I seriously doubt a Dallas to Houston train set
It’s private money so why not and good luck to them. Yet still I doubt it: Now there are only six trains per week from Houston, three headed west to Los Angeles, three east to New Orleans. The service...
View ArticleAny electrical engineers around here?
We need to do a little favour for some peeps in Russia. Which means finding a customer for their production. And we’ve not the slightest idea what this is nor who would use it: Description 1 Charpy...
View ArticleThat weird electrical engineering plastic
All is now revealed. As the guesses were narrowing down to it’s sorta like Bakelite, just for extra tough military applications. And as to who uses that in the western world these days who the hell...
View ArticleHmm, so, did they?
New questions are emerging over Barclays’ rescue fundraising in 2008 as the Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Conduct Authority extend their inquiries into the deal. Court documents filed in a...
View ArticleFun Warren Buffett quote
When you get rid of the estate tax, you’re basically handing over command of the country’s resources to people who didn’t earn it. It’s like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of...
View ArticleThis United dragging the passenger of the plane thing
Once the flight was boarded, passengers were told four people needed to give up their seats for stand-by United employees that needed to be in Louisville for a Monday flight and the plane wouldn’t...
View ArticleSomeone has been digging, haven’t they?
Revealed: US doctor who was dragged off flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with a patient and needed anger management because of ‘control’ issues Married Dr David Dao was...
View ArticleSilly people
Seeking to quell the uproar over a man being dragged off a plane, United Airlines announced on Tuesday that it would refund the tickets for all customers who were on the flight when the man was removed...
View ArticleUnited Airlines employs Vetinari to allocate seats
Canadian man stung by scorpion on United Airlines flight And Vetinari thinks of his scorpion pit. Something else now though. Not sure whether the dam’s been breached, we’ve just the necessary bolus of...
View ArticleBastard tax dodgers at Starbucks!
Just thought I’d get this in ahead of everyone else: Starbucks, which came under intense fire in 2012 for the low amount of tax it pays in the UK, said it shelled out £6.7 million in total taxes last...
View ArticleAh, yes, here we are
Starbucks to pay just £6.7million in UK taxes as it tries to blame Brexit for 60% fall in profits
View ArticleAs I said, everything United does will be suspect now
An engaged couple were removed from a United Airlines flight to Costa Rica on Saturday, as the airline remained under scrutiny following outrage caused by a video last week of a passenger being...
View ArticleNot quite how I’d describe it myself
Jimmy Choo has put itself up for sale as part of an evaluation of its future. The British luxury brand, which specialises in shoes and accessories, said it was to conduct a review of various strategic...
View ArticleWriter’s Guild of America strike, saving the middle class
To read the Hollywood trades, we in the Writers Guild are somehow simultaneously aristocrats and agitators, overpaid radical dandies. One thinks of Dalton Trumbo jawing about Marx as he swills...
View ArticleWell now, fancy that!
The world’s top five technology companies are minting millionaires at an unprecedented pace, handing out stock awards that are more than 60% higher on average than the bonuses for workers in Britain’s...
View ArticleSo, come on lads, when does Worstallblogcoin come out?
The alt-currency arena seems to be entering a very great adventure of great profit but no one to know what it is territory. So, I know the story we need to tell. Who can manage the tech side of...
View ArticleHhhm, yes, but, umm, no
In BA’s case, the UPS in question delivers power through the mains, diesel and batteries. On Saturday morning, shortly after 8.30am, power to Boadicea House through its UPS was shut down – the reasons...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs and the Venezuela bonds
Shouldn’t we set up a crowdsourcing so that all of those outraged at the capitalists making money out of socialist misery can offset it?
View ArticleSo, construction is now soldiering, is it?
The construction firm Mears has banned its workers from having beards, citing health and safety grounds. Staff were told of the decision at a “tool box talk” in Tower Hamlets, east London, that beards...
View ArticleAhahahahaha, Ahahaha, it was the vacuum cleaner at BA!
The incident is thought to concern an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) which delivers a smooth flow of power from the mains, with a fall-back to a battery back-up and a diesel generator. This week...
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