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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Quote from: madbluboy – on
I only test drove the base model Y which was quick.

The AWD YL has more power but will have to take it easy driving to Adelaide along the Western hwy for xmas.
I have mates in the UK with the 100D AWD, they love it. The only scary bit was an experience going through road works in self-driving when it decided to speed up instead of slowing down!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Quote from: Thryleon – on
I will never have faith in automated systems in that situation.

Ive seen too many machines have a "run away process" that consumes too much ram or cpu and then the machine stops behaving properly.

Lets not get started on bug and patch fixes, and the obvious cyber security issue and threat actors that could hi-jack such systems.
I understand that concern, but the automation features are built on microcontrollers not microprocessors and CPU, which is a point of difference. They are not "programmed" like a general purpose computer as such, but a hardware task specific design.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
It's hard to see 100% public trust in self-driving cars, but they are inevitable, and of course EVs are the natural delivery method for this technology.

No matter how good we think we are, how well we think we can focus and concentrate, compared to just about any working machine we are rubbish.

The vast majority of accidents, minor or major, are caused by driver distraction, inattention or fatigue regardless of other contributing causes. Much like the weight of evidence in favour of vaccines, the data is now building that in general full self-driving is safer than human driving, as uncomfortable as that may be for some it's a harsh reality of human versus machine. I travel a lot, and almost daily I see people driving on the freeway, usually in a Tesla, while doing their makeup or reading a document, it's disturbing but keep this in mind, the people who you see doing this don't stop behaving this way when they haven't access to some form of self-driving mode. Cruising down the highway at 100kph doing your makeup is not a new phenomenon, it didn't just appear with the invention of self-driving.

Another thing EVs have made worse, getting cut off on the freeway and people taking your braking space. They have so much available torque at freeway speed they can just accelerate relative to the cars around them like never before, and duck through the smallest spaces. Anyone who runs a car with radar cruise control will know what havoc this causes, truckies must be going crazy, some drivers cut through spaces many couldn't even make a park in!
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The Sports Desk / Re: Track and Field
Why would News Ltd report our athletes not winning as "crumbling under pressure"?

If I recall it's generally the case, at least in certain events, athletes are trained to peak at a specific time, you need everything go right to get to that peak and you can't stay at the peak eternally.

So having won world championships or set records in recent times, News Ltd now report the next loss as a "crumble under pressure"!
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs North Melbourne @ North
Quote from: Micky0 – on

Absolutely and I understand they are giving everyone more leeway to keep the game moving but not multiple times constantly… at one stage both teams’ Players stopped and looked at the umpire waiting for a whistle. It was way too long and ugly to watch tbh.
How much of this is officials, and how much of it is a coach?

I'm sure there are coaches who will happily burn the sport to secure a win, I suspect Norp AFLW is doing just that, while many of the other teams are doing the best they can to play a more attractive style. Norp will play attractive when the game is on the terms they accept, but when it isn't going to plan they turn it into a pile of sludge.

Think of the comments over the last season of so from both Voss and Fraser about not just wanting success but also to play an attractive brand. That is what gets +95K to the MCG, not just the chance of a win!

See, Clarkson Sacked!

Which do you think is the AFL and AFL Club priority, 95K watching a potential win or 50k watching a certainty?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: DJC – on

You're on the wrong track there LP.

Mandatory reporting in Victoria requires certain professionals like doctors, nurses, teachers, police, etc to report evidence or belief of child physical or sexual abuse to child protection authorities.  There's no requirement to report crimes committed by children.
I see.

What happens in Vic when a minor is apprehended in a criminal act and not charged but redirected, who are they referred to?

Where I live they are referred to a specific office, an NGO that is compelled to report minors referred to them as potential abuse or neglect cases, they get a case manager immediately, it's an overwatch mechanism, every single kid that passes through the doors becomes part of the stats even if they are never charged. Whether this is right or wrong isn't the debate, what I'm getting at is how stats can vary region to region, state to state. And the whole reporting infrastructure is handled and managed by the court system.

It's the main reason for the big push Federally to set a standard, because the people I talk to tell me that at the moment quirks of reporting cause bias in the distribution of funds. Oddly, if you report more you are classified as wasting the money, and if you sweep it under the carpet you are doing a good job and get funding to extend the program.

This even applies to other types of funding, for example travel through Sleepy Hollow CBD and you see premise after premise vacant, perhaps 2/3 of premises are empty, for lease or abandoned. They build shopping malls that are state of the art and remain closed at 9:30am or 10am weekdays. Take the same drive on the other side of the bay for the Mornington Peninsula and you have to join a queue to get a premise lease, occupancy is something like 98% at the moment. Off the back of a handful of select projects the Bellarine is reported as a successful example, this is because of what they do not report. The net result is the Bellarine gets roughly 5x to 7x the per capita Federal funding relative to the other side of the bay. How people count numbers matters.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: Lods – on
It seems to me that the elephant in the room — the thing we’re not really saying out loud — is the influx of East Africans in Victoria and some of the more violent attacks (machetes, etc.). Please correct me if I’m wrong; I’m observing this from a distance.
Actually, my Vicpol contacts tell me in terms of numbers it's roughly proportional to population figures, but in terms of media reporting it's not proportional to representation and it also varies significantly based on region.

They give me a great example they can actually talk about, petty crime, pretty much all the petty crime that makes it to reporting in the mainstream media, News Ltd or Nine media, is associated with or inferred to be linked to African minors. But in the real world figures the representation is reported to be proportional. However, we(the public) do not get that impression because of the media bias in reporting. At the moment the popular media clickbait is a teenage girl of any ethnic background running rampant, and as they are presented by the media it appears teenage girls are some sort of social criminal syndicate, yet they are and still remain a miniscule percentage of offenders.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
The perception of a bias possibly exposes a misunderstanding of the generalised mandatory reporting that is in place in Victoria, that is not the same in other states by the way, at least not yet.

I'm happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding the Vic child protection act requires it for all child or youth crime, while and the public assume mandatory reporting only means mandatory reporting of child abuse. That means in Vic the mandatory reporting laws mean mandatory reporting of all children and youths involved in crime as well, they assume a child or youth involved in crime is a victim of some circumstance.

That is not the case in all Australian states, where officers have discretion over reporting in many cases, it's one of the big Federal issues to get it all standardized in the long term. Uniforms laws and reporting across Australia, but it's not there yet.

If you are in doubt, you can always get it clarified by Bec Judd! ;)
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: PaulP – on

Yes, I generally agree. There's a reason why you need tertiary qualifications to become a Criminologist - understanding the nature of crime, how crime is documented, recorded, categorized, being able to make sense of long term and short term trends etc is pretty tough.
In our country the laws are not even the same state to state, let alone the reporting requirements.

The public always comments based on a generalisation, and politicians often play on this even when they blatantly know otherwise, like Hansen bringing her Qld specific issues into the Vic elections!

But we have a bunch of lunatics running around claiming sovereignty or refusing authorities based on constitutional rights.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NFL Crapfest
The people who are duded are those who paid way overs for front row at ground level on the wing, late purchasing at top dollar, they made the assumption they were the best seats in the house and were screwed over, due to the relative size and curvature of the ground they are basically looking at a bench full of arses!

The best seats would have been up a level front row.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: DJC – on
When using the ABS statistics, or those from the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency, etc, it’s worth drilling down to see what limitations there are.  The States and Territories don’t necessarily collect the same data or in the same way.
I'm sure I posted this on this very thread days ago, or at least mentioned it when discussing the findings of my friend in Vicpol who moved to Qld, the reporting criteria is different. But some will just ignore that because it doesn't suit the narrative, and that post was well before any stats were linked or quoted.

To him before he moved to Qld it looked like less crime to deal with and more money for not having to worry about it, when he got to Qld the story was very very different.

If you measure using the same reporting criteria then serious crime follows population, I think it was an ANU study that standardised the figures and if I can find it again I'll post it. The federal data is the correct data to look at the trend, but it has to take into account definitions can change from year to year and government to government.

A bit like when Kennett kyboshed metal health facilities, all of a sudden Melbourne was the happiest and healthiest place on earth!

To me it's the same error the general public keeping making when reading stats, they assume an assault is an assault, and that all are reported. It's a bit like when we debate AFL stats, what is a tackle, what is a contested possession. What we think can be significantly different from what the statisticians use as definitions!

I suppose the real question becomes, what makes people think we are all the same and why even expect that? In my opinion it's a bit of a tell!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
At his recent rally RedTrump was promising to buy voters, but one crowd member called his bluff and screamed for the "Money up front, we don't trust you anymore!" and was escorted out. It got quite a laugh as opposed to the usual jeers, that's a tell!

Even the diehards are starting to see the bluff?

I wonder how long Hanson has on a beer budget before the it all turns to the sh1zen she claimed she would drain!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: DJC – on
Yes, that's spot on.  There are good reasons why most people don't trust insurance companies.
@DJC I worked for News Ltd for almost a decade, back then the "Style Book" was hardcopy and they printed a fresh copy every year or so. All done in house at an internal site called Rotaprint. It was handed out to all journos and editors. People(public) probably thought it was just about fonts and word choices, it looked like a thick little pocket diary or dictionary, it was of course nicknamed the bible, and beyond the typeface it spelt out the "News Ltd" position on just about every topic of public interest, politics, politicians, public servants, celebrities, society, crime, finance, etc., etc., not unlike a manifesto. It told you what words to use to describe them, what nicknames to use, what related issues to focus on, read enough of it and it became pretty transparent, ignore it at your peril, not many stayed around if they failed to follow the scripture.

I gather now we are in the internet era it's probably all digital or perhaps now an AI based proof-reader.