Mass population screening is generally of limited value. Regular screening of at-risk groups is beneficial.

The engineering would be impossibly gargantuan. A variant which is commonly suggested is the opposite, lubricating the plates to try and get a series of small earthquakes rather than one large one. This would be ideal *if* you could guarantee that you wouldn't simply trigger the big one.

The issue with the UK banks is aging IT infrastructure, an aging/retiring skills base and the enormous expense of transitioning to something future-proof.

Oh lordy. So far off the map you're not even wrong.

Businesses make decisions all the time. There is no real rhyme or reason as to which go viral or for what reasons. All you can do is manage it when it does.

I've developed a certain sensitivity to Bennett stories: if the summary asks a stupid question that can easily be answered with a little thought, I check the submitter's name. Bingo. In this case, the answer is legacy business and the difficulty of negotiating contracts across publishers. End of story.

Being a marginal also-ran with a cash pile of $50bn doesn't seem so bad to me.

The counter argument is that by creating the product or service I create your demand - so in a circular way I do create the job.

It's well known that young women fucking love getting hit on constantly by strangers at work in service industries. They literally cream their knickers at the thought.

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Yeah, and good luck when they audit your ass. Chump.

Well, not so much. Physical attacks are extremely difficult on ATMs as they are difficult to move or access and usually have dye bombs. The usual approach in the UK is to steal a JCB and van and remove the whole thing. So something like this is definitely an improvement for the attacker.

Oddly enough, placebos are effective even when the patient is told it is a placebo.

Who let Vortex have sugar, people?