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"As a Brexit supporter I wish that a competent pro-Brexit politician representing the will of the people was running the country."

As a result of the referendum it's become apparent that non of the pro-Brexit politicians are either interested in the job or competent to perform it.

It could be because the platform they campaigned on (as opposed to whatever is your personal Brexit motivation) was clearly not based on fact and was back-tracked on immediately after the result was announced.

The "will of the people" statement is the over-used. Of the people who voted it's 52/48% in favour of Brexit. That's about 37% of the electorate which means that approx 63% either didn't want to leave or didn't care either way. I appreciate that in a vote for elected parliamentary representatives that there are rules and thresholds and we abide by those, but there were none for what was essentially a government run survey.

Interestingly in Switzerland, a country that does use referenda on a regular basis, the Brexit vote would have failed to pass as it didn't meet the turn out needed, nor the % winning margin. That said that's a country that didn't have universal suffrage until the 1990s.

"Sadly the controlled global capitalist system has denied the electorate political representation on this matter."

I'm not sure where to begin with this one; If the "controlled global capitalist system" (and who that is isn't clear to me) do such a good job how come they let a referendum happen?

Then the referendum itself isn't binding on a Parliament where most of the MPs are pro-EU, and yet the ruling party has said it will abide by the "decision".

They seem to be a pretty lack lustre to me... but perhaps I need to put my tin foil hat on and it'll all become clear!

Re: No one ever heard of risk analysis?

I've sat in a few planes recently traversing over areas of conflict in the Middle East... the best answer I can come up with is that the risk/reward is low enough -

ie few people have access to something that can hit a cruising aircraft, (shoulder launch stuff can't get above about 25K ft) and those that have ones that do are generally responsible.

The cost of going around is in time and money for both the airline and the passengers.

Generally I'm OK with that, this won't stop me flying.

After all, these events are rare - the best I can find is that this has happened 7 times since 1943 (happy to be corrected).

Aviation is still mile per mile very safe, and, one is statistically more likely to die going to and from the airport.

That, of course, doesn't detract from the personal tragedy of each and every family of someone involved.

It also doesn't mean something shouldn't be done to understand the cause of this incident and try and solve it.

Also, it doesn't absolve any soldier taking a pot shot at a civilian, but I suspect this was a mistake rather than deliberate.

Finally, if shoulder launched missiles capable of hitting civilian aircraft in cruise become more prevalent then the risk analysis will have to be re-worked.

Re: Unacceptable

There's the cost of a few pennies for the socket, and then the cost of the circuit board the RAM chips sit on (also a few more pennies) before the labour cost needs to be factored in.

Also you can probably use robotic assembly of chips onto the motherboard as part of that process thus there is no labour cost (or extended production line/tooling cost) for soldered memory.

These few cents per unit add up on units that expect to be shipped in quantity (eg 10 pennies each for 10M shipped units is worth having). Indeed over the lifetime of popular product lines the engineering teams are always trying to streamline and simplify the production line and the number of elements in a product because these things do matter.

Now that saving may not get passed on to you the consumer, but, the increased margin should mean the company concerned is using that money to re-invest in better products for the future and a reasonable return for shareholders (this last bit ain't guaranteed of course).

Re: @Verity

Surely any small town in Eastern Prussia is now in Western Poland and spelled entirely differently?