Re: Plus ça change...
I was working t HP when they bought Compaq. I have to say at a technical level we though great - all that lovely Ditial tech and people. Unfortunately, we go the Compaq people as well.
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A wee bit more complicated than that, as it (a) does not account for significant reductions in work through illness/incapacity (b) the significant effects on non-smokers of 'passive smoking' (c) improvements in health care that keep people, expensively, hanging on through pensions and care systems. But if you have all the numbers please do share them, I would be intrigued to know (genuinely)
The border does run through buildings - 'get my passport, I'm going to the dunny'.
Multiple roads, just like your trip to the loo also cross the border repeatedly - https://sites.google.com/site/kennyallenswebsite/home/crossing-the-irish-border-after-partition
Politicians keep on insisting that tech is/just about there to solve all the problems cheaply and efficiently. One question I have never had answered (and I did challenge my local MP - a man who claimed to have been a solid supporter of remain (well this is Scotland and he is praying he will hold on to a seat with a very slim majority) is that if this is the case, then the business opportunity is enormous - look at the trade and count the number of individual entities who would love an efficient scalable solution.
So where are the solutions to this problem?
Answer there has come none. I wonder why?
A 'friend' is quoted in The Times as saying that the visits to her digs were innocent - she was teaching him about technology.... - the modern equivalent of French Lessons or Ugandan Dancing?
That said he did make an arse of himself at the UN on 'technology' related futures.
"I'd rather go out in the flash than suffer with the lingering pain of the fallout."
A problem with most nuclear power plants (not that I know which design you are talking about) is much more likely to kill you by leaking radioactive waste than finishing you with a quick flash. So your reasoning doesn't add up except as a riposte to the ignorant.