Where I live petrol stations can change their price once a day, and they have to tell the govt fuel watch service what that price will be, by I think 6pm the previous day.
Makes planning on buying fuel quite easy.
fuelwatch.wa.gov.au is the site showing all the fuel prices for the state.
There are other reasons the NBN has done poorly, the incoming (and probably outgoing on May 18th) government decided to change the 'Fibre to the Home' to 'Fibre to the Node' and let the existing, often old, copper telephone network carry the signal for the last link.
This required designing, building, installing and powering a lot of nodes in green metal cabinets all over the country. Instead of just rolling out an 'off the shelf' fibre network.
And it has resulted in a great many people paying more for the ADSL2+ speeds that they were getting before they were forced to 'upgrade'.
And it hasn't proven to be any cheaper or faster to rollout, though that's what was promised. It also requires more maintenance and upkeep (ie, someone has to pay for powering those nodes all over the country and maintain that copper wiring to the houses).
There are many articles on the topic on Australian sites. Almost all are critical of the governments decision, often assumed to be due at least in part to a Rupert Murdoch's wish to not have his PayTV network (Foxtel) given competion by internet streaming services offering cheaper on-demand shows. Gee, that worked out well...
The party predicted to win government in the May election is promising to review and fix the NBN so that it enables more people to connect at a faster speed, as originally planned.
I'm in Australia, it's caller pays. We don't have an issue with robocalls, at least, I hear no-one complaining about them and we all have mobile phones.
Eggboi is not pressing charges against the neo-nazi racists who mobbed him, though the police might, and against the senator. And, quite possibly, against Eggboi himself.
Penicillin is use by bacteria to defend themselves. Of course there are other bacteria that are resistant to it! That's how bactiera A can eat bactiera B! Bacteria A are resistant to the effects of bacteria B's defenses, penicillin.
We "discovered" it thousands of years after bacteria had. So obviously there are many bacteria out there in the world who know how to defend against penicillin, it's not a cure-all, it's a defense.
Though I think I'm missing an article that I read a few days ago and... can't be found. Pffft.
I should mention that the discoverer did say that we shouldn't over-prescribe penicillin due to the likelyhood of transferred immunity, but... seems that a number of greedy nations paid no attention that, and went for the money instead of life.
That's basically what happens here in Australia, plain clothed motorbike cops on scooters with helmet cams ride split the lanes and check drivers stopped at lights, as well as ride in traffic checking them out.
And the new speed cameras also check for phone use while driving (since they're up high on gantries, looking down into your lap).
If it saves lives, good. And it's a really easy tax to avoid, don't use your phone while driving.
a) why would you want to store a weeks worth of electricity? b) why would you have a tsunami if the concrete fails? It's already in the ocean... you wouldn't want to be on a ship nearby, sure, but tsunami when the ocean fills a hole in the ocean? Uhhh... no? c) Germany already has some pumped hydro, and my country can do it easily should it choose: https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...
On September 25, “Jane Doe” from Oceanside, California sent an anonymous letter to Senator Kamala Harris alleging that the then-nominee for Supreme Court and his friend raped her “several times each” in the back of a car....Later on October 3, Judy Munro-Leighton emailed the committee claiming to be the “Jane Doe” of the letter......She admitted to investigators that her story was a “tactic” and “that was just a ploy.”...
“I am not Jane Doe . . . but I did read Jane Doe’s letter..."
So... she is NOT the person who claimed that the then-nominee for Supreme Court and his friend raped her “several times each” in the back of a car.
So it's quite possible that the REAL Jane Doe was raped. It's certainly not been disproved.
But I'm listening when driving a car, with all the attendent road noises while I'm concentrating on staying alive, avoiding accidents and arriving safely. Lossy compression is fine for that. And... my car doesn't have a CD player, that's on the more expensive model (!!) Mine just has usb, SD card or radio, oddly. I use a 16 gig SD card.
Or I'm at work, concentrating on making my 'clients' unhappy. Or happy, though that's not the common outcome. So again, it's background noise to drown out the office cacophony. Lossy compression is fine for that too.
Or I'm where I am now, at my gaming pc, usually playing a game with it's own strident noises and yep, lossy compressed mp3s are, you got it, fine for that purpose too.
It's been... actually about 5 days since I listened to a CD, I bought the JJJ Hottest 100 #26 and listened to it at work, though I've got it on usb there as well. I admit I couldn't tell the difference between them, as I was concentrating on working, not chilling out listening to the music.
So, for 99% of my purpose, mp3 is fine, and keeps the CD 'safe', and I've got insurance that covers the loss of CDs and such if my house is burgled, burned or whatever.
Horses for courses. And no, I don't use headphones.
"Is "toxicity" in video games more prevalent than elsewhere in life?"
Given that in the real world, if someone is 'toxic' to you, can you turn around and... 'educate'... them about their failings, I'd suggest that the answer is yes. Because video games are not real and too many players seem to take that to mean freedom to behave as if there are zero consequences for their behaviour.
That said, I live and work in an enviroment of mature adults, so putting up with teen crap is not part of my life.
Been there, done that, not interested in revisiting that cesspit.
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Well, in my state, it is illegal for music to be heard outside your car.
So yeah, if your car is vibrating due the the beat dropping in the car next door, they'd get booked if they were in my state.
Where I live petrol stations can change their price once a day, and they have to tell the govt fuel watch service what that price will be, by I think 6pm the previous day.
Makes planning on buying fuel quite easy.
fuelwatch.wa.gov.au is the site showing all the fuel prices for the state.
"ghif" with the "gh" as in "though" or "tough" or "thorough"?
I wonder if that is due to the much higher tax rates in Europe?
There are other reasons the NBN has done poorly, the incoming (and probably outgoing on May 18th) government decided to change the 'Fibre to the Home' to 'Fibre to the Node' and let the existing, often old, copper telephone network carry the signal for the last link.
This required designing, building, installing and powering a lot of nodes in green metal cabinets all over the country. Instead of just rolling out an 'off the shelf' fibre network.
And it has resulted in a great many people paying more for the ADSL2+ speeds that they were getting before they were forced to 'upgrade'.
And it hasn't proven to be any cheaper or faster to rollout, though that's what was promised. It also requires more maintenance and upkeep (ie, someone has to pay for powering those nodes all over the country and maintain that copper wiring to the houses).
There are many articles on the topic on Australian sites. Almost all are critical of the governments decision, often assumed to be due at least in part to a Rupert Murdoch's wish to not have his PayTV network (Foxtel) given competion by internet streaming services offering cheaper on-demand shows. Gee, that worked out well...
The party predicted to win government in the May election is promising to review and fix the NBN so that it enables more people to connect at a faster speed, as originally planned.
"The question is "is this microflora harmful to people on the station and operations there"."
Well, how many astronauts are getting infected by bacteria and fungi in ways that are affecting their performance, or lives?
It seems that we don't hear of very many astronauts getting sick, so either there's a media blackout, or they don't often get very sick?
Suggesting that the microflora is not that harmful. Yet. Maybe?
Checks? In Australia it would be "cheque" and ... pretty much no-one uses them anymore, money is transferred directly between bank accounts.
Faster, safer, cheaper.
And no-one except the recipient would see "The Anal Sex and Fetish Perversion Company" on their bank statement.
Uh, isn't it already caller pays?
I'm in Australia, it's caller pays. We don't have an issue with robocalls, at least, I hear no-one complaining about them and we all have mobile phones.
You can egg senators in Australia.
Especially racist bigot senators who got 19 (yes, 19!) votes.
That's pretty insulting.
Video's from multiple angles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... complete with amusing Aussie commentary.
Eggboi is not pressing charges against the neo-nazi racists who mobbed him, though the police might, and against the senator. And, quite possibly, against Eggboi himself.
Yeah...
Just like bacteria that were found to be penicillin resistant decades BEFORE we started using penicillin...
like this article says:
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
Penicillin is use by bacteria to defend themselves. Of course there are other bacteria that are resistant to it! That's how bactiera A can eat bactiera B! Bacteria A are resistant to the effects of bacteria B's defenses, penicillin.
We "discovered" it thousands of years after bacteria had. So obviously there are many bacteria out there in the world who know how to defend against penicillin, it's not a cure-all, it's a defense.
Though I think I'm missing an article that I read a few days ago and... can't be found. Pffft.
I should mention that the discoverer did say that we shouldn't over-prescribe penicillin due to the likelyhood of transferred immunity, but... seems that a number of greedy nations paid no attention that, and went for the money instead of life.
Is it... radioactive material?
So it kills 4 drug-resistant superbugs. And pretty much every other cellular life too.
This is not great news...
Now I'll go and read the article... oooh, there is no linked article! Why is that, I wonder?...
Searching for "Material Discovered In Chernobyl Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs" finds... with Google, just this article.
Hmmm.
That's basically what happens here in Australia, plain clothed motorbike cops on scooters with helmet cams ride split the lanes and check drivers stopped at lights, as well as ride in traffic checking them out.
And the new speed cameras also check for phone use while driving (since they're up high on gantries, looking down into your lap).
If it saves lives, good. And it's a really easy tax to avoid, don't use your phone while driving.
a) why would you want to store a weeks worth of electricity?
b) why would you have a tsunami if the concrete fails? It's already in the ocean... you wouldn't want to be on a ship nearby, sure, but tsunami when the ocean fills a hole in the ocean? Uhhh... no?
c) Germany already has some pumped hydro, and my country can do it easily should it choose: https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...
From the link:
On September 25, “Jane Doe” from Oceanside, California sent an anonymous letter to Senator Kamala Harris alleging that the then-nominee for Supreme Court and his friend raped her “several times each” in the back of a car. ...Later on October 3, Judy Munro-Leighton emailed the committee claiming to be the “Jane Doe” of the letter... ...She admitted to investigators that her story was a “tactic” and “that was just a ploy.”...
“I am not Jane Doe . . . but I did read Jane Doe’s letter..."
So... she is NOT the person who claimed that the then-nominee for Supreme Court and his friend raped her “several times each” in the back of a car.
So it's quite possible that the REAL Jane Doe was raped. It's certainly not been disproved.
So, you accept that she has native american blood?
So, she's part native american, then.
QED
"What do you expect from the party that endorses killing live born babies and calls it "abortion"?"
Uh, citation, please?
"For iDevices, Apple has a 44% Market share..."
So... who has the other 56% share in iDevices? :)
Hmm, I re-read your comment and what you commented on.
I think I see your point, I may have misunderstood you.
So, how do stupid people, then, direct where a society is going?
Ha ha, yeah, it's lossy compression, certainly.
But I'm listening when driving a car, with all the attendent road noises while I'm concentrating on staying alive, avoiding accidents and arriving safely. Lossy compression is fine for that. And... my car doesn't have a CD player, that's on the more expensive model (!!) Mine just has usb, SD card or radio, oddly. I use a 16 gig SD card.
Or I'm at work, concentrating on making my 'clients' unhappy. Or happy, though that's not the common outcome. So again, it's background noise to drown out the office cacophony. Lossy compression is fine for that too.
Or I'm where I am now, at my gaming pc, usually playing a game with it's own strident noises and yep, lossy compressed mp3s are, you got it, fine for that purpose too.
It's been... actually about 5 days since I listened to a CD, I bought the JJJ Hottest 100 #26 and listened to it at work, though I've got it on usb there as well. I admit I couldn't tell the difference between them, as I was concentrating on working, not chilling out listening to the music.
So, for 99% of my purpose, mp3 is fine, and keeps the CD 'safe', and I've got insurance that covers the loss of CDs and such if my house is burgled, burned or whatever.
Horses for courses. And no, I don't use headphones.
I give you this radio station, website and promoter of NEW artists:
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej...
Check out their site, including Unearthed, and their streaming sites (JJJ an JJ).
You're welcome.
I've filled an Ikea Billy bookcase with CDs.
To be accurate, two half height Billy bookcases.
They are all ripped to mp3 and that's what I listen to.
And they are all insured (house and contents policy).
Sure, YouTube is ok for music vids, but for driving, or at work, a usb stick full of 1,000s of mp3s that I like is far superior.
And FREE.
What I do (and I suspect I'm not alone):
Insert CD into PC.
Rip CD to mp3
Remove CD, store in case in CD library.
Listen to mp3 forever. ...
What is the issue here? What are are you failing to comprehend?
Well...
Here's a list of 'Freedom_of_speech_by_country'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Constitutions are not for every country, but the UN Declaration of Human Rights is quite common.
"Is "toxicity" in video games more prevalent than elsewhere in life?"
Given that in the real world, if someone is 'toxic' to you, can you turn around and ... 'educate'... them about their failings, I'd suggest that the answer is yes. Because video games are not real and too many players seem to take that to mean freedom to behave as if there are zero consequences for their behaviour.
That said, I live and work in an enviroment of mature adults, so putting up with teen crap is not part of my life.
Been there, done that, not interested in revisiting that cesspit.
Get off my lawn!
A WiReD article from some years ago pointed out that the machines to make diamonds cost US$50k and it's $50/carat to make them.
Or something like that.
Diamonds have never been rare, and should never be expensive.
There is a LOT of background reading about De Beers and the cartels if you want to know about diamond prices and diamond popularity.