I was thinking the same thing. It must have a whole raft of licensing fees on it. If the price keeps enough people out of the market for it then these will turn out to be some of the most valuable minifigs of all time. I wonder what it costs if you buy the same pieces (less the figures) via parts orders.

Sounds like Elon could do it cheaper and better then. What’s holding him back?

This is about surveillance and eliminating anonymity on the internet. A handful of victims lobbying doesn't do jack shit anymore if it ever did.

That kind of naivety is why we can't actually solve problems.

Absolutely not. In fact before you even get to flying larger aircraft you're certified to fly smaller ones without even considering that multiple different certifications are done in parallel since pilots do not always fly just one aircraft. It's not many, but it's usually more than one.

Bunker fuel isn't a fuel. It's a name for a different set of fuels that ships use. Among those is Heavy Fuel Oil (which is effectively banned now), Marine Fuel Oil (what you are talking about, a low sulphur and slightly lighter variant of HFO), and ... Marine Diesel Oil (actual diesel which all container ships need to run on when they get close to port because you haven't been allowed to burn HFO or MFO anywhere near populated areas for a long time now.

And while it certainly used to be sludge that is left over, these days there are increasingly tighter restrictions on what MFO can contain, and it is very much starting to look more and more like diesel in composition (the last decade or so many refineries have focused on equipment upgrades precisely because they would no longer be able to sell their sludge to the shipping industry).

It's not incorrect to call these ships diesel powered. In fact for some of their journey the only difference between what they put in their engines and what you put in yours is the colour (colour denoting that the fuel was exempt from local taxes and may only be used for marine purposes)

Well I butchered that sentence.

Not just that the masts are fully hydraulically operated, the masts are tiltable to 70 degree angle so that the ship too so that the ship which normally stands 90m tall can get under bridges or other infrastructure with only 42m height.

When the masts are tilted it looks WEIRD. https://www.neoline.eu/en/why-...

You make it seem like we were able to do this easily before rather than acknowledging the engineering feat this is. Here's some comparison for you:

The Neoliner Origin is the longest cargo sail ship ever made, 20m longer than the France II, it has a taller main mast *which is retractable so it can maneuverer under bridges*, and has 25% more cargo capacity than the France II as well. There's a lot of engineering involved in getting something that big to move around flexibly, especially when it comes to compatibility with modern harbours.

That's where the good news ends. Despite everything this ship has a pittance of the capacity of modern cargo ships. It turns out that heavy things take a lot of energy to move through water which is fine when you have little more than 50 drunken scurvy infected sailors and some spices to haul, but not so much when you're shipping 9000 cars to another country.

It sounds like they have employees on premises who they aren't paying to be there despite the employees being unable to work due to their own incompetence. The method of login really is secondary to this story. Fun fact a few years ago I used to arrive at the office at 9:15 but got paid from 9:00. Yes legally they were required to pay us the time it took to walk from the parking lot all the way into the control room. But then we have worker protection laws in my country.

Weird. I seem to have no problem with my Windows machine at home. Rock solid, boots up quickly. My work machine on the other ran runs like a molasses on a cold day. Interestingly so does my colleague's work MacBook. 99% of the problems with Windows are either not spending more than $200 on your hardware or letting corporate IT get anywhere near it.

You think Microsoft's telemetry is bad? Just wait and see how fucking slow things get when your IT starts cramming their own spyware (and Teams) down your throat. Using an alternative doesn't save you from that.

They want to dismantle capitalism and installed themselves as feudal Lords.

They are sick and tired of being dependent on consumers and employees. So they want to automate basically everything so they can eliminate virtually all employees and then keep a handful of people around to keep the machines going and then a handful of thugs to keep the engineers in line. Maybe mix in a little bit of religious zealotry and extremism. Set themselves up as gods like the emperor of Japan did maybe or the Pharaohs.

The rest of us, including you, will live in the most unimaginable abject poverty. Think like South Sudan or the remains of Gaza or the Indian reservations before the casinos. Every now and then they'll probably use drones to fire bomb us when our numbers get too high and we might pose a threat. Basically pest control.

It remains to be seen if they will pull it off they've been at it for about 60 years and so far they have achieved all of their goals. They have unlimited money and power so they never stop trying and the vast majority of us are blissfully unaware of what they're doing.

But holy fucking shit did you see those 14 trans girls playing field hockey in the midwest? Stop whatever you're doing right now and stop whatever you're thinking that is the most important thing for you to be concerned about right now.

Oh aren't you clever. No Windows boots in seconds. Their problem was tokens, VPN access, corporate software for call management, and likely a PC loaded down with corporate spyware slowing the entire thing down. Any other system won't help at all against this kind of rubbish.

But hey, MS bashing have a +5 informative.

Facebook was aware of the scams and was actively ignoring them. These are cases where they had upwards to 500 reports that the advertisements were scams, their internal checks detected they were scams and we have leaked internal communications where Facebook employees talked about them being scams.

Those leaked communications also say that they made sure to let the scams go so that they could keep getting money from them. All told 16 billion dollars.

At that point you're just plain complicit in the scam and you're committing a crime. It isn't legal to allow criminals to make use of your business when you know they are criminals. There's a wide variety of laws governing that that were put in place back in the days of the mob.

Then all the other theft combined. Look it up. Corporations steal more from you than any Petty criminal ever has or ever will.

So much so we elected a guy who partakes in them against his own populace.

Typed on my Trump phone (which hasn't shipped), time confirmed on my Trump watch (which is a Chinese watch marked up like 1500%) all while I bought Trump and Melania meme coins via World Liberty Financial which I decided to buy after increasing my brain capacity with the pills Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro said were great.