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Exactly! advising them to place cones on the driveway as a way to help the house owner to stop others from trespassing

or better yet move them onto their driveway, if they have one

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meong on I Just Got Scammed $1100 by Buying a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra from Facebook Marketplace

It will be reported stolen after it has been sold to you. You're left with a brick.

You sound like an advert for DOGE...

I wasn't saying if he was or wasn't doing a nazi salute, my point is **corrupt media and social media** on both sides to try to influence…

lol https://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-kamala-harris-nazi-salutes-elon-musk-2019092

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Captain Irrelevant on GMKtec G5 Mini PC Intel N97 12GB DDR5 512GB SSD Windows 11 Pro $189.99 Delivered @ GMKtec_AUS via Amazon AU

Mine was shipped

no ting wong wif his ingrish, it beri goot

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justlookin on Bad Timing for a New PC (Missed Black Friday - Any Deals for Budget $3,000)

Have you tried to reset the bios either by removing the cmos battery or by shorting the cmos pins? Other thing to try before buying stuff,…

Is it powering on, but black screen or does not power up at all?

My calcs, 800k house, we thought about renting it out, appraisal came back with $500 a week. I did 80% loan on the value of the house,…

I said **the exact same house**, in my case I used my own house as the example. You can look up your own house, get a rental evaluation,…

Yeah you're right it is, it might depend on the industry. I'm from an IT background and there's just way too many people, a lot of them…

Because living in a 3br house in say outer Melbourne, the rent is about 500 a week. Loan repayments on that exact same house is about 900 a…

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gogo1234 on [VIC, NSW, QLD, SA] Free Electricity Usage 11am-2pm Daily with The Free 3 Plan & The Basic Free 3 Plan @ OVO Energy

I did a similar comparison, came down to globird vs ovo Do you have solar? globird has slightly better FIT - but still depends on your time…

Doesn't make a difference because if the pay back threshold is low, it will continue to index higher and higher til it gets to the point…

So then don't an accounting degree? No one is forcing you to do accounting. A degree is like an investment into yourself. You pay upfront…

I don't think there's a skills shortage, there's a shortage in businesses willing to pay for those skills, except for migrants who are…

You can get the 2 for 1 disappointment bundle on CM

I think that's more to do with China's comparative wage advantage than skills but definitely agree we should have invested more and earlier…

China probably not the best example as it has another set of problems. Since everyone is overqualified, youth unemployment is +25% over…

> You are somehow slapped with a 20% "fee" up front It was a change in 2006 to HECS-HELP, **some** courses have a 20% loan fee which is…

It already does, in HECS funding is divided into 3 bands. The department of education determines which courses go into which bands, higher…

> When I signed up for HECS there was no indexation and then the deal was unilaterally changed on me I also graduated in 2000 and this is…

Yeah the way I see it HECS-HELP = Individual gets the benefit of higher income, so the individual repays the "loan", it's not even an…

arkie0 commented on OzBargainers' "Game of The Year" for 2024
Brothers, vote for the Emporer

So here's my gripe, my parents immigrated here - so they and I have never known free university. I finished a double degree costing about…

Yes, I agree that would be a positive reform to emulate the Nordic countries on education. I went to a public school and support public…

> Why are you arguing about this stuff when you don’t understand what any of the basic terms, such as compounded, real, or nominal mean?…
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