The low hanging fruit has been found. I know that sounds simplistic, but the big stuff which was predicted/suggested 50+ years ago is now being corroborated/refuted. Whether gavitational waves or the Higgs boson, it took how many decades for us to fully develop the idea and then come up with a way to test for it? One of the big things being looked at now is neutrinos. How long has it taken from the time they were conceived for us to design ways to find them let alone study them?

There will always be conspiracy wackos and while the internet has only given them a much far-reaching platform to spread their mental gymnastics than they would have in the past, the scientific realm is now focusing on smaller targets which don't readily lend themselves to ease of description let alone testing. The example given of merging general relativity with quantum mechanics ie one such area. How do you come up with a coherent theory which ties together the large and small? If it were easy it would be done by now. Yet how many decades has this been looked at?

At this point, short of finding a dimension or inventing time travel, we won't see large announcements of astounding findings from the physics realm in the near future. It simply takes a long time for everything to work its way through the rigorous scientific process. What we will see are the incremental findings and discoveries which may lead to larger, newsworthy stories a few decades from now.

Your mother took Tylenol while she was pregnant, didn't she?

Still no checkbox to say never remind me of updates under any circumstance. Something so simple yet so far away.

With decades of experience on similar projects, there should be no reason for this to happen. Birmingham's income management system could not be that much more complicated than any other income management system already done. Yes, it will have its own quirks, but the underlying process is the same as other income management systems.

We keep hearing about "you get what you pay for" when it comes to programmers and database administrators and project managers, clearly that is not the case. Time and again we see projects like this go off the rails despite all this supposed experience. Perhaps it's time to reevaluate our conceptions. Perhaps we should stop making excuses that it's management's fault and just admit the overpaid people doing the work don't really know what they're doing since obviously they know nothing of KISS.

In this day and age of technology, with all the resources at our fingertips, to have another project like this fail so miserably is inexcusable.

How's the tariffs going, old chap?

They're doing great. The best you've ever seen. You've never seen tariffs like this. No one does it better.

Journalists everywhere should expect to be targeted. When you're reporting on crime and corruption of government officials or agencies, you can be assured those same people or organizations will do whatever it takes to stop you. As we're seeing in Palestine, deliberate targetting of journalists by Israel is the last step in preventing the truth from coming out.

The next question is, how much more of this is going on that we'll hear about in another decade or so and have to hear the same apologies?

Exactly. They're not even trying to hide it.

No, the critical factor is ignoring people like you who will find any supposed flaw to claim the idea is completely worthless. Such as wind and solar not working when the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't out. Since, in those two specific instances, the technology doesn't work, people like you will claim it should never be used because it isn't viable.

The only one racing to idiocracy is you.

We knew this. Exxon's own climate models produced in the 1970s showed this. As far back as the 1800s, people were showing the increasing temperature effects of CO2 and methane.

Then there was the 1912 newspaper article which stated essentially the same thing: The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.

Not sure what the issue is.

Who's even using cash anymore?

I do. I pay for cash when I fill up my car. Don't have to worry about card skimming. When I go to yard sales, flea markets, or famers markets. When I'm buying something insignificant and it's faster to pay with cash than go through the process of using a card. Of late, when the lottery was big, I always use cash.

Just because you're a slave to being tracked doesn't mean everyone else is.

Yeah, nothing "woke" (whatever that means) about a white guy reporting to a black flag officer before it existed in reality.

Still no checkbox to disable being harassed by update notifications. Something so simple yet so far away.

Everything will eventually decay to Rust.

The number of people who have been on their phone while I'm in the bathroom is not a small number. Including ones who are having a conversation.

Israel did not start it, Hamas did.

Hamas is the result of Israel's actions. Everyone talks about October 7th, but no one mentions October 4th, 5th, and 6th where Israel deliberately targeted civilians. Nor do people want to mention the thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli jails undergoing torture all because they resisted the occupation. The same with all the Jewish terror attacks against Palestinians.