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OwlFancier posted:According to the article they paid the couple £55,000 and the lawyers £145,000 instead of pointing out my error you should go check this out https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1272469480006979584?s=20
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East Yorkshire is basically Somerset as far as I'm concerned. Might as well be in Africa. Pretty sure the british Antarctic territory is closer.
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Jun 15, 2020 11:09
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Egyptian LGBTQI activist commits suicide at home in Canada where she was seeking political asylum. https://egyptianstreets.com/2020/06/14/egyptian-lgbtqi-activist-sara-hegazy-dies-aged-30-in-canada/ quote:
Egyptian prisons aren't like the prisons here. Without a doubt she would have been forced to undergo numerous 'virginity' tests and other indignities. (Why I can't bring myself to visit the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Sq anymore - the army used the basement there to torture protestors and do 'virginity' tests on female protestors during the revolution. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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Guavanaut posted:Because it's based on what the population density and energy needs are going to look like in a decade, rather than now. It's also based on building a synchronous grid for ECOWAS, not just bunging a random BWR outside of Kpetoe and calling it a day. I think you are wildly overestimating the extent of generation capacity and distribution that already exists. Getting supply up as quickly as possible to come anywhere close to meeting the current demand would be massively more transformative than worrying about potential demand in two decades. The idea of it being a tipping point in two decades doesn't make much sense in the context of it being a need that is being massively under-served right now already.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Egyptian LGBTQI activist commits suicide at home in Canada where she was seeking political asylum. Ugh that's so sad.
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peanut- posted:I think you are wildly overestimating the extent of generation capacity and distribution that already exists. Getting supply up as quickly as possible to come anywhere close to meeting the current demand would be massively more transformative than worrying about potential demand in two decades. The idea of it being a tipping point in two decades doesn't make much sense in the context of it being a need that is being massively under-served right now already. Renewables and distributed power solutions and storage are good too, Ghana has recently built small and moderate solar facilities and is looking to build more, but the reason I picked them as an example was because they're actively pushing for nuclear development for the long haul.
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this bot throws up some truly confusing voters https://twitter.com/VoterBritish/status/1272421165085138944?s=20 https://twitter.com/VoterBritish/status/1272390949117845505?s=20
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Munin posted:[edit] Heck, if ITER is more or less on schedule and works as designed we would have a fusion device that could in theory produce power if the equipment was built into it to do so.  
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Jun 15, 2020 11:55
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Jose posted:lol cops forced to pay the couple they arrested over the gatwick drone 200k quote:No-one has ever been charged, and police have said that some reported drone sightings may have been Sussex Police's own craft. Someone needs to follow the cops around playing the Benny Hill theme.
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Jun 15, 2020 11:56
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feedmegin posted:Thats a rather...simplistic view of what went down in the 17th century. Firstly by assuming Charles' personal rule was anything like Louis XVI's in effectiveness or legitimacy and secondly by assuming it could have become so if he'd won. England and France were very different places. That’s very much my point; when you drop down to the level of detail where you are talking about individual rulers, or even single nations and centuries, then material reality is not doing much more than enumerating the possibilities. Charles might, or might not, have been able to establish a personal state; there is no such doubt over whether he would have been able to establish a welfare state.
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Jun 15, 2020 12:03
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bessantj posted:Someone needs to follow the cops around playing the Benny Hill theme. I enjoyed the (now retracted) part where they were saying there might not have been any drones at all. Also, I went to the office the for the first time since February the other day, which meant I finally got round to listening to the podcast in the car. Great job podsters! I will have to catch up/keep up from now on.
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I did some work with the UK fusion lab and its cool stuff but doesn't look ready to go any time soon. The head guy didn't seem to know the science though so couldn't explain to me how, if it's currently too expensive to be worth it, making it EVEN MORE expensive by building a much bigger one would cross some threshold and make fusion worthwhile. Also did some work at the UK space agency and its the most run down govmt building I've ever been in, we spent the whole day discussing the state of UK launch capabilities which were trying to set up. Loads of smart young people working on the problem though unsure why. At the end of the day after all the workers had left one of the clients said "we will never launch you know, it's just a vanity project for an MP who has moved on"
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Jun 15, 2020 12:05
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Communist Thoughts posted:I did some work with the UK fusion lab and its cool stuff but doesn't look ready to go any time soon. You absolutely must listen to this old (1962) Men from the Ministry radio episode: "The Big Rocket". Nothing changes. https://www.mixcloud.com/classicradio/the-men-from-the-ministry-621106-s01e02-the-big-rocket/
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Jun 15, 2020 12:10
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quote:Greg Dulson, 68 was shopping for a new watch strap. What the gently caress is wrong with people. It’s a G-Shock watch, buy a replacement strap online. If you order it from the right place they send you screwdrivers to do it too.
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Jun 15, 2020 12:11
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Anyone know anything about trademarks? This guy has submitted applications to the Intellectual Property Office to trademark: I can't breathe (for apparel, charity bracelets, fundraising) Black Lives Matter (for apparel) In a range of fonts/capitalisations. https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmowner/page/search?id=1380105&domain=1 I guess they might be legit claims.
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Oodles posted:What the gently caress is wrong with people. It’s a G-Shock watch, buy a replacement strap online. If you order it from the right place they send you screwdrivers to do it too. quote:Greg Dulson, 68 was shopping for a new watch strap.
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Jun 15, 2020 12:15
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Communist Thoughts posted:I did some work with the UK fusion lab and its cool stuff but doesn't look ready to go any time soon. Bigger reaction volume means it doesn't need to be quite so crazy hot and energetic, so you have more plasma, and its easier to control, I think. (Source: went for a tour of JET when I was 14) (Also they have a pair of 300 tonne concrete flywheels that they use as an energy store, because pulling that much electricty at once would do terrible terrible things to the national grid)
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Anyone know anything about trademarks? Someone really wants their factory burnt down for insurance reasons and decided to outsource it?
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Bigger reaction volume means it doesn't need to be quite so crazy hot and energetic, so you have more plasma, and its easier to control, I think. thats where i was, nice! a part of me really does love british science, its one of the only public sectors i've seen with my own eyes (and crashed out of as an academic) that we should be proud of. its going to be completely undone overnight by brexit, its hilarious. every single scientist says the same, they literally can't do these experiments without european cooperation so they will just move country to where they can. wherever I went half the staff were european and were planning on moving back if brexit happened, and they were bringing the other half with them
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Communist Thoughts posted:its going to be completely undone overnight by brexit, its hilarious. every single scientist says the same, they literally can't do these experiments without european cooperation so they will just move country to where they can. wherever I went half the staff were european and were planning on moving back if brexit happened, and they were bringing the other half with them Yeah at the biotech company where I worked I'd guess 2/3 of the research staff were from non-UK EU countries. Doubtless the people already working there will be able to stay, but the recruiting pool is going to be vastly smaller.
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Jun 15, 2020 12:38
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Anyone know anything about trademarks? These are almost certainly (without even bothering to look) nuisance trademarks designed such that he can sue people using those slogans.
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Jun 15, 2020 12:42
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Anyone know anything about trademarks? https://www.gov.uk/guidance/objecting-to-other-peoples-trade-marks-and-the-legal-costs
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Jun 15, 2020 12:43
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Desiderata posted:Someone really wants their factory burnt down for insurance reasons and decided to outsource it? Licence to Thrill Ltd., Stephen Demetrious, traders in Airguns, Ammunition, Black Powder Guns, Clothing... Someone really wants their factory and the surrounding block asploded.
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Jose posted:instead of pointing out my error you should go check this out Huh, I didn't know they were even still flying the F-15.
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Guavanaut posted:Licence to Thrill Ltd., edit: google turned up that one of the trading names of Licence to Thrill Ltd is https://www.farbgel.com/. I think he's missed a trick by not including his trade mark claim to cover a I Can't Breath self-defence spray... Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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Communist Thoughts posted:thats where i was, nice! Did you see the giant flywheels? Nuclear physics is hard, but I can fully comprehend "big rock go spin"
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Jun 15, 2020 13:00
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Guavanaut posted:Sounds like he was going to get his watch back, which he didn't have. I retract my outrage.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-53049348quote:A Policing Board member is calling for the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to explain a "difference in approach" to recent demonstrations. Very typical for the PSNI to treat the Big Heavy Lads with kid gloves while everyone else gets the robocop treatment 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Huh, I didn't know they were even still flying the F-15. That's the one with the missiles that cost more than some aircraft that can fire at six different targets at once isn't it?
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Oodles posted:I retract my outrage.
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I often think about how back in the 50s some bad data had the whole world convinced the UK was on the verge of making fusion work. What a wild time that must have been. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZETA_(fusion_reactor)
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OwlFancier posted:That's the one with the missiles that cost more than some aircraft that can fire at six different targets at once isn't it? I think you've got that confused with something in Ace Combat, but <furious Wiki-ing> it can carry 8 AMRAAMs and has a radar capable of tracking and guiding 8 targets simultaneously, but even a million bucks apiece that's still only half the cost of a second-hand MiG-29. The nearest I can think of to what you're talking about was one of those semi-Clancywank concepts where they repurposed a cruise missile as a carrier for a bunch of Sidewinders to plug the gap caused by the Sparrow being so completely poo poo.
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Looking it up I was thinking of the F14, which is currently operated by the Iranian air force and in US service fired I think three missiles which all missed. Unit price half a million dollars (presumably in 1966 money which would be just shy of four million dollars nowadays )
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OwlFancier posted:Looking it up I was thinking of the F14, which is currently operated by the Iranian air force and in US service fired I think three missiles which all missed. Iranian F-14s did pretty well in the Iran-Iraq war though, IIRC.
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They bloody wanted to for how much they cost
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I think you've got that confused with something in Ace Combat, but <furious Wiki-ing> it can carry 8 AMRAAMs and has a radar capable of tracking and guiding 8 targets simultaneously, but even a million bucks apiece that's still only half the cost of a second-hand MiG-29. The nearest I can think of to what you're talking about was one of those semi-Clancywank concepts where they repurposed a cruise missile as a carrier for a bunch of Sidewinders to plug the gap caused by the Sparrow being so completely poo poo. I think OwlFancier might be confusing fighter jet missiles with the MIRV ICBMs that can seperate into 8 nuclear warheads instead of just putting it all into the centre of a city? Although those aren't fired from planes, they're just space rockets, since that's why we really made those things in the first place, to kill people.
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Nah I'm thinking of this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-54_Phoenix quote:The AIM-54 Phoenix is a radar-guided, long-range air-to-air missile (AAM), carried in clusters of up to six missiles on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, its only operational launch platform. The Phoenix was the United States' only long-range air-to-air missile. The combination of Phoenix missile and the AN/AWG-9 guidance radar was the first aerial weapons system that could simultaneously engage multiple targets.
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No, no, no, you see, it's a different barely functional over-engineered waste of time and money military dick-waving project.
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Guavanaut posted:Registered by Georgios Demetriou, Licence to Thrill Ltd. Wow this is the crappy nu-metal/posters/airguns shop between the Arndale and Affleks in the Northern-quarter Manchester. I was joking but this genuinely could be a half-hearted attempt at insurance fraud, that plot is probably worth more than their stock of studded bracelets and slipknot hoodies. Wouldn't be the first for the Northern-quarter.
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Seriously, though, it's wild how much better the Tomcat and Phoenix performed once Iran got their hands on them.quote:Following the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, the air force was renamed the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) and the post-revolution Interim Government of Iran canceled most Western arms orders. In 1980, an Iranian F-14 shot down an Iraqi Mil Mi-25 helicopter for its first air-to-air kill during the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988). According to research by Tom Cooper, Iranian F-14s scored at least 50 air-to-air victories in the first six months of the war against Iraqi MiG-21s, MiG-23s, and some Su-20s/22s. During the same period, only one Iranian F-14 suffered damage after being hit by debris from a nearby MiG-21 that exploded. The Iraqis got stomped so hard by the Tomcats that they ended up buying Mirages from France specifically to kill them. The Mirages indeed manage to shoot down three F-14s... but the Tomcats shot down thirty of them in return.
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