Cops will never have aerial attack drones...

The military's surveillance and attack drones are expensive and cops cannot afford them... or : perhaps this will change your mind

Fitted with your choice of :Tazer, Rubber bullet or Chemical munitions.
If you were a cop would you want to put yourself in danger unnecesarily?

Advice NOT from your local Police.

Running and screaming from an attacker I would do if I thought it was the best thing to do.  I don't.
In an attack you may find that running is not an option due to health problems, a previous injury or the attackers being everywhere you want to run and younger and fitter than you.  Don't rely on the chance you can run faster or for longer than your attackers or their accomplices with a convenient vehicle.  The attacker's plan might be to get you to run in a direction they have already selected for you.
Carry something to even the odds in your favor.  I think you know what I mean.  You can work out the rest for yourselves.  Why not? Police did.

Mind Maps now.
(Another diamond plucked from the pain of my existance...)
Wikipaedia says what I would like to say, only better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

Sure, you could find this stuff out for yourself, but, save yourself the trouble of searching through the gravel of all the rest of the dross on the net (and on wikipaedia).

Brush your God damn teeth!

Facing the facts: Oral Hygiene.
You are often told to brush your teeth but not how or why.
Today I will remove the veil of poor information transference.
The main reason to CLEAN your teeth is NOT to remove remaining scaps of food.  Although this is a good thing the main reason to clean your teeth is to remove plaque.  If there is plaque and carbohydrates in your mouth the plaque will use the carbs as their food.  One of the waste products from the plaque digesting the food, the plaques wee and poos if you like, is acid.  The acid dissolves the affected tooth starting from a small pit or some previous damage.  The presence of food particles, particularly starch, helps to keep the acid against the tooth and stops it from dissolving in your saliva and being swallowed.  Think of bits of starch as being sponges soaking up acid and keeping it against your teeth.
Perversly, if you had candy instead of something starchy to eat, like bread, then when you have finished eating the sugar would dissolve and leave your mouth and the acid production would stop. Not so with the starchy food.  Starch is good at sticking onto your teeth and staying there without dissolving.
When you brush you teeth properly the plaque is almost totally removed.  It takes quite some time for it to build back up again, particularly if there is no food for the plaque to use for energy.
Brushing your teeth the wrong way stresses your gums,wears your teeth away and forces food in between them.
To clean your teeth propery first let us consider flossing.  Your molars have 2 of is 5 exposed sides inaccessable to your brush.  To clean them you want to gently drag a piece of floss between your teeth and then, if possible, get it a bit further below the gum line.  The next step is to pull it hard against the side of the tooth and drag it off the tooth.  Each gap will need to have the floss drawn into it twice, once for the tooth on each side.  The idea is to saw it gently in and drag it out hard against the tooth with no sawing motion on the way out.  Think of it like you are garrotting the plaque or taking it out with a wire cheese slicer.
Once each gap has been flossed then it's time to brush.
Prepare your brush by wetting it.  This stops the liquified toothpaste from working its way into the roots of the bristles and wearing out your brush.  It also stops yucky food particles from building up in the bristle roots.
Apply a bead of toothpaste along the tips of the bristles.
DON'T!
Don't brush with an in-out action. The bristles will be following each other and will wear a groove at the gum line.  Brushing this way also pushes your gums away from the teeth exposing the dentine of the roots.
Instead, brush by applying the bristles to the gum and drag them up the side of the tooth and off the crown.
To clean the crown brush acrosswards (is that a word?) NOT IN AND OUT!
Brush for 2 minutes, this gives plenty of time for plaque removal and just enough time for the fluoride to harden the enamel.
Now rinse and spit.
Brush after breakfast and brush and floss before bed every day.
The idea is to remove plaque.  If you can't feel where it is then chew a dye tablet and concentrate on the pink bits.  Having done it with the dye a couple of times you will be able to feel the difference with your tongue and work out where the plaque remains without the dye.
Look after your teeth.  One day the dentists may all be gone. (See Below)

Our wierd sun and how it's going to kill you.

Today's Link...

The sun has been very quiet for the past decade.  This is not normal.
Normally it fluctuates on an eleven year cycle.  But not anymore.
Sunspots, like the one pictured above are the subduction zones on the suns surface.  The sun is made of plasma, a superconducting, superhot phase of matter where the majority of the atoms are ionised having lost at least one electron.  In a normal sun, or the one we have become accustomed to, the hot plasma rises slowly from the hotter lower layers in cells.  At the edge of the cells the plasma pluges downwards and is reheated.  At the solar maximum these black spots form and the relatively cooler plasma migrates deeper.
This circulates more hot plasma to the surface in the cells.  This gives a sun that gives of marginally more heat.

What is abnormal is what has been happening during the last few years.  The sun was supposed to be in solar maximum in 2008 but was remarkably clear.  It has had a very low number of sunspots since.
This spot cluster pictured above is the biggest for many years.

What will happen next?  There are three expected outcomes:
1) The sun will limp along with these unpredictable symptoms, life will continue as it is.  It will either end up "normal" again or switch to the following 2 modes.
2) The lack of sunspots could be indicative of a lack of heat being generated from underneath.  This will result in a cooling of the earth due to less heat.  There earth would also be cooled due to the reduction in the solar wind which blows away most of the cosmic particles that seed our clouds.  More seeding particles, more clouds and less sunlight getting to the surface.
3)  The lack of sunspots could be due to a distruption in the normal circulation of plasma.  Over the last 10 years the heat could be building up.  This much higher heat within the sun could convect to the suface in a vast flare.  Normally flares are short lived affairs and most often do not occur when the earth is in the way.  If this predicted, long-lived flare occurs then the sun will become a sprinkler spewing radiation on a previously unseen scale.  The sun would spew its radiation from its equator into the ecliptic plane where our own earth spaends all its time.  Once hit we could then count on getting hit again in 24 days time as the sun rotates around to have another go, and maybe again in another 24 days...

So, having another ice age is survivable.  We came out of our last one 11715 years ago.  The normal state of the earth is "ice age".  Enjoy your warmth and easily found fresh water while you can.  In our ice planet the oceans are hypersaline and tiny.  The sea level can drop 1500m.  All the excess water ends up as polar ice cap and the rain guage stays dry.  Makes global warming look like a GOOD thing!

The effect of the earth getting strafed with a solar flare can be guaged by the occasions when a small bit of the planet got hit by a quick blow.  In 1859 there wasn't much in the way of electric technology around when the earth got hit by one.  It caused a few telegraph stations to catch fire.  Link.  Another hit happened in 1989 and affected Canada.  Link.  These were "minor".  If the sun behaves as per scenario 3 then the whole earth will be affected.  As well as widespread damage to electrical items there would be the danger of penetrating ionising radiation similar to what you would get in a nuclear war.  A minor plus would that it could be safe to venture out of your radiation shelter at night time.  The auroras would make it worth the risk.

Get yourself a radiation meter and maybe some snowshoes too.  Just don't tell anyone or else they will think you are crazy.  You don't want anyone to think you are crazy now, do we?

Immigration...

Immigration.  Because we need more customers. Immigration is bad for Australia on so many levels:
1) They will need to be housed but housing is at a premium.
2) They will need water but the country is a dry one with unreliable rains.
3) They will need to be fed but we maek money exporting food.
4) They take up more space on our roads, in our trains, in our schools and universities.
5) They take little notice of laws here as they did in their old country with its corrupt and inept law systems.

Immigration will continue unabated despite what the voting public wants.  This is because immigrants become customers.  The industrys that serve these customers bankroll the election funds of the elected parties.  What do they care where they get the money from?
If they get their money from crime then the businesses make more by supplying repairs and extra security to the crime victims.
If they get their money from CentreLink then it comes from the taxpayer.
It's the government who screens the incoming immigrants.  I'm sure they select immigrants based on their likely voting preferences.  I would expect a liberationist immigrant would be one they would exclude.

Illegal immigrants still are accepted into the country depite not abiding by our legal system.  Why don't they just stop at the first country they come to and apply at the Australian embassy there?  Why risk themselves coming all the way here?  Perhaps Australia needs impatient, self selected, risk taking, rejects who cannot think of logical ways of tackling problems in their homelands.

Lost of immigrants who have been here for a few years I ask what they think of immigration.  Without fail they repond that Australia is full and immigration should stop immediately.

Bunny Boots

If your boot looks like this on the inside then you have genuine bunny boots.
Don't step into an iced over puddle in anything else.
Your feet are your lifeline to getting out of Dodge LOOK AFTER THEM!

Here's the outside view and site link.

Here's the Wiki info on them.

You will definitely want a pair if you have to stand around in the snow all day.

If anyone knows of other good sources of vapour barrier clothing then please let me know.

Marathon running for the lazy

run like this

Don't land on your heel if you can help it.
Don't take your knees forward past your hips until you are used to this technique.
Keep level, don't bounce.
Use your calf muscles to keep your heels just off the ground.
Use your hamstrings to propel you.
You will run at about 2/3s your normal fast running speed and your legs will have to oscillate about twice normal running speed but you will be able to run all day like this without tiring.
Test it for free!  I am NOT a runner but I would be totally wrecked if I had to run in a normal gait for 2 kilometres. However with this gait I could run for 2 hours.
This is a handy thing to know for when you do have to run.

BTW, ever notice how children can run any old how but if you saw an adult running and they were not wearing the appropriate sports gear then you would automatically assume there was an emergency somewhere or they were a criminal making a getaway? Go figure.

Aged stealing from the young with government help.

Get off my lawn you darn kids!
Oldies/Baby Boomers get government(taxpayer) handouts while the younger generation never had it so bad.

Wonder why you can't afford a house?  The oldies have bought them for investments.  This has pushed up prices so if you can't afford to buy if you don't want to rent one off them.

Do you think all those old aege benefits will still be there when you are old enough to retire?  Trick question... You will never retire because the retirement age will just keep rising.

It's like getting aged benefits is a special club where they are trying to prevent new members from joining.