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    Yeah we're resigned to the fact that the job is on it's last legs, everything seems to indicate that she won't be there too much longer.

     

    She was working for an Aussie who was a bit of prick but it was tolerable when he held the lease. Now a Chinese couple have taken over the lease & things have been slowly but surely heading south. The new boss is bringing in Chinese workers who can't speak English & and paying them $8 an hour and giving most of the overtime shifts to them and junior staff who are being paid $10 an hour. It probably won't be long before all the staff are Chinese. It seems like he's just using the few Aussies that are left to train their Chinese replacements.

     

    The greedy bastard wanted the bar staff to water down the spirits 50:50 he jacked the cost of all the other drinks up that much that they almost stopped selling. Every chance he gets he finds some way to screw the staff out of working conditions, rights or pay.

     

    I've never thought I'd live to see the day when Aussies became subservient to to Chinese overlords but it's happening all over the country. When I grew up Chinese people were peasants relying on pushbikes for transport. Now they live here and drive hot cars, own a large Australian property portfolio and we do their dirty work.

     

     

     

     

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    @Northerner Could quite well be bullshit, there's certainly a lot of it regarding the massacre, 1 shooter, 2 shooters, no shooters and it was faked, who knows.

     

    The first news report I heard said the shooter was dead when they found him and a later report said he was shot by police. Then I heard another report that said they used explosives to get into his room and he was dead when they found him. That's quite convenient for him to be dead.

     

    Alex Jones predicted something would happen this month on his youtube channel. He's blaming the russians. That could well be a diversion as well.

     

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    3 minutes ago, Martyh64 said:

    Working theory in short, this whole thing was a staged event. right down to the people filming it, the other cars and the people shouting 'shoot him' - looks like a lead up for the whole shoot to kill laws they want to introduce, but that last bit is just my two cents on it.

    We'll need a false flag like they just had in Vegas to sell the shoot to kill concept.

     

    What's the bet the gun debate heats up in the US after the vegas massacre.

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    It doesn't seem to be happening now, the route to the server is very similar with a few bottlenecks but load times have improved..There's still a several high latency hops at roughly 160 ms that really aren't that bad for forum browsing but it's usable now.

     

     

  8. Posted · Edited by Sallubrious

    Is anyone else experiencing slow loading times & sometimes failures ?

     

    I am, sometimes it's that slow that I just give up and go somewhere else. The landing page sometimes lands without the skin and is presented as plain text & the styles don't load for over a minute. Sometimes sublinks just hang and need to be reloaded just to see them & sometimes that doesn't work either, it just hangs. I have an entry level NBN connection that works well almost everywhere else but this site runs at a snails pace 8 times out of ten. This even happens when there are only 2 or three members logged in & no guests. I could serve pages many times faster from a raspberry pi plugged into the NBN

     

    I sniffed around a bit today and did a live traceroute (mtr) to see how it was being routed from me to the SAB server & I noticed a few servers along route with what can only be considered as having an unacceptable latency. One of the main offenders was a two bit, tin pot ,half arsed organisation - vocus which is notorious for crippling online games with its pathetic latency.

     

    So I started to dig a bit deeper & did some whois queries into the servers along the route & things started to get interesting.

     

    My traffic was slowing down as it entered the vocus network & then it was  routed to the UK, after that it was routed through Germany and then back to the UK before being forwarded to the SAB server through another OS server. Some of that routing is not entirely unusual but traffic leaving the UK (where it also slows down) falls outside of of UK privacy laws and only being http it's dubious to say the least.

     

    It's getting that bad for me that the site is almost unusable more often than not. I wouldn't pay for server space with such high latncy.

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    It's not overly difficult to setup, you just need some suitable logs that don't have too many volatile oils and have been aged. Then you soak them for a few weeks in preferably running water and then drill & plug them with inoculated dowels.

     

    They need a reasonably shady protected area to grow and once established they only need minimal maintenance to keep them damp and clean up competitor species while they are colonising.

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    I'd be setting up a patch for some shiitake logs. Once they start fruiting it's easy money. Like @waterboy 2.0 said if you can get a few chefs interested they will be easy to sell. Other gourmet mushrooms like oysters could possibly be established in an outdoor patch of woodchips too.

     

    It would cost a bit to get setup but some inoculated saplings for growing truffles could be a crop that will gradually increase in value as it matures.

     

    Some timbers command a good price. Cricket bat willow is slow to grow but could be a good investment for your retirement or for your kids.

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    We've talked about this before and T wasn't keen on switching it over in-case it led to dead links and database errors ect.

     

    https can provide a false sense of security in some cases though, feds have devices that can strip the encryption and some of the certificate authorities are dodgy as fuck. Most of the time https prevents eavesdropping by weekend warriors but it won't stop the feds from having a look.

     

    That being said https should be standard everywhere these days.

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    Unfortunately she's not in a union.

     

    I saw this coming a few months ago and I told her to start a diary back then but she never did it.

     

    @Northerner   That's the plan so far, to put it in writing and give it to the boss.

     

    & you're right the job has become so much of a burden mentally that's she's ready to chuck it in. In my experience when they start giving official warnings then it's only a matter of time before you get the arse. I've quit a few jobs with bullies at the helm too, in those days I had no kids or anyone depending on me, so it was an easy break. It's a bit different with her though, there's not much work she is qualified for around here and I think there's an extended waiting period for the dole if you quit or are fired for misconduct, which it isn't but the butt kissers at centrelink wouldn't see it that way.

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    Has anyone had any experience with the fair work commission in regards to unfair dismissal and bullying/intimidation ?

     

    My Mrs has been copping the rough end of the stick for the last few months and now it's getting to the point where it looks like she'll be sacked in the not too distant future.

     

    She works her arse off for pittance & now she's just just received her final warning (by SMS) for something entirely trivial. She asked a workmate to give her a hand while they were both supposed to be on a break and her supervisor took offence to it and sent a nasty SMS message a few days later and told her it was her third & final warning. The other two warnings (she wasn't even aware they were official warnings) were just talkings to about minor slip ups she'd made at work, apparently she wasn't as thorough as she should have been even though she's under enormous pressure to do everything faster and faster.

     

    As it turns out the supervisor took offence to my Mrs pecking the supervisor's husband on the cheek when she parted ways after a social event all the work girls had attended two days before the "official" warning.

     

    The supervisor took great pleasure in reading the SMS to all the other girls working the same job after she sent it. After she read it out she pissed herself laughing and said.

    She's probably at home balling her guts out now.

    It's classic sociopathic stand over/intimidation tactics towards my Mrs and all the other girls.

     

    So the writing is on the wall, one misplaced fart, sneeze or blink and my My mrs will be out on her arse.

     

    What I want to know is

     

    Has the supervisor followed the appropriate protocols - should she have issued three written warnings or are two verbal warnings enough before the final written (SMS) warning ? That's if an SMS even legally qualifies as a written warning.

     

    Can a supervisor issue the three warnings without any input from her superiors. The boss knows nothing about any of this.

     

    If it were me this would be sorted out with bare knuckles in the carpark but my Mrs doesn't have that option.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Does anyone believe KJU really has a H bomb ?

     

    Seismologists in the US reckon the detonation didn't have enough magic pixies to cause a big enough seismic disturbance when he detonated that thing recently. Now KJU is saying he's gonna drop one in the pacific ocean which wouldn't be very good for us here.

     

    Trump wants to blow the fuck out of NK, which the yanks could easily do (again) but if KJU gets a few loaded missiles airborne before the country is reduced to dirt car park it could turn into a free for all with all the old enemies launching preemptive strikes against each other.

     

    Having those two nut jobs in charge of the public relations and hurling insults at each other from afar doesn't do much to relieve the tension.

    Anything could happen there.

     

    On another topic Large tracts of land have been bone dry for extended periods now so one little outbreak could burn half the country. Now school holidays have started the chances of that happening must be a lot higher than they were last week.

     

    & Parts of the US seems to be close to flashpoint these days too with all the polarisation that's been going on. Republicans v democrats, black vs white, etc,etc. Fuck they are copping a lot of natural disasters lately, fires, floods and hurricanes. I'm sure it's not global warming though, an American woman told my mrs on facebook that it's not from global warming and she was willing to defend that statement to the death.

     

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    It's got rothschilds fingerprints all over it.

     

    It's a bit different with bitcoin but the rothschilds have manipulating the stock market in very similar ways since the battle of waterloo when nathan rothschild instigated a selling panic by dumping stock himself. Other traders saw him dumping stock and raced to sell before the arse fell out of it. Then he bought it all back for pennies in the pound.

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    2 hours ago, ThunderIdeal said:

    To the guy who posted gravity as expansion, i finally had a scan through.  Not a thorough read whatsoever but enough to admit it's a well made case.

     

    Makes about as much sense as relativity anyway, in fact, its an almost identical model, insofar as it uses the same math with a different way of visualising it..  So i dunno, i dont buy spacetime curving or massive objects expanding, but im glad you posted it.

     

    Tesla said the curvature of space time was the fantasy of an idiot (paraphrasing)

     

    He believed it was a simple electron flow like when you rub a balloon on your hair and place it near the flow of water and bend the flow.

     

    If someone can present a plausible unifying theory and prove it both ways I'll back pedal and accept the relativity/curvature of space time fantasy but until then I'll back the electrical model.

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    19 minutes ago, Micromegas said:

    what does it mean if a weird clump of shrooms is growing?

    Maybe the conditions are better for growing mushrooms than plants.

     

    That soil looks fairly good from what I can see in those pics. I'd do a PH test on it with soil taken from near the surface and also do another PH with soil from about 20cm deep to see if there are any problems. Maybe raised beds would give the plants some drainage if it's constantly too wet for plants.

     

    Or turn it into a rice paddy.

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  24. Posted · Edited by Sallubrious

    A soil test is always a good idea before you add any amendments.

     

    Charcoal/biochar works best when it's "charged" before adding it to the soil. It can have a negative effect if it's not charged because it absorbs & adsorbs nutrients when it's fresh.

     

    I'd mix it into the compost heap/s while it's composting and load it up with nutrients and microbes & fungi first and then mix that along with any amendments recommended on the soil test into the soil.

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    I don't know if bees can pollinate Salvia d. flowers, their anatomy isn't really that bee friendly. Maybe native bees would have a better chance because they are much smaller. Their long narrow flowers seem to more like something that's pollinated by a moth of some sort. Some moths feed on nectar successfully with other elongated flowers when bees can't because they can sometimes have a tongue almost as long as the moth that can reach all they way in.

    Hand pollination with a brush worked for me before but the seeds never grew. Maybe the application of an irritant like the cement trick could help the flowers become more receptive to pollen from a different species.

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