Kattte Forum Posts (759)

RE: Your Guess What Happened to Flight 370

That is a dream that belongs, unfortunately, in "Never-never Land' as the post above testifies to; the immediate knee-jerk of resorting to name calling.
Whether it be posters or politicians, it would be heartening in this day and age for all who 'speak' in public to show some temerity and actually stand up for their beliefs, regardless of how offensive they may be. To take offence is being subjective. Immediately disowning statements almost as soon as they are made, is rather childish pandering and shows an intellectual shortcoming if one cannot stand by one's true beliefs, even if they do cause offence. (The only ones that come to mind for that are the group of the Westboro Church, which in most cases against them, the courts have ruled in their favour!
I see no reason why an offensive position or remark made in earnest should ever become defensive. Stand your ground or is that saying only applicable in Florida...:laugh

RE: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Good questions especially about any cargo. And, as far as I haven't seen, is exactly how much fuel was taken on. Some say only enough for the round trip to China and back, but others say no one knows for sure and no one has even mentioned a fuel count...gee, even gas stations have fuel pumps that keep track of how much one puts into a car...

RE: Your Guess What Happened to Flight 370

A Good laugh is correct; we are basically to Article 19 of the UN Charter of Human Rights ,which most here seem to totally ignore and ,in fact, hold in contempt, especially when anyone expresses a view/ opinion contrary to the herd view of things. The implication that to post an opinion, one MUST be PC to the prevailing herd driven viewpoint.
Article 19 of the UN Charter on Human Rights reads: :Everyone has the right of Freedom of opinion and expression. This right includes Freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through media and regardless of frontiers."
Perhaps the various herds of Borg types that insist one must comply to the prevailing views have a totally different version though searching for it has proven unsuccessful. One must then imagine what it could read like, for instance: "Everyone has the right to Freedom of opinion and expression only if it is in full compliance of the majority view which is mandatory and not subject to violation of majority viewpoints on any and all subjects. This Right includes freedom to hold opinions but not to post them for if one does, retribution in the usual forms of bullying will commence. One may not imp art non majority views, information or ideas contrary to the afore mentioned herd driven PC opinions. regardless of any moral right or wrong. Poster will obey and comply or be driven away."
Such is the climate for 'controversial topics' as some see and or experience them, seemingly, especially by those who are the first and loudest in proclaiming the right to expression of opinion on any topic. Seems to be an old, old complaint by many here in reading older posts as well as newer ones. I loathe conformity and intellectual terrorism and those who demand it.

RE: Your Guess What Happened to Flight 370

"Under the sand...."??
An old 'detective series called Banacek with George Peppard, had that already as a plot line...try again, but not hiding it underwater, that was Operation Thunderball; Jamesie Bondy to da rescue of a nuclear armed British Fighter jet...and it's not on the Moon either; The Globe used that several years ago, with 'photos' of a B29 on the Moon's surface...

RE: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

So many theories....yes and quite a few script writers , even play writes, not to mention fiction writers are busy typing away for new rip-off style schlock movies based on this still unfolding mystery. If Twilight Zone were still on TV, we'd get a similar story, I'm sure. I have 2 acquaintances who are trying for movie scripts and they know several others 2 of whom have already submitted their ideas and script outlines to a few film companies and to one studio in Hollywood...it is a race for these people to sell a good script/story on this while they can. It figures One can only imagine the titles...taken by UFO's?? Absolutely! It's how I first broke into the writing business...

RE: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Is anyone putting bets on with the bookies in Vegas as to the eventual outcomes/ solving this mystery??
After careful consideration of most likely scenario, fuel ranges at various speeds, altitudes, including a hundred feet over the water, abilities for any 'terror group' to have infiltrated agents into the passengers, etc. I put a measly $100 on Al Shabaab and the plane heading for Somali as it's final destination. Odds were for this, about 5000 to one...I like long-shots...

RE: Name a Greek word in English,used in your own language.Part 2

With all the people who can actually cook a good meal, I;m sure that Coriander and Rigani has been already mentioned; coriander is derived from the Greek koris, meaning bed-bug because of the smell of the leaves... Still, it is the mostly used flavouring plants around the world.
Rigani is used for flavouring meat dishes; dried leaves and flowers of Mediterranean marjoram, stronger and sharper than wild or sweet marjoram. Most grocery stores never carry it in their spice aisles and one must search out a Greek or Cypriot shop or a Greek market somewhere in your city. It is much better than what most people here use as a substitute like oregano, which really belongs to Italian cooking.

RE: Why do people still believe in God?

I recall the 2 opposing flashing signs at Piccadilly Square in London many years ago: on one side it was "God Is Dead", Nietzsche, on the opposite side was "Nietzsche Is Dead", God. One may as well ask , Why Does God still believe in People? I certainly wouldn't bother; same as with trust; I would trust people to always do the wrong thing...That's life.

RE: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

The US military has apparently examined the Malaysian Military radar findings and have confirmed that they did pick up the airliner turning and flying across the Straits of Malacca toward the Indian Ocean. The flight range would have been about 2500 miles, enough to make landfall into India. This smells like a hijack. If so, someone may have an airliner to potentially use as a flying bomb. Then again, it may land, reel and fly on to Somali...courtesy of the Al Shabaab/ Al Queida group...or then again, the plane may have had to ditch for some reason and sunk...oh well, back to the drawing boards. Any satellites looking along the coastline of India?

RE: Greatest Metal Band ever?

Storm Troopers Of Death

RE: How many of you are 100% true to ur profile?

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RE: Plays and Books

Some years ago The Diary of... was produced as an underwater ballet...go figure, I just can't imagine it...
Back in the 80's a writer, can't exactly recall if they were Israeli or Palestinian produced a version set in Gaza, with Anne Frank as a Palestinian girl hiding from the Israeli soldiers...It caused a lot of trouble. It was raided and shut down in Jerusalem, then banned. It had a profound effect on the Israeli peace movement and got a lot more people on their side.
For myself, the first play that I really loved that I read was Edward Albee's The American Dream. Years later I saw it in NY and loved it more; it was all so true. Albee was a brilliant playwright . For me it was his best. I've seen a couple of French films that could have easily been either a prelude or a further continuance of this play...just so hilarious when people's behaviour is depicted.
Books, I could easily list several dozen, all in widely different fields.

RE: Mars

Some of the more literary types may wish to have a look at the book entitled "The Mars Mystery" by noted British author Graham Hancock...absolutely fascinating as what NASA and others have found. The more profound book out on Mars is by the Society For Planetary SETI Research; Scientists Examine the Evidence for Alien Artifacts on Mars: The Case For The Face...a bit pricey though.

RE: Mars

NASA can't even find signs of 'intelligent' life on Earth...hopeless

RE: Best Burger

Not 'he'...she; from L'cole Cordon Blue en Paris et Les Cours aussi.

RE: Best Burger

The only Good burgers that I remember were the ones at Po' Boys down in New Orleans and the 'mini' hamburgers from some chain called Little Tavern Restaurants.
The 'name-brand' types on the list really depend on the cookers and the patties. Burger King, in some locations for instance, burgers were a delight; nice and juicy; in other places/ towns, they were horrible; like died out leather soggy from old tomatoes, etc.
The worst I ever had; twice in different places, were from a Hardee or Harvey's. I gave them back...I won't set foot in a Mac's for anything, even a napkin or to use the washroom...the smell is sickening. All the others, either I've never heard of them or have never seen them. Home made? Every truck stop between NYC and New Orleans was a delight for burgers and fried chicken! I miss places like that here. The best one in years, I found at a little diner in the middle of absolutely no where, near the Montana border...the cook had her diploma on the wall from the best chef school in France...go figure..Damn, now I'm actually hungry for one!

RE: The Good Old Times / Le Bon Vieux Temps ........

Both Music and colour have always been used for therapy; for both positive and negative results; sound/colour. Colours have their own sound and as far as I know, one of the great 'lost treasures' of the Renaissance is still Leonardo De Vinci book of what colours sounded like as he made listings with musical notations
"... due to my duty of Reserve...... " ??? Character ou service militaire?

RE: The Good Old Times / Le Bon Vieux Temps ........

If those selections were meant for me... oh mon Dieux!
I remember a few that I really liked, like Eddie Mitchel and his versions of all of Chuck Berry and Little Richard's songs; Johnny Halliday did the ones from Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis...I had quite a few of their albums. Some American friends just stared open mouthed at hearing those songs in French! They were great.
The first singer I remember hearing was Edith Piaf. My mother took me to one of her performances and I certainly remember her song of the war in Algeria...Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien...it played day and night on the radio...dedicated to the Legion Etranger as Paris braced for their paras to drop and get rid of De Gaulle...Our neighbors were recently arrived "Pieds-Noirs" from Algerie, they were for the Armee Secret and against Algerian independence. "OAS" was spray painted everywhere on walls...I think I still have a copy of France-Soir announcing Algerian Independence on the front page...so many people wanted the entire French Army to mutiny and join the Legion and the OAS...when I visited our home for the last time in "69, I was still able to see OAS on some walls and my favourite Cafe's Jukebox still had the old Chuck Berry and Elvis records in it...seemed as though Time had stopped in some ways; wish it had...My mother couldn't wait ti sell our house and all contents went to auction...I'm lucky to have grabbed what I could when I found out, as I was living in Munchen at the time.
She never even considered giving me the house...she couldn't wait ti leave France after her mother died. There went the only roots I ever had. Merde.
Now, at long last, your turn, tell me about yourself, please... No more about me; I'm dull, boring, etc. etc. etc.

RE: A heredity head of state or an elected one.???

Hint: (in general) The novel,(1963) and then film "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home",(1965) starring Richard Crenna, Shirley MacLaine and Peter Ustinov comes to mind...It created a political furor and one country's monarch demanded that the US Govt. immediately ban it. They acquiesced and pulled it from all theatres everywhere. For all I know, it may still be banned as several years ago, I tried finding a copy and no one either had heard of it or could find a copy...shame, it was hilarious!

RE: If the world was forced to speak one language what would it be ?

Since you only listed English, I guess that leaves all those who speak 'americanese' out. Tsk, tsp, such an uncompromising altitude...

RE: 2 people who we can do without in Canada

As far as I'm concerned, Harper is just a lost Bush clone that people have forgotten to throw into the garbage bin. He also reminds me of what some called Nixon; 'a popsie-doll'...frozen flavoured water pop cycle on a stick. Nothing of any value/ empty; useless.
As far as Trudeau goes, his wife would have made a far more interesting PM for this country...

RE: Who discovered the computer ? and when?

Came across this entry for 1943, December Code breakers at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire came up with an electronic machine to break cypher codes called Colossus, a 1500 valve machine that fills an entire room is also claimed to be the world's first programable computer; the first to use digital computer valves. It took 30 minutes to crack one coded message. This was no where near a table top or personal sized computer.
The replica of the Z,(Z1) computer is at the German Technology Museum along with models of the Z2 and Z3's which were far better. The Z1 was all electric; used Boolean Logic and Binary floating numbers. It would fit on an average sized dinning table, rather than take up an entire room. Konrad Zuse then kept making other models smaller. Interesting inventor this man.
For some reason, I had thought that one candidate would be Nicholas Tesla for sure...sort of surprised that he hadn't tried as he was such a noted visionary and electrical genius.

RE: The Good Old Times / Le Bon Vieux Temps ........

Avec regrette, j' nais pas l'habitude a parlez en Francais; quelque-fois, pour une minute ou deux. J'ai oubliez jusqua tout. C'est pas besoin ici; meme chose avec Alemagne. Polski et las Russe aussi et perdue...Shona aussi.
I put my 2 children in total French immersion starting in nursery school and kindergarten My daughter attended schools in Bretagne, in Nantes, I believe, then one year at the Sorbon. The technological language gave her too much trouble and she dropped out. Last summer my son while visiting in Switzerland stopped in Paris and ran into her He lives in Victoria and attends college on Vancouver Island and she at tends classes in Calgary. Last time I was in Europe was in 2007; took my son to Berlin and Munich to get a feel for his ancestral homeland and see where I used to live. When we lived just outside Paris, my mother would take me with her to Nice, Cannes, St. Tropez, Joie le Pins (?) et Monte Carlo...me under the card table! She used to belong to the Cafes/ Tennis/ Artiste crowd before the war and was good friends with most of the Artistes who were quite famous. Of course, all that changed with the occupation and 'things never went back' to pre-war days.
"Politically correctness" is a desease of fear put unto people. Even from childhood, I would rebel at these hideous manifestation. I remain politically incorrect and am proud of it. Tampis.
If people don't like it, I politely tell them, "fou-ma la pay"...ou baissez ma derriere/cue
Delighted to meet you!

RE: Who discovered the computer ? and when?

The "Z" computer invented by Konrad Zuse. In 1940, it was the world's first programmable computer. One of it's first functions was used in providing train schedules or the ones coming and going from the concentration camps so that the maximum numbers of trains could be packed, then unloaded at railheads such as at Auschwitz from either Eastern Europe or the West of Europe. (IBM provided the punch cards for other types of machines. After the war, he founded the Zuse Computer Company which was later taken over by Siemens in the early 60's.
Zuse himself had basically lost control of his invention to the SS, or to be precise, the Ahnenerbe SS which remained active until the 70's at least. In some of the camps, like Sobidor, controlled by these people, circuits were soldered with gold extracted from the teeth of their victims.
Today, the Zuse computer has mainly been forgotten...

RE: The Good Old Times / Le Bon Vieux Temps ........

The entire ambience of being there; of the small towns, the train rides, the sounds of church bells; the old cobblestone streets, the old Latin Quarter,' the many bridges; all the old book shops; being to walk under la Tour Eiffel...the sounds of many different languages being spoken; the 14th of July parades; all the parks; the art galleries...in short virtually everything(except the insane drivers and traffic
The Last Time I saw Paris was in 1971 or "72. I'd love to return and see if the old house I grew up in is still standing; what the area looks like now. It was a small hunting lodge of Louis IV, my grand mere had a beautiful garden with several fruit trees, a chicken coup and one for pigeons. To get downtown, we had to take an electric trolley to the Gard de Nord or change buses at Eglise de Pantin which was still being repaired from damage caused by the only known crash of a V2 Rocket during the war... During the early 60's it really was a great place and time; artists, writers, 'les Beatniks' the Jazz clubs; the musicians; the coffee-houses ; the poets, reading aloud from their own creations, or from Villon, Baudlaire or Rimbau...it was so alive, nothing like it anywhere else save Greenwich Village in NYC. And Picasso still lived there...and would give us advice on our artworks, on the sidewalks...
If we have another, parallel self, I hope mine stayed in Paris or even just in France and made a happy lie for himself...c'est la guerre de vie.
Are you French? Just curious.

RE: The Good Old Times / Le Bon Vieux Temps ........

I generally miss France; Paris in particular as that is where I grew up...a general malaise for all of Europe...here is like being on an alien planet; truly alien as compared to most Europeans and culture.

RE: Your favourite is...?

The more astute question would be which would you drink more of, if you could afford it....several of the potential choices are getting somewhat expensive for casual or full time imbibing...

RE: believes in aliens

If you follow this subject, the well known Canadian author of several books chronicling all types of phenomenon, John Robert Colombo has one on UFO's across Canada called 'TRUE CANADIAN UFO STORIES" There a few others that are similar which only follow Canadian sightings/ experiences. This one was compiled and published in 2007.

RE: believes in aliens

Ahh, good ol' Area 51; There has been a new(2011) book on the market entitled Area 51; An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobson,order contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine. 519 pages...it's not a thin book. Try
For those more mature people that actually read and follow the latest 'R&D' on any or all aspects of the UFO's and personnel, UFO's: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On The Record, by the well known international author and journalist Leslie Kean,2010, 335 pages. Lots of in depth interviews and clear, unequivocal answers for anyone that r e a l l y wants to know and not sit back with their own smug juvenile jokes. The interviews with the Generals and combat pilots are as serious as a dogfight at supersonic flight. Both are well written and precise books that deal with what really make most people very uncomfortable with and would rather make stupid, lame jokes about. Denial of reality is the preferred choice by those without the capacity to face it. No cartoons in either book.

RE: Is anywhere in the world safe anymore ?

I can think of a few places: French Polynesia (Tahiti); both the French and Dutch West Indies and a few others around the Caribbean; San Marino, Tristan de Cunha;Liechtenstein; perhaps Monaco...Playa del Mar...Brunei; some places are indeed safe