We had a freak cyclone event a few years ago that took out a number of high voltage towers feeding into South Australia, then because of over zealous protections by generators, local power sources backed off the network. We had nearly three days of total power outage state-wide. Phone towers batteries died after the initial 4 hours. With NBN (and the forced conversion to SIP phones), there are no more land lines, so we lost all comms.
There is now better power regulation (the govt can force generators to power up) and backup diesel generators in communities, plus a big 150MW battery, so the above shouldn't happen again for a while, but still no requirement to adequately power the phone towers. As the article says, no one cares.
Interesting the estate hasn't gone after another reasonably successful 'holmesian' author, Laurie R. King ( https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL20985A/Laurie_R._King ). These novels take up with Holmes after he retires to beekeeping. Lots of emotion here - Holmes falls in love with his young protégé (not Watson) and eventually marries her. Not too many dogs, though. Any why wait for Netflix, both authors (the other being Nancy Springer who wrote the 'Enola' novels) published well before 2014 - before copyright ended for the majority of the books? I deduce there is a financial consideration involved.
I have to agree. The policewoman was just trying to have an influence on the kid, she put on the cuffs and that worked.
If they felt they really had to do something, the parents here should have gone after the school, not the policewoman. They were the ones that escalated the issue.
When I was ten, I once shot some chocolate drops at cars with a rubber-band slingshot (I know...). A local parole officer saw me and took me to the police station to teach me a lesson. The police didn't really know what to do with me and ended up putting me in a cell. I thought it was pretty cool, but then the parole officer said I had the mind of a criminal. My dad eventually freed me later that afternoon and got really pissed off at the parole officer. No further consequences. Just one of those life experiences, nothing to engage a lawyer about.
Whenever anyone with any government position speaks to the Dalai Lama, Chinese officials really spit the dummy - the current US admin is coming close to this. I'm surprised the US aren't saying Russia is interfering with US sovereignty.
So, just what is a non-lethal weapon? A tazer? That has been lethal. Tear gas? Itching powder? Christmas fruit cake? (no, that really is lethal), expressed mothers milk? - they don't let that on planes, so must be lethal....
So they have "considered" equipping the drones with these. Did they come to any conclusions, like, OK we'll equip the drones? Did they carry it out?
We bemoan DRM (at least I do), is not this paywall another form of DRM.
If we are speculating about possible business models, why not allow readers to read/download for free and have a payment option. This is the model indie musicians are developing, why not journalism?
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same problem in Australia
We had a freak cyclone event a few years ago that took out a number of high voltage towers feeding into South Australia, then because of over zealous protections by generators, local power sources backed off the network. We had nearly three days of total power outage state-wide. Phone towers batteries died after the initial 4 hours. With NBN (and the forced conversion to SIP phones), there are no more land lines, so we lost all comms.
There is now better power regulation (the govt can force generators to power up) and backup diesel generators in communities, plus a big 150MW battery, so the above shouldn't happen again for a while, but still no requirement to adequately power the phone towers. As the article says, no one cares.
Mary Russell novels
Interesting the estate hasn't gone after another reasonably successful 'holmesian' author, Laurie R. King ( https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL20985A/Laurie_R._King ). These novels take up with Holmes after he retires to beekeeping. Lots of emotion here - Holmes falls in love with his young protégé (not Watson) and eventually marries her. Not too many dogs, though. Any why wait for Netflix, both authors (the other being Nancy Springer who wrote the 'Enola' novels) published well before 2014 - before copyright ended for the majority of the books? I deduce there is a financial consideration involved.
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If they felt they really had to do something, the parents here should have gone after the school, not the policewoman. They were the ones that escalated the issue.
When I was ten, I once shot some chocolate drops at cars with a rubber-band slingshot (I know...). A local parole officer saw me and took me to the police station to teach me a lesson. The police didn't really know what to do with me and ended up putting me in a cell. I thought it was pretty cool, but then the parole officer said I had the mind of a criminal. My dad eventually freed me later that afternoon and got really pissed off at the parole officer. No further consequences. Just one of those life experiences, nothing to engage a lawyer about.
County reps aren't paid to admit fault. ???
What about Australia?
All this fuss over Snowden reminds me of China (as pcrooker)
non-lethal weapon (as pcrooker)
So they have "considered" equipping the drones with these. Did they come to any conclusions, like, OK we'll equip the drones? Did they carry it out?
Pathetic.
why not just remove the paywall? (as pcrooker)
If we are speculating about possible business models, why not allow readers to read/download for free and have a payment option. This is the model indie musicians are developing, why not journalism?
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