Basil B

40K that is a lot and certainly can not be justified, unless they want to deter carpetbaggers and get some urgently needed funds for repairs, anyone know how many units total at this condominium?

4 hours ago, Boca said:

On page 4 of this thread somebody posted the auction dates. Seems next one is tomorrow.
 

 

That's going to be a washout...

On 31/03/2017 at 3:47 PM, Banana7 said:

There has always been a fee for issuing the debt free letter, it's never free.

 

I seem to recall being charged 200B when I sold my condo, depends on how well the condominium is run.

On 26/03/2017 at 3:04 AM, pegman said:

Strange that previous owner would walk from >$2m in property value. Maybe they left a lender holding the bag.

Maybe he /she did not walk, maybe the banks other investors wanted their money back...

4 minutes ago, evadgib said:

SNP's presence in Westminster will be decimated in the snap election planned for 08 June.

 

I doubt not even RR would predict they will double the number of MP's at Westminster... 

All they will do is move onto private property...

I am sorry for shop owners who own some pavement outside their businesses who find all sorts setting up shop on their frontages and find the local law enforcement unwilling to move them on.

Well Sturgeon and Corbyn have been calling for a General Election... 

While most democratic world leaders are disapproving the result, guess who's been on the phone to congratulate the tyrant???

Once again, another referendum with out a clear majority, I am sorry to say that I feel  in the case of such referendums that to make such changes that a clear majority of 60% or even 2/3 majority should be required to carry the referendum proposal.

The result nearly half the voters feel disenfranchised... 

Clearly locals were trying to stop the vehicle driving off until the police arrived, but I suppose it was a case of where are the police when you want them???

9 hours ago, colinneil said:

If passengers do not follow legitimate instructions from cabin crew they deserve to be thrown off the flight.  Somebody in your seat, you ask them to move or speak with cabin crew to get them to do it.  No way was anybody sprawled over seats before take off cabin crew would not allow that to happen.

Agree, Cabin Crew would want him seated upright and strapped in for take off, doubt he would be able to spread across 3 seats until all passengers are boarded, though some do try it on hoping the cabin crew might sit the passengers ticketed for those seats elsewhere,

17 hours ago, oilinki said:

Hey, hey, hey! Bottas got his first pole!!

He is a really good guy who does a lot of work to get results for himself and for the team.

 

Valtteri really beat himself after his mistake at Chinese GP. He also got over that mistake quite fast.

 

This was Valtteri's 3rd race on competitive car. Pretty well done.

 

I hope he'll be able to win the race tomorrow. This is to pop his cherry and get rid of the pressure for the future.

Should be a good race, and Toto does not mind who wins as long as the other is second.

And Veltteri is no rookie, Toto dug deep to get him, for now Hamilton is trying to stay friends with everyone.

Not sure how much Dr Dao paid for his ticket but he was at best likely to only receive 4 times this to a maximum of $1350 as compensation for being a day late at his destination if involuntarily denied booking. 

Looking on Expedia the cheapest return ticket on a Sunday ORD - SDF is $300, take half of that and times it buy four, that $600, also as I understand this was the second leg of his flight so nowhere near home so would have to find a hotel for the night plus substance...

No I would not be happy to be bumped either, all Airlines need to look at their policy on bumping passengers now as there are going to be a lot more stories in the next few days, weeks, months which is going to cripple many airlines. 

Even with the sixty minute rule this is likely to mean bumping passengers who have already checked in, I can now see airlines looking for reasons to bump passenger, like accusing them of being drunk or abusive.

18 hours ago, Opl said:

Mar-a-Lago " war room"   will never become as Iconic as Obama's

 

 

Yes, Trump saying Obama did nothing...

Sorted out Bin Laden something Bush Jnr could not do.

2 hours ago, hobz said:

It's a hard task to make the traffic police do their jobs.

 

But there's one thing that is easy to implement:

 

Increase fines and penalties, 200 for no license??? Should be more like 5000 and not allowed to continue driving. 

 

 

200 fine for no license tells it all. They are just not taking safety seriously.

 

Other stuff like tracking repeat offenders and taking their license or setting up cameras or making the police clean or having harder driving license tests. Thats all hard to implement. I mean, it takes some effort and work... But to increase the fine from 200 for not driving a license, that's as easy as sending a tweet using the power of the dictator.

 

 

Some people say "they are unable or unwilling" i think the 200 fine for no license on motorbike proves that they are simply unwilling. And thats way worse than being unable, i would go as far as saying that the people in power have blood on their hands. Unable and unwilling is the difference between manslaughter and murder. Looks like murderers running this country. What a suprise.

 

 

Are there dedicated traffic units?

Could do with setting up dedicated traffic police units, with the equipment to do the job.

And Yes, tougher penalties, in the UK it is one offence not to have a licence or have an expired licence, driving while disqualified is a lot more serious offence and offenders may end up in prison, and one does not even have had to have a licence to be a disqualified driver, a national data base with instant access for traffic enforcement officers with toting up of offences leading to an automatic ban.

Also not having a driving licence should negate any insurance so that could be another offence.

21 hours ago, HiSoLowSoNoSo said:

Are these the true numbers? (Just can't trust the local news any longer)

Probably not, they may not take into account those who die in hospital particularly days afters.

Compare that that to the UK (Population UK 64m, Thailand 66m)

In 2013 there were 1,713 road fatalities average less than 5 a day, yet in 4 days of Thai madness more than 50 a day...

4 hours ago, janclaes47 said:

 

I doubt the Chinese president would be part of a Japanese state visit.

 

 

The inspections took place on Jan. 26 and 27, just days before the state visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Trump also entertained the Chinese leader at Mar A Logo...

Why Trump should want to entertain state dignitaries at his private estates instead of say Camp David? one can only think he is promoting his  personal business interests. 

In the last few days...

• He has bombed Syria
• He has sent the Navy to threaten the North Koreans
• He has dropped the Mother Of All Bombs in Afghanistan
• And now it seems he tried to poison the Chinese President...

12 hours ago, Dipterocarp said:

The man was asked to deplane under command authority inherent to the crew, the moment he failed to comply he was in breech of Uniteds own policy as outlined in their contract of carriage, and Federal Law. This police were called to ask him to deplane again. Again he refused and what happened after that is horrible but no reponsibility of United Airlines.

• I have not seen any evidence of police in attendance.
• The Goons who dragged him off the plane were security employees of the Airport, not police.
• The assault up Dr Dao went far beyond reasonable force required to remove him from the plane.
• The crew could have intervened and instructed the goons to stop when they started to use excessive force, by not doing so they are just as responsible as the goons for the unjust assault.  

7 hours ago, SABloke said:

 

By "anyone" do you mean the 3 other passengers who were also chosen to give up their seats? I wonder why we aren't reading any news stories about their forceful removals...oh right...they acted like adults

 

They probably just walked off quietly after seeing what happend to the Doc...

42 minutes ago, Flustered said:

The reason given to him to get off the plane was a lie and United were in the wrong.

Yes they were in the wrong but that does not negate the fact that by refusing Dr Dao made himself a "disruptive passenger" allowing them to have him removed from the plane, forcefully if need be.

I do not know about American Law but in the UK basically there is Criminal and Civil, civil law deals with matters contractual, claims for damages etc, the Airline failing to fly DR Dao from Chicago to Louisville is a contractual matter, but DR Dao refuse to get off the plane as instructed, and thereby disobeying the instructions of the crew, made him a disruptive passenger and as such could have been arrested and charged and prosecuted under Criminal law.

Quite clearly the way the Airline approached this was well out of order and fortunately Dr Dao will probably be getting a lot more compensation than had he just walked off the plane as first instructed.    

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The airline has confirmed it is "reaching out" to customers on United Flight 3411 and "offering compensation for their flights".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39586391

Bet there will be strings attached, United ownership of all video taken on board, confidentiality clause prohibiting passengers giving statements to the media or provide assistance to Dr Dao legal team.

Not surprised, often wounder where some got their water from.