2014-12-28, 06:41 | Link #35286 |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Nah, 2014 is actually a rather safe year for plane travel. It's just that we have high profile losses of life, that gets reported on the news. Over all it was safer to fly this year compared to previous years.
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2014-12-28, 09:22 | Link #35288 |
The old ace of Arlington
Join Date: Oct 2012
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3 times in a row, this year is absolutely the worst year ever for Malaysian airline companies. Suddenly, Southeast Asia' sea become kinda dangerous with all these missing planes and pirates.
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2014-12-28, 09:36 | Link #35289 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
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The missing plane actually has alot to do with protocol and pilot training the Malaysian airlines have; MH370 highlighted the "Good Night" transmission, while the pilot for this AirAsia flight requested to fly above the clouds despite it being taught in bad weather nav classes that precipitation will result in ice being formed above the clouds. Planes are designed to be electrically shockproof, the problems of flying through a storm would be mostly turbulence. There needs to be a bloody overhaul of flight training.
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2014-12-28, 09:48 | Link #35290 |
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Anti-Arab group poses legal, political dilemma for Israel
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0K605620141228 Strict sharia forces gays into hiding in Indonesia's Aceh http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0K600W20141228 Florida overtakes New York as third most populous U.S. state http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0K11FF20141223
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2014-12-28, 22:06 | Link #35291 | ||
Juanita/Kiteless
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Location: New England
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In light of the Michael Brown case, the Eric Garner case, and that man shot to death in an Ohio walmart for simply carrying a pellet rifle he had just bought...there is this:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=960988 Quote:
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Notice the difference when you are a black male vs. being a blonde white person...
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2014-12-29, 07:37 | Link #35292 | ||
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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The posts on that thread are hilarious Quote:
Ok...carry on
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2014-12-29, 08:05 | Link #35293 | |
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Or the area behind the woman may have not been clear of bystanders, so he held his fire. I have no way of knowing having not been there. Maybe they Tazed her? The article doesn't have the details.
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2014-12-29, 10:32 | Link #35296 |
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Oil rises to $60 per barrel, Libya fire supports
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0K701D20141229 Indonesia says missing AirAsia plane could be at 'bottom of sea' http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0K601C20141229 Crunch time: As sanctions bite, Putin ally gets into apples http://www.reuters.com/investigates/...talism-apples/ Opaque middlemen exact high price in Russia’s deals with the West http://www.reuters.com/investigates/...ism-middlemen/
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2014-12-29, 10:39 | Link #35297 | |
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2014-12-29, 12:24 | Link #35298 | |
Juanita/Kiteless
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
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It is just crazy that she does all that, points a gun at an officer, and is taken alive and without injury, whereas the Ohio man at the walmart gets shot immediately, before he can think of how to react, and Eric Garner gets put in a choke hold just for venting frustration.
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2014-12-29, 15:58 | Link #35299 | |
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It's a strange conclusion to the story.
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