I wonder if Terel W Carey, the guy who took the pic, has a licence to fly the drone -- with all of the new drone legislation and all that.
I have a software program that counts things in pictures. I ran that pic through the app, and guess what -- the software says that there are at least 414 people in the pic, including the guys in the street and across the street (and it missed some people in the bottom right, but that could be my fault, because you have to draw around the area that you want counted). See attached photo. It puts a yellow dot on everything that it thinks is a person.
>what substantial, workable and effective solutions are you putting forward to fix the crime and murder situation except pop people necks and send more to Fox Hill?
I can't say much now but if the PLP are defeated, there are workable solutions to put as many people as they say will work in BahaMar in a non-tourist industry that is perfect for the Bahamas, and it is on the cusp of a knowledge industry.
>Do you know that in most institutions of learning around the world and including America, females out number the men two to one and in some places four to one?
True dat. The trend is disturbing. However there are countries where there is a balance. For example in Norway, the female percentage is slightly over half. Over 60% of MBAs and Masters degrees in OECD countries are women. However males still outnumber females by a large margin in doctorate degrees. You know what's happening -- the men are not being educated, and we will have huge stratification of the social classes like in the Victorian times, where the upper classes are all STEM educated and make a hell of a lot of money, and lower classes scrape by. Over 50% of the work age young people in France are unemployed today.
>If y'all so smart why y'all can't say how the guns and ammunition are getting into the country and into the hands of young men
Politically connected and politicians who don't get their hands dirty but finance the trade. Remember all of the young men who signed up with "Pedro" for a quick fishing job, and mysteriously never came back? Well the Pedros are still out there. You would be surprised who they are. PS - check some of the private yacht moorings at Lifeless Cay and PI. When the yachts go to FLA for their yearly refit, they come back to their home tie-up without checking in. You would not believe the big name i saw trucking out stoves from PI from a private yacht.
You are probably right. I was hypothesizing. I myself was educated in Canada for my tertiary degree. My MBA is from the US. Most of my friends and peers have moved off island. Had a chum who worked at BISX - couldn't stand the Mickey Mouse outfit after what he learned abroad. Another acquaintance got a degree from MIT, came back to the Bahamas and works as a programmer and after a decade is making less than an MIT grad gets first year after graduating in the US.
I suppose one of the reasons that I have not married is that I don't want to be stuck here with wife and kids. I hear that wedding cake is the biggest cause of emasculation and erectile dysfunction.
Synchronicity. I had a client who quit the Navy and started his own electronics company. While in the Navy, he was assigned to radio telemetry from antennae in the Bahamas and Bermuda.
What was actually going on was based in Barbados, a project called HARP or High Altitude Research Project. It was anchored by a rogue Canadian called Dr. Gerry Bull. The whole concept was to put a satellite into space using ballistics -- ie shooting it into orbit with a gun instead of a rocket. It would be incredibly cheap way to launch a satellite at the height of the cold war. The telemetry listening stations were scattered around the Caribbean including the Bahamas.
The whole project went to hell in a handcart during the Vietnam War. Relations between Canada and the US soured when the Canadians insisted that the Vietnam war was a losing proposition for the Americans. This went over like a lead balloon in the US who were feeding their citizens propaganda about fighting against Communism and winning by carpet bombing. Meanwhile the KIAs (Killed In Action) were stacking up like cordwood the US president did not want to hear the truth from what he considered as Commie sympathisers in Canada.
So the HARP project was discontinued. Dr. Gerry Bull went on to create Project Babylon which was the super gun. He sold one to South Africa and went to jail for selling to the South Africans when there was an embargo. After his release, he moved to Brussels and offered Project Babylon to the Iraqis and Saddam Hussein. Israeli saw this as a threat to their sovereignty and sent a Mossad assassination squad to Belgium to 'fix' the problem. Dr. Gerry Bull answered a ring to his apartment door, and promptly received the complete loads of 9 Uzi submachine guns right in the face. They had to do reconstruction just to get enough tooth parts to make a positive ID through dental records. There were no suspects or no arrests.
The HARP antennas in the Bahamas were actually re-purposed from their original intent as Cuban listening posts. James Bond fer real in the Bahamas.
The percentage of females to males in COB was 75% at one time. It may be higher now.
What concerns me, that in spite of the dismal education system, there are some smart females graduating. As you point out, where are they going to find an educated young man to share their lives?
The smart young men take your advice, get a ticket, get educated and leave. Brain drain. A number of years ago, Canada extended the work period to two years from one, after graduation, and if you graduated from a Canadian tertiary institution, you could apply for permanent residency during the second year of working. Smart. They get to keep all of the educated Bahamian men, who get a high standard of living and a great life for themselves.
I feel sorry for the Bahamian young woman, who by circumstances cannot leave, and does not want a romantic partner who is uneducated or living the thug life.
banker says...
I am gobsmacked that they got over 400 people. Are those the booze tents on the right?
On McCartney urges DNA it's time to end 'business as usual'
Posted 23 April 2017, 8:09 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
I wonder if Terel W Carey, the guy who took the pic, has a licence to fly the drone -- with all of the new drone legislation and all that.
I have a software program that counts things in pictures. I ran that pic through the app, and guess what -- the software says that there are at least 414 people in the pic, including the guys in the street and across the street (and it missed some people in the bottom right, but that could be my fault, because you have to draw around the area that you want counted). See attached photo. It puts a yellow dot on everything that it thinks is a person.
http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2017…
On McCartney urges DNA it's time to end 'business as usual'
Posted 23 April 2017, 5:58 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
>what substantial, workable and effective solutions are you putting forward to fix the crime and murder situation except pop people necks and send more to Fox Hill?
I can't say much now but if the PLP are defeated, there are workable solutions to put as many people as they say will work in BahaMar in a non-tourist industry that is perfect for the Bahamas, and it is on the cusp of a knowledge industry.
>Do you know that in most institutions of learning around the world and including America, females out number the men two to one and in some places four to one?
True dat. The trend is disturbing. However there are countries where there is a balance. For example in Norway, the female percentage is slightly over half. Over 60% of MBAs and Masters degrees in OECD countries are women. However males still outnumber females by a large margin in doctorate degrees. You know what's happening -- the men are not being educated, and we will have huge stratification of the social classes like in the Victorian times, where the upper classes are all STEM educated and make a hell of a lot of money, and lower classes scrape by. Over 50% of the work age young people in France are unemployed today.
>If y'all so smart why y'all can't say how the guns and ammunition are getting into the country and into the hands of young men
Politically connected and politicians who don't get their hands dirty but finance the trade. Remember all of the young men who signed up with "Pedro" for a quick fishing job, and mysteriously never came back? Well the Pedros are still out there. You would be surprised who they are. PS - check some of the private yacht moorings at Lifeless Cay and PI. When the yachts go to FLA for their yearly refit, they come back to their home tie-up without checking in. You would not believe the big name i saw trucking out stoves from PI from a private yacht.
On Man shot dead in his car in Augusta Street
Posted 23 April 2017, 3:10 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Try $6 for a bottle of water in Atlantis.
On Man shot dead in his car in Augusta Street
Posted 23 April 2017, 2:57 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
You are probably right. I was hypothesizing. I myself was educated in Canada for my tertiary degree. My MBA is from the US. Most of my friends and peers have moved off island. Had a chum who worked at BISX - couldn't stand the Mickey Mouse outfit after what he learned abroad. Another acquaintance got a degree from MIT, came back to the Bahamas and works as a programmer and after a decade is making less than an MIT grad gets first year after graduating in the US.
I suppose one of the reasons that I have not married is that I don't want to be stuck here with wife and kids. I hear that wedding cake is the biggest cause of emasculation and erectile dysfunction.
On Man shot dead in his car in Augusta Street
Posted 23 April 2017, 2:55 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
You still can't book a room as a tourist on any online venue. Talk dat!
On Baha Mar opening 'more than a dream come true'
Posted 23 April 2017, 2:47 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
I use a foreign proxy. Plausible deniability.
On PLP Chairman pledges to drop 'bombshells' about FNM candidates
Posted 23 April 2017, 12:52 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Synchronicity. I had a client who quit the Navy and started his own electronics company. While in the Navy, he was assigned to radio telemetry from antennae in the Bahamas and Bermuda.
What was actually going on was based in Barbados, a project called HARP or High Altitude Research Project. It was anchored by a rogue Canadian called Dr. Gerry Bull. The whole concept was to put a satellite into space using ballistics -- ie shooting it into orbit with a gun instead of a rocket. It would be incredibly cheap way to launch a satellite at the height of the cold war. The telemetry listening stations were scattered around the Caribbean including the Bahamas.
The whole project went to hell in a handcart during the Vietnam War. Relations between Canada and the US soured when the Canadians insisted that the Vietnam war was a losing proposition for the Americans. This went over like a lead balloon in the US who were feeding their citizens propaganda about fighting against Communism and winning by carpet bombing. Meanwhile the KIAs (Killed In Action) were stacking up like cordwood the US president did not want to hear the truth from what he considered as Commie sympathisers in Canada.
So the HARP project was discontinued. Dr. Gerry Bull went on to create Project Babylon which was the super gun. He sold one to South Africa and went to jail for selling to the South Africans when there was an embargo. After his release, he moved to Brussels and offered Project Babylon to the Iraqis and Saddam Hussein. Israeli saw this as a threat to their sovereignty and sent a Mossad assassination squad to Belgium to 'fix' the problem. Dr. Gerry Bull answered a ring to his apartment door, and promptly received the complete loads of 9 Uzi submachine guns right in the face. They had to do reconstruction just to get enough tooth parts to make a positive ID through dental records. There were no suspects or no arrests.
The HARP antennas in the Bahamas were actually re-purposed from their original intent as Cuban listening posts. James Bond fer real in the Bahamas.
On PLP Chairman pledges to drop 'bombshells' about FNM candidates
Posted 23 April 2017, 12:49 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
The percentage of females to males in COB was 75% at one time. It may be higher now.
What concerns me, that in spite of the dismal education system, there are some smart females graduating. As you point out, where are they going to find an educated young man to share their lives?
The smart young men take your advice, get a ticket, get educated and leave. Brain drain. A number of years ago, Canada extended the work period to two years from one, after graduation, and if you graduated from a Canadian tertiary institution, you could apply for permanent residency during the second year of working. Smart. They get to keep all of the educated Bahamian men, who get a high standard of living and a great life for themselves.
I feel sorry for the Bahamian young woman, who by circumstances cannot leave, and does not want a romantic partner who is uneducated or living the thug life.
On Man shot dead in his car in Augusta Street
Posted 22 April 2017, 8:53 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Repent. Thou foul PLP spirit -- OUT !!!!
On PM warns of mischief
Posted 22 April 2017, 1:32 p.m. Suggest removal