Here in Australia there are suggestions that the basic level, Foundation, should be allowed to use Digital Modes like WSJT on very low power. I'd agree with that as otherwise you are shut out from it.
The article selection is rather poor and simplistic. The relationship between Western Governments and the Saudi's goes back now some 100 years to the founding of Saudi Arabia and is much, much more complex than described involving two world wars and the later discovery of oil.
Saudi money, both from government and private sources, has been poured into Western Economies and businesses for decades. When I worked there in the early 90's, the owner of the business I worked for, a long-established import company, had his personal financial assets invested in the UK and the US and his children educated overseas. He understood that he only operated in business while he was on the right side of the ruling family and ensured that if it all went pear-shaped he would be financially secure in London for example. And he was just one of many, many businessmen who did the same thing.
>>The center right could rapidly move towards a more totalitarian, authoritarian state, based on violation of personal privacy and rights, forcing people to vote for the other crowd? I think you will find that's high on the agenda of the current Labour leadership already : the Venezuelan model is especially popular.
Pretty Simple really: 1)Overlooks White Sands Missile Range. 2)Large Tower. 3)Suspicion of surveillance devices placed on tower/systems that should not be there.
In Western Europe, the whole concept of Master-Slave harks back to Roman times more than anything else.
Slavery as a racial concept is really a US-centric issue and as usual they forget the rest of the world exists and doesn't have the same cultural or historical base.
For those across the pond in the US, the UK Union Movement is driven and owned by the left to push their agenda. Taking assets back into State Ownership is a major theme plus redistribution of wealth. They are closely linked [indeed gave birth to] the UK Labour Party who are in the middle of an extreme left-wing takeover whose leader admires communism, supported the IRA and whose Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer [basically Finance Minister in waiting] is an avowed communist.
All this in the 5th biggest economy in the world and a nuclear power. What could go wrong ?
Sorry don't know why it posted as AC. I mean to add that the finances around the whole Tesla battery are murky and I would not be surprised if the eventual cost turns out to be very high - not to mention that these batteries have a finite life which is much, much less than a traditional power plant.
The Tesla battery in South Australia is there to cover demand gaps. South Australia gets a lot of electricity through a connector from Victoria. When that connector failed the entire state was blacked out as the State Government had chucked all it's eggs in the wind basket.
One of the problems we have here in Australia is Governments are jumping on board the renewables bandwagon for votes but ignoring the requirement for reliable base-load infrastructure which is still basically coal or gas fired stations. [No Nuclear in Oz].
We have a looming crunch coming where secure of supply for electricity is going to be a major issue especially in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. Tasmania was royally shafted when it's DC connector across the Tasman failed and they had to bring in hundreds of large generators to supply power.
Western Australia is more secure due to historical reasons - it's isolation means that we do not import power from other states and the network is split into two disparate systems.
You need real-time satellite imagery for that and you can blind satellites or take a course that avoids their orbital tracks which are well known. Very few countries have that kind of capability. Unless they are within visible sight of a coastline they are hard to find - to hit it with a missile you need to get close enough to target it.
Company Towns still exist in Western Australia especially in the Iron Ore mining region of the Pilbara. It makes financial sense for companies like Rio Tinto to build housing etc. as the remoteness means it is very, very expensive to fly workers in and out and house them onsite.
1) Not all houses in the UK come with a parking space right outside or garage. A lot are apartments or communal parking - how do you work out who is parking where without expensive infrastructure for telling what vehicle is plugged into where ? 2) It's not just the cost of the charger - The supply cables going to the house will need to be upgraded along with ALL the infrastructure right back to the grid transformer - that isn't cheap. 3 phase to each house would be a good idea as it would solve the voltage issues but 3 phase to new builds is not common in the UK and I suspect the cost would be exorbitant. 3) See 2). The current grid infrastructure in many areas may not be able to handle the increased load over time. 4) Vandalism - in many parts of the UK there are lots of little scrotes who will vandalise/destroy this kind of stuff in a day or two. Not to mention various gangs around the county who make a tidy living stealing cables along railway lines/motorways etc. Even if it's bolted to the ground in the UK someone will try and steal it.
Note that in the UK, if your boss phones you late at night regarding work, you are well within your rights to tell them to poke it.
UK Employment law contains lots of protections for employees and you cannot fire people for fun and giggles. Also people consider that if you are going to phone me out of hours, it had better be really earth-shatteringly important. The only time I can remember getting such a call it was because the mains cable into the building had exploded and damaged a lot of infrastructure through a power surge. It was a request if I could come in early the next morning to help sort out the mess which was fine as it was an extremely rare event.
It comes across as a clever and insightful bit of an analysis from a very talented young man.
The lack of any tamper evident packaging I would consider worrying since it does appear you can compromise these in the supply chain and you would have zero idea it's been done.
From my Oz city alone [Perth] there are 3-4 flights just today to Bali, full of Ozzies looking to party and get hammered in Bali. [It is only a 4 hour flight].
They will not be happy when they find out they cannot update Facebook, Instagram etc etc with pictures of them drinking bucket-size cocktails and in general being dickheads.
The words "makerspace" and a UPS using mains AC and high current DC don't really go together to be honest. I've seen "makerspace" designs that are just waiting to electrocute someone [water pumps in the box with electronics, stripboard for AC etc].
It does strike me as it's being looked at as a software project first which is the wrong way round. I also can't see how they can deliver something like that cheaply to be honest.
Finally - more and more people are using laptops and tablets which sort of already have a UPS inside - it's called a "battery"...
Please do not mix us British in with the Jerries and other Foreigners. Yes we might have a smaller military than we used to but it's still got an uncanny ability to batter an opponent between the eyes and we have lots of experience of hammering natives in sandy countries plus giving the Latinos a smack down south.
And if it all goes to rat-shit, we and French are more than capable of turning Moscow and quite a few Russian cities into thousand-year glass car parks.
So as long as Putin stops at the French Border and doesn't cross the Channel, it's all good.
From March Qantas will start direct London to Perth Flights using the 787 Dreamliner:14,470 direct kms and 17.5 hours flying time. That's UK to Australia [ok West Coast] non-stop. They plan to send onward traffic to Sydney but that's a furphy - They have asked Airbus & Boeing [aimed mainly at Boeing I suspect] to get to a point when they can have an aircraft to fly London - Sydney non-stop ; the Kangaroo Route. It's an extra 2,500 kms but the manufacturers will deliver it eventually. Boeing managed to add 50% more range to the original 777 with variants and engine upgrades.
Concorde did find it's niche eventually as ultra-fast transport across the Atlantic [British Airways had very high load factors] but only after the cost had been written off and it was clear that commercially it was a dead duck if an airline had to buy the aircraft.
My wife, who was overweight, developed Type 2 Diabetes.
She had take these god-awful tablets called Metformin which have horrendous side effects on your bowel movements - not funny at all.
Her solution [as a nurse] was to undergo Gastric Sleeve Surgery. A bit drastic but she saw it as act now or literally die early. On admission her Blood Sugar was around 12
After her surgery her blood sugar dropped to 4-something and has stayed there ever since - she tests it regualrly.
She was under the BMI threshold the surgeon had but due to the Diabetes he offered the surgery.
They didn't have access to GCHQ pre-Brexit either. The UK is very, very reticent to let any country that isn't part of the Five-Eyes agreement anywhere near any of the special toys, kit and capabilities they have there.
For a site that publishes Science news, stating the wrong relationship for wavelength of EM [High Freq] vs Accoustic [Low Freq] is poor and the use of the word "astounding" to describe the speed of light make it's look like it was written by someone whose usual journalistic task is writing the Entertainment News.
1). The carrier has not been officially commissioned yet - it's still in the hands of the builders. It has RN Ratings and Officers onboard but no munitions, counter-measures, aircraft etc. - It's as about as warlike as a cross-channel ferry.
2). The deck is armoured - something the Royal Navy did before the US Navy : In the Pacific Royal Navy Carriers [and there were some there towards the end] survived direct bomb hits that caused major damage and fires on US Carriers with un-armoured decks. Additionally. it has various coverings on it.
3). The original quote from the muppet that did this never mentioned anything about security or explosives. I suspect he is trying to divert attention from the fact that he has broken a number of CAA regulations and is likely to find himself getting fined, not to mention interviews with various agencies who will be more than capable of putting the absolute fear of death into him.
All in all - he is a bit of a twat. Apparently he was trying to get to the gangway to speak to the "Captain" to get his drone back. Again - twat.
I'm not an aerospace engineer, so forgive me for asking a probably stupid question, but would it be possible to build the jets with two sets of engines - one efficient for landing and takeoff, the other efficient for cruising at altitude?
That was the whole point of Concorde's Engines - they could be used for takeoff/landing but would sustain Mach 2 cruise WITHOUT afterburners or reheat. They were only used for takeoff and to get through the sound barrier quickly.
The clever bit was the variable ramp intake doors at the front of the engine controlled by an analogue computer - a real engineering achievement. I'm still amazed that you could sit at Mach 2 and 60,000 ft sipping champagne whilst anyone else was wearing an oxygen mask and peeing in a tube,
I'm surprised they are stupid enough to run it from the UK. There will be plenty of financial and electronic paper trails for the authorities to follow, you can't buy your way out of jail and any money you do make thats kept in the UK as Assets etc will be confiscated also : not to mention getting banged up in jail.
Surely if you are going to run this kind of con you should do it from a country that has a more "flexible" attitude i.e. corrupt.
Arrests do take a long time in this scenario as the coppers want to be sure they have a good case with plenty of evidence to take to court. The Crown Prosecution Service will have been involved as well to make sure it's watertight.
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Here in Australia there are suggestions that the basic level, Foundation, should be allowed to use Digital Modes like WSJT on very low power. I'd agree with that as otherwise you are shut out from it.
The article selection is rather poor and simplistic. The relationship between Western Governments and the Saudi's goes back now some 100 years to the founding of Saudi Arabia and is much, much more complex than described involving two world wars and the later discovery of oil.
Saudi money, both from government and private sources, has been poured into Western Economies and businesses for decades. When I worked there in the early 90's, the owner of the business I worked for, a long-established import company, had his personal financial assets invested in the UK and the US and his children educated overseas. He understood that he only operated in business while he was on the right side of the ruling family and ensured that if it all went pear-shaped he would be financially secure in London for example. And he was just one of many, many businessmen who did the same thing.
>>The center right could rapidly move towards a more totalitarian, authoritarian state, based on violation of personal privacy and rights, forcing people to vote for the other crowd?
I think you will find that's high on the agenda of the current Labour leadership already : the Venezuelan model is especially popular.
Pretty Simple really:
1)Overlooks White Sands Missile Range.
2)Large Tower.
3)Suspicion of surveillance devices placed on tower/systems that should not be there.
Virtue signalling at it's finest.
In Western Europe, the whole concept of Master-Slave harks back to Roman times more than anything else.
Slavery as a racial concept is really a US-centric issue and as usual they forget the rest of the world exists and doesn't have the same cultural or historical base.
For those across the pond in the US, the UK Union Movement is driven and owned by the left to push their agenda. Taking assets back into State Ownership is a major theme plus redistribution of wealth. They are closely linked [indeed gave birth to] the UK Labour Party who are in the middle of an extreme left-wing takeover whose leader admires communism, supported the IRA and whose Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer [basically Finance Minister in waiting] is an avowed communist.
All this in the 5th biggest economy in the world and a nuclear power. What could go wrong ?
Sorry don't know why it posted as AC. I mean to add that the finances around the whole Tesla battery are murky and I would not be surprised if the eventual cost turns out to be very high - not to mention that these batteries have a finite life which is much, much less than a traditional power plant.
The Tesla battery in South Australia is there to cover demand gaps. South Australia gets a lot of electricity through a connector from Victoria. When that connector failed the entire state was blacked out as the State Government had chucked all it's eggs in the wind basket.
One of the problems we have here in Australia is Governments are jumping on board the renewables bandwagon for votes but ignoring the requirement for reliable base-load infrastructure which is still basically coal or gas fired stations. [No Nuclear in Oz].
We have a looming crunch coming where secure of supply for electricity is going to be a major issue especially in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. Tasmania was royally shafted when it's DC connector across the Tasman failed and they had to bring in hundreds of large generators to supply power.
Western Australia is more secure due to historical reasons - it's isolation means that we do not import power from other states and the network is split into two disparate systems.
This made me laugh myself silly : "The letter also called on Google to allow employees to participate in ethical reviews of the company's products".
Yeah right - That's a tough one; involve your employees in "Ethical Reviews" and risk an immense revenue stream from China.
I wonder which way the company will lean ?
You need real-time satellite imagery for that and you can blind satellites or take a course that avoids their orbital tracks which are well known.
Very few countries have that kind of capability. Unless they are within visible sight of a coastline they are hard to find - to hit it with a missile you need to get close enough to target it.
Company Towns still exist in Western Australia especially in the Iron Ore mining region of the Pilbara.
It makes financial sense for companies like Rio Tinto to build housing etc. as the remoteness means it is very, very expensive to fly workers in and out and house them onsite.
Great idea but I can see some problems.
1) Not all houses in the UK come with a parking space right outside or garage. A lot are apartments or communal parking - how do you work out who is parking where without expensive infrastructure for telling what vehicle is plugged into where ?
2) It's not just the cost of the charger - The supply cables going to the house will need to be upgraded along with ALL the infrastructure right back to the grid transformer - that isn't cheap. 3 phase to each house would be a good idea as it would solve the voltage issues but 3 phase to new builds is not common in the UK and I suspect the cost would be exorbitant.
3) See 2). The current grid infrastructure in many areas may not be able to handle the increased load over time.
4) Vandalism - in many parts of the UK there are lots of little scrotes who will vandalise/destroy this kind of stuff in a day or two. Not to mention various gangs around the county who make a tidy living stealing cables along railway lines/motorways etc. Even if it's bolted to the ground in the UK someone will try and steal it.
Note that in the UK, if your boss phones you late at night regarding work, you are well within your rights to tell them to poke it.
UK Employment law contains lots of protections for employees and you cannot fire people for fun and giggles. Also people consider that if you are going to phone me out of hours, it had better be really earth-shatteringly important. The only time I can remember getting such a call it was because the mains cable into the building had exploded and damaged a lot of infrastructure through a power surge. It was a request if I could come in early the next morning to help sort out the mess which was fine as it was an extremely rare event.
It comes across as a clever and insightful bit of an analysis from a very talented young man.
The lack of any tamper evident packaging I would consider worrying since it does appear you can compromise these in the supply chain and you would have zero idea it's been done.
From my Oz city alone [Perth] there are 3-4 flights just today to Bali, full of Ozzies looking to party and get hammered in Bali. [It is only a 4 hour flight].
They will not be happy when they find out they cannot update Facebook, Instagram etc etc with pictures of them drinking bucket-size cocktails and in general being dickheads.
The words "makerspace" and a UPS using mains AC and high current DC don't really go together to be honest. I've seen "makerspace" designs that are just waiting to electrocute someone [water pumps in the box with electronics, stripboard for AC etc].
It does strike me as it's being looked at as a software project first which is the wrong way round. I also can't see how they can deliver something like that cheaply to be honest.
Finally - more and more people are using laptops and tablets which sort of already have a UPS inside - it's called a "battery"...
Please do not mix us British in with the Jerries and other Foreigners. Yes we might have a smaller military than we used to but it's still got an uncanny ability to batter an opponent between the eyes and we have lots of experience of hammering natives in sandy countries plus giving the Latinos a smack down south. And if it all goes to rat-shit, we and French are more than capable of turning Moscow and quite a few Russian cities into thousand-year glass car parks. So as long as Putin stops at the French Border and doesn't cross the Channel, it's all good.
From March Qantas will start direct London to Perth Flights using the 787 Dreamliner :14,470 direct kms and 17.5 hours flying time. That's UK to Australia [ok West Coast] non-stop. They plan to send onward traffic to Sydney but that's a furphy - They have asked Airbus & Boeing [aimed mainly at Boeing I suspect] to get to a point when they can have an aircraft to fly London - Sydney non-stop ; the Kangaroo Route. It's an extra 2,500 kms but the manufacturers will deliver it eventually. Boeing managed to add 50% more range to the original 777 with variants and engine upgrades.
Concorde did find it's niche eventually as ultra-fast transport across the Atlantic [British Airways had very high load factors] but only after the cost had been written off and it was clear that commercially it was a dead duck if an airline had to buy the aircraft.
My wife, who was overweight, developed Type 2 Diabetes.
She had take these god-awful tablets called Metformin which have horrendous side effects on your bowel movements - not funny at all.
Her solution [as a nurse] was to undergo Gastric Sleeve Surgery. A bit drastic but she saw it as act now or literally die early. On admission her Blood Sugar was around 12
After her surgery her blood sugar dropped to 4-something and has stayed there ever since - she tests it regualrly.
She was under the BMI threshold the surgeon had but due to the Diabetes he offered the surgery.
They didn't have access to GCHQ pre-Brexit either. The UK is very, very reticent to let any country that isn't part of the Five-Eyes agreement anywhere near any of the special toys, kit and capabilities they have there.
Nah it never caught on to be honest.
For a site that publishes Science news, stating the wrong relationship for wavelength of EM [High Freq] vs Accoustic [Low Freq] is poor and the use of the word "astounding" to describe the speed of light make it's look like it was written by someone whose usual journalistic task is writing the Entertainment News.
This is a bit of a non-story
1). The carrier has not been officially commissioned yet - it's still in the hands of the builders. It has RN Ratings and Officers onboard but no munitions, counter-measures, aircraft etc. - It's as about as warlike as a cross-channel ferry.
2). The deck is armoured - something the Royal Navy did before the US Navy : In the Pacific Royal Navy Carriers [and there were some there towards the end] survived direct bomb hits that caused major damage and fires on US Carriers with un-armoured decks. Additionally. it has various coverings on it.
3). The original quote from the muppet that did this never mentioned anything about security or explosives. I suspect he is trying to divert attention from the fact that he has broken a number of CAA regulations and is likely to find himself getting fined, not to mention interviews with various agencies who will be more than capable of putting the absolute fear of death into him.
All in all - he is a bit of a twat. Apparently he was trying to get to the gangway to speak to the "Captain" to get his drone back. Again - twat.
I'm not an aerospace engineer, so forgive me for asking a probably stupid question, but would it be possible to build the jets with two sets of engines - one efficient for landing and takeoff, the other efficient for cruising at altitude?
That was the whole point of Concorde's Engines - they could be used for takeoff/landing but would sustain Mach 2 cruise WITHOUT afterburners or reheat. They were only used for takeoff and to get through the sound barrier quickly. The clever bit was the variable ramp intake doors at the front of the engine controlled by an analogue computer - a real engineering achievement. I'm still amazed that you could sit at Mach 2 and 60,000 ft sipping champagne whilst anyone else was wearing an oxygen mask and peeing in a tube,
I'm surprised they are stupid enough to run it from the UK. There will be plenty of financial and electronic paper trails for the authorities to follow, you can't buy your way out of jail and any money you do make thats kept in the UK as Assets etc will be confiscated also : not to mention getting banged up in jail.
Surely if you are going to run this kind of con you should do it from a country that has a more "flexible" attitude i.e. corrupt.
Arrests do take a long time in this scenario as the coppers want to be sure they have a good case with plenty of evidence to take to court. The Crown Prosecution Service will have been involved as well to make sure it's watertight.