Posts by John Smith 19

"The Daily Mail website has more human flesh on show than many a porn site."

Indeed.

And I'm not sure how much of it could be called "Age validated" either.

stupid plan remains stupid

What else can I say.

"Home Office Minister seems to come with 'brass neck' in job description."

A common misconception.

It's actually a by product of the brain parasite they get infected with when they get the job.*

*How else do you explain the monotone line on pervasive state surveillance that the last 9 (10?) Home Secretaries have spouted?

"an impossible situation with a talentless government and a reduced Parliamentary majority,"

What majority?

They have to call in the DUP if they want an absolute majority. Pre election they had an absolute majority.

But then May seemed to have the first original idea she'd had in her entire life.

This is what happens when you promote what's basically an ambitious coaster, who just does whatever their senior civil servants tell them, into the top job.

"In summary, this forum is all set on the sky is falling but reality is different."

A lot of commentards posting AC today?

Or is it just one slightly desperate sounding Brexiteerr ?

"Which is, of course, the main reason the EU is building Galileo, "

Hello codejunky.

Surprised you took so long to join the discussion.

And what is HMG's response

"We'll build our own global positioning constellation."

Are they f**king kidding me?

So that alleged £350m/week going to the NHS not going to happen then with this kind of spending.

"in 2023 we the electorate realise the country is broke"

But

<gollum>

We wants it

We needs it

We must have hard Brexit

Precious. (Stroking his hard border)

</gollum>

"And those who depend on the hated EU as a market for their catch "

Nonsense, that's just remoaner scare mongering. Of course they will be able to sell them.

Subject to the non-EU import tariff first of course.

Because membership had it's privileges, which will now be gone.

"You Brexit, you bought it."

Nice.

Although I think it needs to be rendered in the appropriate regional accent (Black Country, given how many of them seemed to have voted for it)

As in "Yo Brx'it, yo buy it"

just a convent excuse to plaster over the militant incompetence that is a government IT project.

And by "Government" you actually mean the collection of "The Usual Suspects(TM)" of IT con-tractors the government hires in the continuing delusion they will "save money" ?

But it is still a fascinating dangerous aspect of technology.

The "Grey goo" scenario has indeed been played out on numerous occasions.

This thing is nowhere near anything remotely intelligent.

That said the fact that a bunch of these are controlled by a central source IE the AC drive system, might be a redeeming feature.

But at this point?

More a solution looking for a problem.

"I assume that the ginormous circular reflector is for that purpose. "

Is what's technically called a "radiator."

Like the thing on the front of you grossly unnecessary 4x4.

Your in depth understanding of USian politics is matched only by your understanding of nuclear matters.

"And when it's spent, I hear Iran is doing a special offer to come and remove it for you. "

Quite true.

As this is the HEU (or "Bomb grade" as some wags like to call it) and was essentially available cheap to the programme as the US has been at a bit of a loss with what to do with all the cores they stripped out of the bombs from the last round of arms reduction talks.

Mines the jacket with "Special Ordnance" on the back.

"I really wish though that they'd use sealed for life versions of these"

It is sealed for life.

It's not designed to be taken apart or refueled (although being a single lump of metal with some holes in it "reprocessing" is pretty simple by nuclear standards).

The system uses negative feedback. The more power you take out the hotter it runs. The less you take out the slower it runs. That's without moving the control rod a cm.

Stick the control rod fully in it shuts down entirely. It's expected to be moveable within 1 week of full shut down.

Do they need an Auxiliary Power Unit to bootstrap it?

No.

Unlike it's predecessor KRUSTY was designed to be started by (basically) pulling out the control rod and letting the heat pipes warm up to operating temperature, around 850c (which is cold by the standards of the nuclear fuel in PWRs)

And standing very well back of course.

"You can add telecoms to the list of dubious companies. "

Any sort of security business in fact that's changed it's name in the last 5 years has probably been up to no good*

*Although I suspect the UK firm "Savills" is probably just a victim of having the wrong founders name.

Forget it I sussepect this Rag has that insuffrable Metro Euro Onion loving Liberal bent to it,

The AMFM bot writers have a new competitor?

"Obama is not a Liberal, or even a liberal. He's just a less extreme conservative."

In America, that is a "liberal."

On this scale Tony Blair was virtually on the same end of the scale as Joseph Stalin.