nikau

Usa has 37% higher theft rate than Australia.

And I'm sure Hyundai and kia stats would be much higher due to lack of immobiliser and visibility of how easy they are to steal on social media.

From my experience nobody uses them, they just want a pretty ui to view job status and logs.

People fired on the spot can't point out risks that were told to management and ignored.

Scape goats work better when they can't defend themselves.

Or because america doesn't regulate immobilisers like most other countries and has a race to the bottom mba mindset to save a few pennies vs the public good.

Sounds about right, buying all those gatorade bottles to piss in adds up

Used bicycle tube cut into rings make the best elastic bands, they don't degrade

But it doesn't have any fan blades in it!

Only an impeller with blades

The fixed frequency was a pain as text mode didn't work, i ended up installing a Hercules monitor which Linux would use in text mode until xf86 started

I can't understand the logic behind party A did something, and then blame party B for not undoing it.

Not everything is a simple ctrl-z, and the blame lays squarely on who implemented it.

Unfortunately too many Australians are swayed by scare campaigns and vote against their own interest.

The mining super profits tax, franking credits, and similar failed reforms benefited only the top 1% of 1% of Australians, yet people voted against them.

Hopefully the recent negative gearing and trust changes stick.

So really its all conjecture unless an actual project plan is written up with supply chain sources, and the plan is kept up to date with inventory of items scrapped vs placed in storage and capacity from current importers & manufacturers.

I guess that's the question - how fast can you build required plants during war time?

How do you get the very bespoke equipment from overseas if supply chains are being attacked?

Where do you get the designers and operational staff, bearing in mind the industry might have been closed for a while and all prior talent has retired or died?

What's the risk of above vs the government subsidising a plant to keep it operational and known good state?

I wouldn't be so sure about that - as an example, I know at least one Victorian refinery is being torn down and scrapped as seen by my own eyes.

right - but in the context of this thread, manganese is a vital ingredient to smelting iron - so Australia seems it is no longer self sufficient.

Meanwhile Australia's last remaining manganese plant shut down last night...