My mind was blown about a year ago when I realised the band was called “Eagles”. Not “The Eagles”. Just Eagles. None of their albums/posters etc refer to themselves as The Eagles.
It only ended in 1973, so yes the first ~10 years of boomers would have had national service. Even worse: Those kids would have been drafted to go to Vietnam.
Imagine being the last kid called up. Born a day later, you’d be in the clear!
Imagine being that kid born a day later - missing out on the draft to Vietnam by a day!
Whether they were personally called up or not, they absolutely were not in favour of national service at the time.
Wow, I’m all in with these, except I’d have added Subnautica and I would have had Dishonored instead of Thief II. I Never played this game but I may fix that.
I think if you were commuting from Brisbane to Taiwan, the length of trip would come into play also. Perth to Taiwan would make more sense. It’s slightly closer and in the same time zone. 😁
To answer your unstated question: suburbs with rail links see those rail services enthusiastically used. So, usage is not the issue. It’s the upfront costs of establishing links, coupled with how long it takes - a decade or so. Our politics is just not well equipped for long term big infrastructure projects. The chances are high that the opposition will be in power to take the credit for the project’s completion, or they’ll blame your party for the bad project when they get in and the costs blow out. Or, they kill/maim the project anyway.
This is all kinds of horrible. How did he even have a gun?
While he certainly intended to commit violence against a woman, there’s a little nuance in this example. I don’t believe that he’d have walked away and not shot the people in the house had it been a father and son.
I don’t know in truth. From friends I know who shoot, they need to keep their hand guns at the range. They can’t take them home. Farmers can have rifles, but I’m having a hard time picturing a rifle being the weapon in this story.
It was confirmed this afternoon that he had two handguns on the scene and was licensed as a collector for them.
I am personally surprised, I didn’t know that was possible. Meanwhile, there’s a petition going around by gun owners saying they don’t want tighter gun laws in the wake of this. I wonder whether there is an opposing petition saying it should not be legal to have a handgun at home?
C’mon, mate. Let’s not pretend this story would have played out the same if he didn’t have guns. Police were on their way. They arrived on time to hear the last shot. If he had a knife or hammer or similar, the odds of both these women being dead by the time police arrived plummet to near zero.
This time last week, he was a law abiding gun owner. That’s kind of the problem. People were raising red flags all around the dude, but on paper he’s a 60 year old, affluent man living in a rich suburb with no criminal history. The law doesn’t presently have a way to handle this - you can’t punish someone who hasn’t done anything.
Funny: so many Metallica fans hated this song with a passion that is holy. They called it a sellout to popular music just to make the charts and a complete deviation from their previous work.
So for this song to be the gateway to metal for you, is a real counter point to those angry fans.
None of the snow gear moves at all. This stuff would have been gone in the first few hours in Melbourne. I think this is actually the second week, too!
I’d keep going to work, at least until I figured out how I was going to deal with having life-changing money. Maybe another month?
Even once I’d figured out what my plans were, I expect it’d still involve some sort of work. It’s not like I’m going to sit and do nothing the rest of my life. I would just be doing projects that were of interest to me and on my own terms - instead of needing to work 40 hours a week and contributing to the family finances.
I’ve had a brain cell chugging away in the back of my head for the last hour or so thinking of what I’d really like to do if I had this sort of money. The first idea that has come to mind is something like Coles/Woolies online. No stores. You order what you want and it is delivered in x hours.
Set it up as a non-profit to break up the duopoly. Give the farmers somewhere to sell their produce besides those jerks. I might be showing my naivety, but I believe with that much money on the logistics, it should be able to compete price-wise.
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What is YOUR top 10 list of all time best video games?
Any platform(s).
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Queensland slashes public transport fares to 50c in six-month trial (www.theguardian.com)
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Perth mother and daughter shot dead by friend's ex-partner in double murder-suicide (www.abc.net.au)
What is your favorite song?
I’ll start off, my favorite song is all along the watch tower by Jimi Hendrix. That guitar at the start just sounds so beautiful.
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