Sovereignty
> on a UK company that makes very sensitive stuff for ... nuclear missiles."
The Made In America nuclear missiles that the UK leases from the USA ?
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How dare you sir! The NIF is a totally peaceful nuclear power experiment and in no way a careful skirting of arms treaties to do thermo nuclear weapons research.
Ironically there are European partners to NIF who explicitly call it something like, "nuclear weapons secret project" (but in French)
Doesn't mean what you think it means.
It doesn't mean you have a power station, it just means you are (momentarily) getting more energy out then you spend heating the sample. It doesn't count what you are using to keep the sample compressed into this state.
Claiming "self sustaining" is common in Fusion PR releases
> if you iterate through Pi long enough, you'll theoretically be able to pull any number sequence out of it,
Actually we can't prove that. There's a word for irrational numbers that contain all arbitrary sequences (that I can't remember) but we can't prove if pi is one of them.
>She said she couldn't use Libre Office as the formatting wasn't exactly the same and needed to be so for her work
Then she has bigger problems. Don't expect the formatting to be exactly the same in the next version of word.
Our patent agents have elaborate templates to make sure that the docs come out patent-ish with all the paragraph numbering and cross refs, but it's a full time job keeping them up-to-date.
Old school guys have some weird nroff-type formatting language and a bunch of macros. They should probably use LaTex but I suspect somebody has patented that.
Until they're batteries run out of they get caught in a simple trap, stripped down and sold for parts in the local market.
Of course it could be a cunning plan. Make your military tech so complex that when you lose and have to 'strategically withdraw' leaving all the kit behind, the locals can't reuse any of it.
Better hope that Toyota doesn't start making robot pickups
Playing right into our hands.
We just parachute in a crack team of management consultants form Mckinsey who persuade the Chinese to stop making things, fire 10% of their workforce each quarter to improve the results, and pivot from industrial output into selling themselves financial instruments and taking in each others washing.
>You have the right to remain silent.
Remember you can't just remain silent you have to state that you are remaining silent !
>You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions.
And don't say "I want a lawyer, dog" because the court will rule that you were demanding a lawyer of the species "Canis Lupus Familiaris" and since those don't exist - you weren't actually asking for a lawyer and so they can question you without one.
Even using the same idea would be allowed.
So long as you use your own algorithm for ordering sets of words and matching their order to numbers you can create w3w.
I think there is probably prior art for putting English words in an order based perhaps on the order their letters appear in some sort of alphabet ?
Of course the Caananites might have a patent on the specific order
Latutude and longitude are two nice, simple numbers that give one's location to whatever precision is required
So long as both parties understand datums. Here local government maps for logging roads use NAD83 but government services use WGS84. Fortunately everyone understands the differences, just ask your local delivery driver
>Very successful business for printing money, but if I were an airline boss - or in military procurenent - I'd be looking elsewhere.
Where ?
They successfully shut down Bombardier's C series.
If you are an airline you can't buy Airbus without risking whose next in the Whitehouse
If you are military what's your alternative МиГ ?
In Liftoff, the book about the early days of SpaceX, they lose the 2nd or 3rd launch because of corrosion in the salt air of the little Pacific island they are working from - with no hanger.
Except they were new to this and Boeing have been launching from Alabama and Florida since the 1940s