nandakandamanda comments

What would have happened to the father if he had killed the dingo?

Take away the bit where he enabled the Taliban to go around eliminating Afghan government staff and their families for ‘cooperating’ with foreign troops, and I would be more inclined to allow him valid journalistic license.

He seemed to show no regard for the suffering that unfiltered raw data would cause to ordinary people, as cruel an attitude as anything that he might be exposing.

They are just jealous of Japan’s low consumption tax.

Too much automation is directly responsible for causing this kind of happening. The machine wins ultimately because the logic forces the human out.

When Toto Wolff said that Ferrari were looking frighteningly quick, I wondered if that might not be a smokescreen, and perhaps it was.

Waiting for some more information on this.

What are we looking at?

Disgusting behavior by the Taliban.

If they stop others doing this work, they should bloody well do it themselves.

If the purchase of 140 F-35s is delayed, maybe the endless consumption tax spiral can wait a bit longer.

Being reported in the J press today that this particular aircraft made emergency landings twice before, in 2017 and 2018. Parts deemed faulty were replaced each time.

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/fnn?a=20190412-00416041-fnn-pol

The monkeys in Japan are so intelligent already (and aggressive) that humans generally back off. I hate to think of the possibilities here... especially when an adjustment is made in their ability to cross procreate.

The J article posted above 米軍は三沢基地の哨戒機Ｐ８ポセイドンと横須賀基地（神奈川県）配備のイージス艦「ステザム」を現場に派遣し、捜索に協力している。Mentions a P8 Orion from Misawa and the Aegis USS Stethem out of Yokosuka aiding in the search.

When the photo caption starts "Pepper watch..."

In the dark, during a difficult no-line-of-sight dogfight exercise, was there interference from other sources? (Must be one question to be considered.)

Lindsay, I suspect they are still in detention.

Luckily for them the media cooperated in hiding their faces, so this ugly octopus will be free and unhassled to evolve some more.

He was leader of a group of four, and they split into two friendlies and two enemy fighters for aerial combat practice. During the session he signaled ‘Knock it off’ indicating mission abort, and that was the last they heard from him.

Reported in a J Yahoo article 11 April.

https://www.jiji.com/sp/article?k=2019041100020&g=soc&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=link_back_edit_vb

The pilot reported he was aborting the training mission. That suggests he was attempting to return, in a normal world.

This reminds me of how European governments promoted diesel-engined vehicles during the 1990s and 2000s declaring them the way to cut down on CO2. Well look at them now.

Sure maybe nuclear power will create less CO2 than fossil fuels, but at what obvious cost? Why not mention the alternatives? The elephant standing in Mr Nakanishi's room.

We can see it, Mr Nakanishi. Can you?

The pic is bit fuzzy, but the concept makes its point.

From Wiki concerning plutonium contamination from various sources in the Fukushima area. C-137 seems to be a greater problem.

"On 30 September 2011, the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science published the results of a plutonium fallout survey, for which in June and July 50 soil samples were collected from a radius of slightly more than 80 km around the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Plutonium was found in all samples, which is to be expected since plutonium from the nuclear weapon tests of the 1950s and '60s is found everywhere on the planet. The highest levels found (of Pu-239 and Pu-240 combined) were 15 becquerels per square meters in Fukushima prefecture and 9.4 Bq in Ibaraki prefecture, compared to a global average of 0.4 to 3.7 Bq/kg from atomic bomb tests. Earlier in June, university researchers detected smaller amounts of plutonium in soil outside the plant after they collected samples during filming by NHK. A recent study published in Nature found up to 35 bq/kg plutonium 241 in leaf litter in 3 out of 19 sites in the most contaminated zone in Fukushima. They estimated the Pu-241 dose for a person living for 50 years in the vicinity of the most contaminated site to be 0.44 mSv. However, the Cs-137 activity at the sites where Pu-241 was found was very high (up to 4.7 MBq/kg or about 135,000 times greater than the plutonium 241 activity), which suggests that it will be the Cs-137 which prevents habitation rather than the relatively small amounts of plutonium of any isotope in these areas."

Well if they are both reading the comments here, everything will be as clear as mud.

Quote: “more customers see a vehicle as something not to own but to share.”

Really? How many more? More than what?

People in cities who do not want a personalized space with their own belongings in the car?

Is this a public voice, or someone’s vision for how things will have to be in the future?

'Best' from whose point of view?

Most democratic, probably, and for the judge it spreads out the burden and responsibility of decision making.

The guy looks bored, and boring, but I guess someone felt the need to place his face on Japan's top note. It's not going to move the world.

Korea getting upset again? So easy, but oh, dear. Nothing better or more constructive to do? I thought Korea was ignoring Japan anyway.

Dominate the road? Here’s hoping that day never comes. Some Eutopia. A few on the roads for the very wealthy, or as taxis, OK, but they had better not get in the way.

At last!

Not mentioned in this article, but bubbling beneath the surface is the number of unlicensed (even in their own country A) tourists who rent cars presenting a fake international license, especially common in Okinawa, according to a Japanese TV documentary shown last year. Spotting clever fakes ordered from A and supplied postally from country B is not part of the training or remit of rental car company employees, where the police should perhaps be involved. The TV crew interviewed and then followed some of these drivers as they drove out of the airport at the control of a car for the first time in their lives.

Wondering what a quote: "sound explosive device" is.

IS (ISIL, ISIS) has been increasing its underhand and murderous system of assassinations and IEDs in order to terrorize the populations in its former strongholds of Raqqa and Mosul etc. Kind of how the Taliban operate in Afghanistan. Ordinary people become terrified of all around them, unwilling but forced to cooperate with those with a political agenda.

I have seen footage in a Japanese prison cell where a violent prisoner was squashed by a team of guards. They and the police undergo regular training in how to render someone unable to move, but if the person can't breathe or has a heart attack and doesn't speak Japanese....

Good all-round look back at F1 on their 1,000th birthday this weekend.

No mention of North American or Canadian drivers. Three missing Brits come to mind, Sir Stirling Moss, Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill, and no mention either of the great switch to hybrid power, but you can't have everything.