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    The money we use is not legal tender

    Here we have all the same protections for debit cards as we do for credit cards and if a dispute looks genuine the banks will credit that money straight back in to your account then investigate the situation properly afterwards.
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    Headphone / Noise cancelling for Toddler

    I've noticed that with all newer cars. Aussie cars at least used to have really good noise insulation underneath them but that seems to have gone out of fashion, probably due to cost and weight.
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    The money we use is not legal tender

    Most Aussies have a Debit Card, not a credit card. It works the same as a credit card in most cases, websites recognise my card as being Visa, but there's no line of credit attached to that account, it's just a savings account. We don't pay any fees or surcharges for using these cards either...
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    Headphone / Noise cancelling for Toddler

    Simple understanding will be more helpful to him than anything else, many of us don't get much of that.
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    No. Do you know what you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? [SPOILER]

    No. Do you know what you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
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    Gaseous Fuel

    Here Solar is king. We have more sunshine than just about anything else. My city of Adelaide gets about 270 days a year of unbroken sunshine, much of Australia does. What we don't have is enough water.
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    Gaseous Fuel

    It's extremely dangerous in closed in spaces such as inside a factory, but as you mentioned it loves water and is easily diluted, where as if you spray water on a petroleum spill you just make more mess. I think I can see a future with no old fashioned big power companies in Australia. Our...
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    Gaseous Fuel

    The gasses it gives off can be deadly but in many other ways it's less dangerous than petrol because it's less flamable. And it's already used in massive quantities by many different industries so it's not like we don't know how to keep it safely contained. Australia sees it as the future for...
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    Gaseous Fuel

    Making ammonia is even cheaper still, but even more importantly, existing engines are easily converted. This is the latest deal Fortescue has done, they've been refitting freight trains for Deutsche Bahn for a few years now. Fortescue and CMB.TECH sign agreement for ammonia-powered ore carrier
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    Gaseous Fuel

    Some of them indeed are, and then there's a couple of others still screaming and crying like babies because it's not the 1950s any more. One of our biggest, Fortescue, has diversified in to ammonia and hydrogen in a big way. Their ammonia powered engines are now driving big ships as well as...
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    Gaseous Fuel

    Our renewable energy industry just got to an awkward stage where change now has no choice but to happen. We now generate far more green power than we can use, we're building more and more battery banks but at the moment demand for storage is huge. And at the moment we still need our coal and...
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    The money we use is not legal tender

    We have laws around that too and businesses can refuse payments made in such a way as to be "vexatious". In other words they don't have to accept hundreds of dollars worth of 5 cent coins. Or, they can accept the payment but charge the payer for the time it takes to count said coins.
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    Hi ^_^

    Hi and welcome to the forum.
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    The money we use is not legal tender

    Although this is true to a degree, having a legal definition of "money" and a legal framework surrounding it makes a big difference. Australia is different. Many situations have popped up in recent decades where businesses try to refuse cash and our government steps in and restates the laws...
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    Top Down Learning Vs Bottom Up Learning

    This Hands On approach is how most of us learn, myself included. When it comes to programming and languages most people start at a very early age - as young as 9 or 10. They don't start out formally, they start by playing video games on a real computer instead of a console. On a real computer...
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    The money we use is not legal tender

    I never knew Scotland had it's own notes, I just always assumed they were using Pounds Sterling. And they're still made of paper too which would make anyone not aware of them very suspicious. Most modern countries these days use plastic money, Australia started the trend and we now print the...
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    Women in mens personal space

    My sister taught her daughters to use men's toilets when they need to. She said there's usually a queue in women's toilets where as in the men's toilets the cubicles are mostly unused. I've seen quite a few women do this, they might get some strange looks (usually from other women) but there's...
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    Post something Weird or Random

    A very big hole. That's the Kalgoorlie Super Pit, a gold mine.
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    In tropical regions rain only happens during the hottest time of the year, and the rain isn't...

    In tropical regions rain only happens during the hottest time of the year, and the rain isn't cold. Don't get me wrong, it will drain some of your body heat, but it's not like getting rained on in a colder climate. In fact people enjoy the rains to cool them down when they get caught in them...
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    Headphone / Noise cancelling for Toddler

    I was also always very affected by this. Even today, if I hear a couple the next street over having a domestic argument it upsets me far beyond what it should. I want to cry, I want to run away, I want to hide, I want it to stop. I don't do any of those things of course but that's how it affects...
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