We all taped the radio. If we ran out of cassettes we’d get sticky tape and put it over the hole at the top to allow recording over recorded stuff we didn’t want

A friend of mine spent weeks creating a single cassette mixtape off pausing recording while songs were being played.

another 5% on top of the cost

This is the ‘suck as much cash out of’ bit.

This will be gone and burned in a few years at best. I’d bale as well.

We do need to have more discussion about opening eftpos to handling credit transactions. Sure, it has nowhere near the reach of the American big two but it’d fill the hole in an emergency.

I was just really put off by the scrutiny in renting the place. And the cost…it was not cheap, none of the options were.

In a way I understand, but if I’m renting an apartment or standalone dwelling for a weekend I’d like to at least have a couple of drinks after going out and let smokers smoke outside, which is what I was looking for. We’re not talking raging party here, just winding down after a show.

The experience just looking at the option really sucked. It didn’t take long for me to decide it wasn’t the way. That was confirmed when I went the traditional option and got a great apartment right on the river that met all the requirements for hundreds less than the AirBNB options.

Yeah I have a couple of times

It only took thirty minutes of looking at how AirBnb operates for me to choose a hotel, on the one occasion I considered AirBnb.

Australia has a right to exist

But we don’t, we’re a big lie.

I thought we went through this

Congratulations, we will still get by without data centres, whether you live in a flat or not

And you think data centres are going to make life easier for them?

Data storage needs for the homeless might be the wildest claim of support for data centres I’ve heard yet

This one will do me, as someone whose profession requires practical adaptation of mathematics in real world environments.

Seeing what I can see with the development of AI, it looks to me that any application which requires intensive calculation to solve one or more direct problems would be its strength but there still would probably need the mathematician (in my case spatial scientist) set the boundaries of what needs to be solved. Pardon the pun.

How AI dealt with variables such as pressure, temperature and heat expansion at certain times of the day within a measurement or several very long baseline measurements would all be dependent on the ‘mathematician’ behind the calculations, for a real example I could give.

Thanks for almost making me cover the table in coffee

Every time too, pretty much.

Even the horrible Aussie ones. I respect rattlesnakes, they give a good warning and really try to avoid the strike. Very intelligent snakes. Ours are timid but there’s no warning unfortunately if you’re unlucky.

I wonder if I’ll see an eastern brown in the yard this year.

Nope, it’s a huge arse nugget. Not only that it’s a specimen in quartz, tripling its value.

Massive nugget. Size of the Welcome Stranger

We’ve done well enough with in house servers in the past

I liken ICE to the SA more than the SS

His SS hasn’t been created yet. It’ll be worse, hard as that is to imagine. The constitution won’t stop him or them creating it either just quietly

Stop fighting amongst yourselves please, and get united.

Your options are limited to voting your way out of it as a team or peaceful shutdown as a team. Both take unity. Preferably, this election is fair and you do it this way.

You’ve already proven to yourselves you can do it…it happened a couple of days ago in Michigan. Yes, I’m aware it’s different across the country, I’ve had you yell that at me for months. Either way it’s the same end…a candidate wins by a majority of votes.

Either way the options are limited and you have to have a go.

It’s hard for the rest of us to accept your excuses though, when we see you fight amongst yourselves like you are here.

Go ahead, attack me for this, but it stays the same, Sanders is correct, and if your hatred of my comment or my view gets you voting or helping someone else to, my job is done.

I’d like to see them at least stop melting down at each other and at least unify to remove their problem. I saw a post in the politics sub about Sanders asking them all to just vote and they’re attacking each other across the entire post. This is probably the smallest of the places out there to discuss but if it’s any indication, the same shit will happen this election as well.

They’re resigned to two options and the sooner they accept it the better off they’ll be. The first one is coming up in a couple of months and as many as possible need to be on one page about it.

They might have accelerated it, but it’s been happening since the Industrial Revolution.

It’s a few more than them.

Well that’s not the complete panning I’ve heard some give them. Thank you, happy trails with it. It’s a smart move; I’d do it if I could afford to despite concerns about car privacy issues. They can back a house up in a blackout and that alone is enough reason.

No issues ay? The MGs are copping a bit of a panning in Australia for not quite cutting the mustard against the BYDs and Geelys. Not sure how much of it is justified though.