Anonbal185

They're very nationalistic especially China. There's no guarantee they don't want to conquer the world even if they were not authoritarian. Just ask any of them about the 9 dash line, instead of saying something neutral like no comment they say yeah it belongs to us.

So the best thing is even if they democratise, for the moment never interrupt your enemy whilst they're making a mistake.

We can all thank our lucky stars for that. Totalitarian regimes are usually corrupt, and talent is based on how much you pay rather than your actual talent. They usually do alot of own goals that benefit the leader and it's cronies rather than the population at large. And constant purges which again helps the upper echelons but causes the country to go backwards.

We can thank their corruption for their '3 day special operation' taking almost 2 years and counting now.

Similarly China now has a population and economic crisis of their own doing to please their leader. Disallowing tutoring causing alot of younger generations to lose their job and killing the tech industry jobs because of beef with jack ma. And the one child policy which was a large part of the population decline.

We're lucky that people can't speak up to their leader when they make mistakes. Imagine if these regimes were competent. We just need to look at Germany in WW2 to see how that can turn out.

China is all aggressive because they know it's now or never. Even before the bad news with their economy it was already a foregone conclusion beforehand.

Everyone knew their population would decline. Then their comparative advantage disappears. Their advantage is a shitload of people, even with a lower GDP per capita it's still significant as it's 4x the population as the next country (besides India, who are on an even lower GDP per capita right now)

Due to the sheer numbers they can use their internal market as political leverage. Disagree with them and no money for you.

There's a few skirmishes but I think Putin has made Xi think twice. Although I do believe China can sustain quite a bit of losses if they do go to war before their advantage of many people disappears.

Firstly they have excess males so theoretically even if they lose excess soldiers it wouldn't affect their birth rate as the issue is lack of women not men.

Might be a two eggs in one basket outlook for them, gain a bit of territory and rebalance their gender ratio.

We can only hope Putin's war has made Xi think twice whilst we bide our time whilst their population decreases.

Eh what's to investigate? We all know the plane was deliberately bought down to remove specific people from existence. Even blind Freddy knows this.

I'm not sure why Victoria is so strict - all the Victorians I know sit 10km/h under the speed limit because of this - it's so easy to get into a bookable speed zone unintentionally there.

If you think about it a 2km/h leeway which increases to 3km/h over a certain speed I think either over 80km/h or 100km/h I'm not sure isn't really sufficient.

So the reason for the higher speed tolerances in NSW is because the government doesn't want to encourage speedo watchers which is bloody dangerous.

The fact that the speedos read under and the tolerances they give for example i did 125km/h on the speedo in 110km/h zone, GPS reads 117km/h or so. Then the margin of error brings it to 114km/h or so and the not publicised but roughly 10 percent leeway brings it down to 103km/h. But as a note it's YMMV I can't guarantee 100 percent with the leeway as I'm not a copper.

But to speed in NSW you have to be actively trying or just careless. And like I said that's just with the cameras.

Highway patrol like I said only really pull over the excessive speeders, they really don't bother for someone 10km/h over as they know someone will come along in 2 mins doing something like 20km-30km/h over. I see it regularly on the highway. If they pull over the 10km/h guy it cost them the 20-30km/h booking and also they have to reset which costs them more time.

But in Victoria they seem to like to book everyone. I've only been there once and apparently they're notoriously known for doing that and being the only jurisdiction to have such strict rules.

Sometimes underdogs do well. I think we need to think outside of the world cup, for both genders and focus on our domestic leagues. Their improvement correlates directly to the improvement of the national team, especially at grassroots level. I'm really hoping for a promotion and relegation and to include way more teams through multiple leagues. That would be a good first start.

Didn't count France as it was through a penalty shootout which could go 50/50. We beat them but it was far from convincing and even if we got to penalty shootouts for all our games it's unlikely we'd win all of them.

Yes we do have players but we don't have depth. England and Spain and even Sweden have 95 percent of players in the European leagues.

And in terms of Spain and England in top teams of top leagues. Someone playing for Sydney FC wouldn't even get a look in for the Spanish or English side.

Encourage young footballers and ship them off early to Europe to play (preferably England so they're guaranteed English language skills). But many go into international skills in non english speaking countries and you can't tell the difference.

And then hope they play for Australia. There's no way we'll ever match them in investment so might as well leverage their resources to train our players.

We did good.

Just look where we are 4th. That's very good.

We are the highest non-european team. We can't expect them to beat European teams who have better resources and can leverage facilities used by mens.

Their leagues bring in magnitudes more money and thus can invest more than we can ever hope to match. And considering the majority of professional development and clout here is aimed at oval ball sports.

Why would you even need a digital ID? My digital driver's licence works great, accepted everywhere I go already and I've not carried a wallet for more than a year.

Transport card - digital Credit card - digital Loyalty cards - digital Drivers licence and all types of permits - digital Private health and Medicare - digital

Which place demands a physical copy of anything thesedays and moreover since it's working fine why do we need another

I see this as a way for the government to earn a quick dollar and de facto get into the housing market.

When the owner buys back the share I doubt it will be calculated at the price the person bought it for. It would be at the market price at the time of the buyback.

I guess it works both ways too? I can see someone buying the minimum 2 percent and if they get something like opal or mascot towers when they sell at a loss the government is the one that loses out. So I can see it as a way to transfer the risk to the government and live in a place without having to pay rent.

It's Victoria they book you for 2-3km/h (after they factor in a 'margin of error'.

In other states the police aren't even interested until you reach 15-20km/h over. But that's because they can't be bothered to reset and potentially lose bigger fish.

I've been chased by NSW highway patrol back in the day for 20km/h but they never ended up pulling me over because I was sitting behind someone doing 30+ km/h.

The camera cars not sure what speed they start to trigger but I've never been snapped for under 10km/h or ever (I guess because the Speedo reads under)