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Comment Re:Newsworthy? (Score 2) 67

No there wasnt a serious effort to survey every square mile of a bombed city in order to uncover unexploded ordnance, because it would have been a huge huge task at a time when the resource available was focused on feeding the bombed out city dwellers.

They didnt have the tech that we have today, so there are many situations where a bomb didn't go off and buried itself several metres underground with minimal impact damage, or fell inside the crater of another bomb which did explode earlier and thus hide all evidence of there being a second bomb. Millions of bombs were dropped, and cities were bombed again and again.

These things arent sitting on the surface being blatantly obvious, they would have been buried by their own momentum. You would need extremely accurate magnetometers, or ground penetrating radar

Comment Transparency (Score 5, Insightful) 110

One reason for quarterly reporting is that it gives greater transparency and insight into how a business actually works. Many businesses are seasonal. Most obviously, virtually all retail has its best quarter at the end of the calendar year. But many other types of businesses have key cycles each year that are tied to, for example, the buying habits of their largest customers. Suppliers matter, too; if farms have a bad quarter due to weather or other factors, for example, you're going to want to watch how that impacts food producers somewhere down the line.

Comment Re: I thought batteries could only charge, or disc (Score 2) 143

Yeah how much is it gonna cost? BMW already make you buy a subscription just to get "connected charging" where you can see and control your charge session from your phone. Bet you anything if you want V2L/V2H you will have to be paying. I was a very loyal BMW customer until about 10 years ago. It's a total clown show today.

Comment Re:no surprises there. (Score 1) 209

The stance which has completely removed all protections for women.

Because the shit hole you have created for yourselves is now seeing states not only criminalising abortion within their own jurisdiction, they are also criminalising going to another state for an abortion, or doctors in other states assisting people to have abortions.

As a traveller, theres plenty of reasons why I might end up in a hospital in a state which criminalises abortions and any treatment which may act as an abortion - I do not want my wife to die because we happened to be in a car accident and were taken to the wrong states hospital (its difficult to say "dont go there, go here" when unconscious), where she bled out because the doctors were too afraid to carry out a hysterectomy or something similar, purely because it *might* violate state law.

So dont you try and hide behind the "its the states responsibility" stance, you pathetic piece of shit. Your current regime has made it so much more than that and people are literally dying because of it.

Comment Metal-Tipped Darts (Score 2) 46

I hate to highjack such an interesting thread, but now we have to talk about the incredibly unsafe crap our parents let us do in the 70's and 80's. My contribution is this: Remember those big lawn darts with a metal tip from the 70's? They weighed almost a pound and would kill a Corgi if you threw it just right. You'd try to throw one to land in a hoop laying on the ground 30 feet away - much like horseshoes. You'd win a point if you got one in the circle, but to me and my teenage beer-drinking friends, you'd get two points if you caught your opponent's dart mid-air as you stood by the target hoop. What blinding fun! And then in 1988, they were banned due to the rising toll on Corgis and children's eyeballs.

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