Re: Hint
Cortina is Spanish for curtain, so I guess someone is hiding behind the Microsoft curtain.
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I have had that for years, I learnt it from n allegedly deaf aunt. Whenever shelost interest in a conversation she would complain her hearing aid was playing up and she would withdraw from the conversation, however, it would miraculously function if something interesting came up. I can't do conversations with more than two people at s time anyway so people who know me are used to me shutting out a multi channel yak.
If we are to achieve anything in space, it is extremely important to understand how the rigors of long periods in space affect the female body. Particularly those of childbearing age as that impacts the potential for eventual colonisation.
That doesn't suggest that women don't have the same potential as men for space exploration, it is just a question of looking for obstacles that need to be overcome.
The first female cosmonaut, Valerie Tereshkova ( hope I spelled her name correctly) went up in 1963, she was an engineer, skydiver and went on to become a member of the Duma.
Considering even in this so called politically correct world women and ethnic minorities are still discriminated against, it is relevant to mention sex or face to demonstrate that any human has the potential to do anything.
The phrase ' Political Correctness' implies being correct for reasons of policy rather than simply believing that ALL of humanity is inherently equal.
I am curious as to what the exhaust of the Skyrora consists of once the 600Kg of processed plastic waste has burnt. I know they are recycling potential landfill but there's recycling and recycling without further pollution.
Anyway aside from that it's a good thing to see Skyrora advancing steadily and achieving their goals.
Not my bloody house they haven't!
The poorly paid monkies that supposedly deliver for Amazon just return to sender rather than stop to look for my easy to find house on a country road. Same for my five neighbours, Amazon delivery and customer service is only interested in easy to find urban clients but they still sell to those who live a little out of the way and then don't deliver to them.
I have watched the delivery van drive past at 90KPH several times in a day on occasion.
Pharmaceutical companies are no different to any other manufacturers, their bottom line is sales.
Anything they can do to increase sales they will do, occasionally, they try not to get caught.
A good example is over the counter proprietary treatments are are carefully designed in many cases to maintain stasis in a condition rather than cure it (think athletes foot for one example) if the medication provides a rapid cure the patient will stop buying it and doctors are encouraged to prescribe in a similar manner for many non life threatening ailments.
I had an acquaintance who was a freelance drugs salesman, he worked for several large pharmacos before retiring very comfortably to a sunny beach, he had little good to say about his employers other than the money he made from them.
I stopped using avast's paid for AV after they began to constantly load popups trying to flog ever more stuff to me, there was no way of opting out and it drove me nuts.
Even after deleting it there were items that were a bugger to remove from my PC.
My impression is the company has lost any ethical bosses it had and replaced them with marketing wonks.
The " Made in America" label only requires that assembly takes place in the US, the parts can come from anywhere.
Plus as mentioned above, made in America won't preclude the possibility of vulnerabilitues that can be exploited by bad actors so, this is an economic ploy or they don't know what they are talking about.
When I first came to live in Spain, I took Spanish lessons, the husband of my teacher was the senior meteorologist for the region.
I told him ' when we are sailing, apart from a sorm warning printout service we have on board, the most reliable forecasting is going up on deck and looking at the sky and the sea state'.
He said that is more or less what he did before going to work each day, went up to the roof of his apartment and checked real time what was going on.
What makes you think Nauru is the only place that would be interested in trade with Britain, what was the second biggest economy in the EU?
Russia and China definitely would go for a deal, then there is Canada, one of the national security threats to the US with it's steel and aluminium prices. The biggest limitation to trade with the rest of the world is those countries that are already tied to the US as the yanks won't like Britain treading on their toes. As for Europe, now is the time to negotiate, it is hardly lost to the UK, they still need the UK as a market.
"I wouldn't rule out some sort of punitive action in the form of delaying trade negotiations," Waldron said. "The current administration has repeatedly embraced using economic tools such as tariffs or trade deals as political signals to indicate their displeasure." ®
Yeah, well that would be a blessing, if the UK can't dive straight into a one sided trade deal with the States it will give the gov' time to explore other avenues that may be more advantageous and less tied down than a transatlantic deal would be. Europe is still the UK's closet geographic trading partner and still offers the potential of a large market, aside from Europe being out of the EU allows Britain to have a go at the rest of the World unfettered.
So feck 'em let them do their worst.
National security for the US is the domination of as many markets as possible and to keep the dollar as the predominant means of international exchange, I doubt it was ever really about China's ability to spy on anyone as much as cornering the market on 5G to the point that it would be difficult for anyone else to compete.
As things are Huawei seems to be much further ahead in most aspects of 5G and certainly more ready for roll out than most.
The US is still trying to overcome China's dominance of the highly strategic rare earths market and has been playing catch up there for at least 5 years so 5G added to that is too much for them.
Perhaps some enterprising chap with access to rocketry could start a scrap business with a revamped shuttle. After all they had a load bay and an arm to load it, get it up there and leave it there, collect old sats select the good bits and launch the crap into a safe re-entry use a service system to bring more ful for sat chasing and taking back the good bits for sale, I bet even collectors would be interested in old sat bits.
Cue Steptoe & Son theme.
I am not even remotely able to write software or design an app but I would imagine that anyone who could design a tool to disable or reconfigure any telemetry would be a seller.
This entire culture of stealing data that is essentially my private property is intensely annoying to say the least,I have just discovered that when I use bluetooth to read the app that runs my PV system, it automatically turns on Google location and though I can limit what it sends, I am not sure how limited that is.
Aside from the fact that most politicians have the will to prosecute acts like the complete shut down of public communications.
Trump has set precedents for future presidents that are likely to be taken up by them, he is not only creating an unpleasant present but screwing the future too.
That lacks direction.
It looks as though for any serious user, they will need the redundancy of the US system rather than rely on the alleged redundancies that Galileo may have.
I still memorise a map before going on a journey with a route that is new to me and obviously take it with me.
I wonder if the committee isn't being swayed by those interested in developing things a bit nearer home.
There must be a lot of things that need development and the relevant funds in order to get the Space Patrol off the ground. That would have some conflict of interest for aerospace companies who are confronted with 'We either have the money for the moon or the Space Patrol' .
You title explains a good deal.
The Chinese do not subscribe to an Abrahamic religion, in fact they are officially atheist.
They are also threatening to divert a greal of much needed wealth from the top 0.1% in the West, add to that the fact that they embrace socialism, free education and healthcare and you have the devil incarnate.
Considering the potential that IT and the internet held for the world in it's early days and the reality of what's actually here, I think AI will boil down to having a chat with a vending machine while buying your first coffee of the day. Probably the AI's responses will have been learned from a data set provided from 30 years of the Daily Mail.
Based on this comment by Justice Hildyard "The judge continued, addressing HPE's legal team: "Your expert recognised that whilst it's not what he thinks he would have done, that it wasn't improper in the sense of being beyond what a reasonable auditor could have imagined, in which case, that's that, isn't it?""
I think I can see where he may be going and that he is no fool.
@Vimes
The Met has been taking the piss for a lot longer than 12 years, you need to go back to the '90s for that.
Re oversight and auditing, it will be the same as the record with all the illegally held photos they have, far from feeling the need to uphold the law and to prevent crime, the average phuzz is of the opinion that if they look hard enough they can nick anyone. British police make me more nervous than the criminals.
If you can have a beer or even a short on the above three (I have had a three course meal with brandy and champagne on the Orient Express and shampoo and caviar flying first class from Moscow), why not on buses and metros(tubes)?
It's not as if they would let you drive any of them anyway.
Mine's the one with the litre pockets.