So you moved out of the frying pan and into the fire. NZ is a complete shit show as well. I disagree there, but if we want to discuss that then we need a new thread I think. Although I will say Ive seen a rise of far right activity here in NZ over the pandemic period - that has been disturbing. I s...
Jump to postJust a note to say that National Insurance is separate and an "insurance" and not a "tax" because it is not used for general spending, it goes into its own fund (the National Insurance Fund) and is used to fund very specific things (state pensions, a few income related benefits, ...
Jump to postThe best example about trade is this model - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_model_of_trade @A101, this is for you. Allow me to share, extrapolate a bit. What this model shares and tells that trade is best when you do with people around you, access is easier, costs are much more cheaper and t...
Jump to postSo, you’re voting for the “clown show” but cannot take the risk their proposals come to fruition? Hmmm… “Would be”, not “am”. Voted Lib Dems last time. Couldnt care less what happens in the UK once the house is sold. Pensions and all other assets are already transferred, do my NZ citizenship ceremo...
Jump to postSo, you’re voting for the “clown show” but cannot take the risk their proposals come to fruition? Hmmm… “Would be”, not “am”. Voted Lib Dems last time. Couldnt care less what happens in the UK once the house is sold. Pensions and all other assets are already transferred, do my NZ citizenship ceremo...
Jump to postThe Conservatives will be gone in two years. Unless we see something terribly significantly bad from Labour, we wont see a Conservative government until at least the mid 2030s. If only that were actually true.... I can easily see another Tory win in 2 years - May got in by the skin of her teeth but...
Jump to postThat is fair enough. Thank you for a detailed and thoughtful response. I’ve never really thought of myself as European. Maybe if the UK hadn’t sat fully at the edge of integration, during our years of EEC/EU membership this may have been different. It is of course a matter of individual perspective...
Jump to postThe next election is truly lost now. Just one of the many reasons Im selling my UK house as soon as possible (willing to take a bit of a discount on it from market at this point), feeling a little bit of guilt as its currently got a good tenant in it but I simply cannot afford it any more - the ren...
Jump to postWho's the idiot who designed that banding? Must be a lot of people and employers making sure income hits a ceiling at £50,190. The same idiots who put in place, and then lowered, the pension fund life time allowance, which is why a lot of older doctors are retiring from the NHS early - because if t...
Jump to postCongratulations to everyone in this thread, you have done what PETA set out to achieve - get their name and agendas discussed on the internet. You have been trolled. By PETA. They do not care about the actual thing they protest against - they pick extreme things to protest about precisely because it...
Jump to postPerp is a Danish citizen AND a recent convert to the Religion of Peace. As for a shooting, in this case, you actually do "shoot" an arrow. It's time for Common Sense High Capacity bow regulation now. End Bow Violence Now! Well in this case, this qualifies as a 'mass shooting'. Since it ki...
Jump to postI'm not sure I see the point of arming such a missile with a nuke. An ICBM in its reentry phase (its various reentry vehicles) is already hypersonic. The advantage of an hypersonic missile is to emulate the difficulty of interception of an ICBM without being a WMD. To attack an aircraft carrier for...
Jump to postOn top of this all, it seems that America is overmedicated. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Americans consume 75 percent of the world’s prescription drugs. Nearly three in five American adults take a prescription drug at any given time. Someone could also argue that prescription ...
Jump to postHow does pricing work now? In the US? Like this: In the United States, the price of prescription drugs is relatively unregulated, enabling pharmaceutical companies to increase their drug prices beyond inflation rates and regardless of demand. -The majority of a pharmaceutical company’s revenue come...
Jump to postSo they have enough money to campaign against lowering drug prices but have no money to actually lower drug prices? Quelle surprise.... The article is worded exactly so you think its a lot of money, but a "seven-figure ad campaign" is ... $9,999,999 at most. Its pocket change and wouldn't...
Jump to postThis thread is how I know European countries gun control works. An entire thread dedicated to one mass killing in Norway, while there have to date been 21 "mass murders" involving more than 4 victim deaths in the US in 2021 alone and we don't have threads on most of them. This one event in...
Jump to postFor recent books, The Martian movie did a good job of representing what was in the book and overall hued to it. One that completely missed it for me though was Ready Player One. The movie was more "inspired by" than accurate to the book. Tugg The Martian did an ok job - but it deviated fr...
Jump to postIf Max can't win Monaco then the championship is basically over already. So? Those cheaper teams are there voluntarily - there is no promotion to F1, there is no invitation they have to accept, they all voluntarily apply to join each season and voluntarily sign up to the Concorde agreement, so thos...
Jump to postThe well known Chinese desire to be a responsible shareholder in the Global Commons. I’d rather have this than American depleted uranium all over the middle east... So, what right does China have to pollute LEO with weapons tests or large uncontrolled space debris? If you want to have a thread on D...
Jump to postThe well known Chinese desire to be a responsible shareholder in the Global Commons. I’d rather have this than American depleted uranium all over the middle east... Whataboutism. Are we really arguing China’s well known environmentalism? Oh dear, did someone get triggered? You can't complain about ...
Jump to postUnless the UK government allows F1 an exemption from current Covid restrictions (two weeks quarantine in a hotel), the GP in Turkey won't happen. Why would this matter? The UK Grand Prix is in July and Turkey is June 11-13 with France 2 weeks after. Why would the teams need to go into the UK during...
Jump to postSo what's to prevent this from happening again the next time they launch another LM5B rocket? Or is this the new normal going forward? The well known Chinese desire to be a responsible shareholder in the Global Commons. I’d rather have this than American depleted uranium all over the middle east...
Jump to postWhat about the line of thought that the CV-19 wasn't made made but was being studied at the local viral research center and "got loose"? Has that been completely debunked? I remember the story from a few months back about the WHO visiting Wuhan and being paraded around like show ponies be...
Jump to postIt's still there for me? Maybe it's region blocked? I did not read the full article, it's a stretch of text longer then the combined Harry Potter works. It's final two sentences should give you an indication: Oh brother, in that case, glad I didn’t have to read it :boggled: It’s actually quite fact...
Jump to postIts always Republicans that seem to be making it harder for people to vote...
Would almost seem like they are part of the problem, not the solution...
moo : I have the exact opposite opinion (as an outsider). I'm against independence, because I don't like countries breaking up, and it gives ideas to others (including in my country). However I think a referendum has to happen in Scotland. I don't think there would be another one quickly after that...
Jump to postSo, are you for or against a referendum ? Against. They had one in 2014 and there shouldn't be another one for a generation regardless of the reasons given (literally anything can be taken as a fundamental change in the union "requiring" another referendum otherwise - meaning that they wi...
Jump to postThe main issue of these elections was if a nationalist majority would emerge in Scotland and ask for a referendum, and that happened, so we'll see how he deals with it. The goal posts move once again - up until these results its been an "SNP majority", which didn't happen. Now its a "...
Jump to postGot no problem going after Rudy if you got something there. But as usual left wingers like you are on with looking the other way in what is obvious influence peddling by Hunter Biden when his daddy was VP and holding the cards to Ukraine financing. But dont let this get in the way of you and every ...
Jump to postI have an iPad Mini 4 for day-to-day use such as browsing on the couch, Kindle etc. I also have an iPad Pro 12.9" for diagramming, drawing etc to build illustrations for my job, and thats used daily. It doesnt replace my iPad Mini for day-to-day usage because of the screen size - the Mini is mo...
Jump to postThe Brits made a mess of Pakistan, India, South Africa, Israel/Palestine, and gave many of the Gulf 'kingdoms' their seat at the table before WW2. And that's only a few of the hotspots - there are plenty more. These problems have only been in the hands of the US because the UK abdicated their globa...
Jump to postVerstappen went for fastest lap on the very last lap but had it deleted for exceeding track limits at T14. This seemed to cause much confusion and ire at RB, but it was announced on Saturday that this would be the case. Someone (or everyone) at RB dozing. Dozing? IMO RB is doing it deliberately to ...
Jump to postWhat are we supposed to discuss? The article doesn't mention what may or may not be good. Maybe cheap clothing? You f***king can't be serious? Next we are discussing the merits of cheap bullets for the Third Reich through forced labour? How about a better comparison, not really about slavery, but j...
Jump to postIIRC the cost cap isn't even enforceable this season. This is the first season its enforced. Uhhh wake up! This has been affecting the small teams for years. You think $1,000,000 of damage in a single crash isn't going to affect the development program of someone like Haas or Williams? It's only be...
Jump to postThat wouldn't be a good look for F1. The *only* time the FIA gives even a small toss about what looks good and what does not look good is when its trying to get something from the teams - see the weekends Formula E fiasco for example, the FIA blamed it on the lead driver rather than their own rules...
Jump to postJust realized this thread exists. Interesting comments and quite fitting to my renewed interest in F1. Any opinions here about Toto's comments regarding "being streched" on the cost cap? Seems awfully whiny, to be honest, if it only takes on 90% "hull loss" to be at that point. ...
Jump to postGigabit fibre symmetrical, fixed public IP, no caps, no traffic shaping, approx $60USD a month.
Jump to postI certainly wouldn't be opposed to making two stops compulsory by saying all three tyre compounds have to be used in the race and imposing a minimum number of laps that each compound has to be run (baring punctures or damage). Why don't we just choreograph the races full stop? Its getting to that p...
Jump to postA central irony of the limited experience we have so far, as stated Apollo 11 will always be remembered, possible because the nation that did it was prepared, mostly, to have the political will and public support to do it. When the exploration part, after incremental improvements of two further fli...
Jump to postApparently Pres. Reagan started the act to salute back military around him, he did it to show respect to the military and to drive liberals nuts. At least the President is the Commander in Chief and thus is in the military chain of command - the Vice President isn't, and thus has no position to sal...
Jump to postOk, so explain Boulder, Colorado then. Man kills 10 people with a weapon that the NRA successfully managed to get back on the shelves just 10 days prior to the shooting, and the shooter purchased the weapon just 6 days prior to the shooting. But at the same time Colorado requires no permit to purch...
Jump to postIt would be the one in which FEWER citizens can defend themselves with guns from people with guns who are not supposed to have guns, because current politically correct culture will not/cannot take the steps necessary to remedy this problem. Ok, so explain Boulder, Colorado then. Man kills 10 peopl...
Jump to postIf someone breaks into to my house I don't care what their intention is. That is an immediate threat to me and my family and the law gives me the right to defend my castle. There are ways to ensure perps can’t get to your sleeping area if your neighborhood is that dangerous. Been to quite a few hom...
Jump to postSome American thinks it's fair game to shoot a guy who breaks into their house to steal a TV, and that to have the opportunity to carry out a death sentence is worth the lives of +10K people a year. I'll just do the logical thing and stay the hell away from that place. How would you know that they ...
Jump to postSo which society is more dangerous - the one in which citizens can defend themselves with guns from people with guns or the one in which people cannot defend themselves with guns from people who cannot have guns? It would be the one in which FEWER citizens can defend themselves with guns from peopl...
Jump to postIt is wrong, most western countries won't even let you get a tattoo if you're under 16 and you're trying to say a preteen should be able to decide on transitioning, how can you argue that. You talk of mental development, the human brain isn't fully developed until 25 years of age.. Im glad we dont ...
Jump to postFound this in The Guardian (a non-stupid English) newspaper: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/17/eu-threatens-to-halt-covid-vaccine-exports-to-uk-unless-it-gets-fair-share Ensuring that all demand in UK is satisfied before any vaccine is exported sounds 100% like a temporary export ban to...
Jump to postThe EU is slow in vaccination because it is exporting its vaccine. best regards Thomas Found this in The Guardian (a non-stupid English) newspaper: The British government has repeatedly said it has not imposed an export ban on vaccine components or completed doses, but it did ensure that vaccine do...
Jump to postThe question really needs to be asked, why are we starting gender reassignment on children, how come someone who isn't old enough to vote, drink, drive, join the military is considered mature enough to make a life changing decision like this? There are many reasons to do so, and doing it while the ...
Jump to postYou mean, his speech? Not the manner with which he spoke, but what he said? Now do you see the issue? It’s not just his opinion - your citation literally says he went to court to stop treatment already initiated. What’s the mother’s position? The advice of the doctor handling the case? Did the fath...
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