Recent content by Bantamzen

To be fair to the aviation industry, it's a lot harder to recover delays that get baked into schedules when issues arise earlier in the day. I think a 1 hour scheme would send many operators straight into bankruptcy. For the most part, 3 hours for flights seems about right. Not ideal if you have...

These kind of kids live in a world where they could end up getting beaten up, stabbed, shot or any combination of those at any moment. As a result they lose the sense of fear, and just take the risk of dying as a matter of fact.

No it doesn't excuse it, but it does explain it. When the (seemingly) wealthiest people immediately around you are the gang members and drug dealers, it's not hard to imagine the allure of getting in with the wrong crowd. And when these kids do, they quickly come to believe they are bulletproof...

OK, who is up for starting a book to guess as to how long it will be before a blocked line is caused by a drone falling onto the lines / overheads.... ;)

Easy as that eh? Why don't people just follow this simple premise, and get rich? It must be because they are lazy.... Or maybe it's because in many parts of the country those opportunities are fewer and further between, if they exist at all? This sounds a lot like the "American Dream". You...

You would think / hope that contingency plans would include "what would happen if we lost power to HQ / servers". But then this is the railways we are talking about here, contingency planning isn't one of it's strong points.

Well perhaps it's time to rethink higher education. Does every young person really need to have a degree and rack up tens of thousands in order to get into work, often that doesn't necessarily make use of their specific subject? Maybe getting more young people into employment sooner, and earning...

That's a very twee aspiration. Just one question, whose paying for millions of people living the life of leisure? I'm going to wager it's not the AI companies...

'A' human yes, at least for now. But not many humans, and not necessarily forever. The more we teach the models, and the more information we give it access to, the more capable it becomes at replacing humans including the people who would once upon a time would have been turning the idea into...

Funnily enough this was alluded to up thread, with the suggestion that we start to have more people working parks & public loos. As far as anti-AI sentiment, a lot of it in the US is not about the AI per say, but the location and impact of the data centres. However the US is a big enough...

AI is moving at a pace probably unapparelled in industry. What was little more than a useless gimmick just a few months ago, is rapidly being looked at as a serious solution not just for automating low level jobs, but for automating a lot of that "middle management" work too. I'm currently part...

Frankly given the state of youth unemployment as things are, pushing back the retirement age would be insanity. But so would shunting more current & future pensioners into more poverty by removing the state pension net. Which leads neatly into the next quote: It has no effect on the funding of...

Hmm, so you're proposing to make Retirement Pension (RP) means tested? In all honesty it's not the worst idea in the world going forward, and I'm speaking as someone who is not all that far away from retirement age myself. The question is though, what would be a reasonable threshold to cut it...

I agree. And even though formations can be all sorts of sizes, it shouldn't be impossible to work out from the length of the unit which zones will be occupied even if the zones are designed around the longest units using the station. So displays / announcements can say something along the lines...

That is all of the Reform majorities in Parliament as things stand.