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Erm, British management is also famously terrible.

Coal has horrible externalities and its demise is a good thing.

British iron ore is not very rich, and it never was; Britain has imported iron ore since the 19th century. Given how cheap it is to ship iron by sea, it's very hard to justify using low-grade ore that has to be moved by rail.

Because of the large size of the manufacturers, a medium-size country will only have a couple of them, leaving it vulnerable to mismanagement like what happened at British Leyland, AMC, Chrysler, Nissan, ...


It wasn't terribly clear how rights became extinguished by time for Thomas Littleton, who published his "Tenures" in 1481 or 1482. In chapter 38 of the first Statute of Westminster (3 Edw. I, c. 38) of 1275, they put time limits on various writs.

"It is Provided, That in conveying a Descent in a Writ of Right, none shall [presume] to declare of the Seisin of his ancestor further, or beyond the time of King Richard, Uncle to King Henry [III], Father of the King that now is"

Which is to say, 1189, 86 years earlier. Other writs were limited to the voyage of King Henry III in Gascony (1230?), and others still to his coronation in 1216.

Now according to [1], other limitations were put under Henry VIII, until the act of 1832, where they made it clear that its limitations were the ones to use, and not the old standard of the reign of Richard I, from the Statute of Westminster.

[1] https://welpartners.com/blog/2019/07/time-whereof-the-memory...


What was then called the "lower crankcase member", which was also the lower part of the transmission housing, we would refer to as an oilpan. The cranksshaft ran in bearings located between the cylinder blocks and the bearing caps, like on a modern engine. There was no separate crank case and cylinder block like you might find on, say a WWII aero V12.


If by "the high middle ages" you mean "2025", then you are right. Priests in de-facto marriages are still super common.


Those are not real marriages according to the Church. Any sexual relation in that situation would be fornication and as such a single.


> From what I understand, if the genetic lineage is particularly elite, you might keep more.

You mean like Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso


Ironic that for all the elite lineage captured here, the one that he ended up stuck with is a very plebeian surname of non-hispanic (Ligurian) origin.


I would like to know more about the conditions under which Spanish family names became "X y Y" rather than "X" or "Y".


Inheriting both surnames is traditional, picking one is nontraditional or foreign. The interesting option is between using a conjunction or not (Paul Davis Thefirst or Paul Davis y Thefirst), which seems mostly a matter of sounding better or, as Wikipedia suggests, disambiguating between first names and surnames (if it precedes the conjunction it is a surname).


No, the surnames are Ruiz and Picasso.

The rest are given names and nobody uses more than two. It was in the baptism record where all the saints of the days used to be added. I have a similar record with a dozen names, but only two given names in the civil record, of which I only use the first.


Visions of Epic Rap Battles of History when you read it spelled out like that: https://youtu.be/WGN5xaQkFk0?si=aKCPFF_yfy6ly8Tb&t=61


My reading is that the examiner thought "advanced custom fields" was too generic. WPE had until Oct. 19 to file a response or ask for an extension, and they asked for an extension on Oct. 4.

For "ACF" however, the examiner didn't see a problem and it has been published in the Federal Register. It will be registered if no one files an opposition during the publication period.

You don't need to have a registered trademark to sue for trademark infringement; registration does make it easier to assert your trademark and can increase damage in a court case.


Martine [1] is a series of French-language children's book. They have simple titles like "Martine à la ferme" (Martine at the farm) or "Martine fait du camping" (Martine goes camping).

"Martine écrit en UTF-8" is what you get if you interpret the UTF-8 string "Martine écrit en UTF-8" (Martine writes in UTF-8) as Latin-1. It's not as common as it once was, but that kind of encoding issue used to be encountered fairly often by French speakers on the Web.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_(character)


Pedantry: the image seems to have been taken from an older cover of "Martine vive la rentrée"

https://www.casterman.com/Jeunesse/Catalogue/vive-la-rentree...

EDIT: for a short course in contemporary french slang, one could do worse than https://www.google.com/search?q=martine+parodie&udm=2

(my favourite being "Martine and her parodies")


That's an EMD (division of General Motors) F40PH diesel-electric locomotive, not a gasoline locomotive. Gasoline locomotive did exist, but they were much smaller and usually served in mines or industrial railways.

Even with the engine disabled, the electric components and other parts will still be useful to the many railways still running F40 locomotives (like VIA rail in Canada).


It refers to a button featured on some laptops in the late 2000s, that started up an alternative, lighter OS installed by the manufacturer, to avoid the loading time of Windows Vista on magnetic hard drives.

Cathode Ray Dude has a series about these OSes called Quick Start.


Hah, that's insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za_Ul08dtj8&list=PLec1d3OBbZ...

The previous 14 minutes is him showing how this Vaio takes 4 minutes to boot and comes with dozens of crapware.

Interestingly, smartphones also "dual boot", but the 2nd system is usually just a simple one that does system updates or recovery (i.e. write an OS image to the main system partition).


The NTSB found that it was actually that the 11/12 node region was too weak as designed, an error that wasn't caught by the reviewer.


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