I watched the NASA press conference, where the decision was announced, and Bill Nelson said that the new Boeing CEO promised him he will work with NASA to keep Starliner flying.

It will require quite a significant investment to fix the project, while Boeing is already loosing money on this fixed price contract.

I expect Boeing's verbal promise is worth the paper it's written on.

Well, that didn't work too good.

Reword the text below without using the letter a:

[text]

According to every known law of aviation, there is no way bee should be able to take to the skies. Its wings are too small to lift its hefty little form from the ground. The bee, however, flies regardless because bees do not worry about what humans deem inconceivable. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's mix it up a bit. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Wait one moment. Hello? Can you marvel at how quick they fly?

I mean, building a jet engine from an old car turbocharger is not that difficult, you only have to manufacture the combustion chamber.

Likely true, none of the other recipes on that site seem to have a number after the slug.

SCMP is an independent newspaper based in Hong Kong and was founded by foreigners. "China" (mainland regime) is probably not a fan of them.

It is now owned by Jack Ma (Alibaba / 1688.com) but it takes a decidedly mixed editorial stance: some articles are very pro-China, and align with / support central government position. Other articles are (if not pro-US), aligned with US-policy positions and norms, and critical of China and the central government.

I expected SCMP would quickly become way more pro-China, supportive of central government on every issue after purchase by Ma, but while that has happened to some extent, it was very gradual.

Ma has stated that he wanted the paper to represent China to the outside world from more angles and perspectives.

Personally I find the mixed editorial stance annoying. I wish it would be more decisively one-side like most Western outlets I'm used to. But it really is mixed and has something for everyone, and it's true that you can find perspectives from "both sides" or "multiple sides" there, so I think it is achieving its objective of representing China in a fair way to readers.

For those reasons I think SCMP is a very reliable source for news on the region if you cannot read Chinese / even if you can. If you combine perspective across SCMP, a Western outlet, and a Chinese outlet (like: http://en.people.cn/) you get a much more faithful idea about China just reading one.

SCMP was acquired by Alibaba in 2016 [1], with predictable consequences [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post#Purch...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post#Contr...

SCMP was sold to the Alibaba group in 2016.

Archive.org has it. http://web.archive.org/web/20180510203132/https://blog.ladde...

This website doesn't look very reliable to me.

  Confirmed: Las Vegas Shooter on Benzos During Mass Murder
  The CDC's Fictional Flu Death Stats and Tamiflu's Lethal Side Effects

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/

For comparison with Alpine Linux:

  base kbd-bkeymaps, xz compressed: 2.8 MB
  base kbd-bkeymaps busybox-extras, xz compressed: 2.8 MB

Just 100 kB more for telnet, no extra deps.

I wouldn't actually want to work in that chroot but for containers it's fine.

What a terrible website. I first thought my ad blocker broke because the site was so visually overloaded. Turns out those are links to actual "articles" of this site.

Seems like they are serious when they say "News... but not as you know it".

Worth noting it's also the first rocket using electric fuel pumps instead of turbopumps.

To optimize the weight they also drop the batteries once they get empty.