As a backdrop, Australia is among the top 10 least corrupt countries in the world.

The QLD Crime and Corruption Commission website has many examples of the kind of corruption they find. It’s mostly to do with procurement and employment fraud, conflicts of interest, occasional dodgy police and major crime ie organised crime.

It is true the CCC is grossly under resourced and in need of reform, however as with many anti-corruption bodies, they become politicised and in this case the state government (either persuasion) is dragging the chain.

I buy “Dentitex Advanced Whitening Toothpaste” from Aldi, I think it’s made in Germany? I don’t mind it.

Same evap cooling for electricity generation, the steam is closed loop but then you gotta condense it back to water through cooling.

SD-WAN includes that but it is not its sole purpose, although I agree most vendors will say that’s what you want. WAN/Link Aggregation, Multilink Aggregation, Link Load Balancing, Equal Cost Multipath, WAN Virtualisation, etc are ways to bundle multiple links together.

In WIFI terms, it’s called channel bonding, it was proprietary and various vendors had their own implementations, see “Super G”.

You’d be surprised. A little window rattler AC could be powered by such a setup - ie I have a 1.6kw cooling A/C with an input rating of 490W, I’ve measured it to be around that. That will cool a bedroom somewhat. The issue will be the surge power when the compressor kicks in, so maybe add 50%.

Stop dropping watt bombs on cliff faces.

I tend to prioritise the drivetrain for upgrades/maintenance, or go single speed ;)

25 - 30 years is the norm in Australia for a mortgage. But a fixed interest rate can only be set for 1 - 5 years at a time.

Going from pro vice chancellors to C-levels. Removing faculties and deans, replacing with schools and directors who answer to the exec. Neo liberal idealism.

Indeed but in this particular case they’re using a large number of IPs, over 3000 on the last list I saw.

FTTC can provide these sorts of speeds, FTTN, not so much. VDSL2 can deliver 250Mbit/s at around 200m.

Also “rough cut”

Nah that was just the talking clock. The wake up/reminder service was a ‘premium’ service accessible via 1234.

1194 in Australia, it was discontinued in 2019 after 66 years. It’s now on the internet http://1194online.com/