The bomb is a British Blockbuster - so called because one could flatten an entire city block.The bombs are the origin of the term..
They were giant cylinders filled with explosive,with no streamling and no tailfins. When dropped they tumbled randomly through the air so there was no kind of accuracy with them. Dropping one on anything smaller than a city was pointless. Essentially they're weapons that were purpose-designed to be dropped on cities and to kill civilians.
Given that virtually every single fragment of the rocket is going to be recovered and examined, most especially in the area where the explosion originated. Evidence of a bullet strike is going to be very very obvious.
The sniper gets caught (the aforementioned money troubles would be a good start in pinning him or her down) and would be offered the choice of ten years or sixty years in jail. The sniper would immediately sing the names of "the people with a motive". A good reason why the paid-sniper scenario is unlikely.
The downside of blackmail is that you may make a lot of money from one mug. But if word gets out your business is essentially destroyed instantly. But you might not even get any money as your victim might go to the cops (in some states, blackmail is a felony) or might just refuse to pay and go online to tell the world about your extortion attempt.
High-priced prostitution has a big incentive to be discrete - they want existing customers to be repeat customers. They want new customers to feel safe and confident about what they're doing.
Now I'm not saying that's how it actually works in practice. I'm just wary of saying blackmail is the automatic outcome. Because discretion might ultimately be the most profitable policy for the prostitution providers. Most especially the expensive ones.
See; the XC120 Packplane - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.... Though the fact it didn't work in 1950, doesn't mean it can't work now. I keep an open mind.
However, the idea of sticking the pod on a railway waggon is a complete non-starter - I'm sure a pod that meets railway crash-resistance standards would be stupidly heavy for aviation use.
Britain will likely try to join EFTA - European Free Trade Association, currently Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein - TL;DR it's the EU Lite.
This, together with the EU, make up the European Single Market. Free movement of goods, services and people will continue. Though a lot is going to be completely up in the air - reciprocal deals for health care for example.
Flight recorders sit in the aircraft's tail - where they're ost likely to survive - and are built to be incredibly tough, to survive pretty much any accident.
But surely this is a hangover from the earlier era when data recording was done by things that were big, bulky and expensive. Therefore aircraft designers had no choice to put all their eggs in one (very very tough) basket.
Now data storage devices are tiny, why not have a system that disperses hundreds, each with a copy of the flight data, in the event of an accident? Sure they won't be individually as survivable, but who cares? It's the principle of the baby turtles making their way down the beach - a few are bound to make it.
One thing he got wrong, the tank crewman at 7:14 isn't the driver, its somebody starting the engine. Engines of the period had crank-starts. I don't know why British WW1 tanks had the crank handles on the inside, but I'd guess it was because the engines constantly broke down and had to be restarted, and you'd get shot if you had to go outside to do that.
>It's well known that corners were cut when building the titanic - particularly with the rivets which metallurgical analysis confirmed were cheaply made and weak due to large amounts of iron slag in the composition of the metal. The crew was operating at night in a stretch of water that was well known to contain icebergs and had claimed a recorded 20 ships already. Essentially they were operating blind. Lookouts failed to spot it, either due to environmental conditions, pure laziness, or overconfidence in the ship design - we may never really know.
The Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic differed in detail, but was essentially a clone. The Olympic served on the North Atlantic run for two decades and was only retired in 1935. She gained the nickname "Old Reliable". - Picture of the two together
This suggests that whatever people now say about the design, construction, or the metallurgy of the iron, by the standards of the time, the fundamental design of Titanic was sound and the construction was perfectly fine. She was sunk by a crap-load of bad luck and four compartments being breached - a set of circumstances the designers hadn't envisaged.
BTW - "A set of circumstances the designers hadn't envisaged" seems to me what often happens when an airliner crashes. So we really shouldn't be feeling too superior about this.
As you're a big fan of "process", you can always buy stock in the companies involved and get their policy reversed at a shareholder's meeting, assuming you can get enough other shareholders to agree with your position. That's the **process** that exists.
As it is, these companies (likely with a view to maximizing shareholder value) are taking the stand that the PR win is worth whatever's the financial loss of taking elsewhere investment that might have optimally gone to NC. Disagree at a shareholders' meeting if you feel so inclined.
I got one two days ago - it had my email but an address that was current as of ten years ago.
I googled some of the phrases in the email and got some early reports of others getting it and reporting the same thing -current email and old postal address.
I've got a feeling it's a ebay seller that got hacked.
ISIS have problems with foreign fighters getting disillusioned, defecting, going home.
All those contemplating that now know for certain their government knows about them, and that they're likely to face serious jail time on their return. It might encourage them to stay put.
That's a good reason for leaking this deliberately.
I'm guessing that anyone who surprises us with a nuclear detonation, or more probably a radiological attack like a dirty bomb, is going to *tell us that they did it*, because you don't just set off nuclear bombs or dirty bombs and run away and go "tee hee".
Not necessarily. For example, given that ISIS and al-Qaeda hate each other almost as much as they hate the West. It would suit either if the other got the blame, and was promptly wiped off the map.
I agree completely. drones are fairly delicate so even the finest grade of birdshot would do enough damage to bring one down. However gun laws make shotguns an issue in the UK. The police are generally happy to give out licenses to people without criminal records, who can prove a need for one, either for sport or for work.
However, imagine there was a huge A-lister wedding happening at some outdoor location, like a remote Scottish castle. The organizers would be desperate to keep away the public's and the paparazzi's drones (there'll be a buyer for the pictures already lined up, who will want exclusivity).
However, I would suspect there would be liability, police and major PR issues of they ringed the event with shotgun-armed security people. This kit is an alternative that seems just what's needed. Security would quietly bring down the pap's drone and hand it back to its owner, along with their profuse apologies for "accidentally" standing one it when it was being recovered.
I've seen claims, or expressions of suspicion that Chinese-made networking gear may have Chinese government backdoors.
I have no idea of the credibility of such. But it seems now the FCC wants to prevent people from taking steps to reduce that possibility. by using open firmware.
The system is at fault as it is catastrophically intolerant of operator error. Which is all too likely if a person is entering street names in another language.
And the operator is at fault for not doing common sense checks on a system that is flawed for the aforementioned reason.
Whose to say this won't make it richer? The shaded areas under the collectors might provide micro-climates well suited to some, shade-preferring desert species that don't generally do well on account of the general lack of shade.
Have they done re-entry? That was a major stumbling block for the US and Soviet ICBM programmes in the mid 50's. Especially as re-entry needs to be accurate. Unlike the idiotic summary, accuracy is vitally important. A five mile error that results in the obliteration of some countryside and suburbs, rather than a city centre is an outcome no lunatic dictator wants.
And can they make their physics package, re-entry system, and guidance system light enough for their booster to lift. That was something the Soviets couldn't do in the early days so they needed to build giant ICMBs to lift their warheads - the availability of these ironically put them ahead in the earliest days of the space race.
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The bomb is a British Blockbuster - so called because one could flatten an entire city block.The bombs are the origin of the term..
They were giant cylinders filled with explosive,with no streamling and no tailfins. When dropped they tumbled randomly through the air so there was no kind of accuracy with them. Dropping one on anything smaller than a city was pointless. Essentially they're weapons that were purpose-designed to be dropped on cities and to kill civilians.
That a sniper who's certain to be caught.
Given that virtually every single fragment of the rocket is going to be recovered and examined, most especially in the area where the explosion originated. Evidence of a bullet strike is going to be very very obvious.
The sniper gets caught (the aforementioned money troubles would be a good start in pinning him or her down) and would be offered the choice of ten years or sixty years in jail. The sniper would immediately sing the names of "the people with a motive". A good reason why the paid-sniper scenario is unlikely.
Who robs banks anymore? The take is comparatively low, the risk of capture extremely high and prison sentences lengthy.
It's a crime that is rapidly dying out,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://www.theguardian.com/ed...
Here's another interesting project they're cooking up... a Ship tunnel which is, if anything, more impressive.
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The downside of blackmail is that you may make a lot of money from one mug. But if word gets out your business is essentially destroyed instantly. But you might not even get any money as your victim might go to the cops (in some states, blackmail is a felony) or might just refuse to pay and go online to tell the world about your extortion attempt.
High-priced prostitution has a big incentive to be discrete - they want existing customers to be repeat customers. They want new customers to feel safe and confident about what they're doing.
Now I'm not saying that's how it actually works in practice. I'm just wary of saying blackmail is the automatic outcome. Because discretion might ultimately be the most profitable policy for the prostitution providers. Most especially the expensive ones.
See; the XC120 Packplane - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.... Though the fact it didn't work in 1950, doesn't mean it can't work now. I keep an open mind.
However, the idea of sticking the pod on a railway waggon is a complete non-starter - I'm sure a pod that meets railway crash-resistance standards would be stupidly heavy for aviation use.
Britain will likely try to join EFTA - European Free Trade Association, currently Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein - TL;DR it's the EU Lite.
This, together with the EU, make up the European Single Market. Free movement of goods, services and people will continue. Though a lot is going to be completely up in the air - reciprocal deals for health care for example.
The old-school Silicon Graphics web - the Zeye 1.3 - had a little blue plastic shutter to cover the lens. Picture http://www.retrotechnology.com...
Flight recorders sit in the aircraft's tail - where they're ost likely to survive - and are built to be incredibly tough, to survive pretty much any accident.
But surely this is a hangover from the earlier era when data recording was done by things that were big, bulky and expensive. Therefore aircraft designers had no choice to put all their eggs in one (very very tough) basket.
Now data storage devices are tiny, why not have a system that disperses hundreds, each with a copy of the flight data, in the event of an accident? Sure they won't be individually as survivable, but who cares? It's the principle of the baby turtles making their way down the beach - a few are bound to make it.
Eight-inch floppies were pictured in use about two years ago... skip to 2m 50s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Although the introduction of locking cockpit doors had the effect of defeating one security threat, but also introducing a brand new one.
One thing he got wrong, the tank crewman at 7:14 isn't the driver, its somebody starting the engine. Engines of the period had crank-starts. I don't know why British WW1 tanks had the crank handles on the inside, but I'd guess it was because the engines constantly broke down and had to be restarted, and you'd get shot if you had to go outside to do that.
In this picture https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... - you can just about see the crank handle, on the left of the window.
This is what the actual driving position of one of the things looks like.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories
>It's well known that corners were cut when building the titanic - particularly with the rivets which metallurgical analysis confirmed were cheaply made and weak due to large amounts of iron slag in the composition of the metal. The crew was operating at night in a stretch of water that was well known to contain icebergs and had claimed a recorded 20 ships already. Essentially they were operating blind. Lookouts failed to spot it, either due to environmental conditions, pure laziness, or overconfidence in the ship design - we may never really know.
The Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic differed in detail, but was essentially a clone. The Olympic served on the North Atlantic run for two decades and was only retired in 1935. She gained the nickname "Old Reliable". - Picture of the two together
This suggests that whatever people now say about the design, construction, or the metallurgy of the iron, by the standards of the time, the fundamental design of Titanic was sound and the construction was perfectly fine. She was sunk by a crap-load of bad luck and four compartments being breached - a set of circumstances the designers hadn't envisaged.
BTW - "A set of circumstances the designers hadn't envisaged" seems to me what often happens when an airliner crashes. So we really shouldn't be feeling too superior about this.
It is something the lasers for the t Starshot projec could be used for. When they're not pushing micro-probes towards Alpha Centuri.
As you're a big fan of "process", you can always buy stock in the companies involved and get their policy reversed at a shareholder's meeting, assuming you can get enough other shareholders to agree with your position. That's the **process** that exists. As it is, these companies (likely with a view to maximizing shareholder value) are taking the stand that the PR win is worth whatever's the financial loss of taking elsewhere investment that might have optimally gone to NC. Disagree at a shareholders' meeting if you feel so inclined.
I got one two days ago - it had my email but an address that was current as of ten years ago. I googled some of the phrases in the email and got some early reports of others getting it and reporting the same thing -current email and old postal address. I've got a feeling it's a ebay seller that got hacked.
It's not that I have a problem with Anonymous threatening some quite dislikable individuals.
But it's just their threats to person or organization X are starting to sound like North Korea's weekly threat to nuke New York/Washington/Wherever.
And they sound about as credible.
ISIS have problems with foreign fighters getting disillusioned, defecting, going home.
All those contemplating that now know for certain their government knows about them, and that they're likely to face serious jail time on their return. It might encourage them to stay put.
That's a good reason for leaking this deliberately.
I'm guessing that anyone who surprises us with a nuclear detonation, or more probably a radiological attack like a dirty bomb, is going to *tell us that they did it*, because you don't just set off nuclear bombs or dirty bombs and run away and go "tee hee".
Not necessarily. For example, given that ISIS and al-Qaeda hate each other almost as much as they hate the West. It would suit either if the other got the blame, and was promptly wiped off the map.
I agree completely. drones are fairly delicate so even the finest grade of birdshot would do enough damage to bring one down. However gun laws make shotguns an issue in the UK. The police are generally happy to give out licenses to people without criminal records, who can prove a need for one, either for sport or for work.
However, imagine there was a huge A-lister wedding happening at some outdoor location, like a remote Scottish castle. The organizers would be desperate to keep away the public's and the paparazzi's drones (there'll be a buyer for the pictures already lined up, who will want exclusivity).
However, I would suspect there would be liability, police and major PR issues of they ringed the event with shotgun-armed security people. This kit is an alternative that seems just what's needed. Security would quietly bring down the pap's drone and hand it back to its owner, along with their profuse apologies for "accidentally" standing one it when it was being recovered.
I've seen claims, or expressions of suspicion that Chinese-made networking gear may have Chinese government backdoors.
I have no idea of the credibility of such. But it seems now the FCC wants to prevent people from taking steps to reduce that possibility. by using open firmware.
The system is at fault as it is catastrophically intolerant of operator error. Which is all too likely if a person is entering street names in another language. And the operator is at fault for not doing common sense checks on a system that is flawed for the aforementioned reason.
Deserts in the US are rather rich biomes.
Whose to say this won't make it richer? The shaded areas under the collectors might provide micro-climates well suited to some, shade-preferring desert species that don't generally do well on account of the general lack of shade.
Have they done re-entry? That was a major stumbling block for the US and Soviet ICBM programmes in the mid 50's. Especially as re-entry needs to be accurate. Unlike the idiotic summary, accuracy is vitally important. A five mile error that results in the obliteration of some countryside and suburbs, rather than a city centre is an outcome no lunatic dictator wants.
And can they make their physics package, re-entry system, and guidance system light enough for their booster to lift. That was something the Soviets couldn't do in the early days so they needed to build giant ICMBs to lift their warheads - the availability of these ironically put them ahead in the earliest days of the space race.