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Some years ago my wife and I had been placed, for weight distribution reasons, in the very rear seats on a very lightly loaded A321 from Florence into Frankfurt. For whatever reason the pilot needed to abort the landing and go around for another app…
I do have to think that if every worker in the US who has porn on their computer were to be fired the national unemployment rate would surely be well over 50%...
I guess that I never thought about it in quite that way. That certainly explains why there are so few older people now alive compared to the historical past.
Nixon and Kissinger between them had more intellectual power than Tweety Trump and his entire coterie of sycophants combined. @rforno is absolutely right- most of them are thugs, pure and simple.
"We will be poorer".
I wonder which "we" that is? The young people who stand virtually no chance of ever owning their own home? The disappearing middle class who are already being made poorer by the day? The millions who were uninsured before Obama…
Selected excerpts from JoeD's Bloomberg article link:
Research by Macrotrends shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s performance so far in Trump’s term has been middling compared with his predecessors, and trails the gains made under Democrats Ba…
@Ted: Your continuing acidic, derogatory and snide comment are the single most damaging threat to MFO. Can you name even one poster who has ever agreed with your rain of crap?
@Sven- Political? Surely you aren't suggesting that the president of the United States would be so frivolous as to artificially manipulate the nation's economy, endangering our ability to respond to the next economic crisis, just to make himself loo…
Where's SUMMER???!!!
Damned if I know. Maybe check with Trump's environmental crew? Probably nothing to do with global environmental imbalances though, since Trump considers all that stuff to be fake news. Good luck!
Some posters seem to believe in a free lunch and maybe Santa Claus too. Or maybe even a free lunch with Santa Claus and Warren Buffett. Hard to know...
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@Ted: I encourage you to read the entire article- the link is right there in front of you!
Note that unlike your unaccredited link remarks (amounting to plagiarism) I give full credit to the actual source of the information. You might consider that…
"Note source of lower tier member's, and Mexican beer expert, linked article on Trump." (sic)
This upper-tier ex-schoolteacher is evidently incapable of constructing a coherent sentence in standard English. It's bad enough that we have to be subjec…
Yes, but wait a minute... we can't have two kings at the same time, can we? That guy in Washington says that he's the king. One of these guys is real and the other must be a phony!
And there you have it, folks. Complete blind denial in the face of overwhelming evidence of corporate incompetence and malfeasance, which directly led to over 350 people now dead. But those people didn't look at all like Ted, so they don't count for…
@linter: This thread alone has already been alive for three months of Ted's "year". With over two thousand eight-hundred views an awful lot of Ted's "eyeballs" have been focused right here.
Years ago MFO management, after numerous complaints from m…
There were enough un-seeing voters in the "wrong" locations to be able to give him the Electoral votes he needed to "win."
@ Crash- Don't be too certain of that. If you can stomach it, scroll through the great majority of on-line reader comments on…
@Ted: I would have hoped that a former teacher would understand the difference between "duplicates" and "expands upon". Evidently not, at least in your case. We can only hope that English or grammar were not your primary teaching assignments.
That …
"Just because the banks are safer doesn’t necessarily mean the financial system is"
Here's a few selected excerpts from davfor's Bloomberg link, just above. The entire article is well worth a read.
Leveraged lending has raised eyebrows partly becau…
Are the regulators not smart enough to figure out that such deception is being done to them?
@Crash- Well, in this case that's actually part of the problem. If you have been following this thread fairly closely, you will have noted that the FAA fre…
@hank- yessir, very well done, especially for one of the lower tier members. Quite a contrast between your comprehensive, well organized, thoughtful presentation and the stuff from that other guy who believes that just links (the more the better) an…
@Crash- Well, I won't argue with your general observations, but there is plenty of evidence in this instance that Boeing presented the information regarding the MCAS "system" to the FAA in a deliberately misleading manner. And for the record, I have…
A few additional excerpts from msf's linked article:
• A test pilot who originally advocated for the expansion of the system didn’t understand how the changes affected its safety.
• Safety analysts said they would have acted differently if they had…
"And it’s Google Chrome that often seems intent on doing everything for you"
@hank- and you'd better believe keeping massive records of everything that you do or that it does for you. Google = creepy.
Bing or (especially) DuckDuckGo work just fine…
@BenWP- Ditto on Apple only since whenever. I still have my original SE30- I turned it on a few weeks ago just for the hell of it and it still boots! Also ditto on Firefox vs Safari.
I still run a fleet of old G5s, because I still use the old Clari…
@msf- Thanks for your input. There's no way that I have anything like your level of experience in this area, but anyone building a critical electronics system should be very aware of any potential for "single point-of-failure". Relying on a single …
@Derf- I'm using a Firefox variant browser on an old (15 years!) creaky Apple desktop here. That browser stores passwords and cookies on your computer, in two separate lists. I suspect that the great majority of browsers do something similar.
It's …
Well, being retired I just got up (eat your hearts out!) so you two certainly got there well before me. Early birds, worms, and all that...
Gobble-gobble... :)
