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Beam weapons, as shown in most Sci-fi, are also horribly ineffective next to most modern firearms. I mean, we've seen normal humans dodge a phaser beam. You can see a phaser beam (or most other sci-fi energy weapons) coming, and dodge them. You can't see a bullet going and dodge it. Do we actually ...

OK, now this sounds like the sort of stealth activism LaCroix mentioned:
http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2873263/
The police interrupted the filming of a government PR video to check whether the parliament's mascot was allowed to wear his bunny head.

Can you provide a source stating that the shark wasn't fined? German only, I'm afraid. http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2872439/ Noch geprüft wird der Fall des - medial um die Welt gegangenen - beamtshandelten Hais. Ein Promoter im Haikostüm bewarb eine Geschäftseröffnung, die Polizei musste auf Auf...

Except that the shark wasn't fined. The company that hired him, and subsequently complained about him to the police so they would get more news coverage... they will probably get a fine. The cyclists may have been stopped erroneously, or not - depends on the weather ("medical reasons") and...

As an aside though, I hope you don't have a compromised immune system if you're in Austria as it is now also against the law to wear a surgical mask or other breathing mask in a public place. Wrong. "Medical necessity" is explicitly excepted. Work-related requirements as well, BTW - inclu...

Skimmer, again: If the building is actually designed for fire-safety, waiting in place is correct. (Unless the fire is inside your own apartment, obviously. Or if you're in a place that doesn't have a proper fire brigade, I suppose.) Because passing out from smoke inhalation and falling down the sta...

In a building that's up to code, "stay put and wait for the fire brigade" would be correct - trying to make your way down a smoke-filled stairway is more dangerous, and if you have to open fire doors on the way you help the fire spread. Better to wait until either the fire's put out, or yo...

Maybe the idea is that making them responsible for women's rights will force them to start caring about women's rights?

(AFAIK that sort of thing can sometimes work on individual people, but never works on coutries...)

As I have been saying throughout the entire thread, the writers just do not get Thrawn. For once, Thrawn does not put himself into situations where he can be killed or is at risk unless he has to. Fighting with a trained intelligence operative when he could just as easily have him arrested? Leading...

I actually liked this one - they showed that they can do "understated."

Also, I think Ezra's role will actually be of critical importance Spoiler

The Romulan Republic wrote:Can we just boot this wanker from NATO already?

On that note, apparently Turkey is sabotaging NATO PfP projects in order to hurt Austria.

But like I said earlier Sturgeon left herself open to precisely this kind of attack on her position. Did she actually have the option to wait, though? If the goal is to remain in the EU, Scottish Independence has to happen before (or possibly in the process of) Brexit - if they are still part of th...

I think everyone on that ship (well in that intel warfare room) needed to die, they knew the Rebels had the Lothal codes, if they survive the future mission to attack Lothal is compromised... assuming the Empire even changed codes they know are stolen, their security doesnt encourage such confidenc...

the intel ship getting destroyed was pretty much the only way to resolve that but as eMeM said tracking it back to them and attacking would have been much more believable... Nah, it's enough to blow a couple of fuses so their computers crash and they lose the unsaved data - and that's something an ...

eMeM wrote:Are you trying to invent a plausible scenario in which an outdated astromech connected to a small freighter outhacks a specialised electronic warfare vessel full of augmented full-time slicers?

No.

Yes, that was... ouch. How about this? *electric fireworks on the sensor array* "Power spike from the sensor dish!" "Shut it down, shut it..." *electric fireworks inside the room* *everything goes dark* "please tell me you managed to save the data." "Sorry Sir.&quo...

If Thrawn ever made a backup of his map he may already know where the base is...

Thoughts: - People on jetpacks can fly with spacecraft? Really? Depends on what the spacecraft is doing at that time, I suppose. It looks like they were slow and deep in the atmosphere, so why not? - That's a fortress? It's obviously a lakeside condo. Indeed. Maybe the Mandos consider it a fortress...

But the droid only returned because it was unable to transmit its findings remotely - chances are most of them are still running around and reporting in regularly...

Technically yes (since droids can do it) but the question is if the plans for how to make a lightsabre are avaible to people outside Jedi Order. Since when did droids do it? There was Jedi owned droid voiced by David Tennant who helped jedi padawans construct their lightsaber and so he had to be ab...

Police are now saying the arrested refugee was probably not the attacker.

LaCroix wrote:We don't allow street walkers...

That's not actually true.
They are limited to a few specific areas, but not completely illegal.

The corvettes in the first episode were the only ships he could have blown up if he waned to keep Sato and the Ghost, his links to the larger rebellion, alive. Yes - but he didn't. The Ghost over Ryloth he couldn't even stop if he tried, judging by the last episode,... Well, he sure couldn't if he ...

Why? Nothing bigger has appeared yet , in the first episode he ignored a fleet consisting of a carrier (with Sato on board), two CR-90s, the Ghost, and a bunch of Y-wings and A-wings. That's most of the combat capabilities of the Phoenix Fleet, and its leadership. In the next encounters he let go t...

Yes, it seems pretty clear that he's after somebody bigger - but it's starting to look a bit suspicious.