The Watchkeeper had a problem with it's altimeter on landing IIRC
One advantage of aircraft carriers is that they are pretty constantly at sea level (plus a bit)
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>"We've had enough of so-called experts"
>UK Minister for the Cabinet Office
At the risk of being fair to the slithy Tove, he actually said this about experts from economic 'think tanks'.
I think we have had enough of 'experts' from the "Heritage Foundation of Liberty, Freedom and Market Forces" saying that tax cuts are needed to fight covid.
The UK is a major international destination, London probably already had 1000s of cases before anyone had heard of Covid.
This govt naturally managed to make everything worse, but simply blocking all travel and putting a few dozen returning nationals in hotels for 2 weeks wasn't really on option like NZ.
Here in Vancouver everybody listened to the science, everyone wears a mask (half the population wear a mask in winter anyway) the health minister is an international poster-person of "doing the right thing" but we have the same rate as every other developed country and are 2-3 months behind the UK in vaccinations.
>It wouldn't surprise me if chemical castration and persecution caused depression and lack of motivation.
Yes, was just pointing out that when suicide is still a major cause of death for men of his age. The govt saying: well we aren't publicly beastly to gays anymore and we remember to put a rainbow flag on our twitter feed once a year so we have solved this!
A bit like dealing with PTSD in the military by pardoning long dead WWI shell-shock victims
>As a USAian,... Turing is responsible for the principles behind the gadgets that have been my life's work. He deserves a place on my shelf, alongside Marconi (IT 100 lira note)
Do you think if the average American knew of Franklin's scientific work he would be removed from the $100 ?
The newer biographies (after Hodges' classic) list entries from his diary suggesting the suicide was more depression that he thought his work was going nowhere than his personal life.
But as long as the government put up a pride flag once a year they can completely ignore worrying about mental health services.
Requiring everyone who needs to validate the certificate to have access to the national secure database?
Having your name, address and dob on your drivers licence is obviously insecure. Instead it should just be an ID number and have every traffic cop, bartender, checkout assistant, check accepting corner shop have a terminal to access the database.
As an alternative to the canal, all containers are unloaded into a fleet of Tesla cybertrucks which drive semi-autonomously along a tunnel to another port at the north end where they are loaded into another container and put on a ship.
Don't laugh this is roughly their plan for a subway in Las Vegas
>we have no unit of brightness!
There are two units. The main one is the total brightness of all blue LEDs on equipment in your bedroom while you are trying to sleep.
The other, equal to roughly 1 micro-blue_led_in_your_bedroom_while_you_are_trying_to_sleep (BLIYBWYATTS) is the light you have available while crawling behind a server rack trying to read port numbers
>Not when the President of France is actively spreading vaccine misinformation.
>the USA used to have an orange-coloured "gentleman" in the White House
And both these administrations would be in charge of prosecuting Facebook et.al.
- so what would they have to publish to stay on the right side of the law ?
Then it wouldn't be possible to post any information - somebody somewhere would sue over it.
The only place you would then be able to get true reliable information would be from the President's press briefings. Perhaps these could be published in an official newspaper call Truth or something?
CSAIL is not the MediaLab that's the problem - it has poisoned the reputation of the rest of MIT.
You can't sell the rights to put 'MIT lab startup' on your prospectus and then claim it has no links to MIT when it goes bad.
For link's just put 'ito' (the director) and funding into your favourite search engine
Still at least it means everyone will forget about Aaron Schwartz
>But MIT is much more than the media lab
That's the problem - you burn the reputation of MIT, and the value of MIT for all your students, staff, alumni to have a fancy institute that was mostly funded by a bunch of technology startups whose main "technology" was being able to claim a tenuous link to MIT. IIRC a couple of very Theranos-like biotechs
Epstein was a middle man taking a cut of donations he brought in - so MIT was happy to look the other way and let the Media Lab work with him even through they knew his reputation and had bans on him donating to MIT itself.