gowlerk
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I'm sure I am misinterpreting you. It seems you want the romance and adventure that is now gone from your life back again. If you were to forego the large door of a Caravan and once more tolerate the Beechcraft cave style entry and egress you will also leave behind the increased control and safety of the updated tricycle gear successor to the Beech 18. I can understand the desire to relive the old days. But why stop at the Westwind? Why not give the R-985s another day in the Sun?
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What is a King Air if not a turbine Beech?
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That should surprise no one. We are animals and we got to where we are by using instincts first. Intelligence comes second.
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You haven't been skydiving for very long have you? Stainless steel hardware is actually an option that most people choose over the standard cadmium plating. Used in many aerospace applications as well.
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I wonder what lead acid batteries are made from? I wonder what parachute hardware is coated with?
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The people who control Israel do not want peace, at least not at the cost of land. Note, I said the people in control, I did not say all Israelis.
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Yes, and that's why just as billvon says, it won't work. There is no workable solution to this situation that all the parties will agree to. One side or the other must win a near total victory to subjugate the other. Israel is currently much stronger, but demographically in a poor posistion. A normal secular state would work, but extremists on both sides will not allow it under any circumstances. In the long run Israel is doomed and they probably understand that. Which is why they quietly keep about a hundred nukes in reserve for the end game. The SHTF evangelicals could easily turn out to be right about this powderkeg.
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Israel is clearly trying to force the population out of Gaza and make Egypt and or Jordan accept the refugees. I can see no other end game
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The big advantage is that they are easier to make.
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He is saying the the 9 Justices are "special and untouchable" you know, like Senators.
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Perhaps soon, if you are a qualified investor one of these investments banks will be able to sell you a piece of X. At a loss of course. https://gizmodo.com/pour-one-out-for-banks-invested-in-musk-s-twitter-1850957287
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Deploying with no brake setting seems to work well on some tandem canopies.
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Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
gowlerk replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
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Sales taxes are a strange thing. Very unpopular to impose. I remember the fuss over Mulrooney modernizing our hidden production tax and replacing it with the very visible GST. I was very much opposed and I was wrong. Resource rich states and Alberta in Canada have no local sales tax and use it as a promotional gimmick. Most western nations have some form of VAT. Can you imagine ever getting one in the USA?
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Yes, I'm aware of that. As anyone with any savings or money in a pension fund knows we are all in the game of risking capital. Still, it feels wrong that those with trust funds inherited pay a lower rate than as Warren Buffet claims, his secretary does. This issue is not simple but there is definitely an advantage given to those powerful enough to own politicians.
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At a small fraction of the rate for income earned by labour.
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Earned income is easy to tax. They set it up that way so the ordinary employee pays the bulk of it. Sales taxes are the next lucrative. Capital gains and wealth are barely touched.
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We all know that even without the NPR story. We keep skydiving anyway.
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A use tax using information from transponders is likely easy to implement in this kind of vehicle.
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Old enough not to be affected by the interest rate increases nor rising sea level. Or....."I'm alright, Jack".
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The world is full of stupid. I guess we all have to pick our own battles. I won't go over the arguments here. I'm sure you heard them all and it is off topic anyway.
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They need Apple to get involved.
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Even more importantly the bulk of R&D is going into EVs. Modern ICEs are pretty impressive compared to not very long ago, but improvements beyond what has been accomplished already are unlikely because there will no longer be enough volume to pay for it. EVs are going to have incremental improvements and of course lowered costs. Time marches forward, a delay is not a step backwards. The future of personal vehicles is clearly BEV for many reasons and carbon emissions are only a part of them. EVs are simply a better technology at this point in time. The only thing holding them back is the massive size of the needed changes to infrastructure. It took several decades for diesel locomotives to completely replace steam power but now steamers are museum pieces. Just like Hemi 'Cudas will be one day.
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He probably has a better chance of success going with your assistance than going alone.
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Right. In other words he is successfully playing you.
