Nath

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My wife has been fascinated by this case and listens to the daily podcast about it. She's gone from "oh she definitely did it" to "maybe she's innocent, I can't be say beyond reasonable doubt" after this week's testimony. So Erin is clearly doing some good for her case on the stand.

I haven't been following the case closely, but I listened to one recap podcast a week ago where they describe the multiple phones, the missing phone seen on camera that wasn't provided, with the one provided to police being factory reset first, and taking her dehydrator on CCTV to the tip after telling police she didn't have one - it was all pretty damning.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Three million?! Who the hell has that much?

At that point, 5% interest will give you an annual salary of $150k. You can comfortably live off that and never touch the Three Million!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would be in favour of banning them in the city.
But a complete car ban? That won't have popular support in the near future.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 14 points 1 month ago (10 children)

As annoying as some escooter users are, I don't think this is the best solution. Far more idiots cause deaths in cars, no calls to ban those.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It has been reported, yes. I got the report because it was an aussie.zone user who reported it. As an admin, I can remove the post, but that will only remove it for aussie.zone users.

For reports on communities on other instances, I rarely take action unless one of my users is causing issues or the post is spam/something super nasty.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

More readable version. It's actually a fairly progressive message for the West. It's a pity that message is going to be totally overshadowed.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed, they will cover all medical stuff, as well as physio and whatever he needs to recover physically.

They won't cover his car or wages.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't think this is as funny as you seem to think it is. The woman you are laughing at was a real person with an actual life and it was abruptly destroyed by this guy who was a ticking time bomb that night. He exploded onto this car, seriously impacting the lives of many people.

All her family and friends are dealing with the loss of their loved one. And like I said: There's an Uber Driver (not) in this story recovering from serious injuries who has lost his livelihood in the process as well. He may eventually get some sort of compensation, but is going to be poverty-stricken in the short-to-medium term. People who Drive Uber don't tend to be affluent in the first place. Uber as a company is famously scummy to it's ~~employees~~ partners and are unlikely to be offering anything like worker's compensation.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Middle-income tech nerd criticises Gina Rinehart for:

  1. Being completely out of touch with Australians.
  2. Constantly releasing media statements on issues like we should care what she thinks (and the media for publishing them).
  3. Being on the wrong side of history on just about every topic.
  4. Her awful poetry. Seriously, mine is better and I don't write poetry.
  5. Complaining that paying people in Australia more money than she pays workers in African nations is an issue, while choosing to live in Australia and being a parasite on us.
  6. For defending a dude who did do some amazing heroic stuff as well as well as committing war crimes, domestic abuse, bullying and generally being a jerk.
[–] Nath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My client is spending waaaaaaay more money on Microsoft Online than it ever used to on software licenses. Every single user in the business is costing πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί$30 per month alone just for their Office suite. That's before you get to the Azure stuff. Some hosted apps cost over πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί$1k/month to host in Azure.

Before you go too strongly after Microsoft for charging so much, this is cheaper than what we used to pay for running our own SharePoint, Exchange etc farms as well as the infrastructure required to host websites/database etc. All that has been outsourced to Microsoft Online and saves significant money.

Microsoft is doing very well out of its own cloud fees and can cope with AWS, Google and all the smaller private cloud operations getting some of that action.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn, a movie she couldn't finish still got 2 hobbits. 1 hobbit must truly be awful.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Look at me! I can play Piano!

https://touchpianist.com/

 

I hope it isn't anything too serious. Get well soon, Woz.

 

They literally had the chance to make a 'Man bites Croc' headline, but somehow resisted.

 

I run up Jacob's daily. Today, I had to take the Kokoda trail. πŸ˜₯

 

Well, that was fun, and more than a little brutal. Sorry any Filipino friends.

 

Another episode of Bluey that Disney decided was too inappropriate for the kids of the USA.

It's probably the Dim Sims. Eating them cold straight out of the fridge just isn't acceptable.

 

I didn't watch it for the previous 35 years, and I'm not expecting to watch it now. But, I'm still glad to see it back on TV.

 

This becomes relevant again.

Looking at you this time, Queensland.

 

So, these exist. I'd be curious to see who buys them though.

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