Just watched a doco on the box about the Antonov cargo plane. Main service centre was in Kiev Ukraine. Missed when the doco was made but seemed within the last decade. Interesting cockpit, not too many flashy displays. Old school.

Hard to believe, Dover.

Bruce’s analysis of mask wearing and its efficacy back in 2020 was convincing to me. The nail in the coffin was the edict – wear mask while standing, take off mask when sitting and eating.

It was so dumb, so amateurish, so cruel, it smacked of the sorts of things torturers do to their victims. They know it’s false, you know it’s false, but they can and will exert their power over those they despise.

It exposed the true nature of both “experts” and their heavies.

True to form, the BBC is pleased that conservative Narendra Modi has had a bit of a setback in the huge Indian elections – some 645 million voters.
His party will still be the major component of any resulting coalition, but the Beeb is salivating to various degrees in their formation of questions.
“Will you be looking for a new leader”?
“Will he have to change his leadership style”?

It’s standard operating procedure for them whenever there’s a conservative leader in any country.

So Bruce, you have a doctorate in science and specialise in data analysis, i.e. secondary research. So have you never done primary science?
Sounds that way to me from what you have said.

If you are not a primary scientist, you are not worth a penny next to the career of Fauci.

Only a dead set, absolute, brain dead ,no-load moron would make such a statement. To support that lying, conniving, corrupt, money sucking murdering slime bag, Fauci is tantamount to supporting Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin. But then again, birds of a feather flock together.

Army recruiting?
They wonder why there’s a shortfall after the shameful treatment of Ben Roberts-Smith and the Red Shoes General?

I see that the gutless worm mUnturd waited until late in the evening to slander Bruce of Newcastle. Typical of his efforts lately, appear late at night, perform drive by slander, and ignore any responses.

The employment stats in Australia are 14.3m employed.

Anyone want to guess how many people work in the public service?

for a bonus prize what is the total public sector wage bill?

while the real scientists fiddle about with beakers and microscopes

ROFL. Monty you have just again proven how ignorant, uninformed and unintelligent you are, since in many years of accessing the Cat blogs you have somehow not noticed primary R&D science is what I do. And always have done from before graduation right through to retirement. I am not an administrator like Fauci, that’s shinybum work dealing with wretched HSEC rubbish and filling out endless forms.

Maybe you need to do that mental competence test they give old people, since you certainly have a very poor memory.

And you certainly do not understand science, particularly not commercial sector science, since in the private sector you have to actually demonstrate the value of a research project before you get any money from a company. Which means financial estimation. You also have to model it so that it is shown to be compatible with existing systems, or you won’t get an ok to proceed. Then to see if the lab program worked you have to analyse the data, and present it to management.

Love to see you in a lab. I am very good at it, and extremely experienced. Hundreds of lab projects. Then there’re all the pilot plants I’ve built and run. Dozens of various sizes. You have to do that to scale up stuff to a commercially practical level. And you wear overalls for that. In fact I can’t recall wearing a suit and tie ever for work. Ok tie a few times when I was unsure of the customers’ approach to doing things.

Can we talk about climate science again now? I love taking you to the woodshed on that topic, you are so ignorant. After a few years of trying I was amused when you shut up about it completely. Numbers did also. It was most entertaining.

And imagine, there were a few here, who thought m0nty was a genuine, intelligent man with ideological convictions, but he proved to be a nasty vicious imbecile after all.
Teaches you a lesson.

The NDIS was a feelgood proposal back in the RGR days. Labor and the largely complicit media used it to try and entrap Tony Abbott before the 2013 election. They dared him to say he wouldn’t fund it, and as a bonus, that he would reduce funding for the ABC. Abbott said he wouldn’t do those things, knowing that he’d be pilloried by the media if he didn’t fall into line.
I thought at the time he should have been a bit more weazle-wordy and said something like he “supported both but funding would be a matter for budgetary considerations every year”.
We all knew the NDIS was going to be rorted. It has taken a while but the inevitable has happened, and now has had to be recognised by all the usual suspects. Some in Labor have even tried the reflexive “but the coalition had years to fix this”. Don’t make me laugh. Even without that particular Albatross around their necks, the coalition got done over at the last election.

Bruce claiming to wear overalls every day yet be a cross between Thomas Edison and Doctor Fronkenshteen, LOL. Who do you work for, Starfleet?

I would believe your Yahoo Serious routine more if you didn’t babble on constantly with hot takes that any real scientist would laugh at. In particular, you are never going to win a battle of credentialism against Anthony Fauci.

John H at 0950

Unfortunately, the public servants and staff of statutory bodies have all been captured by interest groups, and it is much harder to reverse this than cancelling contracts.

See as grotesque examples the BoM, CSIRO, multiple environmental protection departments, the Yartz Council, Their ABC and innumerable others.

Two very interesting stories over the last few days.

First, there are reports, (not verified yet), that USS Eisenhower, (US Aircraft Carrier), was hit by Houti missiles.
It has entered a Saudi Port, but its Captain said “these claims are “fake news”.
We shall wait events.

Second.
If I asked you, how much the BOM computers cost to upgrade, what would you say?
Answer – A $Billion, ….., yes, with a B!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_H9fRqpXB8

If rational thought ever again occupied the Treasury benches, (spoiler alert, it won’t happen), $2Billion could be saved by making the ABC a subscription service and by abolishing the BOM.

A $Billion for computers to “misforecast” weather, even up here in the tropics, where it should be very easy to get it right, seems like a complete waste of taxpayers dosh to me.
The utter contempt this BOM authoritarian in the video has, for anyone who dares ask questions, regarding the results of this “no longer fit for purpose” burgeoning bureaucracy, exposes the empire building nature of the BOM.

Who do you work for, Starfleet?

Funny, but Starfleet is a government organization. I never wore a red shirt. On the other hand Monty I have directly mentioned on Cat blogs who I had worked for several times, most Cats know. You seem not to’ve noticed that either. My jerb title was Principal Scientist. There, I’ve said it. Retired now.

In the lab it was also easier to just use overalls than lab coats since the various pilot plants were out the back. I wore out a lot of lab coats over the years as well.

 to win a battle of credentialism against Anthony Fauci

That is absolutely hilarious! Credentialism? That is exactly what is wrong with science these days. And a lot of other fields, like journalism. And exactly the problem with Fauci. He can’t argue science and medical technology (nor can you btw), he was taken to the cleaners by politicians in the hearings this week. They ran rings around him. He’s a shinybum. An administrator.

But the fun thing is my credentials are impeccable, and I use that to get the foot in the door. Then I present the project proposal, with support data and analysis. The company then decides whether to do it or not. You’d wince at how much other peoples’ money I’ve spent over the years, almost all from shareholders at least, not taxpayers. A reasonable number of wins, but the odds are not high for such projects, about 5%ish through to construction. On the other hand the science is published and out there, and I know it gets used based on what companies are doing.

One fun datum for you Monty is my degree credentials are almost identical to a certain exceedingly senior climate guy. Be fun to debate him since I think I could take him, easily. He’s another shinybum. May’ve retired by now.

(Apology Cats for this stuff, Monty needs a bit of pruning.)

The employment stats in Australia are 14.3m employed.

Anyone want to guess how many people work in the public service?

for a bonus prize what is the total public sector wage bill?

The correct answer is 2.4m!!!! two million four hundred thousand “public servants” in this small nation!!!!!!! This excludes the legions of ppl working indirectly for the government.

The wage bill for which is $253 billion

Personal income revenue is by coincidence about $253 billion.

Very interesting article at Quadrant.

After Covid: Now it’s the Lawyers’ Turn.

Concerns the judge in the Covid Dr Fidge vaccine GMO case not recusing herself and revealing her previous big pharma cases. She said a Dr who had vaccinated himself and his family and patients had no “standing” to be heard.

Moves on to have Parliament to investigate and Chief Justice been briefed about the judge involved.

Basically if the vaccines are Genetically modifying then need a licence. No such licence approved so therefore illegal and should be stopped.

the NDIS is a hyper woke bureaucracy. The industry attracts two types of ppl, the woke and the sharks. The sharks are inevitable as they can smell free money, lots and lots of free money with few strings attached aside from proving you are woke and can maintain a set of registers and woke policies and pass a woke audit every few years to show you are keeping your registers up to date and can recite your woke policies.

NDIS is setup to be parallel to the real world in every respect complete with gov attempt at creating market signals from meaningless data.

The “participants” don’t see any of the money it is all sponged up by the industry.

Now I understand how the homeless industrial complex in california can have so many billions thrown at it and the problem gets exponentially worst.

As far as NDIS I have never seen anything like it.