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| windlight Guru  Joined: 03/03/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 331 |
I ordered a dog containment kit from China, it arrived minus one collars battery cover, follows their 'e' mail chinglish hi there, Don' worry ,please offer a some photo which the lost cover collars for us, we will fix problem ASAP The second 'e' mail Hi there, Thank you for your cooperation, we will re-sent new battery compartment cover for you tomorrow. We neglect to apologize for your trouble. once re-sent ,we will notice you at email. I just love translation programs. Allan "I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it" - (Act II, Scene IV). |
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norcold Guru Joined: 06/02/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 670 |
Neil, I sense a challenge here, us Poms have the shortest arms and the longest pockets. When we follow a Jew we put the money in our own pockets the Jews get it back by other means. And whinge we are the bloody best by far. We come from the land downunder. Vic |
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| VK4AYQ Guru Joined: 02/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2539 |
An exposure of the Carbon tax and the futility of it as a solution, it is a too little to late solution and is just what it says Another Tax. 2011-07-16_113654_The+Australian+11.07_on_carbon_Tax.pdf Bob Foolin Around |
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| neil0mac Senior Member  Joined: 26/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 210 |
OK. How do you get money off a Pom? Tip him upside down. > > > > > > > > (When the coins roll away, or the notes blow away, he can't reach them.) |
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| electrondady1 Senior Member Joined: 12/02/2009 Location: CanadaPosts: 208 |
my feeling is that capitalism , much like feudalism is a system that has had it's day. the world is a finite place with finite resources. we need to think and act with that in mind. with 7 billion humans the earth cannot sustain us. I'm convinced that capitalism, with it's inherent need for continuous economic growth (in spite of dwindling resources) will very shortly collapse. i'm unsure of the way forward, but we really can't afford to continue the way we have for the last 300 years. |
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vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
I vote for returning to Feudal (the only one which is able to preserve all characteristics of every nation on the Earth - but this is against technological advance of humanity, see bellow) era - my favorite one! And to natural life - but it needs mass reeducation  .
It seems clear to me that we need an expansion in Space. But we lost around 5000 years of technological advance. And, in my opinion, now is too late - we don't have the required time (and it seems that the leaders of the world agree). From my point of view, the crime against humanity is out of question. Dilemma! Dilemma! Vasi Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| norcold Guru Joined: 06/02/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 670 |
Vasi, Too late to expand into space re. not enough time. I don`t follow you there as believe we have time. Perhaps the cost outrun that has been experienced by NASA and other space agencies over the last decade will slow us, but wonder about China and India finishing the job. We would probably been further advanced if health and safety had not intervened and stopped the use of nuclear propulsion. Lucky they were`nt around when Columbus set off. We come from the land downunder. Vic |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Hi, You must read few posts back... why the "leaders of the world" rise the overpopulation problem and natural resources starting to be depleted? Compare our huge problems with the immensity of Space and the very slow speed of technological advance. We don't even have a clear target. We don't know an exact location of a habitable planet (this is what we need to avoid "crimes against humanity")! I am a constant visitor of the NASA web site. You need to read there the huge problems involved in designing and building a reliable permanent lunar base (required as a "launcher" to Mars). We need Mars at least for mineral mining but food remains a problem. Vasi Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| norcold Guru Joined: 06/02/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 670 |
I read a fair bit but I just do not believe a lot of the doom and gloom. Believe we are reaching a point, it has been called a singularity(not Black hole but same effect), where computers will gain a type of intelligence that allows them to design a better computer and so on and on. Science will advance in a great leap than and the problems with space travel will have solutions. Thus my analogy to Columbus. Guess we have become a little too comfortable to explore space, and wastefull thus the cost blow out in NASA`s projects. Overpopulation or our running out of resources will spur us on. But this is my current view, even that changes with time. We come from the land downunder. Vic |
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| VK4AYQ Guru Joined: 02/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2539 |
Hi All I am not sure that another planet is a good idea as the record of stuffing up this one makes me wonder if they will stuff up the next one just quicker because of the need to propagate the commercial endevours to pay for the high price of getting there. I think we are at a speed bump in history and after the forces of nature stabilize the population and a sustainable way of life is forced on human kind, things will go on much as they did in the so called dark ages, but with the benefit of sustainable technologies from the destructive ages we are in now. Half the problems with the lack of sustainability in the present system is the cost of doing things that have no benefit to mankind in general and only would be useful to a chosen few at the expense of all. The thing that puzzles me is the science of distance / time, we are told that these other universes are so many light years away, sounds OK till you think about it as what guarantee is there that a planet 100 light years away is still there now, and if you look at the big bang theory and believe it is traveling away at whatever speed the vector dictates could you ever catch it up or would you be like a dog chasing its short tail. Rocking chair between projects and a Chivas Regal to ward of the germs is my solution, have to stockpile some more in case of calamity. All this is too heavy to reason on before lunch. All the best Bob Foolin Around |
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| VK4AYQ Guru Joined: 02/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2539 |
Whooo am I? very well worth the read Contributed by Isaiah Who am I, and take heed. I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women. I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me. My mother died at an early age from cancer. Although my father deserted me and my mother raised me, I later wrote a book idolizing my father not my mother. Later in life, questions arose over my real name. My birth records were sketchy. No one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate. I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my new country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs and didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny. I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them. That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and embarked on a new career. I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs, that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child. I became active in local politics in my 30's then, with help behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate For national office in my 40s. They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything. I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn to me, as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks. I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego. At first, my political campaign focused on my country's foreign policy... I was very critical of my country in the last war, and seized every opportunity to bash my country. But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country's economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better, and every poor person would be fed and housed for free. I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks and corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and, if they became envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight. I called mine "A People's Campaign". That sounded good to all people. I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics and was able to gain widespread popular support. I knew that, if I merely offered the people “hope”, together we could “change” our country and the world. So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include "persecuted Minorities". My true views were not widely known and I kept them unknown, until after I became my nation's leader. I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and examined those people associated with. I'm glad they didn't. Then I became the most powerful man in the world. And then world learned the truth. Who am I? ADOLPH HITLER If you were thinking of SOMEONE ELSE, you should be scared, very scared! Foolin Around |
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| electrondady1 Senior Member Joined: 12/02/2009 Location: CanadaPosts: 208 |
Chivas regal is a fine blend but glen livet, ooh, that's the stuff. i have a rocking chair next to the wood stove in my shop. when my legs get sore i can take a break. it looks like the bankers and stock exchange types have sucked all the money out of the u.s. economy, so now in addition to all the other problems it causes, the yanks have to hitch a ride into space with the Russians. that's got to hurt. i'm glad the space shuttle program has ended. it was the biggest boondoggle in history. something like 20,000 separate ceramic tiles each one different and not one can of tile grout on board. i lost count of how many people it killed. i watched an interview with one irate scientist who suggested, with very little effort, those huge orange gas tanks they let burn up could have been used as moduals for the space station. the whole thing seemed designed to cost as much as possible. i always loved space exploration, i thought those little robots they sent to mars worked great. that technology is cheap and no one gets hurt. |
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| VK4AYQ Guru Joined: 02/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2539 |
Hi eletrondady1 To each his own pleasure, and as long as we enjoy and share a bit all is well. The thing that gets me riled up is the speculation and risk taking in the various money gambling joints where millions billions and trillions just disappear from existence on a bad gamble or two. Years ago i thought the shuttles where cool but now looking back, the cost in $ and human life for a national ego trip sums it up better. The only thing I felt worthwhile was the Hubble telescope but in reality it has been a useless information gathering exercise, just some more information for the so called smart ones to speculate on, but as much good as a hip pocket in a singlet. Americans like to do things by brute force and blow it up when finished, look at how they carry on around the world. The only bright side to that is they leave some interesting things in disposal stores and yards for us to play with. Anozzer cople of whiskeyes and I will solvee the problemmess of the worrlds. Alll the beeste Boob Foolin Around |
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| VK4AYQ Guru Joined: 02/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2539 |
Joe Vialls was right From: Andrew S. MacGregor (author of Deceit & Terrorism-The Massacre at Port Arthur) Joe Vialls (author of Deadly Deception at Port Arthur) has always stated that the Port Arthur Massacre was a Mossad operation. I have always denied that scenario because there was never any know links between the Port Arthur Massacre and the Israeli Intelligence organisation known as Mossad. However, this latest ground-breaking news from the 'Shooters News' site, brings into focus that on the point of Mossad involvement in the Port Arthur Massacre, as per Joe Vialls, Joe was right and I was wrong. Add new comment Read more... Interesting reading for the conspiracy theory followers. Bob Foolin Around |
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| VK4AYQ Guru Joined: 02/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2539 |
Contributed by Isaiah Remember the story of the and and grasshopper from when you where a kid. OLD VERSION : The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself! MODERN VERSION : The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, MSNBC, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green ..' ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake. President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper . The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramsack, the once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2012 I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant! You may wish to pass this on to other ants, but don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it anyway . Foolin Around |
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Greenbelt Guru Joined: 11/01/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 566 |
Hey Guys, This Forum is Named "Shop Talk" Not "Politics"? How about giving it a rest. Some of the forgoing posts are like a pebble in my shoe. Political Views expressed here or implied are not Congruent with my own. I realize I don.t have to read them, But it would be nice to share this space for other Subjects. ----Cheers, Roe Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True? |
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| VK4AYQ Guru Joined: 02/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2539 |
Hi Roe This section of shop talk is "political fairy stories" I am sure we all have different views of politics I personally think it is a Joke a bad one at that, I think that politics and politicians should be laughed at and derided at every opportunity to show them on both sides of the divide they are stupid, or at least act stupid which is more suspicious. I am sure we would all appreciate some of your positive political input amongs't the fairy stories, so feel free to contribute. I listened to a tit for tat climate change discussion between two experts, one independent and one working for the government today, it was interesting but I type to slow to get it posted before every one forgets what climate change is. All the best Bob Foolin Around |
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| RossW Guru Joined: 25/02/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 495 |
Was that the National Press Club one with Lord Monckton and richard dennis? I missed the start of it but caught most of the rest. Some very interesting content presented! http://tinyurl.com/3ocnaqn |
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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5116 |
Lord Monckton is an idiot. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| VK4AYQ Guru Joined: 02/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2539 |
Hi glenn & Ross It was the national press club. I agree on Monckton being a bit of an idiot but the other side was no better, both seem to push their own barrow, and there is no doubt that the pollution gas or particle is doing damage to the environment and will continue to do so until fossil fuels are run out or phased out. Monckton reminds me of Marty Feldman I do believe the point Monckton made about the feedback in the loop tending to self balance, so as the earth warms up it tends to radiate more heat back into space. The thing is that none of our generation will live long enough to witness the final results so we can keep speculating, the only thing I am sure of is a Tax will not fix the problem as that is the political fairy story. The only thing the Tax might fix is the deficit, or some of it anyway. All the best Bob Foolin Around |
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