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  • He even said we (Australia) are ripping them off, even though we have a very lopsided Free Trade Agreement in their favour.

    I'm hoping after the weekend AUSFTA is done for (it's Election Day tomorrow!).

    One of the bigger stipulations in AUSFTA is that we buy medicines from USA first and foremost, no matter the cost, if they make a medication. This is to cripple the PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme - basically fixed price medication in Australia for PBS listed medicines, The most any PBS listed medicine can cost is $31.60 or $7.70 if you're elderly/disabled/unemployed/a carer for the previous 3) as Indian, Brazillian and even European pharma is so much cheaper than US.

    Losing the shackles of AUSFTA is something I yearn for and Trump is stupid enough to allow it happen.

  • Nintendo also sells all their games digital and you can’t transfer those.

    Yet.

    They've advertised Virtual Game Cards as a value-added feature to let your friends borrow games, but I'd bet good money they built out that infrastructure to comply with the potential for the EU to require used sales on digital.

  • We celebrate Labour Day in Australia, but on different days since we have a large 4 day block of public holidays over Easter with ANZAC Day the following week.

    In Western Australia it's the 1st Monday of March.

    In Victoria and Tasmania it's the 2nd Monday of March

    In South Australia, New South Wales and ACT is the 1st Monday of October

  • But without drivers, you can pretty much throw all of it away.

    I'm not sure you could - since spectator safety is considered more important than driver safety. (both are important)

    So unless it's out in the middle of nowhere, with no spectators, no camerapeople, any pit crew would need to be in bunkers - just drones within a few kilometers of the track - it couldn't happen either and such and event would probably be less exciting than watching someone else play the F1 PC/Console game...

  • All that means is extinction right now.

    It's the poorer classes that understand how to live in the world, but they'll be the ones to die with the rich clueless gentry inheriting an earth they can ever live in.

  • We've got some large scale batteries in SA (funnily enough one of our first was built by Elon, with his '$100mil for 100MW in 100 days' promise, which largely held- this was pre mask-off though) and it's now a lot better than in was in 2016.

    We've also got more power generating here, so less variable dependence on interstate links (which go back to Brown Coal powered Victoria, yuck)

    I'm not implying there is a problem with their grid though, just stating a small problem can cascade very quickly in an AC grid, it doesn't take a lot especially when a lot of us in the western world have been belt tightening for the last 10-15 years (less available backup capacity)