If the British surface navy was so extremely bad as you suggest, then why was the quite good German admirals so afraid of facing it? Very few German surface navy ships saw action against the British navy, one exception being Bismarck which coincidently was sunk mostly due to the actions of the "ancient" Spearfish planes on the British fleet carriers....
If you look thing up, you would know that HMS Gotland has so called Stirling motors and thus can remain submerged for about one month without going up to snorkling deapth.
She can also run as fast as most nuclear boats for this time, so having a silent propeller is a major factor. And, I can tell you that it looks exactly like that one in the picture after having seen other Swedish sub propellers.
I think I remeber that the thechnology to make these kind of silent propellers where sold by a norweigan company to a KGB front in the early 1980:s. As I recall, it was a major scandal when the news brooke. As I have understod it, most soviet nuclear subs had these improved propellers since late 80's and that most of the eastern block started to get access to the same technology.
Most western submarines has had these kind of silent props for years and I belive that most submarine nowdays have one. You could try to track the Swedish HMS Gotland with passive hydrophone and see how far that takes you, for instance... she insn't even a NATO sub but she is more silent than even the american SSN subs.
The previous Swedish justice minister proved that The Piratebay could very much be touched, even without any law against it. So I don't agree with this assumption that TPB can't be touched - it obviously can and has been, even if it probably was an illegal action of the prosecutor and the police.
And how will this impact the software patent discussion? If MS persist, I am quite sure that they will have problems with getting software patents accepted in EU.
It the Swedish government would have admitted that US demanded The Pirate Bay closed, they would also kind of admit that they ordered the raid on TPB. And since this would be highly illegal in Sweden, would you confess this?
Even worse: The Pirate Bays servers was hosted at another facility than all other servers that where seized. The most evidence points towards that the police raided the other facility since this would hurt the ISP that hosted TPB financially and that this would deter any other from hosting them.
You can make it all way to the supreme court, but they only takes principal important cases. They will most likely take the Pirate Bay case when it has been thought the lower courts. Observer that both parties have a right to appeal a decision, so the prosecutor can appeal to a higher court if he loses in the lower court.
Even if you have tried all courts and lost or the supreme court won't take your case, you might still get a retrial if new evidence is discovered or a formal error was done by the lower courts. The supreme court might then order the lower court to retry your case.
Last, if you get convicted the penalties are quite low. The maximum penalty is lifetime prison (only used for murder), but this is usually converted to 20 years by the government after some years.
Even if the Pirate Guys gets convicted, I don't think they should see more than some months in prison. Since they should be regarded as a quite harmless type of convict, this prison sentence would then be served in a minimal security prison. This usually mean that you are only locked in during night and can even work during the days.
It is a criminal charge launched by a prosecutor that only 6 months before the raid said that the Pirate Bay didn't violated any criminal law. Then, he was called to a meeting with the justice minister and suddenly he orders a raid on the Pirate Bay. A coincidence? I think not.
Since it is illegal for a minister in Sweden to make such orders, it would have been nice to see the justice minster explain this for the parliament committee that handles such suspicions. However, whom is chairman of this committee now? Yes, the former justice minister...
Yes. Please ban wrestling. A more pointless "sport" have never been created...
If you ban wrestling, we wouldn't have to watch all these totally stupid wrestling movies like Nacho libre on airplanes where you have nowhere to hide. Please ban it.
You also have to state whom the picture represent. So if you post a picture of me but don't tell anyone that it is me, then you are safe.
You are also free to post pictures of known people and tell people whom they are - since they are already known to the public. Who you have to be to be "known" is however not really specified but I guess that public figures like the king, prime minister and other public persons is covered.
And here rest of EU thought you where free because of yourself and the courage of the polish people.
I think you overestimate the United States role and underestimate your own. It was the polish people who overthrown the communistic dictatorship, not an american invasion.
Actually, this isn't true. Archeological reserach indicates that at least while people where still hunters and/or gathered food, they actually had to work less than now to fill the basic needs.
Also, please note that before industrialism, people didn't work as we do today - at a regular pace. It was more of hard work for a while, then doing little for a while.
If you think that line is bad, this is even worse: "After I post this message, I will be shutting persephone down for an indeterminite period while I try to work out whether I have a future."
I find this argument extremely moot since no EU contry ever would declare war on USA. I have never heard of democratic countries having war with each other and we have a several houndred years of friendship between US and moste European countries (ok, we have WWI and II but these started as internal European conflicts that eventually dragged US in).
Are you implying that you americans defeated Htiler with the help of small firearms? I am sure that the Sherman tanks, the flying fortresses and other military equipment didn't matter at all... no, Hitler was defeated by your hand guns! What do you mean? That you sent a militia to the British side? And the british didn't do anything by themself?
Really, get a grip on reality. Hitler was defeated by Russian T-34 tanks and russian soldiers.
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If the British surface navy was so extremely bad as you suggest, then why was the quite good German admirals so afraid of facing it?
Very few German surface navy ships saw action against the British navy, one exception being Bismarck which coincidently was sunk mostly due to the actions of the "ancient" Spearfish planes on the British fleet carriers....
When WWII started, then the British fleet was the far most advanced, biggest and strongest fleet in the world.
Still, the German Navy almost defeated them with their much more effective submarines.
If you look thing up, you would know that HMS Gotland has so called Stirling motors and thus can remain submerged for about one month without going up to snorkling deapth.
She can also run as fast as most nuclear boats for this time, so having a silent propeller is a major factor. And, I can tell you that it looks exactly like that one in the picture after having seen other Swedish sub propellers.
Is this really so secret nowdays?
I think I remeber that the thechnology to make these kind of silent propellers where sold by a norweigan company to a KGB front in the early 1980:s. As I recall, it was a major scandal when the news brooke.
As I have understod it, most soviet nuclear subs had these improved propellers since late 80's and that most of the eastern block started to get access to the same technology.
Most western submarines has had these kind of silent props for years and I belive that most submarine nowdays have one.
You could try to track the Swedish HMS Gotland with passive hydrophone and see how far that takes you, for instance... she insn't even a NATO sub but she is more silent than even the american SSN subs.
The previous Swedish justice minister proved that The Piratebay could very much be touched, even without any law against it.
So I don't agree with this assumption that TPB can't be touched - it obviously can and has been, even if it probably was an illegal action of the prosecutor and the police.
And how will this impact the software patent discussion?
If MS persist, I am quite sure that they will have problems with getting software patents accepted in EU.
It the Swedish government would have admitted that US demanded The Pirate Bay closed, they would also kind of admit that they ordered the raid on TPB.
And since this would be highly illegal in Sweden, would you confess this?
Even worse:
The Pirate Bays servers was hosted at another facility than all other servers that where seized.
The most evidence points towards that the police raided the other facility since this would hurt the ISP that hosted TPB financially and that this would deter any other from hosting them.
What? The prosecutor isn't personally responsible to pay for anything of this. The state will pay for everything, or we taxpayers that is...
No, you appeal to the higher court of course.
You can make it all way to the supreme court, but they only takes principal important cases. They will most likely take the Pirate Bay case when it has been thought the lower courts. Observer that both parties have a right to appeal a decision, so the prosecutor can appeal to a higher court if he loses in the lower court.
Even if you have tried all courts and lost or the supreme court won't take your case, you might still get a retrial if new evidence is discovered or a formal error was done by the lower courts. The supreme court might then order the lower court to retry your case.
Last, if you get convicted the penalties are quite low. The maximum penalty is lifetime prison (only used for murder), but this is usually converted to 20 years by the government after some years.
Even if the Pirate Guys gets convicted, I don't think they should see more than some months in prison. Since they should be regarded as a quite harmless type of convict, this prison sentence would then be served in a minimal security prison. This usually mean that you are only locked in during night and can even work during the days.
This isn't a lawsuit.
It is a criminal charge launched by a prosecutor that only 6 months before the raid said that the Pirate Bay didn't violated any criminal law.
Then, he was called to a meeting with the justice minister and suddenly he orders a raid on the Pirate Bay. A coincidence? I think not.
Since it is illegal for a minister in Sweden to make such orders, it would have been nice to see the justice minster explain this for the parliament committee that handles such suspicions. However, whom is chairman of this committee now? Yes, the former justice minister...
And how many of these are still maintained?
I know that Microsoft Office is available on OSX, how about the other ones?
Yes. Please ban wrestling.
A more pointless "sport" have never been created...
If you ban wrestling, we wouldn't have to watch all these totally stupid wrestling movies like Nacho libre on airplanes where you have nowhere to hide.
Please ban it.
What does the value of Mars real estate become after Earth collide with a metroit large enough to wipe out 90% of all life?
My answer is - priceless.
You don't want to keep all your eggs in one basket. Likewise, you don't want all humans on one planet.
Not really.
You also have to state whom the picture represent.
So if you post a picture of me but don't tell anyone that it is me, then you are safe.
You are also free to post pictures of known people and tell people whom they are - since they are already known to the public.
Who you have to be to be "known" is however not really specified but I guess that public figures like the king, prime minister and other public persons is covered.
Cool. You have solved the cooling problem to...
And here rest of EU thought you where free because of yourself and the courage of the polish people.
I think you overestimate the United States role and underestimate your own.
It was the polish people who overthrown the communistic dictatorship, not an american invasion.
Actually, this isn't true.
Archeological reserach indicates that at least while people where still hunters and/or gathered food, they actually had to work less than now to fill the basic needs.
Also, please note that before industrialism, people didn't work as we do today - at a regular pace. It was more of hard work for a while, then doing little for a while.
If you think that line is bad, this is even worse:
"After I post this message, I will be shutting persephone down for an
indeterminite period while I try to work out whether I have a future."
Sound very suicidal. Not a good sign.
Some European countries have been smart enough to not fall for the Russina gas lure.
I am glad we don't trust them for historic reasons.
Reengineering them to use AK47 rounds?
As I recall, AK47 uses 7.62 mm rounds which would fit rather bad in the US 5.56 mm weapons?
I find this argument extremely moot since no EU contry ever would declare war on USA. I have never heard of democratic countries having war with each other and we have a several houndred years of friendship between US and moste European countries (ok, we have WWI and II but these started as internal European conflicts that eventually dragged US in).
If libcaca is a KDE lib, we could rename it to libkaka and that would simply mean libcookie in Swedish... ;-)
You mean the driver that doesn't support the 3D functions of the graphic card and because of this is more or less useless?
What are you talking about?
Are you implying that you americans defeated Htiler with the help of small firearms?
I am sure that the Sherman tanks, the flying fortresses and other military equipment didn't matter at all... no, Hitler was defeated by your hand guns!
What do you mean? That you sent a militia to the British side? And the british didn't do anything by themself?
Really, get a grip on reality.
Hitler was defeated by Russian T-34 tanks and russian soldiers.