Phil1111

Well in Canada Canadians don't use guns. I used a sledgehammer to capture an asshole in my domicile. About 20 years ago a neighbor phones me and says there is a suspicious guy prowling by my garage. I go out to the garage door and its closed but the inside light is on. So i open the door and enter and the said asshole is holding a couple powertools and trying to force his way out the car garage door. I grab him by the neck and arm and drag him outside. As I exit the door I take from him a 18lb sledgehammer that he had a hold of. I use it to hold the mandoor open when its windy. I threw him to the ground and put the sledgehammer on the back of his neck. It had rained the day before so the ground was slightly muddy. So his face ended up half buried in the mud. By the time the cops arrived I was starting to feel a bit sorry for him. The cops were quite happy when they found out I had removed the sledgehammer from him. Because that was another charge on him. "Assault with a weapon".

It seems to me that you're connected to the drug industry...mmmmm Then "For the past decade, the White House and Congress have relied on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a renowned advisory group, to help shape the federal response to the opioid crisis, whether by convening expert panels or delivering policy recommendations and reports. Yet officials with the National Academies have kept quiet about one thing: their decision to accept roughly $19 million in donations from members of the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the drug OxyContin that is notorious for fueling the opioid epidemic." So the most conservative drug peddling conservative individuals were buying state policy. Brent, I thought you were a good guy, with integrity Shame.. In other Russian news A Russian solider(33) so distraught over the assignment to the Ukrainian front. Decided to indulge in some vodka. A short drive later the S-400 missile system he was driving ended up overturned in a ditch. The $160 million dollar system will not be deployed anytime soon.

Rupert MurDoch has a worldwide cash generating machine that is more than FOX. His team identifies right wing agendas and politicizes the narratives to generate cash. They have employees and puppets. The puppets seize these narratives and regurgitate them as fact They amplify the messaging. Enter Slim. He is trying to save kidnapped Ukrainian children. By placating Putin with just 25% of Ukraine.Hence the peace pleas. Until Putin can fully digest Belarus.Other accommodations will have to be made. Puppets will always be ready to accept new narratives. Because they have flexible minds that know Washington and the US state is evil. So they await further directions from FOX. Eagerly buying whatever FOX sells.

Something with the latching mechanism makes sense. Because Starship yaw was well developed before the termination of flight decision was made. This was tweeted "The damage in Boca Chica at the Starbase launch site looks pretty serious, but a former senior SpaceXer from there says he believes the pad can be repaired; and a (water-cooled?) flame diverter installed in 4 to 6 months. Just passing on what I was told." To which Elon respoinded: "3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount. Wasn’t ready in time & we wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that Fondag would make it through 1 launch. Looks like we can be ready to launch again in 1 to 2 months... Aware that this schedule is hyper ambitious, Musk then explained, on Apr. 22, that the engines may have caused unexpected damage. "Still early in analysis, but the force of the engines when they throttled up may have shattered the concrete, rather than simply eroding it," he argued. "The engines were only at half thrust for the static fire test." Flying another in two months seems overly ambitious. IMO Elon has a history of using the whip on employees and exaggerating. So maybe? A video has emerged of pad damage actual damage starts at 1:22.

The Ukrainians are hiding them. Until they are not. Then the only escape for Putin's forces will be the Kerch bridge. Because Ukrainian troops will be washing their tired feet in the Sea of Azov Then there will be no Kerch bridge and Putin's apologists will have some new distracting narrative.

A commentator for the launch stated that the rocket is supposed to conduct a planned yawing maneuver(flip) prior to second stage separation. Which makes no sense whatsoever: CNN video at 4:53 he states that the Starship is "beginning the flip for stage separation." Does the first and second stage not separate. The first stage then make its 180 for a back burn to the landing? With the second continuing a new burn to orbit along a straight line of flight to orbit?

I have friends in high places. I was talking to a long time friend last night and the subject went around to aid to Ukraine. He went on to state that President Zelenskyy was lining his pockets with cash from foreign aid. bla, bla bla.i.e. tune it out and change subject. He is a pretty smart guy but his sole source of news is FOX. It sounded like a line of pure b.s. from Tucker or Sean. If you're not more careful you'll be the next Slim here. With everything else it entails.

The pull of disinformation seems to grow year by year. I'm worried that ChatGPT and other such information summation and modification tools will drive people susceptible to b.s. even deeper than what FOX does. Imagine tens of Brents, dozens of Slims! All operating to overpower common sense.

Yes

Agree. Single action cocking, trigger mechanisms are simple and safe. Beyond that if the gun was capable of firing live rounds. pointing it a a person is wildly dangerous in itself. Having said that if two prosecutors in the end gave up on prosecution. I'd call it a day on the issue.

Yes.. But pandering to the MAGA base is different than pandering to trump. DeSantis is normally fairly smart except when he goes into full MAGA electioneering. Would he not be better served to wait until trump is gone.Either with a face to face with Lucifer or a prison warden? Then launch a run in a subsequent election.

MAGA is far from dead. DeSantis is gone all in for the MAGA base. Guns, abortion, immigration, Ukraine, etc. Whatever trump's position is Desantis is further right. At least because he never announced a candidacy. trump can't label him a loser. If trump gets convicted next week. Will he tell his cell mate that he's a little AC DC?

For me it was stealing crab apples when they were ripe. and another :"A six-year-old girl and her parents were allegedly shot by a neighbor after a basketball that the child was playing with rolled into the attacker’s yard, according to authorities and local media reporting. The shooting occurred on Wednesday in North Carolina when several young children were playing with a basketball which rolled into the yard of Robert Singletary, who neighbors say was new to the area and often mad at the local children," New gun sales in the US have averaged 1.25 million per month for four years straight. Thankfully republicans have made it a priority to protect children.

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Ok I have to break up the hate-fest here. i challenge anyone to call Alexei Navalny a coward. He is probably the bravest man alive today. What about the female Russian RTV presenter that showed the cardboard sign on live news. That the war was all a lie. A million Russians have left everything they know and have to escape Putin. Weekly someone is sentenced to long prison terms for challenging Putin's laws. Look at the couple posters here that have their heads so far up Putin's ass. That they can see Putin's tonsils vibrate. Yet they are supposed to be Americans. Like how the CCP controls the Chinese population. Russians have been controlled by FSB messaging. Hell FOX viewers at least have an open choice. Then consider what FOX has achieved.

So fewer and fewer people watch the US major evening news. Pretty much only old people get their news from CBS,ABC, NBC. Naturally I have to check them all out. For the last two weeks they are looking more and more like CNN. Shootings, shooting trials, injury and death reports from shootings. Good thing that foreign countries can't get such news coverage. How long till a US cable network starts a US gun violence channel. With victim coverage, funerals, hospital visits, trial coverage, etc?

Sometimes the most complex pieces of engineering. Have a couple screws loose.

Well I was hoping for more success. The length of time it stood on the pad post ignition must have done some pad damage. The six engines that didn't ignite made the t/o look a little less sporty than the Falcon. and OK I can now overlook Elon's twit/F**k up. He is back in my good books.

I used to have a motorized hang glider. With winds about 15 kn on flat level ground. I could take off without stepping and land without taking a step. But gusting winds above that would become dangerous because it had such a low wing loading. Same sort of idea as this one, but not identical.

After watching about 100 of his videos I had to stop. I feel so inferior needing seven hours of sleep a night. Wasting time on SC. All of his other engineering accomplishments. Although his pool addition on his home made me feel as if he has cognitive disabilities of a sort. I just love his machined double slotted flap/slat ribs on his latest full build. I think of those flaps/slats on a Carbon Cub.

There have been several stories published by Kremlin insiders that know Putin well. He has ideas of a return to Russian grandeur, a hegemony over other post Soviet vassal states. Like Belarus is today. They have all stated that he thinks he is the leader to do that. As such, the use of nuclear weapons would end all that. He obviously miscalculated about Ukraine.But he now has compete control of Belarus including the deployment of nukes there. So that is a victory of sorts. Your confusing Ken with Dekker. I disagree with Ken here. IMO Russians have a love for the strongman leader. Many older Russians still dream of the days of Stalin. RTV and the Putin propaganda machine, has conditioned them to completely distrust democracy. Although the complete disaster of perestroika certainly reinforced those ideas.Putin is 70. AFAIK the succession of someone who will protect Putin in the days of his retirement. Is unknown. The costs and consequences of Putin's Ukrainian misadventure will slowly leak out. IMO those consequences are unknown.

Given the propensity of gun violence victims to be Black. Do you think that a White shooter of a White, young girl, is an issue? Gym, physical workout, of cheer-leading practice. Walking proximity to the shooting site. KIds read this? I have no idea of the point you're addressing.

IMO most foreigners think the US is beholden to special interest groups. Not Soros type stuff. But the gun lobby, big pharma lobby, etc. They likely don't understand how conservative small states can control the agenda over the vote of larger population. Or how powerful unlimited lobbying can be. I have never heard of someone not going to the US because of gun violence. But every country has a unique identity. As an example the US has never really had a public outcry over huge defense spending. Joe probably ain't gonna like this. But the secret documents disclosed by Guardsman Teixeira. Revealed that our P.M. stated to US officials that Canada would likely never meet NATO 2% spending agreements. Guns. As long as there is FOX, conservatives in bed with the gun lobby. There is not likely to be real changes that reduce gun violence and senseless shootings.At least not while I'm alive.

Considering that you're challenging a statement that I made w/o any reference to outside sources.I guess you're the expert in US big case litigation. So I'll leave that in your domain. Bloomberg law as a more complete list of all the compensation streams. But you know it all already.

"Creative fee agreements depart from the typical all-hourly or all-contingent models. In the former, the client typically bears the financial risk of litigation, as the payment of legal fees is untethered to the ultimate outcome of the case. In the latter, the economic risk is shifted largely to the lawyer, as payment of fees is entirely contingent upon a successful outcome for the client. Creative fee agreements blend aspects of the hourly and contingent models to re-allocate the risk of litigation based upon client needs and goals, and the lawyer’s tolerance for risk. Commercial litigation clients increasingly desire creative fee agreements because they can be tailored to a client’s particular financial reality. A client, for instance, may have a large complex case worth $20,000,000, which would take $100,000 in legal fees per month to properly fund, but a stream of only $20,000 per month to allocate toward legal expenses. A creative fee agreement under these circumstances might consist of an agreement to cap monthly fees at $20,000 per month, with a 15% contingent interest in the client’s recovery. Such an arrangement would take into account the client’s ongoing ability to pay legal expenses as well as align client and lawyer interests in achieving a significant recovery." From 'This article appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of the Oregon State Bar's Litigation Journal."