Aesma wrote:As long as Andrew has a title, Harry will have a title.
End of story.
I am still of the opinion it should have bypassed Charles, never have liked him. Well, he was the firstborn, so that is his claim to fame. So either you have Royals with everything that comes with it: expensive, scandals, head of state which no subject has any control over, or you do not have a Roy...
Jump to postWhat a disgusting and racist family. May they go the way of other royal families in the past. What makes them racist? All we have to go on is the racvings of one slightly potty women. And she was not the first person of colour to marry into the Royal Family, a Māori from NZ married Lady Davina Wind...
Jump to postGood news ! I'm guessing 2 engines (also true for the Gripen) played a role for a country with plenty of places you can't hope to land on and don't want to eject over either ? The Gripen is designed to land on short landing strips. Sweden (and Brazil) are also full of land you don't want to eject o...
Jump to postI hope they can nail him, Tate’s human garbage.
Jump to postThe Mini is coming back but the PM will be riding in German made Audis : https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/brexit-causes-government-ditch-jaguar-25831678 No British manufacturer can make armored limousines. Now I will correct that headline, since the only possible contender (and c...
Jump to postThe clubman is OKish, it's a family/wagon mini. The countryman, that's huge and shouldn't be called a mini. I owned a first generation Countryman there was noting huge about it. I also owned a Clubman with the suicide door, loved that car and just took delivery of my 5th MINI a Cooper SE about 3 we...
Jump to postNow you’re just creating a straw man, I stated quite clearly I am not particularly interested in the welfare of the criminals, just the societal outcomes. However you have stated very clearly here: You put personal gratification over the welfare of fellow law abiding citizens. Each to their own. Fr...
Jump to postYou don't like the death penalty and you don't appear to like prison, if we follow your thought process nobody should be punished for anything. Some society that would be. Now you’re just creating a straw man, I stated quite clearly I am not particularly interested in the welfare of the criminals, ...
Jump to postWhy? Why? Is that helpful? is it? That’s sounds like an opinion dressed up as a fact. I don’t care what it is to be honest as long as it is the best way to reduce crime and increase societal wellbeing. Fred Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Because if you are sentenced to life for murder than it s...
Jump to postWhy? Why? Is that helpful? is it? That’s sounds like an opinion dressed up as a fact. I don’t care what it is to be honest as long as it is the best way to reduce crime and increase societal wellbeing. Fred Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sentencing is an opinion? Appears pretty factual to me, c...
Jump to postSo we need to find logical reasons to keep people alive rather than keep them alive until we find logical reasons to kill the ? I.e. the default is murder till you can find a reason not to? Yes, I can’t see why this sentiment is a good one to demonstrate to a populace. Fred Sent from my iPhone usin...
Jump to postIndeed, you choose to believe that it’s a acceptable course of action for an authority to kill people without a demonstrable benefit to society based on feelings. Why should a person then not act on what they believe through feeling and with no demonstrable benefit end the life of another human bei...
Jump to postIndeed, you choose to believe that it’s a acceptable course of action for an authority to kill people without a demonstrable benefit to society based on feelings. Why should a person then not act on what they believe through feeling and with no demonstrable benefit end the life of another human bei...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:
Self driving cars don’t work in blizzards, these self driving ploughs will have to. Self driving trucks and snow plows can work perfectly in blizzards. Depends on their steering and guiding system. They can drive blind much better than any human driver. Differential GPS (or take GLONAS as backup) w...
Jump to postIndeed, my position does not change no matter how much you try to introduce Godwins law. It’s telling that you can’t say what it’s solving for and how it solved it and the only recourse is to bring in the nazis to your argument. Meh. Fred Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I’ve told you what I beli...
Jump to postSome people just aren’t worth keeping alive, they can’t be rehabilitated, there crimes are so heinous execution is the only fitting punishment. I mean there have been heinous crimes committed all over the world in non-death penalty countries, other societies are able to enact a criminal justice sys...
Jump to postSolution: a means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation. 1. What is the problem being solved for? 2. How is the problem being solved? Fred Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I take it you have a proble with the allies executing the German leaders after WW2? Some people just are...
Jump to postMost of us have a Xiaomi Robot Vacuum Mop at home, these things know where the furniture are and sense the changes in their locations. Basic technology at negligible cost. Any plow could easily be self driving. Much cheaper than heated runways which require a new runway and minimum of a year of clo...
Jump to postThis seems ridiculous to me. The cost of human operators is peanuts in the big picture of airport snow removal. The project already costing 400 mill. NOK, how is this going to be cost effective? Self driving machinery is not anything new, farmers have had autopilot in their tractors for years. But ...
Jump to postWhy, then, are there still violent crimes like rape and murder still happening all across this nation? So, I don’t see true death penalty as a deterrent, it’s a final solution for terrible people. Solution: a means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation. 1. What is the problem b...
Jump to postYes, it’s well known that the best way to deal with difficult things is to put our fingers in our ears and hope the nasty thing doesn’t happen again…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Or you execute him and the problem go away. Why, then, are there still violent crimes like rape and murder still ...
Jump to postWhat’s the benefit of killing them? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Once they're gone you don't have to think about them anymore. In Norway Breivik is in the news multiple times per year complaining about his treatment in prison, if he was executed there wouldn't be any of this bullshit, society...
Jump to postWouldn't it make more sense to buy F-35? Colombia is fairly close with the US (politically speaking) and this would put them a step above their neighbors, as well as providing superior firepower against drug cartels. Firepower? Maybe not. But stealth? Surely you need stealth to sneak up on all thos...
Jump to postNever said they were. I just think it's fair to have some options. Society has a need to exact justice, but the victims' family are the most directly affected, and they should be able to choose from the justice options they feel 'right' about. If you argue death sentence is bad because some victim ...
Jump to postHere's a good reason, whenever someone in favor uses callous language about ending a human life like they're putting a horse out of their misery, maybe we should take pause. Tons of innocent people in the United States were murdered or lynched for hundreds of years. Our justice system still seems t...
Jump to postThere's no such thing as "Shoot to wound" and you're not in a movie, you'd probably miss legs. Yes there is such a thing as shooting to incapacitate. But you need police training a bit more advanced then what’s typically found in the US. Dutch police, for instance, are trained to aim for ...
Jump to postThere's no such thing as "Shoot to wound" and you're not in a movie, you'd probably miss legs. Yes there is such a thing as shooting to incapacitate. But you need police training a bit more advanced then what’s typically found in the US. Dutch police, for instance, are trained to aim for ...
Jump to postClever - we don’t know they’re innocent until they’re exonerated. But feel free to discuss any of the 190 people exonerated in the links I supplied earlier. Sometimes mistakes a re made but when the guilty person is so guilty there is no possibility of their innocence why not put them down. We have...
Jump to postThe United States of America has the greatest criminal justice system in the world. The death penalty was never meant as revenge or a deterrent, it's about justice and accountability. Many states have found it nearly impossible to secure drugs for lethal injections, hence why methods like the elect...
Jump to postCool story bro. Though I am sure there are probably a few wrongfully convicted people in the US - some sentenced to death - who would strongly disagree with you. Believe it or not, other countries base their justice systems on innocent proven guilty, and provide for appeals - so the US is not an ou...
Jump to post“Man in charge in Oregan decides to stop using method of crime prevention that doesn’t work anyway” The fact that the closest thing to justifying it in this thread was because a book about boy with no dad where the magic rib woman gets told to eat an apple by a talking snake says give as good as yo...
Jump to postWelcome to the right of states to self-determine their justice system. The death penalty is a crime against humanity. The funny thing about these affluent, soft-on-crime clowns is that they never expect violent crimes will happen to themselves or their families. It is a complete segregationist ment...
Jump to postOregon governor has commuted the sentence of all those on death row to life in prison. https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/12/gov-kate-brown-commutes-sentences-of-all-17-people-on-oregons-death-row.html Nevada governor Sisolak has also joined in, as a me too. https://news3lv.com/news/local/sis...
Jump to postOregon governor has commuted the sentence of all those on death row to life in prison. https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/12/gov-kate-brown-commutes-sentences-of-all-17-people-on-oregons-death-row.html Nevada governor Sisolak has also joined in, as a me too. https://news3lv.com/news/local/sis...
Jump to postI recall talking to a kid at school about this many years ago. He said that at short range it would make a hole the size of a dinner plate. You don't need accuracy, even if you hit his foot he will never walk again. Any hit above the knees will probably be fatal. If you are shooting #00 buckshot, y...
Jump to postExplain to me why you’d ever need to have a gun that can “fire as fast as..”? Are you planning on getting into it with a drug cartel? Or is it that “just in case” you do scenario? Maybe it’s that spouse is home alone and someone comes to the door and you feel uncomfortable so you spray the front do...
Jump to postSemantics, with these devices they can empty the magazine as fast as an M16 on full auto can. The manufacturer even calls it simulated full auto. No, they can't fire that fast. I've seen them. What the manufacturer advertises is pure marketing. A hundred year old revolver can fire as fast as you ca...
Jump to postOnly if you're a trained machinist. Of course, a machinist can build a gun. You don't need to be a machinist, there are devises you can buy that can make an AR rapid fire, you know this. https://patriot1tech.com/magazine/3-rapid-fire-devices-not-covered-by-the-bump-stock-ban/ None of those devices ...
Jump to postMohawkWeekend wrote:List of countries by Fragile States Index. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... ates_Index
If the map from this link doesn't scare the beejeez out of folks in the West, I don't know what will.
4 million ? That would be far too many, and then the issue becomes one for Mexico as the migrants that are wanting to claim assylum would just be stuck in lines. Title 42 is about assylum seekers. Not hordes of folks as Right Wing Media would like you to beleve. Why call the asylum seekers when the...
Jump to postWhich society has banned pools? Far more kids drown each year than are killed in mass shootings. Are you sure about that? On average 389 kids under the age of 15 drown in pools or spa pools each year in the US. https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2022/CPSC-Report-Shows-Fatal-Child-Drownings...
Jump to postwhat actually has been done since, in order to prevent such a shooting? I asked the same question but my post we deleted. The answer is nothing, the right to own a gun is more important than the right to life, those 20 children and the lives of all others taken in massacres before and after Sandy H...
Jump to postIt looks like an M-16 but does not function like one. M-16s are capable of fully automatic fire while the ARs are not. You know that there are ways to make an AR rapid fire like an M-16. Only if you're a trained machinist. Of course, a machinist can build a gun. You don't need to be a machinist, th...
Jump to postHere are are a few more: Hair salons - SuperCuts Safety razors - Gillette Shoes - Mostly Skechers Web Browser - Microsoft Edge A/V Recievers - Yamaha How often do you change AV receivers? I have a home cinema and have changed receivers twice in 16 years, the first was a Yamaha, when I bought new sp...
Jump to postHow many years do you keep a car? Five years is about it for a battery. I never changed a clutch either four cars all over 125,000 miles each 4 to 5 years - 80000 to 120000kms on average. VW was having an issue for the last few years where batteries needed to be replaced after about a year - not su...
Jump to postAR stands for armalite, a brand a rifle. The AR is simply a semi-automatic rifle that functions like any other semi-auto. There’s nothing special or unique about it. If it is a replica or equivalent of an M16, it is probably not going to stay legal. The AR, while not standard issue military, can be...
Jump to postThere is no solution to mass shootings. But, one of the tradeoffs that society decided to make resulted in a police officer hesitating to take down a shooter and a lot of innocent kids died as a result. I can think of a different tradeoff society decided to make that's killed a lot more kids than o...
Jump to postYesterday marked the 10 year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. This was a very shocking event that has since become quite common in schools across the United States. Surprised no one has posted on this yet. https://www.wfsb.com/2022/12/14/its-been-10-...
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