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.... all over by about full time in the City game?

Right. It's rare that humans should or do abandon tech advances when the much better alternative of actually getting the people applying it to be competent at it exists.

Shame about that last match but a position where you only need 4 points from 12 to win on Sunday - well, you'd take that. Front load to finish things up ASAP or save the bigger players for later matches?

Sadly that's been the guiding star of practically every major power for a long time. Valuing material wealth more than human life, especially when that human life is beyond line of sight.

Folks that read the Heil and the Exprarse and believe much of what they say, clearly. Not sure how many of that demographic there are here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66950930 Many astronomers are no longer asking whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe. The question on their minds is instead: when will we find it? Many are optimistic of detecting life signs on a faraway world within our lifetimes - possibly in the next few years. All that's left is actually finding it, I reckon. Hopefully on Europa or Enceladus.

Has anyone checked to see if Rahm is in fact a cyborg model from Cyberdyne Industries? Terminator accuracy.

Yeah, but then how are they supposed to get away with calling it "artisan" or some other bollocks and charge double for it?

This could be an absolute pasting. What's the record?

In that case, here's hoping they don't approach any kind of number that can affect policy decisions.

Well, Team Europe certainly have had worse days!

I'd like to hope that most of those "people" don't in fact exist and are bot factories for the purpose of wilful misinformation, but who knows?

How incredibly sad that such a reply is even necessary. Such purveyors of misinformation have a lot to answer for.

In this specific case, I'd agree. I was more addressing the generalisations floated in the thread earlier. That's why IMO a two pronged approach is needed - more social opportunities to decrease the level of general crime, and harsh punishments when someone is clearly doing it just to abuse the power they have.

It's a pain in the arse to be sure, but I also think it's probably a necessary one. Also, the banks know they're on the hook for any money lost through fraud, so they're going to do stuff like this to minimise it, I guess.

Social deprivation and poverty is the biggest motivator for crime, and next to no one in such environments carries out criminal acts purely for their own sake - that's much more the reserve of the already powerful looking to abuse their power. Offer those disadvantaged more social opportunities and crime will drop, and I'm pretty sure there's evidence for that. Purely out of interest, what is your take?

If there is a more plausible reason for such horrible acts, let's hear it.

The past rather clearly shows harsh punishments by themselves do not deter crime. There needs to be better support structures to address the root causes, unless one wants to write off large swathes of the population as inherently criminal and lock them all up.

On the topic of the fallen tree, I'm reminded of the last part of the Lord of the Rings - the "Scouring of the Shire" - where agents of Saruman cut down trees and spoil the land in the Shire, not for any real gain in the long run, but purely out of spite. This sounds very much like that - just spite.

Do hope Japan can do it.

No sicker that what has preceded it. People just like to romanticise the past.

Fair, though I think the Ryder Cup has its own uniqueness in that regard too. But it's always nice to do so, especially when they can be as egotistical as the American golfers.

Something about the Ryder Cup really brings out the parochialism in folks that really don't like European identity practically everywhere else. But that's great! Bring it on, especially when we're tanning the arrogant Americans...

That would imply whoever did it had some smarts, which makes it worse.