One of the reasons (but not the only reason) for the preponderance of Alphards, Vellfires and other such large vans in HK is that relatively many people who own cars here also employ drivers (not the majority, just a much higher proportion than in the west). Once you’re being chauffeured around anyway, it makes sense…

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There used to be a great blog post on We Are the Mighty detailing 79 inaccuracies. Sadly it seems to have been taken down.

Mumin are from Finland but the first books were written in Swedish by Tove Jansson, who was of the Swedish speaking ethnic group in Finland.

Haha my thoughts exactly!

Total Commander is great, but most users neither need nor know how to wield a tool that powerful. TeraCopy is very simple and transparent, thence much of its appeal.

In my opinion, the biggest advantage is that if you start several copy jobs it will sequence them instead of trying to run them all at once. You can also pause and resume, and it is even clever enough to let small copy jobs run while you are running big ones since they will be done quickly. The logic being that you’re…

ROFL!

I started studying to be a pilot when over 40.

Airline pilot. Which isn’t all sunshine and daisies but the view from the office sure beats a cubicle wall. ;)

I’m an airline pilot. I don’t set my own hours, and to be fair I do work a lot of very odd and irregular hours including nights and weekends. This leads to a lot of fatigue sometimes, but I do enjoy my work. While there is a lot of routine, the view from the office is unbeatable.

Word. I hated working like that. Going from office work to a job I actually enjoy doing (and that is everything but 9-5) was one of the best choices I ever made.

Indeed. No matter how much I know intellectually that I could easily invest it better myself (even risk-free government bonds are better than the annuity), I know that the annuity is a great safety net against my inevitable stupidity.

I’m not big on gyms either. Hardly ever enter one except in hotels while traveling for work.

It looked like it pooped the bombs.

I like your thinking. :)

If memory serves, Shafer had described it elsewhere as having structural limits comparable to those of an airliner.

The Russian answer was the MiG-25 Foxbat. The Foxhound is the MiG-25’s (slower) successor, the MiG-31.