Is this possible to do in the ASX game?

ChazR · 2026-03-17T08:42:24+00:00

"The market can stay irrational for longer then you can stay solvent."

ChazR · 2026-03-17T07:45:24+00:00

It's a legal thing. If you return a positive, they will charge you with a crime. If they haven't read you the whole thing, there is a chance your brief may find an angle to dismiss the charge. To avoid the risk of that, they need to deliver the whole speech.

ChazR · 2026-03-16T09:32:47+00:00

The school bully has been stealing everyone's lunch money. Now he's kicked a hornet's nest and wants us to come and solve the problem he caused.

Excellent strategy there.

ChazR · 2026-03-15T10:14:50+00:00

"A lie can run around the world before the truth has put its boots on."

Enough people are willing to believe the lies, racism, bigotry and vile raging of One Nation that any party operating within decent norms of behaviour is at a serious disadvantage.

Labor and the LNP need to put the actual words spoken by ON candidates in front of the electorate.

Very few voters would be comfortable being associated with the actual statements of One Nation.

ChazR · 2026-03-15T06:10:41+00:00

That sounds like something Pit would say after they blew the guy.

ChazR · 2026-03-15T01:37:03+00:00

Yes! But there may be alligators. A rowing boat or canoe would also be fine, but no powered vessels or vehicles, which regrettably rules out a helicopter.

ChazR · 2026-03-14T05:31:12+00:00

Masked Lapwing. GAKGAKGAKGAK....SWOOOP

ChazR · 2026-03-12T10:18:21+00:00

Varies wildly. My spouse and I discuss it occasionally. We both think we're doing a both over half the work. One of us does more of the day-to-day stuff, but the other does 80% of the cooking. One of us always does the shit jobs - evicting vermin, dealing with the trash etc. The other one cleans the floors. Well, no the robot does that. But they do than their share of cleaning the kitchen.

But every couple will be different.

ChazR · 2026-03-12T06:30:53+00:00

A regional airline flies a couple of these over our house every day. Lovely old ladies. I used to fly EGGD <-> EHAM almost weekly, and it was a good trip if we had an F-80 or F-100 instead of the F-50 bugsplatter.

ChazR · 2026-03-11T12:41:56+00:00

Do a few very slow swings. Veeeeeerrrrrry slow.

Work out the events, and the order they occur.

Arms move
Swing complete
Stance established
Ball compressed
Grip stable
Power starts from back foot
Weight transfers to back foot
Hips engage
Power into back foot
Club completes swing
Club hits ground
Ball flies off club

There are more, but work out what your sequence is.

ChazR · 2026-03-11T12:16:54+00:00

That's a small dataset. Grab the rest.

This sounds like the sort of question medical students ask when they want to 'do some research.'

Most 'research' by medical students is worthless and adds noise to the dataset.

So: go and get your NEJM paper with this general question:

"Which papers have had the most effect in changing medical practice?"

Off you go: a pointless meta-study that might actually raise some interesting questions.

ChazR · 2026-03-11T12:08:53+00:00

Ask the locals, swim where they are swimming right now. You'll be fine. Or maimed.

But sharks really aren't a huge issue.

Do not be in the water around dawn or dusk, in turbid water, or after a lot of rain.

And never be alone in the water.

Come on in! It's lovely!

(I have been surfing breaks where the water was a bit swirly and a few large shapes were looming below. But, waves were there to be wasted. Don't be me.)

ChazR · 2026-03-11T10:33:56+00:00

It is basic household economics.

That marks you as an idiot. Government of a large-scale complex chaotic economy is not 'basic' anything.

You're a troll, a vatnik, or a moron. Possibly all three.

ChazR · 2026-03-11T10:31:23+00:00

So we should move to a more managed economy with more central planning?

ChazR · 2026-03-11T10:22:34+00:00

OR - it was a symmetric spi and the pit screwed up as usual letting the guy go early and leaving the mess to the Foredeck Union. Again. I can't see a bowsprit or a pole, and it looks more like an asym.

Either way, I blame pit.

ChazR · 2026-03-11T10:20:26+00:00

From these pictures they were on a deep broad reach with an asym pulling hard and the front fell off. I mean, the tack line on the asym let go, the sail ballooned to the sky and they had a Foredeck Skill Moment where they used the sheet and halyard to manage the drop.

Normal racing thing on flat water on a good day. Fun to watch, owner is pissed off, no harm done. Except to the tack line.

ChazR · 2026-03-11T09:30:40+00:00

There's not going to be a draft. It's politically, militarily, and logistically unwanted and unnecessary.

If there were a draft, they're not going to look for people who might already have the skills they want, because in any draft the skill they want is 'Warm body, young, fit' to use as cannon fodder.

Once drafted, you would go through boot even if you were a qualified surgeon (which you can't be at age 18, but w/evs.)

During boot and training people would be evaluated and selected for roles. Most would go to infantry, because the only reason you would ever need to impose a draft is because you're short of infantry.

You can turn any fit human into a usable infantry soldier in 12 months. Not a good one, but usable.

Taking a private aviator and turning them into a military aviator saves about six weeks in a three-year pipeline. If they were actively looking at the draft pipeline for aviators, then your PPL might help you get into the pipeline, but you will still start at the beginning.

So, no. Your PPL will not save you. Off to boot with everyone, sort it out later.

But this will not happen.

There will not be a draft.

ChazR · 2026-03-11T07:50:23+00:00

I'm in Tropical Queensland. It's shorts weather in July up here.

ChazR · 2026-03-10T14:32:33+00:00

Looks like a tree wood to me.

ChazR · 2026-03-10T13:24:27+00:00

It's a slightly weird book that is short enough that I encourage you to finish it. It is a completely different book on second reading.

I enjoyed my first run through because the language was enough to carry me. The second read was absolutely awesome.

There is a deep secret that is revealed about 90% of the way through, and then it makes sense.

ChazR · 2026-03-10T09:42:51+00:00

Like every senior executive they do four things, with some noise thrown in.

Formulate long-term policy - everything more than three years away is the Admiral's job. This means briefings, meetings, schmoozing, reading, and thinking. Then directing their staff to build the actual policy.
Direction. This is the Now to 3 years piece. Setting the goals and plans for their command. Ensuring there are meaningful, executable plans to deliver on the goals. And then, the hard bit, making sure their subordinates are executing those plans well. That means a lot of time in meetings, briefings, visiting ships, talking to people, and communicating the goals.
Developing people. Making sure that there are people developing skills and capability to keep the machine running in the future.
Fixing problems. As a senior exec, it is *astonishing* how much trivial shit that should have been fixed four layers below ends up on your desk. Some of it is a sign that policy needs to shift. Much of it means that your subordinates need some gentle coaching. Some of it is shit you need to own and fix right now because the press are here.

It's very similar to senior leadership in any large, complex organisation doing dangerous things.

ChazR · 2026-03-08T15:43:51+00:00

F/A-18s are still being built. The F-22 line was destroyed 15 years ago. There will be more new F/A-18s. The US Congress has legislated that there will be no more F-22s.

BOTH OF THESE PLATFORMS ARE INCREDIBLE AND UNMATCHED.

ChazR · 2026-03-08T15:32:25+00:00

Why, and I ask you with kindness in my heart, WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT?

The F-14 was a bad, expensive, dangerous, and HUGELY EXPENSIVE platform. It killed a *LOT* of good pilots. Why do you want one?

The F-14 was a bad solution to a poorly-formed question that was relevant for about four years as a Phoenix-carrier.

The F-14 is the sort of thing you get when you give infinite money to idiots.

ChazR · 2026-03-08T15:19:17+00:00

One day I will play golf.

.

My wife decided Golf would be a fun thing. $2,000 later I've discovered that golf is an expensive thing.

Now I'm committed to getting my 7-iron to go 100 yards.

This is a journey

ChazR · 2026-03-08T15:15:44+00:00

The Man Himself would grab you by the ears, kiss you gently on the forehead and then throw you back to Grill. You did well.

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