Topic: BFL: Chips have shipped, on their way to US - page 5. (Read 25583 times)

Not necessarily.  Centrelink administers income support payments but it also administers payments for children, which are received by many families who are not "low income" by most definitions (it's complex to explain how this works, but depending on whether or not both parents are working and the number of children, these payments don't totally cut out until the family income is somewhere between $90,000 and $150,000 pa).

Going on a short overseas trips is only an issue for people whose payments are conditional on some kind of activity - such as looking for work.

Is Kano on Australian Welfare?

http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/information/centrelink-website

Now I am not "base" enough to joke about that (cause soon most of us will be on welfare in one way or another as economies of scale deteriorate), but now I understand the rest as it comes into focus if this is the case.

It's no secret that Centrelink data matches with other government agencies, including the Department of Immigration - they tell you that themselves on their website.  Whether going overseas affects your payment depends on what payment you're receiving.

Newstart is suspended while you're out of the country because you're not available for work during that period.  The risk in not telling Centrelink in advance that you'll be going overseas is having your payment cancelled rather than suspended.  If you've failed to notify them in advance, they may also ask for explanation about why you went overseas and who paid for the trip.

They are claming that they will know whatever the chips work or not tonight. That is a progress.
I want to get up tomorrow and to know it.

12 Feb 2013: The chips have been delivered by FedEx to the bumping facility.
27 Feb 2013: A photo was taken of the chips.

15 days to take a photograph, and you call that progress?

Some progress

Well ... now that you mention it, I did seriously get an SMS from the Govt about half an hour 'after' I walked through customs ... that was unexpected
(Centrelink seems to have direct access to customs information ... ... scary)

I've logged many passenger hours in high-winged tail-dragers or on floats.  Recently I was a passenger in a Cherokee and it was unbelievable how nice it landed.  Attributed to low wing design, but the pilot was private but I think reasonably skillful.  Even a shitty pilot can grease one on often enough so a sample of one landing does not mean much.

I've yet to get my pilots license.  Flying is fun, but expensive and thus not worth it to me.  When BTC gets into the 4 figures USD per, I'll likely change my mind on this   Also stopped riding a motorcycles (on the street) after a crash.  Risk/reward ratio not favorable.

I have alerted Homeland security to the Australian Terrorist and his terror cell at BFL.... :p

Glad you enjoyed your flight.  I've been a private pilot (with Instrument and Multi-Engine Ratings) for about 15 years now.  I love it up there.

The smooth landing was certainly attributable to a well trained pilot, but also comes courtesy of the low-wing design.  Because of ground-effect, one has to practically coax/convince the aircraft to land

Enigma

Well, I certainly wasn't worried ... and the landing was VERY smooth indeed.
Definitely a highlight of the visit for me.

... not sure if I'm brave ... though ... I did once ride a motorcycle long ago in peak hour traffic for a year and was never scared of the stupidity I could do with it ... until I was hit by a truck and had to stop riding ... coz I couldn't walk for 3 months and the bike was not longer usable (It was the trucks fault)

To clarify why the flight doesn't show up on any flight-tracker - only IFR and Flight-Planned VFR Flights will show up on a tracker.  If the flight was performed as a simple VFR flight (Which it most likely was since Josh is only a Private Pilot with No Instrument Certification) then it wouldn't have been recorded in most databases.

You were a brave one Kano, Flying with someone who's only had a license for six or seven months in a rental airplane

Enigma

No I didn't take pictures of staff.
I didn't feel comfortable taking pictures of people, so I took them of everything else.

The picture of the plane is the same plane we got into
That picture is as we were walking to it.
That is Josh who piloted it and I sat next to him in the front - it's a 4 seater (as you can see), 2 front, 2 back.

The jpg headers are simply what GIMP copied (as it says) from the original and saved in the new files I created.
(The originals are all 3264x2448 except where I used the front facing camera to photograph myself)
The Pix folder on my server is also in my Dropbox, so I just load the original picture from my local Dropbox (yes the phone and Nexus photo folders are linked to my Dropbox also), scale it, and then re-save it in the Dropbox Pix folder that is linked in the Pix folder on that web server of mine.
No manual file transfers required by me from anywhere to anywhere, just short Dropbox transfer delays  
(though I'm not sure when I enabled that, it may have been after the first few pictures - but I'm not sure exactly when I did that)

As I said (no idea who or how many people) the 'Test Room' picture I took later and added later since I noticed I had missed it.

No idea what the problem is with the flight photos. I'm pretty sure I got them in order (unless the taking off one was a landing one )
We landed where we took off ... on the 19th. All photos should be on KC time, but my laptop is on Sydney time.
May well be the source where you get that data is slow or useless - since it lists the last flight as 12th and we flew on the 19th.

Yes I met everyone mentioned at the top of the page (even Jody's name is there ...)

The second photo was taken by me alone.
As I have said, it was a short walk from the Hotel to BFL, so on the first morning I simply walked there.
(after using Google Map to realise it was less than a 2 minute walk)

This is what we know for sure:

There is a plane. The pic was taken from inside the same type of plane from the passenger side with the Australian version of a Galaxy smartphone according to EFIX data.

All images show the same data, albeit the data can be changed prior to uploading the images onto a computer.

The first two images taken outside the lab when taken on the 18th shortly after 10AM.

The rest of the images, sans one, were taken on the 19th, including the joy ride ones. Only one image was snapped on the 20th (the one above the red door image).

The same camera/phone was used to snap the image at the airport on the 24th, according to the data.

I'm still waiting to see an image of Josh and Kano together taken with any camera.

The flight data has me puzzled, but I believe there's a reasonable explanation. Hate to play the other person's hand, but to be fair, it's possible the site doesn't give complete info, hence requesting to pay a fee to see all the flights associated with that craft.

I'm also surprised to not see an image of another person in the second photo reflected in the glass front doors. Perhaps Kano took a cab or had a rental car.

The best I can calculate is a total of less than 20 pics from an Australian Galaxy smartphone.

Would love to see more pics of staff, Kano. At least one with Josh. What did Josh's office look it? Did you meet Jody? Her chickens?

Later, bud.

~Bruno K~

Yes. That's the plane that Josh and kano flew.

http://198.245.60.111/Pix/

Did kano ever claim that the light aircraft in the picture is the one in which he flew or is that just an assumption people made?

I did notice it, but I thought perhaps I was mistaken on when Kano had left for BFL labs.

What do you make of it?

Josh PROMISED A PICTURE!!!! WHERE THE EFF IS MY PICTURES!? :p

Maybe BFL time is way behind standard time? It would explain the delays.