FAA Signoff...
"FAA chief will personally fly Boeing 737 MAX test flight to allay safety fears
Steve Dickson will not sign off plane’s return until he is ‘satisfied I would put my own family on it’"
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"FAA chief will personally fly Boeing 737 MAX test flight to allay safety fears
Steve Dickson will not sign off plane’s return until he is ‘satisfied I would put my own family on it’"
"In ancient Rome, the Vestals or Vestal Virgins were priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the hearth"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestal_Virgin
Up Pompeii - "The Vestal Virgins"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VJMgzvrTZA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VJMgzvrTZA
The bogeyman of Downing St strikes again
"Dominic Cummings' data law shake-up a danger to trade, says EU"
"if Cummings gets caught again, he'll have to be sacked"
There is a simple solution. In the interest of the greater public safety and confidence, Cummings is hauled back up to the garden in Downing St, and in front of the assembled press/live TV coverage, is fitted with one of those ankle bracelet tracking devices. If he strays out of the designated area, the monitoring company (G4S?) are to be instructed to pass the information on his location to the press immediately
Republic of Ireland's app
NearForm made a similar app for Gibraltar, which launched last month, and one for Northern Ireland, due to launch within weeks. “It’s the same core platform. It’s built on the Irish solution,” said Harte.
“An Irish solution to an Irish problem” is a derisive term in Ireland for attempted fixes that are daft or quixotic. In this case, though, there seems no need for self-deprecation.
Ireland has made a tool against the pandemic not only for Ireland but for part of the UK and for a British overseas territory – while Britain flounders in its own attempt to produce an app."
Dodo?
"Now things took an even more surreal turn with Boris declaring any attack on Typhoid Dido to be both unjustified and unseemly. It was almost medieval in tone and probably the first time on record that Johnson has ever sought to defend a woman’s honour."
Paragraph 9...
For sure, I feel a lot safer on the M25 than US101, even in the Suburban
Not if Highways England rollout more SMARTDUMB Motorways
Says UK Government Cabinet Office. First project will no doubt be to replace the Civil Service Permanent Secretaries with AI bots modelled on training data from "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" scripts of Sir Humphrey
A word of caution Mr Cummings - what goes round comes round, so, expect you to be replaced by the monster you created
Answers on a pinhead please and send them to Downing St (for all the good it will do)
Sorry, but the print will be too small for Dominic Cummings to read and we don't want him to do a day trip up to Barnard Castle to check his eyesight again with an imminent Covid-19 second wave due
The best Requiring Sargent for Scottish independence is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
"The Register suspects this piece of the self-reliance push will require a few imports."
Considering the military entanglements further north, it may be prudent to ensure the kit is not made in China. Lest certain members of the populace start smashing the kit whenever tensions rise at the border
Ahem. Theresa May and her "Snoopers' Charter"
With the services of a lot of public authorities being run by private entities, your statement applies to the TinPot Statethe model democracy that is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
and is a US firm subject to the whims of the current administration - has the potential to be so much worse.
On the other hand...
"and is a UK based firm subject to the whims of the current administration, with it's cavalier approach to international treaty obligations, has the potential to be so much worse."
"It's crazy I tells ya!!"
It's so crazy that one has to thank Trump of all people for ranting and raving about it...
https://time.com/5687134/trump-universal-postal-union-deal/
https://www.upu.int/UPU/media/upu/publications/Option_V_factsheet.pdf
simply choose a tech company by the highly scientific method of dart throwing"
...to a shortlist of 1 company which happens to be owned by a friend/relative/acquaintance of the PM or his master.
c.f. contracts awarded under Covid-19 emergency rules