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And airlines.

My understanding of what happened to OpenSolaris after Sun/Oracle abandoned/closed the project is: Illumos develops the base/core for open source OpenSolaris based derivative distributions of which OmniOS is one of about 11 or so.

It seems to me, unfortunately, that since there are so many OpenSolaris descendant distros, and that Linux can only barely sustain 3 large commercially supported general purpose distros (Redhat, Ubuntu & Suse, but please correct if I am wrong), that there has to be some amount of consolidation that needs to/will take place if OpenSolaris/Illumon is to survive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos#Current_distributions

Welcome to the new world of corporate mercantilism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism

In this situation, shouldn't there have been some form of mandatory auction, where the Airline would have to bid to buy the seat back. Or do what Delta does, and form a contract with the passenger to buy back the ticket for a pre-agreed price?

I do find it shocking that the airport police got involved with what really seems to be a civil, rather than criminal matter, but then again, such are the times.

Airlines should not be allowed to use violence to enforce arbitrary, or even random rules.

Whitespace?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...

This is only news because autonomously driven cars are still so rare.

I look forward to the day when most cars are autonomously driven, and it is news that a human was driven and the crash was caused by the human.

Human error accounts for something like 95% of all crashes.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/12/human-error-cause-...

How does Guile compare to Racket?

Immigrants that I know about:

0 - I'm an immigrant.

1, 1 - Both my parents are immigrants.

4 - One of my great-great grand parents was an immigrant.

10-12+? - One of grand parents descended from immigrants in 17th century from England.

This is a good first step. How about Redhat open-sourcing Ansible Tower?

There is also phage therapy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/yGJ6MtYrP2S0gjssltQ...

This is why I tend to take spam phone calls for double glazing and PPI. I talked to a guy for an hour once. My strategy to be the affable fool.

As much as I like Mac OS X, when does Mac OS XI come out? (I've been using it since the first pre-release).

So it was 33% of the electorate voted /for/ the national assembly in 1979.

I'll go along with this.

It will be invoked ... Mañana ... :)

Uhm, I was trying to explain the joke ....

But the margin was nearly 2:1 in favour of joining.

The Scottish devolution referendum, 1979, had to have a minimum threshold of 40% of the population voting yes. Furthermore, the Clarity Act of Canada implying some sort of 'quorum' by stating "Giving the House of Commons the power to determine whether or not a clear majority had expressed itself following any referendum vote, implying that some sort of supermajority is required for success" for the independance of a province of Canada, but generally thought of as Quebec.

There is the legal principle of maintaining the 'status quo' and the preponderance of maintaining the status quo to maintaining a stable and governable society. My contention is that if 26% of the populace can decide the destiny of the wider society, and by a very slim margin, then democracy has not been served. If it was 26% to 10% that would be a different story, but it was not, it was 26% to 25% and that is a very slim margin indeed.

I think they would only be 'hyperbolic' if the corollary wouldn't be true. As in, if there was a second referendum held now, the 'join' side would likely win.

If 'my side had won' then that would have meant that the status quo would have 'remained'. It is a shockingly low threshold that 25-26% of the population could make such a large decision. That is my point. The threshold should have been higher.

So, in my view, 'tyranny of the minority' holds true. 26% of the UK polulation is a minority of that population.

Tomorrow never comes ... the British are too busy relaxing in Spain.

Tomorrow never comes ....

No ethnic joke, except perhaps pointed at the British who seem to like to colonise the warmer climes of Spain.

But basically, the joke is that Mañana never comes. Anyone familiar with (remote) Island life, from Islay on the west coast of Scotland to Saltspring Island on the west coast of BC will surely identify.

I'm sorry, I think I have fixed it now. :)

The problem that England has with Scotland is all the land that the English aristocracy 'owns' in Scotland.

Yup, this. I agree.

Er, the UK has a good deal in the EU. The EU is a good thing and it gets an awful lot of blame unfairly. The EU is meant to harmonise regulation among member nations, and yet the many in the UK would blame the EU for regulation that would be in place anyway.

Things like working time regulations, so that employers across the EU have to abide by the same technical regulations. Things like making employers only make their employees work ~40 hours per week, and yet the EU is blamed for the 'Working time directive'.

There are other things, like animal welfare with the transport of animals, where the EU gets blame for the regulation, but the reality is that there would have to be regulation for the amount of time animals spend time in transport. Because the regulation is headlined as 'EU' regulation the EU gets the blame. The point is that there would UK regulation if there wasn't a EU regulation.

Yes, this. Is the government going to just keep delaying it?

Spain is a major part of the EU.

There are also a great many British Ex-pats in who retire in Spain, not to mention that Spain is a favourite holiday spot.

Okay, first, why the downvote? My points are valid, and they add to conversation: Quorum is an important question. 26% of the population voted to leave, a great many of whom won't be alive in the next 10 years. 25% voted to remain, most of whom will be alive in the next 30-40 years.

And by your logic, similarly, a larger proportion of the population voted to \remain\ than in the US Election. Just because

Also, there are a very many important rights afforded to UK citizens by virtue of their treaty rights, which they will lose on actual Exit from the EU. The UK had a good in the EU, and it is shocking that we are chucking it away so frivolously.

Does no one have a sense of humour?