Posts by graeme leggett 2468 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2007
"every air to air kill by UK forces since WW2 has been by a subsonic aircraft"
But how many wars have we been in with supersonic aircraft against an enemy airforce since WWII
Korea - transonic
Suez - transonic, barely a war
Malaya - no air force
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation - no supersonic fighters
Falklands - no supersonic aircraft available
Gulf War - not on fighter aircraft duty
Afghanistan - no air force
I once bought a PVR (Daewoo brand. Yep surprised me too) from Jessops online presence.
Quite a good machine at the time and best price around. Served me well for quite a while before being supplanted by Mrs L's Skybox
Reminds me I ought to open it up and see if there's any residual use in the hard drive before sending it to recycle.
Reasons for visiting a physical store
1) the stuff is not available on the internet
2) the stuff is something you really need to look at before you buy - bed, sofa, car
3) the staff are key to the selection process
4) buying across internet is otherwise impracticable - DIY materials (pots of paint, length of 2 by 4)
5) browsing is fun (allegedly) - garden centres etc
6) I need it now!
I have exactly that sort of machine (a Dell OptiPlex "designed" for office use) sat beside me and occasionally I nudge the power button with my knee. Fortunately this is set to initiate a hibernation rather than shutdown.
I have experimented with putting some of those flippy lid button covers over the switch - held on with double sided tape due to location at the top corner of the front bezel. Short of dismantling the front and getting busy with glue and screws the fix is far from permanent.
Think less of the wings hanging off two fuselages joined together by a central section and instead think more of the fuselages hanging from the wing which runs from tip to tip. And the engines are on the wing not off the fuselage(s)
Twin boom aircraft have been around for years. The Germans stuck two He 111 bombers together in order to tow their largest gliders. Not a great success as still couldn't get enough power but principle not new.
CCGs have limits on their formularies to minimize prescription expenditure on the less efficacious drugs and get more bang for the buck. And although getting people of cigs is beneficial in cutting health expenditure down the line they are still focussed on the here and now.
I note also that a weeks supply of patches is about £9 while the patient contribution to a prescription is £8.60. And that smoking cessation services seems to be delivered under public health rather than directly by GPs thought GPs may be contracted as part of the service.
That does make sense. Why should tobacco company invest all that effort if the consumer device is allowed anyway. There's no advantage in a pharma grade device to retail in Boots if your competition is discounted in a petrol station shop.
Pharma could produce nicotine replacement patches, sprays, and lozenges because they were already skilled in the delivery systems and the paperwork.
Norwich has two Maplin's. The city centre one which is fairly small floor size and feels like a place a human would fit in. And an out of town one next to PC world, curry's, a carpet shop etc. which is one of those places which is warehouse height inside and seems utterly unwelcoming.
A quick looksee suggests that Select Committees can exert a fair bit of pressure, mostly though the 'court of public opinion' to get witnesses to attend hearings. A touch of the 'what have you got to hide' about it perhaps.
Their opinions are not subject to judicial challenge and there is no redress if for instance a committee produces a report based on evidence given before it to the extent that Business X is a crook, or Politician Y is a charlatan with the effect that X or Y finds their reputation and livelihood ruined.
"drafted by a slightly overzealous PR consultant..."
This the same guy who moonlights as the one rogue software engineer at other organisations?
As to correcting the record on this matter after misreported, no doubt evidence could be furnished of subsequent press releases.... Or not?
The system compared retina images with medical records.
Which makes me think the condition was already noted in the patient before the retina image was taken?
The trick is to identify the condition from the retina before the doctor notices it, not after. Which would require photographing a large number of volunteers, seeing which ones the system assessed as possibly having CV issues and then checking their BP etc and comparing.
Having looked at the paper, I see that predicted vs actual mmHg looks like quite a bad correlation (ie a fuzzy cloud not on the slope) That major adverse cardiac events is AUC of 0.70 which is "fair" not "good" match
The United Kingdom has been committed to defending Belgium since - well a long while.
Such as Wellington plonking his Euro Army between Napoleon and Brussels delaying the Frenchman long enough for Wellington's major European partner Blucher to turn up.
And of course UK is leaving (possibly) the EU but not NATO.
That the business trading name is made up of two descriptive words of their activities might be the cause.
If I call my cardboard box making company "Big Cardboard Box Ltd" and a prospective customer googles for me with 'big cardboard box' I shouldn't be surprised if other packing material providers appear in search results.
The standard Flat Earth replies to pictures from amateur balloons and rockets is "fish eye lens"
Because to get a wide angle view on a lightweight camera they generally have a lens that introduces distortion.
And they stick to this line even if experts apply image correction to de-spherical the image, or show that the image is not distorted in the central part of the image.
If there was an answer easy enough to convince Flat Earthers it would have been deployed by now. Unfortunately they are that bone-headed.
Aligns with my thoughts on the matter. There are plenty of flerfers out there who probably think that funding this is 1) upping publicity for the Flat Earth cause 2) sticking it to The Man 3) makes a change from clicking on flat earth 'proofs' on YouTube.
He could ride this for a while. A quick look at aforementioned YouTube videos or twitter and he'll have all the tropes of flat earthers which he can repeat to keep them hooked. Any failure can, if required, be put down to intervention by government agents, illuminati, NASA, HAARP, chemtrails, Elders of Zion trying to stop THE TRUTH being shown to us 'sheeple' who've been indoctrinated by teachers combined with mind altering aluminium in vaccinations.
A too enthusiastic anthem sends the wrong message. Stately and determined is more fitting when defeated than gung-ho which is setting yourself up for hybris. (I think ancient Greeks paean sung on the march forming up the phalanx etc were fairly low key)
To look to similar with national anthems, God save the Queen (King) is a bit of dirge but doesn't set you thinking of immediately invading your neighbour or proclaiming sovereignty over all (a la "German, German overalls") unlike say Rule Britannia or Land of Hope and Glory. Which may be why the latter two are reserved for musical festivals and sports matches where no one should have sharp implements or projectile weapons and the blood is generally confined to the players.
In the Med in 1941 HMS Ark Royal remained afloat for 12 hours with a 130ft long hole in the hull.
HMS Uganda, a light cruiser, took on 1300 tons after being hit by German Fritz X guided bomb off Salerno in 1943. It survived and crossed the Atlantic on one propeller to reach a suitable dock for repairs. Thereafter transferred to Canadian navy it served until mid 50s.
Basically that it all hangs on decent measurement of the exposure. A large part of the discussion is about the limitations of previous measurement. That said they would have had a better measure of true exposure by a week's measurement to rule out possibility of large exposures on atypical days. ( hypothetical example - subject wears meter for one workday commute of two Stops on subway but every weekend rides 50 miles on subways to visit various relatives)
Suspect that it comes down to having insufficient meters available to measure all participants for more than 24 hours.
Another element lacking is a consideration of the statistical power of the experiment. Which would show how likely the study was to detect a real effect.
BBC archive has a dozen episodes from 1979 (Brian Cant presenting) to 1984 available to view.
One could argue that the programme is at the start of the evolution that gave us Scrapheap Challenge, Robot Wars and the like.
Interesting that in first series BBC Radio stations were competing in the Egg carrying part. I'm guessing they were engineers and the like.
It's a form of pragmatism. If the UK didn't sell them some planes, then US almost certainly would, or that other bastion of capitalism Russia.
There might be some expectation that having a economic relationship with the country means that in times of trouble, if HM Ambassador pops round to see the head guy that he will be let in the door long enough to deliver his (or her) "we don't think you ought to do that" speech. Possibly with the hint that those spare parts and extra munitions they will be needing to keep planes viable will either appear promptly, or very much slower than desired dependent on HM the Q's FO hearing the right noises on state radio that afternoon.
My thought exactly. A computer simulation of a windscreen strike only covers the physics of the structure not the psychological effect.
I'm not saying it'll be as disruptive as Solo shooting one of Vader's wingmen in the death star trench but I would be happier if pilots were not distracted when deeply involved in flying aircraft during take off and landing.
"What on earth was he doing at the time that required someone to hold his kilt for him"
For the record. He had hired it for my wedding and I took it down off hook it was hanging on to pass it to him. Holding it out at arms length was like that battery trial in the early Worlds Strongest Man competitions.
Thumbs up for CoolHardLogic.
But look at the output for the guy he is (rightfully) taking the piss out of - "Jeranism". The flat earthers are prolific at their low quality "proofs of flat earth" and gather youtube views and comments aplenty. And there was a flat earth conference done in all honesty this year. Now youtubers might be cynically using suckers for easy clicks and some of them on twitter may be trolls, or adolescents doing it for the lols, but many seem all too genuine in their mistaken beliefs.
Elements feeding their belief include: distrust of government, in the guise of NASA ("the great deceiver"), MSM and so forth, God-botherers believing it's part of Satan's plan to hide evidence of god, bible literalism.
Perhaps, and these are off-the-top-of-my-head,
1) optimum engine-generator design for generating electricity plus electric motor has some advantages over optimum turbofan engine layout
2) redistributing weight from engine pods to fuselage is good for "reasons"
3) easier to put electrical fans in more advantageous locations on aircraft design
4) it looked like a fun thing to try
5) you can use additional sources other than volatile fuel for the electricity - coal, nuclear, solar
What pays for the animations is the expected number of DVD sales and downloads.
Which isn't much. Hence most of the investment in animation is to fill in between existing and recently recovered material that hasn't had a previous outing on DVD. Eg Invasion, Ice Warriors, Tenth Planet.
And those were stories which were expected to be popular. By comparison Underwater Menace was audio and stills standing in for missing episodes.
Taking a hands-off approach to the colonies and then turning to a very much hands-on approach is what caused the loss. Throw in lots of mis-reading of the situation by the powers that be and long communication delays.
A little military mishandling as well and ta-dah a new nation is born.
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