Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
But not his government salary.
It really is amazing how much of the US Federal Structure was modeled on Ancient Rome.
Most of the bad bits that allow a nominally independent decision making process to be hijacked by basically one man to allow them to line their pockets.
One of the reasons humans developed better models of government.
Several 100 years before the War of Independence.
Really?
I rather thought it was something to do with the fact that
1) Coach built, mostly by hand welding. Why rely on the predictability of an (expensive) solid welding jig when you've got "Shugg" whose got twenty years experience, and only gets it wrong occasionally.
BAe tried to reverse-engineer a coach built aircraft to build the jigs with Nimrod MR4. What a f**kup that turned out to be.
2) Barrow-in-Furness is a bit of a s**thole to move to.
which tells them exactly where each submarine is"
In a word, no.
Anti submarine warfare is a very secretive field but the whole purpose of using submarines is they operate in 3 dimensions in a very deep landscape of constantly shifting physical properties. A signal could be a sub, or a shift in the marine environment.
Hence the ongoing need for hunter/killer subs to carry those sensors close enough to know it's not the environment, but an actual sub that's moving.
IE A massive willy waving exercise.
ICBMS did not "deter" the IRA (or any other colonial liberation group the UK fought in the 40's,50's,60's or 70's)
ICBM's did not stop Argentina invading the Falkland Islands.
So, aside from handing a few 10s of £Bns to BAe (again) what's the f**king point of this exercise again?
I will note the UK is an island and keeping the sea and air routes to it secure would seem to be a key priority for any long term goal of whatever military structure is chosen.
Wrong.
UK on shore wind is hoped to run 26% of the time.
Offshore maybe it hits 30% of the time.
At least one UK onshore turbine hit (over a year) about 3% usage.
Things like tidal, biogas and micro hydro are reliable (but complex) to understand.
OTOH they can hit 90%+ availability.
Indeed.
The regular shutting down of the whole USG due to budget squabbling.
Senate and Congress persons whose nominal party membership bears almost no relation to their voting on issues
Parties whose supposed elected representatives are about as unified as a herd of cats.
And remember by UK standards both parties would be right of the ERG wing of the Conservatives.
It is essentially one they inherited from the British in 1700's for running a parish council.
And does not seem to have been updated in any useful way since.
It is not fit for purpose to run a British parish council, let alone the most powerful state in the Western world.
Au contraire you are getting exactly what you voted for.
It might not be what (inside your own head) you believed "Brexit" would mean but then who f**king cares about your opinion of what Brexit is?
You still seem quite young so you're going to have lots of time to put into effect a very valuable lesson you're in the the process of learning.
Never f**king trust a Tory posh boy.
Correct.
The Norway model? The Swiss model? The Canadian model? The "Bespoke" model?
The totally f**king delusional Tinkerbell model?
Like being arrested and handed a blank sheet of paper headed "Confessions" and being asked to sign it.
And if you were a Leave voter, doing so.
But you'll pick about 1 years worth every 30 hours, given the shielding level of any kind of lander (about 0.5% of the Earths atmoshpere at sea level).
People need to dig in on Mars, and fast if they are planning to settle there.
But who thinks "launch a satellite to deorbit a satellite" is a good idea in the long term?
The real trouble with space debris is
1) It's very numerous in LEO
2) Quite a lot of it's <5cm across and invisible to ground based radar.
This suggests some kind of small lidar(s) in orbit to map it with much better resolution then find some way to de orbit it reusably. My instinct is to use a laser to surface charge the debris and rely on the Earths magnetic field to drive them into a smaller number of more defined channels.
Because Windows only runs on x86 architecture?
Or is it this particularly dysfunction co-dependent relationship got something to do with it?
Maybe hiring an ex Intel bigwig might give them some insight into what's really needed to make a difference?
The UK FPTP election system does not encourage coalition politics but the Leave votes seems to have been exactly that.
A coalition of the ignorant (on what the EU actually helps the British economy do) who seem unaware that while trade to the EU is 40-50% of UK trade, trade to the UK (from the other 27) is about 6.7% of their business. So who's going to be replacing who, exactly?
A coalition of the delusional. Who fantasized that ending free immigration from rest of the EU would open up a magic world of high paying jobs they could do (without any experience or qualifications) that "The furriners" were keeping them out of. The jobs they can do are hard and only pay minimum wage, but of course it's the furriners fault because......
A coalition of the racist. Who don't like Europeans but haven't worked out that those trade deals with India and China are likely to involve the UK seeing a whole lot more of those kind of furriners. BTW I note a lot of racists live in predominantly white areas and have rarely (if ever) actually seen, spoken to or worked with anyone from any place else (the North East being a strong Leave voting area). For most of them the closest they've got is reading about them in a newspaper.
Nice idea (and certainly sensible) but not going to happen.
Politicians (of all parties) know that older people are active voters and will vote for the party that ensures maximum benefits for them (even if they already independently wealthy and have no actual need of them).
The proportion of the yoof who vote has just about halved in the last 50 years in the UK. So they can effectively be ignored. A combination of the "Politics is all a con, blah blah" and "I don't want to join any party" memes have effectively (and substantially) reduced the influence of the young and their issues.
Effectively the yoof have played themselves, much as Leave voters have been played.
Long hard thinking is not really Johnson's strong suit.
Saying whatever s**t's inside his head and then shrugging it off with a laugh and a joke if it disliked widely (or by any group whose support he wants) is more his style.
Much like Trump in many ways sans replaceable trophy wives of course.
In fact the UK was broke after WWII.
It appealed to the US for support.
It got a $5Bn loan which it finished paying back around the early 2000's.
The best line about the US involvement in WWII is probably from Nicholas Montserrat in "The Cruel Sea"
"It's no way to win a war"
"Yes, but it's a great way to ensure you're in first place after it."
The Referendum was about 2 things.
1) Killing UKIP
2) Stopping backbenchers defecting to UKIP.
Job done.
The UK economy is simply "Collateral damage" needed to save the leaderships collective backside.
The rest was just verbal bu***hit.
I don't think you can call the "European Research Group" the British government. *
*Bunch of delusional xenophobic little Britain nutters. Bunch of power hungry political chancers. Bunch of city types seeing some angles to make a big killing on the markets as the UK economy goes down the sh**ter certainly. Bunch of pocket lining liars.
Surely not.
Britain is special
It's not as big as the US, Canada, India, Russia in land, resources or population It didn't found the EU.
But it seems a lot of British people expect to be treated by the EU as if they were.
they are going to find out how "special" they are real soon.
And in fact quite a lot of could be traced back to the Home Office.
Too many foreigners. HO doesn't have it's s**t together.
Foreign criminals not being deported. HO doesn't have it's s**t together.
Pervasive surveillance and near unlimited police powers with no accountability. HO doesn't have it's s**t together.
How much is incompetence by senior civil servants with a massive sense of superiority and how much is simple incompetence and taking the easy way out is impossible to say. quite a lot I'd think.
Pretty much.
I found it very interesting that most of the people I know who voted Leave had left long term and quite toxic relationships.
Where walking out with just what you can carry is a painful but quite viable idea.
Sub consciously they seemed to equate Brexit with their own personal journey, which with any critical thinking at all would be seen as just foolish.
Which I guess is why Linton Crosby got such a fat fee for helping Leave win.
Correct.
If you were arrested, taken to a police station and handed a blank sheet of paper with "Confession" at the top and asked to sign it at the bottom who in their right minds would do so?
Yet that is exactly what Leave voters did.
Now they are reading their "confession" and it turns out they don't like what (they) did.
Leave voters. However Brexit turns out, this is what you asked for. You gave a blank sheet of paper to a bunch of delusional f**kwits and chancers on the promise of what exactly?
F**king hilarious. Really ROTLMFAO moment.
The impact assessment report by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (about the only one you can read outside of a locked room in the HoC) made it clear that unless the UK replaces the CAP with equal funding pretty much all farming goes down the sh**ter except pig farming (that survived under all scenarios). So much for "£350m/week more for the NHS."
Extremely funny as only 2 groups are in surplus to the EU, Welsh hill farmers being one of them. I'm guessing a lot of farmers fantasized no EU membership--> no red tape --> do what we like.
IRL no EU membership--> no red tape --> No entry of UK products to the EU on food safety grounds.
Their thinking "Excellent, we can go back to Veal crates," but they're forgetting Germany's outright ban on British Beef during the CJD outbreak.
13/25 of the people who voted chose to Leave.
That's in the statistical noise band for these things. For the biggest change in the UK's relationship to the rest of the world since the Suez Crisis (when it officially became America's b**ch).
I wonder how many would have voted Remain but thought "Only a bunch of f**k witted numpties would fall for this bul**hit. I've got better things to do than vote," underestimating how desperate the nutters and chancers who wanted Brexit were going to be.
CMD made the pass level cretiniously stupid, presumably thinking his cunning plan had worked well with the Scottish Referendum, ignoring Scotland has been part of a United Kingdom for 400 years, not 40 years.I note the Scottish referendum allowed nearly everyone who lived there (and would live with the consequences) to vote.
Funny you should say that.
The Referendum vote was all to appease CMD's backbench nutters who were still bi**hing about
not having a vote in 1992, when the EEC became the EU.
While some were still bi**hing about not having a 2nd vote in 1975.
So I think we know whose been whining the longest about Europe.
BTW. Both Margaret Thatcher and John Major could have set up referendums in 1992, as they had substantial absolute majorities. If they'd wanted one, it would have happened. It didn't. But then neither was clinically insane or expected to play an angle that would make them an obscene amount of money (despite the British economy being FUBAR'd in the process).
Because it sounds like that "Broadband map" the FCC draws up is just so much BS.
But it might have one use.
Comparing the ISP's reported speeds and availability with the real ones.
If they only have to sell a package to 1 in 30 or 1 in 500 properties in a "Census block" then their real coverage could be as low as 0.2-3.0% of a block.
Leaving the rest in the block with possibly f**k all coverage.
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