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3000rpm hoppers are toast

But, if i were st peter at the pearly gates I'd find Israel killing of civilians in foreign territory marginally more culpable than desperate acts of a regime suppressing an internal threat.

 

 

 

Now i really can't understand that kind of thinking.

 

 

Here's why.

 

The Islamic Republic killed around 30,000 mainly young protesters on its own streets for nothing more than daring to stand with placards or chant (and in a small number of cases - a few people committed criminal acts).

 

A regime so desperate to retain its power (and control of the economy from which the upper levels cream off vast amounts of stolen money (see note below marked *) has absolutely no business killing anyone to retain power let alone 30,000 and sentencing thousands more to death, which they were doing before America and Israel got at them. We are talking mass murder carried out to retain power and wealth here.

 

Now lets look at the other side of the coin - the one you say is more culpable than the barbarism I just described.

 

You speak of Israel killing civilians in foreign territory, as if they just decided one day to do it for fun, but you don't mention the absolutely egregious, provocation of the mass murder of Israelis carried out on October 7th 2023 - 1270 people murdered, tortured, mutilated deliberately, raped and kidnapped. Of these 816 were civilians.

• 816 were civilians
  
• 59 belonged to the police
  
• 382 to the military and
  
• 13 to emergency services
  

How is it so atrocious as to be worse than murder of 30,000 of your fellow countrymen for Israel to commence a war in response to such an act? What else were they to do? Be satisfied with some finger wagging?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note*

The new Supreme Leader, son of the old Supreme Leader is according to Bloomberg, reputed to have about $3Bn in money and assets grafted out of the economy of Iran. Who knows what his old man had after thirty years in the job. The new guy was just his son and has $3Bn.

Edited March 19Mar 19 by Tony1951

Estimates of the number of people who died under the leadership of Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, generally range from 40 to 80 million deaths. These deaths resulted from massive, systemic policies—including famine, forced labor, and executions—between his rise to power in 1949 and his death in 1976.

Determining who killed the most people in history depends on whether the focus is on individuals (serial killers) or leaders responsible for mass deaths. Adolf Hitler is generally cited for the highest number of deaths (~6 million Jews in the Holocaust)

 

yet we buy everything from China and the Germans still speak in German so unless u nuke the fookers it never ends and who pays for all the bombs n missiles Iran via tax and oil.

 

human beings are expendable global warming is so bad were blowing up half the world and setting it on fire its all a game that the corporations play for profit and control.

 

did Japan surrender because of the nukes no if you bother to look Russia was going in and would split the country like Germany.

 

north korea has nukes why dont they go play with him because they can nuke trumps ass

This very short documentary compiled by a woman in Tehran is well worth watching.

 

ITV - free access - you might get an advert break before it if you don't have a paid ITV account, but it gives a first hand Iranian account of hopes, disappointments, fears and frustrations about the war.

 

https://www.itv.com/watch/ten-days-in-tehran/10a6972a0001B/10a6972a0001

 

Warts and all account.

You can have 8 out of 10 people who despise the regime but you bomb them, they will have other things on their mind like how to survive another day than worrying about the next election.

Anyway, trump wants Iranian oil, Netanyahu wants iran razed to the ground. Why else would they bomb desalination plants, gas field and the grid? You see that in lots of conflicts, they terrorise the population with food, water, power shortages and not just bombs. Wars displace millions of people. Each displaced family today will become an asylum seeking family next year and a number will take to the rubber boats in a couple of years. The rich will make money out of wars no matter where and who die in them. Anyway, trump now understands where Netanyahu is coming from and I reckon he will drop Netanyahu as soon as.

Google: 7th October

The Israeli government faced criticism after it was revealed intelligence agencies had been aware of an attack plan for over a year. Yair Lapid, a centrist Israeli politician, called the failure of the government and intelligence agencies to prevent the attack an "unpardonable failure".

Netanyahu needs to keep the war or wars going until he dies.

Edited March 19Mar 19 by Woosh

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• Internal Reviews: In July 2021, figures revealed that the DWP had initiated 124 internal reviews since July 2019, 97 of which concerned the deaths of claimants.
  

the dwp kill a lot of ppl but thats fine

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-66914485

 

they was paying the power for the building and only got found because had a fluid leak like WTF

I went walking this morning to try to observe and film deer again, but I could not find them.

 

I was out in the countryside too, but with my main interest being entomology my subjects are usually smaller, like this morning's Bombylius major bee fly:

 

 

But I do also photograph the larger animals at times, including Roe Deer like this buck in my very local nature reserve, just 80 metres away from my London home:

 

 

and this Grey Squirrel sensibly eating some green veg for a change, not often observed:

 

 

and this European mole, Talpa europaea, a lucky break, caught as it fled from it's mother as she threatened to kill it.

 

Edited March 19Mar 19 by flecc

I was out in the countryside too, but with my main interest being entomology my subjects are usually smaller, like this morning's Bombylius major bee fly:

 

[ATTACH=full]65668[/ATTACH]

 

But I do also photograph the larger animals at times, including Roe Deer like this buck in my very local nature reserve, just 80 metres away from my London home:

 

[ATTACH=full]65670[/ATTACH]

 

and this Grey Squirrel sensibly eating some green veg for a change, not often observed:

 

[ATTACH=full]65671[/ATTACH]

 

and this European mole, Talpa europaea, a lucky break, caught as it fled from it's mother as she threatened to kill it.

 

[ATTACH=full]65672[/ATTACH]

 

Your photography is far better than mine. I suspect you have a proper camera. If I had taken that shot of the little buck, I'd have been very pleased and proud of it.

 

I can get to thirty metres of my deer, but the android phone camera - really the lack of a telephoto lens of any sort measn that to get a decent size, I have to use digital zoom, which lowers the resolution horribly. Last week, I was looking at a doe with my 10x50 monocular telescope and it filled the view rather like your deer. Mine was a darker colour. Then I used the camera on it and the result was comparatively poor.

 

 

Best I can get with the kit I have though. Might be better if taken as a still shot.

 

I almost slipped off a hundred foot river cliff that day trying to get that shot. The deer don;t hang out in places easy for us to get to. They are properly wild and not used to being stalked.

Edited March 19Mar 19 by Tony1951

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54kc7N7MjYk:4

Is Trump scared of Netanyahu?

He probably is.

 

Now i really can't understand that kind of thinking.

 

 

Here's why.

 

The Islamic Republic killed around 30,000 mainly young protesters on its own streets for nothing more than daring to stand with placards or chant (and in a small number of cases - a few people committed criminal acts).

 

A regime so desperate to retain its power (and control of the economy from which the upper levels cream off vast amounts of stolen money (see note below marked *) has absolutely no business killing anyone to retain power let alone 30,000 and sentencing thousands more to death, which they were doing before America and Israel got at them. We are talking mass murder carried out to retain power and wealth here.

 

Now lets look at the other side of the coin - the one you say is more culpable than the barbarism I just described.

 

You speak of Israel killing civilians in foreign territory, as if they just decided one day to do it for fun, but you don't mention the absolutely egregious, provocation of the mass murder of Israelis carried out on October 7th 2023 - 1270 people murdered, tortured, mutilated deliberately, raped and kidnapped. Of these 816 were civilians.

• 816 were civilians
  
• 59 belonged to the police
  
• 382 to the military and
  
• 13 to emergency services
  

How is it so atrocious as to be worse than murder of 30,000 of your fellow countrymen for Israel to commence a war in response to such an act? What else were they to do? Be satisfied with some finger wagging?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note*

The new Supreme Leader, son of the old Supreme Leader is according to Bloomberg, reputed to have about $3Bn in money and assets grafted out of the economy of Iran. Who knows what his old man had after thirty years in the job. The new guy was just his son and has $3Bn.

morally, i agree with you. But if you think like a trial judge who's trying to establish culpability as part of determining whether it's more in the realms of first, second degree murder or self defence, imperfect self defence it comes down to premeditation. And theres a hell of a lot more premeditation in what israel's doing in gaza than the iran regime's desperate attempts to survive. But, i agree, both are terrible atrocities.

also, the tit for tat in the middle east goes back so far that we (and our offspring) could start a separate thread and spend the next 4000 years digging up atrocities by both sides to justify whatever current killing is going on.

this is the anything thats never of subject thread, and not discussing airguns here (note sw, not combustion, which is far too complicated in uk) would leave sw out of the loop (and for complicated reasons i cant change the settings on my profile)

morally, i agree with you. But if you think like a trial judge who's trying to establish culpability as part of determining whether it's more in the realms of first, second degree murder or self defence, imperfect self defence it comes down to premeditation. And theres a hell of a lot more premeditation in what israel's doing in gaza than the iran regime's desperate attempts to survive. But, i agree, both are terrible atrocities.

also, the tit for tat in the middle east goes back so far that we (and our offspring) could start a separate thread and spend the next 4000 years digging up atrocities by both sides to justify whatever current killing is going on.

 

Again - I don't understand that judgement.

 

In one case a foul oppressive regime DELIBERATELY murders at least 30,000 protestors.

 

Why do they get a free pass? I can't understand the process by which you arrive at that? There is no excuse whatsoever - none. They murdered tens of thousands and used vile Islamic courts to convict at least hundreds more of capital crimes and started hanging them - for standing on streets with placards expressing dissent.

 

This to me is about the worst kind of crime I can imagine.

 

In the other case a state under dire threat, having suffered yet another outrage from state sponsored terrorist militias which hide among civilians decides that it will end that threat once and form all and commits itself to exterminating the force which is committed to killing all Jews and ending the state of Israel. Hamas had just exterminated 873 civilians for being Jews, and killed hundreds of police and isolated military personnel. It kidnapped many others, many of whom were later executed or killed in fighting.

 

There is some evidence of isolated war crimes committed by individuals in the IDF. These ought to be pursued and the perpetrators prosecuted. There has never ever been a war when war crimes did not happen,

 

Why would they not commit themselves to destroying HAMAS so it could never ever do that again?

 

I was many times concerned that the IDF felt it acceptable to target HAMAS when they were hiding among civilians, but as I explained in an earlier post, we British killed millions of German civilians during the bombing of WW2. When the problem is an existential threat to society, sometimes very harsh measures are taken to prevent annihilation.

Your photography is far better than mine. I suspect you have a proper camera. If I had taken that shot of the little buck, I'd have been very pleased and proud of it.

 

I do use proper cameras, since despite all the smartphone claims. they rarely measure up for wide ranging photography. But I don't use the usual big SLRs with huge lenses which are too bulky for work with small insects. My current two are a Panasonic TZ 70 pocket camera originally costing about £200 years ago, and a TZ 200, also pocket size. This latter one though is unusual in that it is a miniaturisation of one of their big crossover cameras, costing over £800 it can produce very highly detailed better quality photos than the TZ 70. And of course their Leica optical zoom lenses help a lot with distant subjects like the Roe Deer, 30 times zoom on the TZ 70, 15 times on the TZ 200.

 

And in my circumstances the deer also help me. The nature reserve is surrounded by three housing estates full of dog owners who walk their pets in the reserve, the dogs often off leash and annoyingly chasing the deer. But the deer are not dumb, they've learnt to check out approaching persons and if not with a dog like me, they allow them closer, even in intimate moments like this doe urinating relatively close to me with hind legs spread:

 

Edited March 20Mar 20 by flecc

 

electric gun

I do use proper cameras, since despite all the smartphone claims. they rarely measure up for wide ranging photography. But I don't use the usual big SLRs with huge lenses which are too bulky for work with small insects. My current two are a Panasonic TZ 70 pocket camera originally costing about £200 years ago, and a TZ 200, also pocket size. This latter one though is unusual in that it is a miniaturisation of one of their big crossover cameras, costing over £800 it can produce very highly detailed better quality photos than the TZ 70. And of course their Leica optical zoom lenses help a lot with distant subjects like the Roe Deer, 30 times zoom on the TZ 70, 15 times on the TZ 200.

 

And in my circumstances the deer also help me. The nature reserve is surrounded by three housing estates full of dog owners who walk their pets in the reserve, the dogs often off leash and annoyingly chasing the deer. But the deer are not dumb, they've learnt to check out approaching persons and if not with a dog like me, they allow them closer, even in intimate moments like this doe urinating relatively close to me with hind legs spread:

 

[ATTACH type=full" alt="Roe Deer Doe urinating.jpg]65680[/ATTACH]

The coat on that doe looks a bit rough. Does she have mange or something? It could be just moulting, but though I see them often, I don't recall ever seeing one all patchy like that.

When the problem is an existential threat to society, sometimes very harsh measures are taken to prevent annihilation.

Note how often dictators and autocratic politicians use the word 'existential threats' to terrorise millions of people. Most if not all of the times, they rely on a small minority, may be 20% at most, but of deeply committed population and often religious, to control governments and engage their countries in wars. You talk about atrocities committed against tens of thousands but do you think of the 300 millions or so displaced refugees who rely on the UN and charitable organisations to stay alive? Who put them in that situation?

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-890690

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The coat on that doe looks a bit rough. Does she have mange or something? It could be just moulting, but though I see them often, I don't recall ever seeing one all patchy like that.

 

They can look scruffy as they transition from their greyish winter coat and it's a very poor copy anyway. To grab that moment I didn't have time to zoom in so the doe was just the centre of the image inadequately focussed which I had to greatly enlarge for the copy. A bit like your problem when using a smartphone with digital zoom. The buck below is also at that stage of transition and distant, taken 13th May 2013 as it warily watched someone approaching with a dog, ignoring me without one:

 

Again - I don't understand that judgement.

 

In one case a foul oppressive regime DELIBERATELY murders at least 30,000 protestors.

 

Why do they get a free pass? I can't understand the process by which you arrive at that? There is no excuse whatsoever - none. They murdered tens of thousands and used vile Islamic courts to convict at least hundreds more of capital crimes and started hanging them - for standing on streets with placards expressing dissent.

 

This to me is about the worst kind of crime I can imagine.

 

In the other case a state under dire threat, having suffered yet another outrage from state sponsored terrorist militias which hide among civilians decides that it will end that threat once and form all and commits itself to exterminating the force which is committed to killing all Jews and ending the state of Israel. Hamas had just exterminated 873 civilians for being Jews, and killed hundreds of police and isolated military personnel. It kidnapped many others, many of whom were later executed or killed in fighting.

 

There is some evidence of isolated war crimes committed by individuals in the IDF. These ought to be pursued and the perpetrators prosecuted. There has never ever been a war when war crimes did not happen,

 

Why would they not commit themselves to destroying HAMAS so it could never ever do that again?

 

I was many times concerned that the IDF felt it acceptable to target HAMAS when they were hiding among civilians, but as I explained in an earlier post, we British killed millions of German civilians during the bombing of WW2. When the problem is an existential threat to society, sometimes very harsh measures are taken to prevent annihilation.

interesting deleted post re firearm licence etc - believe it or not, it's even stricter in calabria (one can be denied one for being a conscientious objector, or cohabiting with someone with mental illness, substance abuse issues, criminal conviction; it's valid, but burocracy in italy is a monster (it's why there's so many ruins in south italy, fixing them require permission from the burocracy, which isnt worth the grief.

given that we fundamentally disagree about the facts - numbers killed by whom, for what reason, i dont think we're going to see eye to eye. But have a look at the proportion of civilian casualties in gaza compared to other conflicts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war#:~:text=The%20model%20yields%2087.3%25%20deaths,have%20been%20given%20by%20analysts.

They can look scruffy as they transition from their greyish winter coat and it's a very poor copy anyway. To grab that moment I didn't have time to zoom in so the doe was just the centre of the image inadequately focussed which I had to greatly enlarge for the copy. A bit like your problem when using a smartphone with digital zoom. The buck below is also at that stage of transition and distant, taken 13th May 2013 as it warily watched someone approaching with a dog, ignoring me without one:

 

[ATTACH type=full" alt="Roe Deer Buck less scar.jpg]65696[/ATTACH]

 

They are great photos, in my opinion.

 

Yes - time is of the essence. My roe deer are properly wild and unused to people so that is especially true of them. That video of me walking up the steep track (and it is steep - about 40 degrees in parts) shows an area just before I usually can spot them at the top of the rise. However, a couple of times they burst out of the scrub at the bottom of that hill and literally bounded up the track and were out of sight in about three seconds. Phone in pocket, not ready, no video.....

They are great photos, in my opinion.

 

Thank you.

 

Around the millennium time, long before smartphones and broadband here, I laboriously created a website of my area's wildlife in South London and nearby parts of Surrey and Kent using Windows 98 and a 56k modem. I must have had the patience of a saint back then!

 

It's still online using the same small early digital images and cameras, 3 megapixels or less and maximum 3 times zoom! Still looks respectable though, just YouTube failing to keep some of the early videos working but the stills still fine. It may interest you, here's the link

.

Thank you.

 

Around the millennium time, long before smartphones and broadband here, I laboriously created a website of my area's wildlife in South London and nearby parts of Surrey and Kent using Windows 98 and a 56k modem. I must have had the patience of a saint back then!

 

It's still online using the same small early digital images and cameras, 3 megapixels or less and maximum 3 times zoom! Still looks respectable though, just YouTube failing to keep some of the early videos working but the stills still fine. It may interest you, here's the link

.

 

That website is remarkable - especially considering the technology of the time. I looked at all of it and will save the link.

 

Well done - I'd say. Super pictures those-

 

Right - it is sunny, so I am going to ride my e-bike along to the next village where I keep my motorbikes at my partner's place, (she won't be there as she is in Singapore just now) and am going to take a spin on the Royal Enfield Classic 350.

Funny signs -