Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Reuters" channel.

  1. I'm sure cowpunchers are in great demand in Australia, but sharkpunchers?
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  2. ​ john hansberry  A steam engine isn't an internal combustion engine, period. You're desperately trying to assert your superiority -- and failing hard.
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  3. @Xeino Correction, the world is coming to die there, not dying to come there. The US is the promised land of Covid-19.
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  4. Or witnessing history being rewritten. The CCP is happy.
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  5. Congrats, you split a hair.
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  6. Boeing apparently needs saving from more than the coronavirus alone. Itself?
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  7.  @theColJessep  Priceless!
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  8. He's right. We'd see far more shark attacks if what you're claiming were true.
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  9.  @manipulativer  Enjoy your 5G conspiracy theory.
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  10.  @manipulativer  I understand 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G, having been in the telecoms industry for 25 years. And you -- you understand pseudo-science.
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  11.  @manipulativer  Don't take my comment as an invitation to play pigeon chess with you.
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  12.  @manipulativer  Ah, you haven't heard how pigeons play chess. You knock the pieces over, crap on the board, and fly back to your flock to claim victory.
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  13.  Do RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE  But it's much easier to rid Hong Kong of CCP-fanboys and -girls than proponents of democracy. One train heading for Shenzen should do it.
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  14.  john hansberry  Are you by any chance Belgian or German? Otherwise you're a camp-follower when it comes to creating the internal combustion engine.
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  15. ​ john hansberry  My cognitive abilities haven't failed me -- it's yours that have been found wanting. A steam engine is an external combustion engine. You specifically mentioned internal combustion engine. You're polishing a turd, boyo.
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  16.  john hansberry  Be that as it may, you Brits didn't create the internal combustion engine. Your little dig at these refugee children back-fired hilariously. It's common knowledge in the scientific community that breakthroughs build on previous breakthroughs. Newton wrote about standing on the shoulders of giants. A giant from whom Newton copied was Ibn al-Haytham, a medieval Iraqi scientist. I see you're a neophyte in intellectual property. Most patents (not to boast, but I have several to my name) concern small technical improvements to rather mundane existing technology. Any inventor can also tell you that LEGO (invented by Danes, by the way) is great for prototyping innovations. There may be a new Steve Jobs among these kids yet (I suppose I need to explain to you that Jobs had a Syrian dad).
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  17. ​ john hansberry  If that's so, what exactly did you mean by "creating the internal combustion engine" and what's the connection there with Britain? If there's none, it's like asking yourself why the British didn't "create" the semiconductor even though you're sitting on an abundance of silicate minerals. Please, also be specific how I've displayed my ignorance. Everything I've written so far is easily fact-checked. Don't tell me you lack the skills for it. As for LEGO, are you trying to make a point or lending more credence to mine? Are refugee children not allowed to play with it because ABS wasn't invented in their home countries -- like it wasn't in yours?Interestingly, Meccano has been superseded by Danish LEGO Technic and German Fishertechnic. Story of your life. You were once reasonably good at something, but all that's in the past. It's interesting how you equate refugees with terrorists. I think it says enough about the person you are.
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  18. But Russia's one and only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, was razed by fire only late last year, and may never sail again.
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  19.  Dan B  Trump won't be around to pardon Bannon. But maybe the two can be cellmates.
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  20. I guess Trump won't be around to pardon him.
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  21. There's a conspiracy behind each clock face.
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  22. So you advocate (the US?) invading and annexing Taiwan? It just so happens, that's what Xi's communist regime has in mind.
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  23.  @sinoroman  No it isn't.
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  24. Think of them as cars that are unsafe to drive. The fact that they haven't been linked to fatalities yet doesn't render them safe.
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  25.  @AlvinC-sz3li  When I was in China last year, I used a VPN to connect to WhatsApp. You should do likewise.
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  26. No, TikTok is yet another example of how the CCP is a millstone around the neck of Chinese corporations with global ambitions. The Chinese deserve better.
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  27. @Xeino Let's see, since we're in the EU, you'd force the whole trade bloc to retaliate in kind and cut you off, too. Not advisable, unless you want to deal a coup de grâce to your economy. Of course, with all your off-shore manufacturing, cutting off trade with China would already condemn it to death.
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  28.  @barneystinson2781  Who's talking about Americans? I'm referring to foreigners falling victim to Covid-19 because of your poor management of the pandemic.
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  29. @Xeino Not true. We're one of the few countries that never stopped stockpiling emergencies supplies after the Cold War. The grain supplies alone will last us for years. If someone tries to take what's ours by force, they'll have to contend with a well-regulated militia, not a gaggle of free-for-all preppers, like in your case.
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  30. @Xeino I was alluding to citizen soldiers. Colour me surprised that you don't know your own fabled second amendment. Funny, I had trouble getting kitted out in the military. No one who's seen me in person calls me little.
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  31.  @gozzilla177  1% is about right. It looks higher because only one in four of the infected are diagnosed. Fortunately, a lot of the undiagnosed ones are children who're not as contagious as adults.
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  32. Now bring back the elks (that's moose for the ill-informed Yanks).
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  33.  Jason Crosby  No, what you think is a moose is actually an elk. You got confused because the first English settlers, who'd never seen an elk (on the British Isles, elks had been hunted to extinction in the Bronze Age), mistook wapitis for elks. Then you had to find another name for the real thing: moose. However, the clue is in the Latin name, Alces alces. If moose were correct, it would be Moses moses or some such. BTW, we are a republic, but yes, like the Brits, we have our own variety of black pudding. We enjoy blood pancakes, too. I've even made some from elk blood (moose blood for the ill-informed).
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  34.  @timbervista7167  How come all the highly-educated Americans employed by the WHO completely missed all this? Are you all saps?
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  35. The problem is not as pronounced elsewhere.
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  36. Business magazine?
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  37.  @Dakarn  Nope, you're confusing them with Forbes.
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  38. Carrie Lam is...
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  39. It's Google's and Facebook's hypocrisy. US media outlets are equally feeling the pinch.
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