which roads and bridges can support which vehicle types (good to know when invading a country, so the road you drive on doesn't suddenly collapse under the load).

This leads me to suspect that the weight limits posted on bridges, even allowing for some safety margin, are probably much lower than true capacity. By this, I mean that a small bridge marked "Weight limit 15,000 kg" might be able to support a 48,000 kg -14 .

Maybe we will see teams of structural engineers armed with angle grinders weakening bridges by random amounts over the next couple of years, so that Putin won't be able to make quite so much use out of his newly acquired data.

Trying to create an account there:

What a helpful message! ;-)

Except that for the past few decades, the medical establishment has been shouting "factory workers die of heart attacks because they fry their food in lard and the cholesterol blocks their arteries".

Now that medical research is starting to show that vegetarian office workers are suffering from heart problems, the focus is shifting.

What I have suspected for a long time (I grew up in a working class environment, many neighbours and family members were shift workers in steel and manufacturing industries) is now being confirmed.

Stress (poverty, uncertainty about the future, circadian rhythms disrupted by shift work, danger of accidents, macho culture and violence) exacerbated by the self-destructive "coping strategy" of over-consumption of alcohol ("getting a skinful on Friday and Saturday nights") damages the heart muscles, among other things. Over-consumption of refined carbohydrates (white flour and white sugar especially) play havoc with our metabolism, too.

Salt, dietary cholesterol and animal fats are not the causes that they were claimed to be, and this truth is finally coming out.

Gary Taubes has done a great job in bringing these truths to the public, but there is still much work to be done.

Do they?

It's quite possible that they do, but you'd have to post a link to a paper (not hidden behind a paywall) supporting that affirmation.

Me too. Every phone I have ever bought (for myself or for my kids) has had a user-replaceable battery. Same for my media players and sat-nav. I never paid as much as $800 for any of those things, either; the most expensive must have been a $200 phone and it currently has a 64GB SD card in it.

The MoD can confirm that Windows XP will not be used by any onboard system when the ship becomes operational,” the spokesman added. “This also applies to HMS Prince of Wales.

Article is here: https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

My android phone, made by Foxconn, reboots itself every day or two, sometimes it will reboot three or four times in a single day. And that is without updates.

In addition to that, I have to reboot it deliberately every now and again, or Android refuses to update apps; like a 27MB download refuses to install. "Out of memory", when the filemanager tells me "225MB free".

I worked for a big, big global company for a number of years. IT was run from call centres around the world, so that anybody working anywhere would always find somebody in a convenient timezone to work on the problem for at least a few hours, even if the ticket was submitted at the end of the business day for the person with the problem.

And if the IT people fixed the problem quickly, there was always a request to complete a satisfaction survey.

Curiously, if they didn't fix the problem quickly, there was no such request.

This kind of situation is not limited to customer surveys, it applies to all manner of Key Performance Metrics and other measurements.

Where I live right now, there is a straight section of road through a residential area.

There were complaints to the town police about cars being driven at excessive speeds, and requests for traffic calming measures. The town opposed the expenditure.

To prove that the measures were not necessary, a few police officers were given the task of measuring average speeds along the road. Of course, being deployed along a public road they had be be safe, so they wore high-visibility jackets at they pointed radar speed-detection guns at oncoming vehicles. And guess what? Not a single vehicle exceeded the limit during the operation. Ergo, no need to install expensive traffic calming measures.

It should not be called autopilot

"Rapid and Accurate Super Image Resolution" should give RASIR.

Which illiterate philistine came up with "RAISR"?

As of September 2016, two EpiPens cost around $100 in France and around $200 in Germany.[40]

As of September 2016, two Jext autoinjectors cost about £8.5 in Britain, and the National Health Service pays around £48 (US$73.33) in order to make them available; that price was about 17 percent less than 2013.[40] US

In October 2016 the CEO of Mylan testified to Congress that Pfizer/King charged Mylan about $34.50 for one EpiPen.[29] The devices deliver about $1 worth of drug.[27] In September 2016, a Silicon Valley engineering consultancy performed a teardown analysis of the EpiPen and estimated the manufacturing and packaging costs at about $10 for a two-pack.[82]

The EpiPen, manufactured by King, a subsidiary of Pfizer, and marketed by Mylan, has dominated the market.[54] In 2007 when Mylan acquired the rights to market the product, annual sales of all epinephrine autoinjectors were about $200M and EpiPen had around 90% of the market; in 2015 the market size was around $1.5B and Mylan still had about 90% of the market.[28][54] Mylan raised the price from around $100 for a package of two EpiPens in 2007 to around $600 in 2016.[75] In the United Kingdom, an EpiPen costs £26.45 as of 2015.[83] In Canada they are about 120 CAD each.[84]

So, making them available at $50 each, CVS is not cutting any corners, just charging a similar price to what commercial suppliers in Europe are charging, and if those suppliers in Europe were not making an acceptable profit, they would abandon the business.

If Mylan is paying about $34.50 to its suppliers, it can charge $50 and be making $16 a piece on them. Let's say Mylan sold them at $60 a pop, that's $24, or almost a 70% mark-up, and still much less than the current price.