Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Hey Buddy... can you spare a dime (or a billion or two)

And the crazy bit is that people are blowing each other up over different interpretations of the same 10th generation copy of a translation of a translation of the fairy story.

Imagine if there was a 30year war over which Spiderman movie was best?

Re: Trump isn't planning to invade Russia in winter

>Only for federal crimes, however he is also charged by several states.

The thing about being a dictator, even only on day one, is that the niceties of the rules don't really apply.

Unless Twitter offer him a better cut of the ad revenue

Re: "the use of a Chinese firm"

China is the enemy of his boss.

Unless the sanctions are biting enough that the checks are late and he's looking for a new one

Re: How much?

Presumably at least Trump isn't planning to invade Russia in winter

Re: Why would Musk want to buy that

>The only reason Musk would buy it is to shut it down and force Trump back to Twitter.

Or for the gratitude of a future president

And a ban on imported EVs and a $100K/vehicle federal subsidy for American built EVs ( only valid for companies with 5 letter names beginning with T) ?

Plus a contract for all US satellite launches for the full 1000 year Reich Presidency ?

Re: Sorry????

US Navy nuclear powered super carrier = $37Bn

Replacement for USN Trident nuclear submarines = $100Bn

Owning the guy in charge of them = priceless

Re: How much?

>If of the 70-something million people who voted for him last time, they all gave him an average of like $13, you arrive at a billion dollars if my math is correct.

If he follows the playbook and party membership is mandatory for government jobs. Say 20M employees all paying $30/month and 50% is kicked back to him = $300M/month, $3.6Bn/year

Re: "if the door plug removal was undocumented"

>NOTHING concerning airplane maintenance should be undocumented.

They didn't remove a door plug, that would have involved paperwork and testing and sign-offs and probably having to use that fscking awful computer maintenance logging system.

They 'partially' opened a door, nothing special about opening a door - "It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

So if we call it opening a door - we don't have to do any paperwork.

Later that day .... why are there bolts in my overall pocket ?

Re: Airlines Being The Safest Form Of Transportation

In the USA (stats are easily available and Tibeten goat farmers probably don't drive much or take many flights so...)

The TSA say there are 2.9Million airline passengers/day, say 1Bn / year

The Dept Transport say they take 1.1Billion trips/day or 411 Bn trips/year - and average 14,500 mi/year

So 400x as many driving trips as flying trips.

There are about 45,000 road deaths/year, there hasn't been an airliner fatality for 4 years, and that was the person that got in-flight disembarked when that South West's engine blew up.

If you only include 'proper' airlines and not helicopter sight seeing trips and 3 drunk fishermen on a float plane, there hasn't been a crash for more then a decade - and that was a Dash-8 (serves you right for flying a plane with propellers) there hasn't been a large US passenger jet crash for 20years.

Or even worse. Employees knew they would get reamed out for bad paperwork - so they found a way of doing the work which wouldn't generate any paperwork. Including paperwork saying "did you put the bolts back in?"

Re: > border issues

>Oh, border - the hybrid fruit that never stops giving.

But with a caravan bringing 6 billion immigrants across the border - they would at least seem to offer an example of how to organise public transport infrastructure

Re: Reference

theregister.co.uk doesn't have the */s" because it assume its readers can read

Re: No Bipartisan Deals

So in the Mother-(F***er) of Parliaments the opposition are crawling over themselves to say they will implement all the current government's policies and do them harder, to the annoyance of many of his potential voters

While in the treasonous colonies the opposition are effectively in power but won't forward any bills because the president would be forced to sign them against the will of his potential voters

I can see why people aren't entirely convinced of this whole democracy experiment

Re: US politics is basically

Operation Deport the Religious Nut-Jobs was a good idea at the time - but it had unfortunate consequences

Re: Reference

>TikTok pushed a notification to US users warning them of the bill and urging fans to lobby their reps in Congress.

But a company can't get involved in politics - they aren't citizens !

Re: Too Big To Fail

You could have had a more modern, quieter. more fuel efficient Canadian alternative to the 737 but Boeing got a 300% import tariff put on it.

>here was a time when British Airways insisted they had staff supervise the building of there plains.

Doesn't really scale though - and is more for performative value.

You can watch the final assembly, but you can't oversee the machining of each part. Then do you watch the rolling of the Aluminium stock at the metal supplier. What about the refinery, do you check the Bauxite coming in?

The do you review all the pull requests form the software team? Does BA have to people inside TSMC watching the fabbing of the semiconductors ?

Re: What is going on?

For IP theft if nothing else.

How many countries celebrate an independence day - and which 3rd world monarchy did they independence from ?

Re: Too Big To Fail

>Why no alternative to Boeing? Delta, American Airlines, Hawaiian and SkyBlue all have Airbus aircraft in their fleets.

Well yes if you are a woke commie airline you might want to fly a cheese-eating surrender aircraft, but expect no government business and a bunch of 'regulatory issues' if the wrong senator is on the committee.

Those airlines generally have Airbus because they bought some startup airline that bought Airbus because they got a deal.

Alaskan just finished offloading the Airbuses they got when they acquired Virgin (IIRC) and ran an Ad campaign full of US flags and bald eagles about how they now only flew proud American built American Boeing aircraft hand-built by proud American workers - juts before the doors fell off.

Yes - Airbus build aircraft in plants across the confederacy but unless they paint the local flag across them, airlines aren't going to buy them.

Re: The wheels are coming off at Boeing

My point is that a wheel falling off a 20+year old aircraft is more likely to be the fault of the airline's maintenance than original production quality control

Re: The wheels are coming off at Boeing

On a Boeing plane delivered in 1995.

I hear a Mk 1 Golf's exhaust fell off in Manchester. All Bentleys and Bugattis should now be scrapped and VW management put in prison.

Re: Lax oversight

There was, but doing the paperwork would trigger a lot of tests and more paperwork so they became experts at doing things in a way that wouldn't trigger the paperwork

That's not a change pushed to production - it's just a temporary test that happens to run on the production server and has no end date

Re: What is going on?

Which is why the NTSB was created. Originally the FAA were in charge of promoting air travel AND investigating accidents.

Which meant every accident was a one in million freak occurrence which could never happen again and nothing needed to be done and passengers shouldn't worry

Re: Too Big To Fail

Americans really have no choice except to fly, at least until someone invents a 1000 seat F250 than can travel at 200mph.

And if you want to fly an American airline really has no alternative to Boeing.

Re: Ranking

>We live in a wine country system

When auto complete makes a sentence better

Re: Cynical? Me?

Well you can't have a single National Health Service running the NHS - that's just silly

Re: Cynical? Me?

£3.5B ? That's almost 100 weeks of Brexit savings, shouldn't the NHS already have received twice this since 2020 ?

Re: "policy decisions that would restrict its ability to hire skilled staff"

We are removing the loophole that allow foreigner workers to pay no tax - Except for the vital semiconductor company ASML

And of course NXP semiconductor

And national champions like Philips and ING

And inter-government agencies like ESA and Airbus

and culturally important companies like Heineken

And foreign inward investment companies like Microsoft and Amazon

But other than this - we are clamping down on foreign high tech workers

Re: an incredibly affordable supplier...

As euphemisms go it's up there alongside: "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage," after Hiroshima + Nagasaki

>" end tax breaks for highly skilled foreign employees"

They still have this?

In the late 90s when I was looking at a job at ESA there was an insane deal where foreigner tech workers could choose to just pay flat 20% tax for 10years (IIRC) in the Netherlands

So ASML complaining isn't woke green euro-hippie. It's like Goldman-Sachs claiming it's going to move to Canada if the Carried Interest tax credit on Hedge Fund managers is revoked.

So Maggie was a Soviet Agent?

Makes sense, the Iron Curtain Lady

After all Norman Tebbit was an agent of North Korea and Corbin is in Hamas