Hey ufamoushippopotamus , do you still need planes ? I ' m about to start running a 5 e Planescape campaign and I figured I could make some posts as I ' m writing for the campaign . <| sep |> Thanks for the suggestion . I have 16 GB of RAM in an X 250 . I have 4 GB dedicated to the VM , so I tried decreasing the RAM to 3 GB . The VM still hung on shutdown . Except for the USB controller , everything else is working fine in Gnome booted with Xorg . For some reason , the VM cannot read a USB drive . Weird <| sep |> For fucks sake . Lets just increase property taxes and be done with it . I would rather get one large bill I can budget , than get nickled and dimed by a billion little fees . <| sep |> Whilst I don ' t believe this is the case that deadline was impossible and the court cases now in flow push things back . May is challenging a very clear ruling , adding a couple of months to the process . She will be lucky to get article 50 through parliament and the Lords before end of April , by which time we ' ll have a much better idea of whether Le Pen is actually going to lead France or not . If Le Pen wins the French elections on a ' leave Eu ' ticket , all bets are off frankly . The EU can lose one major economy but it can ' t lose two . My only explanation for the tenacious following of the ruling is to buy time . Time May sorely needs . I think by June 2017 we ' ll have a much clearer idea of where we stand and it will be one year since the referendum . So I plan on dropping out of the 24 hour news cycle and just drinking heavily until then .