billd766

2 hours ago, AndreasHG said:

 

It has been extended quite some time ago. Electric Vehicles | Department of Energy

You really must stop posting useful and informative links. People will think that you know what you are talking about.

Be more like the poster you responded to, and then people will know that you have no idea.

Perhaps he should stop drinking loopy juice before going to bed.

3 hours ago, proton said:

 

This was not editing, it was fraud

Where is YOUR proof that it was fraud?

On 11/1/2024 at 10:11 AM, billd766 said:

I know that this is probably a forlorn request, But is it possible to stop continuously updating the forum. It seems as though every week there are changes.

 

As a retired engineer the advice I was given was brief and simple,

 

If it works, then leave it alone and don't mess with it.

 

A good example is that the forum last night is completely different to the one I opened this morning.

Whoop de doo.

Nothing changed in 24 hours.  

As usual, Trump hates fact checking as it shows up his lies.

As usual he will deny, deflect, obfuscate and refuse to accept his own words. It won't matter to his supporters, as they believe every word he says.

12 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Not a problem for me at 80.

All I need at 80 is my mobile and the numbers of 2 very strong men to come and lift me up. That is of course, IF I remember my phone.

4 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

Probably thought he could use the one on his phone - which flattened the battery of course!

 

Old soldier In me suggests a map and compass? No battery required, works in the rain. About as essential as you get if you go off running in the "wilderness"?

The old airman in me cynically says, move with the times and listen to what other people say. They are probably smarter than you. After all they didn't get lost. He did.

Maps get wet and disintegrate in the rain, and unless you can read an OS map and us a compass properly, the map is not that much use. Paper maps are rarely updated and as there had been a lot of wildfires in the area, paper maps will not show that.

In addition, a GPS has a separate power source and will not deplete your phone battery. The GPS should tell you where you are, how far you have travelled, and if you plot the waypoints and save them, you will be able to go forwards or back to a known point and find your way back to the start point. Also if you stay where you are, it is a lot easier for a rescue team to find you.

In addition if you tell someone who is not going with you, your route, it will also be easier for a rescue team to find you, instead of wandering around with no clue where you are or where you are going.

Common sense seems to be lacking in him.

1 hour ago, PuiPuiHarry said:

Every officer, soldier knows, when any nuke is fired, it is a matter of a 1/2-1 hour and also he and his family are evaporated. Putin can order as much as he wants, nobody will follow him into Armageddon

I would like to hope that would happen.

There are quite a few human steps between Putin actually pressing his button and the 2 guys with separate keys too far apart for 1 guy to turn both keys at the same time. In a submarine I have no idea.

If, deity forbid, it does happen, I hope that I and my family go in the first round, because IMHO the survivors will probably be eating each other, and those in protected bunkers or mountains will never want to come out, and they will die there.

On 10/29/2024 at 10:17 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

I've explained it umpteen times that I don't support Trump for himself ( I'm not a fan of billionaires, or millionaires ), but because the opposition is rotten to the core.

It's a matter of deciding which is worse and voting for the other.

 

BTW, I do like most of his policies, eg stopping illegal immigration and deporting illegals, drilling for oil, but most of all, ending the Ukraine war and not wasting any more money on it, plus hopefully he won't start any, unlike warmonger Harris who is likely to.

 

Not all positive, for reasons I don't need to say here as well known.

But you still support Trump, whichever way you try to explain it.

55 minutes ago, VBF said:

Oh great! Now I'm all Grumpy 😩

I think that I resemble all of them except Rocky.

I wonder why he did not carry a GPS as an essential item in his pack?

3 hours ago, PJ71 said:

How do you know it's stupid?

 

pls refrain from using the lords name in vain as well

Well, that invisible person is certainly not my lord, and possibly not even the lord of billions of other people world wide.

1 hour ago, harryviking said:

As long as you have Iran feeding these terror organizations, nothing will ever be solved. Iran is the heart that pumps bad blood through the whole of the middle east.  

And as long as you have the USA feeding the Israeli government you have the the same problem.

IMHO the problem with the USA is akin to a person riding on the back of a hungry tiger.

It is not so hard to get on, but almost impossible to get off safely.

IMHO it will never happen all the time that Israel refuses to recognise that the Palestinians have the same rights to exist as the Israeli's.

So many posters complain that it is the fault of Iran for supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, but none of them complain about the USA supporting Israel.

Again, IMHO, it is not the fault of either the Israeli OR the Palestinian people, but it IS the fault of their leaders.

A quote from Charles Dickens from the 19th century and still valid nowadays. All you need to do is change the amount and the currency.

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Several problems with borrowing money is

1) it has to be repaid with interest.

2) Eventually nobody will lend money any more, so what happens then?

I still have my TM6 from the last time I arrived in Thailand in May of 2009.

It will probably die with me.

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

BS. I never loved my father. He was a rotten father.

I loved both my Mum and my Dad, and both were great parents to me.

The sad thing for me is that my Dad died the year before I joined the RAF, so he never got to see me in uniform.

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Yes he was, in the primaries. How can you not know that?

Because unlike you. I am not perfect.

Also I am unlike you. I am NOT and never will be, a supported nor a sycophant of a convicted felon, a convicted sex offender and a serial liar.