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by Ernie
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:06 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 73
Views: 1091

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Fun fact: Ships these days are organised into their own LLC or the foreign equivalent thereof. Liability for an accident is limited to just the value of the shop and its cargo - after the accident, not before. Very convenient that a mega giant like Maersk can evade taking basically any responsibili...
by Ernie
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:04 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 73
Views: 1091

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

The DALI ship had supposedly filled up its fuel tank before leaving the Port. How much to fill the tank on a container ship that is only half the size of the world's largest container ships? 1.5 million gallons. How long does it take a ship like the Dali to consume that much fuel? 24 days. The DALI ...
by Ernie
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:01 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 73
Views: 1091

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Judas Maccabeus wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:09 pmPoliticians are squabbling, as they do. My new prediction of a replacement bridge-Not in my lifetime.
I say Amen to this guy's recommendation.
by Ernie
Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:58 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Evil and Violence
Replies: 14
Views: 210

Re: Evil and Violence

The government is the people that you and your fellow citizens elected. You have just as much culpability in the decisions that they make as some cook on a Navy vessel does when it comes to the decisions that his military leadership makes. Not if I didn't help elect a government. I would prefer a g...
by Ernie
Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:48 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Evil and Violence
Replies: 14
Views: 210

Re: Evil and Violence

Your thoughts?
by Ernie
Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Anabaptist History Series - 2024
Replies: 7
Views: 272

Re: Anabaptist History Series - 2024

This evening at 7:30 ET, is the next history session with Edsel Burdge.

Beginning of Believers’ Baptism in Zurich, 1525-1527: Grebel, Manz, and Blaurock

See livestream and call-in info here. https://www.plainnews.org/2024/02/22/an ... urse-2024/
by Ernie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:48 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 73
Views: 1091

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

These sorts of events are always interesting to me in that they show how FAST we can actually get things done in this country when we actually want to. Yes. Take for example the I-95 bridge collapse in Philly last year, which was replaced in TWELVE DAYS. not replaced. Just filled in with gravel and...
by Ernie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:53 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 73
Views: 1091

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Slow motion and narrative.