’re way behind, Archimedes. Factory built modular, nuclear power plants are pretty much on their way, Fatboy.
Winston,
I’m trying to remember a long ago Pohl and Kornbluth novel along the sheep/wolves lines.
BoN?
I have Eyeless in Gaza on the shelf.
What happens when the sheepdog decides it wants a quiet life and colludes with the wolf to prey on the sheep?
It still gets paid.
That reminds me about eggs and bacon for breakfast –
Both the chicken and the pig look on at a family eating breakfast. The chicken comments how a chicken’s eggs allows it to participate (or involve) itself to help others. The pig then comments on the bacon/ham; pigs aren’t just “participating” or “involved”—they’re totally committed!
Ah yes, “Wolfbane”.
So’s Christmas. And it will take a lot more Christmases before we see an actual real operational factory producing SMRs.
Worth a listen.
The nuke debate is pretty much this:
Idiots: We want you to stop moving to renewables and focus all your efforts on an ephemeral technology that only exists on paper, with a long history of cost overruns, that will only arrive in 15 years at the very earliest, with no track record in this country, plus it could kill millions of people without warning if we don’t get it perfectly right 100% of the time, plus it is the biggest security risk you have ever seen.
Normies: No.
The economics of the situation are so simple that even morons like you lot should be able to comprehend them.
Well, MontyPox Virus, the Perfesser of Economics 000 (Net Zero), please tell that to all the other G20 Countries that have built or are building Nuclear Power Stations and that they are so wrong. They would just love to hear your words of wisdom.
Over to you now Tosser (Wanker). BTW. Are you right or left handed?
Even though I didn’t pay much attention during Religious Instruction I was aware of the Samson story and sequence of events.
However I don’t recall the phrase being quoted as such.
Is that wording actually in the Bible somewhere?
Bruce of N and Alamak!
The Russians and Ukrainians are still at the stage of working out their relative strengths. If there is an enforced ceasefire now, then the situation will end up like the Korean Peninsula, dragging on at a low level for decades.
In 1902 the Boers accepted that they had been defeated and accepted British terms. In early 1918, Russia accepted that it had been defeated and accepted Brest-Litovsk (described by Lenin as “This treaty that Russia, grinding its teeth, is forced to accept.”). In late 1918, Germany accepted defeat, and signed up to Versailles in 1919. In 1943, Italy saw reality, and change sides. In 1945 Germany and Japan accepted defeat, and surrendered unconditionally.
Russia and Ukraine have a way to go yet, but forcing a ceasefire with the basic issue unresolved just extends the pain into the future, as a slow bleed.
The same applies to Israel versus Hamarse and the Hizbies. Finish Hamarse off now, and the Hizbies might sea reality. Force a ceasefire, and the pain extends to infinity.
If they were there in numbers they’d be in photos or vids on Telegram, and then Twitter. Hardly anything happens that isn’t recorded.
Well, MontyPox Virus, the Perfesser of Economics 000 (Net Zero), please tell that to all the other G20 Countries that have built or are building Nuclear Power Stations and that they are so wrong. They would just love to hear your words of wisdom.
And, I forgot to add that Egypt and Uganda are both building Nuclear Power Plants (with help of course). And, that Australia already has one built at Lucas Heights in a Sydney Suburb. Oh dear and shock horror. Never been an accident since the year dot.
Dot, where are you these daze?
Or perhaps only a couple of state or nationwide blackouts.
Have you installed solar cells and a battery in your house and your rental slums? Bought a Tesla? If not, stock up on spam, baked beans and tinned or dried vegetables.
mUnturd
And in multiple nuclear-powered warships and some research stations in the Antarctic.
If the Liberals actually believed in nukes, they would have made one single move to start building them in its last decade in office.
They did not.
They know the whole debate is all just a distraction, a con job for Dutton to escape scrutiny. Do you?
Fatboy, you’re not in parliament. You’re on a blog, so stop peddling bullshit.
If nuclear is too “explensive” there’s no point in having sanctions.
They don’t have to be there in overwhelming numbers.
How do you tell from a fat eastern Russian compared to say a Nork?
Dickless’s argument against nukes is the lnp didn’t do it so it’s not possible. Of course a lot of the lnp are dickless too. Every nuclear powered warship in the world has an SMR on it. China’s just built their Linglong SMR. It took 2 years. The new SMRs are IFR technology which means much less waste and much greater efficiency.
Under a thousand across three countries over two years from the article. These aren’t consistent with a serious manpower problem, especially close to that faced by Ukraine.
Who’s defending past Lib policy here, Fatboy?
In any event, the Liars party have legislated for zero by 2030 or 35. I can’t recall which. That’s a major change in policy that wasn’t there under the Libs.
If you think the nuke reactors they have in warships are cost effective enough to compete with solar PV for domestic supply, you are just plain ignorant and should stop talking about the subject.
So left the restriction then. No biggie,right?
To be clear: I am making fun of the near-zero track record and lack of existence of SMRs, yes, but “oh but they will be awesome when they exist, honest” is not an effective comeback.
Because even if that were true, nukes are so far behind solar on price that is ridiculous to even consider them in a market-based economy.
Right. So why didn’t the Libs do it? They had a decade.
We Snuck Into a CIA Base In The Aussie Outback
YouTubers allegedly sneaking into the Pine Gap facility. (I only watched the intro, which was ‘Hush-hush, secret CIA spy base…’ as though no-one had ever been aware of it before today. They also featured an image of comns structures, and spoke in the same tone, but I think (maybe, possibly) that what was featured was part of the over-the-horizon radar network, which again, is neither recent, nor the existence of it secret).
Yawn.
(Australia is too small a minnow in military and economic strength, and too strategically-located to avoid such security partnerships with the U.S. Our navy, for example, is not much larger than the Kiwi one, which consists of a tinny and a crab pot).
m0nty
Mar 11, 2024 9:40 PM
Would you expand on this?
Or “please explain”
You are ignoring a lot of facts, I don’t even want to mention China or India building hundreds of coal fired power plants and nukes, all well known.
But Europeans are running and building nukes and are not terrified of it except in places being run by Greens.
We don’t need nukes, coal will do nicely and if the renewables can compete at 24/365 reliability and price all the better.
Have at it.
Dunno. It’s more imperative now seeing we’re walking into a liar’s party legislated net zero environment. If it’s too expensive there’s no reason to have the restriction. Unless I’m mistaken, the Liars party are in government now, aren’t they?
Orange oaf commenting on the Oscars in real time. This dude is hilarious.
Everywhere in the world country people are pushing back on land hungry grossly inefficient renewables.
Monty, you know sweet FA about the the ISP and should, in your quaint socialist way, be against the cabal of crony capitalism that rewards billionaire miners and punishes farmers and rural communities.
Needing to use vast quantities of our best agricultural land to produce electricity should make any normie question the plan and those who devised it.
Wake up sunshine.
The Libs had a decade to drop the ban. They didn’t, because they knew it would be massively unpopular.
They would love for Labor to take the electoral hit on their behalf, but a driver’s dog could see through that wheeze. You’ve got Chris Bowen, of all people, running rings around Dutton, cracking one-liners one after the other. Why on earth would they stop now?
Basically, the Libs have been running on cons and grifts for so long, they’ve got nothing else, and no one with a brain is fooled any more.
Gez, that’s a funny line considering the farmers and miners have been at each other’s throats for decades over land use. Now suddenly you’re on their side? Pull the other one.
Mines have to be where the minerals are, regardless of the quality of topsoil above, which is why there has been so much squealing about mines destroying farmland.
Solar input is the same everywhere on the planet, so their farms don’t have to be built on arable land.
Fatboy
The liars say it’s too expensive. If so, there is no reason to restrict it, no matter what the libs failed to do.
But they are precisely that – the REZ are mandated on the best land.
Ask yourself why?
For Gabor. Not to mention a similar CSIRO study where the multiple was something like six times, IIRC.
If you come back with “oh but SMR will be different” then shush until we see SMR factories existing outside of a napkin.
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Liz Cheney ran an op to prevent Trump from doing anything to secure the Capitol, and then went and impeached him and tried to have him thrown in prison, claiming he failed to secure the Capitol (in reality, he wanted thousands of troops, but Pelosi and the corrupt D.C. mayor refused).
Victoria REZ
-Western district
-Wimmera
– Goulburn Valley
-West Gippsland
-NE Victoria (King valley)
Who does that?
If the Libs want to drop it, let them win government and drop it. Until then, Labor will continue making fun of them.
They do if the argument is they are filling a serious manpower shortage.
I don’t have to, those on Telegram, etc. will work that out.
Really?
Monty is a flat earther.
No surprise there.
The renewable industry means more mines.
The coal will still be dug up and sold but also mineral sands mines are planned on farmland as well to supply the panels and batteries.
Bowen says we have huge untapped resources in renewable energy. It is tapped, and you see it when you go into the food section of the supermarket.
There should never be a contest between food production and renewables but that’s what is in the plan.
Electricity is an input not a product.
Frogshit.
Mines take up a miniscule amout of land compared to the propellors on sticks and shiny glass panels.
No they are not, Gez. The “best land” is relevant for wind, not really as much for solar unless you count proximity to existing infrastructure.
The main issue with the REZ system seems to be providers wanting to site their plants way out in Woop Woop. Almost literally, I mean they want farms at Broken Hill which is not the most arable pasture in the world.
There’s a big solar farm planned on the rich volcanic soils of Colbinabbin. Great tomato growing country and just about anything else.
The renewable industry is in a gold rush phase with little of any government oversight apart from approving any project they can grab enough land to be viable.
m0nty
Mar 11, 2024 10:17 PM
Quote this on the 24/365 base reliability, once you include the inevitable storage battery costs you will find it’s unaffordable not to say impractical until by some miracle battery technology will improve.
Many studies prove this.
Until then why not use what we have?
I am not against renewables and BTW I was talking about full scale nuclear power plants
as being operated now and had been for decades, not some portables on the drawing board. They may come I’m sure, eventually.
How about this.
A pudgy city ranga living off the largesse of others, and with hands so soft they’d be pierced by cos lettuce is explaining to career farmers, and miners for that matter, what’s what about which land is suitable for which purpose.
Amazing scenes, here on the Cat.
If you think the nuke reactors they have in warships are cost effective enough to compete with solar PV for domestic supply, you are just plain ignorant and should stop talking about the subject.
I would have said you were piss taking dickless but then you refer to levelised costing. LC is bullshit. It ignores subsidies, backup, unreliability, the extra infrastructure of ruinables, the synchronous condensers, the extra gridand transmission, the ruining of farmland; the fact ruinables just don’t work because they’re weather dependent. You’re such a fuking moron.
Head prefect you eat with this dickhead. You owe me a meal as punishment.
Have a read of this, Monty.
Just so you can be clear on at least one thing.
Too wrong for words Monty.
Transmission costs rule out far flung land.
Go to the AEMO sight and look at the REZ areas and the transmission plan.
Get back to me when you learn something.
Gabor, I implore the Libs not to take a policy of building nuclear facilities all over Australia to the next election. It would be highly damaging to Labor’s prospects if the Libs announced plans for radiation-spewing monstrosities in every marginal electorate.
Being opposed in court by many locals the last I heard.
Any, “Sliante” to you lot. I have received a clean bill of health, for a medical problem which was causing me some apprehension, si I’m having a couple of single malts in celebration, and reading “Sharpe’s Waterloo.”
An interesting problem, in etiquette. A society belle – the Duchess of Richmond is giving a ball. One of the guests wishes to bring his current love interest – a lady who is married to someone else….who will also be there…in the days of dueling…
NRL give Roosters Spencer Leniu 8 weeks calling another of his clan a “monkey” ,in the real world who really gives a shite but alas its the real world.. But is 8 weeks enuff, should he have been rubbed out for life ? Should he undergo a Laryngectomy as he could do this again. Is Leniu the real face of racism? What does Adam Goodes think?
I remember a show called Monkey and the dude was a Chinese kungfu demon.
You could have got better value by maybe dangerously high tackling the guy and whilst he is on the ground saying how did like that ya monkey. That’s more 8 weeks worth.
I spoke to a farmer who’s next door to the solar farm. It’ll be angled right at his house at a certain time of the day.
They do not give a stuff about people. The corporates are in a feeding frenzy with the full approval of government and regulators.
The Tele:
‘River Jordan’. I wonder what his special interests may be.
Aside from goats, obviously.
What is your problem with a farmer putting up solar panels, anyway? It’s their land. If they make more money that way, obviously the land wasn’t profitable enough.
You lot are painfully ignorant of basic economics, or are just talking through your wallets. You want subsidies to continue for all your pet projects, but not for new ones that offend your ideology.
They’ve arrested Tommy Robinson again. And the piano player who was assaulted by the chunks and then threatened by some female copper has disappeared:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aloDLcBMsNM
It’s an obvious problem if it affects neighbours.
Presumably Monty would be delighted to have solar panels aimed at his home.
Name one.
If you are trying to say farming and fossil fuels aren’t subsidised, I will laugh even harder at you.
Russian ISR seems to be getting better.
Nepotism and crony capitalism are both hallmarks of the communist system so it’s no wonder you are all barred up over this crap.
‘They have no idea what we’re facing’: Alice crime scourge escalating
Despite last year’s intense focus violence is still on the rise, and few locals expect anything to change. CCTV does little to deter the gangs in search of cars to steal – including mine.
By LIAM MENDES
It’s 4am in Alice Springs and a gang of young men in a stolen ute is attempting burnouts in the middle of town.
Two of the occupants are hanging out of the rear windows with scarfs wrapped around their faces, one armed with a baseball bat.
The young driver isn’t having much luck pulling off a burnout but that doesn’t stop him careening wildly through roundabouts and across pavements.
When they notice The Australian taking photographs, they start making gang signs and set off firecrackers.
The police station is just one block away but the cops are nowhere to be seen.
The Australian has reported before on children as young as 10 driving stolen cars through town. But these aren’t kids and there’s an air of menace about them.
The baseball bat is a sign of an unwelcome but increasing trend in crime in the Territory. In the past five years, offences against the person have jumped by 37 per cent; property offences by 53 per cent.
Police have been particular targets of the violence, says NT Police Association president Nathan Finn, with an upsurge in offenders deliberately ramming police cars with stolen vehicles.
“This type of violent, reckless, dangerous offending is escalating, and our members want to know what is being done to ensure their safety,” Mr Finn said.
Yet in the past 10 years, he says, only 20 more police have been employed.
“The NT government has absolutely no idea what our members face day in, day out, and the senior police executive can only operate with the finite resources it has,” Mr Finn said.
Even judges and prosecutors have become victims.
One judge has been the target of multiple burglaries; recently, a local Crown prosecutor packed up and left town after being robbed in daylight on the street near her office.
Houses are attacked with golf clubs, assaults are carried out on joggers. Shopping malls have been left ghostlike. Store owners lock their doors even when they’re open.
Little more than a year ago, a national spotlight was placed on the town amid fly-in visits from Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton, but the intense focus was vanishingly brief and the town is again awash in grog.
No one is surprised to hear that Mr Albanese, Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney and Opposition Leader Mr Dutton, are all visiting again – and few expect anything to change.
Locals will continue to live in a state of constant hypervigilance.
Many homes are equipped with CCTV and motion-activated lights, but that does little to deter the gangs in search of cars to steal – including mine.
During several months reporting from Alice Springs over the past year, this reporter has sometimes stayed with baker Darren Clark – a fierce advocate for his town since violence and crime exploded following the lapse in intervention-era grog bans.
Last week, I was asleep, along with the other people in Clark’s house, when a group of boys discovered the back door hadn’t properly locked. The boys knew what they were looking for, ignoring my camera equipment and homing in on the car keys.
My rented Nissan X-Trail was gone; so too Clark’s Toyota.
“There’s so many of these young gangs now,” Clark says. “They’re not scared of a camera being on. If they don’t leave a print, they can’t be identified by their faces. They know they can’t be charged.”
For the past few years, Clark has been living in daily fear of burglary and violence. “I’d rather they steal my car, instead of waking up to the kids in my room, which has been happening more and more,” he said.
“The amount of stories I’ve heard where people have had machetes held to their throats and (their keys) being demanded, I’ve always left mine out on the bench in plain sight. You’re always on high alert, when we hear a noise or the dog barks or growls.
“You’re always on edge.”
The tragedy is that it is not only the victims of crime in grave danger. Late last week, local Aboriginal families were plunged into mourning after an 18-year-old youth died when the stolen Toyota HiLux he was riding in rolled and crushed him. It was stolen from a caravan park on the outskirts of town, driven through a boom gate and taken for a joy ride.
On Saturday Detective Senior Sergeant Brendan Lindner said eight youths fled the scene, leaving their friend to die on the footpath. “They showed a callous disregard for their critically injured friend and fled the scene, abandoning the 18-year old who was lying on the road in significant pain and unable to move while against the vehicle, which was billowing smoke following the crash,” Mr Lindner said.
The young man who died was facing two counts of driving and using a vehicle without consent, and had been before the courts on four separate occasions. He was also the father of two-month-old.
A war between families who want “payback” against the driver and those who fled the vehicle has begun. Over the weekend the victim’s family moved out of town.
Oz
Name one.
I’m at the Tarxien Temples, Hagar Qim’s poor cousin.
Lacks majestic sea views and bus parking.
Were discovered by farmers in the early 20th century who complained to local educated person about their plows scrapping dressed stones, now in the middle of a suburb.
The unusual statues from here, same for Hagar Qim are in the archaeological museum in Valletta.
If you are pressed for time Tarxien is very easy to get to, with lots more bus choices and a very easy 350 metre walk down a side street.
I was going to go to the three cities on the 13 bus, but the grumpy old man at Sliema insisted I catch a different bus and change at Valletta, so I did.
No dobbing please.
Aaaand here we go again.
Perhaps more solar panels would help.
Laugh all you want dickless; the cackling of the left is a rallying cry for the normies.
You deluded, insular squealy freeloader.
You really do have no idea what the issues are.
Cursed.
A Voice/Treaty/Truth telling will solve all these problems, surely?
Nobody in Alice Springs got a packet of cable ties?
From the wikipedia page of the former Aussie Rules player who’s now claiming that many of the game’s leading lights were racist toward him when he was playing. He seems nice;
Uh huh.
All of Britain is cursed. That’s very sad. At least the British carriers are still floating. The Kuznetsov is probably finished which is militarily irrelevant because it keeps breaking down and is too old. They plan sea trials this year. We know that is happening by looking for the huge plume of smoke because of the ridiculous fuel it uses.
LOL. Britain is either a maritime power or its nothing. Russia is a continental power.
Yep.
Yep.
And yep.
Guess what flavour his victims were?
so stfu kulak … he said with a mouthful of silicon chips
is it battery or solar powered?
Being as he’s not a racist, one presumes his victims were of same-same flavour as he.
Who the experts are remain unmentioned. Will only post the opening paragraph, Hun:
I thought this is what superannuation was for. And those who have exhausted theirs I wouldn’t think are on the yellow brick road.
Are death taxes still a thing?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Ben Garrison.
All paintings of royal persons to be banned because they do not represent reality and have been manipulated.
I hear that people are leaving the New Montellaxy blog and going to CL’s.
Bungonia Bee
Mar 12, 2024 4:54 AM
What is the New Montellaxy blog?
I visit this one and CL’s blog. basically the same people comment on both.
Nothing wrong with that, different topics.
Occasionally I check in the lollypop blog, but it’s a waste of time I’m sorry to say, such promise and let down after.
Still trying to work out the ‘dick..d’ definition, seems like anything the dominant blog member doesn’t approve of.
Harlequin Decline
Mar 11, 2024 9:18 PM
No, but the reference is clear enough:
“But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.”
Judges 16:21
Another kidney stone coming down the pipe.
Not a great night. A two endone and still uncomfortable.
Monty’s parade of ignorance last night was a new low for the selfish socialist.
I wonder if he does anything for the community that’s selfless.
but his commentary is a grace
sweet and nourishing like honey collected and condensed from the bees buzzing in his head
now get back on the tractor kulak
Kidney stones, Gez.
Condolences.
Thanks Bespoke.
I passed one on the left a few weeks ago and another was spotted on a scan on the right last week.
Always at night. Must be the position.
I need to change a few things in the diet and drink a lot more. Farming is a sweaty job.
Just as the fakest movie (Barbie) gets accolades and has earned $1.4b, we have a huge fuss by the mostly left media, anti-monarchists and Kate Haters over an amendment or two to a photo of her family.
Women amend their faces all the time, particularly before having a photo session – it’s called makeup. Get over it you cheap and nasty scum.
Farmer Gez
Mar 12, 2024 6:09 AM
Never had it thanks God, but heard saying that the one advantage of drinking lots of beer is that your kidneys function well.
All the best dealing with it.
This is a pix of a genuine receipt from a DARWIN beachside cafe, last Sunday .. FFS!
https://ibb.co/L8Jhbcz
Black Ball
Not yet, BB.
But I’m sure a budget emergency will turn up that makes it fair and equitable – for the government. (That emergency will already be here as we are in a
recession)
Farmer Gez
Apparently he looks after the Milko’s kids, but I’m sure that’s just a nasty rumour.
Farmer Gez
Mar 12, 2024 6:09 AM
Always at night. Must be the position.
I need to change a few things in the diet and drink a lot more. Farming is a sweaty job.
Apparently, drinking Apple Cider Vinegar helps to gradually dissolve kidney stones and prevent the stones from forming –
https://www.healthline.com/health/kidney-health/acv-for-kidney-stones#_noHeaderPrefixedContent
Excellent article at Taki’s about the effect of distant wars on British political life here:
and
Compare this level of analysis with the drivel being served up by the MSM. The internet has certainly showed us just how mediocre (at best) the ‘analysts’ employed by the MSM are, including those at allegedly top drawer outfits that don’t cater to mass audiences.
At TheirABC, the term ‘analysis’ is misused to the point of illiteracy. Crap like ‘why the Coalition has a problem with women’ and one I saw recently about how the best way to help with the cost of living is more welfare, are described as ‘analysis.’ They are nothing of the sort. They are cheap propaganda.
Look at the article cited above – full of historical, literary and cultural references, well written, and obviously the fruit of a lot of thought and work by the author.
‘Why the Coalition has a Problem with Women’ number 473 – pah! 🙁
Now, they are looking at building these off shore Wind Towers in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park slap bang in the path of migrating whales –
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/05/17/orchid-energy-unveils-10-gw-offshore-wind-plans-in-queensland/
Another Blackout Bowen “initiative”. Hopefully, Tanya Plebersuck, the Federal Environment Minister puts a stop to this madness if it ever gets the Corporate go ahead.
Comment from MontyPox Virus in due course please………………………..
This guy has form and will end up dead on the side of a rice paddy soon after abusing the wrong person:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13182819/Aussie-motorcycle-rider-goes-ballistic-Thailand-hit-car.html
Name looks Kiwi though, Ratukore Jones Aganon.
Lemon juice according to the urologist.
shatterzzz
Mar 12, 2024 6:38 AM
This is a true tale, my BIL offered a $2 tip to a waiter in Cairns and it was refused with a smirk and a remark. “if it’s all you can afford, you best keep it”.
Never been there but it must be a posh place.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Opinion: I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too
Opinion by Bill McGuire
FMD.
Great toons this morning. Like every other section of the community there are those cartoonists with TDS and those who have functioning brains.
you need one of these Farmer Gez
Note that mUnturd focuses only on “domestic (ie, household) supply”. He clearly sees no need for electricity to power industry, hospitals, schools, traffic management and the myriad of other essential services that use electricity in a modern economy.
He is just plain ignorant, and should stop talking about the subject.
Does he have solar panels on the roof of his home, and a household battery? Does he drive a Tesla? Or is he just another leftard hypocrite, completely ignorant of reality?
He’s getting worse.
Prince William makes statement at Earthshot Prize event after Princess Kate photo row (11 Mar)
It’s been a critical decade every decade for the last fifty years and nothing has happened. His dad has said this stuff endlessly, like in 2009 when he said 100 months to save the world from “irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse, and all that goes with it.” I suppose that means the world did irretrievably collapse in 2017 on expiration of the 100 months and we’re just imagining that we’re still alive and healthy.
Well I suspect the crisis ain’t going to be the climate, it’s going to be the monarchy. Quite soon too.
mUnturd hasn’t heard of indigenous lands, national parks, glaciers in high latitudes.
mUnturd is an idiot.
‘Mixed feelings’: Hiroshima grapples with ‘Oppenheimer’ Oscars success
How do Australians, Koreans, and Chinese feel knowing how you raped our women until they died, that Japan conducted biological experiments on the Chinese and used Chinese for bayonet practice? That you were not signatories to the Geneva convention, or how about the Batan death march, the treatment of POWs. Yet you still carry on about a couple bombs when the alternative was millions dead and your entire culture obliterated. We even allowed you to keep your emperor. Be grateful you asswipes.
Why doesn’t anyone call them out on this hypocrisy!?
mUnturd failed Economics 1. If that basic level is beyond his mental capacity, it is no wonder that he has no ability at all to comprehend electricity generation, and particularly nuclear reactors.
“radiation-spewing”? LOL, what a fvckwit.
And so-called, self-designated, “leftists” like mUnturd are fully on side with corporate greed.
The Great Reversal indeed.
If that is in fact a genuine receipt, from a ‘beachside cafe’ (of which there are only two or three), last Sunday – at the nadir of the tourist season, stinking hot and sweat 24/7 at the tail end of the Wet, but just before the monsoon we’re in now – then that cafe won’t survive till the Dry five or six weeks from now.
The $7 Sunday surcharge looks like a bit of a giveaway though.
Pretty much as we thought.
£286 billion nuclear submarine deal that’s one of Britain’s biggest on brink of collapse (11 Mar)
If Labor’s go to guys the Ponds Institute and Hugh White are opining on this I take it to mean Labor isn’t serious about it either. Which fits with Bowen’s sneering at nuclear power: that is another window into the thought processes of the ALP. Dumping on nuclear power while supposedly wanting to build a ginormous nuclear engineering industry in Adelaide was always rather incongruous. The antinuke thing is religious doctrine they all grew up with, so nuclear submarines would be anathema to them. But Marles can’t get out of it without an excuse, or he’ll be crucified for leaving Australia undefended. I wonder if the Ponds Institute could make some money by offering Chinese language courses?
I am astounded by Princess Kates admission that she doctored the photo. Were the Waleses becoming jealous of Meghan and Harry’s shenanigans and wanted some of that action?
Quite so, Cohenite. I was delighted to learn this week that Queensland’s Brett Lethbridge doesn’t have Trump Derangement.
I want to pay tribute to the Orange man, who has a godlike ability to expose his enemies as jibbering troglodites who can’t hear what he’s saying because they’re foaming with rage about his popularity with normal people.
Well said. As for why nobody is calling them out for their hypocrisy, Japanese cars that are far better than any other Asian outputs.
Here is an article which illustrates everything that is wrong with the way young people who are clearly on the way to a crash landing are failed – but not for the reasons they posit:
His family loved him so much that he had 35 different placements from the age of five, including some with extended family, in his 16 years of life.
Later in the article, it is mentioned that his carers were sometimes worried about their personal safety – i.e. he was violent.
Hang on, didn’t they say that he was a rising hip-hop star and ‘full of potential’? Sounds more like a trainwreck to me, if the diagnoses are accurate. And that’s a big ‘if.’
What makes me so angry is that, while none of us know what he was really like, everyone is lying through their teeth about his lousy life.
35 placements in 11 years, yet his family loved him. No, they didn’t. Not enough to take responsibility for looking after him properly. He was five years old when he was removed from his presumably pisswreck/druggie parent or parents. Don’t tell me that a five year old can’t be rescued.
Then, all that cant about his ‘potential’ as a ‘rising hip hop star’, yet he was diagnosed with enough problems to put him in an institution. So, which is it? They are all lying to cover their arses.
It is this conspiracy of dishonesty that results in kids like him ending up dead, in gaol, or both. Nobody is willing to take responsibility for them, so they just career down the inevitable path to disaster.
It’s unforgiveable.
“Idiots: We want you to stop moving to renewables and focus all your efforts on an ephemeral technology that only exists on paper, with a long history of cost overruns,”
Right, ……, so if you could please list the countries that have successfully “transitioned” to renewables, that are of course not only more efficient, but much less expensive, I would be most grateful M.
Oddly, (I know I could be an outlier), my power bills reflect higher cost to me, the more “cheaper” renewables are added to the system.
Now, why would that be?
Let’s look at case studies in, ….., Europe, for example.
How are the krauts going with their “transitioning”?
How are the Poms going?
Oh ……., but wait, I didn’t factor in the utter genius of Bowen and the foresight, honesty and intellect of our PM.
Clearly, where every other country has failed, we will succeed, ……., gotcha!
“Gott mit uns!”
Published nearly ten years ago – nothing’s changed – the bureaucrats continue to cover their arses from way-back-when and continuing