You mean left the NATO unified command structure I think. They did. A few years ago they re-joined. One consequence is that they now get a vote about using NATO forces. That realy pissed the US off for GWII. Jeez, you just can't please those Americans.
"Tr[ied] to re-conquer Algeria and Vietnam"
*Re*-conquer Algeria? Huh? When?
Because the US was so short sighted that they refused to help France at Dien-Ben-Phu thousands of US soldiers had to die (and Kerry got his three purple hearts).
"Selling nuclear technology to Israel and South Africa"
Oh, acting as a US proxy is a bad thing now?
"Nuclear weapons tests in the 90s"
Yup, France was the only country in the world to test nukes in the 90s. How is it unilateralism when France does it, but not when the US, UK, USSR or China do it?
Nope, it was the MOD that decided that BAE were such a useless load of fuckups that they'd better build the Thales design rather than the BAE one.
This all happened long before the French chickened out of building the 2nd nuke carrier and decided to buy the inferior British model.
By the way, the CDG is a long way from being the worst carrier in the world. Try looking at the junk the USSR/Russians built.
The only real problem the CDG has is that it's too small (and I don't mean that little problem with the flight deck). All the other stuff is just stupid journalistic exageration.
they're now considering purchasing a British designed carrier!
Well, not exactly. In order to win the contract BAE systems had to accept most of the Thales design.
So in fact the UK are building French designed carriers, and France has decided to buy another built to the same design.
(A fucking stupid decision IMHO, the UK carriers are going to be flying STOL JSF's and the French one Rafale so they'll end up with all sorts of expensive differences. We should have decided to build a twin of the CDG).
Nuclear power generates -huge- amounts of water vapor. Guess what the number one greenhouse gas in our atmosphere is? Water vapor causes 60% of the world's greenhouse effect.
Nukes make generate no more water vapor than any other steam based generation: coal, oil, wood...
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas at high altitudes, the vapor produced by power plants doesn't get that high.
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I'm confused.
You complain that the French:
"Pull[ed] forces outside of NATO command"
You mean left the NATO unified command structure I think. They did. A few years ago they re-joined. One consequence is that they now get a vote about using NATO forces. That realy pissed the US off for GWII. Jeez, you just can't please those Americans.
"Tr[ied] to re-conquer Algeria and Vietnam"
*Re*-conquer Algeria? Huh? When?
Because the US was so short sighted that they refused to help France at Dien-Ben-Phu thousands of US soldiers had to die (and Kerry got his three purple hearts).
"Selling nuclear technology to Israel and South Africa"
Oh, acting as a US proxy is a bad thing now?
"Nuclear weapons tests in the 90s"
Yup, France was the only country in the world to test nukes in the 90s. How is it unilateralism when France does it, but not when the US, UK, USSR or China do it?
Slashdot, where the truth is flamebait.
(not original I know, but appropriate).
I think gcc is unwashed socks.
Doesn't make it so.
Lots of people have thought of this.
See this guy for example.
Which SE phone is this? The P800/P900/P910 only has 204x320 and I wouldn't exactly call it "really small".
This one?
Looks like there might be a little colateral damage!
You don't need winex for ie6, it runs ok on straight winehq.
In fact you don't need crossover to run office (word'n'excel), it works on straight winehq too.
No. Why do you ask?
And yes, some people do still run services using intercontinental UUCP links.
This better be configurable on a per subscriber basis.
This all happened long before the French chickened out of building the 2nd nuke carrier and decided to buy the inferior British model.
By the way, the CDG is a long way from being the worst carrier in the world. Try looking at the junk the USSR/Russians built.
The only real problem the CDG has is that it's too small (and I don't mean that little problem with the flight deck). All the other stuff is just stupid journalistic exageration.
Odd. I thought it was the M51.
Now appologise to the next Norwegian you see.
Hint: The Finns were allies of the Nazis in WWII,
And the Russians were our allies, without whom the Nazis would have won.
Well, not exactly. In order to win the contract BAE systems had to accept most of the Thales design.
So in fact the UK are building French designed carriers, and France has decided to buy another built to the same design.
(A fucking stupid decision IMHO, the UK carriers are going to be flying STOL JSF's and the French one Rafale so they'll end up with all sorts of expensive differences. We should have decided to build a twin of the CDG).
Ah, the shell is grounded? Must take a long wire.
Exactly what timeline are you writing from? The UK is not part of the EU? Storm Shadow/SCALP isn't being built?
G3's? Nah, Stgw.90's more likely.
And the last time I stubbed my foot on one it was under the bed, not in the closet.
A civilian plant produces just a little bit more power than the biggest military one.
Scrubbers. Great for NOx, SOx, but CO2? Get real.
Yup, I'm serious.
France was very happy to sign up to the Kyoto treaty 'cos it's target is +0.00% CO2 emissions.
(Currently at +0.04%, but hey, that's not bad).
The other power is from natural gas, hydro, buring waste in CHP plants, and so on. Even some wind and tidal power schemes. Much like anyone else.
As for waste, it's reprocessed in France. (Not sent to Sellafield as someone downthread guesses. France wants control of ALL it's nuclear needs).
Come on, we're already up to 75% of our electricity from nukes.
Oh, you're not in France.
Get with the act you luddites.
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Hey, my 6 year old kid can launch things into that orbit! :-)
Just what do you think the SRB's are? Do they enter orbit? Does the ET?