To average a return of 7% you have to avoid the once every 7 year (on average) crash, and you also need to account for inflation. This would vastly reduce the $167000 carrot.

Typically 2% but a cluey seller might make it 1% up to a certain figure and 10% of everything over that. I haven't seen buyer's agents except for very high end stuff.

Things like roads, town water, and electricity distribution (as examples) are natural monopolies at the end user level. Duplicating them is inefficient. Although a state run business is likely to be pretty hopelessly inefficient, at least its business model will not be based on maximising shareholder returns, which in a monopoly becomes turning the screws on your customers until they bleed.

My sick days were paid out because I was retrenched. I was on the old 18 days a year, (opted out of the 10 day/year scheme) and worked there for 30 years. Ka ching.

These dumbass articles are good for a giggle, but farmers are keen to grow crops where they'll grow. So the hop farms will move further North. In Europe hops are grown as far south as Spain (which is quite toasty) and as far North as Poland. Perhaps the Spanish hop farms will shut down and Denmark will grow them.

For my sins I was once a parking brake engineer. The technical term that went MIA was 'emergency brake'. From memory I think a reasonable hand effort (say 200N) was supposed to give 0.3g retardation. With the cluster fuck of a design I inherited anything close to that would bend or stretch various components so that a second application would come up against a hard limit and fail the test.

Yup. BS.

If the systems were fundamentally unreliable then explain this graph. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/image...

It's called an FMEA, in automotive and aerospace. Chances are the driver didn't read the manual and so didn't know to (typically) hit the big button for 3 seconds.

Analysis of the NIMBUS satellite data indicates that the coverage was highly variable in the 1960s, and 1966 set a low of 16 million sq km

https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov...

However they claim 60% efficient so it isn't quite as absurd as you are suggesting.

Grins, nicely put. It's a solidworks engine. Sure it might go round but it will eat itself at full power.

Brittanica During the Eocene, climates were warm and humid—temperate and subtropical forests were widespread, whereas grasslands were of limited extent. For example, the Eocene forests of Oregon were made up of trees and plants similar or identical to those now found in Central and South America.

IANAL recent ruling is you can't copyright AI images, so presumably this film will not be copyrighted. Am I wrong?

Or when they say I have to do a certain amount of training a year. Oh OK, we'll drop actual program work and do the training.