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At the time that controller was directing the Republic Airways jet to takeoff, a ground controller on a different radio frequency was directing the United plane to a new taxiway after it missed the first one it was supposed to use to exit the runway.

I thought one and only one controller was supposed to have custody of an active runway.

He was teased in the post-credits scene in the first movie.

Police say the matter is civil unless he fails to pay. He is now banned from returning to the library.

Pretty sure Destruction of Public Property is a crime in most jurisdictions.

The Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance* has been petitioning the Patrician for months trying to get a vampire onto the City Watch. The Campaign for Equal Heights and the Fresh Start Club have already gotten dwarves and zombies onto the force, so it’s only a matter of time.

They’ve sworn off the red sticky stuff, oh deary me, yes.

The procedure when doing a carrier landing is to go to full throttle as you touch down. It may seem counterintuitive, but the idea is if you miss all the wires, you have enough thrust to get back into the air to go around and try again. If you catch a wire, they’re designed to stop the plane at full power. I’m curious what went wrong here to leave the plane short of the necessary power to get airborne again.

I’m thinking specifically of People magazine. With paper magazines, the time to print and distribute come into play. If they had waited until after, the article wouldn’t have hit store shelves until late mid February, after it was most relevant.

Seriously, remember Betty White? Articles about her 100th birthday were already written when she died 17 days short of it.

Bernie’s being doing some rallies with her recently. If I were to guess, Bernie’s not going to run for POTUS again, he’s going to endorse her.

It’s not until the last sentence of the article that they acknowledge what’s most likely the actual cause for the rapid fall off in sales.

Tesla is being squeezed out of the European market, in large part due to most consumers’ dislike for its CEO.

In any scenario where Trump is removed from office via impeachment, he’s already lost his stranglehold on the party.

At that point Vance would president, I think he’d be eager to move in to his new digs.

Most modern pumps in the US have one hose and buttons to select the grade. You’ll get a bit of the previous customer’s selection from what was left over in the line, but it’s not a huge difference if you’re getting 10 gallons. It can be a bigger deal for something with a small tank, like a motorcycle.

Diesel still gets its own hose, as putting diesel into a gas car or vice versa can be very bad.

I also remember when gas pumps had a separate hose and nozzle for each grade of gas.

There’s also a QR code you can scan to control it via your phone. I’m sure no one has exploited that.

I mean, if you’re an EU trade minister, who looks like the more reliable trading partner right now?

Wait, Hitler was born on weed day? How much better would the world have been if he had gotten into weed instead of coke and amphetamines?

For 3.5” floppy, an infrared LED and light sensor is used. If write protect slider is in the closed position, the light is blocked, and you can write to the disk. If the slider is in the open position, light passes through, and the disk is read-only. For floppies that were manufactured specifically to distribute software, they’d sometimes not have a slider at all, so you could never accidentally overwrite the disk. (At least, not without taping over the write protect hole.)

Later 3.5” floppies would have two holes, on either side of the label. One was the write protect hole, and the other identified the disk to the drive as a 1.4 MB high density disk, as opposed to the earlier 800KB disks.

Kicking, Donald. The word is kicking, not kissing.

Trump’s not used to people fighting back.

No doubt, it’s just the “D” word wouldn’t be official until, oh, about the 2028 presidential conventions.