Aside from the baseline of human decency, Americans love a winner, especially if they can attach themselves to it. In this case they can see "their" weapons doing a job. This is in the same… (View Post)

And of course I don't mean individuals - I mean the aggregate betting on a pair of 3-horse races where the relative performance of each horse impacts the others, and we don't even know who … (View Post)

I mentioned ASOS the other day. A little known consequence of that fire is that it destroyed ASOS's data centre. They used the insurance money to completely reboot the business into what it has … (View Post)

I was on my way to Heathrow down the A1 when that blew up. For a few seconds I thought we'd been nuked. (View Post)

"From which region of greater Russia do you come? Ukraine Belarus Canada New Zealand Other" (View Post)