He offers simple answers to complex questions. The answers will not work, but the answers are appealing, even to intelligent people. (View Post)

IMV in Rumsfeld's original (very good) point, he was referring to stuff they knew but did not realise the importance of. So you might have a vast pile of intelligence, a tsunami of information. … (View Post)

Also add: only apologised after a fellow MP (Amess) was murdered. (View Post)

There are also other complications: many nuclear reactors, especially the old ones, were designed to build and work; no consideration was given to decommissioning. Ditto nuclear submarine reactors, a… (View Post)

But the problem is that Musk has such a fragile ego that you have to say such things about him. Failure to appease the great man's ego gets you in trouble. As a minor example, Ashlee Vance wrote… (View Post)