I wish him all the best. I’ve lost confidence in Boeing’s leadership after all this, but I do trust our commercial pilots (and of course military) to respond calmly and correctly to all manner of failures, especially when they have the right tools and training (which not all Max pilots had access to at first)

If ignorance is bliss, you must be permanently high... read up on what really happened. Like the part about Boeing not disclosing the convoluted steps to fully disable their faulty avionics unless a customer paid extra for it. But sure, keep waving that “pilot error” flag...

Good to hear - and I certainly value your brother’s experience and input. Do you know why he says not to worry about it - is it that he’s confident in Boeing’s response, or that pilots now know how to override the systems if it happens again?

Sure, it’s safer than driving. So is picking a flight on a non-Max 737, or an Airbus, or a CRJ, or...

As have I, though I was no doubt younger. And I’ve flown in (and jumped out of) planes that are much older than me — and maybe even you?

“Will passengers willingly get on board the Boeing 737 Max, even after years of bad publicity in the wake of two deadly crashes?”

I don’t mind them playing in multiple timeframes, including the classic Skywalker era, as long as they have new and interesting stories to tell. But I agree that they’ve milked the gratuitous callbacks & cameos to death.

I could have dealt with the MacGuffin if the rest of the film wasn’t a shambles. Bad writing, rambling dialogue, unbelievable villains, a pointless and ham-handed resurrection, and the editing felt like an unfinished rough cut. If they gave the script a rewrite, recast a couple of characters, and trimmed a half hour…

“We already knew that Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins will be making Star Wars: Rogue Squadron”

+1 on the base 228i. My pesonal preference would be for a straight-6 married to a 6-speed. But my wife settled on an almost-base 228i, and it’s hard to imagine a more balanced pleasure driver. She did upgrade to AWD (because New England) and nav, but honestly, I'd prefer it stripped.  Now if only they offered it with…

Since the article didn’t mention it, the whole joke is (likely) a reference to a comment Bezos made to Woot founder Matt Rutledge over breakfast, by way of explaining why he wanted to buy Woot

Came for oblig xkcd, left content

I think where They Shall Not Grow Old fell down a bit was due to the nature of the footage they had to work with. Seemingly endless scenes of off-duty soldiers milling around and clowning for the cameras, as well as some drills and practice. When it reached the all-out combat at the end, the cameras weren’t rolling.

Exactly, and I’m one of those 2 people. With society opening back up, I expect to be doing a lot more travel. And I will not be renting through Hertz after this.

I agree with a lot of Waters’ political anger, but I think he’s mis-applying his support of the Palestinian people when he tries to “cancel” musicians who choose to perform for their Israeli fans. His use of the Star if David as a political symbol is also questionable. Alienating Israelis isn’t going to win them over…

I was curious about that too. Turns out that in 2015, an MS “technical evangelist” made the statement that Windows 10 is the “last version of Windows”. The press of course ran with that, but MS doesn’t seem to have ever clarified the claim, just blahed about how we won’t have to worry about “long term support” for our…

No. All I want from any carmaker’s “Infotainment” system is Android Auto. All my wife needs is Apple CarPlay. Give us both, and we’ll buy it. But I will NEVER buy another car loaded up with a bloated, proprietary bundle of half-assed apps which they will stop updating after 6 months. Never again.

Anti-malware isn’t useless, but it’s just one line of defense. It’s like saying that putting locks on your doors is useless when you also leave the screened windows open.

I had the benefit of having a decade or more between reading the book and watching the series, and I loved it (same with American Gods season 1). Sure, when I went back and re-read them the differences stood out more, but I agree it was a great adaptation.

In the privacy of their room, yes. But on a zoom call, in front of co-workers, is like doing it in a conference room. Gender and ethnicity doesn’t enter into it: if you or I did that, we would get our one meeting with HR to sign our paperwork and pick up our belongings.  Normals don't get second chances sfter…