Just to be nitpicky, but square sails could sail into the wind, just not very well. I think they managed about 60 degrees off the wind. Bermudan or other triangular rigs can get closer to 45 or 40 degrees.
90 foot?! That's huge! 20 odd years ago Dad sailed the Atlantic several times in a 36 foot boat, and most of the other boats he saw were smaller.
These days, 36 foot is pretty much near the smaller end of the scale, but 90 foot is still awfully big to be considered the minimum size for the Atlantic.
I'm not quite sure that that link says what you think it does.
After starting off saying that the entire story of Pavlik Morozov was propaganda and has no first hand evidence, it goes on to say:
Kelly also shows how the official version's emphasis shifted to suit the changing times and propaganda lines: in some accounts, Pavlik's father's crime was not forging the documents, but hoarding grain; in others, he was denounced not to the secret police, but to the school-teacher. In some accounts, the method of Pavlik's death was decapitation by saw.
That's the only part that mentions what you imply is the acceptance by society of klling people for their food.
Brown didn't have to seize power in a military coup, as our entirely undemocratic electoral system gave it to him anyway. No-one ever voted for him or his administration, other than whatever internal politics may have happened within his party.
This always slightly irritates me.
We don't vote for a particular person other than our local mp, who may or may not be labour
If enough labour mps are voted in, we get a labour government
At no point do we vote for Tony Blair, or Gordon Brown.
So while saying 'No one voted for Brown' is true, it is also beside the point, as that isn't how the system works.
The rest of your post is fine, and I don't pretty much agree with it.
"Some news sources say the SeaMeWe-4 cable was cut off the coast of France, while other sources say the same cable was cut of the coast of Egypt. Therefore there were two cables cut, not one."
I didn't bother reading the rest of it in any detail, assuming it's full of more of the same.
You may have linked to the article, but did you read it?
"Once the election is closed - at noon on Sunday, Oct. 21 - the sealed ballot boxes of all the polling stations are brought to the central counting station, where they are opened and where the votes are mixed with the mail votes. Counting them is then manually done at the central counting station. People counting the votes at this central station use computers to transfer the counts to the data center of the canton of Geneva," Ribordy explained.
The quantum-cryptography system is used once the votes have been counted, to transfer those counts to the data center.
I have a theory, you disprove it, damn. I have a better theory, you still disprove it, damn. I have an even better theory, you eventually disprove it, damn. I have a brilliant theory, you can't disprove it*, eureka!
The final theory is closer to the truth, or reality, than the first one was. Isn't this what science is about?
* Because your experiments confirm the theory, not because the theory isn't disprovable
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Just to be nitpicky, but square sails could sail into the wind, just not very well. I think they managed about 60 degrees off the wind. Bermudan or other triangular rigs can get closer to 45 or 40 degrees.
If you're talking about Beluga Skysails, they can definitely operate under a wider range of conditions than you say.
The kites operate at anything up to 50 degrees to the wind, and are controlled by computer.
90 foot?! That's huge! 20 odd years ago Dad sailed the Atlantic several times in a 36 foot boat, and most of the other boats he saw were smaller.
These days, 36 foot is pretty much near the smaller end of the scale, but 90 foot is still awfully big to be considered the minimum size for the Atlantic.
It's still perfectly current English.
I don't know how things have changed now, but in WW2 if you were captured in uniform, you got a nice prison camp.
If you were captured out of uniform, as a spy, you were shot.
Rules of War...
This always slightly irritates me.
We don't vote for a particular person other than our local mp, who may or may not be labour
If enough labour mps are voted in, we get a labour government
At no point do we vote for Tony Blair, or Gordon Brown.
So while saying 'No one voted for Brown' is true, it is also beside the point, as that isn't how the system works.
The rest of your post is fine, and I don't pretty much agree with it.
As a petard is a bomb, I'm not so sure that that is the origin of the blue peter.
To be 'hoist by your own petard' is to be blown up by your own bomb.
So says the almighty wikipedia.
It also says that: (paraphrasing)
"Some news sources say the SeaMeWe-4 cable was cut off the coast of France, while other sources say the same cable was cut of the coast of Egypt. Therefore there were two cables cut, not one."
I didn't bother reading the rest of it in any detail, assuming it's full of more of the same.
In the UK you could take that back. Items have to be fit for purpose, and last a reasonable time. That obviously wasn't and didn't.
The point of the OP was that there are alternatives that are greener. Maybe less practical, but greener nonetheless.
And just to be picky, the whole point of tidal power is that tides come and go. The more they come and go, the better!
Otherwise you get invaded?
Because you can get the main body of the vessel out of the water, so less drag.
Truth === Reality.
I have a theory, you disprove it, damn.
I have a better theory, you still disprove it, damn.
I have an even better theory, you eventually disprove it, damn.
I have a brilliant theory, you can't disprove it*, eureka!
The final theory is closer to the truth, or reality, than the first one was. Isn't this what science is about?
* Because your experiments confirm the theory, not because the theory isn't disprovable
So someone who belives in god (aka invisible friend) isn't a crackpot, as long as they accept science is the best way to the truth about the universe?
It doesn't matter if it stores the timestamp, as the time that he voted is unknown.
You know that John Doe voted, and you know that someone voted for candiate X at 12:30 - but there is no way to tie the two together.
Unless, of course, he was the only person to vote!
This wasn't exactly the first ever Patch Tuesday. And didn't skype break on a Thursday anyway?
I think you got the gp backwards.
He's saying that if you can write one book, and live off the proceeds forever, you lose that particular incentive to write another one.
No, he'd say you got the colour of the sky correct.
The last 4 computers I've built (1 at home, 3 for work) I've spent about £100 more than needed to ensure it's as quiet as possible.
Huge heatsink, decent case - designed with noise and airflow in mind, quiet hard drives, fanless psu...
Worth every penny.
It's meant to be one that's embedded in an RSS feed.
Some people and places just use it as you describe.
Really? In that case I stand corrected.