Because Australia

[DougRichards]

AC/DC was also Australian slang for bisexual for a while there......

Edited January 6, 2017 by DougRichards

[DougRichards]

Meanwhile

 

An advertising campaign has caused a bit of strife:

 

Firstly I will explain (in place of a long time but recently missing Tanknet member) that the Northern Territory (ie Ayres Rock to Darwin), is known as NT same way that New South Wales is called NSW etc (we won't mention Tasmania - or what 'a map of Tasmania' may represent of the female form).

 

The campaign said 'C U in the NT'

 

well, BBC News has reported the following

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38400918

 

About Tasmania:

 

Map Of

 

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/map_of_Tasmania

 

[sunday]

 

 

 

Not really

 

Infrastructure primarily was set up using AC because it's relatively easy to transform voltages, and high voltages mean lower currents and lower currents mean lower losses.

 

I think that if infrastructure was being created now, it would be more likely to be DC, because AC s actually more lossy for various reasons that I don't fully understand - capacitance in the cables, inductive coupling and such spring to mind.

Still transformers are simpler to operate, and more robust than AC/DC converters, but for long distances and several other applications like submarine power transmission cables, or coupling between grid islands, DC is the way to go.

Some reasons on these links:

 

http://www.electricaltechnology.org/2013/05/comparison-between-ac-and-dc.html

http://electrical-engineering-portal.com/advantages-of-hvdc-over-hvac-transmission

Maerklin* trains are AC, cheapo are DC, so you can kiss my Eisenbahn.

 

 

 

*Sorry, no umlaut in this keyboard.

AC can better cope with differing and changing length of cable. Just think of all the devices connected and disconnected all the time from the electric power grid. When you have a known distance and known capacity requirements DC is in advantage. e.g. connecting an island to mainland power.

 

 

pahh, Märklin. I swear by Trix!

 

 

Did not hear that reasoning before. However interrupting AC is easier than interrupting DC, so AC circuit breakers are smaller and simpler than DC ones for the same power. This has also been a reason to keep automotive DC voltage in the 12V range for so long.

[RETAC21]

 

Must have clicked on the wrong link in the Lamborghini page: http://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-fe/

[DougRichards]

 

 

Must have clicked on the wrong link in the Lamborghini page: http://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-fe/

 

 

The goats look happy

 

Whatever floats your goat

 

No Kidding, Lamborghini tows goats through Sydney

 

Meanwhile:

 

Gary the Goat:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_the_Goat

 

and I have met, patted, and photographed Gary, seriously:

 

 

Yes, I took that photo

Edited January 6, 2017 by DougRichards

[Panzermann]

What did the comedy shows look like? What did this Jimbo guy do with a goat in his shows?

 

 

---

 

AC/DC was also Australian slang for bisexual for a while there......

Makes sense.

 

 

Legend has it the band was named such, because the label on a vacuum cleaner inspired them.

Edited January 6, 2017 by Panzermann

[Ivanhoe]

AC/DC was also Australian slang for bisexual for a while there......

 

Same in the States.

[mnm]

AC can better cope with differing and changing length of cable. Just think of all the devices connected and disconnected all the time from the electric power grid. When you have a known distance and known capacity requirements DC is in advantage. e.g. connecting an island to mainland power.

pahh, Märklin. I swear by Trix!

I have to concede a point, insofar as I am beaten by the umlaut gap. As for the rest, I'm sorry but you fall into heresy as you declare so and so is an advantage in connecting an island to mainland.

 

What is an island? Etymologically it is an 'insula' in Latin, something that is insulated, separate, removed from the rest. And why is an island an insula? Because the divine will ordered so, for reasons we can't fathom or sometimes we can. Cases in point: Sicily and the British Islands. These examples are obvious as they are inhabited by strange people who are better left alone, that is, insulated. The Sicilians speak a strange dialect, have half their cousins in America, shoot or knife each other like they eat confetti, and their cheese stinks like a Portuguese infantry barracks after a 30km march in high summer. So an entire island for them.

 

The British are what they are by themselves and leeching the Commonwealth of what's best in them was not enough to improve much. At least some cheese are sturdy enough to bump downhill while troves of hooligans do their worst to arrive at the bottom before the cheese. Two moderately decent British are Prince Philip and Nigel Farage. The British decided to do a Brexit which theoretically should be a voluntary insulation but in truth looks like a knife fight inside a coal bunker at midnight with the lights off. Insulate them, I say.

 

The Irish we'd like to spare as Great Britain got in the middle, and for the Emerald Isle to drift to the French or Spanish shore would take an inordinate amount of time, although less than an eternity. Besides, they wouldn't want to leave the Ulster behind, and frankly, whenever the Brits get into a scrap there they go like hooligans after a cheese to take the Queen's Shilling. Actually since Decimalisation the shilling ceased to be, so that's mainly a figure of speech.

 

In order to keep on topic I also have to mention Australia, another island but big as heck, 11 times the area of Texas, imagine that. Not much to say other than the place was so insulated already that the British (remember them?) used it to further insulate convicts.

 

So do not figure ways to connect islands to the mainland or your soul will be in immediate peril.

[DougRichards]

 

AC can better cope with differing and changing length of cable. Just think of all the devices connected and disconnected all the time from the electric power grid. When you have a known distance and known capacity requirements DC is in advantage. e.g. connecting an island to mainland power.

pahh, Märklin. I swear by Trix!

I have to concede a point, insofar as I am beaten by the umlaut gap. As for the rest, I'm sorry but you fall into heresy as you declare so and so is an advantage in connecting an island to mainland.

 

What is an island? Etymologically it is an 'insula' in Latin, something that is insulated, separate, removed from the rest. And why is an island an insula? Because the divine will ordered so, for reasons we can't fathom or sometimes we can. Cases in point: Sicily and the British Islands. These examples are obvious as they are inhabited by strange people who are better left alone, that is, insulated. The Sicilians speak a strange dialect, have half their cousins in America, shoot or knife each other like they eat confetti, and their cheese stinks like a Portuguese infantry barracks after a 30km march in high summer. So an entire island for them.

 

The British are what they are by themselves and leeching the Commonwealth of what's best in them was not enough to improve much. At least some cheese are sturdy enough to bump downhill while troves of hooligans do their worst to arrive at the bottom before the cheese. Two moderately decent British are Prince Philip and Nigel Farage. The British decided to do a Brexit which theoretically should be a voluntary insulation but in truth looks like a knife fight inside a coal bunker at midnight with the lights off. Insulate them, I say.

 

The Irish we'd like to spare as Great Britain got in the middle, and for the Emerald Isle to drift to the French or Spanish shore would take an inordinate amount of time, although less than an eternity. Besides, they wouldn't want to leave the Ulster behind, and frankly, whenever the Brits get into a scrap there they go like hooligans after a cheese to take the Queen's Shilling. Actually since Decimalisation the shilling ceased to be, so that's mainly a figure of speech.

 

In order to keep on topic I also have to mention Australia, another island but big as heck, 11 times the area of Texas, imagine that. Not much to say other than the place was so insulated already that the British (remember them?) used it to further insulate convicts.

 

So do not figure ways to connect islands to the mainland or your soul will be in immediate peril.

 

 

Prince Phillip was nominally Greek

[DougRichards]

What did the comedy shows look like? What did this Jimbo guy do with a goat in his shows?

 

 

---

 

AC/DC was also Australian slang for bisexual for a while there......

Makes sense.

 

 

Legend has it the band was named such, because the label on a vacuum cleaner inspired them.

 

 

Vacuum cleaner or bagpipes?

 

Same thing: collects wind, makes noise.

 

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bagpipe-songs/

[BP]

 

AC can better cope with differing and changing length of cable. Just think of all the devices connected and disconnected all the time from the electric power grid. When you have a known distance and known capacity requirements DC is in advantage. e.g. connecting an island to mainland power.

pahh, Märklin. I swear by Trix!

I have to concede a point, insofar as I am beaten by the umlaut gap. As for the rest, I'm sorry but you fall into heresy as you declare so and so is an advantage in connecting an island to mainland.

 

What is an island? Etymologically it is an 'insula' in Latin, something that is insulated, separate, removed from the rest. And why is an island an insula? Because the divine will ordered so, for reasons we can't fathom or sometimes we can. Cases in point: Sicily and the British Islands. These examples are obvious as they are inhabited by strange people who are better left alone, that is, insulated. The Sicilians speak a strange dialect, have half their cousins in America, shoot or knife each other like they eat confetti, and their cheese stinks like a Portuguese infantry barracks after a 30km march in high summer. So an entire island for them.

 

The British are what they are by themselves and leeching the Commonwealth of what's best in them was not enough to improve much. At least some cheese are sturdy enough to bump downhill while troves of hooligans do their worst to arrive at the bottom before the cheese. Two moderately decent British are Prince Philip and Nigel Farage. The British decided to do a Brexit which theoretically should be a voluntary insulation but in truth looks like a knife fight inside a coal bunker at midnight with the lights off. Insulate them, I say.

 

The Irish we'd like to spare as Great Britain got in the middle, and for the Emerald Isle to drift to the French or Spanish shore would take an inordinate amount of time, although less than an eternity. Besides, they wouldn't want to leave the Ulster behind, and frankly, whenever the Brits get into a scrap there they go like hooligans after a cheese to take the Queen's Shilling. Actually since Decimalisation the shilling ceased to be, so that's mainly a figure of speech.

 

In order to keep on topic I also have to mention Australia, another island but big as heck, 11 times the area of Texas, imagine that. Not much to say other than the place was so insulated already that the British (remember them?) used it to further insulate convicts.

 

So do not figure ways to connect islands to the mainland or your soul will be in immediate peril.

Well stated.

[Panzermann]

I have no soul. (an ex said so and she must be right, right?)

[DougRichards]

 

 

AC can better cope with differing and changing length of cable. Just think of all the devices connected and disconnected all the time from the electric power grid. When you have a known distance and known capacity requirements DC is in advantage. e.g. connecting an island to mainland power.

pahh, Märklin. I swear by Trix!

I have to concede a point, insofar as I am beaten by the umlaut gap. As for the rest, I'm sorry but you fall into heresy as you declare so and so is an advantage in connecting an island to mainland.

 

What is an island? Etymologically it is an 'insula' in Latin, something that is insulated, separate, removed from the rest. And why is an island an insula? Because the divine will ordered so, for reasons we can't fathom or sometimes we can. Cases in point: Sicily and the British Islands. These examples are obvious as they are inhabited by strange people who are better left alone, that is, insulated. The Sicilians speak a strange dialect, have half their cousins in America, shoot or knife each other like they eat confetti, and their cheese stinks like a Portuguese infantry barracks after a 30km march in high summer. So an entire island for them.

 

The British are what they are by themselves and leeching the Commonwealth of what's best in them was not enough to improve much. At least some cheese are sturdy enough to bump downhill while troves of hooligans do their worst to arrive at the bottom before the cheese. Two moderately decent British are Prince Philip and Nigel Farage. The British decided to do a Brexit which theoretically should be a voluntary insulation but in truth looks like a knife fight inside a coal bunker at midnight with the lights off. Insulate them, I say.

 

The Irish we'd like to spare as Great Britain got in the middle, and for the Emerald Isle to drift to the French or Spanish shore would take an inordinate amount of time, although less than an eternity. Besides, they wouldn't want to leave the Ulster behind, and frankly, whenever the Brits get into a scrap there they go like hooligans after a cheese to take the Queen's Shilling. Actually since Decimalisation the shilling ceased to be, so that's mainly a figure of speech.

 

In order to keep on topic I also have to mention Australia, another island but big as heck, 11 times the area of Texas, imagine that. Not much to say other than the place was so insulated already that the British (remember them?) used it to further insulate convicts.

 

So do not figure ways to connect islands to the mainland or your soul will be in immediate peril.

Well stated.

 

 

No man is an island,

Entire of itself,

Every man is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less.

As well as if a promontory were.

As well as if a manor of thy friend's

Or of thine own were:

Any man's death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind,

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

It tolls for thee.

John Donne

[DougRichards]

I have no soul. (an ex said so and she must be right, right?)

 

I know the feeling:

 

http://gettinbetter.com/deathtrap.html

 

I truly know the feeling

[Panzermann]

 

 

I have no soul. (an ex said so and she must be right, right?)

I know the feeling:

 

http://gettinbetter.com/deathtrap.html

 

I truly know the feeling

Oh that has been so long ago. It was one of many things she threw at me to vilify me and make it easier for her to break up with me I think.

[Mike Steele]

I have no soul. (an ex said so and she must be right, right?)

That was ONE of the myriad faults that my ex laid on me.....

[Panzermann]

Australia is better than UK or USA.

(and an ad for her field of research)

 

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/australia-day-address-orator-michelle-simmons-horrified-at-feminised-physics-curriculum-20170124-gtxoi2.html

JANUARY 24 2017

Australia Day Address orator Michelle Simmons horrified at 'feminised' physics curriculum

 

 

Professor Michelle Simmons, a professor of quantum physics at the University of NSW, has expressed her horror at the "feminised" nature of the HSC physics curriculum.

Delivering the 2017 Australia Day address on Tuesday, Professor Simmons said it was a "disaster" to try to make physics more appealing to girls by substituting rigorous mathematical problem-solving with qualitative responses.

"There is a big cost in this type of thinking," she said to an audience that included Premier Gladys Berejiklian.

"When we reduce the quality of education that anyone receives we reduce the expectations we have of them," she said.

 

A spokesman for the NSW Education Standards Authority (formerly BOSTES) said the new HSC science curriculum will commence in 2018.

He said: "The new courses address the exact concerns expressed by Professor Simmons.

 

"The physics and chemistry courses will have a greater focus on mathematical applications."

He also said there will be a reduction in the sociology-based content and an emphasis on practical investigations.

 

Professor Simmons' Australia Day speech focused on the need for Australians to attempt the difficult things in life.

"It is better to do the things that have the greatest reward; things that are hard, not easy," she said.

"If we want people to be the best they can be we must set the bar high and tell them we expect them to jump over it," she said.

"My strong belief is that we need to be teaching all students - girls and boys - to have high expectations of themselves."

Professor Simmons has certainly set the bar high for herself. She wants to realise her dream to build a working quantum computer, here, in Australia.

For her Cambridge was "too hierarchical and esoteric". The American culture, she said, restricts early-career researchers. When she arrived, people asked her "Why on Earth did you come?"

But for Professor Simmons the choice was easy.

"Australia offers a culture of academic freedom, openness to ideas and an amazing willingness to pursue ambitious goals," she said.

Professor Simmons is so proud of the one-way ticket to Australia she bought 18 years ago that she had it framed and sent to her brother for his 50th birthday.

From what she said was a "pretty rough" part of south-east London, she moved to Australia in 1999 after studying at Cambridge. Her big brother Gary went to the United States.

In her Australia Day Address on Tuesday, she said she often jokes with him that she got the better deal.

"Only I'm not joking," she told an audience, including NSW Governor David Hurley and Premier Berejiklian. "It's the truth. I genuinely believe it is better here."

Ms Berejiklian introduced Professor Simmons in what was her first official function as Premier.

Professor Simmons said: "On occasions like this, we tend to emphasise the beauty of our natural environment, our great lifestyle and the easygoing character of our people.

"This is a mistake ... it encourages us to shy away from difficult challenges. It will stop us from being as ambitious as we might be," she said.

Professor Simmons leads a storied team of dedicated scientists trying to do what many think impossible: build a new type of computer a quantum computer based on individual phosphorous atoms in silicon.

She said said: "Quantum physics is hard. Technology at the forefront of human endeavour is hard. But that's what makes it worthwhile."

Building a quantum computer is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Professor Simmons calls it the "space race of the computing era". There are three dedicated centres of excellence in Australia working on quantum technology, with a strong presence across Sydney's universities.

"Australia, for some reason, is disproportionately strong in quantum science. And, with billions of dollars of investment coming into this field from across the world, our challenge is to see if we can translate our international lead into high-technology industries," she said.

A working quantum computer would make currently impossible computing tasks possible. "Instead of performing calculations one after the other like a conventional computer, quantum computers work in parallel, looking at all possible outcomes at the same time," she said.

This would allow us "to solve problems in minutes that could otherwise take many thousands of years".

Australia, she said, is a great place to discover things. "I am grateful for that Australian spirit to give things a go and our enduring sense of possibility."

Professor Simmons said: "I want Australians above all to be known as people who do the hard things."

 

You can read the full transcript of Professor Simmons' speech at the Australia Day website. It will be broadcast on ABC Radio National on Thursday at noon.

transcript: https://www.australiaday.com.au/events/australia-day-address/2017-speaker-professor-michelle-y-simmons/

 

 

eh what? sociological content in STEM?

 

They made it dumber to be more attractive for women basically? Interesting what this says about feminists view of women...

Edited January 26, 2017 by Panzermann

[Adam_S]

There's a new senior syllabus coming in in Queensland too which is also going to require physics students to actually be able to use physics equations to work stuff out. It's going to be carnage

[DB]

What we had is the people who, for whatever reasons, hated being educated in the "hard" sciences then came into in positions of authority and thus gained the power to "do something about it". The results are catastrophic, not because more women are attracted to the hard sciences, but because anybody who is still attracted to them does not have the rigorous educational basis to do them at all.

 

More than (gulp) 30 years ago this was already happening. The first year mathematics unit in my Physics course was effectively remedial, because half the entrants had pursued an alternative mathematics course available at some schools.

[lucklucky]

[Ssnake]

Wellll.... CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!

[lucklucky]

Are you trying to go against beach social justice?

 

 

 

If Australians are already in this deep Managerial State level... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state

[Panzermann]

Makes me wonder rather how often runners crash into each there? Too dumb to run?

[Brian Kennedy]

bzzzt fake news https://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/news/no-helmet-no-run-sign-creates-confusion/3136914/

[lucklucky]

Thanks for correction Brian.

 

 

From your link:

1. It's illegal to be in possession of more than 50kg of potatoes in Western Australia.

 

???