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Safety Margin: "We're right on the edge"
John Goglia, a former NTSB member, said investigators will take the Southwest engine apart to understand what happened and will look at maintenance records for the engine.
"There's a ring around the engine…
@Maurice- I agree. The AMT was really poorly done. And what's the point of the government sending you SS with one hand and taking part of it back with another?
"Elderly people who saved all their live... were punished for their habits of savings."
@Maurice: I have to agree with you on this point. Those people were thrown to the wolves in the interest of saving the overall economy. Absolutely not fair.
"The system, any system, isn't going to work when those responsible for operating it are determined to undermine it."
As brilliantly demonstrated by the current Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
@LewisBraham- A fascinating article, Lewis…
"why are you trusting government dollars?"
• My vote for question of the week.
the "sense of Congress"
• My vote for oxymoron of the week.
@msf- Congratulations! A doubleheader!!
@LewisBraham: Sir: Your introduction of actual facts to rebut Maurice's yammering is an uncalled-for escalation of argument, and decidedly unfair to the proponents of dubiously sourced garbage. In the future please follow the guidelines favored by M…
"Burden? A loaded headline for sure. I consider paying taxes a privilege as long as (1) there’s some fairness & proportionality that takes into consideration the ability of various citizens to contribute, (2) the money is spent wisely as I would…
@CathyG- "Is that the way to specify which person you are responding to? "
Yes. @ followed by the exact user name.
Edit: Note that you can include as many addressees as desired in a post. eg: @CathyG, @Old_Joe, etc. These addressees need not be in …
@MikeM- Thanks for the comments. I totally agree with you. Unfortunately, we see the same pathetic ignorance on the part of most congressmen and senators on other important topics as well: financial matters, for one. The same pattern always- old far…
@Maurice: I can out-ancient you with one hand tied behind my back. All but one of my computers are circa 2005, because that's about when Apple abandoned the IBM/Motorola processors and went to Intel. I still run at least three major applications tha…
@Maurice and @Crash: Thanks to the second amendment you are allowed to own and use a handgun at your discretion: why not just shoot the browser screen?
Hi there Cathy and welcome back. In the interim my wife also fought the cancer fight, and also so far so good, so I certainly empathize with your situation. Hope you stay around MFO for a long time. Ted and I are still exchanging occasional pleasant…
OK, this should work for Firefox on the Mac:
• Top left of screen, next to the "Apple: Click on "Firefox", move cursor down to "Preferences".
• This should cause a new tab, labelled "Preferences", to open.
• Open that tab and select "Privacy". Tha…
"It is more than a little ironic that an administration that condemns outsourcing should make standing up for those who move production to China so central a priority."
Amen.
Dammit, still can't get it all sorted out right. Beginning to wonder about this batch of medicinal brownies...
@Ted: Sorry for all of the confusion. Evidently not functioning well at the moment. Could you do me a big favor and cover those stories c…
FWIW: First Republic Bank is currently running the following rates in N California:
Term / Minimum / Rate / APY
6 Year / $10,000+ / 2.96% / 3.00%
5 Year / $10,000+ / 2.76% / 2.80%
4 Year / $10,000+ / 2.32% / 2.35%
3 Year / $10,000+ / 2.23% / 2.…
Yes, I thought the "algo angle" was interesting also. Perhaps human intelligence being in very short supply in the White House they fell back on the artificial kind.
An excerpt from my current post on this: The Washington Post reports that "The office of the U.S. trade representative released a list of 1,300 proposed tariff increases... In compiling the list, U.S. officials used algorithms to identify products t…
