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Peter Lawrence retweeted
Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
Aeliana is now 1/7 in Melb and has been beaten at her last six attempts in a row there. Of course all of those have been in Spring. Perhaps she is just a better horse in the Autumn or maybe the Sydney way, although her Carbine win two years ago was terrific 🤷♂️
The only way Proxima Dea doesn’t win the Oaks is if she either doesn’t start or breaks down in the race. Her form is so vastly superior to the Melb fillies. Biggest moral since Samantha Miss ran third in the Cox Plate on her way to the Oaks. 2.30 is an absolute gimme.
So many people believing their selection was correct in the Cox Plate, but the tempo/ride cost them a win. It was run at fast pace and every horse had its chance. Went too fast/ was ridden too close/should have waited longer, etc etc. the horse that ran the faster time over the distance finished first. THAT’S THE RACE! The pace shape was well known in advance. You cannot win at punting in the long run unless you accept what actually happened and when you just plain got it wrong.
Special shout out to those in the insane asylum who backed CC at Ascot in Nov when he was twice rolled over at 1.40 and 1.80 in Gp3 company 🙏
Is the person in charge of the official prices on a little comm from the corps? Virtually every bookie in the land was 23.0 or 26.0 the winner in Sydney but best fluc reported at 21.0. It was actually the WORST price available anywhere 👎
Peter Lawrence retweeted
I’m stunned that Kerrin McEvoy had 3600 rides over 6 years without a whip infringement but couldn’t get a concession of 1 meeting when it comes to penatly at an appeal.
The system is clearly broken in Victoria when a panel refuses to acknowledge an incredibly good record
37 mls of irrigation for the week. 6mls overnight. Zero rainfall. Perfectly fine week. 🤷♂️
If you wonder where your hard earned tax dollars go, latest auditor general report from Vic COVID response. . $771m of unused PPE equipment written off. $397m paid to ineligible recipients in grants out of a total of $12b. All in all $40 billion was spent on the Covid response in Vic which ironically left the Vic economy on its knees. 🤷♂️ But, if you are a single Mum and you worked a few extra hours for cash in hand, woe betide you. They will be onto that $60 of lost revenue like lightning.
It just doesn’t make sense that all the high paid execs at Tabcorp, introduced the one pool without being aware of the corps offering the bonuses. As in, literally doesn’t make sense. Surely, they weren’t so naive to realities of the wagering landscape? Somebody must have said, hang on……
Those Brisbane track managers must be having withdrawal symptoms this week. Looks like they won’t be able to water at all, (just to be on the safe side,) with tracks heavy and more rain forecast. Thoughts and prayers.
Five years in jail for not paying income tax on $1m 🤷♂️
Richard Hatch won $1,000,000 on the first season of Survivor. The IRS says he now owes $3.3 million on it.
51 million people watched him win in August 2000. He never paid the tax on the prize.
His defense: he says he caught producers sneaking food to other players, and the show promised to cover his taxes if he won. CBS never commented. The appeals court said he never showed any proof of a deal.
In 2006 a jury convicted him. He served 51 months in federal prison. In 2011 he went back for nine more, for not fixing his returns.
Then the bill kept growing.
This March, 26 years after the finale, a federal judge let the IRS collect about $3.3 million with interest. The government put liens on two of his homes in Newport. He is appealing on his own, without a lawyer.
In the video below he explains why he thinks the tax was never his to pay.
"The taxes on the million were required by law… to have been paid to Malaysia before we left the island… by CBS or Mark Burnett."
The case for Hatch: if the show made that promise, he was set up. The case for the IRS: a $1 million check is income. Everyone else pays theirs.
Was the first Survivor winner played by the show, or did he try to outwit the wrong player?
Identical situation last week with Sheza Alibi returning 1.01 for the place in a pay 1-2 situation. The place percentage for the other runners (final) was 115%. So, 215% overall. SA real price must have been .80. So, with the 10-15% rebate, rebate bettors got 1.10 or 1.15, rank and file totally shafted with money back. Fixed odds was 1.10. Classic example of how regular punters actually just paid the 10% rebate to the whales. It’s a scandal but simply not one outlet remotely interested in exposing this rort.
Something interesting from The Everest on Saturday.
The World Pool WIN market displayed on Sky just before the jump was 113.55%.
The FINAL dividends produced a market of 121.38%.
Ka Ying Rising remained at $1.04 throughout, but was his actual pool price considerably shorter than the minimum displayed dividend?
Is this a consequence of rounding, late pool reconciliation, or something else?
Whatever the explanation, that's a HUGE difference between the market punters were shown at the jump and the dividends ultimately declared.
Would love to understand exactly what's happening here #TheGreatGame
Peter Lawrence retweeted
2 weeks ago TAB launched One Pool in an attempt to grow liquidity in the pools, which has been declining due to the rise of fixed odds. Consolidation is a band aid, it won’t stop the bleeding.
(1/9)🧵In this thread I’ll explain the best change TAB could make to save the tote.
Peter Lawrence retweeted
How can anyone take anything away from that win of Tempted? No one thought the rail was a help. Hes ridden her upside down, hit the front very early. Headwall has got home just about every bit as good as KYR & 3WWC is hardly a huge negative at Randwick. Full credit to the mare!
Can anyone identify exactly how it was decided that Brisbane racing would always be conducted on soft ground? Just a mere one mil of rain last 24 hours but the track manager says “likely to stay in the soft range all day ,” even without the forecast possible seven mils of rain today. 🤷♂️
Peter Lawrence retweeted
1. Our skeletons are wet.
2. Your nose is ALWAYS in your line of sight, but your brain ignores it.
3. When you receive a donated kidney, they don't take out the bad one. They just add the good one in.
4. Your immune system doesn't know you have eyes. Otherwise, it would attack them and make you blind. Injuring one eye can introduce eye bits to the bloodstream and basically give your immune system the knowledge of having eyes. Then it might decide it really fucking hates that and attack your non-injured eye.
5. The quality of the male sperm is responsible for morning sickness, preeclampsia, baby's gender and almost every single pregnancy related issue.
6. You breathe through one nostril at a time. Don't believe me? Put your finger below your nose and try.
7. The brain itself has no nerve endings, so it can't feel pain. That's why patients can be wide awake during brain surgery and made to perform certain actions.
8. That ringing in silence isn't silence. When everything is quiet and you hear a faint ringing? That's your brain listening to its own nervous system. You are hearing yourself functioning.
9. You will never experience your own death. You only experience approaching it... Then nothing. Everyone else gets closure, stories, funerals, and memories. You don't. You never know you've become a memory. From your perspective, the story just stops mid-sentence.
Peter Lawrence retweeted
Wow. Back in 2017, Volkswagen’s CEO absolutely ridiculed Elon Musk and Tesla with a breathtaking level of arrogance, compounded by that typically German air of smug superiority. Here's a translation:
"Well, I suppose I have to say a few words about Tesla. With all due respect, there are companies out there that are world champions at making grand announcements. I won't name names.
There are companies that struggle to sell 80,000 cars a year. Volkswagen sold 11 million that year. Then there are companies like Volkswagen that generate €13 or €14 billion in annual profits. And if I'm correctly informed, Tesla is burning through hundreds of millions of euros every quarter, while firing employees whenever it feels like it.
As for any sense of social responsibility, I'm not sure where that comes into the picture.
So I would ask everyone to get a sense of perspective here and stop comparing apples with oranges."
Nine years later, Volkswagen is heading for the scrapheap of history, while Elon is making cars fly.
Not a bad trick when there are only 195 in the world!
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