That's a very professional looking cooker car, old mate has stepped up from the grease pencil writing job that the regular cookers run with.

Assisted by officers from the EPA, police obtained a noise decibel reading high enough to warrant entering the premises and placing the woman under arrest.

I'm sure the massive stack of previous attendances made all the difference to the response, but I do find the idea amusing that this lady was playing her music loud enough that the cops actually went in and arrested her for it - must have been jolly loud...

I've used Arch with Cinnamon as the DE for the last five(ish) years. I used to run Mint (which is what got me onto Cinnamon) on my previous desktop but figured I'd try something else. I'd often come across helpful info on the Arch wiki when I needed to look stuff up so decided I might as well go with that, and it's worked out fine (ok, I did get the system to not boot fully once due to an update issue, but I sorted it without reinstalling).

That shouldn't be a surprise - all the affordability problems are still there as the price falls are so far minimal, then add in a well publicised potential to financially screw yourself by spending years owing more than the property you buy ends up being worth.

The parents didn't get right up at me, they were just agitated and making calls/circling the area.

I've never actually had a problem with plovers despite plenty of stories from others about how aggressive they can be, similarly I've had magpies fly past and click their beaks near me a few times during their season but I've never had them go past that. I feel like a lot of the time people just get panicked when a bird starts trying to make a point.

I think it is getting a bit better, the last few years has seen slightly more colours come back. It's still largely boring but there are a few red, blue, and green cars around again instead of everything being grey, white, or silver. Grey can look rather nice on the right car but it's a bit much when every boring SUV joins in.

I'll note Mazda seemed to lead a bit of a resurgence a while back with red and that is a colour I do like, dark green is my favourite though (I've seen a few newish BMWs with a particularly nice dark green, I hope it starts a trend).

The horse has well and truly bolted in this case. To get people back to buying legal cigarettes again they're going to have to both lower the price and find a way to crack down hard on the illegal market. It takes a pretty principled person to decide to pay two or three times the price to get legal cigarettes when you can walk down the road and every man and his dog will apparently sell you cheap illegal ones.

There is truth in that, as someone who also went to such a school (numbers dropped very noticeably in yr 11, either towards TAFE or simply leaving education as soon as legally possible).

Combining CIT and UC would indeed be a hard task to manage without scaring off those who are sick of schooling as they know it and desire more practical experience. The other end would have its own issues too as prestige does still play into people's university choices and the combined edifice would have to spend efforts on maintaining its reputation for research/academia to not scare off those prospective students.

They appear to have some smart features, the kmart website includes these on the description:

• Bluetooth connectivity for music and hands-free calls
• Smart touch controls and buttons
• Image recognition and chat features via the HeyCyan companion app

The last point is most relevant, I'm guessing that means it can do things like attempt to identify stuff you're looking at. I wouldn't have high hopes for the software being well coded or supported for any length of time though...

If you really want a forced saving experience with tax remove your claim to the tax free threshold for that job. Do that and I can basically guarantee you'll be sitting on a fat return every year.

The downside is of course that getting that tax return means you didn't have that money for the rest of the year, which is good if you can't save otherwise but means you didn't even get the pittance of interest you could have gotten if you had it (not to mention making your life hard if the weekly budget was already tight).

Something about their lack of filtering making it so you had to search through gobs of crap to find things

Marketplace is truly terrible when it comes to search filtering, so it probably was that. I've been trying to keep an eye out for a particular model of car and you simply cannot search for it on marketplace without getting results which are 99% other things. It can't even just return results for a particular make or model let alone basic characteristics like transmission type or drive type. The worst part is that we had this capability on places like carsales and gumtree but people decided they wanted to ignore all that and post ads on the most annoying option instead.

Because it's a dirt bike and that's the sort of thing it's built for, also the range is limited and I already have better suited motorbikes for general road use. My current dirt bike is getting on a bit and I think the electric bikes have good potential for tight technical stuff where you're normally in first or second and on the clutch a lot anyway.

I did mean single track not double track, as in literally a single track through the bush (or pines as more likely for me). I do however also like dirt tracks which have been abandoned for long enough to overgrow which is probably more like what you're thinking re. double track. This pic is the sort of thing I'm thinking of, except usually with steeper bits and a few rocks thrown in:

Well I'm just about to add to the numbers, should have a Surron Ultra Bee turning up next week (hopefully). I'd been thinking about these for a couple of years now and intend to use it mainly for the use case I wanted it for - single track - but I'll admit that the ability to use it to do the work commute or small runs around town if the fuel supply situation really goes tits up was a factor in me finally making the decision to get one.

You'll just have to choose between whether you want to be potentially identifiable or whether you want to make it known that there is a certain percentage of people with your specific circumstances/situation (who might need particular services, or be likely to vote for particular policies).

If you're unique enough to be obvious from a postcode and census answers then I don't really see how you can definitively avoid identification without removing potentially useful data (i.e. you'd have to remove/generalise questions or move to a higher level location category). It's a bit of a balancing act as evidenced in this thread with you worried about specificity while ada wants to narrow things down even more.

Sounds painful to me, I want to have my own space and not have to deal with other people in it let alone 15 of them.

I bet there's no proper garage/workshop space either for those of us who like to be able to work on things, and even if there is it'd be a nightmare sharing tools with other people. Lack of such space is unfortunately common in anything affordable now though, it's really hard to find an apartment with an actual garage (no wonder people are lacking manual skills these days).

Even it that service worked having people go online to request an offline form is a bit illogical, at least they claim to have a phone line you can request one with for those who can't or won't deal with the web form.