vic-traill

>Reminds me of the Gimli Glider

This was a very Canadian accident, in that they ran out of fuel halfway through their cross-country flight because of (in the end) conversion errors in calculating the required fuel amount for the then-new metric 767. Canada was still in the conversion process from imperial to metric, and the airline industry was a relative latecomer to that change.

Just a couple of warnings.

/s

Biden's party has racked up a series of electoral wins in recent years

Harshest punishments for those whose actions cost lives and badly jeopardized security, analysts say

Airline's claim that online helper was responsible for its own actions was 'remarkable': small claims court

General thought brought about by TFA, not commenting specifically on TFA.

Lately I've been wondering about contemporary expressions of opinion.

When I was much younger these was a oft-used chestnut 'Opinions are like assholes; everyone has one'[0]. To my mind, one's opinion was an entry point to a journey of dialogue, not a terminus.

I get that the level of effort to post one's opinion is low, and the resultant distribution high.

Why do we think our opinion should be widely disseminated? Does the world need to know my opinion on a topic, or is posting motivated by other factors, e.g. vanity?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Opinions_are_like_ar...

> some indication that a vehicle is driving autonomously is useful information to everyone around them

I'm genuinely curious - what are you thinking when you say this?

I don't know what I'd do with that information. It shouldn't make me drive differently - e.g. not be aggressive to see if I can invoke reaction(s) in the autonomous system, and I should already be driving w/ due care.

>You were contacted after my intervention and a refund arrived along with a 20% voucher nearly three weeks after it was first promised.

Voucher? So you have to spend more money on HP products to claim a shitty 20% for HP having broken contract law? Am I interpreting this correctly?

If so, wow.

Alas, no, not so much. This is a very frequent flyer; you have to damn near tackle writers (literally and metaphorically) to stop them from using an apostrophe in the possessive form of the pronoun 'it'.

Came to the comments to see if anything was known about him post-escape.

My google-fu fails me in finding any info regarding capture. Maybe his is still at large?

He apparently escaped on Oct 15 2020 [0], smack dab into the middle of the pandemic. A national lockdown came into effect in early November 2020 [1] - how the hell would that work for him?

[0] https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/hampstead-heath-g...

[1] https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/file...

was on track to run out of money in a matter of weeks (from TFA) != it ran out of money, it failed, there is nothing left (your comment)

I appreciate you were focused on the exec compensation part of the dialogue. Just noting that the money was not yet all gone.

That article has an odd cadence to it.

Makes it tougher to grok for me ....

>It's a startup, it ran out of money, it failed, there is nothing left

It may not be that clear cut ...

From the article: The startup, valued by investors last year at $3.8 billion, had already whittled its staff down to about 500 people from a peak of 1,500, and was on track to run out of money in a matter of weeks

I was shooting for 1280 surnames, but the comment length limit fixed that. Which I am grateful for in general :-)

Anyway, I surmised I would give away just about all my karma on the comment, but, hell, I just couldn't resist!

It's obviously the result of Roll Call: SMITH Here! JOHNSON Here! WILLIAMS Here! BROWN Here! JONES Here! GARCIA Here! MILLER Here! DAVIS Here! RODRIGUEZ Here! MARTINEZ Here! HERNANDEZ Here! LOPEZ Here! GONZALEZ Here! WILSON Here! ANDERSON Here! THOMAS Here! TAYLOR Here! MOORE Here! JACKSON Here! MARTIN Here! LEE Here! PEREZ Here! THOMPSON Here! WHITE Here! HARRIS Here! SANCHEZ Here! CLARK Here! RAMIREZ Here! LEWIS Here! ROBINSON Here! WALKER Here! YOUNG Here! ALLEN Here! KING Here! WRIGHT Here! SCOTT Here! TORRES Here! NGUYEN Here! HILL Here! FLORES Here! GREEN Here! ADAMS Here! NELSON Here! BAKER Here! HALL Here! [ ... ] ROSADO [ ... Crickets ... ]

>Saying "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me", however, ensures that the speaker "will be viewed as an insane native, and treated with dignity and respect".

Well, I'm not sure where Michel Lotito [0] (aka Monsieur Mangetout) fits w/ this ...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Michel_Lotito

> Defendants don't have an absolute First Amendment right to free speech? Who'd have thought?

I believe you're in on that joke, but nonetheless (in case someone isn't): no, they don't. When one is on bail then one has to abide by the restrictions that the bail conditions impose.

Which brings to mind the old chestnut:

The optimist believes the glass is half full. The pessimist believes the glass is half empty. The engineer says the glass is twice as large as it need be.

Spelled 'Colour' correctly as the band would have it, too.

w00t!

Here's a shout out to David Harris, author of Pegasus Mail.

IME, he's an engaged and responsive developer who gave folks enterprise e-mail when most enterprises didn't yet realise they needed it.

And we purchased manuals (this was the funding mechanism) every year. I'm not sure how many folks did.

Shout out to Brave - my browser for a year now. The search results aren't great, but they're interesting.

Wait until yesterday. Then you'll really get hammered. :)

That, mon ami, gets a doubleplusgood[0] rating all day long.

It's got understated irony that somehow tends to sarcasm at the same time. It's very hard to unpack yet delicious.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

This link is the parents speaking, nonetheless another data point [0}

I'm respiratorily at risk to particulate matter in the air (partially my own fault for cigarette smoking for many years, partially happenstance via a house fire/smoke inhalation), and the air quality has been a bastard in ON Canada this summer. It certainly has affected my outdoor activities.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nine-year-ol...

> ... the rocket you sent to the moon was built by a German

Even an oblique reference deserves the Tom Lehrer reference [0] :-)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

Okay, I hear you; however, I'm not sure that the idea that cats bear more responsibility for birds fatalities than humans passes my smell test, though.

Food for thought [0] - 269 million bird deaths a year in Canada alone is asserted. Cited reasons for death include: feral and pet cats, agriculture, oil and gas activities, and collisions with buildings.

As noted outdoor cats are domestic and thus kept alive by humans. Who's responsible in this scenario - the cat or the human? I suppose some feral cats are the result of/spawn of domestic cat abandonment as well.

[0] https://windsorstar.com/news/human-activity-killing-birds-by...

>I'm not sure what computer you're logged on from, but to take that as an example, I'm pretty sure it's made by a company that would likely go under if it chose not to advertise

TBH, I can't recall the last time I saw an ad for a Dell product.