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Which is owned by Francois-Henri Pinault

Similar thing happened to me last week on the Thai flight from Singapore to Bangkok Stewardess served tea/coffee to the passenger next to me but forgot about me I put the "call attendant" light in but it was ignored for 45 minutes until we were just landing Not enough to make a fuss about but good job I had not put the light on for anything serious Seems this crew need retraining

It is a bad choice to use this as an example of secular/liberal bias as the owner of Balenciaga is one of the prominent members of the Jewish community in Paris and a patron of the church in France including paying for the restoration of Notre-dame.

I have to call <deleted> on this It is the liberal/secular movement that has been at the forefront of protecting children from sexual trafficking across most of the western world and pushing for legislation and punishment. In Sweden, under which laws this guy will be prosecuted, it is a very liberal/secular party that has introduced the laws on purchasing prostitution and sex trafficking abroad, as well as increasing penalties for those at home. It is the religious communities around the world who have sought to oppose this, whether Islam which has consistently condoned child marriage or Christian churches in Africa condoning the same as being "part of their culture" or in the US catholic church supporting child marriage in many southern states, as well as harboring pedophiles within their clergy and shielding them from prosecution. It is the Christian, right wing community in which most of the pedophiles are found today having committed crimes against children for years and been "protected" - because they are from that elite. Stop with the unproven Qanon bull trying to slander any democrat politician for political gain and look to where the real problems have been - within the religious establishments in the US and elsewhere

But any new government may not be any better in curbing police corruption, may even be worse. Remember - Thaksin came up through the Police

While you may be correct, it is still a fact that it is a song which contains violent themes and imagery against women including stalking, actual bodily harm and perhaps murder. In the UK the police are using such songs and lyrics prevalent in "drill music" to either claim breach of parole conditions or arrest performers, as well as requesting that social media delete this material Met monitoring song lyrics of rap artist it tried to censor on Instagram | Police | The Guardian whatever your views on whether such inciteful lyrics and songs should be allowed or not, the law should be administered even-handedly and if you are going to target rap artists you should also be targeting Sir Tom Jones for Delilah, Foster the People for Pumped up Kicks etc.

I have had many offers in the past - and still today - to go and work in then US, but going there on a temporary work visa means that I would be in the few classes of people not allowed to buy a weapon for my protection - even if everyone else has them - pause for thought

If the solution is that everyone needs to go out armed, even to a new years eve party, why would anyone want to live in such a country?

You obviously were not here in 2008 - try doing some research troll

Having been here for the last two coups, I can tell you that there was a general feeling of relief in 2008 when the tanks rolled onto the streets and people were giving flowers to the military - the Thaksin regime had become so overtly corrupt that people were welcoming the change - but that was not so true on the last coup. There will always be paranoia about Thaksin within the royalist circles, and that is not helped by him always nominating proxies to head the party - first his sister and now his daughter - but they do still have massive support in the hinterland. I was hoping at the last election that the Future forward/Move forward part would be a decent alternative - but this was hit by the dissolution and so did not make the gains expected, but still took away a lot of support from PT. For this election the reverse is happening and the royalist bloc is splintering - PPRP will lose badly, maybe Bhumjaithai will benefit but they will bend with whichever way the wind is blowing in order to stay in the government. I hope that the MF party gains some strength and we do not have a government of PT and Bhumjaithai as that would be a disaster in my opinion - a return to the corruption of the old days

The UK is supposed to be phasing out all of its imports of Russian oil by end of 2022 (a few days time), and reducing the levels of Russian gas imports which were around 4% when the Russian invasion of Ukraine started. UK to phase out Russian oil imports - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) The headline OP is therefore pretty irrelevant - just a tatty right wing news channel trying to drum up a story about nothing

I would dispute the "rapidly growing success" label - you conveniently forget that both Sky news and GB news are roundly beaten every primetime evening by the BBC

Congratulations to the team for getting this far. Building a cubesat and putting an ADS-B terminal on it is not so difficult these days, the hard part will be in raising the funds for a 200-satellite constellation, manufacturing facility, operations and marketing. That will need around $200m capital injection before they ever make any money from services - and the same again to keep replacing their satellites. Spire (US/UK) are already doing this and other "constellation" companies from Australia, such as Fleet and Myriota, are also well on the way, but not all will succeed - a previous venture in Australia called sky and Space Global is now pretty much at a standstill after launching only 3 satellites.

And to give you another example "In 2008, Rock Port, a small farm town in northwest Missouri, became the first community in America to be powered entirely by wind energy. Four large wind turbines are connected to the power grid and provide Rock Port’s 1,300 residents with more electricity than they can use." So the claim is not valid unless you define the size of community you are talking about - which the article did not.

precisely - nothing to do with the gigawatt scale grid that you were asserted in your last post - changing your mind now and trying to cover your error? Learn to read first before commenting

No. read the article. The "world first" comment referred to the 10-day run on renewables

I would question the assertion in the article that this is a "world first" Costa Rica ran on 100% renewables for 300 days out of 365 in 2015, including 76 straight days, if you include hydro-electric and geo-thermal in the renewables category and not just wind and solar. Iceland and Paraguay are also close to 100% renewables with fossil fuels only as emergency backup - different renewable technologies are appropriate for different countries, regions, areas etc. There are many other areas - albeit smaller than an Australian state - which have much longer periods of using only solar and wind. The journalism in this article strikes me as being a bit deficient being a copy and paste from articles published by the SA energy authority.

People forget that Tesla is just a financial vehicle for Musk - he bought into the company for $6.5m so he has made tremendous returns on this - and the exorbitant stock price has allowed him to spend on his real passion. That is not Twitter - which is just a vanity project - but SpaceX. SpaceX is the only company he has started from scratch, instead of buying into an existing technology (even the starlink satellites was an existing program he bought into, as was Neuralink, Hyperloop etc. hoping that these would turn into the "next Tesla"). The problem is that although he has now built up SpaceX to be the dominant player in the launch market, and it is now breaking even, he has been investing in research and development, especially into the development of the massive Starship which has not yet launched but its true goal is to be the vehicle that will get Musk to Mars. All of this research and development, and massive infrastructure in Texas, has been funded by Musk selling shares in Tesla over the past years. Spaceship, due to its economies of scale, may become commercially viable, but will still require billions in investment for any Mars program. Starlink satellites are making revenue, but not nearly enough to cover the cost of replacing the satellites in a few years time, and may never be profitable, and Tesla cars also face headwinds. Telsa shares have been hyped to a tremendous degree and still are overvalued against other car companies (Tesla would say it is a technology company not a car company - but so could the others), and those other car companies are also now releasing many new EV models giving the consumer for this product more choice - think of when the Prius was the hybrid of choice but is now just one of many. So as the Tesla share price inevitably drops, the premium from being a "Musk technology" disappears or may even become a liability for their core customer base, and as Musk now only owns 13.4% of the company he may even get removed as the CEO, then he will have increasing difficulties in self-financing his projects. His announcement to buy Twitter was exactly the wrong time, as Tesla share price started to drop and more competition coming in, so the need to turn-around Twitter into a profitable company has possibly driven him to some extreme decisions which may backfire.

I think you need to read the first post again. He was undergoing treatment at the hospital when they attacked him

I am also in Thailand - where they are now legalising abortion, starting to improve gay rights etc. Too woke for you - you should be looking elsewhere - except nowhere else has the tolerance for overt racism that you enjoy

Christinaity has been on a downtrend for many years, before WOKE was even a thing and even in areas where the most fundamental bible-bashing was occurring - such as in Northern Ireland. The numbers were held up purely by tradition and fear - people were forced to the church by their parents, community etc. and even their job prospects were affected if they were not visible as a member of the local church. People now are able to make more of a personal choice about their religious participation, and a lot of that comes about because of education. In recent times there have been many societal changes - more acceptance of women in positions (except in the church), abortion rights (except in the church), contraception (except in the church), acceptance of homosexuality (except in the church). I don't think anyone anymore gets asked about their church attendance in a job interview. Society has changed, not only in the ways above but also in the fields of science and technology which has reduced many of the tenets of old-testament christianity to the status of fairy tales - only fringe conspiracy theorists still believe in creationism and a flat earth. Would you really want to go back to a "christian fundamentalist" society, where women are denied the vote, treated as chattels, backstreet abortions, marital rape (still not recognised by the church), racism is rife and the old-testament bible actually advocates genocide and child murder. If that is what you want then go and live in Afghanistan.

"Anyone with a bit of common sense knows what she meant" - exactly right Repeatedly asking someone where do they come from really is because she does not believe that someone who is black can identify as British - no matter how long they have been there, their nationality status or for how many generations is just racist - that is exactly what she meant So where do you come from JonnyF - are you Thai - if not where do you come from and why do you not go back there?

One of the reasons for the fall in the Christian , ironically, is the mandatory teaching of religious education within British state schools over the past 30 years. This treated religion as an academic subject to be questioned - and also looked at many different religions Under the Blair government, however, under pressure from the catholic church, so-called "faith schools" were exempted from this - but that has just seen the rise in number of islamic-based schools which do not teach RE as an academic subject but rather as an indoctrination, without question, to the islamic faith, which also explains why the percentage of south asian respondents being religious has held up.

I occasionally take my laptop or have meetings at the Tom n Tom coffee at Sukhumvit 219 next to soi 15. The upstairs is usually pretty quiet with a few people working on laptops, good power points but a little dark lighting. I always buy 2-3 coffees plus food there as I don't want to take advantage

More reputable money changers do the calculation first and hand you the paper saying how much you will receive before taking the money Save any aggravation for the poor teller who does not have a choice in the rates being set This was obviously not a reputable money changer The London Mayor (or the mayor of the city of London - different people) could introduce a by-law to require that the money changer states the amount to be returned before taking the money.