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

  1. 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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  2.  @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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  3.  @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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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7.  @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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12.  @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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  13. How much will you make them pay for it?
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  14. 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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  15.  @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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  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?
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  17.  @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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20.  @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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  21. 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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  22.  @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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  23. 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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  24.  @neliborba101  You made sense except for that absolutely ridiculous and idiotic comment about abortion.
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  25.  @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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  26. 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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  27. Yeah, you'd think DW had moved on with technology.
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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30.  @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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  31.  @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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  32.  @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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  33.  @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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  34. 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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  35.  @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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  36. 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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  37.  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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  38.  @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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  39.  @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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  40.  @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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  41.  @gabuli8310  Thank you.
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  42. 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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  43.  @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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  44.  @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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. Hey he's just trying to position himself buddy up to Trump and Putin in future.
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