that’s what Stern said? They didn’t get that opportunity.

It’s definitely possible to have a hardware token which allows confirming the transfer details - https://www.manua.ls/nationwide/card-reader-security-for-internet-banking/manual

They can’t book 75 people for a train which can only seat 50

The official statistics lists how frequently that occurs.

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+1. “oh you’ll surely be good if you are early, the train can’t possibly already be overcrowded when it arrives”

I suspect the sales website can’t actually reserve seats itself, but just passes along the request to some other system, which enters “LOL, NO!” in that field for a train that was long-since fully booked.

My guess is that it printed this “null” reservation slip to let you know that the reservation had failed, because otherwise people would think that the printer wasn’t working? It prints the ticket(s), then the reservation(s), then the receipt listing how many things were printed.

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They only issue as many tickets as seats

That’s… optimistic?

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It’s gotten so good that China might be restricting output to keep the prices high…

(their onshore wind, and pumped hydro storage, are also great success stories, as is the EV industry there)

Would that even work on Indian reservations - can congress override their choices?

Computer equivalent of vacuum decay in our universe…

And the left one may well be the physical circle from a moon impact.

Could have told the FBI to not bother looking.

Project Highrise might fit the bill - it’s pretty relaxed, and lasts forever.

1954 Lord of the Rings featured danger from remote surveillance, and a shadow world with different security concerns than the regular world…

“misinformation” about their policies huh?

Very relevant and relevant Dr Glaucomflecken.

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