Steven P

We're fcked. (read this last night and thought it said mortality... and my response would be "we're not so fcked after all then")

A lot of video footage around (always a lot of video footage these days, no one stepping in to help, just want to record it for ticktocks). Saw one last night where a civilian doctor on the scene wanted to go and help her, but was denied till 15(?) minutes later an ambulance arrived. Didn't see many medics rushing around the car in the video trying to save her either. OK I am basing this bit on the UK, if the police here hurt someone they switch from enforcers to medics very very quickly (at least on the TV shows they do). ...victim blaming... from different angles it looks like she was simply trying to drive off from being parked... crime from the videos is a simple traffic stop... does that warrant being shot usually?

If it was me I would be telling them not to get too greedy, wanting to rule the world never ends well. Stick to Italy, southern Spain, north Africa, and do that extremely well rather than expanding too much, unable to control the monster you create and collapsing.

To bring the conversation right down, 2 pages in and it is still 'safe for work', can I borrow your movie collection next time Mrs P is away....

Kind of true still, if it is too long you forget points or your eyes glaze over towards the end of reading it. If I get one that is too long then my first assumption is whoever wrote it just copied and pasted from previous examples, cover everything, without ever looking at the site or site conditions. My favourite example is specifying a hard hat to walk into a green field months before any plant is considered to start work there. Copy and paste, makes me wonder if the rest of the risk assessment is up to the job.

That's quite worrying if they are - takes some skill to erase yourself off line so quickly - so points to someone with knowledge doing that

Is it 3,000,000 litres? The amount of oil that the wind turbine replaces in the electricity generation system over its life?

Depends on the angle you see, to me it looks like she wasn't aiming at anyone. Waved a car to pass her then went to follow it. If she was aiming she would have gone straight ahead rather than turning. The ICE agent was drawing his gun before she had started to move forward and before the other had reached in to try to stop her.

He doesn't understand it Mark, that a transition to renewables is not an on-off switch but a gradual change over and as the oil runs in our lifetimes we will be able to continue as we were. So every day when we use more oil that renewables he will be there demonstrating his ignorance. Just short of 50% of our electricity used last year we generated by renewable energy, with near 100 hours (4 days) that we ran only on renewable energy. A fact he never mentions for a comparison.

... China has a lot of 'rare minerals' that he wants the US to buy at bargain prices, they didn't do that. The Ukraine has a lot of minerals that he wants the US to buy at bargain prices but he hasn't stopped that war yet, despite many 24 hours, Greenland has the potential for a lot of minerals that the US wants at bargain prices. World security? No. (Minerals include things like the rare earth magnets that are needed in electric motors, China is taking them all for their windmills), Taking a sparsely populated country like Greenland and with a president who doesn't care abut the environment looks to me like a plan to turn it into a massive open cast mine. Security from Russia? Yeah, the Russians are struggling to make headway into The Ukraine, cannot support their international allies and are no match for the US, or even Europe. The US can base as much military in Greenland as they want without owning it. Security? That is a truthful as the Venezuelan drugs.

That's just the use of tech though they can do all that now if they wanted to, 6G just means the communications can go faster - in fact they could have done most of that 10 years and at 4G too... I said above 6G as a tech doesn't worry me as much as the brain rot that we will use it for

Higher frequency yes, but the power at that frequency you might receive is tiny.. and it is the power that will fry things. Many transmitters operating at a low power to get the coverage. Noting also that every time you double the distance away from the transmitter you quarter the power you receive - so while the transmitters might send out what sounds powerful, by the time you get out the towers enclosures and at ground level, even close up that power level is very small. So, am the opposite of you, not worried by the tech itself, more worried by the 'brain rot' caused by what that tech is delivering.

So how do the boat drivers get home if they don't make the return trip? Assuming that you cannot just pluck someone off the street, bung them in a boat and point them at Florida, they are experienced, they have to return home. Perhaps a handy Easy Jet flight Miami to Caracus, drugs mule special. Park up the boat in the harbour, passport control, taxi to the airport? Or they take the $60k speed boat back again? Fuel up in Miami harbour next to the $million yachts and go back again? makes law enforcement easy then, just arrest as they fill up the fuel tank.... Or the boats need enough fuel for the return trip and at 2 miles to the litre at those speeds, 3000 miles.... It is all about the drugs.... Was asking for your infinitely more experienced knowledge... but you don't appear to have any more than anyone else, so just fire out your usual tiresome insults. I've found this to be a trait you have when you do not understand.

All about the drugs remember, though a headline just then "US admits he is not the head of a drugs cartel". Funny clip* last night from Trump and his plans to run the country, spacing every sentence around "and the oil" - think it was one of the US news shows put it together * Remembered now, Jon Stewarts Daily Show

Why are you continuously amazed by the forums ability to read things? Is it a skill set you are lacking? Go on then, the 'narco boats', and your scuba diving experience must give you a front row seat in knowledge, do they have the 3000 mile range to get to Venezuela and back again to carry the Mexican Fentanyl? Let us make the assumption the the boat drivers want to get home for dinner and not hang out in Florida, and a good nights kip after 50 hours driving their boat. Noting Trump has never mentioned the cocaine usually associated with Venezuela, wonder why that would be.