thaibeachlovers

Ah, so your solution is for everyone to have to be tech savvy. Like that's going to happen. Every time I go to supermarket the oldie in front of me is putting their pin number into the machine without hiding it from potential muggers behind them.

Hackers probably know more about how the systems work than the guys trying to stop them. Internet crime pays for the criminals, and very little chance of being caught. News like this confirms my choice to never buy anything on line.

Some interesting information about that. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greta-thunberg-s-yacht-trip-to-new-york-not-as-green-as-it-may-seem-6fsn5sbpz Greta Thunberg’s decision to cross the Atlantic in a “zero-carbon yacht” may generate more emissions than it saves because of flights taken by the crew.

LOL. The protests at the mine were international news long before she turned up. Al Jazeera had it on every news bulletin I watched.

Deflection. I didn't mention her in my reply to Credo.

Perhaps not "nothing"- she certainly generated a lot of publicity. Did she accomplish anything though? I suspect her rant at the UN will amount to zero in reality. If electric cars do take over from oil powered it will happen for reasons other than her, if alternate energy becomes the norm it will be for reasons other than her. Such will happen because there is profit to be made, not because of an angry girl, despite her being beloved of the woke.

Who is holding her purse strings? That is the million $ question! Follow the money.

Are you saying child labour in terrible conditions is preferable to using oil?

Indeed, alcohol is probably the worst drug one can use that is legal.

That must hurt! As a youth I disliked Elvis just for the music as never saw him in person or in a movie, then in my late 30s I saw a VDO of him singing to a small group of people and I became a huge fan. He had an amazing charisma that enraptured me. After that I heard his music in a different way and now love most, but not all of his songs.

You'll have to be more specific about the "fun" part as I looked back through my posts on this thread and I didn't find any reference to fun. As for farming, it's a satisfying life- far more so than most occupations. Being on the land, in open air, watching new life in spring, growing things, feeding the world; what could be better? Sadly, the world doesn't appreciate farmers, and the financial rewards are not great enough to be a farm hand if one can find a better paying occupation, which is what I did once I realised that farming was too low paid to have a future in it for myself.

I don't consider that "bitching", rather factual, but I guess we'll differ on that. While I do appreciate likes from any poster, sometimes you put laugh emojis on as many as 5 of my posts in a single thread ( I counted them up one time- but don't remember which thread now ). Just pointing out that the moderators have made several posts about not doing so any more, and I have endeavored to stop doing it myself.

I'd really like Salerno to say what was funny about that post. I guess he missed the message from the moderators that trolling with the laugh emoji isn't acceptable anymore.

Obama is to be proud of? LOL.

IMO it's an extremely sloppy way of dealing with classified documents. Is the US government so inefficient that they don't know who has classified documents? If any old so and so can get and keep them and leave them lying around for 6 years, what is the point of classifying them at all? A good starting point would be to find out who among Biden's staff had clearance to access them.

Unless the father was a real <deleted> it's IMO usually because the mother that gets custody poisons them against him. My father wasn't the greatest by a long shot, but I still didn't disown him.

If you don't have any farmer friends to explain it to you you'll have to look it up on google. It'd take too long to explain on here and what would be the point anyway? There are fewer farmers because mechanisation has reduced the need for workers, and there isn't enough money in farming to make it worthwhile now. I gave it up 2 years after I started because of 84 hour work weeks and pitiful pay. Didn't want to as that was what I wanted to do at school, but unless I married the farmer's daughter that was going to inherit, no future in it. Old farmers? A farmer friend of mine is 73 and not retiring any time soon. He works 7 days a week. How do you even do it when elderly? LOL. It's not like the old days. Ever heard of tractors? Hard jobs like fencing are done by machine, not with a spade, hay bales moved by tractor, fed out by machine etc. When I was farming everything was by hand and hard work- all gone now. Probably the hardest job that can't be done by a machine now is shearing. If one can drive and use a lever, that's enough.

Some of those tree houses were quite substantial and must have cost a lot for material. I doubt the "protestors" who seem not to be employed could afford them, so who is paying? Also did Greta walk there or take oil motivated transportation, and who paid for that? So much for the renewable energy strategy, LOL. Germany should have built more nuclear power plants!

Obviously someone knows that they had classified documents and that they should not, unless declassified. However, IMO if they were declassified Biden would have said so by now, ergo still classified. Given it was his garage they were found in, unless he can prove someone else put them there, a reasonable supposition can be made that he either put them there himself, or ordered someone else to. If he didn't put them there, and no one else can be found that did, surely there is some sort of record of who took them in the first place. If that isn't known, the only alternative is that person or persons unknown took classified documents for an unknown reason ( without any record of doing so ) and put them in Biden's garage without Biden's knowledge. I'm pretty certain that if it were Trump's garage that the documents were found in it would be claimed by certain posters on this forum that they were put there by Trump himself. I'm amazed that those posters still try and excuse Biden for somewhat spurious reasons.

Perhaps I'm not the best person to comment as I've never needed other people- happy to be alone. I guess I don't understand people that HAVE to be with others.

Perhaps, but if he's that careless with classified material it casts doubt on his ability to be leader of the free world, especially as it happened at least 6 years ago. The real question IMO is how did the Archives not know they were missing for 6 years, or did they know and not ask for them back? If that's not a crime IMO it should be.

The words at the bottom are a software glitch. Didn't notice till too late to edit

Neutral as in not declaring war on anyone else for a long time. I'm a bit surprised that they aligned themselves with the west though, unless they think it won't come back to bite them.

There is a difference between being bored sometimes and being bored all the time. Farming is a great way to not be bored. I've been involved in farming on and off since 1963, though it was my primary occupation for only a few years.

Fair enough. Not many 27 year olds posting on here. If you had lived in LOS in the 90s you might love LOS as much as I do. It really was paradise back then.