SomeoneSomewhere
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Yes, satire 'news' site, hence being posted to The Onion.
As with all good satire, there's a very tiny kernel of truth at the bottom of it.
Boeing doesn't make many of the parts in the aircraft, especially things like pressurization controllers. Those come from contractors like Honeywell.
What they do is design the systems around the parts, including selecting the desired level of redundancy, and commission the custom parts needed.
The 737 is still mostly a 1960s design built mostly to 1960s rules. There have been plenty of improvements but that's not the same as a clean sheet design built to be entirely automatic even when stuff breaks.
When you download a torrent, you're downloading it from someone else's computer. That 'someone else' is usually an individual, not some file sharing site with redundant servers.
When you download a torrent, someone had to send it. It's a small cost for individual torrents, but they had to pay for energy, internet connection, hard drives etc. If more people seed the torrent, you get a small bit of it from each seed, spreading the burden.
If no-one with the torrent has their computer on and seeding it, you cannot download the file, because there is no-one to download it from. If there are several seeds with the torrent, then you can still download it even if one or more seeds turn the computer off at night, delete the file, or are overloaded.
Yeah, I posted it to the wrong sub.
Searched for onion to find the right sub, read a few, laughed, went back and found nottheonion, laughed some more, grabbed the link and posted without remembering the change in sub.
While immigrants in the country without authorization do not have Social Security numbers, they can file taxes using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN.
Reports about 3m people file using an ITIN each year, and the number of people expected to legally use them is very small.
Also says they see about $12B more paid into social security by illegals than paid out.
As Al Capone found, the government is would rather you pay tax on illegally earned money.
I didn't notice until now that your characters sometimes slightly cover the text boxes! Very cool.
Even 95% is on the low side. Most residential-grade PV grid-tie inverters are listed as something like 97.5%. Higher voltage versions tend to do better.
Yeah, filters essentially store power during one part of the cycle and release it during another. Net power lost is fairly minimal, though not zero. DC needs filtering too: all those switchmode power supplies are very choppy.
NZ's Parliament was regularly described as "more Westminster than Westminster" until we moved to MMP in the 90s.
It has its bugs but it's far better than FPP and many alternatives.
However, the governor will not be apologizing for calling it ‘bags’ instead of ‘cornhole.’”
Mergers would work, too. Turn some of those tri-state areas into mono-state areas.
Oh, indeed. I'm just pointing out that terrible & illegal DRM is hardly a new practice.