What the Heck?! Thread (Closed)

[Dolcevita]

I'm just cynical enough to suspect it's a Hillary-loving DemocRat plant.

You are too desperate to spin this to your agenda. Try harder.

 

[delft]

I'm surprised British Airways troubles haven't been noticed:

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British Airways is now operating a full flight schedule after an IT failure saw the airline cancel thousands of flights over the bank holiday weekend.

"Our IT systems are now back up and running and we will be operating a full flight schedule at Heathrow and Gatwick,"

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But it warned it "may take some time" to reunite travellers with their bags.

BA chief executive Alex Cruz has blamed a power surge for the disruption which affected 75,000 people.

In his first interview since the systems failure, he said: "There was a power surge and there was a back-up system, which did not work at that particular point in time."

He told the BBC this had affected "all the operating of our systems - baggage, operations, power processing".

The GMB union has blamed the problem on technical staff being outsourced from the UK to India.

But Mr Cruz said there had been no redundancies or outsourcing in this area, adding that there had been "locally hired" staff attending to the maintenance and running of the infrastructure.

On Saturday a power surge (where?) toppled the whole operations supporting computer system of BA all over the World and so stopping all flying on that day, much of the flying on Sunday and some on Monday proving that the company had not invested in making its systems fail safe. The damage is no doubt much greater than the savings on its computer systems which now will have the be improved anyway.

 

[AssassinsMace]

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Personally I like Li Bingbing over Fan Bingbing.

 

[Jura The idiot]

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...

What the Heck?!
indeed:

 

[AssassinsMace]

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Does it matter if other countries will fill the void? US politicians didn't take climate change seriously until literally right after China spewed out one smog particle more than the US. So what leadership was lost that the US can only give? Did Obama do any better than Trump when it comes to the environment when he spent his entire Presidency sabotaging any international climate agreement just to avoid how anything greed upon by the world would fall apart when the US Congress didn't ratify it just as what happened when Bush was blamed after the world signed a pact at Kyoto? The Europeans who were big noise makers on the environment when Bush was in office but suddenly silent on Obama doing nothing but working against green technology slapping tariffs because US green companies couldn't compete. Why Russia and Iran? How about India or the EU? Iran is certainly not taking the leadership on the environment anytime soon. Trying to trick the US into an undeserved leadership that has always been in name only?

I was reading an article I believe was in the NY Times praising China's actions on reducing carbon emissions. But as always they needed to insult China to balance it out. Only the West can in their hearts do things at 100% good and selfless reasons. In this case even though China was beating the US in meeting its duties over the Paris Climate accord, the author of the article charged that China wasn't doing it for the world. The Chinese were only doing it for themselves to get themselves out from environmental disaster and not because it was in their heart. Again, does it matter? Was it in their dearest hearts that they only cared about the environment when they weren't the number one villains of the environment anymore? Was it in Obama's heart to save the environment when he did nothing for it to avoid taking a hit on his legacy knowing Congress for domestic political reasons would never eventually pass an international climate agreement. Is that leadership?

 

[Blackstone]

You are too desperate to spin this to your agenda. Try harder.

What are you talking about?

 

[Equation]

Here's a disturbing local (USA) trend.

• On May 26, two men were murdered on a train in Portland, Oregon by a white supremacist.

• On May 20, a visiting student was murdered by a white supremacist on the campus of the University of Maryland – College Park.

• The suspects in both incidents had extensive histories of racist social media postings, yet there has been little outcry about how the men were ‘radicalized.’

• In the U.S., the incidence of racially motivated crimes and terrorism significantly exceeds that of Islamic State-inspired attacks, yet does not generate the same level of response.

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Despite the level of attention given to Islamic State-related terror threats, in the U.S., other forms of

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represent a more immediate threat. Indeed, two recent attacks demonstrate just how skewed public perceptions and reactions are to domestic terrorism. The U.S. has long struggled with racism and violent white supremacy, along with anti-government extremists euphemistically called ‘militia’ groups rather than terrorist groups. While the overwhelming focus of counterterrorism efforts in the U.S. is on preventing attacks directed or inspired by groups such as the Islamic State, the greater day-to-day criminal and terror threats in the country come from

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On May 26, a man with a history of open support for white supremacist ideology and

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beliefs murdered two men on a commuter train in Portland, Oregon. Rick Best, Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, and Micah Fletcher intervened when the suspect began to yell anti-Muslim comments at two young women on the train. The suspect killed Best and Meche with a large knife, and seriously injured Fletcher. As is often the case in most such attacks, the suspect had been quite open on social media about his racist and violent views, and was filmed earlier this year giving a Nazi salute at a demonstration in Portland.

It is difficult to overstate how different the national reaction would have been had the attacker acted in the name of the

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or shouted in Arabic while committing the attack. There is no such thing a casual hate crime, and for those subjected to public threats and taunting, the experience is

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. The two young women who were verbally assaulted on the train did not know their assaulter or those who came to their defense. The men that stood up on the train reacted in the spirit of human decency and courage, which ultimately cost two of them their lives. Best was a retired Army sergeant who had served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan; Meche was a recent college graduate.

A week earlier and on the other side of the country, another U.S. serviceman was murdered by a white supremacist who had also been openly racist on his social media profile. On May 20, Richard W. Collins III was killed while visiting the University of Maryland – College Park campus. Collins, a Bowie State student who was set to graduate three days after his murder, had just been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, specializing in military intelligence. He likely would have spent a great deal of time in his military service focused on

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espoused by groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.

The muted reaction by the U.S. government—and the Trump administration in particular—to these two attacks is in stark contrast to the reaction to any attack claimed by the Islamic State. Statistics clearly point to a systemic threat inside the U.S. that comes from violent white supremacists who are radicalized by and adhere to an ideology equally as dangerous as violent jihadist ideology. Though Islamic State and al-Qaeda-motivated threats certainly warrant thorough attention, the U.S. can and should

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to account for the prevalent threat of domestic white supremacists at home.

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[taxiya]

What the Heck?!
indeed:

not surprising about the Chinese fan of Ivanka in that article.

There are studies that conclude that the most beautiful face is the combination of most average features in any given people (race, sub-group of human). So it is only natural that the most beautiful face of the whole human race being the mixed/average features of all human population.

To make myself clear, by average I mean the mid point of any dimension.

 

[PanAsian]

Did others at the car dealership have the right to shoot at all three of these men who threatened everyone's lives by having a shootout where they were?

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VIDEO RELEASED: Wanted Man, Bounty Hunters Killed In Shootout At Dealership In Greenville
UPDATED | May 31, 2017 9:15 PM
May 31, 2017 2:49 PM
Filed Under: bounty hunters, F.N.G. Security, Greenville police, Nissan of Greenville, Ramon Michael Hutchinson, Shooting

GREENVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) – Greenville Police released details Wednesday afternoon on the three men who were shot and killed Tuesday around 7:20 p.m. at the Nissan of Greenville auto dealership. They also released cell phone video of the shooting.

WARNING: Below is the full unedited video. Viewer discretion advised.

Police said two men with F.N.G. Security and Investigations of Corpus Christi were at the dealership attempting to apprehend a fugitive, Ramon Michael Hutchinson, 49, of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Hutchinson, also known as Raymond Hutchinson, had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on a first degree drug charge in Minneapolis.

He was at the dealership with another person when he was approached by F.N.G. employees, Gabriel Bernal, 33 and Fidel Garcia, 54.

According to Greenville Police, the pair pulled out guns and began giving Hutchinson orders.

Hutchinson tried to pull a gun from his waistband but dropped it on a desk.

Police said a scuffle ensued as Hutchinson tried to pick up the gun. When he did, he started shooting.

Both Garcia and Bernal shot back.

Police said about 20 shots were fired in about six seconds and all three men died.

Nissan of Greenville says the service bay will reopen Friday and the showroom will reopen Monday, giving employees time after deadly shootout.

 

[KIENCHIN]

Did others at the car dealership have the right to shoot at all three of these men who threatened everyone's lives by having a shootout where they were?

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WTF three men died of a violent nature and it is business as usual on Friday. This is sad, gun violence has become sanitised by the movies and when would all these stop.