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let's hope this problem can be solved without violence and deaths.

I'm not sure logic will get us anywhere with the Ruzzians

nope, I was bored to death after 3 days already

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yes, that was my thought too. ceremonial burial was tied with pomp and sacrifice, look at Pyramids, Taj Mahal and even human sacrifices when someone important died. now it's "let's make as little of a fuss as possible" and not spend any resources instead of splurging on massive mausoleums. it reflects also in a way how much our buying power has shrunk. who would be able to pay for a proper cemetery plot nowadays?

"ceremonial burial" is one of the first advances of humankind in the "Civilization" computer games by Sid Meier. it seems we now go the other way.

???? it worked ! https://www.dictionary.com/browse/compleat ????

wrong. they see them, they are just too lazy to drive properly. all starts with that motorcycle driver crossing the road like a compleat fool, counting on cars to avoid him. this is very common in Thailand, sometimes they don't even bother looking before turning on a road. I guess the red pickup driver expected the motorcycle to stop on that white crisscross line to let priority traffic pass, but then it doesn't and the red pickup trying to avoid the motorcycle at the last minute then causes the rest of the mayhem. should not have tried to avoid the motorcycle. one day I was waiting at a T-intersection for a safe opportunity to turn onto the main road, when on my right a Thai guy with a sidecar stopped too and waited. he looked directly at an oncoming car (like 50-60 meters away) and then he took off, the collision was unavoidable. I couldn't believe my eyes.

yes it is, because the escalator segment gives way if there is enough resistance. something just needs to get angled in the small gap and it instantly widens.

take away the holes, and most of the things wouldn't happen !

overall I enjoy watching Jack Ryan, but it's sad that the stories can't even compare with Tom Clancy's plots. the series' plots are weak and full of holes which are then covered by unnecessary action scenes.

it's possible that maintenance is not to blame. the investigation will clear it up. no machinery on earth is 100% safe. sometimes small details just align perfectly to create the perfect storm. what would you think is safe ? 1 / 1.000.000 ? 1 / 100.000.000 ? in 30 years, how many people did that escalator already transport without causing injuries ? it's likely newer escalators have better safety mechanisms, like those saws that will stop when the blade encounters a sausage (or a finger) instead of wood. there are videos where people demonstrate it. would I risk it ? no. the results of the investigation pending, it's quite possible that nobody is directly at fault for what happened.

there were previous posts about how they want to regulate bars and other establishments, but the proposed texts were lacking common sense. the best would be to just strike out the parts of current laws criminalizing the sexworkers, add some rules to protect the workers and give them social security and healthcare and leave the rest untouched. all the registration / licensing stuff is nonsense.

the deceased's history with police is a fact that stays irrelevant for as long as nobody starts describing him as an "innocent victim" and uses his "empty criminal record" for propaganda purposes. unfortunately, that's not how the media work. different media will either paint the deceased as being an angel and/or put the character of every involved person on trial, so it's quite natural to present all facts. the deceased's background however, explains his risky behaviour at the traffic stop after his joyride, during which, according to police, he endangered at least one pedestrian and one cyclist. your post reads as if you think I am on the officers' side, which is not the case. of course nobody should die in a traffic stop. there are several videos of the shooting from at least two angles. another argument brought forward by the cops is that they were their backs against a wall, 40cm away, so if the driver had turned his wheels to the left and accelerated, he could have killed the shooter. I don't know if this justification is valid or not. I guess that's one case where a reenactment could help to understand what happened. New facts pending, my opinion so far is that the cops put themselves in a hazardous position to stop the vehicle. I am surprised that pointing a weapon at the driver is standard procedure. These guys are Police, I think the Gendarmerie would have acted differently, starting with how they would position themselves around the vehicle. beyond the questionable procedure, once joyrider and cop were both in place at their positions just before the shot, it just took yet another silly action by the driver to trigger the tragic end.

the "kid" technically had no criminal record, but he had already been arrested several times for similar behaviour, refusing to obey police orders, driving without a permit, drugs, fencing stolen goods, using fake license plates, driving without insurance, and consuming and selling drugs. there are a total of 15 records in his police record. just a handful of days before his death, he was summoned by a judge to set a first court date in september. so the fact that Nahel has no criminal record is due to him dying before he could be found guilty in court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nahel_Merzouk

let's turn this around - what kind of person does one have to be to decide to try speeding away from police officers while having a gun pointed on oneself ? judging from videos from the US, the shooting would have been legal there. but how does such a situation even occur ? was the mistake made before that situation, by not putting the 17 old away in prison for some years because of his previous crimes ? why are so many parents total failures when it comes to controlling their children ? why aren't parents ashamed of their criminal children ? why don't people follow police officers' lawful orders ? what about the educational system ? the problems are many and deep rooted, only becoming worse since the liar Mitterrand's presidency in 1981 and lax policy before and after. But things had started to derail even before that, Giscard practically handed Mitterrand the presidency and before that, De Gaulle lay in bed with the communists, which had nefarious results on French politics past WW2.

compare with this video from the US: https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=3444782485733995

original video here. the officer shot the driver when he decided to hit the gas while a gun was pointed at him. I don't know why the officer had pointed the gun at the driver in the first place or if that move was justified. I think there is more to the story. France's problems stem from certainly racism, but also from disrespect for authority, and this isn't just from immigrants and their descendants. More and more homegrown riffraff rebels just against anything and thinks it can just do as it pleases, while toxic politicians from both extremes play them and cultivate any "anti" behaviour. Already 30 years ago it wasn't advisable to drive a nice car because it was likely to get damaged in cities by jealous people. The sum of France's problems is probably enough to keep hordes of sociologists and psychologists occupied for years and to fill thousands of pages of analysis. But France needs to get out of that smelly pit of jealousy, extremist idealism, excessive underdog mentality, "anti" stance and whatever. It has been destroying France since the middle of the seventies. Bring back common sense, sensible laws, respect for institutions (but that respect has to be earned), industry, work ethics, etc.

the first character is a "tilde". temporary files which exist while being worked on in Word and other MS Office applications. they get deleted automatically when the application is exited normally. they may subsist incase of improper shutdown (power loss), and work can be restored using the data they contain. other problems might also interfere with the automatic deletion of these temporary files.

SCB Bank should have that in their products - why don't you ask them ?

S&P 500 is an index. so do you want to buy an index replicating fund ?

thank you. why would it be unsuitable for cars ? I have driven to most places on Koh Chang with my car, it requires a car in good working order and some driving experience. Not for everyone, that's for sure.

Is there a good option for visiting Koh Chang with your own car without driving the road to there ? Like a ferry from Pattaya or Sattahip for example.

the briefings are one thing, but were Trump's clearances pulled too ?

it's more complicated than that. ex-presidents still have clearance for many classified documents, they also get an intelligence briefing every day if they wish. the details will decide this case, not sweeping statements.