He's saying he's paid retail up to the amount he uses (12 or 25 c/kWh). (Connection charges are not included.)
When he generates an excess they only pay him wholesale for that. (2c/kWh)

I think it is actually a reasonable model.
Maintaining the lines is a pretty fixed cost = connection fee.
Generate less than you use = you pay retail on the diff like everyone else.
Generate more than you use = you collect wholesale on what you sell, same as other power suppliers.
They make a profit on selling your excess power, you get free energy storage.

Any mobile phone in AU can call the emergency number (000) regardless of blacklists, whitelists, whether you've paid the bill, or anything else.
If the phone is still functional and can get a signal, you can call the cops, ambulance, and/or fire brigade.

Any objective reading of the second amendment would seem to indicate that that is the case. If you don't like it, you should work to get the second amendment changed, not work to violate your constitution.

Four thousand light years is actually quite a long way.

These policy prices are largely determined by the re-insurers, not the insurance companies you deal with directly.
This is a much smaller group of much larger companies. I would have no difficulty believing they were colluding to raise prices.

Red or black, depending on where he set the ribbon.

What?

It's a gram and a half of sodium. It's 3.8 grams of salt.

When he was threatened with a lawsuit the problem magically went away. Obviously, he had the power to fix it. If it took threatening him to get him to fix it, then he deserved the threat.

Australian Ombudsmen kick arse. They have some pretty tough powers over whoever they are monitoring, and they aren't afraid to use it.

It wasn't budget cuts that got rid of woodshop and metalwork classes, it was the combination of legal liability and feminism.
- Little Jimmy cuts his finger on a chisel, mummy and daddy to sue the school.
- Woodwork and metalwork are mainly of interest to boys and are therefore sexist. They should learn "home economics" instead.

Waterbeds. Those buggers are heavy.

That's pretty much what Oz did when we converted. The open road limit was 60 mph, and went to 100 km/h (~ 62 mph). Same with the in-town limit of 35 mph which went to 60 km/h (~37 mph).
Made it much more acceptable to most drivers.

It is also perfectly fine for the prevention of "grab the cop's gun and shoot him" scenario. As long as bypassing the mechanism takes more than a few seconds, it would save lives.

They will if you turn the sensitivity up to "I need to search the hot chick" levels.