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    U.S. Politics

    A narcissist is their own god.
  2. History thread, favourite photos, or any of the nostalgia tagged threads might be better.
  3. Right click on the second image, "search image with Google", suggests that "media storehouse" might be able to assist.
  4. Most Mexican food here (and in the US) is about as Chinese as what we get in our Chinese takeaways. I agree about African food in though.
  5. You use an enterprise grade endpoint protection solution at home? Impressive. How do you staff the SOC? If you mean you run a unprotected version of Microsoft stuff, buy a Chromebook (or install ChromeOS Flex) and massively improve your security.
  6. They will need to manage demand, so meters all around. One last run of increased profits before handing the franchise back as untenable.
  7. If that's true, I know one of the lucky 6.
  8. I'll set this to lock in a few weeks. Please @ m,e if there is any change.
  9. Can someone @ me if there is an official confirmation? Thanks
  10. Americans think fortnight is an online game (and nothing else).
  11. limpid

    U.S. Politics

    He's being sued by the other founders which means he won't get them to agree to let him sell shares before IPO plus six months. Also the SEC will investigate (if they aren't already) as this particular financial instrument (blank cheque company / SPAC) expects that the target of the acquisition is kept anonymous to isolate from insider trading. These instruments often lead to extensive legal action after IPO and they have fallen out of favour at least in part because of this. Also, if Trump attempts to sell a chunk of his holding, the price will fall sharply so he'd never realise near this value. See Tesla share price when Musk sells shares.
  12. I'm not convinced their nuclear deterrent is actually functional any more. It doesn't need to be (and hasn't since we built to MAD). Nuclear weapons are bloody expensive to maintain.
  13. Exactly this. VillaTalk is for discussion. It's not question and answer.
  14. limpid

    U.S. Politics

    In normal times, the USA gets to choose between a right wing nutter and a slightly less right wing nutter. Toss of a coin. It means a little more when one candidate's stated and demonstrated position is to suspend the constitution.
  15. People that measure distances in "ft". I can live with feet for heights (of people). I can deal with yards (because it's pretty much the same as metres),, but feet is just wrong for distances.
  16. I like that Musk wasn't even present for this launch. He's leaving things to the engineers. I just wish the presenters wouldn't mislead people. You could see the fuel leak, both in the video stream and buy watching the graphic showing fuel levels. It was spinning throughout all the ballistic tests (you could see the shadows spinning around in the internal views. The same graphic showed that it was in wrong orientation (and spinning) during re-entry. I think the engineers will consider the mission a success within their rapid prototyping methodology. It's all the marketing bollocks that annoys me.
  17. It's never been an event for "regular fans".
  18. The booster failed to restart it's engines (again) and crashed into the sea at 2-3 times the speed of sound. Starship developed a fuel leak shortly after separation and this caused an uncontrolled spin throughout the ballistic portion. Entry was completely uncontrolled and this led to some pretty colours as parts of the ship which weren't supposed to be exposed to atmospheric friction burnt up. It was pretty much the most minimal improvement possible compared to the last launch, but the marketing spin is going well.
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