Posts by toffer99

Musk provided a Good Thing. So keep it under your hat. eh? The tabloids will.

More "context" but, sorry, not anti-Tesla

Toyota has completely withdrawn their Toyota bZ4X. Because the wheels kept falling off. Sorry not dramatic as Tesla updating its steering software over the air in days, is it? https://tinyurl.com/2989p2op

Well, its a good job that nuclear...er nuclear..

Pedants' corner: It's supremacy.

Terrific piece. Thank you.

Just another of Xi Jinping's slapdowns of those who get too rich or powerful. A reminder that the Chinese state can always come for you.

So rare under this government that the good guys win. The odds are usually stacked in favour of money-grabbers.

When the 737 comes up as a subject, I still think of the dead crews. Imagine fighting the control column for minutes on end as it repeatedly tries to dive you into the ground, eventually overcoming your puny human strength to kill you and your hundreds of passengers.

My Windows 10 failed an update overnight and rolled itself back this morning. Anyone else?

So was it the Americans, Russians or Chinese?

Since privatisation, £54billion has been paid out in share dividends. That is twice as much as full-fibre rollout would have cost.

Its all a bit sad, really. RAF pilot gets to drive outdated plane to not very high, then launches little rocket from it. This, ladies and gents is the British Space Programme.

I have become resigned to the sleaziest politician of my long lifetime becoming Prime Minister.

I think of it as a health problem -the boil on the flesh of the UK which is Boris Johnson must be lanced. If he takes the Tory Party with him, so much the better.

From Matthew Parris' recent TIMES column: That he’s a habitual liar, a cheat, a conspirator with a criminal pal to have an offending journalist’s ribs broken, a cruel betrayer of the women he seduces, a politician who connived in a bid for a court order to suppress mention of a daughter he fathered, a do-nothing mayor of London and the worst foreign secretary in living memory . . . such truths are apparently already “priced in” to Mr Johnson.

If you still have a facebook account, you presumably don't give a damn about ANyBODY accessing your information. Cambridge Analytica closed down, then started up under a different name.

Could have been worse, they might have been bombing innocent Syrians at the time.

I'm going on a walking holiday.

So many faults on planes. Boeing has another problem: "Pilots reveal safety fears over Boeing’s fleet of Dreamliners. Company admits that fire extinguisher switch has failed a ‘small number’ of times" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/15/boeing-dreamliner-b787-safety-fears.

Killed by AI.

Are these the first mass deaths caused by Artificial Intelligence? What could be the next major occurrence?

Road Runner version.

Just visualising this: it has ACME stamped on the side and Wile E. Coyote is running it up to full speed. As it hits 40,000 rpm it breaks free, dragging Wile E. the length of the ship, through all bulkheads into the waves beyond at high speed. RR peers out of a hammock, then looks sadly at the camera saying "meep meep". Chuck Jones, you should be living now.

Modern 737's are a continuation of a design that dates back to the 1960's. Since then, Boeing have been changing fuselages, engines and bolting on winglets and other systems in an effort to keep them up to date, saleable and flyable by existing 737 pilots. I think they hit the buffers when they rolled out these models in an effort to avoid the expense of designing a new aircraft. Their competitors went for new designs instead. This may mean the end of Boeing. It'll almost certainly mean the end of the 737; after all would YOU climb aboard one now?

When Boeing's and the FAA snail's pace reactions become known, users' trust will just evaporate; "book me on a New York flight tomorrow please. But NOT a 737."

I hear the Second Coming was planned for December. But Jesus Christ was turned back by TSA at the border.

Terrific article -well done. I came from scanning through Mail Online, the hate paper. It was like climbing out of a lagoon of pigshit and stepping under a clean, cool shower.

We're sorry you couldn't get your money, customers. But our CEO got his as he left in disgrace -£1.7 million. Nice, eh?

Did plain old low-rent Boffins fix it, or was it the Astroboffins. Or maybe the Geoboffins. Nope, it was the DrillerBoffins.

Anyone got advice on password managers? I'm thinking of jumping to one.

Did a good job. All the best.

Bonus

Bonus? BONUS???? I assume he's paying back last year's bonus.

What systems do they have for backing up in case of fire, flood, power cuts, terrorist attack or an idiot with excavator.?

Sounds good but expensive. Each one costs one NHS hospital.

Wikipedia: "Capita Group has not been received well by the public and in the media. It has gained the nickname "Crapita", particularly from the coverage in the satirical and current affairs magazine Private Eye, which routinely documents the company's many failures and setbacks in the public sector."

The worst government of my lifetime, getting the biggest issue of a generation wrong, based on little to no information, having been given the tiniest mandate obtained through deception, largely to satisfy a generation who won't be affected, because they'll be dead.

Why did the Tories do this? Why did they turn an internal party squabble on Europe into a catastrophe for the UK and its 65 million people?

Its odd to think that in a few short years, only museums will have fossil fuel cars in them. Alongside Jeremy Clarkson.