In some respects, PAUL 1405, you'd have to be the loneliest individual on this Forum. Moreover, you seem bereft of genuine supporters, and those who may agree with you quickly tire of your know-it-all attitude.

You were much more amiable when I first met you here some years ago. Though you'd seek to have your opinions and views heard, you were reasonable in prosecuting those opinions and ideas. And you suddenly changed, diametrically so. As if you thought everyone was out to eviscerate you and your views. And clearly, they weren't.

I think it was the famous American artist Edward HOOPER who graphically captured (oil on canvas) several chronically lonely individuals having coffee at an all-night Diner in New York somewhere.

Sadly PAUL 1405, you utterly epitomise one such image in that painting. We're born alone, and we die alone. But to live a life of loneliness - I pity anyone who lives such an isolated, forsaken existence.

o sung wu,

I'm sure a person who has worked in the field of clinical psychology must find our interaction most interesting. Have you ever had cause to interact with such a person?

Yup, as a matter of fact, I have. From mid-2005 to the end of 2008. The Austin Repatriation Hospital. Every Friday, I attended a group session with fellow veterans suffering from chronic PTSD and nightmares. It was known as the Nightmare group. With seven Vets in each group. With a qualified Psych. nurse overseeing the conduct of the group.

And you, Paul, what are your Psychiatric antecedents, may I ask.

o sung wu,

Been fortunate not to have been involved with such at a patient to doctor level, that's not to say I don't need such treatment. BTW, I have a friend in Canberra now retired, who was a professional in the field during his working life, in NSW prisons and later with the Federal department.

Okay, I did text him Wednesday, saying I think I'm going to have another "stoush" with my forum buddy, with a link to this thread. He finds the anonymous interaction between us and other posters interesting. Let me say my friend is not out to, nor does he, criticise or denigrate you or others in any way, he just finds this sort of stuff interesting, why anonymous people clash, and also why they agree, and what he believes we get from a forum like this. He's very interested in peoples behaviour on social media in general, its something he didn't really experience in his working life.

p/s, I did give an outline of you and a couple of others I interact with regularly, as much as you have revealed about yourself on here in the past.

One thing he said, he doesn't see our anonymous interaction as harmful to either of us. Much more dangerous on 'Facebook' where people know the person they are interacting with, then it can become very personal.

Dear mhaze,

How utterly disingenuous of you to be putting up pictures of children mining Cobalt as a retort to filthy coal mining and power production.

Firstly Australia has the second highest Cobalt reserves in the world. Exploitative countries like the Congo undercut our mining costs and it is in our own interests that it get cleaned up, which is happening.

Secondly Cobalt is used in many sectors of the electricity industry including both gas and coal fired stations. It is employed in producing magnets for generators.

"alloys of cobalt are used in jet turbines and gas turbine generators, where high-temperature strength is important"
http://www.cobaltinstitute.org/about-cobalt/

It is of course used in rechargable batteries but also used "to make airbags in automobiles; catalysts for the petroleum and chemical industries; cemented carbides (also called hardmetals) and diamond tools; corrosion- and wear-resistant alloys; drying agents for paints, varnishes, and inks; dyes and pigments; ground coats for porcelain enamels; high-speed steels; magnetic recording media; magnets; and steel-belted radial tires."

Punching down again it appears.

Firstly Australia has the second highest Cobalt reserves in the world.
SteeleRedux,
So what, every natural resource is finite. The real question is, what will most of this Cobalt be used for ?
For the consumers who will deplete it in a flash or will it be used for technology that is good for humanity & life on the Planet in general for the long term ?
Australians in the Australian sense are all but extinct now & all the new blood Albo’s gang is lining up will do only one thing-boost Labor votes.
I’m afraid, Australians will not even be mentioned as a Nation soon due to their own doing !