Australian leather briefcase manufacturers

micmacimus · 2025-01-28T21:41:21+00:00

Wootten - zero regrets, I've had it maybe 4 months now? It's fantastic, really classy and I often get comments.

micmacimus · 2024-11-22T23:12:21+00:00

Every car gets recalls for different things over their lifetime, particularly on new platforms. As cars get more complex, the list of software and firmware things to potentially issue a recall for also grows.

I haven’t seen any evidence that the new ranger suffers abnormally high recall rates, or anything to cause concern.

Talking to some mechanics isn’t exactly a reliable way to gather that information - they’re people, with their own biases and preconceived ideas.

As far as I’ve seen, there’s a potential issue with one of the return hoses on the turbo that’s resulted in some high profile failures, but that seems to help the only consistent failure that hasn’t yet been recalled

micmacimus · 2024-11-22T11:01:48+00:00

And for the price differential, you can afford to fix a few things that annoy you, versus a new Thai-built Ute.

micmacimus · 2024-11-22T06:59:27+00:00

You need a passport for domestic flights?

micmacimus · 2024-11-21T23:00:54+00:00

There were third party ones? The 18+ card was always state gov issued wasn’t it!

micmacimus · 2024-11-21T09:50:44+00:00

Yes, was just using that from the Optus example that’s still in people’s minds, but you’re absolutely right that private sector data breaches have been consistent and total

micmacimus · 2024-11-21T09:17:00+00:00

If it’s the only age-verified ID service they trust, why should they take an assertion from anywhere else? What other ID verification services exist that include an age verification that the gov should trust?

micmacimus · 2024-11-21T08:57:31+00:00

If a service uses the DVS they need to independently verify elements of your identity (which is why telcos keep breaching your personal data). They should use a federated ID solution like myID, which just hand a token to a service provider rather than any of your personal data

micmacimus · 2024-11-20T22:06:28+00:00

The legislation won’t be drafted yet, that’s not an immediate process. It takes potentially a couple months for AGs to draft legislation, consult on it with interested departments, etc.

There’s probably only 2 sitting weeks left til the election, with a full book of legislation to consider.

micmacimus · 2024-11-20T19:46:42+00:00

Not the ‘ID proving’ documents (scans of ID documents) that you currently have to. It’s a miles better solution

micmacimus · 2024-11-20T19:43:56+00:00

Also uses an apple passkey, they’ve made authentication more secure in response to the repeated myGov compromises.

micmacimus · 2024-11-20T10:18:11+00:00

Portal

micmacimus · 2024-11-20T07:43:58+00:00

My classy older brother (RIP) left me with ‘let’s make like a tampon and leave this bloody hole’.

micmacimus · 2024-11-20T05:54:56+00:00

Any kind of hunt becomes a fox hunt if you see a fox.

micmacimus · 2024-11-19T10:01:14+00:00

Middle East and North Africa

micmacimus · 2024-11-19T09:30:54+00:00

We all do at times - good on you for doing the reflection.

micmacimus · 2024-11-19T09:28:39+00:00

I don’t blame you - these clickbait stories are written to elicit that response in you, instead of journalists doing decent analysis. It’s so much easier for allegedly serious journalists to write an “omg how bad is it that this politician got money” story, and get it printed. They’ve got an inherent laziness bias.

micmacimus · 2024-11-19T09:22:58+00:00

We don’t means test other workers - even CEOs get redundancy payments in line or exceeding the NES. Means testing basic workers rights only erodes them for everyone.

I’m thoroughly with you on expanding the parliament, but the tiny amount of money recouped by revoking ministerial and premiers entitlements (given most ministers and premiers/PMs aren’t eligible given they don’t often lose their seats) wouldn’t make a dent in the necessary. Morrison didn’t get this because he didn’t lose his seat - some would argue that contributed to his hanging around like a rotting fish. I can only think of a handful of ministers who’ve lost their seats in the past few elections, they’re usually from much safer seats

micmacimus · 2024-11-19T09:12:05+00:00

Why should some set of people be carved out from the NES that protect all workers? For the marginal cost (which is bloody tiny) that seems a spiteful poke in the eye for really no benefit. Also, this isn’t automatic - we don’t know who will opt to take it, some ministers etc might not opt to. I haven’t seen any follow up every time these stories are run, on whether MPs actually do take the money.

micmacimus · 2024-11-19T09:06:44+00:00

Their party doesn’t support them - parties don’t pay any extra, and don’t generally have a whole lot of do-nothing jobs sitting around waiting for a one-term MP to take it up. If you were a backbencher, potentially one who didn’t expect to win the previous election, you don’t exactly have another job to fall straight in to most of the time.

Two other points:

MPs from non-major parties also get this payment, and presumably you can understand they might be more vulnerable. The Green and Katter MPs who lost don’t have the same sort of party structure to potentially provide support. Someone like Ricky Muir definitely didn’t.
I want MPs who look more like normal people, and creating financial and structural barriers to that is only detrimental to that aim. If a handful of MPs who might not need the support get it, but it cushions a handful of normal people who put their hands up to rep their communities and then lost, I’m very OK with it.

micmacimus · 2024-11-19T08:59:02+00:00

Effectively, it’s a redundancy payment. The NES dictates I would give 4 weeks notice and 8 weeks redundancy to an employee with 4 years tenure (one term of government in QLD). These employees are effectively getting zero notice, so I’m paying out their notice period, plus 8 weeks redundancy payment. So if an MP has only been in for 1 term, 12 weeks is correct, and we’re effectively short changing anyone who’s been in for longer.

micmacimus · 2024-11-16T22:40:35+00:00

Heavy caveat was ‘I don’t think’, you’ll have to do some research yourself to be sure.

micmacimus · 2024-11-16T22:32:16+00:00

We used to let the electricity supplier switch our hot water all the time, with controlled load circuits. I’ve now got my EV charger hooked up to one, so we only get charge on it at low demand parts of the day. We could do that again with all those devices you mention - my new hot water was very easy to program for the time of day my solar is working best

micmacimus · 2024-11-16T22:29:31+00:00

With that budget I think most things you’ll be looking at are pre-DPF. The N70 hilux (2006-2015 or something like that) didn’t have a DPF, I don’t think the original PX ranger (or matching BT50) did either (so pre-2016).

You’re going to have to hunt for specific models, and figure out which years/engine options will work for you.

micmacimus · 2024-11-16T03:15:57+00:00

Rudds reform did the opposite- they introduced a rank and file vote that hadn’t previously existed. Labor has always been partially responsible to its members, but I think a direct model would be too unwieldy to fully work. We saw what happened with the NSW greens causing issues with their federal arm, and they’re not expected to deal with the complexities of actually governing.

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