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luutzu said:
So when they say the world has enough nukes to blow itself a few hundred times over, they're not kidding? :eek:
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100% correct.
The nuclear arsenal of the "main suspects" is sufficient to blast every one of the 7+ Billion men, women, and children on this Earth hundreds of times into oblivion. And there is enough spare capacity to take care of all pets and livestock as well.
 
Who has to blast everyone to kingdom come anyway ? In the early eighties it became clear that even a limited nuclear war would almost certainly produce enough smoke to create a Nuclear Winter. Essentially a darkened earth that got very cold, very quickly.

Enter famine . Exit us.

The other likelihood of even a limited nuclear war would be extensive damage to much electronic equipment as a result electro magnetic pulse effects. There goes many power supplies, computer systems, banking systems, video games...
Finally... (maybe) if say just South Korea got badly trashed the knock on consequences to many manufacturing industries would be instant and quite unpredictable. There are a multitude of electronic companies and chip suppliers in the region.
Truly if the balloon goes up the complexities of our modern technology will be crashed in a flash. No guts, no glory just rolling collapse.

Climatic effects
A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2006 found that even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more. In a regional nuclear conflict scenario where two opposing nations in the subtropics would each use 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear weapons (about 15 kiloton each) on major population centers, the researchers estimated as much as five million tons of soot would be released, which would produce a cooling of several degrees over large areas of North America and Eurasia, including most of the grain-growing regions. The cooling would last for years, and, according to the research, could be "catastrophic".[55][56]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse
 
I'd like to tell Woolworths what they can do with their green bags! Made in China, containing who knows what chemical ingredients, non-biodegradable, and you have to use them 104 times to reach environmental break-even point, compared to single use plastic bags.

In pursuit of which, I'll be off to Coles. Which will edge further ahead of Woolies.

When will some retail genius work it out - fully biodegradable plastic bags are the answer. They only have to hold up for the journey home.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/e...s/news-story/00d4d2aeb97b963c31fd363e18059301
 
Interesting they still haven't looked into the ABC.

Also the royal commission appears unlikely to investigate the actions of self-confessed pedophile Richard Neville (1941-2016) who, in 1975, invited a number of pederasts into an ABC radio studio where they boasted of their crimes. Some of the under-age male victims could be alive today.

Rather than inquire into the extent to which Neville’s soft attitude about pederasty on the public broadcaster four decades ago

I have been advised by McClellan’s staff that “it is unlikely that the media will form the subject of the royal commission’s final public hearings”. This means that child sexual abuse within the media will not be inquired into by the royal commission — this despite the widespread offending in Britain by BBC star Jimmy Savile (1926-2011), some of it on BBC property.
 
Usain Bolt third in last pro. race. Disappointing but also disappointing couldn't find a live telecast. :( Suppose because no Aussies involved in the sport event only the greatest 100m sprinter in the world ever.
 
Wysiwyg said:
Usain Bolt third in last pro. race. Disappointing but also disappointing couldn't find a live telecast. :( Suppose because no Aussies involved in the sport event only the greatest 100m sprinter in the world ever.
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Can hardly wait to watch the Commonwealth Games swimming and more swimming, even more swimming, go Aussie go and swimming.

Who needs to watch some of the best athletes in the world when we have swimming.
 
This sudden interest in dual citizenship politicians. Seemed strange at first, but now it's obvious what's behind it. And it's just as well they started now, with easy targets. Don't get it? Think national security.
 
Gringotts Bank said:
This sudden interest in dual citizenship politicians. Seemed strange at first, but now it's obvious what's behind it. And it's just as well they started now, with easy targets. Don't get it? Think national security.
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The entire concept of dual citizenship preventing one from representing Australians is stupid. How many migrants of, say, Croatian and Serbian origin continue to feel strongly opposed to each other, even though they may have never held dual papers! The fact that a migrant gave up their citizenship when applying to become Australian, doesn't mean a thing in the context of favouring one foreign country over another. What has a piece of paper got to do with one's loyalty?

John Winston Howard may have held only Australian citizenship, but celebrating our Independence from London in London raises more doubts about his loyalties than a Greens Senator being born in another country and by their laws still counting as a National.

Before being accepted to even stand for election, Candidates should be forced to undergo an aptitude test that certifies them for the Office. Looking for a piece of paper from another country is stupid. Representatives should possess adequate intelligence, knowledge of facts in Science, Economics, History, Law, and the Australian Constitution.
 
I wonder if labor can get done under racism laws after making kiwi jokes in parliament?
 

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