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It's all about maintaining control.

It is a very good thing abandoned mines are closed. They are deadly and you should never go into one.

As someone who is over 60 and who has been going into abandoned mines for 40 years can I ask why?

What's next, no more bungy jumping, free climbing, surfing The Right, sinkhole diving, mustering cattle, etc?


The Nevada division of Minerals has some great info: https://minerals.nv.gov/Programs/AML/AML/

The point of substance there is:

     Being uninformed may result in accidental injury or death.
rather than your blanket advice to just avoid risk altogether.

    The Division of Minerals is legislatively mandated to conduct the State's AML program to identify inactive mines, rank their degree of hazard, and carry out activities to secure these sites
Clearly people do go into abandoned minesites to evaluate their current state.

The back end of https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/industries/m... carried a much larger database of global abandoned mines withmore infomation on why production lapsed (a good number may still be economically feasible with modern techniques) that wasn't simply limited to Nevada. That data should still be there on request.


Yes. Those are all extremely dangerous activities and our public hospitals should not be carrying the burden

The ones we pay our taxes for?

They're not exactly burdened by extreme sports injuries, most surfers, for example, are injured crossing roads, in car accidents, or at work falling off roofs, etc.

( source: one of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Stanley conversations back in the day )


Citizens have an obligation to act responsibly when they partake in broad social contracts such as shared health care and insurance. Such a society must regulate access to areas of extreme danger (disused mines) to stop mentally unwell citizens from endangering themselves but more importantly endangering their fellow contract holders.

Nah, we're right there thanks mate.

The whole inland gold belt region is filled with abandoned shafts and it's rare anyone falls down them.

What's the cost benefit in fencing off tens of thousands of individual pre existing shafts and to what degree of robust security construstion do you recommend? More to the point, what's the tax payer out of pocket cost for that?

You don't appear to have actually thought this through in any pragmatic sense.


I don’t think you understand what “mustering cattle” means...

Growing up in the Kimberley it was all Bull Buggies, Broomstick choppers, Quarter Horses and dirt bikes, all intrinsically a wee bit risky - but good practice for "grown up" geophys surveying in custom STOL crop dusters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B-zWxDJOZU


3:54 B taurus indicus begs to differ! (no oysters on the menu plz?)

The guy who taught me to swing a Brunton was over four times my age, and whenever we were hiking in to a site he led us in: this basically meant we young vegetables would be frantically scrambling up to a nearby ridge so we could spot where he'd got to, only to eventually notice him waving cheerfully at us from the next ridge line over.


Buuuut they roast up so fine :(

'Wee bit risky" is right, keep your head on a swivel and don't be on the quad bike when the irate bull flips it and all is okay.

Your leading surveyor was very much our father when we were in single digits .. four hour long walks across rugged landscapes and down gorges with him as a barely visible dot waaaay up ahead.

He's a lot slower now approaching 90 .. but can still split wood and shovel a tonne or two.


I agree with you. My insurance agent sends me a birthday card, but it's a service they pay for and they likely don't even know it's happening. It's the opposite of a personal touch.


If your identity gets stolen, you should be able to sue all the companies that had a leak.


Mastodon is the way, and it federates with Threads.


Only if you're on the right (or wrong) server.


Which is your own choice.


That doesn't mean they are wrong lol


We only use Alexa to turn the lights on and off, set the thermostat temperature and tell us the weather. No way would we pay for that.


> Amazon is planning to sell a paid subscription for an artificial intelligence-revamped version of Alexa

> you’ll still be able to use the current version of Alexa without a subscription fee.

It seems as if the current experience will remain free and this an available upgrade.


It's my Pandora radio and a handy calculator for decimals and fractions when I'm doing woodworking. No way I'm paying for that.


Caroline reported that you’ll still be able to use the current version of Alexa without a subscription fee.


They need to go after the landlords as well. If they just go after RealPage there is nothing stopping landlords from doing it again with different software.


Only if the software exists. By going after RealPage they ensure nobody else is stupid enough to write software this way. They might use software, but that software either will not have as much information, or it will have different information that they will try to claim doesn't violate the rules. The first is legal, but makes the cartel much harder for form. The second is illegal, but it is harder to figure out how to get information and make it seem like you are not violating the rules.


Microsoft is slowly making the transition from Windows being a OS to Windows being an Ad platform.


Slowly? LOL. That has been the direction full throttle since the day Windows 10 was released.


It already is an ad platform. They want to turn it into the surveillance platform of choice for governments, businesses and law enforcement alike.

Windows is already a privacy farce. The OS and 3rd party drivers capture a large chunk of what you do. Imagine having everything you do in one tidy location that can and will be used against you at the drop of a hat.


Slowly? It happened 10 years ago.


Even tough I like to be on Microsoft ecosystem, I have to acknowledge that Azure is the new golden goose in terms of Azure OSes, now that we are back into timesharing.

And Windows suffers from that.


That is relevant to the Recall feature how?


If your site or service only has social logins then it's a hard no from me.


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