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Surely if the cause is important to them they should sign with their legal name.

If I signed an ink-and-paper petition as CuddleBunny227 it would be rightly disregarded and stricken even if I insisted that was my username on Reddit. Does that change if it's "on the Internet"?

Which seems to be an untenable premise.

"I never make a true statement" says the liar.

Angle adjustment is useful even when not carrying a load. Angling the beams down onto the road at dawn and dusk provides good be-seen visibility without creating glare for other drivers.

Cars without manual angle adjustment have lost that courtesy gesture and just drive around glaring all the time.

Unfortunately its configuration, even if successful, is wholly impractical to scale up to a commercial aircraft.

Being able to generate a softer thump with a needle-like aircraft is technically interesting but practically irrelevant.

The SSBD program had more potential, playing around with more capacious configurations that could possibly have been expanded upon:

https://www.airliners.net/photo/NASA/Northrop-Grumman-F-5E-S...

> The US don't have cheap cars

They absolutely do. The cheapest Nissan in the UK is a Juke at $29,775 ( per xe.com conversion rate ). A US-market Nissan Versa starts at $17,995.

Even removing taxes the Juke costs around $24,800.

Not at all - telematics schemes also penalise subjective measures such as "over-revving" and "cornering with too much lateral g".

Royal Mail drivers in the UK found themselves being disciplined for exceeding telematics thresholds when the company transitioned back to petrol-engined vans, from diesel, because they are driven in a very different manner.

You only need to look at the 2024 US presidential election to see how many people disagree with that point.

Out of 245 million eligible voters, only 65% voted.

For many people politics is an abstract concept in a faraway place.

I remember REM self-nominating 'Shiny Happy People ' as the worst song. And even though it was one of their most successful songs in the charts they refused to play it live.

> Just put it on your own domain and keep it there while you're alive

There is really no "for as long as you live persistent hosting"

Self-hosting: ISPs change, people move house, power black-outs take servers offline

Hosted: providers change policies, are bought out, go bust, payment details change

> Therefore the carriers have only been selling fully VoLTE compatible devices for many years

However 35% of UKians bring their own phone under SIM-only contracts.

When my UK carrier ( Hutchinson 3 ) was switching off 3G I had weekly scare-emails stating that my phone would no longer work. Of course it did support VoLTE and works fine, but in the background they were using a whitelist.

> They are literally rocket scientists.

Literally they are not. The rockets used to launch the Voyagers were built by Martin and General Dynamics.

> (1) most of humanity’s recorded knowledge

A lot of historical information on the Internet only scrape the top 50% of the knowledge on niche subjects, if even that. So often I see forum requests along the lines of "can someone scan page 242 of book X please".

Well to be fair there is no "dark side" to the Moon, so it's not really an answerable query.

And searching google.com for "longitudes continent africa" returns "Africa's geographical coordinates span from Latitude 37˚21'N to 34˚51'15"S and Longitude 51˚27'52"E to 17˚33'22"W"

It seems that GIGO still holds true.

> Automatics usually don't plan ahead.

The latest ones do, being integrated with GPS and a terrain database to anticipate changes.

'Chaos' is a great observation. I only had a couple of Scarry books as a child but there was something dynamic about them compared to most children's books and I think it was the frenetic and chaotic nature of them. There was always a pickle barrel spilling over, or oranges rolling across a road.

I didn't even know what a pickle barrel was, but it obviously made a mess when someone crashed into it.

Which only means he was a 'disaster' from the speculative trader's perspective.

Stock trading has no benefit to a company unless they need to go to the markets for another round of funding, which Microsoft didn't.

Indeed, I'd assumed paper use opinion columns because they're cheaper than news.

I suspect that finding a proximate hacker space, let alone one with such equipment, is even more of a challenge.

Cross-range applies within the atmosphere, not in orbit. Once in orbit, spaceplanes have no less predictable orbits than anything else with fuel and restartable motors.

For the X-37 to deliver on a surprising vector it would have to sacrifice itself by deorbiting and manoeuvring, which I suppose is feasible. But modern MaRVs also have some re-entry cross-range and HGVs considerably more.

> Eventually, nothing of value will be posted. (like facebook?)

I'm in a couple of dozen groups on Facebook and they produce interesting and thoughtful content every day.

Of course I wish they were on the open web, but don't blame the network.

There is very little true competition on UK railways. Most services are run on Government-granted franchises which give a monopoly or at best a duopoly on specific routes.

There are a handful of open-access train operators who operate outside the franchises, but they can't just decide to compete on a route if that route is already covered by a franchise.

To create true competition, the infrastructure and stations would need to be taken into public ownership and the train operators would run whatever services they see fit.

To reduce functionality or capability. Like a foam-dart-firing Nerf Gun is an impaired version of a rifle.

> Hire expencive, qualified workers

> who don't require hand-holding,

> and you won't have to care where

> they work from.

But employees only get to that level of capability through early, engaged mentoring. WFH destroys that personal connection. So then you have new, or inexperienced, employees trawling through SharePoint trying to find some nugget of information about how and why X integrates with Y. Hours and hours are lost, I've seen it first-hand.

Whereas 15 minutes of face-time doodling on a page with an experienced analyst will accelerate the newbie's capability out of proportion to the time spent.

> when the payload is a 100kt bomb, then 100m is accurate enough

Not accurate enough for counterforce. When a missile silo lid can withstand 600 atmospheres of overpressure, "close enough" isn't good enough.

Originally designed by Canadair which started life as another British subsidiary, Canadian Vickers, which was taken into state ownership in WW2 and renamed more patriotically.

Later sold to Electric Boat and organised under General Dynamics, then later sold to Bombardier.

The latter decide to leave the commercial aircraft market and focus on business jets. DHC acquired the rights to the CL_15 series in 2016.

As a benchmark, Aerojet will charge NASA between $70 and $110 million for each new-build RS-25 engine for Artemis. And that's a design that dates back to the 1970s and which flew as the SSME on the Shuttle.

SpaceX builds all 33 engines on a Starship for that amount.

For context, the prototype of the T-38 chase-plane that Boom employed went supersonic on its first flight in 1959. And that was a Northrop private-venture, not a government contract.

Nothing about the XB-1 design is optimised for boom reduction.

The Overture airliner, with an entirely different configuration, will also only operate supersonically over oceans.

I'm disturbed by the ambiguous UI.

Is 'Hide Binary" enabled or disabled? If it's enabled, why is it a different colour to the slider that has presumably selected Base-16?

Are the binary digits editable?

Are "ASCII" and "Unicode" mutually exclusive as you'd expect, in which case why are they both the same colour?

> Excluding leaks, the ISP does not see the hostnames

Unfortunately they can, either through the unencrypted hostname passed in SNI or in the cert returned by the server .