I just got an email 2 days ago that my Skype credit ($3.21) would expire in 10 days. I have got these regularly over the years when I hadnâ(TM)t used Skype for a while. Used to save quite a few dollars on calls home from overseas back in the day. Câ(TM)est la vie, say the old folks ðYZ

Or we will all be doomscrolling in the dark.

Rockwell built the shuttle. Rocketdyne built the engines. Boeing modified a couple 747s to ferry shuttles about and facilitate early unpowered drop tests, which is hardly relevant to starliner tech

Please excuse the typos and grammar errors, of course I was typing on my iPad which is an inexact process

This stuff (macOS & iOS) has gotten out of control. I seriously doubt anyone there know how this crap works anymore. There are some many layers of overlapping function that reboot 3 times and call me in the morning is a very standard support response. In preparation form a multi-week trip I just spent all afternoon trying to backup my ipad and iPhone, load the pictures to photos, and install the latest iOS update (only one level behind). I had to reboot everything at least couple times, move usb cables from ports they worked fine in a month ago. Finally got all done, but it just shouldnâ(TM)t be this weird. Well, this thread caught me at just the moment of frustration and Iâ(TM)ve vented but I donâ(TM)t feel any better.

At one time owning and caring for 9 dishwashers, I found the water inlet fitting would always change in each replacement machine. Even if two were in the same years. Weird.

Was there some doubt?

About Teslas tooling around China for years now collecting the same sort of data the west is worried about.

Never ascribe to malice that which adequately explained by stupidity. Lack of maintenance of facilities seems to me (75 m) endemic. I would have said that itâ(TM)s worse in the US but I saw a video of a bridge across the Elbe in Dresden collapse this morning. Follow up on DW with an engineer from TUD said there are probably 6,500 similarly deficient bridges along the autobahns. So much to do and so little urgency, oh and budget.

The coverup will be worse than the event. Stoopid city pols

is sucking up to the fossil fuelies like there is no reason whatsoever to not belch carbon forever.

Clearly there are occasional advantages to being a technological backwater, but in the main this must just impede progress. OTH their crew scheduling system was a giant cock up last winter.

Thanks but no thanks.

Itâ(TM)s âcause Blightys broke

Who could have said that in India itâ(TM)s safer to be a cow than a Muslim.