Oh, also I saw this - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/gun-deaths-firearms-americas-homicide/ Now, I don't think that WEF has any axe to grind against the U.S. or does it ? Another interesting study on the same topic - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033350620301384?via...
Jump to postNo, I haven't seen it. I will look into it when I have time. Like I said earlier, the US has a hunting/outdoors culture, while India doesn't. Some has to do with your former colonial status, where firearms weren't really allowed. And I would love to see your take on it when you have seen it, would ...
Jump to postNo, I haven't seen it. I will look into it when I have time. Like I said earlier, the US has a hunting/outdoors culture, while India doesn't. Some has to do with your former colonial status, where firearms weren't really allowed. Probably, at the same time if any political party were to try to do t...
Jump to postJust to give some more data, people in India who have died are 0.3 gun homicides per 100,000 people in India every year. And almost 90% of them are due to illegal guns.
https://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/comp ... gun_deaths
Thanks for the information. I wouldn't consider 7 million "small", though. :D The thing to remember is that, unlike what the news media and Hollywood tell you, the vast, vast majority of American gun owners use their guns for hunting and target shooting. In fact, while the media tries to ...
Jump to postPune...which country is that? It would help with us understanding your position and needs. India, I come from the State Maharashtra which is on the west coast of India and Pune, a small city which has approximately 7 million population. The last big thing which happened in Pune was in 2010. This ma...
Jump to postNow another incident or series of incidents was that few years back I had the opportunity to travel to South Africa. And many of my experiences were with the Americans and Europeans, Indians who settled there as well as the local Afrikaner. All my experiences were in Cape Town, which seems and seeme...
Jump to postLet me share from where I come from and the experiences I had. I have lived 40+ years in a middle-class home which is on side of a busy street. In my 40+ year living, we had two thefts in my home and one in my locality. A gentleman of repute was killed few years back on a bridge which is approx. 500...
Jump to postHow do you know the family didn't try? You interviewed them? Keep blaming them if it makes you feel better,. They had less responsibility than the disgraces in the Gun stores that make everyone think they need a little more [power, or a bit more ammo. No, but the stories I read said that they knew ...
Jump to postFor e.g. UK did privatization of its Railways 40 years back, just this year, they re-nationalized, why? Because most of the routes economically didn't make money and were not on time. And there were enough studies that proved that other countries in Europe had better train systems and cost less. UK...
Jump to postMost of the examples quoted are those done by NDA. And here in is my point - the agenda. I'm sure the other side will say the opposite. If you look through all of this, you'll see systemic mismanagement and constant government interference, either directly or through layers and layers of red tape. ...
Jump to postThat is the farthest statement from a fact. Any data or evidence to support your claim? Fully paid 777s-12.7yrs, 319s(12.7 yrs) and 321s(12.4 yrs) SLB 788s-6.7yrs. Leased A320NEO-3.4yrs, Unless your definition of revamp is to replace GENx 788s with RR 787s and LEAP NEOs with GTF NEOs, scrap reliabl...
Jump to postDillution vs. actual amount of radiation would be the keywords here. You mention neither. For that to matter or share, the Goverment of Japan needs to share those numbers in public domain. What I found out was this - https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/24/asia/japan-fukushima-waste-ocean-intl-scli/inde...
Jump to post@dtw2hyd, thank you for sharing the above. @Antarius - the whole song and dance today is privatization. Let's look at what Sucheta Dalal has to say on the topic. FWIW, she has been a whistleblower of quite a few scams including the 1992 scam and the stamp paper scam among others. - https://www.money...
Jump to postSource please ? https://www.gard.no/web/updates/content/52970/pilotage-law Kiwirob, you gave him the source in your first post. It might have not been in the form of a link, but it was the source. Can you explain how? I went back to his original post but it didn't give any more hints . The last one...
Jump to postdtw2hyd wrote:AI will redo cabins with public funds before sale date for the right buyer, just like it paid off 77Ws well before finance term end, while struggling to pay salaries.
My understanding is that radioactive discharge into water are deemed acceptable after being sufficiently diluted. The Japanese government have been planning for release of water that have been processed to release most radioactive substance, but still contain Tritium, into the ocean According to th...
Jump to postyup Liability:Pursuant to the Egyptian Maritime Code No. 8 of 1990 (Art. 279) as well as rulings of the Supreme Court in Egypt, the responsibility for pilotage operation in port and in the Suez Canal lies entirely with the Master of the guided vessel even in case of the pilot's error. Source please ?
Jump to postI want to clarify something I posted. Japanese officials now estimate the cost of the cleanup at $78 billion. About no one believes that and the true figure may be $200 to $300 billion. The 3 melt down reactors are still to 'hot' to do much, much of the technology to do the cleanup does not yet exi...
Jump to postI can't believe I missed it. Somehow saw this on my youtube recommendations and had to share with you guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQIqYb8d5-I I think most of his views are on the notch. Especially that the industry may take upto 5 years to recover. In such a scenario, probably more than ha...
Jump to postI am pretty sure the fifty people was the minimal amount of workers remain on site when evacuation order was being placed, not that they have died Not they remained but 'they chose to remain' there is a difference there mate. And none of them got even the hazard pay - https://www.bbc.com/news/busin...
Jump to postAnd adding to above, the radiation effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_the_Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster I don't really get it why people still insist it is all good when similar things have happened in UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield Can anybody tell me of...
Jump to postAnd what would you say to this, from the same webpage, how can you say zero when bodies were found ? Over 20 workers had been injured by 18 March, including one who was exposed to a large amount of ionizing radiation when the worker tried to vent vapour from a valve of the containment building.[1] T...
Jump to posthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_50 . The actuall number was more but these were the workers from TEPCO. In the movie, they had shown that some of them have died, even on the wikipedia page it shares some info. not all. For e.g. on the wiki page it says that "Team leader Masao Yoshida di...
Jump to postThis is not new, but I am trying to get a link to a story which was shared by an American commando (lady) and she had shared both about her injuries, her stress and her juniors. It was really a remarkable thread and quite a bit long. If somebody does chance upon that article, please share here and ...
Jump to postIt should be illegal for tv series to have more than one season. ;) I just finished Designated Survivor (watched it since Christmas) and seasons 2 & 3 were just unbearable garbage. I guess it all depends on your interests. For e.g. I have watched all Star Trek from the Originals till the latest...
Jump to postI saw the Deutschland franchise, couldn't get enough of it, all the three 83, 86 and 89 are cool. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4445154/ It talks about East Germany period from 1983 to 1989 which no other series to my knowledge has shared. Was a hit in Germany for sure. And it told me lot of things ...
Jump to postAlso some more facts, jobs have been becoming unavailable. In fact, just couple of days the GOI has shared pearls of wisdom, they had said Physics, Chemistry and Maths are not needed for Engineering. While I don't want to share mainstream news, I am however going to share Faye D'Souza talk on the sa...
Jump to postThis is a bit of a long read but explains what all went wrong in Bihar APMC - https://vivekkaul.com/2021/03/03/bihars-apmc-story-does-not-inspire-much-confidence/ There are many questions with the way the farm laws themselves have been constructed. For e.g. there is now no limit how much a corporate...
Jump to postThis is not new, but I am trying to get a link to a story which was shared by an American commando (lady) and she had shared both about her injuries, her stress and her juniors. It was really a remarkable thread and quite a bit long. If somebody does chance upon that article, please share here and w...
Jump to postI saw the Deutschland franchise, couldn't get enough of it, all the three 83, 86 and 89 are cool. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4445154/ It talks about East Germany period from 1983 to 1989 which no other series to my knowledge has shared. Was a hit in Germany for sure. And it told me lot of things w...
Jump to postIsn't it one of the problem faced by nuclear power? As in, in nuckear accident like the Fukushima one, no one have been affected in the way like being exposed to nuclear bomb. Meanwhile, when nuclear bomb hit Japan, the clean up was quick and doesn't leave much trace on the land after reconstructio...
Jump to postIt seems nobody saw Fukushima 50 here, the movie more or less tells what happened in Fukushima. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9318772/ If people see that, then I am guessing lot of misunderstanding would be cleared up, i.e. if people are not into trolling or whatever. And just sharing the tales of Hi...
Jump to postThe last thing India needs is another domestic airline, especially the market still not at pre-Covid levels. With Jet 2.0 still struggling to launch, plus a variety of small operators already flying or expanding, Indian market cannot absorb any more new airlines, unless one of the existing goes ban...
Jump to postAs if the nut cases nationally were not enough for our embarassment we have an international embarassment this time ! I wish we had a system of kicking such pax out of the plane airborne..Hope he rotts in jail for 10 or so years. https://m.timesofindia.com/world/europe/air-france-flight-made-emerge...
Jump to postAs if the nut cases nationally were not enough for our embarassment we have an international embarassment this time ! I wish we had a system of kicking such pax out of the plane airborne..Hope he rotts in jail for 10 or so years. https://m.timesofindia.com/world/europe/air-france-flight-made-emerge...
Jump to postSuch cases will always be there. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/air-france-flight-made-emergency-landing-in-bulgaria-over-disruptive-passenger/articleshow/81367425.cms I primarily use desktop hence sharing the above if somebody uses desktop too, I don't enjoy the mobile UI. We don'...
Jump to postBy road, Solapur is around 12 hrs. from Pune so a mid-way means 6 hrs. while Navi Mumbai is 4-5 hrs. Solapur is not 12 hours from Pune. Distance is about 250 km or 4-5 hours away. Navi Mumbai is not 4-5 hours but just about 2.5 hours from Pune (125 km). I am just sharing from memory, the last time ...
Jump to postI don't mean an airport between Pune and Solapur, but building the new Pune airport on the Solapur side of Pune (SE side), but still close to Pune city and serving primarily Pune only. I am assuming that land is cheaper on that side of Pune. Solapur already has a small airport which is sufficient f...
Jump to postI agree with the assessment shared by @FligtReporter . @hohd I had forgotten the navi mumbai construction at all. The only economic sense to have an airport as shared would be between Pune and Solapur as a sort of mid-way but then I don't know how it would work. By road, Solapur is around 12 hrs. fr...
Jump to postCongratulations from Pune. Had to look up Raj on IATA to find out it's Rajkot. Gujarat. What I am confused by is your statement twice, is there land given for the greenfield airport and construction is yet to start or what. Yes. The land is already marked. Majority of the land is wasteland owned by...
Jump to postIt is indeed sad Mr Pune...I know of that 737-700 Lufthansa flight,was one of the longest on that type aircraft I believe but I guess the proximity to BOM is proving to be a curse in further development of PNQ...the politicians are paying more attention to BOM or neglecting PNQ cause there's no &qu...
Jump to postSadly agree with your views. You shouldn't have bothered trying to figure out the runway length. There was a time when Pune has straight Lufthansa flights to Germany but didn't get either people or whatever. It is like talking to dunderheads here. God knows when the situation will improve. There hav...
Jump to postI agree Metro connectivity is a must to all airports..I'm glad my home base is connected with a metro..But I guess not all Indian airports are connected I can think of Delhi,Chennai and my base ..may be CCU don't know for sure..I'm sure BLR and HYD are not connected for sure which I think is a huge...
Jump to postSo have a new greenfield airport under construction approx 30 km of the city - but not sure if it would be ready in 3 years. Congratulations from Pune. Had to look up Raj on IATA to find out it's Rajkot. Gujarat. What I am confused by is your statement twice, is there land given for the greenfield ...
Jump to postHello fellow Avgeeks, I hope all of you are doing well and are in the best of your health.So nice to be back after long time.Actually Im here to share my recent CAT IIIB experience at my own home base LKO. I was flying from Mumbai to Lucknow on IndiGo Airbus A321NX and luckily it were CAT IIIB cond...
Jump to postHi Folks, Does anyone about this airline? https://twitter.com/_flyPOP/status/1357366131963670528?s=20 Is this some kind of ponzi scheme? I dont see any fleet owned by them. I actually came here to ask the same question - Although did see this which does seem that it does have some funds from the UK...
Jump to postThere are and have been rumors of Tesla coming up electric airplane. While this is not new, but also something to keep an eye out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZ85x_1SMs Now while it is speculation at this point, if they do consider it, they probably would be able to do it. Nobody knows about b...
Jump to postThis is actually more of a policy failure rather than anything else. If India wanted to, we could have had turboprops doing point-to-point drops. Hell, now in States they are looking at numerous options using electric aircraft and VTOL . Even with Turboprops like Q400 where you could sit 90 people a...
Jump to postJust saw Soorarai Pottru (a sort of in-between Captain Gopinath life and other true stories) , it does show a bit of politics and the nastiness but doesn't go far enough. But I guess it was too much of me to expect that they will show why we are stuck, similar to how somebody shared that 400+ airstr...
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