Steven P

Tosser. You appear to be even more argumentative this week, more insulting to all, more rightarded that usual. Wonder if the problem is Mrs J isn't giving enough action for your liking over the Christmas period? Perhaps take yourself off for some quality 'thinking time' mighty calm you down?

I am assuming you mean the protestors killed in Tehran? I also assume that you will go off on one unless we agree with you that law enforcement killing civilians for not following orders is acceptable? Reality is it’s a shame some kids have lost their biological parents, life goes on. That’s not being callous it’s just the reality of things.

That made me laugh. "If she had followed orders"... because we all know well that everyone so directed will always follow orders. Stick out some traffic management cones to see how well they behave.... ANYONE who has to deal with law enforcement has to know that the public DO NOT follow orders, they are not trained monkeys to do as demanded. So to say "If she had followed orders" is simply demonstrating a distinct lack of knowledge of people. As far as I can make out there was no warning the he would shoot, there was less than a second between him drawing his gun and shooting - his mind was made up he was going to shoot (if you care to google driving reaction times, she wasn't given time to react to the drawn gun before she was shot). He stopped feet from the front of the car, there was no risk to others, put himself at risk - and in all training the common theme is do not put yourself at unnecessary risks. If he had walked 2 foot further he would not have been in danger. Whether that is law enforcement or tree climbing the rule is the same. She was a housewife, the car was identified with its registration plate, pick her up later. Or kill her? Noting she was not an immediate threat to anyone (till the officer stood in front of the car). So he screwed up, acted beyond what is reasonable and killed a woman. A woman who was not at all aggressive in any of the videos leading up to her death.

Noting of course that the officer who shot was the only one who thought she was threatening life - only one out of them all to be aiming at her. He of course had time, and space to choose another spot to shoot at, the SUV tyres are decent sized targets if he was determined to shoot at her. He didn't go for alternatives, he went for the lethal shot.

If you look at her actions in the car - go from a few minutes before, as much as the vidoes will allow, her crime was as serious as a traffic stop offence. She pulled out, her steering wasn't at the officer in front of her, it was to complete the turn down the road, she didn't stop. Traffic offence which I am sure does not warrant being shot.

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.

6G: In the 90s we were told we would all get brain cancers from mobile phone use, likewise from 4G and 5G roll out - 5G was also meant to be spreading Covid if you read the right web pages, and also a method for Bill Gates to control the population. None of these happened. A curious thing to note there was also a rumour that they build the masts, don't turn them on for a couple of months so that all the chancers come out the woodwork trying to blame them for health conditions "sorry, it hasn't been turned on yet". Just another radio signal, high frequency, low power (unlike say the TV signals, lower frequency but much more powerful - example 1 transmitter to cover 40+ miles, opposed to many covering 1 mile each)

I keep banging my head against a brick to remind myself. It isn't all about the oil. It is to stop the speed boats with a 250 mile range travelling the 1600 miles (and 1600 back) to Miami to deliver Mexican Fentanyl. All about the drugs. Vice president of Venezuela a natural successor of course, that it why they are elected, to take over if the president cannot run the country. Luckily Trump has no beef with her either. Oh..... Not about the oil. Or petty vengeance.

Hi Mathew, if you add yourself to the tip sites (linked here or above) you might get some luck there. Noting that most tree surgeons and so on working regularly in your area will be sorted where to get rid of their waste, you are more likely to get occasional loads from people working outside their area and not wanting to return to their usual places (time driving 'home' costs). It helps if you can be accessible as you can - a drive to tip onto helps, no locked gates, able to take any waste on offer and so on. Second thing is to take a walk around, listen out for chainsaws working (they arn't hard to find), weird as it may be but not every tree surgeon is a member here, won't see the tip sites. You might get lucky, a face to face conversation can get results - though again be prepared to leave a number and post code (goes into the pile of phone numbers in the van) - if you are closer or more convenient than a usual tip that can help. In the tip sites add in that you are willing to give a consideration for time and petrol. Last one, local knowledge, there was a fella with a yard - forget where - think advertising on Gum Tree advertising uncut logs delivered - might have been Rutherglen way

That is an interesting take on how AI will change things. With all the technology over the last 200 years, we are still working till 65 (75....) and it hasn't given us significantly more time to do stuff. So perhaps yes, it will shift the workforce from what can be automated more to what can't be automated - perhaps to use machinery designed by AI, or to do creative things. Or in the bright new future, it will chain the workforce to their desks even more just watching AI process stuff making sure the AI errors arn't too mental?

Taking out the drugs boats was provocation, try to get Venezuela to act - Maduro didn't bite - so they want in anyway. Trump is shying away from squaring up to Russia or China - look to the Ukraine and Taiwan for how he is with them. It is all about the oil.