I'll correct myself then.

Tensile strength should be in MPa. Those figures are all correctly adjusted but the Carbon Fibre ones are again wrong.

Typical figures are from as low as 0.25 GPa all the way up to 7.1 GPa.

It would be nice to know how strong it is in compression as well as under tension.

Those figures for Carbon fibre are bollocks BTW. Elastic Modulus varies from a third to five times that depending on how it's made. My gut tells me Elastic Modulus ought to be in MPa rather than GPa. Could be wrong but Wikipedia will know the truth of it....

I cannot provide links but will dig out the relevant textbooks when I get home.

In the UK this absolutely is the case. Only 15% of a companies shareholders are able to drag a company to court and compel them to behave in a manner which is more profitable for them.

In practice this means that you need to control 86% of the stock to be able to compel a Company Limited by Shares to behave altruistically. As a Public Limited Company must trade a minimum of 20% of its stock on a recognised exchange it is impossible to retain total control of how your company behaves once it has been floated.

I'm also fairly certain that a board of directors could be compelled to perform any profitable activity that has not been clearly established as illegal by a court of law by only 15% of shareholders.

It might go even further than that but I am unsure to what extent the Proceeds of Crime Act applies to corporate entities.

If, for example, The Times could make £10M by reneging on a contract worth £1M Rupert Murdoch would be well within his rights to insist that they do so and, if it came to it, a Court would compel them to obey.

This is why I dislike Insurance Companies and no longer work for them. They literally exist to screw their customers as much as they possibly can without driving them to their equally corrupt competition.

£ = Sterling btw, dunno what's going on there...

Nouveau has never caused me anything but problems.

It is particularly galling that Nouveau has become the default driver for rendering the console. This means that when Nouveau doesn't work, which it never has with my 5900XT, you are royally f**ked.

It has been my experience that Nouveau is worse than useless with legacy hardware and the common perception that it is mature enough for production work is a problem.

When I try to install Ubuntu on a system built from legacy parts, that I know damn well work just fine in linux and have done since they were running Mandrake 7.2, it had bloody better not be impossible because an immature driver like Nouveau is being foisted on everybody.

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That's not to say that I disagree with Linus, I completely agree with him, just that I've always had the best performance out of NVidia's binary blob and I can't stand by and watch someone claim Nouveau is a Panacea when I know it isn't.

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Is it just me or has Linus started pronouncing Linux differently over the years?

Mandrake's sound configuration 'drake' used to have a little clip of him explaining how he pronounced it (lee nux). Weird to hear him saying it the 'wrong' way....