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Crashbat
4y ago
This seems like the most likely explanation. Whoever left the device in the plane isn't likely to own up to it (if they even remember where they left it!) since they may lose their job.
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Crashbat
5y ago
The US government (like all liberal, democratic governments) is a massive, many-headed bureaucracy, with competing and sometimes contradictory objectives. Those objectives are long-term, shaped by committee and subject to organisational ine
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Crashbat
5y ago
The article states there are more than 250 of these cases all throughout the world, it's nothing to do with 'bureaucracy' or Egypt.
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7y ago
I'm pretty sure the farmers know very well the lifecycle costs of their heavy machinery, the problem isn't ill-informed consumers. The problem is the time as well as expense of repairs is controlled by the manufacturers. The razor
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7y ago
Except then you can't eat? It's not that it's not profitable, it's that the earnings drivers make are meager compared to what people need to sustain themselves. You make it sound like anybody who's on minimum wage j
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Crashbat
7y ago
That's fine if you are prepared to take on significant risk - it took six years for the index to recover after the 2007 financial crash. If anyone was looking to retire on their investment then they'd be screwed. At least with a b
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7y ago
Very well said, and I think you've hit the nail on the head with regards to the 'deregulation agenda'. The subtext of articles like this is always that interference, in the form of regulations, is a negative action, and by st
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8y ago
Well done buddy, it's great to hear about people taking a principled stand, especially when money's involved.