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Well it seems to me a bit illogical if insurance valuations are based solely on that? Here there are still many old original small cottages sitting on prime beachfront land amongst recently built multi-million dollar properties. The real estate valuation (ie what you could ask for if you sold it) would be similar to the surrounding mansions due to its desirability as a knockdown - rebuild sitting on prime real estate, but the insurance valuation would be based mainly on the cost of rebuilding the dwelling as-is, plus any risk (floodprone etc). As you say, the land contains the value and you still have that after the house burns down.

Auto-update probably?

Building materials have skyrocketed in price since the pandemic, and labour is scarce. Also there may be additional "greentape" or similar, like insulation standards that must be met now, I don't know about the UK but here houses in bushfire prone areas now have to have a whole heap of mandatory extra "features" which can range from fireproof windows, ember proof guttering and roof construction techniques, automatic sprinklers on the building, fireproof shutters, etc. Many people who lost their homes in the 2020 fires found that the insurance payout they got was not sufficient to allow them to rebuild their house as it was because all these extra conditions raised the rebuild cost substantially higher than the previous valuation that the payout had been based on.

They DO get sprayed with some stuff to keep the flies off.

The Saturn Ultra 3 had ACF film as-shipped. It is more rubbery looking and quite cloudy. Its apparent main reason for being is that it allows faster print times (though you need high-speed resin). The disadvantage of it that I found is that it is less hard wearing than PFA and mine got a small tear in it within the first week. As a stopgap I took the PFA equipped vat from the Saturn 2 and used that as is, since its a straight swap - and have been using it without issues for the last 12 months. I don't need fast print times so the ACF is not needed and I've not bothered ordering replacement ACF. Additionally, its been claimed that ACF prints are less detailed than ones done with PFA and I definitely found that out when I bought an Anycubic M5s or whatever it was called that used ACF film. The prints were markedly inferior to what the Saturn 2 had given me even though it was 12K vs 8K, so I sent it back and got the Ultra 3 instead. I didn't do enough high detail prints on the Ultra 3 before the FEP got damaged so I can't say if that printer has the same print quality issues using ACF, but youtube reviews I've seen suggest it doesn't.

I guess the Cheese one is out of the question then!

Anyone can criticise all they like, its not like we are going to listen or anything......

June is the date here too, although when I ordered my Saturn 3 Ultra in the pre-sale last year the shipping was estimated to be two months time but I got an email saying it was on its way about 2 weeks after I put the order in so who knows? (When checking that I saw that I paid US$499US for the Saturn 3 Ultra, compared to US$399 for the Saturn 4....)

The ultimate taste test ( a kind of taste test Ashes) would be to compare this with the Marmite Penguin.

Make sure you check his luggage , hate for any of these to sneak in!

The Australian Dept Of Defence and BAE here have both swapped over from Skype to Teams on their unclass system just this month. The Classified network will probably stick with Skype for years yet given the time it takes to get software security-accredited on that.

65% and rises 5% each year.

A pack of Benson and Hedges 20's here is around $52 (£27...)

And no one knows the Civil War with such expertise as that great historian, many say the Greatest historian of all time - Donald J Trump - this is a transcript of his rally on the weekend: "Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was, the Battle of Gettysburg what an unbelievable..... I mean it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many different ways it represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg wow I go to Gettysburg Pennsylvania to look and to watch... And uh the statement of Robert E Lee who's no longer in favor - did you ever notice that, no longer in favor? "Never fight up hill me boys never fight uphill." They were fighting uphill. He said "wow that was a big mistake", he lost his great General and uh they were fighting. Never fight uphill me boys, but it was too late... Well I don't know"

I shouldn't mention that I have two of those, though they are currently stacked up in a back corner to make room for all the 3D printers!

We have recycling facilities at places like supermarkets, service stations and universities. They accept glass, PET, HDPE, aluminium, steel and waxed cartons between 150mL and 3L in size and you get a 10c refund on each container, so its a source of extra money for some, and as a bonus the general litter lying around the place has reduced markedly. A barcode reader reads the barcode of each container to determine whether an eligible container has been deposited (rather than say a rock or something I guess!) The money goes straight into your choice of a bank account, paypal account, a supermarket e-voucher or can be donated to a nominated charity. There's also smaller versions that also have the same refund facility at places like beaches, parks and sportsgrounds etc.

There have already been 3 civil and 1 criminal trial in New York involving Donald Trump, and 3 of them had juries - the two E. Jean Carroll cases and the Trump Organisation Tax fraud case of 2022. All 4 trials resulted in Trump and or his corporation being found liable so juries can be found, and can produce a verdict.

Theres a list of42 questions that all jurors are asked: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/04/15/trump-judge-submits-most-exhaustive-questionnaire-for-jurors-in-hush-money-case-here-are-all-42-questions/?sh=7e88e78c5a04 In addition all jurors are asked to raise anything that will prevent them from giving a fair decision, eg "I think Trump is awesome" or "I hate Donald Trump due to January 6th" etc. Also both the defence and prosecution are allowed to select 10 jurors each to remove from the panel without having to give a reason, although it cant be based on race, religion or gender (ie the defence cant removed all the women etc). That, along with many jurors hesitation to serve for fear of reprisals if their identity is revealed shows why jury selection will take all this week and into next week possibly, since they need 15 jurors plus around 6 backups in case of anyone dropping out.

Yay for living here in that I don't get hit with any kind of tax issue , and the postage from China is usually free, though this time its $20 or so. This was purely a spur of the moment purchase because I am perfectly happy with my Ultra 3. And when I bought THAT, I was perfectly happy with my Saturn 2 8K. I guess I am just a sucker for "BUY NOW" buttons!

In the name of infrastructure spending the Govt here is currently knocking up a new international airport west of Sydney, plus the necessary motorways and metro train lines to service it. To get to work and back I drive along one of the upgraded roads which now has a detached cycleway along its entire length, but still cyclists prefer to ride on the hard shoulder. This doesnt really worry me or whatever, except that my radar cruise control will occasionally pick up some stray cyclists on the side of the road and jam on the brakes for me because it assumes I am about to run into them. . Luckily the cars behind me always see the funny side of this and respond with a happy little beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep on the car horn as they swerve and sail past me, 2 fingers raised in a friendly manner.

Due to it working out that you were doing it on a mobile phone?

As the topic says, I bought an ultra 4 in tonights midnights pre-release. I already have a Saturn 8k and a saturn 3 Ultra so I'm not sure why I need this but I liked the camera idea and the vat that tilts and I have a bit of a disposable income due to living in Australia so why not? I'll report back when it turns up and let you know if its much of an advance on the Ultra 3, or even my Saturn 2 8k, which is an awesome printer and the one I'd recommend to anyone who was getting into resin printing at the moment.

On another matter entirely, demonstrating how cheap tech is these days, the Elegoo Saturn Ultra 4 3D printer went out on pre-release at midnight tonight, which is why I'm still here basically, waiting to press the buy now button ... Under $700AUD is a crazy price for what it has. If you are 3D printer curious, this would be the printer to get as far as print size and ease of setting up is concerned. 12K definition, self levelling, foreign bodies in the vat alerts, AI camera monitoring... Basically just unbox it, setup the WiFi, pour resin into the vat, and off you go - we live in a wonderful age. I don't need it, but it'll add to my stable of 3D printers ( number 8...) for when I start a 3D printer museum or something, but I want it and I have therefore ordered it. Main goody for me is a little camera that will show how the print is going so I don't need to walk down the stairs to check it for myself.