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Comment Re:It's a real shame (Score 1) 85

and he gave massive tax breaks to the rich which are still with us
He slipped two things in with very little reaction from the media. He did it early on, in the first 100 days. Part of a long speech of his. He took out inheritance tax and he took out the alternative minimum tax. Barely got a reaction, but there it was. Craven.

Comment Re:Facebook is [the SPAM] (Score 1) 208

I don't need a 5 minute limit. It doesn't hold me there that long anymore. All my decent contacts on fb have gone silent (like me, I never post anything anymore). Every second post is an ad. I have always loathed the site and have no trust in the organisation behind it. What I need now is to wean myself off ever visiting again.

Comment Re:Linus is the man... (Score 1) 122

I'm a developer. Running a Linux setup for (actual) work is virtually mandatory. OK that just makes me part of the 2%.

That Linux is technically superior is not something I can say, I have no idea, I haven't used an MS OS since XP. It was superior then. I hear MS got better when WSL was introduced.

Comment Re:Take off and landing and Canadian geese (Score 1) 104

> He kept gliding in the wrong direction a full 30 seconds after the bird strike.

I have never heard this criticism before. The cockpit had to gain situational awareness, they had to analyse the problem and come up with a plan of action. Which they did in an exemplary fashion. Return to the airport was never a realistic option, you even write "probably made it". "Probably not" is the more accepted conclusion.

Being a hero was never part of the decision making. You're just being a jerk about that.

Comment Re:Focusing on the wrong thing (Score 1) 323

it's 3mm / year currently, is it not? So yeah. It's rising, but a seawall built 1m higher than the highest astronomic tide is going to keep working for a while yet - in our puny human terms.

But. You might want to factor in increased storm strength and frequency in many seaboard places. Big storm + onshore wind + spring tide = those millimetres start to count.

Comment Re:And what do we know about the quality? (Score 1) 281

Improved tyre construction methods will have played a part. The entire carcass doesn't disintegrate so easily. But punctures were a lot more common in the past too, and on the whole it didn't mean you lost control. The bigger danger was the disintegrating carcass doing damage.

AWD (all wheel drive, right?) wouldn't be a big factor unless the blow out occurred under cornering. Other systems would assist too, like ESP (stability) and EBA (emergency braking), which aren't exclusive to AWD.

Comment Re:11? (Score 1) 302

But when management[-3] says 'forever', the meaning of forever doesn't change with the arrival of management[-2, -1 and 0]. If I hear a vendor say 'forever' I expect them to mean it.

I don't get your indexing.
management[-3] ... third to last in list
management[-2] ... second to last in list
but
management[0] ... first in list

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