You should be more cautious with your definitives. it all depends on how the auto mode was suppressed.
There was a British Army squaddies' trick to return the L1A1 semi-auto issue rifle back into a full-auto. It involved inserting a paper clip into the sear. A TA lad showed me it once; against all the regs but very easy. Well worth risking a bollocking and charge if you were going up against the Argies with full-auto FALs.
If I have a guest over and that person kicks a whole through the neighbor's fence I'm automatically liable simply because he was standing on my property when he did so? I don't think that's how it works.
You should read your home insurance policy; that's exactly how it works.
Your insurance company with disavow coverage for any damage or injury caused by someone you invite onto your premisesr
I'm in the process of shutting down my businesses. That's what the current 63% total tax rate gets you
Umm, corporation tax only applies to *profits*. That is, money your business couldn't find a way to spend. Excess cash. Surplus.
If you are really in the position of paying 63% corporation tax then CONGRATULATIONS you are running a profitable business. Next year, try ploughing additional funds into R&D or more staff so that you don't have so much net revenue.
i only bring this up because the military has electrically opperated weapons that will cycle without a muzzle device
Correct, both the M134 and GAU-12 are commonly used as helicopter door guns and will happily churn away without a BFA. In fact there is no way to attach an adapter to them.
Blowback small arms such as MP5 and G3 will also cycle without a BFA.
I now know that the Spitfire's "performance" was located under the fuselage, and its "aerodynamics" were located in the tail section.
Which funnily enough is about right. The aircraft was a hack, a case of fix-what-we-have. The development history of the Spitfire is one of constant attempts to keep-up with the state-of-the-art as set by Germany and, to a lesser degree, the USA.
Constantly out-performed, out-manoeuvred and over-rated; the only reason the RAF continued to fly Spitfires is that there weren't enough Lend-Lease aircraft from the USA to meet demand. P-51s and P-47s couldn't come quick enough for European theatre and the P-40s held the line in North Africa.
There are plenty of airworthy Spitfires for anyone who feels dewy-eyed about them. What we really need to find is a cache of buried Beaufighters or Battles. Now THAT would really add to the historical record.
The simple concept that we now have "Ion Thrusters" is extremely cool to me.
OK, brace yourself for techno-orgasm.
The first recorded successful firing of ion thrusters in space was onboard the Soviet Zond 2 probe. 8th December 1965.
Yes, fifty years ago.
That particular installation was experimental, but ion engines were widely used in subsequent Soviet probes. Mainly developed at the Kurchatov Institute.
People could probably find the same at their local library in the microfiche section.
Now *that* would have made an interesting "what we lost..." article.
Libraries here in the UK discarded the microfiche equipment several years ago to make way for New Media services such as DVDs and audio books on CD.
The only newspaper information they hold are copies of today's papers.
There is no way I can go to the library and look-up yesterday's news, let alone the 1920s. Any such queries are directed "to the Internet". To where, exactly? Most online newspaper archives are subscription only.
Developed in the mid-1930s, the Norden bomb-sight was advertised as being so accurate that the operator could put a bomb into a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.
It was an accurate sight, but complex to use and required skill. But "Pickling those bombs" stuck long after the sight had been retired.
As a result of this proxy their site has jumped into the top-ten UK sites for traffic from being down in the mumble-hundreds. That's going to be a pretty penny in traffic costs.
Suddenly from on high comes a reason for them to shut it down.
The court order in question specifically lists the six ISPs that are required to block the Pirate Bay. The Pirate Party is not on the list. Neither is my ISP. The BPI is not suing my ISP. What makes the Pirate Party so special?
Perhaps someone from the Party could state right here what provision in legslation has them so spooked:
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Disclaimer: I do not respect the Pirate Party. Nor the Green party, for that matter. Or the Tories, Labour, Lim Dems...
Of course Governments are indifferent, every large organisation resists change. You have to be like a wasp in their pocket, constantly giving them little stings. Blaming the UK Government for lack of IPv6 adoption is the lazy way out.
In contract the Irish IPv6 Task Force, devoid of any Government funding, frequently had Cabinet-level Ministers at its conferences and gave them an absolute grilling. Did you know that Irish procurement regulations require all IT equipment to be dual-stack capable out-of-the-box? That didn't happen as a result of a Board whining about inertia.
Unfortunately the bootloader or boot partition is the weak link in disk encryption. For example, a malicious kernel can be inserted into an unencrypted boot partition. The user will merrily decrypt their data partition on boot and then Bad Things occur.
This is one reason that Secure Boot is a good thing, despite all the hand-wringing and wailing.
I think you can compare Apple to a car manufacturer like BMW. Generally well designed and made, often pointing the way forward, indeed relatively small compared to a mass maker like Toyota yet financially healthy.
Hmm not sure if that fits. In Europe, BMW out-sells Ford and Toytoa ( individually ) in the mid-sized sedan market and has done so every year since 2006.
BMW is mass market and has shifted from sporting saloons to executive cruisers.
Some people actually rate the Ford Mondeo as a better-handling car than the 3-series.
Yes, and if the US, or any other nation, were to lower thier rates to 11%, Apple, (and everybody else!) would set up shop here.
Corporation taxes are deducted from net revenue; that is, the money left after all the creditors have been paid, the staff received their pay cheques, the retained lawyers took their cut to buy new Audis and the R&D department bought its whizzy new toys.
Anyting left after this point is money that the company couldn't find a reason to spend. So does it really matter if they have to pay 11% or 24% tax on it? Use it or lose it.
Apple is an excellent example of this: $100 billion locked-up in bank accounts that is not helping the economy.
I could buy a bus today and offer people free commuting to work, but that's not going to last much beyond the point where I have to refill the fuel tank for the first time...
He is not so naive to think that he can just hook a fibre link up to an end-point in the CONUS and give everyone in NZ free data transfer.
1. Maintenance costs of the fibre link. 2. Transit costs to non-peering partners 3. Transit costs to "rest of World", you may have heard of it 4. End-mile connectivity for the NZ customers
All these have immense ongoing costs. Not sure how Mr Dotcom's traditional advertise-and-nag funding model will help there.
By a 2880x1800 or 2560x1600 Retina Macbook, when they sell in numbers, competitors will follow.
So you're suggesting that Mr Linux buy a laptop on which.... Linux barely runs, and has no idea how to handle the display resolution? And cannot switch between the integrated and discrete graphics? And which needs a binary blob to even use the b43 wifi?
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No gun can be made full auto "easily".
You should be more cautious with your definitives. it all depends on how the auto mode was suppressed.
There was a British Army squaddies' trick to return the L1A1 semi-auto issue rifle back into a full-auto. It involved inserting a paper clip into the sear. A TA lad showed me it once; against all the regs but very easy. Well worth risking a bollocking and charge if you were going up against the Argies with full-auto FALs.
searching for our favorite Federation Starship will bring up ads for a similarly-named car-rental agency
Excelsior Car Hire? I have never heard of them.
Pretty easy to defeat this. Tag yourself as other people in all of your friend's photographs.
Unfortunately that would require me to create a Facebook account.
Rock vs hard place: accept that I will be tagged without consent, or submit to the machine and try to fight it.
If the President of the United States of America wants his phone unlocked, I don't see AT&T telling him no.
Why not? You don't have royalty or nobility in the USA, remember. Not like us in backward, Old World Britain.
But you still have to get around the agreement you signed with your ISP that states you will not share your connection.
I have no such agreement. My ISP permits me any legal use of the connection, with no cap / limit. Why doesn't yours?
If I have a guest over and that person kicks a whole through the neighbor's fence I'm automatically liable simply because he was standing on my property when he did so? I don't think that's how it works.
You should read your home insurance policy; that's exactly how it works.
Your insurance company with disavow coverage for any damage or injury caused by someone you invite onto your premisesr
I'm in the process of shutting down my businesses. That's what the current 63% total tax rate gets you
Umm, corporation tax only applies to *profits*. That is, money your business couldn't find a way to spend. Excess cash. Surplus.
If you are really in the position of paying 63% corporation tax then CONGRATULATIONS you are running a profitable business. Next year, try ploughing additional funds into R&D or more staff so that you don't have so much net revenue.
i only bring this up because the military has electrically opperated weapons that will cycle without a muzzle device
Correct, both the M134 and GAU-12 are commonly used as helicopter door guns and will happily churn away without a BFA. In fact there is no way to attach an adapter to them.
Blowback small arms such as MP5 and G3 will also cycle without a BFA.
I now know that the Spitfire's "performance" was located under the fuselage, and its "aerodynamics" were located in the tail section.
Which funnily enough is about right. The aircraft was a hack, a case of fix-what-we-have. The development history of the Spitfire is one of constant attempts to keep-up with the state-of-the-art as set by Germany and, to a lesser degree, the USA.
Constantly out-performed, out-manoeuvred and over-rated; the only reason the RAF continued to fly Spitfires is that there weren't enough Lend-Lease aircraft from the USA to meet demand. P-51s and P-47s couldn't come quick enough for European theatre and the P-40s held the line in North Africa.
There are plenty of airworthy Spitfires for anyone who feels dewy-eyed about them. What we really need to find is a cache of buried Beaufighters or Battles. Now THAT would really add to the historical record.
The simple concept that we now have "Ion Thrusters" is extremely cool to me.
OK, brace yourself for techno-orgasm.
The first recorded successful firing of ion thrusters in space was onboard the Soviet Zond 2 probe. 8th December 1965.
Yes, fifty years ago.
That particular installation was experimental, but ion engines were widely used in subsequent Soviet probes. Mainly developed at the Kurchatov Institute.
People could probably find the same at their local library in the microfiche section.
Now *that* would have made an interesting "what we lost..." article.
Libraries here in the UK discarded the microfiche equipment several years ago to make way for New Media services such as DVDs and audio books on CD.
The only newspaper information they hold are copies of today's papers.
There is no way I can go to the library and look-up yesterday's news, let alone the 1920s. Any such queries are directed "to the Internet". To where, exactly? Most online newspaper archives are subscription only.
pickle button?
Developed in the mid-1930s, the Norden bomb-sight was advertised as being so accurate that the operator could put a bomb into a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.
It was an accurate sight, but complex to use and required skill. But "Pickling those bombs" stuck long after the sight had been retired.
As a result of this proxy their site has jumped into the top-ten UK sites for traffic from being down in the mumble-hundreds. That's going to be a pretty penny in traffic costs.
Suddenly from on high comes a reason for them to shut it down.
The court order in question specifically lists the six ISPs that are required to block the Pirate Bay. The Pirate Party is not on the list. Neither is my ISP. The BPI is not suing my ISP. What makes the Pirate Party so special?
Perhaps someone from the Party could state right here what provision in legslation has them so spooked:
________________
Disclaimer: I do not respect the Pirate Party. Nor the Green party, for that matter. Or the Tories, Labour, Lim Dems...
I'm not sure why people are saying Thunderbird is not getting new features
Perhaps because after five years we're STILL waiting for "compose in tab".
Of course Governments are indifferent, every large organisation resists change. You have to be like a wasp in their pocket, constantly giving them little stings. Blaming the UK Government for lack of IPv6 adoption is the lazy way out.
In contract the Irish IPv6 Task Force, devoid of any Government funding, frequently had Cabinet-level Ministers at its conferences and gave them an absolute grilling. Did you know that Irish procurement regulations require all IT equipment to be dual-stack capable out-of-the-box? That didn't happen as a result of a Board whining about inertia.
NO ONE is allowed to divulge the ID/password required to boot it
That's a lovely idea, but unfortunately local laws such as the UK's RIPA trump corporate rules.
Given a choice between five years for contempt of court ( refusing to divulge password ) or being noble... which would you choose?
Why doesn't your business mandate HDD encryption?
Unfortunately the bootloader or boot partition is the weak link in disk encryption. For example, a malicious kernel can be inserted into an unencrypted boot partition. The user will merrily decrypt their data partition on boot and then Bad Things occur.
This is one reason that Secure Boot is a good thing, despite all the hand-wringing and wailing.
Code: "The Eagle has landed"
Cipher: AKINSHXHHDUQOANSPQJCDHSG
Oh, what's this?
Yes, it's a poster advertising a Bill Hicks tour. Hypocrite that he was.
There's no carrier apps that can't be uninstalled
Of course there are junk apps.
Google Now, Google Wallet, Gmail, Picasa... all cluttering-up the phone and untouchable by humans.
There's very few things that actually require root access to your phone.
Setting the MTU for a corporate WLAN. Loading TUN / TAP kernel modules to use a corporate VPN. See a pattern?
I think you can compare Apple to a car manufacturer like BMW. Generally well designed and made, often pointing the way forward, indeed relatively small compared to a mass maker like Toyota yet financially healthy.
Hmm not sure if that fits. In Europe, BMW out-sells Ford and Toytoa ( individually ) in the mid-sized sedan market and has done so every year since 2006.
BMW is mass market and has shifted from sporting saloons to executive cruisers.
Some people actually rate the Ford Mondeo as a better-handling car than the 3-series.
Yes, and if the US, or any other nation, were to lower thier rates to 11%, Apple, (and everybody else!) would set up shop here.
Corporation taxes are deducted from net revenue; that is, the money left after all the creditors have been paid, the staff received their pay cheques, the retained lawyers took their cut to buy new Audis and the R&D department bought its whizzy new toys.
Anyting left after this point is money that the company couldn't find a reason to spend. So does it really matter if they have to pay 11% or 24% tax on it? Use it or lose it.
Apple is an excellent example of this: $100 billion locked-up in bank accounts that is not helping the economy.
I could buy a bus today and offer people free commuting to work, but that's not going to last much beyond the point where I have to refill the fuel tank for the first time...
He is not so naive to think that he can just hook a fibre link up to an end-point in the CONUS and give everyone in NZ free data transfer.
1. Maintenance costs of the fibre link.
2. Transit costs to non-peering partners
3. Transit costs to "rest of World", you may have heard of it
4. End-mile connectivity for the NZ customers
All these have immense ongoing costs. Not sure how Mr Dotcom's traditional advertise-and-nag funding model will help there.
By a 2880x1800 or 2560x1600 Retina Macbook, when they sell in numbers, competitors will follow.
So you're suggesting that Mr Linux buy a laptop on which .... Linux barely runs, and has no idea how to handle the display resolution? And cannot switch between the integrated and discrete graphics? And which needs a binary blob to even use the b43 wifi?
How would that make him more productive?
All aboard the hyperbole bus!
Still 87.5 million PCs ( desktops and laptops ) shipped worldwide in Q3 2012. Yes, MILLIONS.
Some vendors saw a decline of 10% year-on-year. Painful, but that's not a collapse.
In comparison in Q3 2012 Apple shipped 17 million iPads.
So can we please stop saying that tablets have destroyed the PC market?