Anyway, edible normally means "safe to eat," not just "possible to eat." (As you are no doubt aware). IIRC, Elmer's glue is considered safe to eat though not necessarily appetising.

Oh boy, an excuse to share my favourite great firewall story on a visit to China. Keep in mind, this is 15 years old, so probably doesn't represent the current state of affairs. At the time, my daily news reading habit had me checking BBC and CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). The BBC site seemed to be working fine, but whenever I clicked on an article on CBC, it was blocked. A few minutes later, I went to show my wife that CBC articles were blocked, and I clicked on the same one again, and it loaded. I clicked on another: blocked. Tried it again after a few minutes and it loaded. Someone was screening the articles in real time for me. When I was done reading, I clicked on several of the weirdest headlines I could find, and after a few minutes, everything was blocked again including ones that had previously worked.

"Expert" management was brought in who didn't know the industry and didn't know the company and didn't respect the people who were there, who had been eating their own dog food for years. I saw so many stupid decisions being made; I was sidelined and ignored. And then, the corporate bullshit started creeping in where management were lying to their own employees. So, yes, if my opinion stops mattering, it is an unjustified demotion, especially when the layers of management brought in over me clearly don't know WTF they are doing.

For SI units, the abbreviations are defined, so a lowercase k for kilo and uppercase M for mega is correct. Lower case m is milli, c is centi, d is deci. Uppercase G is giga, T is tera and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...

It still is. Flight levels (20000 feet and above in the US) are defined by air pressure without reference to current atmospheric conditions (i.e. the actual altitude of FL200 can vary based on atmospheric conditions). Below 19000 feet, altimeters are calibrated to local conditions which are given to the pilots by air traffic control.

Of course, this is simply my speculation.

Yes, I am over-simplifying the very complex problem of grid management, but so are you.

The fact that it is so high is a scam.

It really depends on the grant. For the larger grants, it may work somewhat like you describe. For the smaller grants, they literally do just take 60% of the money (and complain that it is not enough to administer the grant while providing absolutely no support whatsoever). In theory, it's paying for salary and office space and whatnot, but those are already covered by other budgets.

I don't remember all of the rules off the top of my head, but if you are ever landing with less than 30 minutes of fuel, something has gone seriously wrong. You are required to take off with sufficient fuel to fly to your destination, hold for a period of time, attempt a landing, fly to your alternate, and land all with 30 minutes remaining. If you are ever in a situation where you may not meet these conditions, you are required to divert immediately. In choosing your alternate, you consider weather conditions along with many other factors. This was, without question, a serious emergency.

From the very brief description in the article, I would say they should have diverted to Manchester at least 25 minutes sooner than they did. I will include the GP's caution, however:

I'd be very wary to get ahead of the investigation and make speculative statements on how this could have happened, the one thing that I know for sure is that it shouldn't have happened, no matter what.