General News Thread

[DJW1]

7 hours ago, st albans fox said:

quite a ride !
 

"Thank you for travelling with flydubai. We hope you have enjoyed the journey and hope to see you again soon on another flydubai flight."

[st albans fox]

2 hours ago, Sly said:

Sounds like one pilot pulled a knife on the other and tried to ditch the plane. 
 

The cockpit door has somehow opened and a reserve crew were on the aeroplane and have somehow managed to get it back stable. 

Passenger interviewed said that the pilot being attacked managed to release the door lock to allow entry 

 

reading stuff about the incident - perhaps the most astonishing thing was the plane surviving the nose dive of 14000ft in around 30 seconds. Apparently it’s simply not built to withstand such forces. 
 

Flydubai should not have had an Omani pilot on this route, it’s outside the agreement between UAE/israel where pilots from countries who don’t have diplomatic relations with Israel aren’t allowed to fly there. 

Edited 30 September by st albans fox

[Trav Le Bleu]

48 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Passenger interviewed said that the pilot being attacked managed to release the door lock to allow entry 

 

reading stuff about the incident - perhaps the most astonishing thing was the plane surviving the nose dive of 14000ft in around 30 seconds. Apparently it’s simply not built to withstand such forces. 
 

Flydubai should not have had an Omani pilot on this route, it’s outside the agreement between UAE/israel where pilots from countries who don’t have diplomatic relations with Israel aren’t allowed to fly there. 

One would imagine that, around the world, there are pilots of certain nationalities that aren't allowed to fly in certain countries.

 

 

[davieG]

Where's the Money Gone

 

[st albans fox]

27 minutes ago, davieG said:

Where's the Money Gone

 

And none of them want to buy a football club ?.(bezos - I know) 

[Trav Le Bleu]

7 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

And none of them want to buy a football club ?.(bezos - I know) 

Fit and proper?

[deep blue]

9 hours ago, Robo61 said:

Except of course  we were the very people who voted for those governments.   Also for the vast majority of our working lives there was no promise of a triple lock for pensions.   Burnham’s proposals for the state pension are more generous than the vast majority of previous governments.   

Who are the "we" you are talking about? Another sweeping statement with no specifics.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Well hello, Mr Faro...

 

Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare | Elon Musk | The Guardian

 

https://share.google/kiNutd5I0AuqtmxKy

 

 

[Zear0]

8 hours ago, davieG said:

Where's the Money Gone

 

Always found it mad that Lisa and Jensen are cousins and run rival chip makers.

[leicsmac]

31 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Well hello, Mr Faro...

 

Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare | Elon Musk | The Guardian

 

https://share.google/kiNutd5I0AuqtmxKy

 

 

Hegseth might actually be more dangerous than Trump at the moment.

 

His religious zealotry is far more active and he's clearly tried to position himself as the de facto head of the US Armed Forces. Bringing Mr Faro into the equation is just the cherry on top of the danger. 

[Jon the Hat]

9 hours ago, davieG said:

Where's the Money Gone

 

Our pensions have grown with it.  Bubble much?

[Trav Le Bleu]

14 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Hegseth might actually be more dangerous than Trump at the moment.

 

His religious zealotry is far more active and he's clearly tried to position himself as the de facto head of the US Armed Forces. Bringing Mr Faro into the equation is just the cherry on top of the danger. 

Very much life imitating art.

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

Our pensions have grown with it.  Bubble much?

Anyone else worried? 

[davieG]

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'Ending' the State Pension triple lock: what is really likely to happen? Many are confused, and think the State Pension won't rise. Actually the change is subtle, it's about loosening, not ending, one of the three locks - the link to average earnings. So I want to try to explain as simply as I can.

PS feel free to share this as there's much confusion.

CURRENT TRIPLE LOCK

The State Pension(s) rise each April by highest of:

- 2.5%

- CPI inflation

- Average earnings growth

[State Pension(s) as it applies to the new State Pension and older basic State Pension. Though not the old additional State Pensions (eg SERPS) and a few other additional pension which only go up with CPI. The new system will likely be similar.]

PROPOSED NEW SYSTEM

The State Pension(s) will rise each April by at least the higher of:

- 2.5%

- CPI inflation

The 'at least' is because it will also rise due to average earnings, but not specifically for that year instead over a longer period.

Yet the exact mechanisms aren't set out, so I'm going to use one example of a way it could work, where the rise keeps up with average earnings since the system start date of 2030, as I think its easier to understand.

HOW THIS COULD WORK IN PRACTICE

Here's a made up example to set it out...

Current System:

Year 1: Inflation 3%, earnings up 2%. Pension rises 3%.

Year 2: Inflation 4%, earnings up 6%. Pension rises 6%.

Year 3: Inflation 3%, earnings up 1%. Pension rises 3%.

TOTAL RISE: 12.5% over the 3yrs as the increases compound.

New system:

Year 1: Inflation 3%, earnings up 2%. So it rises 3%.

Year 2: Inflation 4%, earnings up 6%.

A rise of only 4% would be a total rise since the start of 7.1%, yet that's less than the total rise in average earnings of 8.1%. So the Pension would rise about 5% that year to match the total rise in average earnings.

Year 3: Inflation 3%, earnings up 1%, so it rises by 3%.

TOTAL RISE: 11.4% over the three years

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I hope that makes sense, again this is just a rough example to give you an idea as best as I understand it, but I think I'm in the ballpark.

[slymunn]

2 hours ago, Zear0 said:

Always found it mad that Lisa and Jensen are cousins and run rival chip makers.

Its like Adidas and Puma, or Theakston and Black Sheep 

 

 

 

[orangecity23]

Off topic but on the subject of family rival businesses, the Story of the Mars family is another interesting one, with the son leaving the USA to come here where he developed the Mars bar, before eventually going back and taking over the family firm. 

 

Also kind of explains why USA doesn't have Mars bars, but their Milky Way tastes like our mars bar (to get something like a British Milky Way, you need to buy a Three Musketeers bar instead).

 

 

 

 

[Robo61]

11 hours ago, deep blue said:

Who are the "we" you are talking about? Another sweeping statement with no specifics.

Clearly the we,  is us Boomers, apologies if I've read the room wrong and you don't fall in that category.  Personally I don't like such labels as it lumps us all together and in actual fact I have never voted for Governments who sold the family silver.  As for sweeping statements,  I must of missed the specifics in your post.    

[BKLFox]

The first 700 of 4,500 early release prisoners let out today & don’t they look pleased with themselves.

MPs say they have put in intensive supervision and tracking measures.

Prisoners say they chucked this ankle bracelet on me and said away you go.

 

Still beds going begging now so best be careful on what you say.

[Super_horns]

More arrests in the RAF “terrorist” case .

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmdx5xw36492o

Edited 1 October by Super_horns

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, Super_horns said:

More arrests in the RAF “terrorist” case .

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmdx5xw36492o

This arrest could be the person who was organising the five on their MI6 trolling mission 

[Free Falling Foxes]

This botched execution in the states. Witnesses have said she complained of a burning sensation and that her arm felt it was going to explode.

My understanding was that they administer 3 powerful drugs: one is anesthetic that knocks you out. The second stops your breathing and the third, your heart.

Clearly she was still conscious, so things went wrong at the very start.

Barbaric.

[Foxdiamond]

10 hours ago, Robo61 said:

Clearly the we,  is us Boomers, apologies if I've read the room wrong and you don't fall in that category.  Personally I don't like such labels as it lumps us all together and in actual fact I have never voted for Governments who sold the family silver.  As for sweeping statements,  I must of missed the specifics in your post.    

Yes such a lazy method to lump people together.  Not like all pensioners have the same lifestyle assets etc. when folk try to say we all voted for selling the silver or Thatcher and what followed is wrong too. Unfortunately with our first past the post system and that Labour was in serious disarray the Conservatives did what they wanted much to my everlasting chagrin 

[Rubbersoul]

if you had to pick one surely firing squad is the best method. It’s probably how I’d go out 

[deep blue]

52 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Yes such a lazy method to lump people together.  Not like all pensioners have the same lifestyle assets etc. when folk try to say we all voted for selling the silver or Thatcher and what followed is wrong too. Unfortunately with our first past the post system and that Labour was in serious disarray the Conservatives did what they wanted much to my everlasting chagrin 

Exactly.

[lcfcell]

the current situation in France is a good case study of 2nd & 3rd generation immigrants who absolutely hate the country they live in. 
 

They don’t have a future and they know it so they just cause as much trouble as possible.