dgriffith

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"Default judgement", meaning nobody turned up to plead their case in whatever court and jurisdiction this was in.

So this woman sold 1 shirt, someone else sold 275,000, someone else sold 1200 coffee mugs, and so on and so forth until Grumpy Cat Enterprises™ gets the shits and goes to court with a case against multiple plaintiffs. Then in the absence of any defense all the alleged guilty parties get slapped with a default USD100K. The lawyers take 60 percent for fees and GCE gets a potential income of a few million or so.

All of which means very fucking little if the judgement is in East Texas and you're in South East Asia as it's going to be pretty tough to collect, but it might mean something if you live in Australia. Being a civil matter, it's pretty unlikely to go any further than being a note in a file somewhere, I'm not even sure if this could get on to Australian credit reports.

But the single sale of a shirt just before all this happened sounds extremely suspicious, like a fishing expedition to get enough people to make it worthwhile to go to court.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 14 points 3 months ago

Exceptions for farm workers only work if they bother to check and verify documents correctly, which they clearly don't.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

He seems to have this the wrong way around.

The world is the store, and he's just some person outside its front door, holding out his hand and asking US customers for 5 bucks for every item they want to go home with.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think the complexity of nuke subs is only justified if you also have nukes. They are ideal for a crew to go out with a complement of 16 nukes to loiter in the unknown depths for 6 months. They're just out there as a deterrent to let your enemies know that Very Bad Things will suddenly happen to a few of their major cities if they want to try to lob a few nukes first.

Other than that particular purpose, they are quite a costly way to just go out and patrol your territory. That whole nuclear supply chain is ridiculously expensive if you don't already have one set up for other nuke stuff. Drop that expense and you can get quite a lot more hardware for your money.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

, strategic direction will be soon available

"All will be revealed after the election! Just vote for us!"

Seriously, they have had three years in opposition, a huge build up when "everyone knows" there's an election to be called soon, and yet..... somehow , they're pretty light on all the details on how exactly they're going to do all this stuff that they claim they're going to do.

At least the Greens can back their policies with numbers and details, even if you disagree with them. Dutton and Co, it's just a lot of spooky handwaving and "oooo Labor baaaad! Vote for us! We'll fix it by mumble mumble"

Added rant: Trumpet Of Patriots promising so much bullshit with nary a scrap of evidence or reasoning on exactly HOW they're going to do any of it.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Australia here, I have a 100GB plan with unlimited calls Australia-wide for AUD40 a month. With the current miserable exchange rate with the US, that's about USD25/mo.

And any unused data rolls over each month so now I have (checks)..... 4.22TB of data available, because I have a dual-sim phone and my work sim does all the heavy data usage.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Thankfully, science will inevitably sus those papers out eventually, as it always does,

In the future, all search engines will have an option to ignore any results from 2022-20xx, the era of AI slop.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago

"Ohhhh, that tired old OS was using AI 1.6. We've been offering the new OS -now with AI 1.8 - for 7 solid weeks now! We recommend you upgrade now, as we're shutting down AI 1.6 on Tuesday."

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Warmest winter on record, so far.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

AEC does a good job of nudging people into getting their enrolment details organised. I changed addresses a little while ago, and it was 30 seconds online to update, with confirmation a few days later via SMS and email.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

Well, anything's possible, I say we give it a try and see what happens.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 7 points 4 months ago

My son ordered me a cube with a bit of silver from the US, it's part of a periodic table set.

It was delayed a little, and when it arrived at his door there was a little note from Australian customs basically saying, "This is cool and everything, but don't go ordering the radioactive elements from this place unless you have all the right paperwork, ok?"

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