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maximum points an 18th place can get

sanwaltz — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:17:51 +0800

hi ktards math experts,

in a football league e.g. premier league, calculate what's the maximum theoretical points that an 18th place can get.

i asked AI chat, it cannot give satisfying answer. it is a hope that skynet is still long away to come

illegal pregnancy in singpork

sanwaltz — Mon, 08 May 2023 08:10:10 +0800

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider...TceI-1131007907

"As a migrant domestic worker in Singapore, being pregnant violated the conditions of her work permit, which would mean deportation and possibly a ban on working here again."

"Other classes of workers are not subject to these rules, and “it’s a right for every woman to be pregnant if she so wishes”, she added."

In contrast to Singapore, it is illegal in Hong Kong to dismiss migrant domestic workers who are pregnant. Employers will be fined up to HK$100,000 (S$16,900).

TLDR: illegal for maid in singpork to be human and got pregnant. kiasu god level

Lenovo vs Dell G15

sanwaltz — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 11:35:01 +0800

Hi gurus,

Asking for opinion for two similarly priced and built laptops from Lenovo & Dell

https://www.lenovo.com/my/en/laptops/legion...el/p/82S9001PMJ
RM4544
16GB DDR4 RAM
NVidia 3050Ti

https://www.dell.com/en-my/shop/gaming-and-...p/hng55201000my
RM4699
16GB DDR5 RAM
Nvidia 3050

All other specs being equal, one has extra bit on the RAM side and the other on the GPU side. Let's say for gaming pleasure, which one would you go to?

KL US Embassy Celebrates 4th July

sanwaltz — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 09:01:24 +0800

inb4 mesia 51st state
inb4 ayam murica jilater

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Fined for not looking at flag

sanwaltz — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:41:15 +0800

inb4 in mesia cukur

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/20...looking-at-flag

TLDR:

BEIJING: A French former NBA player has been reprimanded and fined US$1,400 by sports officials in China for not looking at the Chinese flag during the national anthem before a game. Players with the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) are supposed to look at the national symbol during the "March of the Volunteers", but television images showed Guerschon Yabusele (pic), who plays for Nanjing Tongxi Monkey King, had his head down before Friday's game.

Yabusele was given a "serious warning" and a 10,000-yuan fine for not looking at the flag as required, the CBA said in a statement on Saturday.

Persistent Cough

sanwaltz — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 08:47:40 +0800

Hi guys I have persistent cough issue since 2017.

Ruled out TB, and symptom my throat is everlasting dry.

Tried one specialist in private hospital but found no issue with using the optical tube device down the throat.

Since its end of the year and I can utilize my allowance quota,

Any suggestion for good throat specialist in KV?

PH misgovern

sanwaltz — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:01:04 +0800

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...melaka-senator/

MELAKA: The absence of two assemblymen from PKR caused a motion proposing Melaka PKR chairman Halim Bachik as a senator to be defeated in the state assembly today.

All 13 Barisan Nasional assemblymen opposed the motion, while 12 Pakatan Harapan assemblymen voted in favour. Two assemblymen from PKR were not in the hall when the vote was taken – Ginie Lim Siew Lin (Machap Jaya) and Muhamad Jailani Khamis (Rembia).

Another Pakatan Harapan assemblyman, G. Saminathan (DAP-Gadek), had been excused from attending the sitting after he was charged with supporting LTTE.

The motion to appoint Halim Bachik as the new senator was tabled by Chief Minister Adly Zahari and supported by Damian Yeo Shen Li (DAP-Duyong) and Gue Teck (PKR-Klebang). Opposition leader Idris Haron (BN-Sungai Udang) and Sulaiman Md Ali (BN-Lendu) opposed the motion.

Adly told reporters later that Pakatan Harapan lost the vote when the two PKR assemblymen decided to leave the hall.

“We will gather information from the other assemblymen as well as an explanation from the two assemblymen who left the hall,” he said.

Article for Friday blues

sanwaltz — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:49:43 +0800

https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/columnis...itics-and-learn

Pakatan better look to Sri Lankan politics and learn

Making Progress

Friday, 22 Nov 2019
8:48 AM MYT

By Ivanpal Singh Grewal

IT WAS December 2014, and I was on holiday with my family in Sri Lanka.

As we toured the historic city of Galle, suddenly, the security forces started to lock down part of the town.

Upon enquiring, we realised that then-president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa was making a campaign stop in what was shaping up to be a very intense campaign against his ally-turned-foe Maithripala Sirisena.

Some background is helpful at this point. Rajapaksa defeated the Liberation of Tamil Tigers Elam (LTEE) after a 30-year long and awfully bloody civil war.

Rajapaksa was seen as a hero, but he was also becoming increasing autocratic and intolerant towards Sri Lanka’s Muslim, Tamil and Christian minorities.

Despite winning the battle against LTTE, there was lingering unhappiness over Rajapaksa’s leadership style, allegations of corruption and nepotism, a massive influx of Chinese investment and deteriorating state of ethnic and religious relations.

The opposition to Rajapaksa was, initially, hapless. They could not agree on anything and there was a deep-seated rivalry amongst them.

But after much intervention, they decided to come together by fielding a common candidate against Rajapaksa in the January 2015 presidential election. They kept their candidate’s identity a secret and at the right time, the opposition revealed Sirisena as their candidate who had defected to the opposition to be its “common” presidential candidate.

It was high drama, and when the results of the election were announced in early January 2015, Rajapaksa lost and everyone was shocked. Many expected him to stay on extra-constitutionally, but he did not.

He relinquished power and Sirisena was sworn in as president.

Sirisena then appointed Ranil Wickremasinghe as the Prime Minister, who was part of then-opposition (now governing) alliance. A slew of reforms followed including strengthening checks and balances that were removed by Rajapaksa, and judicial independence was also restored.

Amendments were made to the Sri Lankan constitution to fetter the powers of the president and augment that of the prime minister.

It was a new dawn for Sri Lanka, and everyone was happy. Foreign observers immediately started to flock to Sri Lanka and were full of praise of this new government.

But Sirisena and Wickremasinghe could not get along. There were internal troubles amongst the governing coalition, but they were always passed off as "growing pains".

Also, the government lost its reformist zeal, the economy worsened, and then Sri Lanka was devastated by the Easter terrorist attacks.

Things came to a head in late October 2018. Sirisena sacked Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister and appointed his former rival Mahinda Rajapaksa as the PM. This was a volcanic U-turn by Sirisena.

The whole country was shocked.

Wickremesinghe holed himself up in the palatial prime minister’s residence, while Rajapaksa took the oath of office.

However, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka stopped him and declared Wickremesinghe's sacking unconstitutional. Sirisena and Rajapaksa had no choice but to accept that decision.

Things were never the same after that and the anti-Rajapaksa coalition fell apart.

Just last week, Mahinda’s brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected president of Sri Lanka.

Sirisena did not seek re-election and Wickremesinghe resigned as Prime Minister. Gotabaya then selected his brother, Mahinda as Prime Minister.

As a Sri Lankan friend of mine put it, things have come full circle in Sri Lanka. Now, this is something Malaysians can relate to as well.

Pakatan Harapan came together because they wanted to save Malaysia. In order to save Malaysia, they had to overthrow Najib and Barisan Nasional.

In order to overthrow Barisan, Pakatan made many sweeping promises, so much so that many Barisan voters also voted for them. But beyond overthrowing Barisan, many wondered will they be able to govern?

Before the last general election, Pakatan’s Prime Ministerial candidate Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad promised to hand over power to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim within two years or so, but that looks more and more remote now.

In the aftermath of assuming power, Pakatan announced many reforms to our social, economic, political and legal system. Most of them have not materialised.

And instead of reforms, we see an open fued between and within Pakatan parties.

Now, does not all of this look and sound eerily familiar. It is as though what happened in Sri Lanka between 2015 and now is happening in Malaysia as well.

After overthrowing the enemy, friends turned on themselves. Instead of running the country, they are running each other down.

All of this hullabaloo is happening against a backdrop of a slowing economy and worsening race relations.

In 2018 local election in Sri Lanka, Rajapaksa’s’ party trounced Sirisena and Wickremesinghe’s parties (they had broken up by then). Just 15 months after winning the general election, Pakatan was also trounced by Barisan in the recently concluded by-election.

And what has Pakatan’s response been to the Tg Piai loss – more dithering, attacks against one another, clandestine meetings and policy inertia.

There are uncanny parallels between our experience with Pakatan and Sri Lanka’s with Sirisena.

In the case of Sirisena, the promise of reform and renewal was cannibalised by the pursuit of power, politicking and internal bickering.

In Malaysia today, PKR is at war with itself. The deputy president has not attended a party meeting over a year and is openly canvassing against his party president. Also, how it is normal for the deputy president of PKR to quietly meet with opposition MPs?

Amanah is facing turmoil, albeit on a smaller scale, where most of its elected representatives have lost in the party polls.

Bersatu is stable because they have Dr Mahathir, but beyond that, it is still a very new party without functioning political machinery as evidenced in the Tg Piai by-election.

DAP, the old warhorse of Pakatan, faces external challenges as it undergoes an excruciating “break-up” with the Chinese community because it is seen an arrogant and out of touch.

The story of Pakatan, hitherto, is one of wasted opportunities and squandered goodwill. There is so much they can do, but they seem so intent on doing so little.

I believe Dr Mahathir knows this better than anyone else. As he tries to steer this unwieldy bunch, the Prime Minister knows he is the number one man and holds all the cards.

So the expected Cabinet reshuffle will shock everyone out of their comfort zones much like the one the previous Prime Minister did in the middle of 2015. This mid-course correction maybe the only thing that can save Pakatan.

So Pakatan better look to Sri Lanka because if things do not change, we may see the past become the future once again.

And it seems more likely than not because as Pakatan’s loses its mojo, Barisan is regaining it fast.

hnnnghhh tom yum

sanwaltz — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:14:36 +0800

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hong kong mob just simply defend home

sanwaltz — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:10:21 +0800

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politic...-white-clad-mob

***coming from SCMP, cukurrr only happen in PRC, oops Hongkie, cukurrr mesia pun still x level ni lagi***

A pro-Beijing lawmaker on Monday defended the white-clad men who indiscriminately attacked civilians in Yuen Long
on Sunday night, saying they were merely “defending their home and people”.

While Junius Ho Kwan-yiu distanced himself from the assault, he said: “The sinners can be pardoned.”

The rural leader is in hot water after he was filmed shaking hands with men in white clothes and thanking them on Sunday night. But it was unclear what he was thanking them for.

His defence for the white-clad men, made at a press conference at noon on Monday, further enraged the extradition bill protesters. Within hours, a group of them had broken the glass walls of his empty office in Tsuen Wan.
Pro-establishment lawmaker Junius Ho feels the Yuen Long attackers were just defending their home and people. Photo: Nora Tam
Pro-establishment lawmaker Junius Ho feels the Yuen Long attackers were just defending their home and people. Photo: Nora Tam
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The Law Society, of which Ho was once president, said it was “seriously looking” into calls for disciplinary action against the lawmaker for bringing disrepute to the legal profession.

Men dressed in white T-shirts were seen bashing travellers inside Yuen Long MTR station on Sunday night.

Among those attacked were protesters returning from another anti-government march opposing the now-suspended extradition bill in the heart of the city’s financial district on Hong Kong Island.

At least 45 people were sent to hospital as a result of the attack, which happened at about 10.45pm.
Hong Kong police deny accusation they colluded with Yuen Long thugs

Speaking to media on Monday, Ho admitted meeting men in white clothes at about 10pm on Sunday, saying some of them were his friends.

“Some of them I know, some are village chiefs, teachers, shop owners and car mechanics,” Ho said.

He said it was a coincidence that he was in the neighbourhood.

“I live in Yuen Long, so it is normal for me to be there,” Ho said.

He distanced himself from the attacks, but said the incidents were a “normal reaction to protesters who brought violence to the peaceful community after they stormed the liaison office”.

“We can’t pardon the sin, but we can pardon the sinners,” Ho said.
On Sunday night, anti-extradition protesters clashed with police
in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island – some 29km from Yuen Long.

Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the protesters after they started throwing bricks and glass bottles at officers.

Ho ruled out having known about the Yuen Long attack beforehand, or having “conspired” in it, but said: “These white-clad men had already said they would drive the mob in black away if the latter dared to come to Yuen Long.”

He was referring to the extradition bill protesters, many of whom wore black.

Ho also blamed Democratic Party lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting for “leading protesters to Yuen Long”.

Lam was among those attacked on Sunday night, and was seen bleeding from his mouth.

The Democrat was rushed to hospital, where he got stitches.

About 100 protesters showed up outside Ho’s office at around 3pm on Monday. Some stuck notes outside the empty office. The notes called Ho “galactic scum” and alleged he had triad links.

Others sprayed profanities on the glass and stuck a large banner outside the office.

“Rural thugs beat people up; the government and police shelter them,” it read.

At 4.52pm, the protesters broke all glass walls in Ho’s office. The premises were strewn with shards of glass, egg shells and papers. The vandals drew devil horns on a portrait of Ho. It was unclear whether they took anything away.

A young male protester, who wished to remain unnamed, said Ho failed to clear his association with the attackers.

“He condemned the [extradition] protesters, but after last night he said the lawbreakers could be forgiven,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Law Society said it would follow up on the complaints against Ho for bringing disrepute to the profession.

“The Law Society is seriously looking into the matter and conducting reviews on relevant complaints, and will pass the matter to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal if necessary,” the professional body said.

“Due to the confidentiality of the investigation process, the Law Society will not comment on the matter at this stage.”

Society president Melissa Pang said the body had received “quite a number of complaints” but would not comment on Ho’s behaviour.

“One must look at the whole context,” Pang said.

samsu 6 dieded in Penang

sanwaltz — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:52:41 +0800

GEORGE TOWN: Six men have died here, believed to be after drinking cheap liquor.

George Town OCPD Asst Comm Che Zaimani Che Awang said two victims were locals, three Myanmar nationals and another from India.

He said another seven Myanmar men are currently receiving medical treatment at the Penang Hospital.

Comm Che Zaimani said that the cheap liquor is believed to have been processed using methanol.

(Methanol is a toxic substance, unlike ethanol which is the type of ethyl alcohol found in drinks.)

"The content is then poured into an liquor bottle of an authentic brand", he said during a press conference at the district police headquarters in Patani Road on Monday (June 17).

He said that the cheap liquor is believed to have been distributed by a syndicate that has been active for two months.

He added that police conducted a raid at a shop in Komtar on June 15 and confiscated illegal liquor worth an estimated RM8,000.

This includes 600 'High Class Whisky', 312 cans of 'El Diablo Super Strong Brew' and 24 cans of 'Martens Extra Strong'.

Police also confiscated 240 small plastic bottles and eight big bottles containing a liquid believed to be liquor.

Comm Che Zaimani did not state if the raid and the deaths were related and the matter is still under investigation.

In September last year, there were 33 deaths related to methanol poisoning reported in Perak, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur.

Enjoy murah hidup pun murah