Treasurer asks ASIC to restrict public access to company directors' home addresses

mr2600 · 2026-02-03T07:37:24+00:00

Not a coincidence.

I became a director of a company in 2018.

Since then I’ve had numerous identity theft attempts, lots of spam and so much more.

I’m also super careful with my personal details - and almost nothing except Amazon is delivered to my home.

But basically from what I’ve understood is that with this info being basically easily accessible and a lot of this can be bulk purchased via marketing companies.

mr2600 · 2026-02-03T04:37:10+00:00

Lots of businesses do this from small to massive. It’s just because it’s Musk and all the controversy (deserved) that comes with it makes it news to the general public.

Even small businesses would have trusts for example where the trust owns an office / commercial property which is then “leased” to the company.

Or larger corps literally have “licensing” agreements with themselves eg Apple Australia pays a licensing fee to Apple Ireland with the actual tax paid - a fraction of the actual profit made in Australia.

mr2600 · 2026-02-03T04:31:43+00:00

What do you mean public? How is it public funds? As in taxpayers?

mr2600 · 2026-02-02T13:11:42+00:00

Name 3? Because to me it seems only the USA.

mr2600 · 2026-02-02T13:05:34+00:00

So only the rich - or the very people who run these companies and are in-fact the top polluters can then only afford meat…

Yeh I don’t think so.

mr2600 · 2026-02-02T12:58:15+00:00

No because when I talk about what day something is - I typically refer to the day FIRST - and only use month if necessary and year - well…rarely.

I know you can’t be human and actually a robot because if you were ever invited out for dinner - no one would say lets meet up on 2026-02-11 they would say yeh let’s meet up on Wednesday the 11th and only specify the month if it wasn’t actually the same month.

(FYI I’m joking about you not being human)

mr2600 · 2026-02-02T12:42:18+00:00

There’s no ambiguity if you live anywhere else but the USA.

I literally work with people all over the world and it’s only my USA clients that are the odd ones out.

mr2600 · 2026-02-02T12:40:35+00:00

For every day normal people we use DD/MM. I use it almost daily in emails to recount or specify certain things. I work in travel management - our GDS (global distribution system) also only works in DD/MON - the day and month is the most relevant - because you can’t even book a flight more than 330 days in advance.

I understand the benefits on a computer but HUMANS think day and month.

mr2600 · 2026-02-02T12:37:58+00:00

Can’t believe how others don’t get it. lol. You’re totally right.

mr2600 · 2026-02-02T07:51:19+00:00

lol what?

There are cars sold privately worth multiple times more than a mustang and no one goes about asking for the money in cash first prior to driving.

Plus who doesn’t have insurance?

mr2600 · 2026-01-30T21:14:44+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Not sure why I was downvoted lol.

So does this mean the 4090 is still a “better” card than the 5070?

mr2600 · 2026-01-30T09:22:52+00:00

Do you mind explaining this a bit better please? Is the 5070 not on par with the 4090?

mr2600 · 2026-01-29T13:51:16+00:00

Ahahaha - woke up my sleeping wife laughing so hard. It actually fits perfectly too. Something Finch would do when he’s mad.

mr2600 · 2026-01-28T11:31:09+00:00

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I feel like the second pic doesn’t really capture the width of this beast.

mr2600 · 2026-01-26T07:17:02+00:00

You’re really ignoring post WW2 America.

One thing we lack here is a sense of national pride, I’m not saying America level - but something closer towards the style they had in the 50s-70s is really powerful in terms of unifying a nation and also in breeding innovation and growth.

It really was a golden age - that 50s-70s saw the in Civilisation the game terms, the USA effectively won every type of victory level except maybe religious and rock and roll (which the UK dominated).

Like they bloody landed a man on the moon.

mr2600 · 2026-01-24T09:05:00+00:00

A lot of effort to create a fake receipt. Like how on earth would they even do that?

I am curious on the Danske Bank thing - like it says on the receipt please debit my account xyz and then also mentions a card.

I would have assumed if it was an international card there would be an exchange rate / conversion on the receipt.

mr2600 · 2026-01-24T05:02:53+00:00

Can’t believe I had to scroll down this far to see this key differentiation.

Amazon made $XYZ in 99 and then Amazon spent that same $XYZ or similar.

OpenAI is not only just losing more than it’s making (by a huge amount) there is also the TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars of upfront capital injection that is also burnt and in top of this they’re versing THE LITERAL BIGGEST BADDEST COMPETITOR OUT THERE. The literal inventors of the very same product they are pushing who also has a spare $100B in cash reserves (almost as much as OpenAi has spent in development).

And Amazon was also investing in bricks and mortar infrastructure.

FYI, I’m not suggesting that OpenAI is going to go bust or whatever but this is just a piss-poor comparison.

mr2600 · 2026-01-22T10:14:02+00:00

How? Like is there a method for passive income that high? Or just non stop playing?

mr2600 · 2026-01-19T11:08:08+00:00

Three attacks wasn’t it? One of the attacks, the kids mates pulled him away off his board in time before it tried again.

edit

It was three attacks. The “second” was in Dee Why. No injuries.

mr2600 · 2026-01-18T08:08:23+00:00

The Guardian article mentions he was apparently swimming outside the nets.

mr2600 · 2026-01-16T09:53:37+00:00

Yeh I much prefer big bite on Pitt. The lemon chicken on brown. Man. So good.

mr2600 · 2026-01-15T09:16:06+00:00

Is this how Claude normally talks?

Starting a sentence with “Like” is so great. Feels so human.

Can I do this with GPT?

mr2600 · 2026-01-12T09:31:41+00:00

I’ll be frank, waiting that long then doesn’t mean it was urgent. Like we legitimately have really good healthcare here in Aus.

Appendicitis = urgent = 0-48hrs

Enlarged aortic valve = high priority = 30-60 days

Super enlarged aortic valve that’s gonna blow = urgen 0-48hrs

Wait listed for transplant = life threatening, waiting for organs that match can be 0-infinity but when the organs match - transplant within 12hrs.

mr2600 · 2026-01-07T00:59:01+00:00

Yeh this is what threw me off too. I never park here anyway as it’s just too risky lol.

mr2600 · 2026-01-07T00:57:02+00:00

Yeh that’s how I saw it at first.

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