Locks are for honest people.

I suspect with the impetus to move business out of China, Vietnam may get a lot more business...

@taiwan_girl said in The Little People:

@Jolly said in The Little People:

Steppin' Out With My Baby, in Easter Parade

That was a fun dance scene to watch.

BTW, because of illness (IIRC), Ann Miller was a last minute substitution in that movie, which helped launch her MGM career.

Just not interested in much of any social issues or causes. Never have been.

@LuFins-Dad said in Trump loses in NY:

https://babylonbee.com/news/4d-chess-trump-makes-mar-a-lago-worth-500-million-by-hanging-up-3-hunter-biden-paintings

The art of the deal!

RIP, Sailor.

Randomly watched a bit of The Godfather again tonight. It finally occurred to me that the restaurant assassination scene makes no sense. Since the Corleones knew where the meeting would be, they could have just ambushed them there. No need for Michael to risk it alone. Sonny even suggests they shoot them in the car at the pickup spot until Hagen says the targets might not even be in the car. So an ambush is already on the table and considered reasonable. Why not do it at the restaurant?

No doubt.

Yup, it is a big problem in most developed countries.

@Jolly said in The Chip Gaines Problem:

If the government owns part of the company, is it truly a private company?

Hmm tough question. I think of a private company is one that no-one can own any part of it except by "invitation". But if someone "invited" the government to have 10% of it, ......

Dont know.

@horace Thanks for the info. Makes sense.

@George-K said in Cheerleaders!:

Good thing that was a football game. If it was an indoor basketball game, it could have been a tragic and horrific event.

Saw that on the news. From the size it must have been a concrete saw. Enough to ruin your day really well.

@George-K said in A Simple Solution:

Any meaningful comparison has to compare the populations.

Would it be possible that the population in Denmark is just a wee bit more homogeneous than that in, say, Chicago?

I've been told that London is a warzone filled with police no-go areas, and Birmingham is 100% Muslim 😀

I know, you're right. It's apples and oranges. However, it's possible it's not just the populations that are different, but the attitude of the powers that be of how best to deal with the problem.

I don't think it's homogeneousness (is that a word?) so much as the culture - London is cosmopolitan, but doesn't have the same issues and gang crime, at least to anywhere near the same level.

His cousin was awesome, she kept it together so well.

lol @Doctor-Phibes

I normally don’t either, but this was quite refreshing.

Putin said that the warnings that the US sent about a possible terrorist attack were not specific.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/02/us-warning-russia-isis-crocus/?utm_campaign=wp_for_you&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_personalizedforyou&utm_content=readinghistory__position2

More than two weeks before terrorists staged a bloody attack in the suburbs of Moscow, the U.S. government told Russian officials that Crocus City Hall, a popular concert venue, was a potential target, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The high degree of specificity conveyed in the warning underscores Washington’s confidence that the Islamic State was preparing an attack that threatened large numbers of civilians, and it directly contradicts Moscow’s claims that the U.S. warnings were too general to help preempt the assault.

The U.S. identification of the Crocus concert hall as a potential target — a fact that has not been previously reported — raises new questions about why Russian authorities failed to take stronger measures to protect the venue, where gunmen killed more than 140 people and set fire to the building. A branch of the Islamic State has taken credit for the attack, the deadliest in Russia in 20 years. U.S. officials have publicly said the group, known as Islamic State-Khorasan, or ISIS-K, “bears sole responsibility,” but Russian President Vladimir Putin has tried to pin the blame on Ukraine.

The attack has further dented the image of strength and security that the Russian leader seeks to convey and exposed fundamental weaknesses in the nation’s security apparatus, which has been consumed by more than two years of war in Ukraine. Domestically, Putin’s operatives appear more concerned with silencing political dissent and opposition to the president than rooting out terrorist plots, according to analysts and observers of Russian politics.

The Russian leader himself publicly dismissed U.S. warnings just three days before the March 22 attack, calling them “outright blackmail” and attempts to “intimidate and destabilize our society.”