kevinlms

Here's is an old workers village, which is being revamped to cater for a shortage of hospitality workers. Shows that it's a world wide problem. The shortage has killed off the underpayment of those same people, not too many years ago. It was rife in Australia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-10/can-revived-bogong-village-ease-vic-alpine-accommodation-crisis/103673830

Replace the arrow with a finger and ask again!

You could always put the wheels in the LRM kit!

Plenty of people refer to their caravan as a 'van'. At least that was the point of my previous comment.

Oh I have and I was doing nothing wrong, but the police didn't know that. I was driving my wife's car and I got stopped 9 times in about 18 months. The police system recognised her car as belonging to a suspended driver - which was true, due to medical issues. So yeah, I got used to the procedure and had my licence in my hand by the time they got to the window! They took it back to their vehicle and it came back clean, without an issue everytime. I would rather 2 minutes of inconvenience, than having people driving around without a licence or other issues related to the car. The law says that in Australia (well OK, licences are mostly issued by the states with almost identical laws), that the licence should be carried at all times WHEN DRIVING and that I believe is part of the priviledge of being allowed to drive. Yes, there are other ways of them proving it's you with modern technology, but usually it's quicker if you have it with you - I like an easy life. A drivers licence is NOT technically an ID card, although many people assume that it is.

This is how it should be, never a MUST.

I remember similar ones, such as a building being demolished with a heavy duty version, but not that particular one, but you're probably correct!

None of that happend here, shortly after disconnecting they were recovered. Are the repurposed ones repainted a different colour, or some other distinctive feature, such as a new logo, so people don't waste time going to them, hoping to make a call?

Excellent, not one we've had before!

Depends entirely what sort of vehicle. If it's a caravan, absolutely no persons inside while it is moving!

You don't need any money to make calls within Australia from phone boxes. They made such calls free a few years ago. The problem is that there are far fewer, than there used to be. But that is one thing you don't need to worry about, no coins or card required.

So advising you to have a back up mobile, isn't telling you that there is a drawback?

As far as I'm aware, no one has said that owning a mobile is compulsory* anywhere in the world. So if you don't want a mobile, that's absolutely fine. The point of BT (and others) recommending that you do have one, is so that you aren't caught out with an outage. The outage can of course be for many reasons, not just that the technology is inferior. Remember the old PSTN phone line, was never a 100% guaranteed service, so nothing has actually changed. * An employer might make it a condition of employment. As for being self-employed and not having a mobile, for would be customers to contact you - good luck with that! I did come across a business in suburbia that worked without power, but still had a mobile! They previously had a generater, but someone knocked it off and they didn't bother replacing it.

If ANY resistor runs hot enough to burn cardboard, the person who did that has no idea of what their doing! Resistors come in different Watt ratings, using a 'standard' 1/4 Watt is being lazy and possibly risking fires. Carbon resistors are commonly available as 1 Watt as well and wire wound ones at 5 or 10 Watt, so no excuse.

I don't mind using the toll roads in Melbourne (East Link is NOT owned by Transurban - although they are looking at the possibility of buying it), as long as they do provide a better product than the freebees. In the case of East Link, it is vastly quicker than using Stud Road, the only viable alternative. However, I admit that I don't have to use toll roads every day.

In Australia, the Country Fire Authority stations had sirens to alert volunteer firemen to come. In their infinite wisdom, it was determined that the sirens weren't required anymore, as pagers/text messages would work better at lower cost. The problem being, that they forgot that this meant dad left the shop when the siren went off, in turn that meant mum left home and went to take over shop duties and grandma, went to the daughters house, where the children had been left alone! All of which was easy, when the whole town could hear the siren. They got reinstated!

As someone whose been in the industry for many years, I agree with most of what you say. However I don't bother with a corded phone on standby, because the infrastructure required is no longer available.

You can actually buy cordless phones, that reverse charge the base in the event of power loss. It does of course reduce the effective life until the batteries go flat. But of course without power to the modem etc, it's useless!

Does anyone care what they do?

But don't make the common mistake that PSTN phone lines 'always worked', that wasn't true either. If the cables in the street were damaged, or the exchange lost power for too long, then they would fail, too. The world employed many 1000's of people repairing/replacing faulty phone lines. Or I know of a major exchange, which had a serious fire and took everything out for weeks, in the surrounding district.

We had an incident at my club today, involving a medical pendant. I answered the phone at the clubrooms and it was a rather anxious wife of a new member. Apparently his pendant kept going off and it was ringing all the default contacts in turn and none could speak to him. So she rang the club, because that was where he was going, but had he crashed the car or something on the way? What made it tricky, was that because he was a new member, I didn't recognise the name, nor did the first person I asked! However we did find someone who knew him and his location at the club grounds. So all good in the end. It turned out that the pendant was under several layers of clothing and he had been bumping the button and not realising. So that raises the question about new members and medical conditions, because we also had another member have a seizure today and ambulance call out, so not an entirely happy day.

Yes, but not lately! 😇

The last 2G service in Australia was turned off in 2018. Later this year 3G will be turned off - one provider already has. Some models of 4G phones won't work on voice calls, as they can't use VoLTE - they use 3G for voice. So be wary of acquiring older tech phones, which MAY themselves need replacing in a short time scale. In short, check with your mobile suppliers, as to when the dates are for turning off, for various tech. REMEMBER, they don't have the full system working one day, the next turned off completely. What they do, is as the date gets closer, they don't repair faulty equipment (maybe a restart, beyond that, they won't spend cash), and so you might end up with localised outages

Which means that you are entitled to complain to the moderators about it, or just move on to the next. Plenty of other posts not funny or repetitive.

Cost me $A23.67 in early December.