Posts by Big Al

So very...

... tongue in cheek, this story.

Hopefully.

The heart because, well, it just had to be.

Propaganda from adversity

Typical of RFE/RL to instantly use their problems for propaganda purposes and blame the Belarussian government with no evidence (this IS, after all, an outfit set up with US taxpayers' money to help topple regimes that the US government doesn't like).

The degree to which regard for the US administration has shrunk over the years since 9/11 has certainly produced people here in Central Europe who would gladly take a pot shot at such an American 'icon'.... but I guess RFE/RL won't want to admit that.

Why don't they do this already?

Given that the Russkies allegedly used triangulation on mobile phone signals to bump off a Chechen warlord way back when Chechnya was something that interested the press, why the hell has it taken so long to add a phone tracking capability to Yank drones?

Here we go again?

"The incident is now being investigated by a special state police unit which handles cases of this type."

You mean, cases of this type have happened before? I think we should be told!

I personally believe...

In response to the question "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?", Caitlin Upton, Miss South Carolina Teen USA 2007, famously replied:

"

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our [children].

"

Timeless. Brings a tear to my eye every time I read it...

So where's...

...the IT angle?!

How much content?

What's the point of something that can carry 30kg of gear when the airlines charge you an arm and a leg for anything over 20kg (or in some cases 15kg)?

Hah! Britain did it first!

How completely ridiculous.

There was a lot of fuss a little while ago about the *cough* alleged British use of a spy rock in Moscow recently.

Surely it's obvious that this is how it got there?

All hail the British Boffin! ;-)

Nope...

... we don't.

*smug look*

Very fishy

The whole Barracuda project sounds fishy to me...

(Sorry, couldn't resist that...)

'GPS Delay' part 2

I'd have to agree with Tim Epstein above.

Was recently given a ride in a friend's new BMW M3, which came fitted with a GPS thingummajig - which was telling us the names of the roads we were turning into as we were still turning, which implies that the delay ain't all that big...

Are we to assume that Paris Hilton didn't have a similar get-out-of-jail-free card BTW?

Guess who missed the point?

El Reg's correspondent has completely missed the point here.

As JonB indicates, the latest American offer is an attempt at linkage. Right now, it is in the Russian geopolitical interest to keep the Americans tied up/tied down in as many places as possible, so that the Yanks get out of the former Soviet satellites - which can then return to the Russian sphere of influence.

One of the places that the US is quite bogged down right now is the Persian Gulf, where a determination not to let Iraq fall firmly into the Iranian sphere is one of the problems that GWB is currently failing to solve. One of the ways the Russians are not helping is by supplying military tech to Iran, and continually promising to finish the Busher reactor (by consistently failing to do so, the Kremlin keeps this particular chip on the table).

So guess what? The Yanks are now offering a climb-down in Central Europe in return for a Russian undertaking not to help Iran get the nukes. Shafting the Poles and Czechs in the process, I note.

Try a geopolitical analysis/forecasting site please. There are some very good ones out there.

P.S. By the way, the US is reputed to know the precise signature of every single Russian sub at the moment... so there would be a LOT of catching up for our red chums to do here. We Brits help keep an eye on them, up in the cold waters to the north-west...

Chipping?

Surely there are laws against the deep fat frying of schoolchildren?

Or have things not really changed much since Tom Brown's schooldays?

They aren't part of MY family!

@ Ken Hagan

There is some debate as to whether Neanderthals are really our ancestors - or are actually more like cousins, sharing some more distant forebears. Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis and Homo Sapiens Sapiens....