In the case of the BMW i3, European legislation was introduced that made manufacturers accountable for the recyclability of their cars.

Something the article completely sidesteps when talking about metals versus composites :-)

Cost versus steel may well have been a factor as well.

Portugal's +1500 makes most sense in the context of Brazil's -2500.

I'd love to know if that's a longer term trend for Brazil or if their wealthy are spooked by something.

The GDA process for for the Chinese-developed reactor planned for the UK [1] took four and a half years [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradwell_B_nuclear_power_stati...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hualong_One

Related: Have an Enemy

https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.5-have-an-enemy

> It seems that FIFA isn't exactly free of corruption

John Oliver has made a great summary of FIFA's darker side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I

This is a misleading title.

The UK government gave access to US companies. There's currently no suggestion that the data moved to the US.

More details here: https://euobserver.com/justice/145530

By US law companies are obligated to reveal any data they are ordered to and many times do that illegally also.

You are posting a false narrative according to your own link.

> UK made illegal copies of classified personal information from a database reserved for members of the passport-free Schengen travel zone.

Why?

His link says that the UK made copies, and that private contractors hired by the UK government such as IBM were given access. IBM, and most other firms that the UK government likely uses as contractors, have offices and data centers in the UK.

I didn't notice anywhere in his link that said that anyone moved copies of the data to the US.

Surprise. The bits can be in two or more places at the same time. You known... the magic of "cp"

The US companies were working for the UK government as well, i think.

After privatisation people flocked back to UK rail. Volumes that had been largely static for more than fifty years have doubled since privatisation.

A Virgin Pendolino is a far more pleasant experience than the old British Rail equivalent.

I agree on the fare rises but rail remains subsidised while road and air travel are taxed.

But virgin rents that train from a company that was directed by the state to buy it and given a grant to do so. They had some influence over the design styling, but the decision to run 10 coaches at 140mph between London and Glasgow at specific times was not made by them anyway because they have to fit in with all the other services which have to connect to allow efficient transfers. Also, if BR hadn’t been privatised those trains might have been in service 15 years earlier because the technology was developed by their R&D department which was privatised and asset stripped in the 1980s. The tilting technology was sold to the Italian company that makes Pendolino trains.

RF tracking was even more sophisticated in WWII.

The Gestapo developed a man-portable set worn under a trenchcoat:

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/df/gurtelpeiler/index.htm

A better phrase might be 'multinational partnership'.

Big accountancy and legal firms have good historical reasons for those corporate structures.

Could this approach be applied to a metric monitoring framework to give earlier/more accurate notifications if when a threshold would be crossed?

Typically these are triggered when e.g. 90% of a threshold has been crossed.