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News Forum - Nine Swedish tourists rescued after longtail boat capsizes in Thailand
When Tim was here, I would remark on the poor English in stories on The Thaiger. As an English teacher (and former journalist) in Thailand, I felt that it was best for our English-language media, which those in the country could use for learning and practice, to be as free as possible from errors. I got a curt note defending The Thaiger staff, saying as an aggregate site, it wasn't responsible for the creation of the errors. These days, it's even worse. I've never understood why the staff don't use a spell and grammar checker. Even the free version of Grammarly would have caught this error. -
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News Forum - US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon
I disagree, there is nothing to say the missle was armed with anything. Or for that matter that while flying over the USA it was targeting anything. It could just be laden with surveillance equipment. The point being at what point does the incursion over USA airspace warrant action be it a missle, airplance, balloon or kite launched by a foreign power. When Gary Powers flew his U2 aircraft over Russia, they shot it down because they didn't want it spying on them. Whether by balloon or plane Biden should not have permitted it to go unimpeded for 8 days essentially allowing it to complete its mission before destroying it. There is no "spin" that can justify that and certainly the notion that during its travel over 3,700 km of U.S. airspace there were no areas that were totally uninhabited is just plain false. Years ago the airplane carrying Payne Stewart the PGA Tour pro malfunctioned and everyone on board was dead. The plane on autopilot continued. The military shadowed the jet until it crashed into South Dakota. The military was on alert to potentially shoot down the airplane if it threatened a population center. This was a a Lear Jet not a balloon and there was no such concern that the military if called upon could not destroy it traveling at hundreds of kilometers per hour in a manner that debris would not fall on people on the ground. -
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News Forum - Wild boar creates chaos in Pattaya, still on the loose
The poor man was killed by his "pet wild boar"? How can a "pet" be "wild"? The terms are mutually exclusive. -
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News Forum - US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon
Well I don't know more about the US or Canadian military but I have traveled extensively in Canada. The vast majority of the country is uninhabited. I have also been to Montana where like most states the population centers are in the cities. Montana would roughly be 70% the geographic size of France. Yet it has only 1.1 million people. The majority of Montana is desolate with its remoteness, weather, and rugged terrain making it not suitable for development. This notion that they did not want the balloon to come down and hurt someone on the ground is laughable. Instead lit was preferable to let it continue its spy mission for 8 days and then shoot it down over the Atlantic. The chances of the balloon hitting anything in Montana are only slightly greater than the balloon striking some boat in the Atlantic. If this was a missle, or airplane incursion would you equally favor them letting those continue unimpeded or would the worry about falling missle or aircraft parts not be the same as those from a balloon. -
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News Forum - US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon
One way or another the primary objective should have been to stop whatever intelligence gathering operation the balloon was on not recover the electronics. I would think that if they wanted to recover the electronics as part of their mission shooting it with bullets from a 50 caliber machine gun on a fighter aircraft would have caused the balloon to slowly deflate and land at least somewhat soft. I am not sure but at lower altitudes as the balloon was losing air from the bullets if helicopters could have grappled it. They are powerful enough to lift tanks. Even if that was not true and the electronics were destroyed during the crash, was letting it go for 8 days unimpeded really preferable to losing whatever could be retrieved. Also this notion that somehow blasting it into the Atlantic saved anything is laughable. They shot the balloon with a missle which would have caused the balloon to explode possibly damaging or destroying whatever electronics it had on board. Finally, so it landed in the Atlantic. You mean to tell me that somehow it didn't sink. If they could accurately determine and immediately salvage it in the Atlantic there is no reason they could not do exactly the same thing in the Pacific over the Aleutian islands.
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