Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. I absolutely agree with your sentiment, what she did met the "depraved indifference" clause of US Law. My problem is with how Donald Trump has behaved with these 3 recent executions. I don't have a problem with any nation or state executions for crimes they mandate for crimes beyond what society will tolerate. I do have a problem when any state steps outside that mandate. Because once that happens, justice takes a backseat to politics and executing people for political gai is one of the most disgusting things ANY NATION does and it is done way to often. In my home state of Victoria Australia the last man executed WAS DONE for political purposes. It was well understood that Ronald Ryan did not shoot and kill George Hodson. The ballistics proved it and the main witness lied, and both those points were understood at the time. Henry Bolte the State Premier at the time faced an election and told people that the hanging would help get him re-elected and it did. You can look up Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois & Lisa Montgomery and all their crimes were depraved. I don't have a problem with their trials, their sentences or the outcomes. In Montgomery's case a few have pointed out she went with clamps and others tools that showed she at some level knew what she was doing. Was she mentally ill? Absolutely - no sane person does what she did. My problem is Donald Trump who lost his mandate to make these decisions. For 130 years American Presidents had delayed all federal executions after the election. Once the election is held the American people have spoken and handed the mandate onto the next President. Americans are very quick to speak about "the will of the people" and on November 4 2020 the American people spoke and Donald Trump lost his mandate. Lets not forget one other thing. As Donald Trump sent these 3 to the chamber, he pardoned the Blackwater 4 who killed 14 people and injured 17 others in the Nisour Square Massacre. That included a 9 year old boy. That crime also met the requirements (at least in part) for depraved indifference. But the Blackwater 4 had Erik Prince as their boss. Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy De Vos, Donald Trump's Education Secretary. Donald Trump executed 3 and let go 4 others all for political gain and that stinks.
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  2. I absolutely agree with your sentiment, what she did met the "depraved indifference" clause of US Law. My problem is with how Donald Trump has behaved with these 3 recent executions. I don't have a problem with any nation or state executions for crimes they mandate for crimes beyond what society will tolerate. I do have a problem when any state steps outside that mandate. Because once that happens, justice takes a backseat to politics and executing people for political gai is one of the most disgusting things ANY NATION does and it is done way to often. In my home state of Victoria Australia the last man executed WAS DONE for political purposes. It was well understood that Ronald Ryan did not shoot and kill George Hodson. The ballistics proved it and the main witness lied, and both those points were understood at the time. Henry Bolte the State Premier at the time faced an election and told people that the hanging would help get him re-elected and it did. You can look up Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois & Lisa Montgomery and all their crimes were depraved. I don't have a problem with their trials, their sentences or the outcomes. In Montgomery's case a few have pointed out she went with clamps and others tools that showed she at some level knew what she was doing. Was she mentally ill? Absolutely - no sane person does what she did. My problem is Donald Trump who lost his mandate to make these decisions. For 130 years American Presidents had delayed all federal executions after the election. Once the election is held the American people have spoken and handed the mandate onto the next President. Americans are very quick to speak about "the will of the people" and on November 4 2020 the American people spoke and Donald Trump lost his mandate. Lets not forget one other thing. As Donald Trump sent these 3 to the chamber, he pardoned the Blackwater 4 who killed 14 people and injured 17 others in the Nisour Square Massacre. That included a 9 year old boy. That crime also met the requirements (at least in part) for depraved indifference. But the Blackwater 4 had Erik Prince as their boss. Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy De Vos, Donald Trump's Education Secretary. Donald Trump executed 3 and let go 4 others all for political gain and that stinks.
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  3.  @tosspot1305  Thanks. There's a great military quote and I think its by an American General or Colonel (I cant find it at the moment) about killing. The gist of it is that taking a life is the most serious thing anyone can do and it should NOT be taken lightly. If we look at Trump these last 4 years - what has he taken seriously that wasn't in his own self interest? Emsie76 who started this is 100% right - the focus should be on Bobby-Jo and her child. But in what way does a self centered liar like Donald care about that child, when he just let 4 men go free who murdered 14 including a 9 year old. And that's before we get the other things he did last week.
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  4.  @7yep4336dfgvvh  Get your facts right sunshine. The Viet Cong were never funded by the US. They were communists fighting against the South Vietnamese regime that was supported by America. I think you go you groups muddled up on that one. As for the Taliban. Certainly the US funded the mujahedeen and supported them against the Russians back in the 1980s. Osama Bin Laden joined the mujahedeen which was where he gained popularity. His greatest aid to that was an almost direct line to the White House courtesy of his brother's business relationship with George W Bush whose father George H Bush was POTUS at the time. That was how the mujahedeen got their hands on US made Stinger AA missiles to shoot down all those Russian helicopters Osama and others then linked up with Al Qaeda after the Russians left and he had issues develop back in Saudi with the Saudi king. Al Qaeda's origins go back long before Osama joined them. They were active in places like Morocco and Egypt years before. The Taliban came later and formed with money and support from Pakistan. I can guarantee you the Americans knew about that Pakistani support for the Taliban. A few years ago I worked with a young Pakistani engineer. We were discussing this one day and he told me I didn't know shite. His father was in the Pakistani government and he showed me photos on his phone of him, his family and US diplomats having dinner at his house. He then told me how his father had him sit in on several meetings as part of getting experience. And that's as much as I can tell anyone. So I can pretty much guarantee the Americans knew about the Pakistani support for the Taliban. But as for America directly or indirectly funding the Taliban I doubt anyone actually knows.
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  5.  @godmakesallthingsnew2626  What a load of ignorant idiotic garbage. Go ahead ignore reality its your people who are dying.
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  6.  @mohwe1007  never forget that what you think you said might NOT be how others see it and especially how others might hijack it its what makes any references to Hitler or religion especially dangerous because its so easy for people to read it the wrong way or use it the wrong way from what you intended Social media has only made the problem worse. It didn't democratise information it democratised misinformation.
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  7.  @rpg9392  I have just listening to this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYby-07rEKU No point in giving to your relatives but the first few minutes should interest you.
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  8. I'm Australian and you just described the issue we have had with Indonesia. Why do you think we started our zero tolerance policy? For sure its ugly, and possibly one of the ugliest things we've ever done. But the people smuggling had to be stopped. They were using the oldest and most worn out fishing boats to do the job, which made it insanely dangerous. Most of the boats were barely able to stay afloat. The boat owners never cared if we burned them afterwards. The Indonesian fishermen used their old boats to make money to buy new boats. They weren't the worst people involved. The worst were a handful of Pakistani middlemen who made millions. They ripped off everyone. They ripped off the people they smuggled. They ripped off the Indonesian fishermen. They never cared who go hurt in the process. For sure our policy was ruthless (and still is) but if we didn't they would still be putting people in very dangerous boats and people would still be dying.
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  9.  @michaelj6486  You're not even Australian are you? That much is obvious because of how IGNORANT you are. Nobody's been coerced with some bullshit law, because no bullshit law actually exists. Its just a bunch of anti-vaxxer clowns and other radicals who'll protest anything. It doesn't matter what government the rest of us elect the same pack of clowns turn up and protest. FK-WITS like you have no idea what you're talking about and the rest of us are getting tired of your crap, your stupid arguments and your idiotic claims.
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  10.  @davidadiwego4608  Your second comment is as ignorant as your first. 2 Comments and twice you attack simple basic UNARGUABLE SCIENCE. Like all your kind all you can do is bullshit and lie. YOU"RE DISGUSTING.
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  11.  @hugoepcastro  No probs. You sounded like you could do with some encouragement. We got very, very lucky in Australia. When it arrived we were just about to have our grand prix and start our football seasons. They all got cancelled or postponed and that saved us. At one point we let our guard down and 700 died in 1 outbreak. If we had not got lucky that could easily have been 20,000 or more.
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  12.  @somersoguilty4225  Yeah in what way? The easiest way to tell a social media moron is they just make claims. No facts, no evidence they just switch the brain off and say shite - like you.
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  13. And you can expect the Murdoch's people in Australia will start denying it has anything to do with climate change from tomorrow. We had a once in 100 year bushfires as we experience a once in a 100 year drought and now a once in 100 year flood. Rupert Murdoch's a once in 100year piece of crap.
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  14.  @Aa-ron01  Actually it is important on calling out bullshit when its bullshit. Whether your dumbing it down or not you do need to factual. The denier clowns out there jump on anything and everything they can. Anything that they can scream and yell about they do. If you look into any of the crazy claims made about stuff these days there's 3 types of people making them. Flat Earth, Moon Hoax, Climate denial you name the crazy and there's 3 basic types. 1: The delusional true believer who simply can't be convinced of reality. 2: The gullible ones who for whatever reason will simply listen to what ever is convenient. 3: The snake oils salesman, who knows he's selling snake oil but just doesn't care because he's only interested in making money off of the delusional and the gullible. I know there is nothing to be done with the delusional ones. But you know we can save the gullible form the snakes., but to do that we have to keep with facts because the snakes rely on doubt. The most powerful thing they have is doubt. because once they get you to doubt then they can spin the narrative into what they want. Look at any of Rupert Murdoch's people some of them are extraordinary at it. Trump's another master of it. So you have to call bullshit out when its there to be called out. Otherwise Murdoch and the rest of the billionaires will kill us all as they make money.
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  15. I'm Australian and we just won the 2032 games. NO ONE ELSE BID and nobody is asking why? We have plenty of idiots celebrating and making it out to be a good thing. Some of those idiots a have even started the lies. The worst is the claim that 80% of the venues are already built. That's just idiotic garbage. I am currently in Brisbane. I have lived here previously and there is NO WAY they even 25% of the venues and those they do have will need major upgrades before 2032. If Japan is a massive financial failure it only joins the financial failures of others. As a kid I watched the 1976 Montreal games. To the best of my knowledge they have never recovered the costs. 1980 in Moscow was a success because they had cheap labor which also gave Seoul in 1988 an advantage. LA & Atlanta were held in cities with massive sports facilities and massive universities with huge dorms they could use for the athletes village. Barcelona already had a couple of major stadiums. London already had all those football stadiums and the rest of the facilities. Beijing like Seoul and Moscow just had all that cheap labor to build what ever they wanted. Brisbane has 2 main stadiums the Gabba (oval shaped) at 42,000 and Suncorp (rectangular) at 52,500. Neither of those are up to Olympic standard which needs to be around the 80,000 mark. Brisbane held the 1982 Commonwealth games and did a great job. Every since they felt that justified they could host the Olympics. Brisbanites TOTALLY ignore all the extra sports the Olympics have and all the extra athletes and support staff and the extra media. They are planning to spend $1Billion upgrading the Gabba from 42,000 to 50,000 and don't get that's a joke by Olympic Standards. PLUS there's the lesson of Sydney they have already forgotten. It still hasn't been paid for and will most likely NEVER recoup the money spent. Why did one else bid for 2032? Because they were awake.
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  16.  @jeromemanoharan7427  Don't go down that fraudulent election crap or there's no chance of any rational discussion. I was a swimmer which is how I got my scholarship and I know people who went to LA, Barcelona, Seoul and Atlanta. As far as 2032 the rest all pulled out. We won by default. The size of America the size of American capability is one thing Australian's never seem to understand unless they have spent time in America. I wasn't there for 1 semester I was there 3-1/2 years and did a lot of travelling in the summers. I went to school in Illinois and if you take the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin you have almost the same population as the whole of Australia. California and Texas have bigger populations than Australia and yet we have almost the same land area as mainland US. American's don't get how much open space we have and Australians don't get how many people America has.
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  17.  @jeromemanoharan7427  Good points. I'm actually from Melbourne but am currently living in Brisbane. Your dead right way too many people go for holidays and visit places and then think they know those places. It took better than 2 years for me to start understanding America and even then I sort of only understood parts of the mid-west. I'd say America's education system still has parts that are as good as any and a few better than everyone else BUT across a broad spectrum its clearly sliding. BUT then I also look at Australia and can see the signs of the same. I did engineering and the skills I see young engineers graduating with these days are 2nd if not 3rd class to what I graduated with. And its mainly in the very basic skills which surprises many people. Their ability with computers is staggering but their math skills are shite.
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  18.  @jeromemanoharan7427  Both my parents where high school teachers. Most of the social circle consisted of other teachers and a couple of my friends are also high school teachers. I'm pretty well informed on the subject and that information covers most of the last 50+ years. The problem with certain technologies is they make people lazy. Just as Microsoft word has made spelling a lazy subject for many people, AutoCAD has done the same in engineering most notably in mechanical engineering and to a lesser extent in civil and electrical. The problem in engineering is that if you can't draw its very hard to communicate your design. Technical drawing is to engineers what grammar is to a writer or journalist.
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  19.  @jeromemanoharan7427  SQRT(1) <> 1???? That's bound to be interesting to a math theorist/geek. As an engineer I'm fundamentally an applied mathematician as in I take already proven math and apply it to real world problems.
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  20. Ukraine can't become a NATO member because in the NATO charter there's a clause that states new members CAN'T have borders in dispute. That's why Putin started the breakaway regions - Crimea & Donetsk (in Ukraine), Transnistria (in Moldova), Nagorno-Karabakh (in Azerbaijan),... etc. It prevents those countries joining NATO. I'm Australian and I know this how come most of the news service don't mention it.
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  21. On one hand we should give people a round of applause for wanting a better life for their family. On the other hand nobody has the right to simply enter another country without a valid reason. In very basic legal terms its called trespass. I don't like anybody who thinks they are simply entitled to cross these borders and walk into other countries and demand anything. Yes in those cases where they are fleeing persecution we should help, but too often it gets ignored that these people do what they do for economic reasons. The developed world did not develop overnight, it took generations of hard work making many mistakes along the way. Should we do a better job of helping other countries develop? Absolutely, we would NOT have these issues if these countries were more developed and worth these people staying there and if there is one thing these people can hold against the developed world its been our continued support for corrupt and or failed regimes. For that we do have responsibility.
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  22. Lest face reality anything other than total compliance upsets the CCP. China invades Tibet - The CCP says mind your own business. China kills 1000s after the Tiananmen Square protests - The CCP says mind your own business. China takes over 100s of small islands across the ocean - The CCP says mind your own business. China locks up an entire cultural group and starts a program of cultural genocide - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese steal every bit of technology it can - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese people forge, copy and fake 1000s of products violating copyright - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese burn more coal than the entire planet did in the 1970s accelerating climate change - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese promise to allow Hong Kong to go on as a democratic society and then DOESN'T - The CCP says mind your own business. Australia does a deal for submarines and China complains. Message to China - MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
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  23. They have hit the same problem that has hit many Western societies - the cost of raising a family and the cost of education.
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  24. AUSTRALIAN HERE with an observation. Britain has 1st past the post and Australia has a preferential voting system. In our system all those votes from down the list would have been switched to their secondary preferences. This is how this might have gone with our system. I suspect all the Reform UK who are all 100% Brexiteers would have put Liz Truss as their second preference. So on that her vote would go to 21,175. I have no doubt the Greens would vote Labor (as they do here) taking their vote to 13,685 The real question is what the Independents & Lib Dems would do. In Australia the sorts of people who vote for minor parties at #1 tend to be swing voters with their preferences. They typically give preferences to the existing government if its doing well and against if its not. With this clearly being a protest vote AWAY from the previous election where Liz Truss got 26,195 votes I'd expect those people would have also voted Labor on their preferences making Labor's vote 22,585. So under a preferential system I'd expect the same result but with a bigger margin. Another question that could be asked is what happens if you have something like Australia's compulsory voting system. You only had 59% turnout in this seat meaning about 30,000 didn't vote at all. In Australia those people tend to do some interesting things. If they are unmotivated they do what's called donkey voting and either they just put 1,2,3,4,.... down the list or do something so that no vote is counted at all. My brother used to add his football team to the list and vote for them and of course such votes don't count. But one of the massive benefits of compulsory voting is that when our governments screw up (and they do) these people tend to do massive protest votes. So in this case I'd expect MOST of those people to vote Labor as a way of flipping the finger at Liz Truss and this would have been a massacre not a narrow loss. FYI - There was an American political analyst in Australia during one of our elections and she said that if America switched from first past the post to preferential AND made voting compulsory then it would re-shape America for the best. Preferential but NOT compulsory has been tried in a couple of states with significant changes. Her main reason for wanting both is that it prevents parties from having a "culture war" mentality because they have to engage with the general population not just those motivated to vote. And if you put that into the context of where America has gone in the last couple of years I think she had a valid point.
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  25. That's an idiotic statement the deserves all the scorn on the world when THE REAL REASON WAS COST The French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracudas and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered equivalent - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT? It was like asking someone to by a Renault or Peugeot for $75,000 after selling the same car with an upgraded engine $20,000. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  26. It wasn't so much Air France but Airbus who held the rights to the engines and airframe maintenance. They refused to keep the planes serviceable. It was done to help sales of planes like the A380. There was a really good documentary made just after the retirement of Concorde made with the British Pilots who flew it. It went into all sorts of things about the running of the British Airways Concorde division.
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  27. The first victim of war is always the truth. Hitler lied when he invaded Poland. Saddam Hussein lied when he invaded Kuwait. George Busch lied when he invaded Iraq. Its always the same stack of crap. They aren't invading they are liberating. Putin calls it a "special military operation" to defend and protect.... The invasion of Iraq was called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and it was good that at least 170,000 innocent Iraqi civilians got their freedom in the form of a grave. These people are always claiming they are bringing freedom as they put body after body in the ground.
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  28. You're 100% right. But with AI and more powerful algorithms ITS NOT IF BUT WHEN
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  29. Also I read a sci-fi book a number of years ago (sorry forgot the title and author) but as humanity started to explore the wider galaxy all they cam across were commercial AIs. The premise was that any society that could develop an economy and technology would eventually hand over financial & commercial control to their AIs which could just do everything in the commercial space so fast that no sentient species could match them. The problem gets exacerbated when they just keep producing more and more powerful AIs to out compete the other AIs. Eventually the original sentient species was no longer in the equations and simply died out. So no matter where the humans looked they kept encountering these AIs hell bent of dominating economically and then wiping out anything that was sub-par and that meant sentient species because robots don't need food or water and can work 24/7. The algorithms are already winning its just a matter of time before they rule over everything. Robert Mercer the American Billionaire who has a PhD in computer science has a Gold Club hedge fund that in a bad year makes around 39% and in better years makes around 80%. Do you think he's doing that with a slide rule and graph paper?
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  30.  @onepeace1274  Well moron if your going to be IDIOTIC about a subject like this then don't whine about being called a moron. I only thing ANYONE needs to understand about your opinion is what it says about YOU. The world has 2 pandemics these days COVID and self absorbed smart asses who think they're clever. One of them has caused several million deaths the other will probably cause several billion more in the next decade.
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  31. I believe you are describing the rats leaving the sinking ship.
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  32. I'm Australian and mainly of Anglo-Saxon descent. The crazy thing about the Anglo-Saxons is that neither the Angles or Saxons are from Britain. The Angles are from Denmark and the Saxons from Saxony which is in Germany. I went snowboarding in Hokaido a few years back and they sell t-shirts there "Hokiado - its a dialect." One of the hotel clerks (who spoke excellent English) explained it to me one day. He said he's instantly recognized by his accent in Tokyo. He told me it was similar for the people form the far south like Okinawa. It was interesting to learn first hand that Japan has distinct cultural regions.
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  33.  Yee Tian  Well its pretty clear from your name where you are from. And how the hell do dare make that comparison. There are many Americans and British people screaming about the middle east situation. And how does that compare or excuse forcing people into labor camps or having women forcibly sterilized. Go have a hard look at yourself in a mirror and ask yourself some honest questions and see if you tell any honest answers.
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  34.  @stevenpeng3  Well its pretty clear from your name where you are from. And how the hell do dare make that comparison. There are many Americans and British people screaming about the middle east situation. And how does that compare or excuse forcing people into labor camps or having women forcibly sterilized. Go have a hard look at yourself in a mirror and ask yourself some honest questions and see if you tell any honest answers.
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  35.  Yee Tian  Well being from Canada should make you appreciate having choices and a government that can be held accountable. I'm Australian and there is growing anger over Chinese influence peddling here and across the Southern Pacific. We went to bolster our laws with foreign money in our politics after we'd finally had enough of the Americans, British, Israeli, Saudi and Chinese money in our politics. BUT only China complained and only China threatened us with sanctions. Anytime we speak China waves a finger at us and tells us to mind our own business and then they come down here and try and bribe our leaders. Trust me many many Australians are getting tired of China's hypocrisy. To be fair we've had enough of the hypocrisy of others as well and that includes our own leaders. If you really are in Canada you should be furious over the Fentanyl crisis that has devastated parts of Canada. I was there in 2017 when it was raging so I know it all comes from China and can only be exported out of China with the CCP letting it happen. There are many things abut Trump that were so bad and so flawed that its hard to start listing them. But one of his catastrophic failures was HOW he dealt with China. What he should have done was slap them with a CARBON TAX and used it to hammer them. Europe, Australia and others would have followed suit and then we might have a chance to save the planet. The CCP, GOP, British Tories and others better learn real fast that we all live on this planet and if it dies we die.
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  36.  @shamanahaboolist  I think you need to do some research and check some facts. FENTANYL - is just one of several SYNTHETIC Opioids opiate and a lot of it is made in Chinese labs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid#Synthetic_opioids The majority of Illegal Opium until recent decades came from the Golden triangle which is in SE Asia. The majority of legally produced opiates for medications come from highly regulated farms in a number of places around the world.
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  37.  @shamanahaboolist  Are you this ignorant or that uneducated? Opium has been smoked throughout Asia for centuries and they have had addiction issues FOR CENTURIES. Opiates as an addictive issue is NOT just a Western issue and NEVER WAS. The current issue with Opiate addiction in places like America with the massive over prescription of drugs like Oxycontin is nothing but the result of greed. They (the manufacturers) claimed Oxycontin (Oxycodone) was NOT addictive. That was a lie from the start. Its an opiate and all opiates are addictive. It has to be very carefully used for pain control and instead the Sackler family wanted to make money. Just go and learn what facts are before you make yourself look any more stupid than you've already done.
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  38.  @shamanahaboolist  Well DUH. You mention the opium wars. Funny you know about the historical use of opium which which goes back a long time before the Opium Wars. Opium was already used in Chinese society BEFORE the Westerners arrived. How ignorant are you? So you're in the UK are you. Well then you should have gotten a better education than your ignorance shows. Or are you another one of these people who's immigrated to a Western country and then complains that you haven't been showered in gold. If Western society is so bad compared to wherever you came from then go back and have a better life. And what do you actually mean by pharmaceutical distribution? For all anyone knows your just a delivery driver. If you had any real expertise you would have said so. And considering your ignorance I doubt you're anything more than a delivery driver, or warehouse clerk.
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  39.  @andresviveros3994  Your forgetting all the outcry for the Rohinga Muslims. And there's plenty of people in the west who are critical of Israel and its behavior. Yu have to remember that the Israel-Palestinian issue is super complex and has been a mess since they formation of Israel. People like you either forget or ignore that the British who controlled Palestine were part of the original 2 state plan back in the late 1940s. That plan was NOT rejected by the world it was rejected by the Arab League. The reason there isn't an Independent Palestinian nation isn't because of the Americans, British or anybody else. Its because the Arab League voted against it. Go check your history. Its not to say that since that time the West hasn't favored Israel because that would be stupid. What I find that Israel (and their supporters) should be condemned for is the basic way they see and treat Palestinians. They are people and like all people they deserve some basic rights. After all that is what the Israeli people have demanded for 70+ years - basic human rights. You can't demand basic human rights and then deny others of those same basic rights.
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  40.  @SS-tr6ei  Careful there are some seriously nasty, ugly and racist pro-CCP trolls hunting on some of these pages. Notably the anti-BBC pages. When I mean racist I mean proper genuine racist.
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  41.  Seiki  I can tell very simply why Australia is about to break a lot of contracts with China. We've caught them repeatedly interfering in our country. They are not the only ones to have done so. We had Britain doing it for many years. But then they joined the EU and told us to get lost. It almost bankrupted our economy. We have had the Americans since and the Japanese to a lesser extent. When we finally had enough of foreign money in our politics and went to tighten our Laws ONLY 1 COUNTRY PROTESTED - CHINA. The Chinese view of foreign affairs is we do what we like we do what we want and fuck the rest of the planet. Its not that far from the American or British or Russian policies of the past, but the fact is we don't live in the past we live in the here and now. When I was there I rode the maglev in from Shanghai Airport and rode the Fast Train back. China is NOT a developing nation it is a DEVELOPED NATION and can start acting responsibly as a developed nation. And the first step in that is they STOP interfering in other countries. The 2nd step is they stop the staggering environmental damage they are doing in that they burn half the worlds coal supply. The then STOP selling coal technology ad other damaging technologies to developing nations. The world cannot afford China or the way China does business. The Uighurs are just indicative of the Chinese Communist Party's view of itself and the world wont tolerate that much longer just as it wont tolerate American bullshit or any other bullshit either. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  42. As an outsider (Australian) what's utterly staggering is that her leading economic idea is tax cuts for rich people WHICH HAS NOT WORKED ANYWHERE in times like these. We are all coming out of a pandemic that beat the crap out of everyone. Putting the people who got through it best IN FRONT of those who were hit hardest is so utterly ignorant of reality. Before she became PM there were those who described her as a clueless Margret Thatcher wannabe who's changes her mind as often as Donald Trump lies. I thought they were exaggerating.
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  43.  @ReadyPlayerDog  That's something Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) brought up in his weekly podcast recently. He said there are 3 basic types in this discussion. 1: Those who are vaccinated and those who will get vaccinated when they can. 2: Those who for any of several reasons are hesitant, but might get vaccinated. 3: The anti-vaxxers who simply wont get vaccinated. He pointed out that there should be no rules of exclusion. CIDRAP is on the campus of the U. of Minnesota and they were going to ban unvaccinated students. He argued AGAINST that as it would only alienate people and might push people from group 1 to 2 and 2 to 3. We want as many vaccinated as possible. That wont happen if we alienate people. Here's the link to his podcasts -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg
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  44.  @frankdux5693  That's another very sad fact of our world these days. I can't blame the anti-vaxxers for their not trusting government authority or the medical industry. Both have done stupid and idiotic things BUT believing in other even more stupid and more idiotic garbage isn't a viable response. People claiming that Hilary Clinton couldn't be trusted was fair BUT then trusting someone like Donald Trump is just ridiculous. Anti-vaxxers claiming we can't trust doctors and then complaining when they can't get medical attention is just as stupid.
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  45. This is where the Greens put pragmatic stupidity before common sense. In this respect they are no better than any other party that puts ideology before reality. Its NOT going to hurt the planet to run those nuclear stations for another year (or 2 or 3) while they get through the current situation. This is the sort of pragmatic stupidity that people got fed up with the main stream parties and why people turned to the Greens. Its not a German thing either, I'm Australian and our Greens are just as stupid. I love that they want to protect the environment, but I am an engineer and we just can't simply turn of power stations OF ANY SORT. Across the world right now we are trapped between these 2 packs of clowns who just wont let anyone get on with anything. We have an energy crisis because we stopped building power stations as our population grew. All the 2 sides did was act like 5 year olds saying NO to everything.
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  46.  @donkeypoison  Hey everyone look at this another example of Russian trollbot naming - "donkeypoison".
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  47.  @donkeypoison  1) I doubt your a real person and therefore a bot. 2) your a troll and therefore a trollbot
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  48.  @donkeypoison  Good description of a troll - NOW GO LOOK IN A MIRROR.
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  49.  @sonicblue7real357  Your on the right line, but its solar energy that the planet turns into thermal energy not potential energy. The fascinating part is the 100,000 year Milankovitch cycles which is the long term cycles of ice ages where CO2 and Water vapour play major parts. The CO2 lets solar energy in but then keeps in the Earths thermal energy and warms the plant. Water vapour does 2 things. Like CO2 it helps hold in thermal energy but when there's enough in the atmosphere it forms a think cloud that reflects solar energy and stops the planet getting any warmer. But also at the point it slows the Earth cooling Its that property of water that throws the Earth into ice ages. As it builds up it helps warm the Earth after an ice age but at certain point it ends that and stops the Earth warming further. Eventually it cools enough and all that water falls as snow and rain in a massive way because there's not enough to keep the Earth warm the Earth dumps even more thermal energy off into space and we get an ice age. Right now we are at the top of the Milankovitch cycle and instead of the Earth having a warm humid patch before cooling into the next ice age we are overdriving the cycle. That's why the modelling gives 2 scenarios. We COULD either go into thermal runaway and end up like Venus or a massive thermal dump and end up like Mars. My bet is we'll end up with something in between, but its going to be wild with lots of wild weather. More thermal energy in the atmosphere means everything is running harder. Look at Texas last year and I have been there. Most of its a hot arid environment and yet it snowed so badly children froze to death in the beds. Australia was always picked as one of the most vulnerable nations. For the last few years its been stinking hot with some of the worst droughts ever and some of the worst bushfire seasons ever. This year its floods, floods and more floods. Our Snow season looks to be the best in decades. What worries me is this much water will cause huge amounts of growth in our forests so that when the next dry comes there will be huge amounts of fuel to burn. At some point in the next few years we will burn from one end to the other and just like they are doing now the deniers will claim its all natural.
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  50.  @AmericatheBeautiful-p4z  I'd try and explain the reasons why people like you are so ignorant and wrong and stupid but its not worth it. But for anyone else interested here's some basic engineering and a bit of math. There's an oddish subject in aerospace I call planetary mechanics. I was introduced to it by a NASA engineer who visited our university one day. He'd done a project on what it would take to terraform Mars. He explained you just start with something basic like how much air do you need and what would you need to heat it up to a reasonable temperature considering Mars is cold. -60C on Mars is a warm day. Planetary mechanics is just the basic mechanics of what's needed (nuts and bolts). Its not the complex gas & water cycles that change and shift with seasons or the effects of the planets rotation and inclination or any of the other time related things. I call that stuff planetary dynamics as it involves things that move and change and cycle with time. To keep the math practical and get a basic estimate of what the task is, we do an approximation. I use the idea of a 1km think layer of breathable air because it makes the math understandable. I approximate the volume but just covering the planet in 1km cubes of air. Yes there's gaps between the cubes but its just an approximation and its within 1%. I also ignore things like gravity, solar wind, etc, BECAUSE I am just trying to demonstrate the size of the task. The surface of Mars is 144,000,000 km. That equates to 144,000,000 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 cubic meters of air and at 1.2kg for a cubic meter of air, that's 172,800,000,000,000,000 kilograms of air. To raise that much air from -60 to +20 ℃ engineers use the basic equation: E = Cp x M x ΔT Energy Required (kilojoules) = 1.006 kJ/kg.C x mass of air in kg x temperature difference in ℃ We then get 13,906,944,000,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy required. So how much energy is that? It's the equivalent of 220,745,143 Hiroshima bombs which had 63 Terajoules of energy. Its also equivalent to about 64,683 Tzar Bombs the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. Lets not forget we still need to find or create that 172,800,000,000,000,000 kilograms of air and work out how to keep it attached to Mars because Mars only has 1/3rd of Earths gravity. Then there's the task of making the gas and water cycles work. This is why aerospace engineers don't talk about this stuff much because once you realise the basic scope of terraforming the numbers get so massive so quickly the scope confuses people. Half the problem is the idiocy of Hollywood. Remember the film Aliens? The one with the giant nuclear reactor that would convert the asteroid into a liveable planet in about 20 years. BULLSH1T If they had a few 1000 of those reactors running for a couple of centuries they might start to make a difference. Simple rule if it involves Hollywood and technology its 99.9% scientifically FALSE, WRONG or plain BULLSH1T. Don't get me wrong I still love sci-fi, its just I know what's fiction and what's NOT. If you have time and do want to learn about energy systems then I recommend the Illinois Energyprof channel here on YouTube. I can't say its exciting but it is informative. Disclaimer: I did my degree at U. Illinois, but have never met David Ruzic. I graduated before his time there.
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