If a victim can avoid being a victim then there's an obligation to do so. Whether that's "victim blaming" or not is a pretty pointless argument. Anything to do with blame is.

If someone leaps out in front of me then I slam on the brakes. It's their fault for leaping out in front of me but that doesn't lessen my responsibility to try to prevent harm. What difference will it make who's to "blame"? If someone is too close behind me I slow down and if possible, let the idiot go past. Once again, if there's an accident it's not my fault but it's in my interest to prevent the accident.

Why should she answer these? She isn't the voice of anti-GG. Unless she made those specific comments then she should be brought to task for them but I'm under the impression she didn't. (And similarly I don't think all GG supporters are responsible for the idiots in their group, even though there are a lot of them)

That is a pretty reasonable cost for high speed rail transit between two cities. The French LGV Est line cost about â4 billion ($4.41 billion), which is a similar price for a similar distance. I could have picked UK's HS2, which is several times the price.

I was assuming major business areas. So Sydney certainly, but that's more than 4000 nautical miles away from Beijing or Tokyo. Hadn't considered a refueling stop though. Even with a 2 hour turnaround, there's still a hefty time saving.

That is definitely a good question.

Presumably there are always going to be people for whom time really is so valuable that you can charge a huge amount, but how many of them are there on routes this could serve? Seems to be 4000nmi which I think limits it to transatlantic flights, but there might be some destinations from Singapore.

Don't see any reason to believe that the train operator was even aware of this. The person who initially complained was a PCSO.

Ahem Let's spend thousands of pounds over 6 pence worth of electricity

London Overground is suburban rail, not a long distance service. You will get recharge points on the trains between cities (at least on some of them)

I suspect the changes will just strengthen the existing provisions for demanding encryption keys.

It's unlikely that this will work particularly effectively, but to me this seems the most likely plan from the government, in that the law itself could be passed without breaking the internet.

Unless I misunderstand this, surely the contract is with the service shop though, which may be a single mechanic, but might just as easily be a small firm with half a dozen mechanics on a regular salary.

Not quite sure how it works in the US, but there are all sorts of subtle rules in UK legislation that differentiate a "disguised employee" from an independent one-man company. Although the former is still treated differently from an employee with a temporary contract. The nature of Uber would put them into the independent one-man company category though.

Okay, the police were a bit heavy handed. Still, they did arrest this kid legitimately. And he was playing with chemicals and tilt switches. There is at least some reason for reasonable suspicion when combining all these factors. Remember, this is just an investigation; they do not need proof beyond reasonable doubt.

The bomb squad investigated and decided there wasn't a problem, as is right. These guys probably played with chemistry a bit as kids, and recognised this kid was doing the same as they did.

Perhaps there was no need to close off the road, but sometimes police investigate innocent people.

I've actually always hated the explanation in the novels. It feels so contrived.

I prefer the explanation supported by the officially published script. "Ben reacts to Solo's stupid attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation", so Han was just making up random jargon in order to impress the rube.

Obviously Lucas simply had no idea that a parsec was a unit of distance, but the explanation still makes sense.

Really smart people can be naive. Nobody is immune to confirmation bias.

It strikes me as more of a proof of concept. While this sort of ratio is probably not all that useful, it does demonstrate that essentially anything useful is also possible.

Seems to average somewhere around 3