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#3268598 6-Aug-2024 12:34

Rikkitic:

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Probably would be more expensive if it was the real stuff from Germany.

Doesn't have to be. It is excellent pilsener beer.

More and more local microbreweries are being swallowed up by international corporations and even beer labelled "brewed in accordance with the German purity law" is mixed with chemicals during the brewing process, which are removed again before bottling. Unfortunately, much of it has become fake and a unique dead broth.

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#3268612 6-Aug-2024 13:13

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Why would Microsoft lay off 10's of thousands of jobs for cost reasons and then issue a bonus of ~~25% to it's remaining staff?

I mean, I can surmise reasons, but it seems fairly counter intuitive.

Because those people were no longer needed.

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#3268623 6-Aug-2024 13:52

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Because those people were no longer needed.

A simple enough explanation on the surface, until you hear talk to people at MS and deal with MS Support and things are SO bad there because there simply aren't enough people to do the work.

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#3268624 6-Aug-2024 13:58

A lot of their support isn't in house anyway. You'll usually find it comes from a v- email account.

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#3268702 6-Aug-2024 16:00

networkn:

richms:

Because those people were no longer needed.

A simple enough explanation on the surface, until you hear talk to people at MS and deal with MS Support and things are SO bad there because there simply aren't enough people to do the work.

The people being moved on generally aren't working in supporting existing products. They are working in parts of the business that are not performing or are not a focus for the future.

Really big organizations aren't one cohesive company. They are a collection of diverse units all doing their own thing.

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#3270182 10-Aug-2024 10:34

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350374020/plane-62-people-aboard-crashes-fiery-wreck-brazil

How can a plane fall out of the sky like that. Everything I've ever been told by everyone is that it simply can't happen.

That's frightening.

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#3270237 10-Aug-2024 10:57

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350374020/plane-62-people-aboard-crashes-fiery-wreck-brazil

How can a plane fall out of the sky like that. Everything I've ever been told by everyone is that it simply can't happen.

That's frightening.

I am no pilot and I have no specialist knowledge, but I believe it has to do with the plane's ability to generate lift. There has to be sufficient air flow across the wings to keep it flying. If it stalls, it drops, and if it drops backwards or in a horizontal position, there is no air flow over the wings to regain control. This creates an almost impossible situation. The plane has to fall nose down for the flight controls to start working again. Again, I have no specialist knowledge but this is my understanding of how it works. News reports indicate that the plane might have stalled due to icing problems.

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#3270240 10-Aug-2024 11:07

Rikkitic:

I am no pilot and I have no specialist knowledge, but I believe it has to do with the plane's ability to generate lift. There has to be sufficient air flow across the wings to keep it flying. If it stalls, it drops, and if it drops backwards or in a horizontal position, there is no air flow over the wings to regain control. This creates an almost impossible situation. The plane has to fall nose down for the flight controls to start working again. Again, I have no specialist knowledge but this is my understanding of how it works. News reports indicate that the plane might have stalled due to icing problems.

Yeah, I mean it's definitely a speed problem because how you generate lift is by having greater airflow across the wings, it just feels quite an extreme loss of speed. In my inexperienced take on this, if I was losing air speed, I am going to drop my nose, and 'glide' to the ground. I'm probably still going to crash and die, it just wouldn't look as horrifying as that did. Perhaps the Pilot ignored the warning signs for far too long. I am not a pilot, that video just made me feel sick to my stomach.

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#3270254 10-Aug-2024 11:45

Tinkerisk:

More and more local microbreweries are being swallowed up by international corporations

Here in NZ that stopped happening a few years ago. After an initial round of acquisitions of craft breweries to build a portfolio the big brewers now prefer to build on these brands rather than acquire any more. Makes it difficult for those small craft breweries whose exit plan was to get acquired... Hence a number of small brewers going out of business recently rather than selling up (no one will buy them).

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#3270267 10-Aug-2024 12:31

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350374020/plane-62-people-aboard-crashes-fiery-wreck-brazil

How can a plane fall out of the sky like that. Everything I've ever been told by everyone is that it simply can't happen.

That's frightening.

There's nothing in the story saying it fell out of the sky (well, apart from in the obvious literal sense), it was just a crash. We'll find out the details in time.

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#3270280 10-Aug-2024 12:52

There's a reasonable amount of information out already. The Blancolirio site on YT has a good summary.

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#3270282 10-Aug-2024 13:02

networkn:

Rikkitic:

I am no pilot and I have no specialist knowledge, but I believe it has to do with the plane's ability to generate lift. There has to be sufficient air flow across the wings to keep it flying. If it stalls, it drops, and if it drops backwards or in a horizontal position, there is no air flow over the wings to regain control. This creates an almost impossible situation. The plane has to fall nose down for the flight controls to start working again. Again, I have no specialist knowledge but this is my understanding of how it works. News reports indicate that the plane might have stalled due to icing problems.

Yeah, I mean it's definitely a speed problem because how you generate lift is by having greater airflow across the wings, it just feels quite an extreme loss of speed. In my inexperienced take on this, if I was losing air speed, I am going to drop my nose, and 'glide' to the ground. I'm probably still going to crash and die, it just wouldn't look as horrifying as that did. Perhaps the Pilot ignored the warning signs for far too long. I am not a pilot, that video just made me feel sick to my stomach.

how do you drop your nose when you dont have enough airflow over the wings?

that plane appeared to be in a flat spin, which can be quiet difficult to recover from.

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#3270957 13-Aug-2024 09:45

I wasn’t sure whether to start a topic in the Spark forum, so I’ll try here first.

We are travelling to the UK for an extended period. When I look at how much of my admin requires 2FA on my phone (Spark NZ number), I’m wondering what happens if my phone is lost or stolen? Easy enough to buy a replacement phone while away but how do I set it up with my same phone number?

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#3270963 13-Aug-2024 10:24

Dingbatt:

I wasn’t sure whether to start a topic in the Spark forum, so I’ll try here first.

We are travelling to the UK for an extended period. When I look at how much of my admin requires 2FA on my phone (Spark NZ number), I’m wondering what happens if my phone is lost or stolen? Easy enough to buy a replacement phone while away but how do I set it up with my same phone number?

You cant, which is another reason why SMS is crap at being another factor.

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#3270965 13-Aug-2024 10:28

Are phone NTUs still highly sought after or have they joined the dinosaurs?

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