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

  1. I'm an engineer and you are basically right. I started informally studying economics a few years ago out of the frustration of dealing with clowns with economics degrees. I can tell you 2 basic facts. 1) Capitalism as we currently practice it isn't the capitalism we think it is anymore. If you go and listen to people like Mark Blyth they'll explain how's there's been 3 main versions of capitalism over the past 120+ years. There was the Gold standard that ended with the Great Depression and WW2. Then there was Keynesianism that ended with the stagflation crisis of the 1970s, which was followed by Reaganomics & Thatcherism which we call neoliberalism. We should have moved to something new AFTER the 2008 GFC and didn't. 2) The reason capitalism is failing is because when we needed to change after the GFC economists like Saadia Zahidi FAILED to do anything. They saw the bailout as a means to continue as if nothing happened. What its done is put about 90% of the developed world under immense stress. Its actually ivory tower clowns from places like Harvard, Yale and the WEF (like Saadia Zahidi) who keep telling us all is well. She isn't the solution she's the problem. Go watch Gary Stevenson the British economist, who's one of the very few economists with a functioning brain. He was Citibank's top trader in the world. So he knows his stuff and no wants to help people UNDERSTAND what's going wrong these days. He has a channel here on YT.
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  2. To the Hungarian people DON'T. I'm Australian go and look up how the Chinese have treated us lately. I've actually worked (briefly) in China and I found the Chinese people fine. Despite the language difficulties they were great to work with. What we do need to keep in mind is that our issues are NOT with the Chinese people but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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  3. This highlights the worst aspect of social media. The great cries of "freedom of the press" and "freedom of expression" never seem to include the right to be accurately informed.
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  4. WHY NOT - Have you all forgotten what the American's did to Nordstream. That was $US20 Billion worth of damage and cut Europe off from cheap energy. It made it really easy for American companies to be competitive with shipping LNG to Europe.
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  5. EXACTLY - Nordstream was US$20 Billion in damage. Biden said he'd do it and then it happened and then American companies had no competition for their LNG.
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  6. That is such a priceless comparison. I'm Australian and that might just be the best YouTube comment I have ever seen. I'm sorry I can't give it a million thumbs up, but it does deserve it. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  7. You're exactly right. I am an engineer (aerospace) and what we (as in society) call AI is NOT something that thinks. They are basically giant numerical models that use statistical analysis to set their parameters so they can MIMIC what a human might say or do. In certain types of data analysis where the task is well defined and repetitive like facial recognition and fingerprint analysis they can do it at incredible speed. What I hate most of all are the proponents of AI dramatically overstating its capabilities while underplaying its threat to society. The immediate threat isn't a Skynet "nuke us all" scenario, its mass unemployment because there are clowns who believe the AI will just do the job better, faster and cheaper. that might be Ok in a few places but when corporations suddenly dump massive slabs of humanity onto the streets its a problem. All of our modern capitalist economies operate on SPENDING. To spend people have to earn money first. Even with credit people must still earn. If a society is NOT earning enough money it CAN'T spend enough to keep the system going. Its a fairly simple concept and most of the worlds economists and journalists are willfully ignorant that their jobs will be among the first to go. Who will need an economist when the AI can do market analysis faster and more reliably. Who will need expensive news anchors, analysts, weather presenters, camera operators, sound people, lighting people and producers when the AI can do it all in a simulation and pump it out. 🤯🤯🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  8. Australian here and I totally agree. This sort of protest DOES NOTHING but aggravate an already stressed world. In most cases I empathise with their cause. My family are from farming so I get some of what they claim about farmers needing support because that's where our food comes from, but this is the worst way to go about it.
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  9. Yeah but she's mouthing off like a typical American and there is something very misleading in this. All militaries operate trucks, tanks, jets and ships. Plus they have vast numbers of portable generators. Not only do all those burn fossil fuel but they consume huge amounts of energy making all those trucks, tanks, jets and ships. The only exception are the nuclear ships & submarines but even then they have emissions during construction. So by the very nature of their basic operations all militaries are big emitters.
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  10.  @opinion4755  I totally agree. In a discussion that needs clear rational arguments she's borderline hysterical.
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  11. Great comment.
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  12. Absolutely correct. Not only should they be outed but de-platformed as well.
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  13.  @davidmoss2576  That's an idiotic conclusion based on hot air.
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  14. EXACTLY - Because they have all forgotten that the Americans blew up Nordstream Biden said he'd do it and then it happened and then American companies had no competition for their LNG. Nordstrem was US$20 Billion in damage.
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  15. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?
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  16. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT? DCNS were ripping us off - simple as that.
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  17. As someone from Victoria I find the numbers quoted as utterly ridiculous yet also understandable and Brisbane needs to wake up because you're facing the same issues. I'm an engineer and we have a horrendous epidemic of government project gouging at the moment. Its been there for a while in both government and in the corporate sector, but its now totally out of control. Other than many of the infrastructure projects the Navy's submarine and ship programs are totally out of control. I've spoken to some other engineers about some of this because we've seen a fair amount of this sort of price gouging during the mining boom and some of that was pretty bad, but this stuff is totally out of control. Here's a simple example. The Navies new Arafura-class offshore patrol vessels are $300 million each and that's more than 10x what the Armidale-class boats they are replacing cost. You'd expect some increases due to inflation and that they are bigger, but 10x the cost is ridiculous. Also the new frigates are more than 3x the cost the British are paying for the same ship. There's no explanation other than we are being ripped off. I strong suspect we'll find out that these issues with external consultants has a lot to do with it. What most people don't realise is that these consultants are NOT there to provide solutions. Their obligation is to their employer and their employer's profit. I think Dan Andrews has simply said "We've had ENOUGH and are not going to be ripped off any more."
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  18. Definitely shady. Dylan Taylor isn't an Astronaut and he's NEVER been to orbit. He paid for a ride on Jeff Bezos sub-orbital Blue Origin NS-19 (its on Wikipedia). PLUS the space shuttle was expensive but it wasn't US$100,000 per kg to orbit. For most of its life the Space Shuttle was around US$40,000 but around the time of the final missions it was about UD$54,000. Plus SpaceX is NOT as low as $1,000/kg either. Falcon 9 is about US$2,700/kg and Falcon Heavy is about US$1,500 BUT those figures can also be misleading because it all depends on WHICH ORBIT they are sending the payload to as well as how much the payload actually weighs. The Space Shuttle cost around US$450 million per launch and that had nothing to do with how much it carried into orbit. If it flew with the full 30ton limit to Low Earth Orbit that's around US$15,000 per kg NOT US$100,000. But if the Space Shuttle had to go to the ISS which is at a higher altitude then at most it could take 16 tons at a cost of almost US$30,000 per kg. But then the US$450 million per flight is just the sort of accepted costs per flight. What he's doing is comparing the best cost for one company against the worst case of another company. The problem with idiotic media people NOT asking pertinent questions as happened here is that the viewing public end up MORE NOT LESS confused.
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  19. The Panama papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. The Paradise papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. Anybody who thinks anything will happen or if anybody will go to jail with this load is just wishful thinking.
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  20. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?
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  21. Fine, while he's at it Jesus can teach you to spell. Its vaccine with 2 c's. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  22. You forgot to mention Facebooks involvement with Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. But there is a far wider issue with the media landscape being so concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people. It doesn't matter if we talk about Zuckerberg or Murdoch or any of the others. ITS AN ISSUE THAT THREATENS ALL OF US
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  23.  @bidzej86  Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) had a great comment specifically about Fox Media and the Murdoch family but I think it now applies across the board to some extent. Of the Fox he said "Their product is rage!" as in what they are selling to their audience is commentary to be enraged over. look at what their commentary is about and importantly how its delivered. Everything is about being outraged at what the other side does or says.
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  24. I'm Australian and was in Canada for work around the time Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs. At the time there was a scandal over a government labor contract and the Paradise Papers had exposed many of Canada's elite for institutionalized tax evasion. All that stuff sounded just like here in Australia except our elites were caught up in the Panama Papers. I keep trying to tell people that all these sorts of things are the same everywhere. Look all across the Western World and you will find the same sorts of stress, anger and frustration. Mark Blyth the Scottish professor at Brown U. calls it Angrynomics - the effect generated when most people in the country believe the economy no longer benefits them.
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  25. Because rich people like making money!!! 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  26. Interesting point. I'm an engineer and all of the German engineers I have worked with and all the engineering hardware I have worked with have been incredibly good. In engineering the German education is brilliant. Across the board its as good as any country and certainly better than most. For sure most countries have specific Universities or colleges that are first class but they don't seem to have the consistency across the entire system that Germany has.
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  27. Yeah I'm Australian and found it ironic that a group of Germans are talking about the terrible consequences of electing a destructive clown show. Maybe it would have added gravitas if they'd said something like "As Germans we know what can happen when this sort of thing goes too far!"
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  28. No the real joke is that the Chinese have actually built a replica or updated version of the MIR Space Station. The 5 port ball shaped docking port on one end with the robotic arm for moving modules around and the 6th axial port at the other end is the same configuration as the MIR core module. In some ways it makes a bucket of common sense. Why reinvent when you can do what the Chinese are best at COPY what others have done. Plus MIR proved it was fundamentally a good design that did what it was meant to do. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  29. Similar sentiments from Australia. Following the serious fires 2 years in a row we've also had some flooding, but our recent floods are not close in destruction to this.
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  30. I'm an Australian engineer who works in automation and control systems. There's a saying German engineers have: There's the right way, there's the wrong way and there's the German way. I must say that in general I will always put a German option on a project. If for no other reason than its incredibly rare for them to put a product on the market that does not do as specified. if there is one complaint I have about German engineering its that they are totally garbage at written documentation. Technical drawings and schematics are always near perfect but instruction manuals - Aaarrrrggghhhh.
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  31. Yeah, but never lose sight of what type of political actor this guy is. He is only every really interested in one thing, his bank account. NOT YOURS.
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  32. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?
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  33. That's not a Chinese problem its a developed world problem. The fastest growing business sector in many western nations is aged care. One of the consequences of Brexit are what do they do with all the Poles and others who moved to Britain for the aged care sector. I'm Australian and we have these issues growing as well. I know Japan has an aging society for the same sorts of reasons, the story mentions that as well as Germany. Plus there is a consequence of the 1 child policy that is rarely spoken about and that is the generation where the men outnumber the women 3:1. China like many societies places a lot of value on a son taking on the family name. They dumped millions of unwanted girls in orphanages. Where do you think so many westerners got their Chinese baby girls from? That's an issue that will one day cause serious issues because when there aren't enough girls to go around men do not act well. I don't know why any of this story is a surprise?
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  34. You are so right. I have seen her discuss Putin and Russia and without any doubt she's got a better handle on this than most others.
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  35. That's very accurate. I was in China 3 years ago for work and the Chinese people are just like every one else. They go to work every day trying to provide for their families and make their lives better. It really is that simple. The interpreter we had told me something very interesting one morning at breakfast. We talked about job loses to China and she told me that China didn't have to take any jobs, Western Companies came looking for cheap labor where there were no unions. BUT the real eye popping thing she told me was that Chinese workers are scared of losing their jobs to even cheaper labor in Africa. That process has already started with companies leaving China for Africa.
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  36. From Australia "G'Day China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From America "Hi China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Japan "Konnichi wa China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Britain "Good afternnon China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From France "Bon jour China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Italy "Ciao China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From every factory worker in the Western world who lost their job to China over the last 40 years. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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  37. That's a fair call against America they have interfered in many countries and broken many laws and rarely been held accountable. Now can you answer any of the 3 questions asked, because Mr. Wang didn't? He avoided, he dodged and he lied. 1: How is the Hong Kong national security law democratic? 2: How is the internment of up to a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang justice? 3: How are unilateral Chinese actions in the south china sea peaceful?
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  38. Like every US Presidential election there will be a list of names NOT JUST 2. Also Americans DO NOT have to vote. Yes the American system is flawed but then nobody else's system is perfect either.
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  39. That's a great point I just made in a reply to another comment. Nuclear powered ships and subs don't emit much once built, but getting them built does. I used to work in the auto industry building manufacturing cells and lines. A little understood fact about motor vehicles is how much energy (with the emissions) is required to make a car. Depending on the type of car and how its used it can be anywhere from 15-25 years of operation before a car on the road emits as much CO2 as their is emitted making the car. People forget just how much it takes to get the metal out of the ground and get it processed and then made into parts and then assembled into a car. Then there's all the plastic components. And recycling doesn't help that much because recycling also uses energy and if that energy is carbon fueled the re-cycling is also an emitter.
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  40. Yeah - did you notice how he deflected the question regarding if it was wise to shut of the nuclear power. Nuclear has its issues for sure but Germany's nuclear plants were fine, well maintained and produced next to zero CO2. If they had shut down the coal fired stations then Germany would be CO2 neutral or close to neutral already. I'm an engineer and this is the huge problem most non-technical people don't get. Not only do we have to transition away from fossil fuel but we have to do it in a way that doesn't bankrupt our societies. Germany had working operational CO2 minimal plants and turned them off instead of the plants that spewed out CO2 by the ton. Despite spending €1.3Trillion on renewable energy Germany's CO2 emissions went UP NOT DOWN. That's what this clown should have been asked to explain.
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  41. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and you're right. Although the MONEY is just 1 of a raft of problems its possibly the biggest because its the most influential and what its done is like radiation poisoning. Its not obvious at first how much damage has been done but by the time you find out its a major problem because its shows up EVERYWHERE. I did engineering NOT law or US history but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of their discussions. my political education was sort of limited to studying Orwell (Animal Farm & 1984) in High School. So I'd argue that any country can fall into a dictatorship if it wasn't careful. They argue back t=how that was impossible because of America's system of checks and balances. What the money has done is wreck that system of checks and balances and its done it through interferrence. The billionaires funding so much of it have simply got their politicians to prevent things from working. They have the mindset that government can't do anything right so they make that into a self fulfilling prophecy by interfering with any government agency like the EPA or IRS, that they can. I did aerospace engineering and I see it in the issues with the FAA and what's happened with Boeing and air travel safety in general.
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  42. EXACTLY - Biden said he'd do it and then it happened and then American companies had no competition for their LNG.
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  43.  @geoeconomics3067  Learn how to write a coherent sentence before you start trying to criticize others. Clearly English isn't you native language so I doubt you understood what I wrote anyway.
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  44.  @freemanol  Do you know that both the American neo-cons and the founders of Al Qaeda both believed that democracy was flawed because people would vote for their perceived interests (as in be selfish) rather than vote for what's best? It was one of those bizarre things that surfaced after 9/11.
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  45. I'm Australian and grew up in Victoria (South East) which is a similar climate to parts of Europe. In 2005 I went to work in our mining industry. I'd experienced hot days before but it was nothing like what I experienced. The air is so hot and dry it just sucks the water from your body and its dangerous. My first major project was in the area where they filmed Crocodile Dundee (far North) and it was either hot and dry or hot and humid. Unless you know how to handle your hydration these conditions are incredibly dangerous. Its incredibly easy to think that just drinking anything will help and in some cases it is, but over days and weeks it isn't. Things like sports drinks and fruit juice can be lethal because of the sugar content. In the Australian mining industry we get told these things all the time: The number 1 choice is plain water - drink lots, but women need to be careful because older women can end up over hydrating and causing other issues. The number 2 choice are the actual specifically designed re-hydrating formulas. NOT Sports drinks or powders as those have sugar. The specifically designed formulas all carry warnings on how much you can have each day. Like some things a little can help but too much can cause issues - its a balance thing. The number 3 choice are "low joule" cordials which have little or no sugar, but don't over do it. We get told if we want a bit of flavor do it as little as possible like 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4 strength. Most of all look at your urine color. The more colour it has the more water you need to drink.
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  46. Please learn how to read, write and spell in English before telling the rest of us what to do.
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  47. You have actually hit an important point. Thinking through what you really expect out of a project and then HONESTLY evaluating if it will deliver. I'm an engineer and its not simply a matter of what worked and what didn't work in China its a matter of what were they actually doing with these projects in these countries. Were they actually building stuff that would help or were they building stuff that would be a series of debt burdens? This is something all countries have to deal with at times. I'm an Australian engineer and we have lists of projects that were great successes and lists of stuff we'd really not want anyone to know about. I did my degree in America and its the same there. If you dig around you'll find it in every developed nation. The difference usually comes from POLITICAL DESIRE. What are the politicians looking to do. Most of the time its attention and prominence. As an engineer I can tell you there is nothing more profitable than a clown with other people's money who wants to put their name on brass plaque and nail it to some edifice.
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  48. Australian engineer - the problem is that most people have NO IDEA what efficiency means. For engineers its simple we have equations and data and can make calculations. However there's also the issue of effectiveness. You can have the most efficient engineered system in almost any field but if it doesn't work or costs too then its NOT effective and that's a problem. For things like government efficiency its the same as any other office in industry. Its totally subjective and what 1 person sees as efficiency another sees as waste and a lot of people in between have no idea or just don't care. The only real measure is effectiveness and it is possible to put some comparative numbers to that. For an organisation like USAID their effectiveness could be measured by: - What's the GDP growth if you're an economist? - What's the growth in wages and/or wealth for various segments of the population? - What's the number of people finishing school compared to previous generations? - What's the percentage of the population LEAVING a particular country or region compared to other nations?
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  49. No the real joke is that the Chinese have actually built a replica or updated version of the MIR Space Station. The 5 port ball shaped docking port on one end with the robotic arm for moving modules around and the 6th axial port at the other end is the same configuration as the MIR core module. In some ways it makes a bucket of common sense. Why reinvent when you can do what the Chinese are best at COPY what others have done. Plus MIR proved it was fundamentally a good design that did what it was meant to do. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ So on one hand its pretty damn impressive in that they have built and launched a modular space station. But on being a technological breakthrough - NO, not even close.
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  50.  @sammendy138  Go ask the Africans on that one. One of the great claims the CCP makes time and again is that they don't interfere like the Russians and Americans. That's only true in the methods they employ. As far as interfering goes they are just as bad as any empire has been.
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  51. You are so right. I have seen her discuss Putin and Russia and without any doubt she's got a better handle on this than most others.
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  52.  @how2pick4name  Yeah right now at this moment but wait until grandma's phone answers with a metallic twanged voice saying she's not available.
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  53.  @Cowz19999  I do understand that. What I am pointing out that there is an anomaly between what he's saying and what I have seen. There might be a really straight forward explanation for that. And the anomaly isn't between high school and specialised education its between secondary and tertiary, because all of the Germans I have ever met with tertiary qualifications were incredibly well educated. Most I meet are engineers but I do meet others.
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  54. Next time you sit down with a pack of brainless millennials why don't you ask them why the rest of us think they are a bunch of spoilt selfish dropkicks who can't be told the word NO without freaking out?
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  55.  @hanqingli6532  Mid 50s with a degree in aerospace engineering and 30+ years in control systems. So yeah I was there when America lost Skylab and the Russians deployed MIR. You do know that trying to be more ignorant than the Americans isn't very smart?
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  56. I'm Australian and so far we haven't had a huge wave of Fentanyl overdoses yet. But I was in Canada for work in 2017 and they were having a massive problem with it. This stuff is horrendously bad. What still confuses me is that its totally synthetic (man made). So why is anyone even making it in the first place? Whatever excuse any of these companies that make it have, there's no justification for it.
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  57.  @joe78man  I know its not a crime. There's a great doco called "Trillion Dollar Island" about the Cayman's and in it there's a banker who explains why off shore banking is a necessity for international trade to function. So I do accept that there is a genuine requirement for off shore banking. The problem is that its been out of control for decades and instead of being a positive function that allows trade to go smoothly its this abomination that's been exploited by the rich and powerful.
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  58. From Australia "G'Day China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From America "Hi China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Japan "Konnichi wa China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Britain "Good afternnon China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From France "Bon jour China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From Italy "Ciao China, welcome to the modern real estate bubble club" From every factory worker in the Western world who lost their job to China over the last 40 years. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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  59. I'm Australian what direction do you think we are going in. I went to college in America what direction do you think they're going in. A couple of years ago I was working in Canada what direction do you think they're going in. 🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷
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  60. EXACTLY - Biden said he'd do it and then it happened and then American companies had no competition for their LNG. Nordstream was US$20 Billion in damage.
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  61. What an idiotic and ignorant comment. Anybody who knows anything about the space stations that have been built so far can see this is a version of the Russian MIR station. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ That shouldn't surprise anyone because the entire Chinese manned space program has been based on Russian technology. Their first missions were all done using Soyuz based technologies.
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  62.  @pamsimth8018  I'd agree she's speaking the truth but she's delivering that message in a ridiculous almost hysterical manner. This is when people need to be very clear and concise about FACTS not emotions.
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  63. How much will you make them pay for it?
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  64. Soon??? I'm Australian - we are in the middle of 1 in a 100 years floods after 1 in a 100 years fires as part of a 1 in a 100 years drought. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ AND we still have the Murdoch press telling everyone that climate change isn't real. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️
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  65.  @AdrianLeeMagill  I was actually in China for some work a few years ago and one morning I discussed some issues with the interpreter. We got to the point where I told here it would get to the point where we simply could not buy Chinese goods because, because unemployed people don't have money for anything. First point she brought up was that China didn't need to steal jobs because western executives simply made those decisions. THEN she really surprised me and told me that the Chinese workers were getting worried that those same companies were starting to move to Africa for the next source of cheap labor. So it would not surprise me in the slightest they are also moving to India and Vietnam.
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  66. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?
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  67.  @obelic71  You and others are right, but more than anything it depends on the specifications. Don't forget there are plenty of power stations that have been decommissioned in recent years. I work in the Australian mining sector and we reuse power transformers all the time and they come from all sorts of places. Remember they are basically a big lump of iron and copper than has no moving parts. The only thing that wears out are the cooling fans. If you're unlucky the oil might be contaminated, but even that/s not much of a problem. If there's a potential big problem it will be in the switch gear. Getting that stuff might not be so hard but you need a specific skill set to install and commission that stuff. I work in control systems and automation so I'm only the periphery of that stuff. The people who do it tend to be quite specialised. They have all sorts of sayings but one of my favorites is: "High voltage takes no prisoners."
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  68. With all that has happened these last 12 months I doubt anyone needed this story. This just might be one of the sickest stories of our generation. Surely you would think in this day and age that our government agencies can find out who is funding this - someone has to. Guns & bullets aren't free.
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  69. No it wont. Sorry but the shipping through there will do nothing compared to the worlds power industries. You can actually expect that somebody will start claiming it will help reduce climate change before long. They'll claim that using less fuel will help reduce Green House Emissions. Just wait for it.
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  70.  @sarchisi  Yes you might be right, BUT IT DOES NOT LET HIM OFF FOR HIS OWN DECISIONS. Nothing excuses the murders of civilians, just as America & Allies should not ever be excused for their murdering of civilians in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Using mercenaries like the Wagner Group is also inexcusable just like it was inexcusable for America to use Blackwater. Russia has to accept that most of the countries who joined NATO did so because THEY WANTED PROTECTION from Russia because of what the Russians did all through the cold war. America has to also accept that people in countries like Iran hate them for what they did during the cold war. This is the problem with BOTH the Russians and the Americans. They wont accept responsibility for what they've done in the past and continue to do.
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  71. Insanely old people with billions of dollars are the real problem in America and other countries. Its just more pronounced in America. The number of people in incredibly important positions (both in politics and commercial) in the 80s & 90s is staggering. Warren Buffet is 92, his offsider Charlie Munger is 99, Rupert Murdoch is 91, Barre Seid is 90/91 while Charles Koch at 87 is almost young by comparison. If you look at the US Senate Feinstein and Grassley are both 89. Sanders & McConnell are 81 & 80. Then there are 30 more senators between 70 & 80. Over in the house of Representatives they have 12 Reps over 80 and 60 reps between 70 & 80. The incredible mistake many make is that they are baby boomers. Some are but most are War Babies, born before, during or just after WW2 before the baby boom started. The older ones in particular seem psychologically scarred by their childhood and cannot accept that any generation after them is capable of taking over and running anything let alone the planet. Even the earliest of the Baby Boomers (those over 70) who grew up being terrified of Nuclear War seem incapable of handing on power. As children in school they were shown "Duck & Cover" films. We see those films as jokes, they were force fed fear and its left a terrible legacy.
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  72.  @GolDRoger-fx2fp  When you want to say something coherent and logical that's worth discussing let the rest of us know. Otherwise take that religious nonsense and go away.
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  73. I'm an engineer and have worked on mining sites where they used anhydrous ammonia for parts of the process and that stuff is actually damn dangerous. On a ship where there's so many places that it can get trapped it might even be worse. This ship might novel but its far from a solution. I checked and its carrying capacity is 2,100 TEU (20ft equivalent units). The Triple E-class ships that Maersk has 37 of are as much as 20,000 TEU.
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  74.  @neliborba101  You made sense except for that absolutely ridiculous and idiotic comment about abortion.
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  75.  @user-xr4bo3ln6f  I think what he means is they don't even try and hide it anymore. Governments used to say they were "for the people" or at least since things like the American and French Revolutions. But right now if you tried the "for the people" line you'd get laughed at.
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  76. The Panama papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. The Paradise papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. Anybody who thinks anything will happen or if anybody will go to jail with this load is just wishful thinking.
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  77. Yeah, you'd think DW had moved on with technology.
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  78. That's a fairly good summation mate. I'm an engineer and I totally support any nation that is building out its infrastructure BUT as many countries have found out if its not done right then what should be an investment in a nations future prosperity becomes an anchor around its neck. I'm actually Australian and we have had some great projects we've all benefitted from and also some utter catastrophes that people should have known were going to be catastrophes. I did my degree in America and that have lists of great success and lists of catastrophes too.
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  79.  @GardeningZ  I get your point, the problem is its so hard for engineers to get heard by political leaders. When there's a difference between what's best to do technically and what's best to do politically politics wins every time. I have proposed to my own government (Australia) projects that its own consultants said were good or high priority and for political reasons I got nowhere. I did my degree in America and saw the same thing happen there. This happens all over the world and China is finding out (like many others have) that when you put politics ahead of reason it does not work out well.
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  80.  @GardeningZ  I have been watching a few of Mariana Mazzucato talks about her new book "The Big Con" regarding how consultants like KPMG, McKinsey, PwC,... have done insane levels of damage to how our governments operate. I think she's absolutely on the dot. About the only thing she doesn't go into much is the insane behavior of the media. She does mention it but doesn't put it in the same category of importance as the consultants, while I think they are just as important as the consultants because the consultants can't be what they are without the media.
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  81.  @GardeningZ  Yeah well that just proves one of the greatest issues of our time - journalists who have no idea how to be journalists. The other day a friend said to me: "Journalists used to present us with facts and let us decide what they mean. Now they present us with opinions and expect us to work out what the facts are."
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  82.  @GardeningZ  That's NOT a Chinese lesson that's a lesson that's been REPEATED by almost every society that ever developed trade. Eventually somebody gathered all the wealth to themselves and the rest rose up and took it from them. French Revolution, Russian Revolution and American Revolution were all poor working class people fighting back against a tyrannical regime. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we had many discussions about why the US Constitution is the way it is. This is why I am so frustrated with America these days. The American people have forgotten who they are and why they threw the British out.
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  83.  @hailandfire1822  Go and have a look at Isaac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics. He wrote it decades ago and wrote sci-fi books that looked into the ways those laws might work. The most well known of his books on the subject is "I Robot" which is nothing like the Will Smith crapfest film version. Its a series of short stories that are in effect case studies of how AI might respond.
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  84. Its not hypocrisy its brainless stupidity. If they were chasing jobs and development then there's other uses for coal like water filtering, carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes, graphene and those are huge untapped and developing markets. BUT THEY AREN'T TALKNING ABOUT THOSE THINGS they are talking about industries that are already changing. I'm Australian we have EXACTLY the same attitudes here in our coal industry. We have people whose brains are stuck in a time warp where coal, steam and steel ruled the world. They can't comprehend or just don't want to deal with the fact the world is changing. They ignore the fact that once coal and steam arrived the days of horse and sail ended and it became steam ships and trains. The world is changing again.
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  85.  @hiddenknowledge2012  Not as many as you think. When I helped build the Caval Ridge mine near Moranbah in Queensland we had a work force around 3,500. But the actual mine in operation is only about 600. Building mines is incredibly labor intensive, operating them isn't.
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  86. Exactly And China has its issues and they are way more serious than Evergrand. Their 1 child policy skewed their population massively and there is NO WAY to solve that easily.
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  87.  Ernest Khalimov  Sorry but no it wont. Its not a simple matter of numbers. What the one child policy did was skew the distribution of age groups. That took over 30 years to create. By having on 1 child they stopped their population growth but it effectively halved the size of a generation. You cant simply just breed your way out of that in a couple of years. There's simply fewer people in certain age groups and in those age groups there's also a distinct imbalance between male and female numbers. The actual normal situation for any society has slightly more women than men in any age group. By some reports China has age groups as skewed as much as 75% male to 25% female. I had a person argue months ago that those reports were wrong an it was only 52% male to 48% female, but even at that ratio there's not enough women to go around. If you have that many men with no chance of getting married its an ingredient for war. You cant simply start making babies and fix that. You're asking people already in their 30s to wait 20 years while you breed and grow them a wife.
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  88.  @rbkkpooi3244  Not certain where your from but clearly English isn't your primary language. The Chinese have copied or stolen every bit of technology they can for the past 50 years. In a way its understandable, they were behind and wanted to catch up. As for Belt and Road that's just a copy of the Mongol Empire except using money instead of an army. Go study some history.
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  89.  @xin8017  What exactly is anyone sour about? People like you are so sensitive to anything less than devout praise. Its actually pathetic. Maybe not in this post but I have been way more critical of the Americans and how their programs have misfired. If you want to see some harsh criticism of the American programs go watch some of the Angry Astronaut. I don't agree with all that he says but its hard to ignore many of his points. Just like it is impossible to ignore that China's manned space program has been all based on Russian technology. There is nothing wrong with that as even the Americans have been using Russian rocket engines for many years now. So grow up and be less sensitive to critique.
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  90.  @Landoparada360  Seriously - STOP taking the drugs you are on and START taking the ones the doctor prescribed. If you are so anti-technology then GET OFF the internet, stop using electricity, stop using anything that is manufactured because all those things are made by engineers and engineers all believe the earth is a globe. Actually its an oblate spheroid but I don't want to hurt your brain cell with technological terminology.
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  91.  @gabuli8310  Thank you.
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  92. What's new about that with EVERYBODY else. No matter what warranty exists for almost anything these days its usually not worth the paper its written on (and never was).
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  93.  @nitinkumar29  I have worked with a number of German automation and engineering companies (Seimens, Kuka, Sick, Pilz,.........). I have had the discussion of manuals many, many times. Having also written many manuals and work site procedures I can tell you for a fact its a hard task. There are no classes or courses anywhere that teach that kind of technical writing. There are very few people who get it right and it took many, many years before I even started getting it right. Its also one of the least understood topics by management, but then most managers have little or no technical background.
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  94.  @nitinkumar29  Your absolutely right about one thing. In technical and scientific writing you MUST NOT leave things open to interpretation unless that is a specific aim of what you're writing and its clear you're doing that. Procedures in particular have to be almost task for task, step by step perfect. I've done some very serious quality assurance procedures for electrical installations. They seem incredibly benign until you understand that they MAKE SURE the install is safe. Sadly you are also very right that its not taken seriously by management and that won't change soon because all managers are fundamentally trained that way at university.
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  95. That's what also happened in North America. The coal found in Southern Illinois and surrounding regions is high in Sulphur. It was very cheap to mine but with the wind patterns from that region it ended up damaging the Canadian Maple Syrup industry via Acid Rain.
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  96. You are right this is NOT a coup. That's just the media and other clowns wasting peoples time. HOWEVER you are totally wrong that more than 1/2 the US population voted for Trump. Only 77 million Americans out of 336 million voted for Trump that's less than 1/4 of the population (~22%). PLUS 75 million voted against Trump. What the Dum-o-crats and all the other whiners need to realise is that 81 million people voted for Biden in 2020. That means around 6 million people just didn't bother to turn up like they did in 2020. Meanwhile Trump's vote went UP by just over 3 million. You're right this is NOT a coup. Its the complete failure of mainstream politics to be effective and make people's lives better.
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  97. The thumbnail is WRONG, Trickle Down economics has ALWAYS WAORKED. It has always worked for those it was INTENDED to work for - the top 1%. Just think of the word "trickle" it implies a small amount coming from a larger source that could or should be more. The purpose of Trickle down economics has always been to help the wealthy get wealthier while providing just enough to those below them for a bit of hope. Remember the answer from the Hunger Games _"Why do we have a winner?" HOPE a little hope is good a lot of hope is bad. 1 in 24 wins (as in survives) and gets celebrated and is sold as HOPE. "Trickle Down Economics" is the Hunger Games of economics - a rare person wins to give us hop of a better future or in trickle down economics a small amount of money flows down to give people hope of a better future. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  98. Have you forgotten what the American's did to Nordstream.* That was $US20 Billion worth of damage and cut Europe off from cheap energy. It made it really easy for American companies to be competitive with shipping LNG to Europe.
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  99. On one hand you are absolutely right - its a buzz word. On the other there are some very, very dangerous clowns who think they can actually make it work. All this will ever take to go off the rails are things like: - Somebody typing in a number and misplacing the decimal point. - A sensor that malfunctions (as per the Boeing Max-8). - Somebody (and this is the one that truly scares me) changing the parameters of engagement, willfully and deliberately to suit what they want and without considering the consequences.
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  100. Hey he's just trying to position himself buddy up to Trump and Putin in future.
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  101. I'm Australian but went to college in America and although what's she saying is basically right she's hopeless at presenting it. Yes Trumps a threat, but the way she's presenting that is terrible. Trumps a threat because he was never held accountable for anything he did. He had everyone bluffed. They should have slapped him down on the first impeachment and done similar to what they did with Bill Clinton - guilty but not bad enough to be thrown out of office. Instead they let a malignant narcissist off the hook and he's run rampant through the system. That's encouraged others to do similar on other countries. The fact they DIDN'T even try on the second impeachment and done nothing but come up with excuse after excuse to do nothing since is just pathetic. Thump's real threat is the economic threat a broken America poses. No matter what we do or don't like about America the American economy is still 1/4 of the world's economy and the US $dollar is still the worlds reserve currency that underpins world trade. After that there's issues with tax avoidance, inequality, corruption, CLIMATE and a long list of other issues NONE of which can't be dealt with if there's a second Trump Whitehouse.
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  102. ITS NOT CLOSE AND WE HAVE KNOWN FOR OVER A YEAR To join NATO your borders have to be fixed. None of your borders can be in dispute and its why Putin has stared lots of separatist colonies among Russian enclaves like Transnistria on the western edge of Moldova. Just because of Crimea Ukraine cannot join NATO because its still effectively under dispute.
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  103. According to the Simpson's the French identity is "Cheese eating surrender monkeys"
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  104. For starters be very careful taking CNN or any other main stream American media at its word. Second go and look at the data and the map of Russian gas reserves. 1) Russia has the largest gas reserves in the world and its by a significant margin. 2) Russia's main regions are the Urals and Far East (places like Sakhalin Island). Both of those regions have parts of the Russian gas network close to the Chinese Border. 3) Europe and America need to WTFU because Europe needs Russian gas not the other way around. If either Xi or Putin were smart they'd pump Russian gas into the Chinese power stations. Its relatively straight forward to switch from coal to gas and it would substantially reduce China's Carbon emissions. Both Xi and Vlad could wave the middle finger at Europe and America.
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  105. What you just described (deforestation) was almost identical to the description given as reason for floods in a few other places like Bangladesh.
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  106. Agreed. The great cries of "freedom of the press" and "freedom of expression" never seem to include the right to be accurately informed.
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  107.  @baxile  Well its fairly questionable that 90% of the Chinese population is 100% behind the CCP. I'd grant you its probably pretty high, except in places like Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. But lest face it most Chinese probably know its better to say they approve of the CCP rather than get a trip to a re-education camp. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  108. The Panama papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. The Paradise papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. Anybody who thinks anything will happen or if anybody will go to jail with this load is just wishful thinking.
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  109. Its actually 7.8 billion, but your point is right on the money. 2 of the major problems are food distribution and food wastage along with many others. Where climate change is going to smash the world is in food production which is at risk of collapse. I'm Australian and we are in the envious situation that we have excess food production. We have 25million people and produce food for 75 million. We have a problem coming. Our banks are addicted to home loans and they want our population to climb to 35million then 45 then 55 and maybe onto 65 million. Even at 35 million the problem is obvious if we don't increase our food production from 75 up to 85 million then 10million people elsewhere starve. At that point there will be millions of people looking at Australia with enough food to feed 40million extra people. They wont care that its dropped from 50 to 40 they will just see the excess and jump in boats. That creates the next problem which is at the 25 million we now have we are running out of water. You see our rain fall is falling on some parts and climbing in others and when it does rain its like what happened in Europe, China and India this last week. And that's our next problem. Some of our traditional farmland that's been incredibly productive for decades is now getting LESS water. So that 75 million of food we produce is already at risk. Getting that up to 85 million so we can handle the extra 10 million people the banks want coming here and taking out home loans is a problem NOBODY wants to talk about. Like other places we don't have 1 problem we have a heap of interconnected problems. California which produces 1/4 of America's food an a lot that's exported is another major food bowl at risk.
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  110. Yes and the next thing that needs to start happening is the EXPOSING the people who do this. These videos don't just fall out of thin air. People KNOWINGLY take footage and edit it and post is claiming its something they KNOW is NOT TRUE. And it wouldn't be a bad thing if governments started making it illegal to create, produce and post FAKED or EDITED video and photographs that are posted as FACT. In the past newspapers used to send out their own photographers so they KNEW the origin of photographs. Other Media used to send out their people with microphones and cameras and they KNEW the origin of the materials they reported on. Plenty of times I have seen photographs or video and there's a label in the corner saying "archive" or "stock footage" and a DATE for when it was taken.
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  111. This is exactly the same answer I just put in another comment: On the basic principal I agree. For example in the case of Timothy McVeigh there was no doubt he did what he did. In the case of John Wayne Gacy there was no doubt. In both those case I absolutely agree that justice was done. They both showed what Americans call "depraved indifference," but in many other cases there is doubt or there is at least the appearance of improper procedure. For example: AFTER Donald Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered the execution of 3 convicted people. Irrespective of what they did or didn't do for over 130 years NO President had allowed a federal execution to take place in the period between the election and the inauguration of the next President. The view was that despite the sitting president having duties to fulfill no longer had the mandate for those sorts of decisions and they were to be left for the incoming president. At the same time Donald Trump pardoned the Blackwater 4 who were responsible for killing 17 innocent people in the Nisour Square Massacre. Those 4 were, at the time of their crime, employees of Eric Prince the brother of Betsy DeVos Donald Trumps Secretary of Education. So were those decisions by Donald Trump for justice or politics? FYI - I'm Australian and the last person executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan who was hanged for killing a guard during an attempted prison break. It was in my home state of Victoria. There were serious ballistics issues that suggested the guard was accidentally shot by another guard in a tower. The lone eyewitness to the actual shot simply lied. Decades later records were released of the cabinet discussions. These included people telling the Premier (our equivalent of a state Governor) of these serious flaws in the case. He told colleagues he didn't care as there was an election coming and looking tough of crime was always a winner. Sir Henry Bolte won that election in a landslide and one of the main bridges in Melbourne is named after him. Its now fairy well accepted that Ronald Ryan was hung for political not judicial reasons.
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  112.  @10speed4  Yep its the one thing the elites have done everywhere. They have given us 3 choices. The person who they control on the left, the person who they control on the right and the person with no hope of ever doing anything useful for the other 99% of us.
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  113. You'd be 100% correct if you change the word "wants" to "needs". Its really a matter of what Germany needs more. Do they NEED America and Western Europe as allies and trading partners who buy lots of BMWs & Mercs or do they NEED cheap Russian gas from a maniac with a gun pointed at their head? Putin himself said "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain." So why does Putin want it back?
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  114. They lost it a long time ago. I'm Australian and had a scholarship for swimming to an American college. An American girl I trained with for 2 summers was cheated out of a gold at the 92 Summer Olympics where the Chinese suddenly appeared with all these Amazonian girls and only the 1 male swimmer. It reeked of the former East German program. Nobody at first could figure out what was going on because there was lots of testing but no positive tests. Then one of the Australian coaches whose swimmer finished 3rd behind 2 Chinese complained that his swimmer was tested but the Chinese weren't. FINA said "NO its just Random chance." Then people started looking at the list of those tested and found that it was mainly Australian's, American's and Brits the 3 nations that tested ALL their swimmers at their pre-Olympic trials. But they only counted for about 1/2 to 2/3 of the list. The list was scattered with swimmers from all over the world. The only suspicious thing was that NO Chinese were tested, but then a few other countries had nobody tested as well. Then one of the British coaches asked one of his swimmers to look at the list. I was at the U. of Illinois and had competed against these Brits who were at Iowa in the same conference. This British swimmer pointed out that many of these other swimmers from other countries were also attending American universities. You see in the NCAA they had begun testing EVERY athlete back in 1986/87. I know that for a fact because I was there and was tested as part of that program. What the officials did in Barcelona was pick swimmers who were Australian, American, British or were at college in America. That way they knew they wouldn't get any positive tests, it would look random and they would avoid any scandals.
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  115.  @mikestrohm3271  Yeah its something that has never been widely told, but those of us who know are still angry. I was never at that level to go to an Olympics (my best was 5th at trials) but I knew people who did and some were cheated. It irks me because I know how hard they worked. Luckily that girl I knew did get a gold in a relay.
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  116.  @annecohen8927  The problem with drugs in sport is how the various international sports organizations have been more interested in avoiding scandals rather than having clean sports. I was a swimmer and FINA were terrible back in the 90s. They simple didn't test swimmers from suspect countries. Track and field has been even worse. There was the Ben Johnson scandal at the Seoul Olympics. Within 2 years most of the men who ran in the 1988 final had also been caught. There's an amazing documentary about it and Johnson is totally open about how bad athletics was at the time. It was never cleaned up in athletics which lead to the Sydney Olympics scandal with Marion Jones. It was never cleaned up in cycling even after a couple of riders died from PE drugs. Not until the Lance Armstrong scandal. So long as there is the money and/or National prestige associated with sports there will be cheating.
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  117. I don't know why all these idiotic business analysts keep crapping on about stock prices when it should be obvious to the entire planet its all overblown. The stock market is only indicative of one thing and that is how the top 1% feel about it. The other 99% of us DON'T MATTER and NEVER DID.
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  118.  @d.russellmoros7841  Until you've been inside the auto industry and seen the supply chain its hard to get a handle on how much goes into making a car. We also tend to forget that cars have so massive amount of equipment in them compared to previous generations. Just go look at the engine bays of various cars. All that stuff needs energy to be manufactured. Another great issue with general pollution and energy is paint.
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  119.  @d.russellmoros7841  There' snot that much anybody can disagree with in that. Maybe people will hesitate on vehicle ownership, because its so circumstantial. If you are a family with school age kids its quite likely you need a car. Its not just going to school its all the other stuff kids do. BUT a lot of millennials are not buying cars because they have options like shared cars or public transport. They don't have kids and can get away without a car. If they are GIG economy then they have even less need for a car. Its actually a major concern to manufacturers. There is a chunk of the market that they thought would start buying cars as they started earning money and they just haven't. They also aren't buying houses and for some economies that's an even bigger concern.
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  120. Congrats at least one person is pointing out the obvious.
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  121.  @florianmeier3186  That's a great set of points. Its a very easy thing to lump an entire population in with the political leaders of that nation. I'm Australian and an American friend once commented to me that Australian's were very friendly towards Americans and seemed to like a lot of American cultural things like sports. I actually went to college in America and love the place. That friend pointed out that despite what things about America that Australians like they utterly hate American politics and particularly American foreign politics. Don't forget that Australia was dragged into Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and several other minor events by America. There's also been a lot of American interference in Australian politics over many decades. So there's a certain amount of resentment towards America in Australia. And that's the thing. We try (not always successfully) to separate the people from the politics.
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  122.  @sarchisi  Anybody who knows what's being going on knows that the there's a lot truth in what you say. For all of its rhetoric about liberty and freedom America interferes with almost every country it deals with. Plus American politics is laced with the influence of its military industrial complex and for that to work they need a threat to point at. For the next jet, the next aircraft carrier, then next gun that industry needs a threat. BUT as Fiona Hill points out it was Vladimir Putin's CHOICE to invade Ukraine, not anyone else's.
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  123. Actually the Americans were saying form the first day that Ukraine wanted F16s that it would take at least a year to train pilots AND ALSO TRAIN GROUND CREWS. This is actually a major lesson in systems like the F35 which is even more complex and requires even higher levels of skills to maintain than the F16. There's several videos on the Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen. It was purposefully designed to operate of normal roads and be serviceable by a small crew with just 1 highly trained engineer and a the rest reservists. Because of how they were designed and how they are operated the F16 needs very good runways and a seriously well trained ground crew.
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  124.  @CosmicValkyrie  We are an island buddy surrounded by LOTS OF OCEAN. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  125.  @josephking6515  NO it was in New Zealand.
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  126. On the basic principal I agree. For example in the case of Timothy McVeigh there was no doubt he did what he did. In the case of John Wayne Gacy there was no doubt. In both those case I absolutely agree that justice was done. They both showed what Americans call "depraved indifference," but in many other cases there is doubt or there is at least the appearance of improper procedure. For example: AFTER Donald Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered the execution of 3 convicted people. Irrespective of what they did or didn't do for over 130 years NO President had allowed a federal execution to take place in the period between the election and the inauguration of the next President. The view was that despite the sitting president having duties to fulfill no longer had the mandate for those sorts of decisions and they were to be left for the incoming president. At the same time Donald Trump pardoned the Blackwater 4 who were responsible for killing 17 innocent people in the Nisour Square Massacre. Those 4 were, at the time of their crime, employees of Eric Prince the brother of Betsy DeVos Donald Trumps Secretary of Education. So were those decisions by Donald Trump for justice or politics? FYI - I'm Australian and the last person executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan who was hanged for killing a guard during an attempted prison break. It was in my home state of Victoria. There were serious ballistics issues that suggested the guard was accidentally shot by another guard in a tower. The lone eyewitness to the actual shot simply lied. Decades later records were released of the cabinet discussions. These included people telling the Premier (our equivalent of a state Governor) of these serious flaws in the case. He told colleagues he didn't care as there was an election coming and looking tough of crime was always a winner. Sir Henry Bolte won that election in a landslide and one of the main bridges in Melbourne is named after him. Its now fairy well accepted that Ronald Ryan was hung for political not judicial reasons.
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  127. AEROSPACE engineer here who works in industrial automation and is familiar with Siemens industrial products. Finally someone in the media has summed up the "AI" claims. Are "AI and innovation more than just buzz words" because so far all I have seen is a mountain of buzz and almost ZERO substance. Its quite possible Siemens will do this a lot better because they have people able to utilise software algorithms in new areas and new ways. One area I think they might suddenly get very good at is predictive failure analysis that can prevent unexpected failures that cost billions every year. Its hard as an engineer to actually explain to non-engineers just how much it costs to have unexpected breakdowns. We really do experience preventable multi-million dollar shutdowns for parts worth only a few $100 or just doing regular maintenance and inspections. The real problem with doing good work in maintenance is that there's almost no evidence its being done because things are working. Its only when you cut maintenance that its value hits home and sometimes that's big $$$.
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  128. Another Victorian here. I think what we are going to find out is how much price gouging was going on. As I just said in another comment I'm an engineer and we have a horrendous epidemic of government project gouging at the moment. Its been there for a while in both government and in the corporate sector, but its now totally out of control. Other than many of the infrastructure projects the Navy's submarine and ship programs are totally out of control. I've spoken to some other engineers about some of this because we've seen a fair amount of this sort of price gouging during the mining boom and some of that was pretty bad, but this stuff is totally out of control. Here's a simple example. The Navies new Arafura-class offshore patrol vessels are $300 million each and that's more than 10x what the Armidale-class boats they are replacing cost. You'd expect some increases due to inflation and that they are bigger, but 10x the cost is ridiculous. Also the new frigates are more than 3x the cost the British are paying for the same ship. There's no explanation other than we are being ripped off. I strong suspect we'll find out that these issues with external consultants has a lot to do with it. What most people don't realise is that these consultants are NOT there to provide solutions. Their obligation is to their employer and their employer's profit. I think Dan Andrews has simply said "We've had ENOUGH and are not going to be ripped off any more." I absolutely support that thought. I have seen lots of people get kicked off projects for the simple fact they got the job done or wanted to get it done instead of joining in the gouging.
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  129.  @sourabhthakur6064  I think you will find that most participating nations do pay something in these large events. Its might not be direct as in here's the entry fee for this person or team in that event but there's fees for belonging to organisations. The real question in this is what was costing so much. And so you know right now we have massive issues with large projects and its not just government projects but also military and private sector projects. FYI - I am an engineer and have personal experience with some of what's going on.
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  130. ​ @JamesSmith-je7vf  Do you know how many other countries that logic can be applied to? Here in Australia the Prime minister only has to win his electorate and then win control of his party which is done INTERNALLY to that party. So 99% of Australians don't actually get to decide who our Prime Minister is. In many countries where they have a plethora of minor parties those parties often are required by a major party to form government. So you get these small parties with extraordinary leverage and power over the rest of the country. Israel, Greece and Italy are 3 examples. Yes the American system is NOT perfect, but then nobody else's is either.
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  131.  @JamesSmith-je7vf  Its actually one of the most forgotten warnings that Orwell gave us. Too many people think he was only concerned with the Soviet version of socialism. He wasn't really condemning socialism but TOTALITARIANISM and cults of personality like his stylised character "Big Brother" as well as INFORMATION CONTROL. Sorry to rant about it but blame my high school English teachers.
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  132.  @JohnHenryEden2277  Yeah I don't get why people seem to have forgotten that Biden threatened to do it BEFORE it happened.
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  133. Have you all forgotten what the American's did to Nordstream.* That was $US20 Billion worth of damage and cut Europe off from cheap energy. It made it really easy for American companies to be competitive with shipping LNG to Europe.
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  134.  @morsmordre3459  Pirate economy? Buddy it was the Europeans who invented the Pirate Economy centuries ago. The British, Spanish and others even formalised it and regulated it during their many wars.
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  135.  @freemanol  Agreed on all but the word technocracy. I get the idea but its not as much about technical education as education based on honest historical assessment. I'm an aerospace engineer by training but work in industrial control systems AND I HATE the lack of technical education. Particularly among people with arts degrees who think because they did a science class or 2 they actually understand how things get done. My mother was a high school teacher who taught home economics but her favorite subject was history. And she taught me to put things into historical context, because it allows you to see how you arrived at a point. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. My classmates and frat bothers had all done CIVICS. So they all had an education on WHY the US Constitution was what it is. So I got an explanation on why certain things exist from them. BUT Dub-ya Bush and his clowns defunded civics and now there's an entire generation of Americans who THINK they know their constitution and just don't. The incredible decline in the American people understanding their own country is a great case study in the consequences of defunding education.
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  136.  @reveng6705  Very sad and very true.
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  137.  @KbB-kz9qp  Are you seriously asking that? The EU has some of the largest wind farms on the planet and incredible amounts of solar. The real problem is the world has been stalling on new power generation for over 20 years. A lot of the developed world has not built any new major base load power stations in that time, yet populations have kept growing. I'm Australian and we are no different to many other places. We haven't built a major base load power station since the 1990s. In the same time our population has gone up 25% and with it a higher demand for power. I'm an engineer and have been looking into this for a few years now. A major problem is that a lot of people think we can just build a power stations the same way we cars and its just not that simple. Power stations are complex and linking them into the power grid isn't like plugging in a toaster. Its actually very frustrating at just how bad people are educated about this subject. Making it worse are those people promoting stupidity and fantasy.
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  138.  @geoeconomics5629  Way to point out the obvious. You sound like a 5 year old pointing at the sky and yelling about the clouds.
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  139. I'm Australian and watch DW all the time they are one of the last vestiges of journalism left in the world.
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  140.  @jasonzhang7347  Good point. Now please go tell that maniac in charge of China to stop shooting missiles. Because in a conflict right now he will lose and lose badly.
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  141. You forgot to add the word "YET" to the end of that. Who will be surprised when China makes ANOTHER man made island up that way and declares they own everything? There's a chunk of the Antarctic that nobody has claimed, maybe they'll claim that next. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  142. Its standard political distraction. When your economy is in the gutter and you have no way out of it - start a war. Go look at why the Argentinians invaded the Falklands. Why do you think America is sword rattling over Taiwan and Ukraine? It makes it so much easier to ignore the wealth gap, health care and other issues in America.
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  143. The most dangerous aspect of this technology are the clowns who keep claiming that we can make computers that are smarter than we are and grossly misleading the general public which has happened way too much with technology in recent years. Do not misunderstand me, these are incredibly complex systems that have processed incredible amounts of data to set up their models of how to respond, but they do NOT think and they are NOT smart. They are basically statistical engines in that they derive all their responses from statistical analysis of massive data sets.
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  144. YES it has become crystal clear that ANYTIME somebody claims "this is a game changer" then what they claim is BULLSHlT. It doesn't matter what the technology is or if its military or civilian. If people are claiming game changer then its BULLSHlT.
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