give a user an option to easily open such in the same tab/window.

I am not sure where the 'option' (ie 'optional') part got lost in the logic here.

Did the repost bot carry an actual ad? I know - don't blame the messenger - but I'm sure I saw one the other week.

tight-packed schedules

Extra hardware.

Not something sitting there hot and ready to go, but there to take the place of the flight. Maintain a one-unit queue of planes ready to board and launch so that each and every plane sits for 2 hours and is actually prepped.

Or, when that inevitable daily breakage happens and a plane needs to be taken off the line for the day, it allows time to bring in another spare to keep that queue full (of 1) when the rotation loses that active plane.

there was nothing they could do

I'm willing to bet 'showing basic humanity' was an available option the flight crew was just unable to consider.

Pierre will tell us we're still over-funded and his rich friends should pay even less taxes than the pittance they're paying now.

With no extra airplanes, they probably don't have time.

Again, the problem comes down to no extra equipment; even when it would give them the lag time to properly clean between departures at no added hw maintenance or aircrew costs.

Now do 'home and native land.'

Not being psychic, I'd be far more reluctant to over-leverage assumptions like that.

The name of the 10th premier of Alberta, who won his party control in the '70s on a platform (featuring diversity in spending and preparing for a post-oil economy) all but ignored soon after, after whom the region is named, is apparently pronounced "LAW-heed".

Yeah. I'm dumbfounded too. I'll continue to pronounce it "LOW-heed" so people don't look at me funny. Bone apple tea.

consider PCLinuxOS for a mageia (mandriva, conectiva and mandrake, both branches from RedHat pre-Enterprise Linux) descendant.

if they didn’t kick the cow and spoil that milk like they’ve kicked every cow before it

I miss Cringely's take on this.

. I would not be surprised if this was just a Red Hat thing.

It's a tough one. We blame RedHat for a lot of its half-baked internal fridge art - systemd, network manager; and even, some days, yum in an apt-4-rpm world.

But this new one is QUITE the departure. It's not 'red hat' stupid but a little further on the spectrum.

Thank you for this excellent summary. It answers all the questions I had, and it's wonderful news.

I was actually about to do that (move to Debian).

Maybe stay within the Enterprise Linux camp for a bit. Not to start a flame war, but when an OS company was deciding between EL and Debians, the RPM format was the deciding factor.

But why would they want to kill their acquistion like that though?

I can only recommend you look at the last decade of IBM's history in that respect.

While Jeff's support for ELs has been imperfect - I marveled at the supply-chain issues gleefully baked into the drupal vagrant stuff - I came here to really say:

IBM's not really the poster-child for preserving the sanctity of source code in the past (cough cough Monterey cough), and I'm surprised they're even suggesting everyone respect their own demands around that.

1. vote the least-worst option
2. repeat

I wish we had some serious partied to vote between, instead of a choice between "mildly positive", "renamed losers" and "this is america right?" . The vote's clear, but I wish it was also obvious.

dairy subsidies

Do you mean Canada's dairy supply management system?

with only 25/338 MPs

The key here is that Mr Singh is pushing forth legislation so important that he's willing to kill the Reds' administration over. And Justin needs to be okay with it as long as he plays the reluctant puppet. It needs to be that "important to NDP" and also "not deal-breaking for Libs" kind of plan that Mr Singh presents.

The NDP can't do that with just anything, and there is a lot of worry about the fringe plans of a federal NDP party without a Mulcair or a well-minded Layton at the helm. Mr Singh has trumpeted his share of causes that look bad in the math, after all.

Having to present the most important of the palatable programmes has worked well as a filter.

Are they not properly marking the fact that one can go faster, or do you think it's someone driving a speed more in-line with their skill and the road conditions and ignoring your personal needs?