And a lot of his friends. Fortunately for him and the others involved in D-Day, they were German, and the crashing bit was courtesy of the AA guns of the Royal Navy.
He would tend to the view that, rather than it being a sexual experience, a Stuka attack was more of a shit-in-the-pants affair. Even a friend of his who was a Lancaster navigator never showed any inclination to go to air shows post war.
Yes, the past romanticises everything. The Spitfire was pretty, but the old engineers i worked with when I started would recollect its awful design flaws - like the fuel tank right in front of the pilot (the reason so many pilots were burned.) Like the battlecruisers at Jutland, the Spitfire was of the "the only way not to get killed is not to get hit" school of design. The British aircraft of WW2 that most of them regarded as the pinnacle of design was the first stealth bomber - the Mosquito. The ex-WC who tried to teach us metalwork said that he owed his survival to being picked to fly a Mosquito - your chance of surviving a mission was over 99% while in the metal bombers it was around 96%, bad odds in a long war. Unfortunately, as its radar near-invisibility was achieved by being made largely of plywood, there aren't many left.
Except it isn't. I would say from my own experience that good theologians do a mixture of analytical and creative thinking. (I know this is against the/. mindset, but that needs the occasional challenge.)
If we take the original meaning of religion, which was from a Latin root that means "binding" and could be taken as "things that bind society together"* then theologians and sociologists have actually been quite good at asking some very hard questions about this, challenging religious and non-religious hierarchies.
If we take notions of "God", again theologians have been pretty good at analysing out what is mere superstition, animism and so on, from the largely unanswerable question about why or how anything at all exists. Theologians like Hans Kung and Don Cupitt, along with any number of Episcopalians, Unitarians, Quakers, Reform Jews and other progressive groups, have tried to deal constructively with the apparent human need to believe in something and share cultural practices. This hasn't always been totally successful, but a quick fact check on whether you'd prefer to live in an area where the main religion is one of the groups I've mentioned versus one where it was, say, strongly pro-Pope Catholics, Islamists or the Bible Belt might provide a clue as to whether they're on the right track or not. The simple facts of Apple-worship, programming wars, and pseudo-religions like Libertarianism, Marxism and "Free market economics" show that atheists can show quite strong religious tendencies.
So the real question is what this study means by "decrease religious belief". After all, when Phlogiston was discredited, you could argue that this resulted in a decrease in belief in the reliability of chemists. Do they really mean "decrease acceptance of bullshit?" I'd go with that.
Have you noticed how whenever governments announce something popular but expensive it is always timed to happen after the next election? And stupid legislation tends to get progressively delayed?
In this case (DEA) it looks as if an unholy combination of lobbying from "Lord" Mandelson's mates in the media, and the obsessive population-trackers in the Civil Service, was responsible. It was against the core Labour value that legislation should never enshrine privilege (i.e. private law), and it is equally against what used to be Liberal and Conservative support for laissez-faire.
Personally, if Ed Miliband was to get up and say the DEA was wrong in principle and Labour should never have introduced it, I might consider taking the pins out of my wax dummy of Keir Hardie even the one labelled "Iraq" (though "Yo Blair" stays in)
The version I heard was that HAL in 2001 was actually named from the very high level Houston Aeronautical Language, the assumption being that it and the systems it ran on would evolve into HAL.
If he was banging the CEO's wife, he'd almost certainly know too much to be fired. In China or Texas he might be "terminated", but in the civilised world the CEO would probably reason thus:
OK, he's banging my wife but:
I know he's doing it and
She can't complain about me banging my PA
And he'll do what he's told...all in all, a win/win situation.
It wasn't out of control, it was being driven by a man with big feet who had his foot on the accelerator and thought it was the brake. The speed limiter didn't set in because, as it was going backwards in time, the speed recorded as negative.
In 2064 the NHSVSA (National Highways and space vehicles safety authority) will still be arguing over what to do about vehicles going backwards in time that are also in reverse, and whether this means that brake lights as well as headlights need to emit tachyons.
There's one keeps parking just off our road. It is about the size of the minibus used by our Community Transport to move half a dozen disabled people and their wheelchairs.
I can't remember the name, but there's a Larry Niven story about a similar incident (in this case the sun apparently going nova.) If you knew you had only 12 hours to live, what would you do?
Oh dear. Three ACs all rushing to make the same, wrong point. Because Queen Elizabeth was a Protestant, she expected that if Spain succeeded in invading England and she was captured, she would be tortured as an heretic by...the Spanish Inquisition. If you know your Tennyson you know:
I should count myself the coward if I left them, my lord Howard to these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain.
But there you are dears, don't let the rush to post stop you showing the shallowness of your knowledge of history, because i for one find it entertaining.
Journalists rise in the system because of their access to power. (Think Rebekah Wade and Cameron in UK terms.) So a change in power structures threatens their jobs. For them, it's about getting paid.
She expected the Spanish Inquisition. Which was why the English fleet was waiting in the Channel for them. Because we expected them, we didn't get them. So, for our safety, we should all expect the Spanish Inquisition. And equip our ships with the latest brass cannon. Where was I...oh yes, the powerful, sinister organisation which is ruthlessly stamping out leadership...it's called the electorate. It may be true that politics is increasingly driven by shrieking PR drones, but the electorate has to be stupid enough to listen to them, doesn't it?
No he didn't. Learn some history. In WW1, Pétain alone of all the commanders was horrified by the loss of life and did his best to reduce the exposure of soldiers to trench warfare, even rotating much of the French army through Verdun so that nobody would have to spend too long at the Front. He made peace with Germany in WW2 because he did not want a repetition of the destruction. Pétain never supported the Nazis; he tried to minimise their impact. After the war he was vilified by the Resistance, which was understandable, but he seems fundamentally to have been a good man who did his best for France as he saw it. Unless you have taken the trouble to study WW1, especially Verdun, I don't think you should aim casual smears at Pétain.
It already exists. Some research suggests that Ecstasy is a gateway drug to more socially liberal attitudes. Why do you think so many politicians are so afraid of it?
We actually have a UK politician who goes around saying exactly that. She is a Muslim from the North of the UK, who goes around (literally - she tours the country) telling Muslim groups that they have to accept that the UK has a Christian heritage and that won't change, that they need to accept it, move away from tribal practices and assimilate as successfully as progressive Jews have done.
The amount of hatred she gets directed against her is impressive, But almost all of it is from white men, including members of her own political party. For every "backward" Muslim in the UK, I suspect we can produce at least 10 equally backward white Brits.
You would think that demonising the Muslims would take the pressure off the Jews, the previous candidates of people like the GP for planned world domination. But in their minds it's simple - white people of nominally Christian background should naturally rule the world, so anybody else is a threat. At least, unlike the USA, in this country you can be openly gay or an atheist and still get elected to political office.
Lamborghinis are notorious for having very low mileage in the real world. You can't drive a status symbol, it might get dirty. Porsche 911, on the other hand, they get driven every day.
Well, patents are granted on the basis that the inventor discloses his idea and profits for a while, to the greater good of society as the knowledge base is extended. So FRAND is a corollary of that. On the other hand, slide to unlock and particular shades of round corners are non-functional decoration (because there are many other equally good ways to unlock or to shape a corner) and so offer no benefit to society. In our society, non-functional frizz, whether it is the shape of a corner or the wail of a "singer", is given a very high value because the country is run by arts graduates rather than scientists and engineers. We all know that in a post-industrial society intellectual property is the basis of the economy (insert further self-justifying media person rubbish to suit.)
I believe that Samsung did try at one point to show that the "design features" of the iPad were actually obvious engineering features and so design patents were not applicable.
In fact, most historians agree that a major cause of WW1 was that, with commercial rivalry between Britain and Germany, the British started to build new and more powerful battlecruisers (Dreadnoughts) which led Germany to suspect that Britain intended to limit Germany by denying the seas to merchants. This led to an arms race and a growing belief that the only outcome could be war.
So yes, since naval fleets were basically defensive (cannot win a land war with a Navy), the build up of defensive capability on the High Seas was perceived as an offensive weapon.
"Libertarian" trolls get mod points and mod down perfectly sensible posts like the parent. I guess there must be PR flaks spending their time making sensible posts to get mod points to inflate (or mod down the opposition) the ratings of the guys in the same room posting their Koch-and-bull dysonomics. It must be like those gold-farming sheds in China; hang on, it probably is a gold farming shed in China.
Look, even the Republican Party has realised that the supporters of a Somalia solution for the USA are unelectable. Your dream of a return to anarchy where the guy with the biggest militia rules is just that- a dream. Now waste one of those carefully garnished mod points down-modding this. I really don't care, but I do feel that you should be ashamed of what you're doing.
The replacement paperclip project is classified Secret. We don't want the Americans to know we are still using paperclips, and we don't want the Chinese to know where all those paperclips we import are going.
Instead of writing about an ant-powered computer (slogan: "Anthill inside") he should have taken out a US patent on it.
Method and implementation of a digital computer in which binary digits are living beings [..]
Claim 36: A computer as described in Claims 1-30 in which the digits are members of the phylum Arthropoda Claim 37: A computer in which the members of Claim 36 are further members of sub-phylum Crustacea Claim 38: A computer in which the members of Claim 36 are further members of sub-phylum Insecta Claim 39: A read only memory in which storage is by means of members of the Phylum Arthropoda which have both a motile and a sessile stage, such as barnacles.
There is rational depression (i.e. caused by obvious external circumstances) and depression with no rational cause. Among well known sufferers from the latter are Stephen Fry, Dr. Samuel Johnson and Winston Churchill. It has recently been argued that the reason this kind of depression does not get removed by natural selection is that it has protective value for the community; depressives seem to be good at thinking about the negatives and so are more likely to predict threats and outcomes (Churchill being an obvious case.)
As an obvious example, Roosevelt took Stalin more or less at face value whereas Churchill was (quite rightly) deeply suspicious of him.
If you take a non-rational depressive and move him or her to another job on the far side of the country, you will now have a rational depressive feeling even worse off because everything is new and unfamiliar. That is likely actually to increase suicide risk.
Europe is full of small, cheap, fuel efficient cars. Your problem is that there was a size and power war on American roads. While I would feel perfectly safe driving a Fiat 500 Twinair or its equivalent around most of Europe, I would be terrified driving it in the US. By the time European designs make it to the USA, they seem to be carrying around a third of a tonne of additional padding and reinforcement to protect against rednecks in light trucks or middle class mothers talking on the phone in their main battle tanks. It will take a long, long time for the USA light vehicle fleet to get down to sensible sizes.
Software engineers will continue to try to design back ends and middleware that is idiot proof, and "programmers" who graduated recently will continue to design front ends full of ooh shiny bloat because marketing has determined that the customer does not want idiot proof, stable functionality or rapid bug fix, the customer wants the product to have more button and menu animations than product B
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He would tend to the view that, rather than it being a sexual experience, a Stuka attack was more of a shit-in-the-pants affair. Even a friend of his who was a Lancaster navigator never showed any inclination to go to air shows post war.
Yes, the past romanticises everything. The Spitfire was pretty, but the old engineers i worked with when I started would recollect its awful design flaws - like the fuel tank right in front of the pilot (the reason so many pilots were burned.) Like the battlecruisers at Jutland, the Spitfire was of the "the only way not to get killed is not to get hit" school of design. The British aircraft of WW2 that most of them regarded as the pinnacle of design was the first stealth bomber - the Mosquito. The ex-WC who tried to teach us metalwork said that he owed his survival to being picked to fly a Mosquito - your chance of surviving a mission was over 99% while in the metal bombers it was around 96%, bad odds in a long war. Unfortunately, as its radar near-invisibility was achieved by being made largely of plywood, there aren't many left.
If we take the original meaning of religion, which was from a Latin root that means "binding" and could be taken as "things that bind society together"* then theologians and sociologists have actually been quite good at asking some very hard questions about this, challenging religious and non-religious hierarchies.
If we take notions of "God", again theologians have been pretty good at analysing out what is mere superstition, animism and so on, from the largely unanswerable question about why or how anything at all exists. Theologians like Hans Kung and Don Cupitt, along with any number of Episcopalians, Unitarians, Quakers, Reform Jews and other progressive groups, have tried to deal constructively with the apparent human need to believe in something and share cultural practices. This hasn't always been totally successful, but a quick fact check on whether you'd prefer to live in an area where the main religion is one of the groups I've mentioned versus one where it was, say, strongly pro-Pope Catholics, Islamists or the Bible Belt might provide a clue as to whether they're on the right track or not. The simple facts of Apple-worship, programming wars, and pseudo-religions like Libertarianism, Marxism and "Free market economics" show that atheists can show quite strong religious tendencies.
So the real question is what this study means by "decrease religious belief". After all, when Phlogiston was discredited, you could argue that this resulted in a decrease in belief in the reliability of chemists. Do they really mean "decrease acceptance of bullshit?" I'd go with that.
In this case (DEA) it looks as if an unholy combination of lobbying from "Lord" Mandelson's mates in the media, and the obsessive population-trackers in the Civil Service, was responsible. It was against the core Labour value that legislation should never enshrine privilege (i.e. private law), and it is equally against what used to be Liberal and Conservative support for laissez-faire.
Personally, if Ed Miliband was to get up and say the DEA was wrong in principle and Labour should never have introduced it, I might consider taking the pins out of my wax dummy of Keir Hardie even the one labelled "Iraq" (though "Yo Blair" stays in)
The version I heard was that HAL in 2001 was actually named from the very high level Houston Aeronautical Language, the assumption being that it and the systems it ran on would evolve into HAL.
OK, he's banging my wife but:
I know he's doing it and
She can't complain about me banging my PA
And he'll do what he's told...all in all, a win/win situation.
In 2064 the NHSVSA (National Highways and space vehicles safety authority) will still be arguing over what to do about vehicles going backwards in time that are also in reverse, and whether this means that brake lights as well as headlights need to emit tachyons.
There's one keeps parking just off our road. It is about the size of the minibus used by our Community Transport to move half a dozen disabled people and their wheelchairs.
I can't remember the name, but there's a Larry Niven story about a similar incident (in this case the sun apparently going nova.) If you knew you had only 12 hours to live, what would you do?
Forget hogsheads, how much is that in Priuses? Or Teslas?
But there you are dears, don't let the rush to post stop you showing the shallowness of your knowledge of history, because i for one find it entertaining.
I seem to recall reading something very similar, except for the population numbers, from someone writing around the time of Nero.
Journalists rise in the system because of their access to power. (Think Rebekah Wade and Cameron in UK terms.) So a change in power structures threatens their jobs. For them, it's about getting paid.
She expected the Spanish Inquisition. Which was why the English fleet was waiting in the Channel for them. Because we expected them, we didn't get them. So, for our safety, we should all expect the Spanish Inquisition. And equip our ships with the latest brass cannon. Where was I...oh yes, the powerful, sinister organisation which is ruthlessly stamping out leadership...it's called the electorate. It may be true that politics is increasingly driven by shrieking PR drones, but the electorate has to be stupid enough to listen to them, doesn't it?
No he didn't. Learn some history. In WW1, Pétain alone of all the commanders was horrified by the loss of life and did his best to reduce the exposure of soldiers to trench warfare, even rotating much of the French army through Verdun so that nobody would have to spend too long at the Front. He made peace with Germany in WW2 because he did not want a repetition of the destruction. Pétain never supported the Nazis; he tried to minimise their impact. After the war he was vilified by the Resistance, which was understandable, but he seems fundamentally to have been a good man who did his best for France as he saw it. Unless you have taken the trouble to study WW1, especially Verdun, I don't think you should aim casual smears at Pétain.
It already exists. Some research suggests that Ecstasy is a gateway drug to more socially liberal attitudes. Why do you think so many politicians are so afraid of it?
The amount of hatred she gets directed against her is impressive, But almost all of it is from white men, including members of her own political party. For every "backward" Muslim in the UK, I suspect we can produce at least 10 equally backward white Brits.
You would think that demonising the Muslims would take the pressure off the Jews, the previous candidates of people like the GP for planned world domination. But in their minds it's simple - white people of nominally Christian background should naturally rule the world, so anybody else is a threat. At least, unlike the USA, in this country you can be openly gay or an atheist and still get elected to political office.
Lamborghinis are notorious for having very low mileage in the real world. You can't drive a status symbol, it might get dirty. Porsche 911, on the other hand, they get driven every day.
I believe that Samsung did try at one point to show that the "design features" of the iPad were actually obvious engineering features and so design patents were not applicable.
So yes, since naval fleets were basically defensive (cannot win a land war with a Navy), the build up of defensive capability on the High Seas was perceived as an offensive weapon.
Look, even the Republican Party has realised that the supporters of a Somalia solution for the USA are unelectable. Your dream of a return to anarchy where the guy with the biggest militia rules is just that- a dream. Now waste one of those carefully garnished mod points down-modding this. I really don't care, but I do feel that you should be ashamed of what you're doing.
The replacement paperclip project is classified Secret. We don't want the Americans to know we are still using paperclips, and we don't want the Chinese to know where all those paperclips we import are going.
Method and implementation of a digital computer in which binary digits are living beings [..]
Claim 36: A computer as described in Claims 1-30 in which the digits are members of the phylum Arthropoda
Claim 37: A computer in which the members of Claim 36 are further members of sub-phylum Crustacea
Claim 38: A computer in which the members of Claim 36 are further members of sub-phylum Insecta
Claim 39: A read only memory in which storage is by means of members of the Phylum Arthropoda which have both a motile and a sessile stage, such as barnacles.
As an obvious example, Roosevelt took Stalin more or less at face value whereas Churchill was (quite rightly) deeply suspicious of him.
If you take a non-rational depressive and move him or her to another job on the far side of the country, you will now have a rational depressive feeling even worse off because everything is new and unfamiliar. That is likely actually to increase suicide risk.
Europe is full of small, cheap, fuel efficient cars. Your problem is that there was a size and power war on American roads. While I would feel perfectly safe driving a Fiat 500 Twinair or its equivalent around most of Europe, I would be terrified driving it in the US. By the time European designs make it to the USA, they seem to be carrying around a third of a tonne of additional padding and reinforcement to protect against rednecks in light trucks or middle class mothers talking on the phone in their main battle tanks. It will take a long, long time for the USA light vehicle fleet to get down to sensible sizes.
Bitter? Twisted? Me? Get off my lawn.