Things we mere males do not know. My wife never mentioned or complained about how bothersome they were. Bless her.
Open Thread – Weekend 9 July 2022
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
- Open Thread – Thurs 2 May 2024
- Bumtree #3
- Bumtree #2
Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies Mysteriously From Sudden Infection, Leaving Doctors Baffled Must be contagious? Or just coincidence? Who knows in…
Chinese belt&road takes on new meaning.
Sorry to pee on the barbie, but what sort of ‘toons are these? May as well just post oneliners. Sorry…
Ben Garrison.
I know that, Zip. My point is that if the longevity rate is rising, then the 2.1 replacement rate should be falling, no? It should be falling but it’s always remained at 2.1 since I was a kid.
Longevity wouldn’t affect replacement rate.
a string of shiny beads and some warm blankets
It should be falling but it’s always remained at 2.1 since I was a kid.
Sure, but the length of the Fertility window hasn’t changed, and a Generation is still 30 years, no matter the Birth Rate.
Ed Casesays:
July 10, 2022 at 2:07 pm
And in any case it does somewhat undercut the chattering classes’ pants-wetting hysteria about “OMG 6 weeks and 3 days” that m0nty’s been going along with.
Are you completely stupid?
A ten year old goes to the Doctor for a pregnancy check, how likely is it that she doesn’t know the date that conception happened?
Or are you saying that the Doctor didn’t know the day’s date when the consultation occurred?
Ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you the Olympic gold medal winning world record holder at missing the point.
You complete fuckhead Ed. No-one has said there’d be anything surprising about them knowing the date, in fact I made that point myself elsewhere. What the pants-wetting is about is the whole idea that because (allegedly) she was three days past an arbitrary 6 week deadline she couldn’t get an abortion, and now its been revealed that no such hard deadline exists.
Even by your abysmal standards that comment was inanimate object-level lack of intelligence.
nope. can’t fall below 2. maintenance is not dependent on lifespan. lifespan just mean more and more old people hanging about while there are fewer and fewer kids. the population keeps growing till the oldest generation dies off then it’s all downhill.
It should be falling but it’s always remained at 2.1 since I was a kid.
You were never a kid, head prefect.
Getting back to my initial comment, if you want populations to decrease, why starve them? Simply educate the females.
Making them poor and starving them has the attribute that they will have a lower carbon footprint.
Forget replacement rate.
What is the optimum population given automation ect?
The solution at the moment is to increase burocracy.
And I think it has been and is why Scummo signed us up to net 0.
On matters of birth and population, notice how the Silly Moaning Heamoroid is, in addition to dancing on the grave of Christianity, gaslighting women in stable, monogamous heterosexual marriages to make them feel like Neanderthal fascist freaks? Especially those deviant pervert scum who, if they do indulge in the disgusting act of breeding (the only kind of deviant sex nowadays), refuse to hand the results over to Leninist collective farms from the age of six weeks.
the limiting factor is energy
The UK version of House Of Cards is just as good as the USA one, if not better.
The British version was the original series based on the Michael Dobbs books .. far superior to the US remake that was more of a “soapy” ..
below replacement fertility is catastrophic for the welfare state, as the population ages more and more draw support from the state and less and less contribute taxes to the state. welfare states under such a scenario will eventually go bankrupt
LOL!
Zip, Frank
If longevity continues to rise the replacement rate has to fall as you don’t need as many kids to prevent a population drop. It goes back to 2.1 at the the point when longevity stops. I think that’s correct.
What is the optimum population given automation ect?
the limiting factor is energy
Which western governments are doing their best to eliminate.
JC at 2:49.
Why didn’t you just back the big ‘lectric Merc over him?
Would bad driving be a plausible cover?
On Japan’s plummeting birth rate, I’d be interested in ideas as to why this is happening.
Hentai.
Not necessarily as long as people are earning money and or the economy is growing . If people can continue working as they age it shouldn’t be a problem. The nature of work is changing fast. I bet that at some places the work week is around 20 hours a week if that.
Isn’t the replacement rate anything above 2 ie 2.001 does the job?
Because that’s how many it takes to reproduce.
Or am I missing something.
Electric Vehicles Are a Tool of Tyranny
First, don’t blame the vehicle. It is a tool that might be just what Los Angeles needs to cope with inversions. Electric vehicles are also very good as airport shuttles and for other locations where short, repetitive routes are the primary use. Some may even be fun to drive (except when they catch on fire).
But do not believe for a minute that the plan is to replace each of the 275 million gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles on the road today in the United States with electric vehicles (which today comprise just 1 percent of the U.S. fleet). Worldwide, there are nearly of 1.5 billion vehicles on the road today, but only 6 million are EVs. That’s less than 0.5 percent. And most of them are in China, which controls the supply of batteries and electronics for EVs.
The media and the White House are simply not telling you the truth.
But the World Economic Forum recently let the cat out of the bag. Their goal: You will own nothing and be happier for it. Or, as Israeli historican Yuval Noah Harari put it, “There will be two classes: The exploited and the useless class (people who don’t adopt wearable technologies, metaverse, etc.). It’s better to be exploited than be useless.”
Let that sink in. The plan is not for you to be able to purchase your own electric vehicle. And you will have to gain permission – through a Chinese-style social credit system – to be allowed to use a government-supplied vehicle.
Remember that, campaigning in 2020, Joe Biden pledged that, “We are going to get rid of fossil fuels.” His every action as President, including draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, has moved this nation toward that goal.
Why didn’t you just back the big ‘lectric Merc over him?
Would bad driving be a plausible cover?
I don’t own a merc and haven’t. However, I’m thinking about it now that Liz owns. BMW. -:)
the illegitimate son of George VI
Sydney Orr, of Tasmania University’s 1950s ‘rooting the students’ scandal, was reputed to be the illegitimate son of George V.
Enter the population ponzi scheme.
Isn’t the replacement rate anything above 2 ie 2.001 does the job?
Because that’s how many it takes to reproduce.
Or am I missing something.
I’m asking in terms of how low it can go if lifespans are zooming up not to see a drop in population.
Or ze Turkish guest worker scheme. Kebab?
No, because male births exceed female births.
Attrition.
The 0.1 accounts for those who die before reproducing or worse, are gay or trans.
I was going to say it includes those too unattractive to reproduce, but apparently m0nster has managed to donate sperm, so anything is possible.
I forgot about the gay/trans/didn’t make it cohort.
JC.
The 2.1 (net 2.0) factor relates to long term population maintenance.
Yes, if longevity improves there will be a slight bump in population, but it will level out unless longevity keeps increasing ad infinitum.
The effect is tiny, as longevity only increases by a small amount every generation.
Ze Germans will be turning off the hot water to the Bundestag.
A rate of 2.1 has the redundancy of the 0.1 for all the incels, infertile couples and homosexuals that get spawned. But for a couple to account for the fact that they need two people to replace themselves you need two kids. I’m not a population person / demography person but it would seem that is how they work it out. Once you have your two kids it shouldn’t really matter how long you linger for afterwards, you have accounted for yourself. Everyone else on average is doing the same thing, that should equate to stable population.
We need Dr BG, stats is a dismal discipline.
Words of encouragement.
Sanchez
That’s true but you haven’t taken into account that men can now give birth. I thought you’d be aware of that.
Ja, bitte!
Was it a turkey baster job?
JC at 4:40.
I thought you bought a yuuuge ‘lectric Merc?
Sorry.
I’ll cancel myself for that egregious transphobic error.
Yea, in there is my point, but from what I understand lifespans are rising at around 5 years per generation , give or take risky sub-groups which I’m not going to go into. That’s not tiny.
No, not yet. I was toying with the idea and the our two resident noble prize winning scientists said battery technology wouldn’t improve so I went off the idea.
No really, there are no fucking cars around and I’m not going to beg a fucking dealer for a new car, put up a deposit and wait 12 months. Range Rover dude told me there’s a 12 month wait.
it’s ok because mutley will let his wife get a second husband
porsche dealer told me 18months. if germany is producing any cars in 6 months Ill be surprised
Isn;t that offset by the women that grow a penis and have no babies?
Germans are theoretically smart people. How the fuck did they get themselves into a jam by relying on Russia for their energy? The actually closed down nuke and coal plants.
Trump warned the chubby grandma.
JC, what are you driving at the moment? I remember a few years back, you were thinking about replacing your krautmobile but the resale was terrible. Did you end up replacing it?
Way back when, BMW 3 series had the best resale followed by the 5 series followed waaaaaaaaaaaay behind by the 7 series*. I imagine the BMW SUVs have the best resale today.
*all of the large range-topping prestige saloons depreciate at eye watering rates. Running just one of these babies from new makes putting your kids through elite private schools look affordable in contrast
OCO
I have a 5 series wagon, a 6 series convert and a mini.
I love the wagon the most as it’s such a useful car but they aren’t importing 5series wagons anymore because Australians prefer SUVs. I can’t imagine how you’d not want a 5 series wagon over a stupid SUV, but there you go.
Yes OCO, there was a time back I resale traumatised. 🙂
Zipstersays:
July 10, 2022 at 2:59 pm
More like Albo kissed French arse and are moving on to try some Chinese. So far CCP appears quite happy with their Aus selected Government.
Ask and Ye Shall Receive –More like Albo kissed French arse Johannes Leak
Invading Poland probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
It’s so weird. How did we become like the Soviet Union in terms of new car waiting lists? Have money, can’t buy, join the queue.
Is this the new normal? If so, should join the queue to buy the luxobarge and then, when it’s delivered, immediately flip it with a 30% mark up to someone with money to burn and doesn’t want to wait.
here’s your answer
they allowed a woman to be in charge, not only did she fuck up the energy and she fucked up the demographics
JC, why do you think longevity has anything to do with the replacement rate?
Smart but with a complex psyche. This makes for instructive reading:
We were all wrong: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy
Meanwhile, the city of Hamburg is contemplating rationing hot water.
At least it’s summer.
And the cars that are around are often missing functionality due to chip shortages.
We managed to wangle one which was fully kitted out.
In fact, it had stuff we probably wouldn’t take if we could pick and mix (pamoronic sunroof, flashy super low profile tyres).
While we were looking I see a promo for free 5 year servicing.
Rang the dealer and told him I would have some of that.
“Not for you” he says.
They tell me that to encourage people to sign up for their new year models (which have features left out due chip shortages) and because ours was fully kitted out, we weren’t eligible. Apparently a lot of dealers are doing this sort of incentive.
Does this mean …
.1 ) they don’t expect the chip shortage to be fixed anytime soon so that is the new standard build? or
.2 ) They do expect it to be fixed and they will be left with a lot of short-fitted stock which they will have to discount heavily?
To be fair, to the fake frumpy hausfrau, I don’t think Merkel would have driven the German economy off the cliff in quite as spectacular fashion as the traffic light crazies have.
Joe Biden Repeats Story of a 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Denied Abortion but Is This Story Even Real?
Washington Post Late to the Party on Fact-Checking Poorly Sourced ’10-Year-Old Rape Victim’ Abortion Tale BUT Proves Us Right
It took four more days, my viral tweet, Joe Biden weighing in, and a RealClearPolitics reporter asking the White House press secretary about it for Kessler to get interested in fact-checking this story. He didn’t do a terrible job. With the headline that says “A one-source story about a 10-year-old and an abortion goes viral,” Kessler threw cold water on Dr. Bernard’s claims.
The only source cited for the anecdote was Bernard. She’s on the record, but there is no indication that the newspaper made other attempts to confirm her account. The story’s lead reporter, Shari Rudavsky, did not respond to a query asking whether additional sourcing was obtained. A Gannett spokeswoman provided a comment from Bro Krift, the newspaper’s executive editor: “The facts and sourcing about people crossing state lines into Indiana, including the 10-year-old girl, for abortions are clear. We have no additional comment at this time.”
Rudavsky never responded to me either; nor did Krift. Krift’s response to the Post is pretty revealing. He refused to answer direct questions about how the information was vetted. I can’t resist: Clearly, Bro, the info isn’t “clear,” or you wouldn’t have the WaPo, Snopes, and a hundred other outlets asking you to clarify your vetting process.
Kessler went on to try and confirm the story by finding a criminal report, which as I said would have been required under the law since doctors are mandated reporters. He couldn’t find any, and Bernard wouldn’t tell him if she followed the law and reported a crime as she is required to do. (LOL)
A shocking video shows San Francisco school children having to pick their way through a filthy, open-air drug den of homeless addicts after getting off a school bus at the end of the day.
The video, posed by Ricci Wynne, shows the elementary school kids filing off the 14 transit line in the Golden Gate City at 8th Street and Mission by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company building past dozens of sickly users nodding out on the sidewalk.
‘This is no back ally,’ he says in the tweet. ‘This is the main artery of the city that has been hijacked bye [SIC] drug dealers and now is Pure filth,’ Wynne said in the tweet.
Daily Mail
Being dependent on another nation for energy is always dumb especially when you had an existing nuclear industry but they’ve brought this on themselves by vouching for Ukraine which they seem unable to exert any influence over and now party to a sanctions regime that harms them more than Russia.
I don’t and never said that.. I said that the population size is dependent on lifespans and that the replacement rate can go down as lifespan is generally increasing.
Let me ask you. For population size to remain static while lifespans are rising, can the replacement factor fall? Yes or no?
This is what happens when you put Greens in the driver’s seat. They are on track to deindustrialise Germany at a rate that puts the allies to shame.
JCsays:
July 10, 2022 at 5:13 pm
I thought you bought a yuuuge ‘lectric Merc?
No, not yet. I was toying with the idea and the our two resident noble prize winning scientists said battery technology wouldn’t improve so I went off the idea.
No really, there are no fucking cars around and I’m not going to beg a fucking dealer for a new car, put up a deposit and wait 12 months. Range Rover dude told me there’s a 12 month wait.
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2022/07/07/mercedes-from-hell-last-ill-ever-buy/
Indeed.
Boeing wants safety waiver for latest 737 MAX
The company’s CEO has threatened to ax the largest plane in the 737 family unless Congress extends a regulatory deadline
Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun has called the situation “a little bit of an all-or-nothing” as the scandal-ridden aerospace company faces a deadline to secure approval for the 737 MAX 10 jet from US authorities before new safety standards kick in next year.
Under the 2020 Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act, all planes certified after December 31, 2022 will have to comply with new Federal Aviation Administration regulations regarding cockpit alert systems that warn pilots of malfunctions during flight. Amid heightened scrutiny of the 737 MAX family in recent years, Boeing has been struggling to get regulatory approval for the latest and largest modification of the plane before the deadline.
In an interview with Aviation Week magazine this week, Calhoun said he hopes the company won’t have to go as far as to cancel the project altogether, but acknowledged there was always a “risk.”
“This is a risk I’m willing to take. If I lose the fight, I lose the fight,” Calhoun said, indicating that Boeing is determined to lobby for the approval of the jet without an upgrade to the crew alert system.
The company believes the entire MAX family should be exempt from the latest safety standard. If MAX 10 is not certified in time, and unless Congress extends the deadline or grants a waiver, Boeing will have to conduct a costly redesign of the plane’s cockpit and come up with a separate training program for its pilots.
Who needs facts when you have the Internet?
A 12 month wait for a Range Rover sounds like a very good idea. Longer wouldn’t hurt.
Oh come onsays:
July 10, 2022 at 5:47 pm
This is what happens when you put Greens in the driver’s seat. They are on track to deindustrialise Germany at a rate that puts the allies to shame.
In his grave, Henry Morgenthau smiles.
Population rate is intrinsically dependent on the total fertility rate (TFR). The problem is, as the left and its weird and whacky offshoots take over society, that women overall have declining fertility and the hard yakka is left to a declining core of fertile women.
90%+ of all Western journalists are so alienated from the drudgery of fact-checking they can’t imagine that their fantasy of what the world should be like isn’t real.
Modern university-educated journalists are the worst possible people to be tasked with the once-honourable craft of being the public’s eyes and ears.
Not only are they NOT up to the job, they hold the public in contempt.
And they wonder why only politicians are more despised.
The drug dealers have just taken advantage of Democrat rule.
I liked Richard Hammonds description of the Landrover Discovery. You discover you’ve gone halfway on your journey when it breaks down.
It does impact the population size though, so there is a knock on effect.
Take this to an extreme so we’re all on the same page. If people lived forever, what would the “replacement” rate need to be in order for the size of the population to remain static? It would have to be zero, right?
OldOzzie, did you have forced bottom sex in a Merc?
You seem to have it in for them.
🙂
Ranga and Bear.
Not sure if the Range Rover Disco is still a thing, but I never met a Disco owner who was anything but scathing about them.
That’s a Dealer option.
The reviews are so obviously fake, clearly similar in style and suggestive of a certain English as a second language background.
taking Google to court for defamation
Janey
@_Janey_J
??The people of Switzerland in the streets of Zurich in protest against the introduction of all WHO health protocols, Klaus Schwab’s and SEF’s agenda, demanding that the state return freedom to its citizens and preserve sovereignty and neutrality.
LOL get a load of this on Kangaroo Is. Yank who owns the land next door to the shack & has moaned about them says not me, yeah right mate and there’s this “contractor”.
There is a lot more to this than meets the eye. I sniff possible corruption and a big ego a mile away.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10998873/Fleurieu-Peninsula-shack-mysteriously-destroyed-celebrity-neighbour-blasts-dangerous-homes.html
Bruce Dixon has bought Macedon Lodge.
Mike
@mikey_pappy
Bill Gates’s book is a 250+ page sales pitch.
Every chapter implicitly points to a Gates product, system or opportunity:
– $2-10b/yr Pandemic team
– his testing products & system
– his vaccines
– vaccine equity = his profit
– his way in The Plan
– digital future = ID = control
Mate bought a Land Rover Freelander 2. Apart from a fight with the dealer over a cracked manifold no real issues. I wouldn’t take one if I was given it. I like the idea of having a Range Rover and am content to leave it at that.
Like everything else digital.
Sony PlayStation to remove access to some movies, even if you’ve purchased them
Buying a movie on a digital platform, apparently doesn’t mean you own it.
Scathing is praise for a Discovery. Bit like calling munty an idiot.
Omicron OMG or LOL: New variant, same old normal?
Whatever it is, Indolent, I still can’t get it. 🙂
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A food, energy, and financial crisis has brought down Sri Lanka’s government. But the underlying cause is the fact that the nation’s political leaders had fallen under the spell of green elites peddling “ESG” and banning modern fertilizers.
Me neither Calli.
I call bullshit.
I don’t think Boeing are in any position to call the shots on 737-Max certification with the amount of blood they have on their hands.
If they do can it, that would tell me that they have concluded it is an irredeemable lemon, and they have to design a new single-aisle aircraft from the ground up.
Rosie, it isn’t from lack of trying. I go everywhere, shops, cafés, the lot. It has gone through church (a classic enclosed space, people off crook all the time). All my pals have had it.
I am Legend, but without the derg.
The Aboriginal flag will fly permanently on the Harbour Bridge in place of the NSW flag as the government cans its earlier promise to spend $25m on a new flag at the iconic site.
The Aboriginal flag has been positioned on the bridge for NAIDOC week and will remain there while the state flag will be placed at a new location on Macquarie Street.
The decision comes after advice to Premier Dominic Perrottet revealed that the cost of putting a new flag on the bridge would be $25m.
The exorbitant price tag was due to structural issues that required three six-storey flag poles to be created for the bridge.
More to come.
Daily Tele – with comments open. How long before they’re cancelled?
The running of this country has precious little to do with we, the people, Neil Oliver says
I think we need to see how population growth can be calculated. I see what you’re getting at but I’m not sure it matters, probably only marginal.
I’m going to guess, No, because the increase in avg. lifespans is only marginally increasing so you probably have the riggle room of a .01 or something that would be compensated by whatever increase in lifespan is doing to maintain to population size.
Assuming everyone stays productive forever, then yes.
If everyone retires at a set age, no you need replacements.
Same Calli. Husband had mild dose of Covid – but I continued to test negative. I put it down not only to lots of vitamins & supplements, exercise etc – but to new nasal spray from Germany “First Defence” . Used it in morning & night when he was covid positive for about 6 days in total. Also Betadine gargle.
I attribute my resistance to travelling around bug infested Europe for two months.
Will be interesting to see how we go in the next week re “getting it”.
All offspring gathering here yesterday/last night with no2 son announcing he has it.
Going to get some test kits and check progress for a week.
Protected by the Klaus Nasti Pass I might add.
I have decided to surrender my Grandad Endorsement.
Just had the four Grandsons and their Dad (my son) on board for ten days.
I prepared exhaustively and expensively.
They wouldn’t eat anything offered (but Mum says). From 4pm to 8pm was total kid time – stop fighting, endless bath, dinner involving Father running around asking the scroates what they would prefer to what was offered, a library whilting series of book readings. Post bed, the oldest emerging an announcing that his running coach said that what was offered would ruin his PB times. His coach was obviously absent at the surf club nexy day when he filled up with fish and chips.
Hard for me to say, but the Pommy grand kids whose parents are not big dicks in the health industry are much more based.
Son was a touch crinkly lipped when his Mother reminded him that in our house he ate with us and he ate what was offered – nothing else.
What an absolute farce.
Nazi Pug – The Final Update
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89nzxZpNb4E
Massive explosion at a Natural Gas plant in Oklahoma
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Friend up here in the ‘ville with 2 children climbing the walls. Half way through his 8 day iso, yup it is 8 not 7 as day 0 is day you are tested apparently. Last weekend we had a 4 day wet and cold snap, like Melbourne standard 10-15 deg days. One of his kids got it somewhere before cold snap and being school hols they are miffed where.
Staggered across the 4, Child 1 came down first, nearly a teen it was very mild and she shrugged it off, then mum got it knocked her sideways for 48hrs, then youngest he was mildly sick for 48 hrs as well. Friend started to notice symptoms Tuesday, Wednesday he was coughing & sore throat. His place of employment still big on the tests so when he reported a cold they insisted on PCR. That came back positive. His words, I’ve had worse hangovers than this and I have to burn sick leave for it.
Hope your experience isn’t too bad.
I have an honorary Great Uncle endorsement. Best of both worlds.
Translated – NSW always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
That’s one state down. Now for the rest.
“It were always raining on Denley-Moore”. The Testing of Eric Oulthwaite.
Given up on House of Cards (US). Now into Ripping Yarns – just starting episode 2.
Chortling already.
Boeing wants safety waiver for latest 737 MAX
The usual deal with certification is that the manufacturer tells the regulator that they are going to develop a new aircraft. At that time the existing regulations are what you certify to. If the regulations change you are grandfathered to what existed when you started the project.
Applying new regs to a design well on the way is not on. Think about the investment implications if that’s not so. Trust politicians to screw it up. If you want to change the certification basis after a certain date it should only apply to new designs *started* AFTER that date.
The MAX 10 is designed so that existing crews can operate it. Change the EICAS and you’ll likely need a new type rating. Could be the end of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
There was nothing wrong with the MAX anyway, just the monkeys flying them. Trim doing odd things? Turn it off. Memory item and the switches are right there at the back of the console. Alternatively just grab the big 10 inch diameter wheel next to your knee and hold it steady. Monkeys.
Anyhoo.
Enough about Eric for now.
I bought a new shovel today.
Spear & Jackson number 8.
Brass ferrules.
Lovely piece of work.
So why did US pilot unions refuse to fly it after the second prang?
Are they monkeys too?
No.
Boeing pulled one too many swift moves in pushing the Max through.
They are now reaping that whirlwind.
As for a new type certification breaking them?
I doubt it.
Just watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7MQb9Y4FAE
Tim Dodd The Everyday Astronaut talking with Elon Musk at Starbase Texas about the Raptor 2 rocket engine. Gets right into details. You wouldn’t want to be a SpaceX engineer and try to bullshit the boss about engineering detail.
The SpaceX secret – build lots of stuff and blow it up in testing. Quick progress and there’s lots more hardware coming right along. This is an old aerospace paradigm that has been rediscovered and put into practice again. What fun! Needs to be applied to other areas of human endeavour.
If Boeing gets crucified, let’s not forget that they milled the timber for the cross, they forged the nails and they went down to Bunnings and bought the mallet.
They only have themselves to blame.
As for a new type certification breaking them?
I doubt it.
The big attraction of the MAX was common pilot type rating. Change that and you aren’t going to sell nearly as many aircraft. I’m sure glad I don’t own Boeing shares.
If you’re looking for something to watch Mare of Easttown is very good.
So why did US pilot unions refuse to fly it after the second prang?
You got a link for that. The type was grounded for two years after the second crash, and yes, US pilots had had the MCAS fail and easily dealt with it.
RD,
Thanks for that.
Two offspring jabbed (work imposed), infected son is non jabbed and feels fine.
Taiwan: Birth Rate CRATERED -27.66% in June 2022!!!
Dot, that Count Dankula video is incredible.
Shows why most decent Scots for the last couple hundred years have gotten out of the place.
The party that games the system the most is the state.
Yep.
It was all about training costs for airlines. So they removed any reference to their dodgy MCAS system from manuals, including what to do if it took you for a porpoise ride just after take-off.
Corner cutting which cost 346 lives.
Err, they’ll have a bigger problem selling any of these cobbled together shitboxes if it is perceived that they have bullied there way through re-certification.
For the first time in decades, passengers will be actively searching booking websites to avoid going Boeing.
Seriously, this was a sixty year old design which was good in it’s day, but has run out of upgrade pathways.
#metoo.
A good manufacturer which has lost it’s way.
I have decided to surrender my Grandad Endorsement.
Just had the four Grandsons and their Dad (my son) on board for ten days.
I take the easy, been-there-dun-that, way out when I have any of the Grandee herd stay over .. ask ’em what they want .. invariably it’s take-away of some sort or another but I figure the expense, for a few days’ is better odds than cooking/preparing and eating most of it myself over several days after they’ve gone .. after having had to buy what they wanted anyway! .. and bed-times .. just let ’em wear themselves out then tell family they were as good-as-gold and did everything they were told …!
Grandad is a pushover and don’t they know it .. LOL!
Seems that, in the buildup to “A Voice” the claim that the Aborigines are descended from the third of three waves that crossed the – now flooded- land bridge from Asia in not true – the scientific evidence is that the Aboriginals were the “First Peoples” from 65,000 years ago.
I doubt that George V was his father as George was around 50 years old when Sydney Orr was born. Age doesn’t rule out George, but I’d doubt that any man would attempt a bit-on-the-side with a fearsome spouse like Queen Mary.
Sydney Orr was very confused about his parentage, but he appears to have been very confused about a whole lot of things.
Eyrie
Where’s Uncle Fester?
Good plan.
F-14 Tomcat pilot Dale Snodgrass interview. The FAA recently released the report into his fatal accident in his light aircraft. Appears that he didn’t remove the flight controls lock and check for free movement of controls. You only get to make some mistakes once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC_zyoOacl8
I quoted a Tweet about this earlier. Didn’t know then the elderly gentleman was black. Seven black teens, male and female, decided to have some fun by beating a 73- year old black man with a traffic cone. He fell and hit his head. They left him for dead and just continued and footage shows them having a merry time.
Pygmies?
You don’t need to find skeletal remains when you have fucking photos:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/12/the-enigma-of-the-australian-pygmies/
No kiddie visitors allowed at Casa Pedro. The resident hound earns his keep by throwing aggro gang signs at visitors consisting of rolled up lips, rumbling snarls, mad looking eye rolls and high speed bolting under the house if the visitor gets within rock throwing range.
Second line of defence is to open the gate for the attack Dorpers.
Peace and quiet reigns.
for the attack Dorpers.
Spielberg was going to do a sheep based thriller before he went with Jaws.
True story.
The exorbitant price tag was due to structural issues that required three six-storey flag poles to be created for the bridge.
How about we make them 6 inches and stick them on with liquid nails?
Why are Australian politicians so fucking shit?
Has anyone watched Outer Range?
Experienced and highly skilled pilots don’t need checklists.
Apparently this was the mantra of Max Quartermain.
Max speared his King Air into Essendon DFO in 2017, killing himself and four passengers, after taking off with the rudder trim set hard left. There were five (5) separate checklist points where the pilot has the opportunity to verify that trims are neutral (or set for take off).
I was always taught to exercise the controls fully in all directions twice as part of pre-flight, and check the control surfaces during the walk around.
The tiniest thing could foul and obstruct them.
I still remember that Air Crash Investigation episode where some tiny insects built a mud nest inside a pitot tube inlet.
Splat.
That’s an issue that’s ignored with a ruthless detachment.
I know right.
The plotline just needs to include exposure of the sheeps to radiation or other mad perfesser stuff. The sheeps then grow to five times their regular size and develop a bad attitude.
X-files visits the Dutton Ranch.
Most series I abandon the couch after the the Woke-Point is reached.
This one, watched em all.
Better than expected
Could go somewhere. We’ll see
Sancho… I give you Black Sheep https://www.imdb.com/video/vi177473049/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Factcheck – true: Many years ago my wife’s car dealer nephew refused to sell me the V8 Disco on the lot because I was family. He sold me an 80 series Cruiser instead. I have owned a total of 5 Landcruisers since then.
Jawpers?
Top Endersays:
July 10, 2022 at 7:04 pm
The Aboriginal flag will fly permanently on the Harbour Bridge in place of the NSW flag as the government cans its earlier promise to spend $25m on a new flag at the iconic site.
The Aboriginal flag has been positioned on the bridge for NAIDOC week and will remain there while the state flag will be placed at a new location on Macquarie Street.
The decision comes after advice to Premier Dominic Perrottet revealed that the cost of putting a new flag on the bridge would be $25m.
This soft-cock not only deserves to lose the next election but his seat as well. Every fucking conservative leader in the world other than Trump, DeSantis and maybe Latham always cucks it. Always.
In its own insidious way, this 3rd nations shit is just as destructive as alarmism, designed only to end Western values.
The kiwi schlock horror flick Blacksheep was pretty good, and culturally accurate, right down to the love scene.
WTF?
Ut’s bin done already, eh?
er…. that’s a very large drop
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
July 10, 2022 at 9:48 pm
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/12/the-enigma-of-the-australian-pygmies/
That’s an issue that’s ignored with a ruthless detachment.
I find Birdsell and Tindale’s work foundational. Confirmed as it is, at least in part, by this:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312577659_Humans_rather_than_climate_the_primary_cause_of_Pleistocene_megafaunal_extinction_in_Australia
The Ted Rule article appears to support this in a rather diffuse way, but then he goes all fairy floss:
Old-style racist thinking has had a beating but it is hardly dead. Scratch the surface and you can see some unstated assumptions: history is the story of progression towards the light, presumably whatever orthodoxy rules at the present; there are advanced societies and primitive societies and the primitive societies are not capable of doing the things that advanced societies are; technology advances, never retreats.
My problem with this is that, from what we can see, humanity and its capabilities haven’t changed much in the 100,000-odd years of Homo sapiens. If I can do it, it’s a fair bet that my 500-generation ancestor could do it given the chance.
This is nothing more than Pascoe bullshit with a hearty dollop of Gammage pomposity thrown in. I’ll stick with Birdsell and Tindale and the Mega Fauna lads. The 3rd nations great achievements were extinguishing the big animals, burning the place down and fighting and fucking with each other.
Tucker: What about the sheep?
Angus Oldfield: Fuck the sheep!
Tucker: No time for that bro. Go go go!
Experience : I thought you of all people would appreciate efforts to deconstruct the colonialist paternalistic agrarian hierarchy that disenfranchises the Tangata Whenua and erodes the natural resources of Aotearoa.
I’m expecting to read of ‘monkey pox’ found in sheep…type in ‘country of your choice’….
Pete ‘o Perf.
I just watched the trailer in full.
“The Violence of The Lambs”.
Noice.
The biggest problem with Gammage is that he is taken seriously.
In the same way as Bruce Pascoe?
About to run an update now. Will report back when it’s done.
What?
I think all the hamsters are dead.
Ding Dong. The hamsters are dead.
Bing Bong is so yesterday.
Glad you guys are here. I’m backing up before updating and apparently the more visitors the quicker the backing up goes.
I’m looking at you Sancho.
No more “bing bongs”. It’s “ding dongs” from now on.
#newworldorder……rehashed to be inclusive of the resident witches.
Like a space shuttle re-entry.
It goes quiet, and you hope it comes online again.
One would hope the hamsters haven’t ‘penetrated ze cabinets’.
Bing-Bongs still rule!!!
One sets to each batter at Wimpleton.
Give the hamsters a quick zap up the bum with a cattle prod, Dover.
Can’t hurt.
Bullshit Sancho.
The true test of a first date is to throw a bucket of water on her, not to see if she makes a “bing bong” noise when she enters the bottle shop to buy you a box of beer.
Oh wait. I stand corrected.
“Bing Bong” rules. My apologies.
I think I’m just going to let it backup overnight.
Take note, Tom, when doing the toons.
I really can’t understand why Republicans don’t show up at Karmarla Harris pressers/speeches carrying water buckets.
Non violent protest.
Ditto Biden, with an array of paraphernalia.
At the very least, witty journalists could start using the words “crack” in every single question to both him and his press secretary.
For example ……“Mr President, how do you intend to “crack” the problem of XYZ in our country”? Subtlety is everything. You could make it a competition.
“Taking the piss” is the most effective weapon against the left.
Exhibit A “Let’s Go Brandon”. But much more nuanced.
Bing-Bong!
Your software upgrade is complete.
Drive smoothly during the running in period.
Bing-Bong!
That went well.
I was in withdrawal.
From the “Hun.”
if you were looking for perfect image to exemplify the current zeitgeist
you could do a lot worse than this
TRUMP WON MARICOPA COUNTY WITH 59 PERCENT OF VOTE, ACCORDING TO A BALLOT ANALYSIS
Dillo you’ve been very quiet recently, hope everything is ok. I know you weren’t run down by a model A.
Back up. Offending plugin is now being walked to the pyre.
With Second Gas Explosion in Three Days, Are We Under Attack?
I’d say yes – both food and energy being destroyed before our eyes.
Air…hellair.
The Borg has rebooted. Praised be The Borg!
Exclusive Investigation of Confidential Pfizer Documents finds COVID Vaccination is going to cause Mass Depopulation
No, backup and update still need to be done. It was a clean-up of plugins that caused the interruption.
Documents reveal Dutch Government is working with World Economic Forum to implement ‘The Great Reset’
The uniparty
Liz Cheney Funded by Obama, Hillary Donors in GOP Primary
Hopefully the Bonhomie and Fellowship plug-in is working 5/5.
Always meant to ask Dillo, with the US election how come, with most of the money on Trump the thief in chief odds weren’t much higher. I thought Trump would win but waited for the sniffers odds to peak, which they never did.
Here, Dover. Have one of mine.
TheAJRobertsShow
@AJRobertsShow
Do you remember when you were called a #conspiracytheorist for saying peoples #DNA would be altered……
Well done, Doverlord! Many thanks.
Toons resume tomorrow at 0400. In the meantime, today’s Johannes Leak.
… and let that be a lesson to you.
Further to yesteray’s Boeing 737 MAX10 discussion, the issue is that new aircraft certified after December 2022 must have EICAS.
Here’s what that means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine-indicating_and_crew-alerting_system
So a simple amber light telling you something is out of whack so you scan to check, is replaced by software driven messages on the engine displays. Can’t see how this is so vital given the huge number of Boeing 737’s of all vintages that have flown for decades with excellent safety records.
The 737 MAX 10 was launched in 2017, before this requirement was dreamed up and this requirement has nothing to do with the MCAS.
…lot.
Missed a bit.
Must be time for a booster.
Plug ins. Back ups. Pfft.
That was Big Tech and Jessica Mauboy censoring me, because I am dangerous and shine a light into tunnels everywhere.
Dang…I was getting so much work done this morning.
Needs a lot of oil, that one.
Good morning, traitors.
Please place all vaxxies in the bins provided.
Bing bong.
The Exposé has produced a bumper edition:
Exclusive Investigation of Confidential Pfizer Documents finds COVID Vaccination is going to cause Mass Depopulation
These ABSOLUTE TRUTHS have been covered up by the UK Government – who PRETEND that the data shows no statistical difference in outcomes between jabbed and unjabbed mothers. Off a ridiculously small and unrepresentative sample of 600,000 women.
And Boris Johnson was forced to resign.
Hmmm? Makes you think.
Holly Rainbow Serpent…anyone see this on carsales.com?
” But considering the state of Australia’s used car market – and a $260,000 asking price – it’s easy to understand why the seller is keen to shore up the financing.
The near-mint condition 2019 Landcruiser 79 series GXL Manual 4×4 up on carsales.com.au on Thursday afternoon has a fridge and coffee machine and is pretty much kitted out to live in.’
Sheeeit are those claims real or are you pulling our legs?
Car Sales…2019 Toyota Landcruiser GXL Manual 4×4
$259,900*
Excl. Govt. Charges
15,354 km
Cab Chassis
Manual
8cyl 4.5L Turbo Diesel
View Car History
Private Seller Car
QLD
$260,000?
Good Lord, I have the exact same thing: except it’s very far from mint condition and doesn’t have a coffee machine. Also it is fairly uncomfortable to live in/on.
But it does have air-lockers, so there’s that.
That seems to be fixed.
It looks like the Bonhomie and Good Humour plug-ins were being accessed through the Fuck You Are Spastics portal, which was tripping the circuit breakers in the Central Sense of Humour module.
m0ntysays:
July 11, 2022 at 10:40 am
… and let that be a lesson to you.
And what exactly is the lesson? Close down your blog when you are criticised by commenters? That you couldn’t even win a debate with Steve from Brissy and Homer P, therefore no-one else should have a blog? Enquiring minds …
Meme.
https://substack.com/redirect/e77f9077-3721-4e8a-942d-4e14b8c4fee4?u=29685295
Just a bit of coding, eh?
Should be pretty easy to get done in five months, right?
Even allowing for the fact that you have B-grade software engineers on the job.
So why is the Boeing CEO having a footstamping hissy-fit and threatening to take his bat and ball and go home?
What would that have sold for new?
There is a season….
Turn, turn, turn…