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Post by nautonnier on Sept 1, 2020 16:14:52 GMT
Well well
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Post by phydeaux2363 on Sept 1, 2020 17:25:35 GMT
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Post by phydeaux2363 on Sept 1, 2020 18:17:21 GMT
"It ought not to be necessary for me to insist that the final aims of the churchman, and the aims of the secular reformer, are very different. So far as the aims of the latter are for true social justice, they ought to be comprehended in those of the former. But one reason why the lot of the secular reformer or revolutionist seems to me to be the easier is this: that for the most part he conceives of the evils of the world as something external to himself. They are thought of either as completely impersonal, so that there is nothing to alter but machinery; or if there is evil incarnate, it is always incarnate in the other people — a class, a race, the politicians, the bankers, the armament makers, and so forth — never in oneself. There are individual exceptions: but so far as a man sees the need for converting himself as well as the World, he is approximating to the religious point of view. But for most people, to be able to simplify issues so as to see only the definite external enemy, is extremely exhilarating, and brings about the bright eye and the springy step that go so well with the political uniform. This is an exhilaration that the Christian must deny himself. It comes from an artificial stimulant bound to have bad aftereffects. It causes pride, either individual or collective, and pride brings its own doom. For only in humility, charity and purity — and most of all perhaps humility — can we be prepared to receive the grace of God without which human operations are vain."
--T.S. Elliot calling it like it was, and still is.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 2, 2020 17:33:36 GMT
Following up on the issue of "the remote work place" in the new economy ... www.sovereignman.com/international-diversification-strategies/digital-nomads-will-want-to-know-about-these-two-countries-28747/British Petroleum announced this week that ALL 6,500 employees in its London office will be working from home within the next two years.
BP is even going to shut down the office entirely and sell the building. They’re not the only ones.
Right now, in fact, only 13% of London office workers are back at the office. And as we’ve been saying, many likely won’t return.
When you never have to go to the office anymore, why stay in expensive London? Or New York, or San Francisco for that matter?
A lot of people are already moving.
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 2, 2020 20:08:15 GMT
Following up on the issue of "the remote work place" in the new economy ... www.sovereignman.com/international-diversification-strategies/digital-nomads-will-want-to-know-about-these-two-countries-28747/British Petroleum announced this week that ALL 6,500 employees in its London office will be working from home within the next two years.
BP is even going to shut down the office entirely and sell the building. They’re not the only ones.
Right now, in fact, only 13% of London office workers are back at the office. And as we’ve been saying, many likely won’t return.
When you never have to go to the office anymore, why stay in expensive London? Or New York, or San Francisco for that matter?
A lot of people are already moving.Many years ago (1983?)I was doing a masters exam in IT 4 questions 3 hours. One of the questions was write an essay "The Electronic Cottage" This was looking at what was then a fashionable future of people working from home. If I remember people were getting excited about 4800bd modems at the time. (Heathrow Comcen had asked me when I did an installation there "We run Heathrow on 50bd whatever do you want 1200bd modems for?") Really nothing has changed much in attitudes even though the capabilities are orders of magnitude better. In 2010 Boeing UK had all their staff working remotely with some office blocks for meetings and hot swap office space for visitors. But it took the lockdown to force the antediluvian management into accepting working from home in the USA. Unless the current cities and Councillors change their ways, cities and even large towns are dead. Add internet shopping which is only the shopping from home equivalent of working from home - and there is no real reason for towns at all. Will the wide spread population start making use of small local market gardens/farmers' markets as well as supermarkets? The NWO/WEF/Agenda 21 people have now been hoist by their own petard - their intention was to have large densely populated conurbations separated by heavily automated industrial agriculture with most of the population never traveling out of their conurbation. That is not going to happen now. So the WEF 'Great Reset' will be interesting.
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Post by sigurdur on Sept 2, 2020 22:41:35 GMT
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 3, 2020 1:52:08 GMT
Money is a “faith” system...that faith is taken for granted by those that run the printing presses.
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 3, 2020 2:16:01 GMT
Money is a “faith” system...that faith is taken for granted by those that run the printing presses. At least you can have a wash basket full of $10,000 notes. With Bitcoin there are just some ones and zeroes somewhere. That takes even more trust. While we are on that subject - there are many adverts for buying gold as it will go up by <name a large figure>% in the next year. Presumably the company selling the gold is in business to make money.... so why don't they keep it and make a <name a large figure>% profit?
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 3, 2020 2:44:12 GMT
"Graphic new footage captures the moment black cyclist Dijon Kizzee, 29, is gunned down by LA cops who 'shot him 20 times and then handcuffed his dead body'"www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8691309/Graphic-new-footage-captures-moment-black-cyclist-Dijon-Kizzee-29-gunned-LA-cops.htmlIt was a long time ago but when I went through training on what was to become my 'personal weapon' a Browning 9mm 1911 pistol, I was expected to hit the target and at most fire two shots. What is it with the training of police in the US that they have to empty their magazines shooting at a target? In some cases the number of shots claimed to have been fired would mean that they emptied 2 magazines at a target. If I were in charge of training the police, expenditure of a vast amount of ammunition often most missing the target would be a case of withdrawing the permission to have a gun from that officer.
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Post by gridley on Sept 3, 2020 12:15:43 GMT
It was a long time ago but when I went through training on what was to become my 'personal weapon' a Browning 9mm 1911 pistol, I was expected to hit the target and at most fire two shots. It has apparently been long enough since your training that you've forgotten some details.
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 3, 2020 13:26:21 GMT
It was a long time ago but when I went through training on what was to become my 'personal weapon' a Browning 9mm 1911 pistol, I was expected to hit the target and at most fire two shots. It has apparently been long enough since your training that you've forgotten some details. Like firing continually in the general direction of the target until the action stays back changing to a new magazine and recommencing firing uncontrollably only stopping when there are no more full magazines but only hitting the target 3 times? No I think I would remember that.
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Post by Ratty on Sept 4, 2020 8:05:58 GMT
This thread was started in April 2012. How far has the US come in that time?
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Post by nonentropic on Sept 4, 2020 8:12:32 GMT
well in November we will discover I suggest.
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Post by gridley on Sept 4, 2020 12:50:15 GMT
It has apparently been long enough since your training that you've forgotten some details. Like firing continually in the general direction of the target until the action stays back changing to a new magazine and recommencing firing uncontrollably only stopping when there are no more full magazines but only hitting the target 3 times? No I think I would remember that. You forgot what you were shooting.
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 4, 2020 16:04:24 GMT
It has apparently been long enough since your training that you've forgotten some details. What are you talking about Gridley? What are you implying? I am lost... I have had a look. The Service Browning 9mm was called the L9A1 based on the Hi Power and was not directly a 1911. Although it shares many commonalities as Browning added them back when the patents for 1911 that he had sold to Colt ran out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Hi-Power
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