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- 2022-06-17 10:15am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
- Replies: 1943
- Views: 261931
Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Macron, Scholz and Draghi pledge arms and EU path for Ukraine in Kyiv visit. <Snip> One of my friends noted that Macron is for victory when he needs a domestic win, and for peace when he thinks it can get him a Nobel prize, which is still better than the slow-walking the Germans have done.
- 2021-11-26 10:52am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Ahmaud Arbery: Three US men guilty of murdering black jogger
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6954
Re: Ahmaud Arbery: Three US men guilty of murdering black jogger
There is also the sentencing phase to get through. Until that's over and seen as just on some level we aren't quite done with this. All three men got felony murder (a charge resulting from when someone dies in the commission of a felony, even if the person charged did not commit the action that end...
- 2021-10-17 08:46pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Star Trek Lower Decks Thread
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34075
Re: Star Trek Lower Decks Thread
You mean besides their unexplained presence/role on the ship and their tank taking up an inordinate amount of space on a ship that's already pretty small? :lol: It's not as though they were like the Xindi aquatics who would have the run of their respective ships. Cetacean Ops has been referenced se...
- 2021-09-30 03:10pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: MARVEL's What If...? (spoilers possible)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 19345
Re: MARVEL's What If...? (spoilers possible)
I think the part that disappointed me the most in episode 8 is that they didn't get Michael Shanks to do the Ultron voice.
- 2021-09-28 09:29am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Babylon 5 Reboot
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22296
Babylon 5 Reboot
JMS has posted on twitter that he's working with the CW to do a reboot of Babylon 5 . He is very clear that this would be a reboot and recasting rather than a continuation (he brings up that some of the various actors and actresses that have died over the years since the show's ending). I for one, ...
- 2021-08-26 01:13pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Afghanistan: Street fighting rages as Taliban attack key city
- Replies: 209
- Views: 66640
Re: Afghanistan: Street fighting rages as Taliban attack key city
US election rules allow dead people to be voted into office in certain circumstances and it does happen from time to time (usually immediately followed by a governor appointing a replacement until another election is held) Broomstick, this only applies to Senators. The constitution requires that va...
- 2021-08-25 10:09am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Afghanistan: Street fighting rages as Taliban attack key city
- Replies: 209
- Views: 66640
Re: Afghanistan: Street fighting rages as Taliban attack key city
Congress as a whole might be able to discipline them (to the extent that what they could be called that) but the only way to remove someone from Congress would be 1) election recall (that has to come from the people the congressperson represents, not from anyone in DC), 2) impeachment and convictio...
- 2021-07-04 01:44am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Bill Cosby freed from prison after sexual assault conviction overturned by court
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4921
Re: Bill Cosby freed from prison after sexual assault conviction overturned by court
Not nearly as bad as judges deliberately letting rapists go free. Are you talking in a more general sense, or in the specific sense as it relates to this case? Are there crimes that are so terrible that it doesn't matter if civil rights are violated in the pursuit of punishing the perpetrators? the...
- 2021-07-02 10:25am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Bill Cosby freed from prison after sexual assault conviction overturned by court
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4921
Re: Bill Cosby freed from prison after sexual assault conviction overturned by court
It's not that clear cut, the evidence of a deal is the press release of the first DA saying he wasn't going to prosecute Cosby. There is no official signed agreement in any file or anyone's possession, there is no legally binding agreement to be ignored, merely Prosecutorial Discretion On page 66 o...
- 2021-05-12 06:42pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 272778
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Ohio is moving toward a June 2nd lifting of state-wide public health orders. The Governor also announced that for those between the ages of 12 and 17 will be eligible for a series of five scholarship drawings that will result in a four year full-rides to any state college/university. For adults, the...
- 2021-05-10 03:35pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 272778
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
My hometown is at the point where they are now going to be offering house calls for those who want a covid shot but have transportation issues in an effort to improve the uptake. I don't know how successful this is going to be, but I'm glad to see it happening.
- 2021-04-30 01:19pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: The most advanced private space company of the present time
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9143
Re: The most advanced private space company of the present time
Is it really fair to call Boeing a private company given their longstanding integration with the US military industrial complex? If you want a candidate - Rocket Lab for small satellites. Reusable, high launch cadence. SpaceX wouldn't have existed anything like it does today without the COTS contra...
- 2021-03-16 11:41am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Superman and Lois - Anyone Else Watching?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 21026
Re: Superman and Lois - Anyone Else Watching?
I'm not sure how much the show is set in the new Arrowverse, and how much of it is "we have this actor and this actress to play the roles".
I'm enjoying what we've seen so far, but like any show at this point I'm staying about an episode behind, and trying to not get hooked.
I'm enjoying what we've seen so far, but like any show at this point I'm staying about an episode behind, and trying to not get hooked.
- 2021-02-14 09:04pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Trump/Republican Coup Thread
- Replies: 527
- Views: 106638
Re: Trump/Republican Coup Thread
All those who voted against are either secure for the next 4-6yrs or retiring, iirc. Murkowski is up for reelection next year. Murkowski has cover from Alaska's new Top-Four Primary + Ranked Choice Voting system. The top four candidates from a unified primary will advance to the general election, a...
- 2021-01-04 08:34am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: SUPERTHREAD: 2020 United States Elections
- Replies: 2322
- Views: 780800
Re: SUPERTHREAD: 2020 United States Elections
So what happens if Democrat members of the House and Senate are prevented from entering and voting, but there are enough Republicans to form a quorum? Could the vote still proceed? Would a vote still be legally valid? Ok, so, the electoral college has already voted. What happens on the sixth is the...
- 2020-12-30 12:46pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Can I really post anything here?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12608
Re: Can I really post anything here?
If that was the truth, SpaceX wouldn't be anywhere near where it would be; do I need to tell you the stories about when they were a young company, and trying to get quotes on previously flight-rated hardware components (valves) and the company kept giving them bullshit prices so they went and devel...
- 2020-12-28 10:54am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Trump Dump: Internal Policy (Thread I)
- Replies: 2022
- Views: 721032
Re: Trump Dump: Internal Policy (Thread I)
At least he signed the Omnibus bill. Now we get to see if Congress is going to override the veto on the NDAA.
- 2020-12-28 09:35am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Can I really post anything here?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12608
Re: Can I really post anything here?
Maybe I'm too naive and impressionable, but still, I was impressed by the achievements of a young, only 3-year-old company. Yes, maybe the technologies are not new, I'm just too happy about new companies. I don't know, it gives me pleasure. It gives me hope that with the emergence and development o...
- 2020-12-23 11:59am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Can I really post anything here?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12608
Re: Can I really post anything here?
Um, yes, I know it all, the first post is a quote from an article on the Skyrora website. Actually, here is this article As I understand it, the news is not in the engine itself, but in the estimated costs of creating such equipment so that it can be used not for Billions of dollars, but a relative...
- 2020-12-22 01:35pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Report board software problems here
- Replies: 1353
- Views: 741129
Re: Report board software problems here
In firefox mobile on android, the cookie clearing has to be done via the browser, not the site, which is problematic because said version does not retain the fine-grain control of cookies that the desktop version has.
- 2020-12-16 12:50am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Astronomers Discover Cosmic 'Superhighways' For Fast Travel Through the Solar System
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8527
Re: Astronomers Discover Cosmic 'Superhighways' For Fast Travel Through the Solar System
From what I understood of this paper, that's what it is.Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2020-12-15 12:03pm Pretty sure I read about this years ago, though IIRC that was a series of minimum-fuel trajectories using slingshots and Lagrange points.
- 2020-12-14 07:28pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 272778
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
SB found the news.. It seems another of our member,Stuart Slade has passed on. While he pulled a lotta shit over Salvation War, the Thai General and then misleading on French carrier and other warship details, he was still one of our more visible rightwing member who spread a amount of intellectual...
- 2020-12-12 07:49pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Stuart Slade has died
- Replies: 26
- Views: 25969
Stuart Slade has died
I know the opinion of him around here is low, but he died on the 10th, from what I've heard was Covid.
- 2020-11-19 01:17pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Third Cinci council member arrested this year
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3637
Third Cinci council member arrested this year
'I can deliver the votes': Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld arrested on corruption charges FBI agents arrested Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld early Thursday on federal charges accusing him of accepting bribes in exchange for favorable votes on development deals. Sittenfeld, a ...
- 2020-11-15 08:35pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Will Trump end up as a 'secondary' president to the GOP?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 32434