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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was released 18 years ago today. One of the most successful movies of the Coen brothers, and acclaimed as one of the great book-to-screen adaptations of the 21st century, missing the story of how it came to be is like losing a Chigurh coin toss…

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It's an art form. Hard enough on much simpler molecules than DNA.

You're such a pervert.

(This is entirely the content I'm here for)

Not sure it's unreasonable for Wales either tbqpfh.

This is a really good point.

Although it does make me wonder if the AI companies are playing a role analogous to publishing journals getting authors to write for free and charging consumers?

I simply cannot shake the thought that it's our social security net that supports our productivity. Austerity hollowed out the NHS and early years childcare/support and our productivity relative to peers has been poor since.

Somewhat at odds with how Just Stop Oil protesters have been treated.

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Yep, created much more. It's still not super but much improved on saturday.

Not least so that the rw press have less stamina or inclination to decry them for "betraying brexit".

Fwiw, Wikipedia seems to indicate there were approx 371 British generals in WW2.

Clearly not all of these will be battlefield generals so it's not an entirely fair comparison but to be ordinary in an average sense you'd prob need to argue Monty wasnt even in the top 100 of british ww2 generals!

Exactly. There might, maybe, be scope to describe a successful general as being tactically ordinary, or maybe having an ordinary grasp of logistics, or motivation, but by definition a successful wartime general ain't gonna be ordinary.

600 murders a year in a country of 70 million. If you watch GB news you'd think there were 600 murders a day all committed by marauding Jihadist predators. This is the alternative universe half the population inhabit. Per head if population the murder rate is where it was in the late 1960s.

You're muting because you've realised that:

1) I was actually initially clear that taxation needs to be extended AND progressive
2) You don't have an answer to the points I've raised.

Have a nice day.

You shouldn't, because that's quite explicitly not what I said.

As for the tax gap, 60% of it is from small businesses, not the "super rich", and represents a lot of median/middle-income earners not declaring income to HMRC. Yes, I very much think that part of society needs to pay its way.

Taxing the "super rich" won't fill the coffers any where near enough and is a trivial response itself.

We need to work out how we tax a lot of people, including median earners, more and in a progressive way.

bengals and bears was like watching two absolutely hammered dudes with beer guts swinging wildly at each other with their eyes closed outside a bar at closing time

That's so shit mon. Thinking of you and yours.

The driver "managed to contact the control centre at Network Rail and get the train diverted onto the slow line", Calder says. "That was absolutely crucial because this train was scheduled to be travelling through Huntingdon station on the tracks with no platform at 125mph." "It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere, which would have been very difficult." Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest possible way" thanks to the "incredible professionalism from the driver and the police". Train drivers are trained on how to take appropriate action, he adds,

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Light bulb moment that there are cameras!

Would you automatically stop at the next station in the event that you couldn't get to the bottom of what's going on? Or would you proceed to the next scheduled stop?

it's rather telling how people react to the awful stabbing incident on the LNER train

your usual, braindead suspects are going all-in on racism

everyone else (including myself) is at awe of the professionalism and conduct of the train staff and signallers

You don't need to work in the industry long to see why people often call it the 'railway family'. Drivers, signallers, cleaners, platform staff, train crew, track workers, scheduling teams... Everyone works together to try and do a decent job in often tough circumstances

No, but a factor. The broader point is probably that there would be some stations well suited to what needs to be done and some that would be ill-suited.

I can only imagine the training and professionalism needed to make sure that all these moving parts work this well in situations like these. It must be hard earned to work this well.

As drivers our first point of contact is the signaller, who can then alert the emergency services as necessary. In this incident the driver would've also had to request a route onto the slow line to access the platform at Huntingdon. As you said it all seems to have been coordinated very well

The contrast between this and "covid was totally overstated, posed no risk at all to anyone, and lockdowns were unnecessary" is also something to behold.

Only thing I can think is that BTP have procedures for this in place so that they can coordinate police response with signaller, with the driver.

Wonder how key the signallers response is too. Clearing a path to stop at Huntingdon in under 8 minutes seems possibly non trivial.

I'd been thinking about how quickly they could coordinate a suitable stop. Wheres the next station with a long enough platform? Where can the police get to before the train arrives? Assuming the train alarm was raised did the driver know that for this incident he needed to coordinate with police?