You don't know why someone has not let go of the knife. You only know that the person still has the weapon and therefore continues to be a danger. Now, in an ideal world, you probably kick the k… (View Post)

But it's also a disturbingly highly regulated country (outside of banking). (View Post)

The main takeaway from that is that smaller countries are more efficiently run. (View Post)

Leaving aside the question of motivation, the man who was getting kicked still had the knife, no? This isn't a case of someone on the ground, unarmed and defenceless, being beaten to a pulp by p… (View Post)

West Ekofisk closed down about 40 years ago! There's an interesting point here. You run a gas field. Over time the pressure drops so that the amount of gas coming the surface is not enough to ju… (View Post)