Posts by manitoublack 6 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2011
Sad fact is a hackinstosh with a build cost <$1000 will have greater compute performance than the 4 year old Mac-Pro.
Apple have since admitted that the design has boxed them into a corner and the next gen mac-pro will be a significant departure
Still for $500-700 or so it about falls on the price to performance curve. At it's retail price I can't believe that people are still daft enough to pony up for one today.
Clean Coal doesn't and will not ever exist. Yes you 'can' pump CO2 underground at a huge energy expense, basically sapping a significant (30% at least) of your total output. Then to make up the electrical shortfall, you need to generate more electricity, burning more coal (or gas) when then also needs to be pumped underground. End result is power become stupidly expensive, and you have to mine 40% extra coal (which burns more diesel in the mining process) so please stop being ignorant. Clean Coal is a Hippie/Political dream.
Also in SA where are we going to get the coal from. We just closed out only coal mine and coal fired power station.
While I'm a Labour voter, there energy policy sucks and is driving big business out of the state. In addition to holding up major infrastructure investment. Simply because there is not enough power in the state. And what power there is is more expensive than anywhere else in the country.
There is but 1 real solution. SA is home to >10% of the worlds known Uranium reserves. There is a community and work force at Port Augusta that knows how to run a power station. There is also all the electrical distribution infrastructure at Port Augusta. We have refineries and smelters at Olympic Dam and Port Peri.
Connect the dots: Mine Uranium at Olympic Dam (and Beverly SA / Ranger NT,) Nuclear fuel (enrichment) processing and recovery at Port Peri, 3GW 3 Unit Nuke station at Port Augusta, Waste facility at Radium Hill.
Charge the world $$$$$$$$$$$$billionssssssssssssss. reprocess their fuel and store their waste. Power the state for pennies on the $:)
Pity no politician has the vision and scare mungers play on ignorance.
Regards
Jordan
There will be a great deal of pushback from field operators if you attempt to retire this aircraft. It can fly low and slow, it's relatively simple, can land and take off pretty much anywhere and is probably the most survivable fixed wing aircraft flying today. Best of all the A-10 is a twin engine, which is kind of important in a CAS roll.
The A-10 took 5 years from first flight to service, the F-35 is 15 years and counting. I know what plane I'd rather have backing me up.
Going after big content to pay tax will be fairly easy. But there is a reason all my goods come marked as:
"Gift"
"Warranty, replacement"
"Faulty replacement"
"Personal import"
It's not worth going after eBay and general online sales; as was noted by the prior report. The cost to check/police everything at the boarder will be massive and slow down deliveries. Basically build a false economy where the government makes no extra cash, but punters have to pay more for good, thus slowing the economy in general. I like how the government thinks it'll have any luck sending tax officials overseas to ask them to charge a foreign tax. That's almost cute.
eTailor: "Hello Mr. Australian Tax official, what can I do for you?
Tax Official: "We want you to charge, collect and forward an Australian Tax on orders sent to Australia, to the ATO."
eTailor: "Hmm, let me think... How about you get bent, and we call it even?
Tax official: "Why do people keep saying that to me?" *walks off confused*
Jordan Allen
manitoublack@gmail.com
And so would everyone I know. However The NBN rollout speed is nothing short of a joke. My suburb, Hectorville, less than 7kms from the Adelaide CDB is not even on the list. And while the Foxtel cable is around, they tell me I'd have to get satellite thus can't use cable so stuck on ADSL. with no migration planed to VDSL or VDSL2.
The old labour government had its problems, sure. But the NBN was to be it's legacy to the people. Pity petty politics have ruined it for the Australian people.
Jordan Allen
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