Plenty of people expected this from "the West".

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If they're not dependent on Send & Track (or they can't move to Docusign), it fits most office environments I've used it in.

Cooled EGR is not an either-or to DEF. You can have both.

That's even more weight, space, and complexity that no-one wants. It's hard enough fitting the EGR cooler for 4,500hp loco in the loading gauge. And the reason they went with EGR in the first place is because they don't want to deal with the logistics of supplying loco fleets with DEF. Using EGR and DEF would completely defeat the purpose.

DEF systems on heavy vehicles work, but they're fairly, well, heavy. Among other thing, they use electrical heat to get up to operating temperature. Then there's the issue of needing the fluid. For earthmoving equipment and railway locos, they'd rather not deal with that and have gone with complex EGR systems with liquid cooling instead.

Nice joke for people who remember Rolls Royce cars before they became BMWs, but I always remember it being "sufficient", not "adequate".

You're missing the joke - Rolls Royce cars (before the brand was sold to BMW) never used to quote power output in marketing material, they just put "sufficient" where a figure would usually go.

The cost though... They did it thinking it would be cheap, and it turned out to be the opposite.

I'm not sure this is really true. They sold it to the public as being cheap, but de Gaulle was absolutely adamant that France needed independent nuclear deterrent capability, because he didn't fully trust the USA. A domestic nuclear industry was a prerequisite for that. So they were probably lying about the cost to make it more palatable to the public all along.

The economics for reprocessing only work if you put an arbitrarily high value on plutonium. In the early days, when countries were building up nuclear weapons stockpiles, this sort of made sense. The nuclear weapons organisations bought plutonium from fuel reprocessing for high prices, and the UK was even selling plutonium to the USA. But now there's more plutonium floating around than anyone really needs, so reprocessing isn't cost-effective. But you don't want to completely dismantle the capability in case you need it for a future arms race, or for maintaining your stockpile.

And then they screwed up their environmental goals by promoting diesel cars, again not knowing that they were so bad when the decision was made.

Diesel cars are still better than petrol cars on every metric besides NOx. The focus was on reducing CO, unburnt hydrocarbons, and then CO2. Diesels are better on all those counts. But NOx eventually became a huge problem, particularly with the way VW, BMW, etc. cheated on emissions.

Almost every time a company makes promises that seem too good to be true, it turns out too good to be true. Sometimes they even get prosecuted for it. Pivoting from AI slop factory to medical imaging, where being correct actually matters, doesn't inspire confidence.

its new, unnamed virtualization software is incompatible with Veeam

So, being as Veeam supports Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix, Red Hat, and XCP-NG is supposedly coming within the next month or two...what could they have POSSIBLY moved to, and why the hell did they walk past all of those other products to do it?!

At this point, yes. It's the only way they can deter the US and Israel from attacking them.

Murdoch became a US citizen four decades ago (in 1985) so he could expand his media presence in the US. He's been one of you since long before this site existed. The most recent iteration of the media conglomerate News Corporation (since 2004) was incorporated in Delaware with headquarters in New York, with the US media assets becoming 21st Century Fox in 2013 (the Australian media assets were spun off as News Corp, but they don't have significant US presence). You can't complain about Fox being "foreign" at this point.

It's more just a case of Rei frequently talking about things she only has the most superficial knowledge of as though she's an expert, then somehow getting multiple comments modded up, presumably because people trust the confidence. But it's just Dunning-Kruger effect in action.

Most people don't need free speech because they have nothing to say.
Most people don't need guns because they have nothing to shoot.
Most people don't need to worry about housing soldiers because military personnel have taxpayer funded housing.
Most people don't need to worry about their stuff being unlawfully searched because they have nothing to hide.
Most people don't need to worry about incriminating themselves because they don't commit crimes.
Most people don't need their trials to be public because they don't get put on trial.
Most people don't need the guaranteed ability to sue someone because most people don't file lawsuits.
Most people don't need to worry about excessive bail being imposed because most people don't get arrested.
Most people don't need to worry about any of those rights being used against other rights.
Most people don't care whether a right is granted by the state or federal government.

Fortunately for those who DO find themselves in a place where the government would cause issues in these matters, a bunch of old guys a few hundred years ago had the presence of mind to realize that the point of rights isn't because "most people" need to exercise them regularly, it's to create limits so that "most people" *don't" need to exercise them regularly.

French "faible" is cognate with English "feeble", not "fable". Strangely enough, "fable" means the same thing in French and English.