Rex Gatch

Rex Gatch

  • Commented on A reminder
    Eminent domain isn't the issue, it's a long and painful process, quite rightly. The seizure of private property is a non-trivial matter. But it can be done and within a few years, if required. The U.K. are smart enough to...
  • Commented on A reminder
    The Eco piece was well worth a read, thank you. I have to admit that I am concerned and unsure. One would hope that the mistakes of the past could be avoided, but the possibility of a fascist mindset gaining...
  • Commented on Playtime is over
    Greg comments at London Reconnections too, which is the best London Transport Wonk site ever, and might overlap with other commenters here...
  • Commented on Playtime is over
    As someone who has been living in the US for close to twenty years, I was excluded from the Brexit vote As I don't live in the U.K., I am fine with not voting, as I don't live there As...
  • Commented on Ever Young?
    Interesting, at fifty with a wife and a seven year old daughter, adulting isn't a worry for me On the flip side, bemoaning my move to the suburbs because I was going to have kids and I would get used...
  • Commented on Writer, Interrupted
    Agree 100%, spend my working days writing large complex technical reports The only way they get done is by being written on a weekend The penny foolish open space office stuff, don't get me started on that...
  • Commented on Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check
    There was a story going around when I was in Uni, of a young man who blued all but ten pounds of his first grant Cheque on a sound system, and spent the remaining ten pounds on a 50 pound...
  • Commented on Reality is broken
    My sympathies on having to rewrite, I think you had taken every reasonable step to future proof the Laundryverse, but who saw that coming. In the highly unlikely event you ever had time on your hands, there is enough material...
  • Commented on The iron law of development
    As someone who attended the university of Dundee reading civil engineering back in the day, the piers of the first Tay Bridge which still protrude from the river, were used as an object lesson in how not to screw up...
  • Commented on A plaintive request
    Depressingly, you have proved to be quite prescient...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLOND
    Reality is outpacing your ability to write fast enough Admittedly if you had predicted BoJo as Foreign Secretary, it would have probably overwhelmed my wsod...
  • Commented on Cyberpunk 2.0: Political economy, energy, and the future US
    Crossrail is an amazing achievment, but it's costs are far higher than in comparable Spanish projects Of course, in the US we have the second avenue subway and other related fiascos in NYC whose costs and lateness bely belief...
  • Commented on Cyberpunk 2.0: Political economy, energy, and the future US
    Smart meters would also be useful if they can tell a utility where the supply is not functioning Currently, in NJ, after a major storm or hurricane, the utilities literally send people out to drive around and report the downed...
  • Commented on Cyberpunk 2.0: Political economy, energy, and the future US
    Retrofitting all the homes that use natural gas or heating oil would be a non-trivial problem too, of course...
  • Commented on Cyberpunk 2.0: Political economy, energy, and the future US
    Given my experience in NJ working for a major utility, the intrinsic difficulties of linear construction, the extraordinary time taken to obtain the required permits from the myriad municipalities, counties, states, federal agencies and varied quangos and the nested political...
  • Commented on The unspeakable truth
    As someone who considers themselves cuturally British, even though I am coming up to nearly two decades in New Jersey now, and all four of my grandparents were foreign nationals at one point. Consequently, I have to say the massive...
  • Commented on A taste of nightmares to come
    Looking forward to this Sadly while I have been to every major conurbation in Scotland, I have never been to Leeds, so I will just have to enjoy it being devastated in your minds eye...
  • Commented on Cytological Utopia and the rapture of the eukaryotes
    I can't see how you could resurrect anyone under any scenario, I can't see a sim that could reun WW2, or heck even a football match and reproduce it perfectly...
  • Commented on Updating a classic
    After thirty years of working ( and the anecdotal evidence of so many others, including Charlie) I still have a persistent bias to thinking people in positions of power know what they are doing, I must have been hacked by...
  • Commented on The unavoidable discussion
    Having lived in Scotland when the poll tax came in, I have to think that was one of the most stupid and inept acts ever by a government in my lifetime Still my brother's house in London is worth over...
  • Commented on The unavoidable discussion
    The word fortune is a relative term, check out what NYC subway and bus projects are costing, the second avenue sagas blog details this well the FT had a nice piece today, contrasting Brighton and Bognor Regis and their attitude...
  • Commented on The unavoidable discussion
    Fascinating, check out the military spending of just the UK and France compared to Russia's Similarly, check out the nuclear capability of the U.K. and France, while dwarfed by the Russian's, it's more than enough It's a common US meme...
  • Commented on The unavoidable discussion
    As others have noted, it's not getting a lot of media traction in the US, though a piece just went up in the WaPo opinion section. If I was still living in the UK, then I would clearly vote Remain,...
  • Commented on But it's not April 1st yet!
    Well I am glad you like it, I have only looked at pictures and it is not to my taste at all. Hopefully I will get a chance to see it in the flesh and make a better assessment, it...
  • Commented on But it's not April 1st yet!
    And one last thought on the Scottish Parliament building, it is not just that it is ugly It is spectacularly ugly in Edinburgh, which is a beautiful city Was it just politicians buying into architect bs, or was there some...
  • Commented on But it's not April 1st yet!
    Peeing my pants in front of the headmaster and god knows how many people at my first day at prep school was humiliating, I find every time I share it publicly, it hurts a little less...
  • Commented on But it's not April 1st yet!
    Living in the states I was vaguely aware that the building had big cost overruns It was only recently that I saw a picture of it and I was this is the fucking ugliest thing I have ever seen It's...
  • Commented on But it's not April 1st yet!
    Hardening is a good excuse for cost overruns, see the most expensive building in history 1 WTC/freedom tower...
  • Commented on But it's not April 1st yet!
    Well, I spend a vast amount of time writing reports, given current technology, a lot of the reporting could be automated. Because it's a niche industry and the civil side of engineering is still Victorian to a large degree, this...
  • Commented on But it's not April 1st yet!
    That's basically what airline pilots do at the moment, doesn't change the jobs equation. That their work load has been reduced by a very large percentage timewise, they still need to be present and be active during the rare periods...
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