Couldn't say better myself. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F3m4dpx4rpwg61.png%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dedd5fb657d3dc6aeae31968aa0ba0f2f39fee43f&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FPoliticalHumor%2Fcomments%2Flhtpdi%2Finnocent_or_guilty%2F&tbnid=B7Df9N...
Jump to postWell, it looks like Colt decided not to go through another bankruptcy and will be sold out. I am glad that it is CZ who buys them. CZ is making great handguns, I've got two of them. It would be interesting to see what CZ is going to do with Colt. I've just checked Colt's web page and they are essen...
Jump to postWell, it looks like Colt decided not to go through another bankruptcy and will be sold out. I am glad that it is CZ who buys them. CZ is making great handguns, I've got two of them. It would be interesting to see what CZ is going to do with Colt. I've just checked Colt's web page and they are essent...
Jump to postColdplay - Clocks
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Mike Oldfield - Top of The Morning
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJwJ11- ... tw&index=2
bennett123 wrote:Two questions;
1. Who is the guy with the axe?.
2. What are security doing?.
Is that the same Ben Shapiro who said that the ocean level will rise everywhere, and the owners of the houses that will get flooded, will just sell them and move elsewhere? I am not sure that he is a liar, maybe he is just not playing with a full deck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FGRkqUdf8
Jump to postNoshow wrote:I perfectly understand that they want to develop both coasts and maybe have competition between sites like other people have (...)
Hi. I'm planning a motorcycle trip next summer through Eastern Europe. I'll be flying into Frankfurt (shipping my motorbike from Canada) and from there, I want to ride via Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine, eventually going to Moscow, then back to Ukraine and finishing up in Romania. Can you cr...
Jump to postthere are others who disagree with making such progress. Whether this is a good idea or not there are such kind of people holding such position. And they're currently represented by the GOP. Scientists started to look closely at why politicians like Trump have such an appeal to certain population g...
Jump to postObama tried that. It was called TTIP. And Europe rejected it. Obama also lead the TPP in Asian Pacific area. But not just Trump, Hillary also rejected the treaty when she was campaigning. And now we haven't heard anything from Biden about it. TTIP negotiations were stopped by Trump in 2018, and aft...
Jump to postObama tried that. It was called TTIP. And Europe rejected it. Obama also lead the TPP in Asian Pacific area. But not just Trump, Hillary also rejected the treaty when she was campaigning. And now we haven't heard anything from Biden about it. TTIP negotiations were stopped by Trump in 2018, and aft...
Jump to postI thought this was interesting. Many people fear a "return to normal" that involves collaborating with an aggressive, even "predatory" China. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/world/asia/biden-trump-china-asia.html My own thought is, you can't go back. The world's relationship ...
Jump to postMy older Russian friend, a physicist, dislikes Putin, but he says everybody knows that Crimea was basically Russian, it was not really "Ukrainian." It was just accidentally carved into Ukraine on a map. This doesn't justify how the annexation was done, but instead it applies to the discus...
Jump to postI believe the prime minister of Ukraine was elected. The demonstrators were free to vote whomever they want at the next elections. In a democracy one sometimes has to wait. What should Trump supporters do next year if they don't like Biden's policy? Should they become freedom fighters? I was arguin...
Jump to postChina must be ecstatic. Spread a disease, buy up the debt, steal more jobs. Lovely. Why do you say “steal more jobs”? China did not steal any jobs. All the jobs were transferred there by the profit hungry corporatists, who do not care about their own country long term wellbeing. Would you refuse if...
Jump to postBut if you immigrated to Korea, Korean people started to laugh at you for not eating dog meat, or they actually killed your dog and ate it, how would you react? My (hypothetical) dog is my property, if it gets killed there is the Korean police/courts to sort it out. This does not give me an excuse ...
Jump to postWhy would they be acting against their own self-interest by supporting restrictive gun laws and buying guns? Why the sudden increase in previously uninterested people buying guns? Yes, the percentage of gun owners is among the lowest in the US, but rapidly changing. BTW, I don’t take this sudden in...
Jump to postNo, that blue staters who “profess” strong gun controls, in reality don’t like them AND are purchasing guns in large numbers despite their stated opposition to firearms ownership. Polls are meaningless when people’s answers are contradicted by their actions, I don’t care about what they say, but wh...
Jump to postI live in very blue state, one with huge and stupid gun laws. Guess what, gun sales to new gun owners is up 83% YOY. I’ve probably talked to a dozen new shooters who spout lots of support for gun restrictions then cannot understand the state laws and think they’re too restrictive, what’s up with th...
Jump to postWell, that means that they are not very well informed, doesn’t it?
Jump to postA101 wrote:Dogman wrote:A101 wrote:
A WA is not a prerequisite of leaving the EU
It is a prerequisite of getting a FTA, though. In this particular case.
That is a decision by Brussels not part of the process of A50
A101 wrote:
A WA is not a prerequisite of leaving the EU
[quote="A101"][/quote] That's kind of my point. The FTA negotiations cannot be started if Article 50 is not triggered, and most likely cannot be finished before the 2 years period expires. So, why bother starting them before the WA is done? The EU decided to take it one thing at a time, to...
Jump to postSorry but what stops the terms of the WA and an FTA being defined at the same time? WA gets signed off and immediately after the remaning EU menbers sign off the UK-EU FTA. It is ludicrous to be negotiating these two issues sequentially when they could be done together. You introduce avoidable unce...
Jump to postIf one is at home and hears or sees what appears to be an armed intruder, then it's reasonable to protect oneself. Likewise, if an officer comes under fire, it's reasonable to return fire. No, it's not reasonable to return fire if you do not see whom are you shooting at. Especially if there is a hi...
Jump to postI have to say that in my view the EU is in part responsible for this mess. The EU refused to talk about an FTA at the same time as the WA, didn't it? All this mess would have been avoided if an FTA and the WA had been concluded at the same time. The EU insistence on the WA and an FTA being conclude...
Jump to post... Placing their people in every government job they could. In a short period of time they manage to unite against themselves almost everyone who was not from those two Eastern regions. Even in Crimea they did not like them, although still voted for them. ...You can look at Belarus and Russia to s...
Jump to postOh, you just believe that Ukraine was an engineered regime change? How much do you know about what was going on there? And poor Russia, it just had to react. It could not just let its former colony to do as they want, right? I wasn't there, so I know very little, just like most of us. An elected pr...
Jump to post2020 is not 1938. How true. When do you adjust your argument? Under Jelzin Russia was on its knees, preoccupied with its economic free fall. It was only far-sighted to use this window of opportunity to seek security guarantees in NATO, before Russia returns to its usual bellicose self. What's your ...
Jump to postI'd rather take the chances, thank you. China probably wants to keep selling stuff to France though. Europe is strong enough for our military needs. Whatever can be improved it will have to be within the current budget. And a polite decline is the right answer. Haven’t read European history over th...
Jump to postSigh... You guys have no clue what are you talking about. It is impossible for a normal person to understand Russia and its actions. I grew up in the USSR, and at this point I've resign to a fact that Europeans will never get it. Why would Russia need a Marshall plan? They got plenty of money from ...
Jump to postSurely the notion that the former USSR, now Russia, could go from state control of everything to what amounted to an overnight free for all, where former regime members easily became oligarchs ripping up the economic and social fabric to build huge, often criminal empires, was crazy. 'Economic Shoc...
Jump to postSigh... You guys have no clue what are you talking about. It is impossible for a normal person to understand Russia and its actions. I grew up in the USSR, and at this point I've resign to a fact that Europeans will never get it. Why would Russia need a Marshall plan? They got plenty of money from ...
Jump to postI am not a pilot, so I apologize if my question is a bit silly. If you have only two AOA sensors, and you suspect that one of them is malfunctioning, couldn't you just point the nose of the plane up and down and see which sensor changes its output accordingly to the pilot's actions? It's an interes...
Jump to postI am not a pilot, so I apologize if my question is a bit silly. If you have only two AOA sensors, and you suspect that one of them is malfunctioning, couldn't you just point the nose of the plane up and down and see which sensor changes its output accordingly to the pilot's actions?
Jump to postSigh... You guys have no clue what are you talking about. It is impossible for a normal person to understand Russia and its actions. I grew up in the USSR, and at this point I've resign to a fact that Europeans will never get it. Why would Russia need a Marshall plan? They got plenty of money from o...
Jump to postWhen you thought things could not get worse. With the adoption of this bill, we are back before the Withdraw agreement. So I guess von der Leyen will suspent negotiations until this bill is adopted or defeated in the House. It is utterly pointless to continue negotiations with this bill in the twil...
Jump to postI've read an article about Brexit on BBC this morning. As usual I skimmed the first paragraph, but this time it felt like something is wrong. I've read it again, and then I've realized what it was: the first three words were "Lord Frost says..". Lol, I guess Batman was not available, so th...
Jump to postWhy on earth anyone should do anything just to show something to Tramp? 2% spending on defense has been collectively agreed by NATO members before Trump even took office. Cool, when can the US expect that wire transfer? A wire transfer? The agreement was that the other NATO countries will spend mor...
Jump to postLCDFlight wrote:Maybe Europe should pay its fair share into military NATO. It will mean sharply increasing taxes and/or reducing benefits in Europe.
Why not start immediately? Show Trump that he was wrong.
A part of me wants Trump to win. The illness has to run its course if the body to develop an immunity to it.
Jump to postMichal Moor also predicted that Trump will win in 2016. He thinks that he is on the way to repeat it: https://apple.news/A4v19G2UbS72yKwzvG4broQ
If you do not have Apple News the original article is from The Guardian.
Actually, the polls in 2016 were correct. About a month before the election date they were putting Hillary ~2% ahead. And that's approximately by how much she won the popular vote. To me it looks like Tramp's presidency is following the arc of his other business endeavors. People who've heard his na...
Jump to postSo, I guess Biden's VP candidate and Pence are not going to have one on one meetings.
Jump to postThe way I see it, abolishing of the death penalty is not for the benefit of the convicted, but for the rest of the society. It simply tries to establish the idea that killing people is wrong, no matter what. It is hard to argue this point when the government itself is engaged in killing. You may sa...
Jump to postThe way I see it, abolishing of the death penalty is not for the benefit of the convicted, but for the rest of the society. It simply tries to establish the idea that killing people is wrong, no matter what. It is hard to argue this point when the government itself is engaged in killing. You may say...
Jump to postStarAC17 wrote:Covid19 is accelerating in the US (not sure how bad in DC but many of Trump's people have got it) and he runs the risk of contracting it himself.
I'm thinking about getting a personal cloud so that I can have a single place of file storage and not be forking cash over to different companies for space that may be unused, not to mention the privacy of the items (not have to worry about hacks getting account information and stealing items). Doe...
Jump to postSEPilot wrote:One of my life maxims is that government, by its very nature, is fundamentally incapable of competence. And it certainly applies here.
I am really surprised that even on this forum, where people are usually well informed, I still read things like "I hate Trump, but he is right on China". In fact, Trump made it easier for Xi Jinping to act this way. That Xi's autocratic tendencies are going to be a problem was recognized l...
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