Except that the Concorde was built for fuel efficiency, not for speed. Single-stream jet engines are more efficient if you fly faster. Only somebody invented the double-stream jet engine, which makes the engine far more efficient at lower speeds. To prevent the large drag rise that comes with breaking the sound barrier, most airliners fly a bit slower than the speed of sound.

Why should there be a debate? If you like one of them, use it. Otherwise, try XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment, Ratpoison or whatever suits you.

Aye! The good old times! I still miss the polite habit of throwing the oncoming traffic out of the saddle with a lance...

I would very much rather take the loop out of the lawyer.

"We need workers that have as much rights as machines, make us money, but are never in the way, and require no maintenance"

Well, you can't have both. Either you are a non-profit organisation that facilitates people doing something for each other, or you are a for-profit employer with employees. Uber seems to think that the term "sharing economy" means that everybody "shares" their money towards Uber itself.

No. I just want a sane society. A society based on cooperation is easier than one based on abuse. I don't want to be a slave, but I don't want slaves myself either. I just want slavery to stop. No, I do not follow.

Inspired by Douglas Adams, there will be a space program to send everyone from the UK into space. In three space craft. We send the ternary sector first...

The con, sorry, finance industry is one of the few areas where sane thinking only leads to people jumping ship instead of production. In real professions, you'd better know what you are talking about.

I always wonder how anyone with more than a half brain cell can work in the finance industry and still look at himself in the mirror each morning.

Yes, but at least they screw themselves now instead of being raped by foreigners.

There, fixed that for you.

Because those machines are just as old and therefore come with just as dry capacitors?