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That doesn't preclude that further optimisation of solar panels could stem from research on photosynthesis.

No, they actively lobbied over the years of her reign to preserve their economic benefits. They enjoyed this luxury and made attempts at preserving and expending it. Elizabeth was not a passive victim of her birth circumstances.

I never bought this argument. France got rid of their royal family but the royal palaces and their art still attract millions of tourists each year.

Tourists would still want to see Buckingham Palace and visit the royal gallery even without a sitting royal family.

The Crown Estate is not the private property of the Windsor family though. It is more akin to the wealth of a parallel state. One could speculate that in the event of the abolition of the monarchy the Crown Estate would be taken over by the government (at the very least not become Windsor family private property), in effect making it the taxpayers' property.

I think it's totally fair to feel that they have a life of immense luxury and privilege off of wealth that belongs to the people, while so many people in this country are wondering if they'll have heating this winter.

The "war on terror", like the "war on drugs", is a misnomer though; it's not really a war (although a couple of wars were waged as part of it, or alongside it).

You'll encounter two kinds in most Security Engineer roles:

1) reviewing and advising on engineering work carried by other engineers, so you need to understand what they're doing, why they're doing it that way, and what the more secure alternatives could be, all while taking into account any limitations (time, budget, developer experience). This may include pairing sessions with Software or Platform Engineers when it comes to implementing security-critical bits.

2) building, deploying and maintaining your own solutions to security problems your company is facing. This could be security automation, threat detection engineering, secure-by-default infrastructure-as-code modules etc.

In general you need to be a high-breadth, medium-depth well-rounded engineer to pull your weight as a Security Engineer in a decent tech company.

> I guess those guys aren't real then?

You didn't even check your own link I guess. That group's first attack was in 1984 when they operated out of Egypt and in the south of Israel/Palestine. Not a single one of their attacks happened in Lebanon during the civil war. Their presence in Lebanon starts in 1989, at the end of the civil war, and they have to this day not attacked a Lebanese target.

This confirms the point I've been communicating this entire thread that religion only became a driving force in Palestinian politics and militancy in the 1990s and Palestinian Islamism was not a factor in the Lebanese civil war.

> radical Islamist Palestinians who had left Palestine and wanted an Islamic state in Lebanon

This is false and misrepresents Palestinian movements in the pre-1990s era and their objectives in Lebanon. That is all I wanted to point out.

I agree with the rest of what you said though.

> PLO tried to distinguish itself from Hamas by claiming to be more secular

Hamas was founded in 1989, a bit late for participation in the Lebanese civil war.

> Arafat, the leader of the PLO, wasn't christian. That's ... weird you claim this.

I'm talking about the leader of the PFLP, George Habash, which was the second largest Palestinian force at the time and operating in Lebanon during the civil war.

> they were trying to kick the non-muslims out of Lebanon by force.

I'm not disputing that the intention of the PLO was to anchor themselves in Lebanon (out of the control of the Lebanese state, even if that meant toppling it) and use it as a base, but I'm going to need some sources for the claim that the PLO wanted to "kick the non-muslims out of Lebanon".

> Ballerina team told me that in the future Ballerina will not be hosted on JVM.

They also told me that back at Kubecon in 2018 :D