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  • Toyota really screwed up in deciding that Hydrogen was the energy of the future. Even when everyone else in the world went with electricity they persisted in their failed vision. It's a shame that an otherwise great manufacturer should fall victim to such massive hubris but honestly I think their days are numbered as a major vehicle manufacturer.

    There's no chance that hydrogen's going to be a long term success for them and with all their eggs in the one basket it looks like they're dead men walking.

  • I expect to hear in a few years that Carlson has been on the payroll of the Russians for years.

  • Ah, I see

  • Police weren't happy about gay pride back in the 1970s and it seems they haven't really evolved since then.

  • There's no such thing as Miranda rights in Australia - that's an American law. We do however have "the right to silence", and must be informed of that right by police on arrest so it has a similar effect.

  • Here's one on his lack of mental compentence to testify at his own trial.

    Apparently Singapore contacted our intelligence service and ASIO organised the sting with the FBI. Prior to that he had no buyer. That's consistent with the Wikipedia article.

    I can't find a reference now for the documents not actually being classified - I remember this from media coverage at the time. I think the story was that they were USGS maps which were subsequently publically available or something like that.

  • Even worse I can think of two other cases of the Federal Police and ASIO doing similar things:

    • Scott Rush, one of the "Bali 9", was imprisoned in Indonesia after a tip-off from the AFP. This followed his parents alerting the AFP in advance and them reassuring the parents that they'd keep him out of trouble - then waiting until the crime had been committed and tipping off the Indonesian police to take the credit.
    • Jean-Philippe Wispelaere was a defence intelligence officer with mental illness who was caught selling secrets to Singapore. The "secrets" turned out to be publically available maps - not secret at all - and he hadn't committed any crimes until the sting operation organised by an Australian government organisation and the FBI. He was arrested by the FBI and remains in prison today.

    I guess for police it looks good on your resume to have caught a bad guy, and it's easier to track if you're making it all happen in the first place.

  • I never thought to see the day that a former News Limited CEO was installed as head of the ABC by Labor. Surely they'll regret this at the next election when the ABC becomes like another Fox News.

  • I'm curious about their definition of "lakes" here. Lake Eyre in Australia is an enormous salt pan. Once every few years when it rains in the desert it briefly becomes flooded. Does that make it a lake?

  • People deye their hair more now. That's the biggest difference.

  • Grimes would have recorded at a studio in the US along with the other English language voice actors.

  • Godot supports C# as well as its native python-like GDscript.

  • Maybe not the impeachment but if any of the accusations are based on reports to police (or the FBI) then "making a false report" to police is a crime and that could be prosecuted.

  • But still... you're burning hydrocarbons so you end up producing a lot of CO2 which is going straight into the atmosphere. That's not what I'd call super green.

  • Also there's literally a scene in the Bible where god turns water into wine for his disciples. Why would he do that if it was a bad thing?

  • They developed their own vaccine but it was a bit of a dud.

  • NIxon is often quoted. But maybe you're right and Americans really do regard him as the worst ever.

  • Sure. But most Americans don't seem to regard Trump as the worst president ever which boggles my mind. This guy was openly trying to overthrow democracy in America and was engaging in organised criminal activities, and you think there were worse presidents? I mean he was literally trying to overthrow your entire constitution and system of government. Can it get worse than that?