Clutch101 wrote:Really no point, it’s basically a daily thing now. It would take up too much space on this site.
Given that CA just announced a massive budget surplus, one of the big items for Sacramento is investing in water desalination plants along the coast (namely in the SoCal region). If there's excess production, it can sell some to AZ and NV so that those states also benefit. If both states want a con...
Jump to postJust starting a thread on today's US mass shooting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 79614.html
Will be interesting to see what comes out regarding motivations of the shooter.
Surely it’s time to revisit the notion of a generic “latest US mass shooting” generic thread for the forum.
Those of us outside the US can only stay aghast for so long, and few in the US seem willed to do anything about the (on average) daily mass shootings.
Morrison only gave Labor opposition 1 day to review the AUKUS deal before it went through and was announced: https://www.smh.com.au/national/biden-demanded-bipartisan-support-before-signing-aukus-labor-was-not-told-for-months-20220513-p5al9d.html Playing politics with national security. I see Joe H...
Jump to post[Just wish he would stand for something more than not being Scott Morrison. Mind you, Scott Morrison doesn't seem to want to be the Scott Morrison people know and hate either https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/13/even-scott-morrison-is-trying-to-distance-himself-from-scott-morrison...
Jump to post[ Quite a lot of undecide which indecently included me. its those voters who will decide the election outcome. Yes, it is looking like Labor will be exlected then expected to fix the economic trap the Coalition has left for them, yet again. The stage 3 income tax cuts are the most egregious. ALP ca...
Jump to postI still suspect LNP will win, people tell opinion polls one thing when they will do something else. LNP does seem desperate, campaign staff are not supporting the star Warringah candidate, Tony Abbott has been pulled out of retirement to rally the troops. Also complaints of the moderate teal candid...
Jump to postI still suspect LNP will win, people tell opinion polls one thing when they will do something else. LNP does seem desperate, campaign staff are not supporting the star Warringah candidate, Tony Abbott has been pulled out of retirement to rally the troops. Also complaints of the moderate teal candid...
Jump to postI loved the CRJ200, don't understand whats not to like. As far as regular passengers (non aviation enthusiast) are concerned, the only planes they hate has nothing to do with the aircraft type itself but the level of mind numbing in-flight entertainment offered. Heaven forbid they manage an hour or...
Jump to postRobin Wiliams of all people put it best on Carson one night - "the right to life people say - I'll go with you to save this life, and to help you save this life. But the moment they're born they go - I'm outta here." I just wonder what Medical insurance and health care will look like in t...
Jump to posthttps://twitter.com/badiucao/status/1523203600339587072 According to TV screenshot on the internet, it's now official policy that if someone in an apartment is infected, then others who live in other apartments in the same floor, or those who live in apartments along the same column above or below ...
Jump to postToo late for me anyway, my vote is already done even before this. News Limited in the last week will decide who wins the election when it finally decides to run election reporting instead of Guy Sebastian or hollywood legal trials. I think its quite pointed that the News tabloids don't have the deb...
Jump to postWatched a 7News story on YouTube about adding a third runway at MEL. It stated residents have 7 days to respond. I'm wondering if that meant 7 more days to respond or you only get 7 days to comment on such a project? Possibly a comprehension failure on my part? You get longer than 7 days to comment...
Jump to postWhat colonial ties do the United States and Australia have? They’ve been joined at the hip since WW2. “Colonial” can be defined quite broadly. AA is the bit player in the market. DL previously had a direct relationship with the number 2 Australian airline. Also remember that SYD is around 7 million...
Jump to postSYD-LAX is the Pacific version of JFK-LHR. It has historical colonial ties and many multinationals are movuing APAC/Oceania HQ to SYD/SIN/ICN/HND from HKG/Mainland China due to the lockdown in China & HKG. Also SYD/SIN speak English for the most part making recruiting easier. What colonial ties...
Jump to postFor those arguing Pro Choice. Is that legalised abortion up to birth?. There are circumstances where late term abortion to save the life of the woman. By that stage there are other options for a healthy child. From the data available data, late term abortion is extremely rare, but medically necessa...
Jump to postKadish wrote:Kent350787 wrote:fjhc wrote:As someone who's lived in Manchester for the past 8.5 years.... I'm not surprised one bit that it was a flight from MAN. I'm just mildly surprised it was on the KLM flight not easyJet!DDR wrote:
What does that mean?
I was referring to post #5. I suspect Glasgow may be the other UK city suffering a similar stereotype.
Stereotype?? U must be kidding. It happens everyday from UK to places like Amsterdam, Ibiza, Málaga, Prague...
For those arguing Pro Choice. Is that legalised abortion up to birth?. There are circumstances where late term abortion to save the life of the woman. By that stage there are other options for a healthy child. From the data available data, late term abortion is extremely rare, but medically necessa...
Jump to postLack of "universal" care doesn't not equal no care. Any women in the US who wants pre and post natal care can get it. Even the poor can get it via Medicaid. I am not saying our system is perfect, we could definitely improve a lot of things, but lets not pretend that the care doesn't exist...
Jump to postfjhc wrote:As someone who's lived in Manchester for the past 8.5 years.... I'm not surprised one bit that it was a flight from MAN. I'm just mildly surprised it was on the KLM flight not easyJet!
DDR wrote:Kent350787 wrote:777Mech wrote:
Trashy Americ... oh wait...
There are other similar stereotypes involved here....
What does that mean?
Six Britons have been arrested at Schiphol Airport for a fight on board an aircraft. It happened on a KLM flight this morning from Manchester to Amsterdam. https://nos.nl/artikel/2427654-arrestaties-na-knokpartij-aan-boord-klm-vlucht-naar-amsterdam https://mobile.twitter.com/MayaWilkinsonx/status/1...
Jump to postInteresting seeing Airbus leased one of the AIrBaltic A220s to fly to Sydney for the QF fleet announcement earlier in the week. Maybe there were parts guarantees involved with that?
Jump to postOr how about - if you don't like abortion, don't knock women up unless intending to stick around and/or for women - don't have one. Much more simple. Don't like it? Don't partake. Just like same-sex marriage. Don't like certain kinds of sex? Don't partake. Hello Lawrence v. Texas Another reasonably...
Jump to postIn the same manner the Constitution has never meant to give abortion rights, it does not restrict abortion in anyway. And it never has, including in the ~200 years of its existence pre-Roe. Particularly if one is to look at this from a life versus death point of view. Murder is almost always a stat...
Jump to postIt also disconnects a bunch of populated communities that are physically close. It doesn't disconnect anything, they were never connected. I don't get the point of spending a billion dollars of US taxpayers money to connect two small towns that have never been connected before while other heavily u...
Jump to postOne area that I’ve always found curious about the abortion debate here in the US is how much the pro-choice lobby loves to weave this narrative of theocratic oppression and level accusations of US abortion law being somehow akin to the Taliban It may be helpful for you to do some research on how th...
Jump to postTo everyone, the key thing that everyone needs to know and accept is that abortions will not stop because of any ruling. They will continue. And with the interconnected world we now have it will not be all that hard for anyone that does want one to have one. The shame is the misery that it can caus...
Jump to postI think we’re all getting too caught up in the legal fine print here. Let’s concentrate on the primary issue, we’re about to revert to a 1950s era of back alley abortions, coat hangars, women dying from unsafe procedures, more unwanted pregnancies, increased trauma for rape victims, and the potenti...
Jump to postOh, ok. Qantas really needs to order like 25 more 787-9's, their whole fleet is a mess, it seems like they don't really buy enough planes, and their orders never contain more than just a handful of planes. Ummm.... yes, they do need some more 789s but their short-term fleet planning has been delaye...
Jump to postWe need better data on who is dying (unvaccinated, age, medical condition). Is that data for Shanghai or data generally?. Alone amongst Australian States, NSW has been publishing weekly surveillance overview reports since April 2020. They are released a fortnight in arrears https://www.health.nsw.g...
Jump to postMid 70s, my first RPT flight SYD-WGA-SYD, Airlines of NSW Fokker F27. This "mystery flight" (the cheapest way to buy an air ticket in Australia at the time) was a special treat for my sister and I, and we were taken to the cockpit to say hi to the flight crew on descent into WGA.
Jump to postSecurity footage from the day captures the moment that Capitol police officers attempted to retreat while pursued and hunted down by the insurrectionists, who impeded their efforts and threw things at them…chilling. https://twitter.com/macfarlanenews/status/1519831579408965632?s=21&t=6674wdwBwu...
Jump to postI'd expect either Doha or Dubai to take advantage of curfew free operation. Not sure how I didn't think of this. There are lots of people in western Sydney from Middle-Eastern and African backgrounds. So a connection to DXB would certainly be very useful. Also, if the likes of EK and QR are using a...
Jump to postRecognising that pre-Covid there were flights from up to 15 mainland Chinese airlines, I would expect links to some Chinese cities. AirAsia (if they survive international) could probably be attracted for KUL if the price was right. Domestically, I'd think that many holiday destinations with higher t...
Jump to postLooking out over BNE airport just now and was surprised to see a QF A380 sitting at the international terminal. It's VH-OQD which was operating QF12 and diverted. Poor weather in SYD this morning? It seems most others got in around the same time? Not sure if it’s weather related, most likely a sche...
Jump to postThe other bit that annoys me is we have media (radio presenters) who rather than interviewing a politician spend the entire time shouting at the politician. That’s crap. Those types should go do something else like laying bricks, fixing plumbing or something else that might get them back in touch w...
Jump to postMorrison in WA saying he's more like the hugely popular Labor leader of the state than Federal Labor leader Albanese. The Coalition is desperate to at least retain seats in WA. That Morrison is being so open with his desperation, given the legal action his Government supported against WA's Covid bor...
Jump to postAlways. That said, checked bags aren’t a big coat in Australia, and are included when travelling overseas. Having larger bags on our US visits means we check bags there, but it’s not a big cost.
Jump to postDeves has no chance in Warringah, but continued support for her is a dog whistle to other electorates that may be more I. Line with her views.
Jump to postis there a point in a pregnancy at which time an abortion should no longer be allowed? 24 weeks gestation is broadly considered to be the boundary of foetal viability. However, there will always be a small range of circumstances where later term termination is in the correct medical decision for th...
Jump to postNRT and HKG. I transited SIN 15 years before visiting the country.
Jump to postOne can be sad that a tragedy has occurred while also wanting to protect their own home and family. When seconds count, the police are minutes away. We've seen in recent years through riots, a pandemic, and an attempted coup that the government can't protect us from everything. Ideally a firearm is...
Jump to postEK - SYD-AKL-SYD (my only A345 flights)
Jump to posthttps://www.9news.com.au/national/anthony-albanese-tests-positive-to-covid19-routine-pcr/209ede9b-b398-4e68-89e9-85691fb9f6c1 Anthony Albanese tests positive for COVID-19 1less week of media scrutiny I guess has it silver linings Wonder if Morrison will as well as they were close contact and shook ...
Jump to postI still think that it would be most effective for this forum to adopt a single "latest mass shooting in the USA thread with a "Thoughts and Prayers" pinned post. Every single thread on the latest senseless gun murder shows that gun homicide is as American as apple pie. Also, those wh...
Jump to postPolls narrowing in Aussie? There has been some narrowing of the Labor lead in the last week. Albanese (the Labor leader) appears to have finally switched to attack mode, and won last night's TV debate hosted on Sky, the Australian equivalent of Fox (Murdoch owned, hard right wing, but much lower ra...
Jump to postI still think that it would be most effective for this forum to adopt a single "latest mass shooting in the USA thread with a "Thoughts and Prayers" pinned post. Every single thread on the latest senseless gun murder shows that gun homicide is as American as apple pie. Also, those who...
Jump to postAll these pro-life, anti-choicers would be all in favour of god-induced abortion if it were available. Pray that pregnancy away! :pray: What about those who think life begins at conception and nothing to do with religion? Then they shouldn't get abortions. Why are they trying to force their beliefs...
Jump to postMy country has one of the lowest abortion rates in the world, yet abortion is legal in every jurisdiction in the country. Maybe there are ways other than criminalising women to reduce the number of abortions (if that, rather than control, is the aim of legislation such as this in Oklahoma). Colorad...
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