Fail Fast
@aristotles_donkey I wish you well with that very Agile testing phase. I went through something similar in my late teens.
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6 quid daughter card for my Samsung A40 fixed a wobbly power connector. Even throwing in the half hour of labour from my fair hands it was way cheaper (for me and Gaia) than a replacement that actually wouldn't have been much better in spec.
As a sidenote: my previous 2016 Samung J5 can still run security-sensitive apps, although it does require a little bit of patience as they load.
The 787 that last took me to Disneyland had a toilet largely held together with silver gaffer tape, which I took at the time as a pragmatic response to an in-service failure. The fact that the same gaffer tape was in place on the return 14 days later suggested this was either a very common occurrence or TUI simply couldn't afford to take the aircraft out of service for repairs. Perhaps they should have issued a pair of TENA pants and complementary tub of Sudocrem?
An attack on the leader of said party could possibly be taken in that way. But a cyberattack on the Widdecombe-under-Moped* local conservative association's annual jam-making contest, possibly less so.
[* a fictional village in Geoffrey the tube train and the fat commedian and not a besmirchment of the one-time Minister for Prisons]
Reagan and his ilk started from an abject horror at what big government did in Nazi Germany or Stalin's USSR and then drew a free-hand extrapolation to any government initiative.
Sentimentally I would prefer a small, effective government (P J O'Rourke's guard the coastlines and let UPS deliver the mail), but I'd always emphasize the effective over the small.
Printing direct from PC to network printer without a print queue sounds great until you want to handle the "follow me" printing that most users now expect. Or have load balancing of print queues. Or reporting on overall print volume and type.
This nightmare is probably the biggest Microsoft clusterfsck of my long and inglorious career, because months after the original problem they are still unable to offer a reliable patch.
Even the push-bike is like this - friend of mine had a problem with his brakes and first up was advised to sell his bike as the cost of repair was uneconomic. After the local bike shop took a look it turned out they were fixable for not much more than the cost of a couple of inner tubes.
@Danny_2 oh the joys of explaining Welsh pronunciation. A common mistake is someone pronouncing the final syllable "-way" rather than "-wee". Plenty of toilet humour potential there.
On other occasions the "w" gets missed. Once thought of inviting some Indian colleagues round for a fry-up but the thought of "Breakfast at Miffany's" was too much to bear.
There is no getting away from the fact that New Shepard looks like a sex toy. Not one I'd care to insert, but very definitely dong-shaped.
SpaceX does not remind me of such a thing, although "Falcon Heavy" is now my favourite term for certain days of the month.
I don't get the comparisons between VSS Unity and a vagina. And I am something of an expert in these matters. Branson himself, on the other hand is a proper .... well I'll see you next Tuesday.