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Arky, Magpies adore having a shower under the sprinkler. Much fun to be had and better than tv.
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You seem to like fentanyl smuggling Monty. Why is that?
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There were two tests.
A “culture fair” test of shapes & patterns.
The other was an English language test.
The test of shapes, patterns & so on was rather simple & straightforward.
The English language test, not so simple.
Correct.
Since the advent o fliberal thoeries of crime and punishment, we’ve long since lost sight of the satisfaction of justice (in layman’s terms, the punishment must fit the crime) as the principal purpose of the justice system.
Well I never thought I’d see the day I’d be quoting Gandalf…
There was a case in Western Australia where an individual was convicted of murder, and sentenced to hang. He was reprieved, and the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Released on parole, he went on to commit another murder…….
Hemp was also used to make the original US jeans, if memory serves.
“Since the advent o fliberal thoeries of crime and punishment, we’ve long since lost sight of the satisfaction of justice (in layman’s terms, the punishment must fit the crime) as the principal purpose of the justice system.”
Yep.
Yes ZKTA, that was true.
Also true was Andrew Mallard convicted or murder and years in prison for it.
Only to be later quashed in the HC.
RIP.
Lysander, there are things that walk among us that are less than human. Some would destroy you without a thought. Others would casually destroy all of civilised society with not a trace of regret or remorse. You may never have met anyone like this, but they exist.
Throwing away any sense of justice for what they deserve so you can feel virtuous is extremely foolish.
Moderated comment amended…let’s see if this gets through…
Arky has a point about libertarians. The average libertarian does seem more likely to have a proclivity towards devi@nt behaviour (particularly of the type that involves min0r victims) than the average non-libertarian.
These types seem to have no filter when it comes to their creepy interest in kids. Recall the AZ Senate candidate debate – the most memorable moment was when the Libertarian candidate declared that the age of cons3nt was an example of an issue that was suited to being put to the public in the form of a referendum. That was the first thing that sprung to his mind. Fuxxing weirdo. Still, was anyone remotely surprised that it was the Libertarian coming out with this?
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You don’t really mean that, I think.
Otherwise all police and armed forces would have to hand in their weapons. And I’m not sure what we would do next time a fanatic started running people down in Bourke street.
What I think you mean is they don’t have the right to do so in cold blood at the end of a judicial process.
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No, I don’t think they have more of that proclivity.
I think they have a greater tendency to be indifferent to it because most of them live lives that doesn’t bring them into contact with the human detritus thus produced.
I’ll see your Gandalf off with Moses…
“Whoever sheds man’s blood [unlawfully], by man (judicial government) shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God He made man.”
Genesis 9:6
DrB
I don’t doubt that for a second.
But (as little as my opinion counts toward anything like this) you’re just not going to get my tacit approval to take away a person’s life. I believe in a soul and an eternal judgement and I also believe (unpopularly) that forgiveness and redemption exist – even if that means you spend your entire life in prison.
Hey, it’s not a popularity contest going on here! 🙂
Panadol, ibuprofen and asprin if my observation of the Coles painkiller section this morning is relevant. It was looking decidedly stripped. (I was there to buy toothpaste, but the empty shelves caught my eye.)
Been a few articles about shortages of these pharmaceuticals recently. Not sure why it’s occurring.
“Meat Canyon” rips Andrew Tate.
https://youtu.be/VhgLyvP0Y5A
Brutal and somewhat disgusting.
Not a libertarian but this has surpassed monty’s dumb comments of the last few day probably the last decade.
A school acquaintance of mine survived an encounter with a serial killer when she was a young girl. I saw her on TV a few years back where she made the claim to be an activist urging for the reintroduction of the death penalty. Not sure if she was for real or not but it was well played either way.
The main practical problem with executing people is having faith in the legal system.
Yes Arky,
you put it better than I!
I’m not going to enter into a bible quoting contest Roger! I’m a Catholic… not a farking Protestant lol! 😛
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It is precisely in cold blood at the end of a judicial process that I want to see murderers hanged. Impaling one myself would have its satisfaction, but I’d be worried that I’d let the rape/ murder get to my emotions.
It is. How much “faith” would you have in, say, Victorian Police holding you for some crime against children? I think the check of a High Court helps because it is currently in a fairly good state (but this hasn’t always been the case and may not always be).
“You can imagine the kind of insufferable pseudo-intellectual pedantic dickheads that do.”
It is the same as the gay marriage thing. At least this way there will be a centralised register of names and addresses so that one day in the future, when we find a cure, we can round them all up easily.
Daigu. It’s profitable.
Sure! DrBG.
johannasays:
January 3, 2023 at 6:37 pm
Fitzroy Falls. Beautiful part of the world.
(calli)
Indeed it is. There is a belt of rainforest through southern NSW, starting in the Royal National Park, that is absolutely beautiful.
Try Sir Bertram Stevens Drive where you drive through a grotto of ferns and mosses and lichens. Gorgeous.
Also the last bit of the King’s Highway, between the bottom of Clyde Mountain and Bareman’s Bay.
It reads like a work of fiction, doesn’t it?
Why?
Perhaps my opposition to capital punishment is one of the last remaining moronic vestiges from my time as a raving Trotskyist (but am pretty sure he was into public hangin’s)?
Either way, have a good night.
And if you’ve never seen this, it’s great – a law professor who is a Defence lawyer explaining why you should, under NO circumstances at all, EVER talk to the police (he really is, amazing!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&t=1000s
I love his line: “They say ‘anything you say may be used against you’ for a reason!!!”
I consider the perpetrator I have in mind. The one never to be released. No remorse, no contrition.
Every morning he wakes up, goes about his prison routine…another day, just like the one before. He drags his useless carcass through the hours. No hope, no reprieve, just existence. Lights out. Rinse and repeat.
One day he will draw his final breath, unlamented, and be buried in a prison grave.
I am content.
To be clear here.
We aren’t talking about capital punishment as retribution or punishment, or questions of whether the punishment should fit the crime.
Bobbie Sewell raised the proposition of randomly selecting one in ten of recidivist criminals for execution as a deterrent to others, irrespective of crimes committed.
So, theoretically, we could have someone with two convictions for car theft pooled with, say, the Skaf brothers, the Anita Cobby murderers and other assorted serious crooks.
The car thief gets the noose and the others not.
Time for the hall of mirrors, Bobby.
True, and I’m not big on faith in anything, but particularly not government. On the other hand, you have to do the best with what you’ve got. It’s an imperfect world, we try to make it a little better.
The occasional blunder has to be balanced against the risk of letting monsters walk free.
“But (as little as my opinion counts toward anything like this) you’re just not going to get my tacit approval to take away a person’s life. I believe in a soul and an eternal judgement and I also believe (unpopularly) that forgiveness and redemption exist – even if that means you spend your entire life in prison.”
What about war?
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Oh come onsays:
January 3, 2023 at 6:57 pm
Dunno what it was like in the past, but today Mensa membership is a highly predictive intelligence test. If you’re a Mensa member, you’re stupid.
The difference between being intelligent and being smart. Intelligent people know that a tomato is a fruit. Smart people know that you don’t put tomato in fruit salad. Mensa people love tomato in their fruit salad.
This doesn’t make any sense, it is an angry rant looking for a target.
I don’t follow how having the age of consent up to referenda is “creepy”.
If you believe in the wisdom of crowds, you get the right answer.
If it is the wrong answer, the population of the state is perverted.
“Libertarians are never victims of crimes and grew up in safety”
Of course that is nonsense, but it is amazing what good parents and a right to (or a conviction that we have such a right) self defence does.*
Actual convicted perverts in US politics for example are John Wayne Gacy (D) and Dennis Hastert (R).
*Technically I have been assaulted and sexually assaulted many times, but I have had property crimes committed against myself. I personally know three people who have been falsely accused of abuse or intimate assault. Who knew justice offences were so common?
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An alternative possibility:
Every morning he wakes up, plays mind games with his guards, enjoys breakfast, either roots his prison boyfriend or alternatively assaults someone inside younger and weaker than him, and goes to bed to sleep soundly reliving the joy he gained from the crimes he committed, free to replay them in his head any time he wants to.
Not claiming any especial insight into how Mensa operates, but the above requires that the people who attained status the old fashioned way (being really smart) have been pushed out of the frame by a new tick-a-box class.
Absolutely it can happen (anyone seen a Liberal party member who cares about freedom of late?) but it is not a given.
Did something happen? Were they always skewed politically so the same people under the old definition of ‘Mensa material’ were covered by the new one? Was it flawed already (e.g. estimating people believing in solutions from above such as statists would cleave to as being smart while those trusting the wisdom of the the chaos of millions of individual choices as dumb)?
At one point they were really smart, yeh? How did the change (if there was one) happen?
Honest question.
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Arguably that has always happened and is still happening.
As soon as the population knows it happens then the deterrence effect goes and the worst criminals thrive in safety.
That old saw, better that nine guilty men go free than one innocent man go to jail. An algorithm that guarantees nine victims get no justice and one victim gets false justice.
The best take I ever heard was “avoid the criminal justice system, there’s no winners in there”.
Lysandersays:
January 3, 2023 at 7:03 pm
I don’t believe the State has the right to end or facilitate the death of any living (or unborn) person’s life. Period.
And those that invoke the bible to justify it do so selectively.
Indeed. The full quote is “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Vengeance is mine. I shall repay, thus saith the Lord“.
The last four words tend to be omitted.
should be: rather than one victim gets false justice.
…and one innocent man gets killed or falsely tried.
What does he owe to the nine victims?
Boambee
It’s like the kids who watch the first half of Pulp Fiction, but never watch how it ends.
“I’m trying real hard, Jules”
It’s deja vue all over again
– yogi berra
I reckon Luigi is just hoping Kevin will keep the FM too busy to start trying to hog the limelight.
“avoid the criminal justice system, there’s no winners in there””
Yeah, just ask Bruce Lehmann.
Last time I checked the Bible was still an inspired authority for Catholics, Lys, Pope Franics notwithstanding. 😀
But it’s not a matter of quoting verses, but noting what the verse says.
Moses, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is establishing a principle of justice and grounding it in theological terms.
That’s not to say mercy can’t be applied by the civil authorites tasked by God with meting out justice, but that it would be just that – mercy.
To be clear, I am doing so.
I upscrolled looking for context but don’t have the time atm as we have visitors.
The plot thickens
In case you don’t know who he is.
Always a possibility, Arky. We can’t cover all the bases.
It is pretty funny how often cloud seeding gets called pseudoscience.
https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/CS_Flyer_2011_web.pdf
Their study showed a 14% increase in snowfall.
The two year old heads straight to wood pile. Luckily the snakes disappeared days ago since the Mil arrived.
Killing these people doesn’t give them what they deserve. In fact, it is impossible to give them what they deserve. They would either be dead before the job was done AND/OR they lack the capacity to suffer in the way they caused others to suffer. For this reason, attempting giving monsters what they deserve is a futile exercise that should not be a part of the criminal justice system.
I don’t trust the State with the power to execute criminals. It is ripe for abuse. At least if someone is fitted up by the system and thrown in the clink for life, they will be able to seek justice once the corrupt institution that put them in prison has passed or been discredited. Kinda hard to do that if you’re six feet under.
Of course, the vast majority of people who would hang but for the fact it’s illegal are not these types of people. Apart from not killing them, I’m not tremendously concerned about what happens to them. I would even support a ‘dead man walking’-type sentence in which they’re not executed but are provided with the bare minimum to ensure they don’t die and are simply waiting around to die. They have habeas corpus rights (if they do indeed turn out to be one of the above prisoners) but that’s it. Zero contact with the outside world. Make it as difficult as possible for them to harm another human being. The primary aim should be to protect the rest of society – including other criminals – from them. If that means sticking them shackled and in a padded cell for the rest of their lives and feeding them through a slot in the door, fine. If a separate prison needs to be built to house this kind of person, okay – let’s build one.
I concede that capital punishment is necessary in societies that lack the resources to ensure this kind of criminal is permanently prevented from further harming society. I don’t actually have a moral issue with CP; my primary concern is that it can be used by the State to bump off its dissident members. I think an element of a ‘dead man walking’-type sentence should be summary execution of all prisoners serving this sentence in certain extraordinary circumstances – a ‘nuclear option’ that can only be exercised if the prison facility (or society at large) is about to be overrun or is facing collapse. It may transpire that such a measure would be impossible to implement reliably, but it’s something that should be investigated.
Ah, I was waiting for the “but they’re allowed to” line.
That’s probably what one or both of pilots said.
A helipad which might have half a dozen movements a day is vastly different to the Gold Coast one having lots of potential conflict.
There used to be a concept in fixed wing flying called an “all over field” or somesuch where pilots could basically land or take off in any direction. For some reason that sort of laissez fairre approach has fallen from favour.
The point is that four people have died (likely to rise) because people were “allowed to take off and land in conflict”.
Let’s see if the tin-kickers give them the thumbs up.
How many of them were also Scientologists?
Oh?
Let’s go to the tape.
That’s awkward.
John H, the NIH and all who work within has been totally corrupted with $$$$$$$$$$ from China and big pharma. They start out with 44 cases and then admit they were mostly unwell from other things and ever decreasing percentages supposedly have SARS Cov2 in other organs and son on. But yeah, “long Convid”. Nothing they publish can be treated with anything but scepticism.
I don’t think these kind of people ever joined Mensa, to be honest. There are plenty of ways that very intelligent people can and do connect on the basis of them being very intelligent – they don’t need to join a club for very intelligent people for this purpose. That is something a not-very-intelligent person who wants to appear very intelligent to others would do. And behold! – you have your typical Mensa member.
I don’t trust the state, full stop. But I can’t stop it imprisoning me for general dissidence if it decides to, and we seem to be headed in that direction. While it still has a faint smack of credibility, I’d like a judicial system which can at least take down the worst of the monsters. Little girls would be safer.
Did you watch the debate in question? If you did, you’d understand why it was creepy. Out of all of the things one could raise as an example of a policy setting that ought to be subject to a referendum, why proffer the age of consent? It was weird. And yes, creepy. And so, so typical of a Libertarian candidate.
Again, lots of good libertarians and Libertarians out there who I’d happily break bread with. But there is that openly creepy fringe…
And so, so typical of a Libertarian candidate.
Strawman alert.
There used to be a concept in fixed wing flying called an “all over field” or somesuch where pilots could basically land or take off in any direction.
There were rules for all over fields. They were expected to takeoff and land directly into wind. Taxi around the boundary to get to takeoff position. Turn left when landing run finished. Land to the right of another aircraft that just landed. It wasn’t actually a free for all.
As aircraft got heavier they needed prepared runways, not just grass. An all over concrete field would be vastly expensive so runways were invented along with nuisances such as cross wind takeoffs and landings.
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There is a distinction between scepticism and cynicism. Long COVID reports don’t surprise me and I suspect both malingering and nocebo to be in those numbers but that doesn’t mean long COVID isn’t a thing because it has obvious antecedents.
Hyperbole much? “Totally corrupted”. What are we do then do? See a naturopath? Refuse all prescription drugs? I’m big on that. The only drug I take is baclofen. It is used to treat muscle spasms but I stumbled upon an unusual benefit from the drug. It’s cheap and works a treat. However, only a fool would refuse some of the benefits of modern medicine, of which so many have been subject to FDA approval.
Fare enough
The reality is, if you are rich, you will not face the same legal system as a poor person will.
Meaning some murderers are more equal than others.
I suggest this inequity is addressed before contemplating re-introducing capital punishment.
You shouldn’t say “roots”. It’s a rude word. Nearly as bad as phux. You should say ” makes love to.”
When the surviving Gold Coast helo pilot is interviewed by the ATSB as to why the two aircraft ended up in conflict during respective landing and take-off phases, I do hope he has a better answer than “It’s a helipad, dude.”
However, only a fool would refuse some of the benefits of modern medicine, of which so many have been subject to FDA approval.
Today I learned that NARCAN (whatever it’s original name was) was discovered in the 1960’s.
Makes you wonder how a response to opioids was available well before there was an opioid epidemic.
I reckon we can get there without hanging the monsters. It should be assumed that agents of the State will, sooner or later, seek to deal with the kinds of people who threaten the positions of these agents of the State in the way we would want the State to deal with the kinds of people you’re talking about.
This is just snide and unnecessary.
A good reason is powerful people are connected to Epstein and so on and are more sympathetic to fringe groups. The UK government in 1977 and 1981 funded “PIE” through the NCCL. Legislatures are also liable to rubber stamp legislation written for them.
You’re actually totally wrong about the practical reality of this, the fringe groups have no chance of infiltrating the entire electorate.
Like lowering the voting age. Obviously if they can vote it is OK to diddle them too.
Yes Frank, now explain how the entire electorate is going to approve of sicko stuff unless it is 50% + 1 electors full of sickos.
feelthebernsays:
January 3, 2023 at 8:22 pm
However, only a fool would refuse some of the benefits of modern medicine, of which so many have been subject to FDA approval.
Today I learned that NARCAN (whatever it’s original name was) was discovered in the 1960’s.
Makes you wonder how a response to opioids was available well before there was an opioid epidemic.
If you’re a wealthy person in the US, the raping of children is protected by the state.
Maxwell’s black book should be a public document but the DOJ has ensured it will never see the light of day.
Did you watch the debate I mentioned? I’m sure you can find the part where he dropped the line about the age of consent. It was a true wtf moment.
The Libertarian Party has a lot of problems and has been this way for decades. The Mises Caucus takeover is long overdue and will hopefully drive out the creeps and weirdos.
Fixed wing.
Number of fixed wing aircraft involved in the SeaWorld helicopter collision: Zero.
Not sure that is how it works. Everything is expressed in terms of tolerance, diversity and anti bigotry and any deviance from the company line is ruthlessly chased down. That is from the top. You don’t need to have a nation of sick bastards to get it, just a nation of polite well meaning people as well as a lot of cowards. SSM (regardless of the rights or wrongs of that issue) was the template for how it gets done.
Yeah, John H, it’s all on the level
John Lyons scoop re Assange being returned to Australia should be taken with a grain of salt.
Keep in mind that Lyons was the fellow who broke the story that Tony Abbott wanted Australia to unilaterally intervene in Syria even though he’d previously made his “baddies v baddies” comments.
Pretty sure a landing aircraft has right of way.
What happened I would hazard to guess is neither saw the other.
Like the old Nazis, the New Nazis, including British MPs in all parties, are guilty of supporting essentially a eugenics agenda.
The point about “all over fields” is that eventually they disappeared for a number of reasons. Yes, they were not a total free-for-all but the potential for confusion and traffic conflict was greater.
The point is that a helipad might be considered a bit like that. Approach and depart in any direction depending on conditions. But the onus is still on pilots to ensure situational awareness and separation. These guys were from the same company flying the same routine in and out of a busy pad, so how hard would it be to set up a simple pattern to reduce conflict (depending on wind conditions)?
Something like (lets say tour area is North East of the helipad) … “returning traffic overfly X (directly North of pad) and land to the South. Departing traffic take off to the South, climb to 500′ then turn left and fly to viewing area”.
Simples.
Why didn’t it happen?
Because the departure procedure steals 2-3 minutes from the viewing time at the sight-seeing location.
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Dr @ 8:18.
Or drills for vegemite.
And if Assange is returned to Australia, why can’t he get on a plane to wherever he wants to again (visa dependent of course).
Used as an illustration.
An example to explain it to people who say, despite the deaths of four people, “but they were allowed to”.
If you can’t trust direct democracy or representative democracy, your options are limited to sortition or anarchy.
Good to see we are moving in the right direction.
Out, out! with all of the Libertarian Party creeps and weirdos! Their arguments about the morality of child prostitution to alleviate poverty are not welcome.
We will always have a legal system, we have the same problem re questions of guilt or innocence. There is no way you can set aside these problems. You just have to face them.
Naloxone Hydrochloride, it was common use even in the 1980’s for heroin overdoses.
Who has said that?
There’s nothing so amusing as a fixed wing jock pretending they know about helicopter stuff.
Many here have expressed the view that they don’t trust the State. Covid and the response on many levels has reinforced that. I agree. I trust the State as far as I could kick it.
Yet some are keen to trust the State with execution of felons. I don’t know what to make of it.
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What if you execute a giant black man who can cure cancer by sucking swarms of black fly things out of the afflicted?
Straw man Ted. I just posted the Purdue\Sackler disgrace that was approved by the FDA. I’ve read many studies on the corruption problem in biomedicine. P hacking, bottom file drawer, positive sample selection, small Ns, etc. What you reference has been known for decades and it is far worse than that video entails because the biggest problem is the way Big Pharma persuades doctors to use the treatments. That they are remunerated does not allow for such sweeping generalizations that permits you to dismiss anything from modern medicine as being bad. We need to specifically associate the corruption with the relevant treatment. If we don’t do that we end up being like naturopaths who use exactly the same arguments as you are to justify their existence and to demonise the entire medical profession.
Do they still do the naltrexone implants? That was big here in the nineties but haven’t heard anything about it lately.
Correct.
You can only give way if you can see.
The point remains.
Reduce the risk of having to give way by being somewhere other than someone else’s descent path.
You put lipstick on the pig and reframe it as a good. ie Love is love. It doesn’t hurt to brainwash kids into buying into it a younger age. Eugenics is now dying with dignity.
I prefer not to be killed by the state, thank you kindly.
Any further evidence of Adam Zampa’s arseholery, he tried Mankading his opponent just now. It’s the lowest of the low acts in cricket.
There is a very good chance the fringe weirdos who grab headlines are D, R or three letter agency infiltrators.
Rap Epps
Whitmer entrapment
COINTELPRO
Operation Mockingbird
CISA
TIA
Three letter agency infiltration of social media
Watergate
Epstein didn’t kill himself
Hill Knowlton
Bell Pottinger
Australian Conservative Party
When will people learn?
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I don’t trust anyone.
I still want them to do their jobs, including those in the justice system.
Quote.
It’s a helipad, dude.
Probably the attitude which saw four bodies splattered on the sandbar.
The body count supports my proposition.
Do they still do the naltrexone implants?
There are rapid detox clinics all over the world that still use something like it.
No idea about Australia though.
You seriously believe that is a statement that they’re allowed to run into each other?
Seriously?
Dave Smith has clearly stated his plans for the Libertarian Party.
Develop a block that at local, state & one day far in the future, at a federal level that can horse trade over key issues.
Similar to what the Greens do here in Australia with the ALP.
I think demand dropped considerably when the meth wave hit the junkie community and most of them became methheads. Naltrexone doesn’t do anything to block the effects of amphetamines, apparently.
When I was a youngster, I lived in a share house. Next door was rented out to that Christian doctor (a good guy, by all accounts – I vaguely knew his daughter-in-law) who patented the naltrexone implant and ran the naltrexone clinic in Subiaco. It was a half way house for recovering addicts. They were, by and large, no problem. However, on one occasion, one of them dropped by to ask us if we had any speed (this is how I know naltrexone doesn’t block amphetamines). We didn’t. Worth a try, I suppose…?
Denial won’t solve the problem, dot.
You believe the accident was probably caused by a fixed wing jock speculating about helicopters?
You believe that because four people are dead, this proves that a fixed wing jock speculating about helicopters caused the accident?
Yep, you’re the smartest person in any room you enter.
It’s the truth.
Stuck in Tennant Creek, after 1000km. Flogged rain most of the way to Katherine, then lightened up a bit. Making good time. Hound in the tray.
At Attack Creek, 70km north of Tennant the engine went into ‘limp mode’ ie engine light coming on, and a message that ‘power was reduced’ (which it certainly was). Made the last 70km at 80kph. Aircon also gone, power steering still there but heavy.
Stopped the engine, waited 15 minutes and restarted straight up. Engine light still on, power seems good but steering still heavy.
I reckon it’s a chip or sensor malfunction that needs the diagnostic tool on it to recalibrate. Everything else is fine – temp, the lot.
Then I find out two of the three mechanics in town are away. If I can’t get hold of Grease Monkey 3 in the morning I’ll disconnect the battery, wait 20 minutes then reconnect to reset the EPU.
Tennant Goddamned Creek. Was going to go straight through it too.
That’s one thing. You want something else. You want the law changed to permit execution.
Apart from one dumb candidate, I have never heard lowering the age of consent from any Libertarian party candidate, member, associate or surrogate.
And it pissed rain all that last 70km as well.
500km short for the day. Still doable, as I need to be in Melbourne on Friday, but the margin for error’s cut right down. 500 tomorrow to Alice, 1500 to Gawler then 750 on Friday.
I thought you were stopping at Three Ways?
I’d let him live long enough to test his efficacy. Then when I’d established he was a fake, I’d have him executed. After I’d fined him for fraud.
Most opioid addicts die in a ditch(so to speak) so there is rarely a chance to save their life with an intervention when they overdose. There is a very small time window to administer the drug and as most of their friends are also off their faces that window quickly closes.
The problem with detox is time and changing the person’s social life after detox. There is a very old study which found giving heroin addicts a few hundreds bucks and a bus out of town had a beneficial effect. That won’t work now because of internet access. Christian groups had success because they could provide an alternative social group. When the Vietnam vets returned many who had been regularly using heroin stopped once home.
There is also a biological component to addiction. That is especially relevant to amphetamines, not so much opioids.
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Changed back.
Changed back to how it was before women voters.
“John Lyons scoop re Assange being returned to Australia should be taken with a grain of salt.
Keep in mind that Lyons was the fellow who broke the story that Tony Abbott wanted Australia to unilaterally intervene in Syria even though he’d previously made his “baddies v baddies” comments.”
John Lyons is a despicable grub.
Changed back.
That was the plan calli. 25km north of Tennant. However, that was also when I was going right through to Alice.
At an acquaintance’s place. Hound and I are dry now, but both knackered. See what happens.
So, you tell me what you meant by the “it’s a helipad dude” comment.
Snap, arky.
You guys aren’t making sense.
You don’t trust the state, but you will trust the state.
Hypothetical.
What standards, thresholds need to be met for the state to execute someone?
What’s the alternative?
Sortition
Anarchy
Absolute hereditary monarchy
Don’t discuss issues and hope the law never changes the way you don’t want it to be?
My preference is for sortition to elect the legislature.* I would have approval voting to confirm their appointment of a Governor. I would have the executive run like a corporate board with an executive council like some US States have. They would not run the government, an appointed Premier would run government day to day – and serve an indefinite term. We could have recall elections to sack bad politicians. We could use referendums to strike down bad laws.
I would have jury nullification to keep bad laws and judges in check. Judges would be appointed too but subject to approval voting and recall elections as well.
Of course, decision making should be devolved to the lowest level, known as subsidiarity. The Federal government wouldn’t exist, we would have confederalism where the Presidency and PM positions rotate (say a 2 year tenure). Federal law could be like a treaty and the High Court could be pooled from the most senior State judges, as it in effect used to be.
*House – one five year term. They appoint the Senate on 10 year terms with half rotations.
That should set a few alarm bells ringing. I ceased spending time with teachers once no longer mandated by the State. Now I only do it informally to wind them up at parties and things.
Someone (perhaps an aviation expert) wrote this:
Explain in as many words as you need to (we’ve seen the occasional wordwall at the Cat) the practicalities of circuits for a helipad.
Speaking of putting paid to miscreants, watched a video on the brass bull yesterday. It was a pretty colourful apparatus which would lend itself nicely to being televised.
The Brazen Bull: History’s Most Awful Punishment
I know. The comment at 8:40 PM is undergraduate left wing tripe “worthy” of Honi Soit.
Any truck-stop turds to report?
9:05 PM
How could I forget sunset clauses on legislation???
The words were ‘sort of circuit pattern’.
As in, depart upwind when another aircraft is approaching to land.
You know, like, don’t plough into someone and kill a bunch of people.
No rogue turds to report. Yet.
Also, I managed to not throw my pants out the window.
Dot, last year after Dave Smith took the reigns he was on one of his regular Malice appearances talking about removing ranges of laws that shield certain officials from being pursued legally.
In a nutshell, if the state was going to participate in child mutilation, those parties should be able to be sued in the future.
Separately, the idea of suing a judge who repeatedly lets repeat violent offenders out on zero bail would certainly end the Soros DA’s current policy.
I don’t have any solutions and not voting is something of a matter of honour at this point. Fatalism, all the hip middle age dudes are doing it man. Otherwise, if you’re lucky enough to find someone that loves you hang on to them, get a dog, children, listen to music or whatever. Wait for death. It’s a plan and it leaves you free from worries about and contamination from the sort of cretins that infest the political realm.
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Do you trust the state to run an electrical grid?
If the state made it illegal for anyone else but them to run the grid, would you want to prevent them from doing so?
Just like electricity has to be distributed, men have to be executed. As the state is the only organisation that could be allowed to do so, they need start exercising their responsibility.
Meanwhile, doctors should have their ability to kill taken off them forthwith. There is something seriously arse backwards about modern society.
That’s okay bern.
The Republicans will run dead on this and despite mothers being the main cause for child mutilation, CINO Josh Hawley (backed by his feminist lawyer wife) will blame “men playing vidya games!” for marriages and birth rates going kaput.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
We see tons of these every day now. Sad. When will people be held accountable?
One for Frank
https://youtu.be/DECp8LKurKs
The Slayer fans comments (fake quotes) are meme worthy gold.
Good to see you resisted the Fraser option KF.
Keep on trucking.
D ffs
For sure, the state would likely screw up both electricity distribution and capital punishment, but it’s still better than these things not happening.
I did wonder whether it was, as I sensed, skewed – to a personality type.
The state is not a monolithic entity with a moral sense. It’s a bunch of ppl some of whom try to do an honest job. Some of them can be predicted fairly reliably; I figure a judge in a murder trial is reasonably likely to be concerned with truth and justice and law. If the last allows him to put on a black cap and sentence a manifest monster to be hanged by the neck until dead, then I more or less trust him to do his job. If twelve members of a jury are convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the accused dunnit, I’m inclined to the view that they’re likely right. They may not be, but life doesn’t provide certainty except to fanatical lunatics.
The machinery has evolved over centuries and is the best we’ve got for the administration of justice. I trust it more than the alternatives.
This has little to do with my view of corrupt scum in the parasitic class.
Wow.
Tucson cop Ryan Remington executing a senior citizen from Sep. 2021.
https://youtu.be/NN-889e3n40
Nearly the whole incident. You see from the 2nd camera that the Lowes staff member was potentially in the line of fire too.
That ain’t a “circuit” & you know it.
Ooooh look! As predicted, a lovely toasty warm winter in Ukraine, and we all know what that means – lots more ‘splodey weapons coming their way… Ka-BOOM!
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1610079037124124673
Giving people what is their due is at the heart of justice. This is true for all wrongs, civil or criminal. As soon as that consideration is set aside you get cases like the most recent where someone stabs a man in his home with a deadly weapon and yet only receives a suspended sentence.
Speaking of Ka-boom! Boy-oh-boy it’s been quite the fireworks display in certain Rascist bases lately. Carnage everywhere.
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1609657637133766657
That personality type is known colloquially as; “Wankers”
(This may be a generalisation)
Fisk
Would I be right to say Putin is using the “Khazaria” nonsense to justify his “Ukraine is not a country” schtick?
Check engine oil and seals
I haven’t seen the usual state propaganda channels pushing that one very much.
If you are interested in ideas and understanding things while surrounded by those who want only to talk about sport or soap opera, you might feel a little lonely and look for someone with less confined interests than your family or neighbours.
It was because of all the drug addicts and Nazis DOT.
Just IMO
Over 21 at time of crime.
Treason
Piracy
Aggravated murder
Terrorism
Proven beyond any doubt
At least two items of physical evidence that independently corroborate event (apparently this was a criminal standard for Roman criminal law but it might be apocryphal)
Death penalty must be applied for on indictment
Obviously, unanimous jury guilty verdict
Jury must approve
Judge must approve
Sound mind, lack coercion etc must be proven, along with examining prior bad actions of accusers, witnesses or informants
Automatic appeal to Court of Appeal criminal division or appellate sitting of the Full Federal Court confirming conviction and sentence, must be unanimous panel, also confirming all necessary elements
Then obviously subject to High Court appeal
The ute hasn’t lost a drop Carpe. Seals are okay, no leaks.
Tomorrow will tell.
Yep, as someone who complained about the fascination with men who can throw, hit, and catch balls well I was not inclined to participate in social chitchat. If people find a group where they can discuss like interests good luck to them and that includes the fascination with … .
No way!
We’d have to have an Amendment V and adopt the fruit of the poison tree doctrine without exception.
Probative value are fascist weasel words.
Doc
Really, what do you think the chances of the kid who took out those two antifa goons on 2020 would have scored anything less than a murder rap in any solid blue state? Let’s say Washington DC or Oregon? Yes, I know DC isn’t a state but just work with me.
Treason
Piracy
Aggravated murder
Terrorism
Proven beyond any doubt
Thinking about Nuremberg 2.0, how would capital punishment work under this scheme? No issues with proven beyond doubt, in most instances the crimes are well documented in all types of media.
I believe you don’t have the fault element.
They did not act with intent to do so; with malice aforethought.
I am not sure you can claim reckless indifference if they think or thought there was a trade off to save human life.
I did read about this and it was very odd. The libertarian movement, at least in the US, seems to swing wildly between libertine degeneracy and the alt-right.
I am not a pilot but flew as medical crew in helicopters for 30 years. We did indeed take off and land into the wind, just like a fixed wing aircraft, and certainly flew circuits before landing at any uncontrolled LZ, eg when doing a ‘primary’ to an accident scene. I don’t recall if we *always* flew circuits landing at familar pads however.
Dude who can’t bench 150 lbs says young men should get off computers and porn and ask out a real woman…
https://youtu.be/4kuJ2orjRgE
He’s married to a bigshot feminist lawyer, he’s a fraud.
Sure, get married:
50% chance of divorce
Cash and prizes for divorce
Alimony sends men to the gutter or early grave (self deletion)
Women literally do not want to settle down to have kids until…42 (!) (see singer Ashanti).
(Yet the ridiculous MSM praises older mothers but belittles older fathers)
Women now have a right to mutilate children in the US against the will of the father (most of this is pushed by mothers)
He was Attorney General of a state and did nothing to help.
Excellent!
Did you pack a spare pair just in case … you know … number 2 vindaloo.
The UK party was eminently sensible about a decade ago, but I don’t know since.
Duk.
That sounds sensible.
I wasn’t really talking the old “upwind-crosswind-downwind-base-final” circuit.
Just some sort of logical pattern that will help separate traffic. Surely a short upwind to 500′ then a short crosswind to 1000′ then depart isn’t too complicated … even for a rotary wing chap?
I am guessing there is less conflicting traffic at the Royal Adelaide helipad than the Wally-World pad on the Goldie over Christmas too.
Tuesday night in Tennant, KD.
Which night is break in to places, and steal cars night?
KD, aircon gone and power steering heavy sounds like a belt slipping or snapped.
By the sound of it TE, every night is the night to pinch stuff. No change.
I can hear the pisswrecks in the main drag screaming from here.
Bill,
I will get it sorted tomorrow morning, hopefully. Belt stuff did cross my mind.
Ta.
Legally, the Gold Coast prang is going to get interesting.
What procedures did the helo company have for sightseeing ops?
Did they adhere to them?
If they had no procedures for repetitive ops from the same LZ, why not?
Was Seaworld party to operating the flights (ie did they sell tickets and promote them)?
Were there financial incentives to cram in more flights in a day?
And so much more.
But not the one holding his trousers on, thank God.
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If it’s a serpentine belt it’ll be everything: water pump, alternator, aircon, steering.
Dot I couldn’t give a f*ck what the meja think.about older fathers or older mothers. I couldn’t give a f*ck what some dead beat germalist thinks about anything. All I know is I want the legacy meja to hurry up and die.
Constitutional recognition and the “Voice” will solve all the problems, surely?
KD – check the harmonic balancer. Had one collapse a few weeks ago with the same symptoms.
You’re likely right, JC, but at least what actually happened looked like justice. Not what solid blue like or want, I agree.
Sightseeing joyflights was pretty much the entire reason for the company existing.
Their company ops manual (of a size to be consistent with having cost $50,000 to write) will cover joyflights in quite some detail.
Right up until two of them flew into each other.
If they had no procedures for taking off & making approaches to their main base, their ops manual would never have been approved.
Not sure who they can go for over this, being as the Chief pilot is beyond reach.
I had similar with a ‘key’ on the end of the crank in a Patrol years back – it meant the engine ran, but didnt drive the pulley attached to it, instead it just slipped – check to see that the belt is/are rotating when the engine is running, including when given a rev.
(*very* expensive repair too btw)
Migrant-fueled New Year mayhem turns Berlin into warzone
“When are we finally going to admit that we have a huge problem with young male migrants from archaic societies who don’t want to integrate? Silencing the problem means continuing to promote it.”
nice try Old Ozzie
… chocolate rations aren’t even included in the CPI basket
Not saying I do or want to live like that, but there are a lot of people outside who do live just like that, AND have toil for it.
to toil
And our loony lefty losers are every bit as dishonest partisan scum. Look at m0nty, and his remark that Pell got off on a “technicality”. Some of the subhuman monsters are ppl like m0nty. No moral sense whatever, just rules they’ve managed to induct from examples of others of their kind.
Don’t the German cops have teargas and truncheons?
FlyingDuk, what you describe is an orbit. Helicopters are well suited to them.
A circuit is a far more complex & entirely different procedure & are pretty much an integral part of fixed wing landings (unless they happen to fly in on the same bearing as the runway & there’s nobody else about so they just put ‘er down)
Your firm will have had a “company ops manual” detailing every last manoeuvre anybody was likely to make. Detailing how to perform this in painstaking detail (say “approaching an accident scene beside a highway”) how to do this will be detailed, possibly taking up several pages. Regardless of skill or experience, if a pilot flying for that entity then performs an approach to an accident scene in a manner differing from that in the ops manual – he is in superduper big trouble with CASA & is risking his licence.
common sense?
My IGA is short of eggs. Only little ones left.
that’s easy
they didn’t change
but they changed the system
and its the difference between smart and cunning.
a meritocracy with over-sight delivers standards, checks and balances, and accountability … and that’s smart
to garner power, and remove those things … well, that’s cunning
why do youse reckon they all love the WEF?
What hasn’t natural selection eliminated mental disorders? by Dr Randolph M Nesse
Tedious at the beginning but from an evolutionary perspective he makes some interesting observations.
Black Ball, I’m with the great Sir Don on Mankading:
“The laws of cricket make it quite clear that the non-striker must keep within his ground until the ball has been delivered.”
If the batsman is breaking the law and taking unfair advantage, he deserves to be run out.
Mankading keeps the bastard batsmen honest.
Most likely two or more belts. fan, alternator usually on one. a/c and power steering on another. a/c dying and steering heavy but engine running cool is a big hint to check them. Also after driving through lots of wet stuff any of the myriad connectors on the wiring loom could have got water in it and is causing the derating. Possibly unrelated to the a/c power steering issue. bluetooth dongles for OBD2 ports are cheap. Pair them to your phone and you will get the basic diagnostics.
Check engine light is a generic for lots of different issues. The ECU will derate the motor so that you can get where you are going without causing any serious damage. What is the ute’s make,model and year?
Very cool Rolex restoration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xasm3GFL7mM