Re: Why does it happen so often ?
Wasn't this the plot of a Bond movie?
Moneypenny has to shoot Daniel Craig before he leaves a disk with list of all the agents on a train
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No the Royal Navy is very clear that 'proper' navigation is what you rely on and GPS isn't even a backup - it's there because it came with the systems.
Commercial tends to rely much more on GPS because they can't afford to have a bunch of navigation officers taking sightings around the clock and you have to be quite precise maneuvering a container ship the size of the Isle of Wight, passed the isle of Wight
>A system failure on the USS Yorktown last September temporarily paralyzed the cruiser, leaving it stalled in port for the remainder of a weekend.
My kayak is required to carry a spare paddle as an "alternative means of propulsion" - do they have banks of oars ?
They do do-it-themselves, the navy standard is to be able to navigate coasts and harbours using only compass and sightings and astro-navigation at sea.
GPS, Loran and markey boys aren't allowed - since the people you are intending to broadside may have been naughty and removed them.
What isn't done the old way is using log tables to reduce the numbers - you are allowed to use the nav software and calculators.
New bits of not-sea get discovered - we are still surveying the oceans (ironically one of the things the Royal Navy does most)
The case where that US sub got a nose job was because it hit an newly charted undersea mountain that was on the updated charts that they hadn't yet updated to.
But you have to consider the Bayesian probabilities.
If you are in the city of london and wearing an expensive suit then P(A) the probability that you are a-priori a crook/tax-cheat/imbiber of the devil's nose candy , is 1.0
There is really no need for the police to investigate further.
I thought IR35 was a tax dodge optimisation to allow programmers to carry on doing the same job in the same office for the same employer but pay themselves in low-tax dividends and claim their car, meals and mortgage as business expenses. I didn't realise it was revolutionary praxis by the oppressed masses against global corporatism.
Comrades, come rally .... you have nothing to lose except your tax write offs
Yes but Huawei want $3RD_WORLD_COUNTRY to sign some sort of large deal involving ongoing support and maintenance and a "friendly regulatory environment" - they aren't going to support a Telco who bought a bunch of banned kit on ebay.
Not only are they losing the sticker price, but they want the ban to be as expensive as possible, to be most politically difficult to the countries doing the banning.
Yes and I'm sure the same supreme court will show a similar enthusiasm for federal over local state authority - especially when it comes to protecting the environment from big business.
If there's one thing the current court values more than women's rights it's environmentalism.
>There are also good reasons for launch from south Texas:
It's nowhere near the equator, and that only really helps for GSO / going to the Moon.
The advantage of Texas is no income tax = useful for billionaire CEOs but more useful for attracting tech professionals, low house prices and most importantly a state government that doesn't care what you do (as long as you aren't a women/gay/brown)
The local state regulators are going to approve anything - in Texas it's your civic duty to pollute as much as you like.
And the same supreme court that approved that the state is in charge of women's bodies is definitely going to back that the state is in charge of the local environment.
And the FAA is going to play along with this in case it does go to the supreme court and they effectively gut all federal agencies.
So somebody piloting a drone from a trailer in Nevada to blow up somebody in Afghanistan isn't a soldier because they can't be shot at? Or somebody in a minuteman missile silo?
What about a B52 pilot dropping bombs from 30,000 ft above any possible insurgent gunfire?
Even a sailor on a battleship bombarding the beaches on D-Day was pretty safe from return fire - I doubt they would consider themselves non-combatants