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It's basically a first gen Suzuki Vitara if you want a model you'd find in Australia. It was the upmarket model from the Sierra (aka Jimny) of that era which was also a nice little 4wd albeit with a few stability issues.

It's a scene from In Bruges

Won't be much, the usual price near me for plain old iron/steel is around $100 (AUD) per tonne. With small amounts like this the main benefits are the fuzzy feeling of recycling rather than creating landfill along with avoiding the cost of paying to dispose of a heavy pile of stuff.

It's normal for a cold start, I haven't seen a chainsaw which didn't want at least some throttle to start from cold (old saws might not have the choke/throttle interlock for this but you use your boot to keep it on). Even the pre chain brake saws I've used have been like this - you just have to be aware of where you put the saw when starting it.

Hot starts are another matter as they should fire up nicely on idle once warm.

Perhaps this is why I particularly didn’t find the locomotive physics that strange

The reason why you didn't think it strange is because you don't know how one works, because there's multiple things which don't make sense otherwise.

The drive wheels are not the ones at the back but the ones with the connecting rods and piston rods (the pistons provide the drive force). The rods are placed in a way which would prevent the wheels turning if connected in those positions and would typically be placed on the largest wheels of the locomotive (i.e. that big wheel should be the drive wheel if it's going to be there).

The smoke should be coming from the very front of the locomotive as the output from the firebox needs to run through the boiler (most of the front of the machine) in order to generate the steam needed to actually drive the locomotive. Having it come from the back makes no sense unless the whole boiler arrangement is also reversed and it isn't.

Depending on where you are you might be able to get a road legal one. Talaria and Surron have both sold road legal versions of some of their models here in Australia, I believe they've also done so in the UK and I did read something about some US states letting you register them once appropriate lights are installed.

Of course this does require you to treat them as a motorbike and keep off footpaths, have the appropriate licence, etc. Once you've got the licence you can ride other motorbikes as well though so I don't see this as a downside (it's an enjoyable method of transport and more people should do it).

Technically it's just that you must show up to a polling location and get your name ticked off, if you really can't handle voting nobody will know if you drop in blank slips.

If you don't show up and haven't done a postal vote you get a letter later on asking whether you had a valid reason to not vote, if you don't have one then pay the fine.

With an audio track I feel like a well timed bleep can actually make a scene funnier. Doesn't work as well if you're trying to play it serious though.

When it comes to text censoring isn't worth it IMO, at least the type where you blank out part of the word or use a derivative. Everyone can still tell what word you meant so if it was important enough to include then use the actual word. If it wasn't that important then you don't need to write the word you're worried about in the first place - there are other words that can be used for insults or emphasis.

I paid $12 (USD) for a .in and $32 for a .nu with Namecheap, $20 (AUD) for a .au and $59 for a .email with VentraIP.

I can't really recommend Namecheap though because you can't count on getting support if you need it. A couple of years back I needed to change my account email with them due to Google being an arse and locking me out of my primary gmail account (namecheap required an email code to log in to the domain dashboard but I couldn't view the email), put a support ticket in while logged into the same account in their support portal and they ignored me for close on a month. At that point I managed to get back into the gmail account so didn't need their help anymore, I sent Namecheap back a message saying I was unhappy with their lack of help. About six months later they sent their one and only reply to my ticket, basically saying they were sorry I was unhappy but they didn't see a problem with the time they took.

I must admit I still have domains with Namecheap because sometimes it's just hard to get around to changing things, but I was reminded of their lack of competence literally this morning. They sent me an email saying I needed to update my domain contact info so I logged in and went to change it only to find their contact update form is broken and won't submit...

VentraIP hasn't given me any issues so far with either their domain or email hosting but I haven't had to rely on their support so I can't say how good they are with that.

How does one even start to make a self-propelling machine that cuts wheat stalks at ground level?

You look at a horse-drawn mowing machine like this and start thinking about how you could do something similar without the horse.

Adding a bunch of unsprung weight is a poor decision when it comes to handling though, and that's something pretty important in a motorbike that's trying to do more than just low speed commuting. Such a design will also be putting a lot of vibration through the motor components which is not good for longevity. It's more a case of going for the (admittedly distinctive) aesthetic rather than being sensible.

Do you have to apply or is it automatic? If automatic I can see potential for another round of eligibility issues in Australia's parliament coming up - you can't be a member of parliament while holding another citizenship and unknown/forgotten citizenships have caught people out before.