Lets make sure that you tell the whole story here. The current government has increased taxes on the HIGHEST EARNERS in the country by 2% for income generated over $250,000. And this is for a period of 2 years. So your statement of "The new government is raising those income taxes again" is a complete and utter fallacy.
The best way to do it is to participate in a multi-country ETS. The ETS was to be price fixed against the European ETS Market but it was not substitutable. If there was a real function for Australia to buy or sell carbon permits with the European market then it might have worked over the long term.
Essentially what is required is for there to be a global market for carbon emissions. The European one is by far the largest and if over time you can add countries to it you can cap global carbon emmissions. There then becomes an incentive both ways to improve your efficiency. The first is you don't have to by permits, so you have a cost focussed incentive. The second is you get carbon credits through doing carbon trapping businesses, so agribusiness and carbon sequestration projects have an income stream.
As an Australia I sit completely on the opposite side to you then. Personally I am happy the carbon tax is gone and I will be even happier when the MRRT goes as well.
The thing I am disappointed about is that as a result of having a cross bench holding the balance of power in the senate all the spending associated with the carbon tax and the MRRT are not being repealed with them. So the tax base is now lower but the expenditure remains the same. That is more than disappointing, it's stupid.
Don't get me wrong. I am all for renewable energy and sustainable development. But the implementation of the ETS was fundamentally flawed as Australia is too small a market to operate effectively on its own. The sheer number of tax credits and handouts associated with the carbon tax meant it was broken before it even started. If it had been integrated (as opposed to price tied) to the European market there could be been some significant benefits but it wasn't.
And finally what are you talking about the cost of coal being lower than the cost of production? That is just so obviously stupid it's not worth commenting on. Glencore, BMA, BMC, & Rio are not charities! Do you seriously think they are going to produce coal at a loss? There are some mines where cost of production may be higher than a spot price at a given time. But that is because sometimes spot prices tank and mining is done on 20+year time horizons. While the price today may be marginally lower than cost of production it won't be over the effective life of mine.
Don't know why but I kind of feel like I have seen something like this before.... The ww2 landing vehicle tracked (LVT) looked very similar to this, just on a much smaller scale.
I don't know any serious business that is not multi-screen now. We have been for over 6 years now. You simply lose too much productivity if you have to keep pulling one program over the top of another. All our machines are pushing dual Dell 26" IPS screens. For a while we used them vertically but now pretty much everyone had them horizontal and is splitting it into 4 windows.
And I must be the odd one out because I really really struggle with the Mac OS interface. In particular I HATE the menu at the top being which ever application is active.
I do have to admit though that I have only had very short stints with Macs so it is probably completely unfair. I like my windows 7 interface a lot but I like my Mint Cinnamon interface more. As soon as I turn off hot corners!
According to the Queensland Department of Energy & Water 22% of the bill is retail markup, 19% is generation, 44% is network, 7% Carbon Tax, 7% cost of Solar, 3% green schemes.
The cost in Queensland is the Network not generation. Even if you removed the retail margins it still remains high. But I am also old enough to see the massive difference in network stability now to what it was 20+ years ago. In the 80s a summer storm was guaranteed to take the power out for at least 30 mins every time (in an inner brisbane suburb) now power outages at all are rare and if they do happen they often last less than a minute.
These look awesome! I would so be lining up for these. Not to mention they specifically mention my killer app for wearing glasses - the face recognition!
I've played with Google Glass a few times and my complaint has always been the screen was too small and it should work as an overlay. If these did that!
Guess we have to agree to disagree then. I don't tend to ride my bike at full tilt so noise production at low revs is more important for safety than the noise at ring it's neck speeds. Especially if I am going full tilt on my bike the speed I am doing is far more likely to get people upset and angry with bike riders then the noise coming out of the can.
Because I believe there is a balancing point that I believe is louder than a stock pipe.
Megaphone exhausts are obnoxious. A slip on generally isn't.
A set of Termignoni's on a Ducati 1198 is in my opinion too fucking loud. You can feel it in your chest. An Akrapovic slip-on on a zx-10r however is not. Not everything in life has to be on or off.
Actually it is wind noise that has the biggest impact not exhaust note. If you have wanker loud pipes then yes but I have always found it to be the wind noise from air moving around the outside of the helmet.
I agree that riding defensively makes the biggest difference. But I don't agree that sound makes none. Yes many cars are highly noise insulated and lots of people have their radios on loud. But there are still plenty of people who drive with their window down. Or not having the radio blaring.
Personally if I can have any extra difference I will take it.
I think there is a balance point. I believe stock pipes are too quiet. I also believe that full system race pipes are too loud.
By louder pipes I am not suggesting bullhorns. There is a point at which a louder pipe makes you more noticeable without you being offensive.
Also who cares if audio cues are the best cues? If they are a cue AT ALL then they contribute to safety. I've always thought that the "if it isn't the best option it's stupid" argument to be totally retarded. 6 point harnesses in cars are the best type of seat belt, yet we all use sash type. Is that stupid because it isn't the best? I'm sorry this option makes you 5% less likely to die. But we won't use that option because this one makes you 30% less likely. Personally I would like the combined advantage please, or if I can't have the 30% option I will take the 5%.
Also I wear a high vis vest over my leathers - neon orange. My leathers are also silver with reflective material sections in them.
Finally flashing lights are illegal in australia. As are lights that aren't the stock colour.
My old man has a white Honda ST1300 that was meant to be a cop bike. Even has all the extra switch gear but never got delivered because they shifted to the BWMs that year.
His problem is people see him and brake because they think he is a copper
I'm talking about from a motorcycle perspective - that guy next to me merges into me. I come off the bike. Hit the road. Hope like hell I stay following the road and not run off it and into armco - posts or trees while also praying that the person who was behind me doesn't run me over.
While bikes are more dangerous than cars you can avoid more accidents on them then if you are in a car.
What most bike riders don't like to acknowledge is that, as much as we would love to blame the volvo driver, we tend to kill ourselves by ourselves.
Have a look at the statistics. A huge percentage of fatal motorcycle accidents are single vehicle. It comes from the fact that you can but an absolute weapon of a vehicle for essentially pocket change. Then most of us ride for fun at the weekend so our total number of hours driving a bike are relatively low, and as such so is our skill levels.
My bike will do 120kph in 1st gear and get there unbelievably quickly, then the only thing that caps its speed as an electronic limiter at 300kph..... Way faster than this electric harley. There are so few cars that can even come close and none of them are affordable.
If we weren't out having fun on our super awesome toys tearing up and down the local mountain the fatality rate would be a hell of a lot lower.
I am a bike rider, have a cbr1000rr currently and I live in Brisbane.
Personally I strongly believe that a louder pipe keeps you safer. The primary time it seems to make the difference is travelling along multi-lane roads. With a stock pipe you seem to have more people merge into you then you do when you have the louder pipe. This could of course be confirmation bias but I still have the stock pipe on my blade atm and i'm having a lot of "oops I didn't know you were there" moments currently.
Compare that to the Akros that I had on my previous zx-10 and it almost never happened. Of course that bike was blue and this one is black so maybe that is a bigger factor?
And most people here were left scratching their heads.
DO a quick search for Harry Connick Jnr and Black Face Skit. Australia had a show called "hey hey it's Saturday" which was a silly variety show. They had a reunion show and got back in one of the more popular skits from 20 years ago. It was a group of guys doing a jackson 5 impersonation. They were white and wore black face paint. Harry Connick Jnr went nuts as saying it was the most racist thing he had ever seen. Everyone else was completely caught off guard by his reaction.
But that said you can buy "Red Skins" a pinky / red chewy lollie and another thing called chickos which are black jelly babies (they are a kinda chocolate flavour). Now I knew the Chickos ones were walking a line, as my wife is english and she couldn't believe they were called that. But I had no concept that "red skins" was considered derogatory...
That said we did have one sweet that got its name changed - we used to have these white sugar tubes with a red tip that were called "fags". That is the colloquial for a cigarette here but also an abusive terms for a homosexual male. So now they are called "fads"
Working purely off my memory here but I am sure that the UK (and in fact most other first world countries) retain the right to intercept any communications that cross their borders. Again working off my memory but I seem to remember that cross border communication intercepts were used in prosecuting the pirate bay founders...
Absolutely right. You simply cannot have more of your life spent not working then you do working. Think about it. You work from age 21* to 65 or 45 years. During that time you average paying 30% of your income in tax. You then live to 90. That means you spend 46 years not working. That 46 years needs to be funded in some way and the maths simply doesn't work. That 30% tax had to cover all those things we like, such as roads. There isn't much of it left. So unless you saved 50% of your take home during your working life you are a net cost across your life.
The whole idea of retirement was introduced by a German called Otto von Bismark. When it was introduced at the age of 65 it was ABOVE the current life expectancy. However we have extended our lives but not extended the retirement age. It is just plain dumb.
I am 34, by the time I get to retirement it should be at least 70.....
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Lets make sure that you tell the whole story here. The current government has increased taxes on the HIGHEST EARNERS in the country by 2% for income generated over $250,000. And this is for a period of 2 years. So your statement of "The new government is raising those income taxes again" is a complete and utter fallacy.
The best way to do it is to participate in a multi-country ETS. The ETS was to be price fixed against the European ETS Market but it was not substitutable. If there was a real function for Australia to buy or sell carbon permits with the European market then it might have worked over the long term.
Essentially what is required is for there to be a global market for carbon emissions. The European one is by far the largest and if over time you can add countries to it you can cap global carbon emmissions. There then becomes an incentive both ways to improve your efficiency. The first is you don't have to by permits, so you have a cost focussed incentive. The second is you get carbon credits through doing carbon trapping businesses, so agribusiness and carbon sequestration projects have an income stream.
Yes it would but the Australian population as a whole is terrified of the Nuclear bogeyman.
As an Australia I sit completely on the opposite side to you then. Personally I am happy the carbon tax is gone and I will be even happier when the MRRT goes as well.
The thing I am disappointed about is that as a result of having a cross bench holding the balance of power in the senate all the spending associated with the carbon tax and the MRRT are not being repealed with them. So the tax base is now lower but the expenditure remains the same. That is more than disappointing, it's stupid.
Don't get me wrong. I am all for renewable energy and sustainable development. But the implementation of the ETS was fundamentally flawed as Australia is too small a market to operate effectively on its own. The sheer number of tax credits and handouts associated with the carbon tax meant it was broken before it even started. If it had been integrated (as opposed to price tied) to the European market there could be been some significant benefits but it wasn't.
And finally what are you talking about the cost of coal being lower than the cost of production? That is just so obviously stupid it's not worth commenting on. Glencore, BMA, BMC, & Rio are not charities! Do you seriously think they are going to produce coal at a loss? There are some mines where cost of production may be higher than a spot price at a given time. But that is because sometimes spot prices tank and mining is done on 20+year time horizons. While the price today may be marginally lower than cost of production it won't be over the effective life of mine.
Don't know why but I kind of feel like I have seen something like this before.... The ww2 landing vehicle tracked (LVT) looked very similar to this, just on a much smaller scale.
Some of the variants even used paddled tracks like this. oblig wiki link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't know any serious business that is not multi-screen now. We have been for over 6 years now. You simply lose too much productivity if you have to keep pulling one program over the top of another. All our machines are pushing dual Dell 26" IPS screens. For a while we used them vertically but now pretty much everyone had them horizontal and is splitting it into 4 windows.
And I must be the odd one out because I really really struggle with the Mac OS interface. In particular I HATE the menu at the top being which ever application is active.
I do have to admit though that I have only had very short stints with Macs so it is probably completely unfair. I like my windows 7 interface a lot but I like my Mint Cinnamon interface more. As soon as I turn off hot corners!
According to the Queensland Department of Energy & Water 22% of the bill is retail markup, 19% is generation, 44% is network, 7% Carbon Tax, 7% cost of Solar, 3% green schemes.
The cost in Queensland is the Network not generation. Even if you removed the retail margins it still remains high. But I am also old enough to see the massive difference in network stability now to what it was 20+ years ago. In the 80s a summer storm was guaranteed to take the power out for at least 30 mins every time (in an inner brisbane suburb) now power outages at all are rare and if they do happen they often last less than a minute.
Energy Prices in Brisbane Australia range around the $0.27/kwh........
A $1200 bill a quarter is high but common for a lot of larger families (5+ people)
These look awesome! I would so be lining up for these. Not to mention they specifically mention my killer app for wearing glasses - the face recognition!
I've played with Google Glass a few times and my complaint has always been the screen was too small and it should work as an overlay. If these did that!
Queue glasshole hatred now.
High beam headlights
A driver must not switch headlights to high beam if another vehicle is closer than 200m in front of the driver's vehicle.
A driver may flash the headlights briefly before overtaking another vehicle.
Drivers must ensure that they do not dazzle other road users.
Sections 218 and 219 of the Queensland Road Rules apply.
Guess we have to agree to disagree then. I don't tend to ride my bike at full tilt so noise production at low revs is more important for safety than the noise at ring it's neck speeds. Especially if I am going full tilt on my bike the speed I am doing is far more likely to get people upset and angry with bike riders then the noise coming out of the can.
Because I believe there is a balancing point that I believe is louder than a stock pipe.
Megaphone exhausts are obnoxious. A slip on generally isn't.
A set of Termignoni's on a Ducati 1198 is in my opinion too fucking loud. You can feel it in your chest. An Akrapovic slip-on on a zx-10r however is not. Not everything in life has to be on or off.
Actually it is wind noise that has the biggest impact not exhaust note. If you have wanker loud pipes then yes but I have always found it to be the wind noise from air moving around the outside of the helmet.
It's why I wear ear plugs.
Riding with high beams on in Australia is illegal if you have on coming traffic. Exactly the same as if you were in a car.
I agree that riding defensively makes the biggest difference. But I don't agree that sound makes none. Yes many cars are highly noise insulated and lots of people have their radios on loud. But there are still plenty of people who drive with their window down. Or not having the radio blaring.
Personally if I can have any extra difference I will take it.
I think there is a balance point. I believe stock pipes are too quiet. I also believe that full system race pipes are too loud.
By louder pipes I am not suggesting bullhorns. There is a point at which a louder pipe makes you more noticeable without you being offensive.
Also who cares if audio cues are the best cues? If they are a cue AT ALL then they contribute to safety. I've always thought that the "if it isn't the best option it's stupid" argument to be totally retarded. 6 point harnesses in cars are the best type of seat belt, yet we all use sash type. Is that stupid because it isn't the best? I'm sorry this option makes you 5% less likely to die. But we won't use that option because this one makes you 30% less likely. Personally I would like the combined advantage please, or if I can't have the 30% option I will take the 5%.
Also I wear a high vis vest over my leathers - neon orange. My leathers are also silver with reflective material sections in them.
Finally flashing lights are illegal in australia. As are lights that aren't the stock colour.
My old man has a white Honda ST1300 that was meant to be a cop bike. Even has all the extra switch gear but never got delivered because they shifted to the BWMs that year.
His problem is people see him and brake because they think he is a copper
I'm talking about from a motorcycle perspective - that guy next to me merges into me. I come off the bike. Hit the road. Hope like hell I stay following the road and not run off it and into armco - posts or trees while also praying that the person who was behind me doesn't run me over.
It's the people next to you on the interstate that are the dangerous ones... Not the one 200 yards in front or 200 yards behind.
Yes and no.
While bikes are more dangerous than cars you can avoid more accidents on them then if you are in a car.
What most bike riders don't like to acknowledge is that, as much as we would love to blame the volvo driver, we tend to kill ourselves by ourselves.
Have a look at the statistics. A huge percentage of fatal motorcycle accidents are single vehicle. It comes from the fact that you can but an absolute weapon of a vehicle for essentially pocket change. Then most of us ride for fun at the weekend so our total number of hours driving a bike are relatively low, and as such so is our skill levels.
My bike will do 120kph in 1st gear and get there unbelievably quickly, then the only thing that caps its speed as an electronic limiter at 300kph..... Way faster than this electric harley. There are so few cars that can even come close and none of them are affordable.
If we weren't out having fun on our super awesome toys tearing up and down the local mountain the fatality rate would be a hell of a lot lower.
I am a bike rider, have a cbr1000rr currently and I live in Brisbane.
Personally I strongly believe that a louder pipe keeps you safer. The primary time it seems to make the difference is travelling along multi-lane roads. With a stock pipe you seem to have more people merge into you then you do when you have the louder pipe. This could of course be confirmation bias but I still have the stock pipe on my blade atm and i'm having a lot of "oops I didn't know you were there" moments currently.
Compare that to the Akros that I had on my previous zx-10 and it almost never happened. Of course that bike was blue and this one is black so maybe that is a bigger factor?
And most people here were left scratching their heads.
DO a quick search for Harry Connick Jnr and Black Face Skit. Australia had a show called "hey hey it's Saturday" which was a silly variety show. They had a reunion show and got back in one of the more popular skits from 20 years ago. It was a group of guys doing a jackson 5 impersonation. They were white and wore black face paint. Harry Connick Jnr went nuts as saying it was the most racist thing he had ever seen. Everyone else was completely caught off guard by his reaction.
But that said you can buy "Red Skins" a pinky / red chewy lollie and another thing called chickos which are black jelly babies (they are a kinda chocolate flavour). Now I knew the Chickos ones were walking a line, as my wife is english and she couldn't believe they were called that. But I had no concept that "red skins" was considered derogatory...
That said we did have one sweet that got its name changed - we used to have these white sugar tubes with a red tip that were called "fags". That is the colloquial for a cigarette here but also an abusive terms for a homosexual male. So now they are called "fads"
I don't believe it to be that old.
Working purely off my memory here but I am sure that the UK (and in fact most other first world countries) retain the right to intercept any communications that cross their borders. Again working off my memory but I seem to remember that cross border communication intercepts were used in prosecuting the pirate bay founders...
Absolutely right. You simply cannot have more of your life spent not working then you do working. Think about it. You work from age 21* to 65 or 45 years. During that time you average paying 30% of your income in tax. You then live to 90. That means you spend 46 years not working. That 46 years needs to be funded in some way and the maths simply doesn't work. That 30% tax had to cover all those things we like, such as roads. There isn't much of it left. So unless you saved 50% of your take home during your working life you are a net cost across your life.
The whole idea of retirement was introduced by a German called Otto von Bismark. When it was introduced at the age of 65 it was ABOVE the current life expectancy. However we have extended our lives but not extended the retirement age. It is just plain dumb.
I am 34, by the time I get to retirement it should be at least 70.....
* assuming tertiary education