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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... :)
How can any other country trust the United States when our international relations policy can change overnight according to the whim of someone whose main source of "information" is Faux "news"? We could ask Canada and Mexico about that...
Ireland is just beautiful. My wife and I spent about ten days touring there some years ago... loved the west coast. There's a fascinating island group there, called the Blaskets, somewhat to the north of Dingle. If you aren't able to take a trip out…
"The most powerful journalist in America?" George Will???
If it wasn't so déclassé to say "LOL" I'd have to tell you that I'm laughing out loud. So who awarded him that distinction? Maybe the same guy who assigns "tiers" here on MFO?
@hank- sorry, but I can't respond... if I'm ever going to upgrade my tier I can't be seen hanging out with the ne'er-do-wells and riffraff. I'm going to try for just a little more leg room.
Reminds me of passing through DeGaul in Paris some years a…
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@Ted: Yes, …
@hank- Thanks for the extended discussion. You raise some very interesting (and believable) scenarios that frankly had not occurred to me. I was simply comparing the present ability of smaller investors to achieve a reasonable degree of cash safety …
"The Plunge Protection Team's official mission is to advise the U.S. president "
Yeah, good luck on that one. As if the person currently usurping and bastardizing the title of "president" would listen to anything other than Fox.
I seem to recall that we discussed this quite some time ago. For the individual investor, it makes, as JoJo says, zero sense. For certain financial situations where very large amounts of money are involved, and there is a need for security coupled w…
Wow. Worthy of Trump. Fake news, fake posts, financial porn, posting porn...
Add: Speaking of @Ted's president, I just happened on this, from David Moran's link to "Intelligencer":
Trump is also known for being thin-skinned. He often fires back at…
Boeing Faces Difficult Recovery From Protracted 737 MAX Grounding
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Boeing faces "several challenges" in getting its 737 MAX back on track even once regulators sign off on design changes to make the grounded …
@hank- Yes, you're right- the delivery speed has really picked up recently. Another new feature is the "scheduled delivery day". Since we are at the weekend place virtually every week from Friday through Monday, it's really nice to be able to schedu…
"even if it's a third party seller, you get free shipping because the stuff is all in Amazon's warehouse. If that ends because sellers no longer have warehouse shelf space, it will be very negative for small sellers."
Free shipping is a mythical be…
