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- Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:48 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Legitimate Political Discourse?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2578
Re: Legitimate Political Discourse?
Around 71% of Americans believe in god with more like 90% believing in some supernatural power, so critical thinking isn't high on the list of strengths. With this, it's no wonder that many will believe anything that their "leaders" tell them. The GOP is just playing to the mentality / int...
Jump to post- Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:28 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Minneapolis Police fatally shoot Black man during warrant
- Replies: 121
- Views: 7454
Re: Minneapolis Police fatally shoot Black man during warrant
Kiwirob wrote:
If Europeans are used to being ruled by there betters how do you explain New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Iceland……?
...and why bother electing officials if you're then going to ignore the rules they create that you disagree with? Jump to post
- Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:19 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Minneapolis Police fatally shoot Black man during warrant
- Replies: 121
- Views: 7454
Re: Minneapolis Police fatally shoot Black man during warrant
The problem with this argument is that they didn't enter unannounced as you claim. They literally were screaming "POLICE!" and were in full uniform when they entered. Apart from the first "Police search warrant", they were shouting over each other. All that likely happened is he...
Jump to post- Sat Feb 05, 2022 7:30 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Minneapolis Police fatally shoot Black man during warrant
- Replies: 121
- Views: 7454
Re: Minneapolis Police fatally shoot Black man during warrant
Just watched the video. The first shout of "police search warrant" was pretty clear, but if the chap was asleep there is little chance he would have understood the words. Might have woken him up though. Thereafter the police are shouting over eachother and if you've just been woken I think...
Jump to post- Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:58 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: "Freedom Convoy 2022" in Canada
- Replies: 507
- Views: 31540
Re: "Freedom Convoy 2022" in Canada
That is correct they were hesitant at the beginning then the J&J was put on hold (witch was the one that most of my family members wanted) then the mandates finished the decision of not getting it witch is the exact reason why at this point I have no interest is getting another dose. Sounds a l...
Jump to post- Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:41 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Dutch problems with Super mega yachts
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5132
Re: Dutch problems with Super mega yachts
What's the problem? He's paying for it. Holland got to build a yacht. Would we prefer it was built in China or Korea. How difficult do we want to make it for the wealthy to spend their money in Europe? are you serious? Do we really need to have: tell me how high I need to jump-attitude? Anyhow, thi...
Jump to post- Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:24 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Dutch problems with Super mega yachts
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5132
Re: Dutch problems with Super mega yachts
What's the problem? He's paying for it. Holland got to build a yacht. Would we prefer it was built in China or Korea. How difficult do we want to make it for the wealthy to spend their money in Europe?
Jump to post- Sat Jan 29, 2022 7:23 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Loss of Challenger - Anniversary
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1407
Re: Loss of Challenger - Anniversary
...and very annoying that many conspiracy nuts want to promote it being a hoax that killed nobody. They would have to, of course, because they think space doesn't exist.
Jump to post- Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:53 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: EU & Russia & border nation issues, a broad open discussion on events occurring between all parties (including the USA)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4717
Re: EU & Russia & border nation issues, a broad open discussion on events occurring between all parties (including the U
The question is if he is willing to live with the resuliting fortification of eastern NATO countries, and perhaps the expansion of NATO with Sweden and Finland. Spot on, plus the extreme (I hope) additional sanctions that would target his biggest allies and himself personally. For me, the biggest d...
Jump to post- Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:23 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire
- Replies: 315
- Views: 21473
Re: US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire
Any chance they could propose the best person for the position, regardless of race, sexuality, disability, perception or all the other things that seem to be more important nowadays.
Answer: No.
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 5:14 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Top 007 Song Openers
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3201
Re: Top 007 Song Openers
stlgph wrote:
Worst:
5. All Time High - Rita Coolidge
I love that song even though Rita herself doesn't. Jump to post
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:52 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Three things you don't like about yourself and would like to change.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1444
Re: Three things you don't like about yourself and would like to change.
Too easily distracted is
Jump to post- Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:31 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Top 007 Song Openers
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3201
Re: Top 007 Song Openers
I would have put Casino Royale - Chris Cornell as number 1, except that he refused permission for it to be on the soundtrack. I don't know the reasons behind this and he may have been justified, but for the opening song not to be on the soundtrack is beyond ridiculous.
Jump to post- Wed Jan 26, 2022 11:44 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Eric Trump invokes fifth amendment about Trump Organization fraud
- Replies: 69
- Views: 4654
Re: Eric Trump invokes fifth amendment about Trump Organization fraud
In the United Kingdom the Miranda rights go: “ You do not have to say anything. But, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence” Does the same apply in the USA? I know the Miranda text is di...
Jump to post- Sat Jan 22, 2022 5:13 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Adele cancels day before first concert.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3496
Lol. That kind of humour is right up my street.
stlgph wrote:
Lol. That kind of humour is right up my street. Jump to post
- Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:07 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Denon vs. Audio Technica
- Replies: 9
- Views: 781
Re: Denon vs. Audio Technica
Had no problem with multiple Audio Technica purchases.
Dual rack mount Denon CD player was the dogs danglies back in the day though.
- Wed Jan 19, 2022 1:22 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Five Word Story Thread - Q1 2022
- Replies: 159
- Views: 10080
- Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:24 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Which books should be adapted for large or small screen?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1787
Re: Which books should be adapted for large or small screen?
petertenthije wrote:Virtual737 wrote:The Bible, by Disney. Fiction, with warnings of violence, racial hatred, sexual intolerance and extremism
We already got “life of Brian” though?!
Yes but he wasn't the Messiah.... Jump to post
- Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:58 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Australian Open 2022
- Replies: 334
- Views: 19265
Re: Australian Open 2022
"On the issue of my travel declaration, this was submitted by my support team on my behalf as I told immigration officials on my arrival - and my agent sincerely apologises for the administrative mistake in ticking the incorrect box about my previous travel before coming to Australia," wid...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:52 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Which books should be adapted for large or small screen?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1787
Re: Which books should be adapted for large or small screen?
The Bible, by Disney. Fiction, with warnings of violence, racial hatred, sexual intolerance and extremism 
- Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:23 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Colleague badmouthing me to customer. Best way to handle.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2771
Re: Colleague badmouthing me to customer. Best way to handle.
I'd speak to the customer before doing anything else. Not directly about the possible comment from the co-worker, but to get that into the convo somehow. In English more than most other languages, body language, tone and many other things are far more important than actual words, so it's far too eas...
Jump to post- Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:38 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Freaky accident
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1300
- Sun Jan 02, 2022 3:46 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: 14 Year Old Girl Shot to Death in a Los Angeles Shopping Mall
- Replies: 120
- Views: 6199
Re: 14 Year Old Girl Shot to Death in a Los Angeles Shopping Mall
In this case, I think we both agree that the officer was wrong for opening fire in the manner that he did. He had ample backup and there were less lethal options available. For me, that is the only real point for discussion in this thread, lest it become just another "US attitude to firearms&q...
Jump to post- Sun Jan 02, 2022 3:35 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: 20 years of the Euro
- Replies: 78
- Views: 5553
Re: 20 years of the Euro
The Euro for sure has offered its users advantages. However, for me, part of the joy of foreign travel was to be using "foreign" money, so switching to the Euro would not only mean giving up our beloved Pound Sterling (one of the world's oldest currencies) and part of our national identity...
Jump to post- Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:49 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: 14 Year Old Girl Shot to Death in a Los Angeles Shopping Mall
- Replies: 120
- Views: 6199
Re: 14 Year Old Girl Shot to Death in a Los Angeles Shopping Mall
This is one of those only in American situations, police in every other developed country would not shoot a person armed with a bike lock. In NZ that guy would have been disarmed by a police dog. Yet again it’s a case of shoot first American style policing. It is my understanding the original victi...
Jump to post- Thu Dec 30, 2021 10:06 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: 14 Year Old Girl Shot to Death in a Los Angeles Shopping Mall
- Replies: 120
- Views: 6199
Re: 14 Year Old Girl Shot to Death in a Los Angeles Shopping Mall
Elkadad313 wrote:Right. Don't shoot now -- hesitate to explore all PC options and let the (original) victim's head get bashed in while waiting for the social worker to arrive. You haven't a clue.
"Shooting now" is the only possible option that a trained officer has that you wouldn't call "PC" ? Jump to post
- Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:18 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
This whole farce also makes the repeated comments in this thread about the FIA favouring Lewis / Mercedes seems just a tad silly too.
Jump to post- Tue Dec 14, 2021 9:50 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: JFK Assassination Records Release Delayed Again
- Replies: 81
- Views: 4036
Re: JFK Assassination Records Release Delayed Again
I have now seen the final redacted document. It was Professor Plum, in the library, with the candlestick.
Jump to post- Tue Dec 14, 2021 9:42 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
Boeing74741R wrote:
I'm sure Pirelli can produce a durable tyre and I agree they are made to a spec.
Pirelli were specifically asked to make the tyres as they are (apart potentially from the blow outs). They are performing pretty much exactly as the FIA dictated they should. Jump to post
- Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:47 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: The first death from omicron variant reported in U.K as lockdowns back on agenda.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 4486
Re: The first death from omicron variant reported in U.K as lockdowns back on agenda.
BlueberryWheats wrote:Well, as a hospital healthcare worker in the NHS (including long stints in covid critical care watching people die), I'll try not to take any of this personally. We're trying our best.
Thank you very much and please, do ignore the very obvious troll in the thread. Jump to post
- Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:41 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
If he hadn’t pushed VER off the track, VER probably would have become world champion without all the drama and controversy we saw yesterday….. Not only that, yesterday's match would have been irrelevant. Without the DNF's caused by Mercedes the WDC would have been decided one or two matches ago. Wh...
Jump to post- Sun Dec 12, 2021 2:50 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
Time to get drunk anyway. Thanks to all for a banter full season. Thanks to scbriml for starting the thread and here's to next season.
Jump to post- Sun Dec 12, 2021 2:47 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
Although I don't like how it ended they should just let it be. There are more seasons to fight.
Jump to post- Sun Dec 12, 2021 2:38 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
- Sun Dec 12, 2021 2:22 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
Grrrr safety car coming... that will likely be it.
EDIT: Why not box Lewis now they know Max has boxed?
- Sun Dec 12, 2021 1:18 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
TheFlyingDisk wrote:Sky F1 thinks the situation is similar to Brazil. Are they nuts? Max didn't open such a big gap in Brazil.
Not 100%. Brundle called it Max's corner and others said they didn't see any advantage given back. Jump to post
- Sun Dec 12, 2021 1:10 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
- Sat Dec 11, 2021 5:15 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
zkojq wrote:Would someone please remind me who the last teammate to outqualify Fernando Alonso over a season?
Only ever happened once before I think. Some whiny black guy that apparently isn't one of the greatest. Jump to post
- Sat Dec 11, 2021 4:46 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
As a newbie, the fact that so much depends on tires is one of the most unsatisfying aspects of motor sports. You're not alone. i'm hoping that the new cars make overtaking easier to the point that the tyre lottery can be reversed. I believe the tyres were made so critical for this very reason as ae...
Jump to post- Sat Dec 11, 2021 3:34 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
Dutchy wrote:Nice driving, max,
Yep he got the job done well. Good strategy calls by Red Bull too. I thought they'd totally sacrificed Checo but he did well to still get 4th, which amplifies Valterri's underperformace.
Also nice to see Lewis complimentary of MV and just admit he was faster. Jump to post
- Sat Dec 11, 2021 2:06 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
- Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:20 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
I listened to Bottas on F1 beyond the grid about a month ago and his reasoning for leaving Mercedes was that Toto was unable or unwilling to give him a multi-year deal. Alfa-Romeo did give him a 3 year contract so he went with them. Personally I think that's Merc allowing Bottas to keep some face. ...
Jump to post- Fri Dec 10, 2021 6:59 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
I listened to Bottas on F1 beyond the grid about a month ago and his reasoning for leaving Mercedes was that Toto was unable or unwilling to give him a multi-year deal. Alfa-Romeo did give him a 3 year contract so he went with them. Personally I think that's Merc allowing Bottas to keep some face. ...
Jump to post- Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:00 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Embry Riddle Mass Shooting Averted
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3693
Re: Embry Riddle Mass Shooting Averted
Is the weapon described one that can be legally held in FL? Yes. It was a Keltec Sub 2000 9mm carbine that takes Glock pistol magazines. Yours for < $800 at guns.com https://www.guns.com/firearms/rifles/semi-auto/kel-tec-sub2000-g19-9mm-ca-9mm-semi-auto-10-1-rounds-16-barrel-new?p=382310
Jump to post- Fri Dec 10, 2021 2:14 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
marcelh wrote:
Hypocrisy? You mean double standards by the HAM fans
The majority of professional commentators and racers seem to disagree with you, so I guess you're trolling. Jump to post
- Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:31 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: New Zealand to BAN smoking
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3492
Re: New Zealand to BAN smoking
OK, but that still doesn't answer this question: why create a black market where there isn't one? I don't for one second pretend it's the perfect solution, but if the black market argument is the major negative then so what? i would prefer it to be taxed out of existence (which would also create a ...
Jump to post- Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:18 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
Re: F1 - 2021 Season
Lewis is just smarter Now you're starting to get it. You at least agree HAM is just doing what VER is being accused of by many devoted HAM groupies over here…. Not really. He's a whiner. He makes mistakes. Sometimes he goes for gaps that don't exist and sometimes he's over the edge. Max is like thi...
Jump to post- Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:10 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
- Replies: 1121
- Views: 81696
- Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:04 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: New Zealand to BAN smoking
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3492
Re: New Zealand to BAN smoking
That’s a press release issued by the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids about a report by the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. Not exactly an objective source. There are plenty of other sources to back up statements, such as: https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_layman/tobacco/en/l...
Jump to post- Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:16 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: New Zealand to BAN smoking
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3492
Re: New Zealand to BAN smoking
I think it's an interesting take on the issue, I don't really understand how it can be legal to discriminate like this There are plenty of examples of where you year of birth affects what your rights are. If the pushback is against a potentially discriminatory law then by all means make it a blanke...
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