I understand the need to wrap the mechanism to help keep it clean, but why no zippers or Velcro or something? From the perspective of a technician, cover panels should be easily removable for access, especially on a prototype. Cutting off the covering onstage seems… dramatic.

Also, um… why does it have boobs?

Can’t think of a better reason.

The Mouse that Roared

People like you discouraged votes for Harris, and handed Trump his second term.

the astroturf is strong with this one

you will face justice…

Yeah, the most common problem with conspiracy theories: two can keep a secret, if one is dead.

In the absence of useful evidence, apply the appropriate razor(s):

• Alder’s razor (also known as Newton’s flaming laser sword): If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate.
• Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
• Hitchens’ razor: That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
• Occam’s razor: Explanations that require fewer unjustified assumptions are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions.
• Popper’s falsifiability criterion: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable.
• Sagan standard: Positive claims require positive evidence, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Or maybe they knew they had a temperature warning but decided they couldn’t stop safely and hoped they could deal with it in the air, but then the engine fell off. The fire and losing the engine may have damaged the control surfaces on that wing.

I have experience managing multiple network systems with user-facing endpoints. That’s irrelevant.

Nothing critical on a passenger-carrying vehicle should be remotely managed and it definitely should be frozen while the bus is in active service. The last thing a crowded bus in motion needs is the lights randomly going out because someone decided it was time for a patch install.

The right choice from a security and safety perspective is for any wireless interfaces on the vehicle to be read-only - they can send data out (like current location). Pushing software changes should require direct physical access, and should only work if the vehicle is parked. Anything else is a stupid unnecessary risk.

Video shared by WLKY showed the left engine ablaze as the aircraft tried to lift off.

That’s weird. Did the sensors fail to recognize the fire, or did the crew know about it and decide it was too late to abort the takeoff?

I agree in general, but I was referring to Fawkes. The Gunpowder Plot was a group of religious nuts who wanted to blow people up for God.

Ride the monorail, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.

Hmm, what opening did they use?

The overall message of the film is good. The role model is… questionable at best.

The idea of … checks notes … killing the king for the sake of religious extremism.

So, the Gunpowder Plot… for as much as it’s been embellished in recent years (especially in V for Vendetta and the subsequent adoption of the Guy Fawkes mask by “Anonymous”), it’s important to remember that the plot was not about resistance to the monarchy or dictatorship or government in general, and it certainly wasn’t about liberty or anarchy:

In 1604 Fawkes became involved with a small group of English Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate the Protestant King James and replace him with his daughter, third in the line of succession, Princess Elizabeth.
[…]
He […] told us that since he undertook this action he did every day pray to God he might perform that which might be for the advancement of the Catholic Faith and saving his own soul"
[…]
Fawkes revealed his true identity on 7 November, and told his interrogators that there were five people involved in the plot to kill the king. He began to reveal their names on 8 November, and told how they intended to place Princess Elizabeth on the throne.

Fawkes and his coconspirators were religious extremists, and the goal of the plot was to eliminate the current monarch so that they could install another who would be more friendly to Catholics in England.

the wormhole must flow

Especially bored infantry.

hmm… who wired this and where’s the breaker panel?