Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. They keep using this metaphor “backstop.” “It’s dead.” What I want to know is what he intends to do at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, if anything. Not in code words, but in plain English.
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  2. Random Guy — If it is EU law that requires border controls, that is up to the EU and the Republic of Ireland, not the UK.
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  3. Nobody is paying attention to this fool.
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  4. The problem is, there are no checks and balances. The House of Commons has somehow managed to monopolize the political power. The queen can fire the PM of Australia. Why not of the UK?
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  5. Of course President Trump will not be convicted by a Senate dominated by Republicans. The impeachment is for history, and to establish a written record.
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  6. Only one configuration of the MAX is grounded, and only for inspection.
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  7. UK is sovereign today, 29 March. Congratulations!
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  8. They said that the Flight Data Recorder was damaged, and that it was being sent to the NTSB in the United States. There, it will have to be disassembled and the data extracted by unusual means. Then it will be sent back to Korean authorities. The NTSB will process it in their usual way, but it is up to Korean authorities to report to the public when they have something to report. Your impatience is not a factor.
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  9. They are both partisan impeachments. I do not expect presidential impeachments will become routine, though. Very few presidents commit acts which are a plausible basis for impeachment. Ironically, the one impeachment which had bipartisan support never happened. President Nixon resigned because he knew the House would impeach him and he believed he had lost enough support from senators in his own party to be convicted.
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  10. She died first. Mr. Hackman had dementia so was unable to cope with the situation.
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  11. “Impossible” is a good thing. “Clean break” it is.
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  12. It likely was tested, but the particular vulnerability was not covered in the test environment. Most people don't know how complicated software can be.
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  13. This seems pretty old for having just been posted. It has been clear for several weeks the the aircraft had a dangerous flaw.
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  14. These two commentators are both wishy-washy. The first priority for the investigators is, of course, to recover the recorders and analyze the data. The first priority for the airlines should be to ground the aircraft until the problem is resolved.
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  15.  @JohnHaroldFinnegan — But they write "BBC."
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  16. She should quit first. Why would anyone believe her?
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  17. That is what was missing here. How did a bad module get installed in so many places in such a short time?
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  18. I don’t understand why Finland would want to do that. Finland is a model of how to get along with a Russian neighbor. Other nations would do well to follow her example.
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  19. Almost nobody knows who the electors are. That’s normal. I was a prospective elector once, but my candidate lost, so I did not become an official elector. It would be difficult to drop the Electoral College, because some of the states which get an advantage from it (the smaller states) would have to agree to the change. It can’t be explained in ten seconds.
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  20. No, because necropsy is done for animals.
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  21. Alex Blaze — That’s simplistic. I’m an American who has no use at all for Trump, but I want to see a sovereign U. K.
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  22. More irony. Impersonator 45 had a real .45.
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  23. sam sneede — No, the delay between Earth and the moon is obvious. It’s physics, not the technology. There is no delay between people at Houston.
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  24. The person holding a firearm is in charge of it at that moment.
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  25. There are many technological aids to managing airplane traffic. Those, combined with human intelligence, work well. It is better to fix an actual problem, when it is determined what happened, than to imagine that a new system will solve all our problems. It won't.
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  26. They showed his photograph. Color is irrelevant.
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  27. Frank ten Horn — That would be up to the people of Northern Ireland and the people of the Republic of Ireland, not the British government.
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  28. The asymmetry of the surroundings caused the fireball to move to the right. The RV was close to a large, sturdy wall on the left. The pressure was therefore higher on the left. Air and other gasses will move to equalize an imbalance in pressure.
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  29. Ron Russell, who was presented with the George Medal.
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  30. As long as people are involved in things, there will be screwups. To err is human.
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  31. Ukraine has been committing war crimes in eastern Ukraine for eight years. That never gets reported.
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  32. Musk has shown before that he has liitle regard for rules governing corporations. He should be barred from holding any corporate office, in my opinion.
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  33.  @1Animeculture — Some are trained better than others.
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  34. The only solution is to elect a new Parliament with a sovereignty party in control.
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  35. TNA2Me — In raw recordings you can hear the delay between a question from Houston and a response from the moon. The other way, the delay occurs before you hear the question from the moon. Some audios are edited to cut out some delay.
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  36. Still in psychiatric custody.
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  37. Alec Baldwin did not do his job. He did not apply and enforce industry safety protocols for firearm safety. That is his job both as a producer and as an actor handling firearms.
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  38. Not all Max 9s have been grounded. Those that have been may fly again after a satisfactory inspection.
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  39. hfredydl — Corbyn is hilarious, but I find the whole business depressing. As an American, Zi want the UK to be a strong, competent ally.
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  40. Mayank Abhishek — All three are well known.
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  41. He’s right. As old as British government is, they don’t have the constitutional foundation of the judicial system that we enjoy in the United States. Occasionally, we do have seemingly politically motivated supreme court decisions, but they are rare. We also have cases where courts have refused to get involved in political matters. I have never heard of a case which was widely seen as a purely political controversy in which the US Supreme Court decided unanimously that it was not.
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  42.  @abansalify -- You should add that a 40' container is two TEUs, so it was near capacity.
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  43. That incident was considerably different.
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  44. cristybello — There is a vast difference between getting to the moon and conquering the universe. Incomprehensively vast. It won’t happen.
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  45. Wrong. "Prop" just means "property,". Any object provided by the property department for use in a film is a prop.
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  46. Pamela Rice — Clearly, you have done no research at allon the subject of the Apollo program. There were several modules required, first to get into orbit, then to an orbit around the moon, then to the lunar surface, then back to lunar orbit, back to Earth, then splasdown. Along the way, a lot of hardware was left behind. The simplest and safest way to get down was in a capsule, falling into the ocean.
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  47. Yes, but the official preliminary report just came out. That is what they are reporting on.
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  48. What the LibDems did wrong was to oppose leaving the EU.
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  49. The primary cause of the disruption was the building of additional locks, which are much larger. As originally designed (by US engineers), the Canal operation was sustainable.
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  50. Arcade Alchemist — According to the Good Friday Agreement, the people of Northern Ireland have the right to choose.
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