And the fact that this was in response to a blackout that lasted days
Either you're confusing it with a different blackout or this needs clarification. The power was back to 99% of users after about 18 hours, and although I can't access the primary sources I see citations that it was fully restored within 24 hours. Your main point still stands.
I still had 4G phone signal for an hour or two after the blackout. When the power hadn't come back after about half an hour I looked online and discovered that it was a national event rather than just my block of flats.
Requiring all traffic light pedestrian cycles to give pedestrians complete control over the entire intersection (all directions), with no turns, for a period of time (a.k.a. pedestrian scramble intersctions).
Regularly ticketing pedestrians who cross when it isn't their turn.
The UK has a vastly better pedestrian safety than the US. Also we don't hate freedom here: you can cross the road where you damn well please.
eliminating road-side parking
Well I am definitely in favour of that.
No no you don't understand. Every suburban road warrior commuting into a job in town is actually an outdoorsy manly macho man who spends all the time in the wilderness on unlit roads hauling mysteriously large loads without so much as a 5 minute pee break every 26 hours.
Why do you hate America?
No the solution is that people shouldn't be driving around in dildozers.
Normal countries have tried to decrease pedestrian deaths by making things safer. The Land Of the Free decided to decrease deaths by making it so incredibly hostile and dangerous to pedestrians (the method of transport that requires no government intervention unlike driving) than you decrease the number of pedestrians. Didn't work though. Despite slashing the number of pedestrians the number of deaths is on the increase.
It's fun to call them wankpanzers or urban tanks but an actual MBT has better forward visibility:
Indeed, this has been well known in Europe for many years, and rules put in place to mitigate the problem.
Not enough. They're getting taller and squarer because people want cars that look more aggressive, macho and powerful.
It's very square fronted with a high bonnet and poor forward visibility.
Compare to a small chassis/flatbed van. They typically have more slope on the front and the driver further forwards to give much better visibility
Its original use dates to WWII and was more akin to "military R&D engineer/technician": the people who developed radar, for example; or Barnes Wallis of the bouncing bomb and Lancaster bomber.
The use has generalised over time and would certainly include madcap inventors like Doc Brown from Back to the Future, who is very much not an ivory tower dweller. I would guess that that's the sense which was contrasted with engineers in the documentary.
In the vernacular of The Register, which the headline comes from, it is used quite generally for scientists or engineers.
It will sit nicely with that Framework laptop I don't need and that Fairphone that won't fit in my pocket.
Fairphones are pretty normal sized in the phone market. I don't ware cargo shorts (or trousers) and yet it fits in all of my pockets, smart and casual. So I'd ask just how skinny are the jeans you're wearing.
At least they kept the nice toddler and pedestrian murdering extremely high, blocky, low visibility front.
You just can't enter the American market without a pedi-masher.
You don't even need to make the billionaires pay extra (even if we should).
If you took what you're spending on healthcare right now and made it single payer, you'd have... the most heavily funded healthcare system in the world, bar none. You'd have over twice as much per person funded as the NHS.
And that's today, right now with what's already being spent.
How's the noise level? I'm sure I could cope with a side one. Big bendy tubes will do the job fine. Lack of sliding windows is the bigger problem
The Trash 80s? Had a Commodore PET 3032. A whole 1 megahertz. On the other hand, the IEEE 488 meant that I could send a command to one disk drive to transfer to a second disk drive, whilst printing, with the computer then totally free to actually do other stuff. SCSI it wasn't, but for the time, it was an ingenious solution to a lot of problems.
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
