Posts by imanidiot 4427 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Mar 2012
Facebook et al. don't care who uses their product as long as it gets them eyes looking at their adverts or data to flog.
Bans like this is really obviously doing the absolute minimum they can get away with doing. Nobody cared before the Taliban took over about their use of Whatsapp or Facebook, it's only when it comes into the general public eye that any steps are taken.
When it comes to military equipment I think the best way to find an optimal config is to just have a bunch of squadies (preferably marines) use the vehicle for a while. Leave out an angle grinder and a welder.
I've heard of WW2 era designs getting optimized by finding what stuff was still left in the tank after it had (successfully) been through a few combat engagements. Anything not removed and tossed was important. Anything not there doesn't need to be there in new vehicles either.
"Note that Russia, unlike the US gas significantly MORE experience of humans-in-space than NASA."
I don't agree with you there. They have differing experiences but especially in more recent times I'd argue NASA has by now outpaced RU on experience levels. Russia's space program on the other hand seems to have more or less frozen in 1991. Everything they've done after that has been mostly minor updates of EOL parts.
"If so, drill bits here are sized in binary multiples: examples - 16ths, 32nds, 64ths, 128ths."
Ohhh if only it were that simple...
Drill sizing in imperial is a mess. Not only are there inch and fractional inch drill sizes, there's also number and letter drill sizes (based on wire gauge sizes). 0.07inch is for instance exactly a #50 drill bit.
(For your perusal here's a chart with the fractional, number and letter drill sizes starting at #80 up to 1-25/32")
However, NASA works entirely in metric nowadays (bar a few kerfuffles in the past *COUGH*MCO*COUGH*) and the ISS should be entirely in metric. I don't see why they would have imperial size drills aboard.
The only reason Russia still has a manned space program is probably it's participation in the ISS program. If it wasn't for that they might have called it quits by now.
ISS is not a cash cow for them however. Even with what they're paid for doing their part they'll certainly not have much if anything left over after paying the bills on Soyuz and Progress launches, aside from ongoing maintenance costs on ground support equipment for ISS operations.
NASA didn't buy Zarya, they don't own the Russian segment and if the Russians ever decide to stop their participation I don't think the Russian segment will be part of the ISS much longer as NASA doesn't have the means for ongoing support of those bits.
(PS: you mis-spelled Zarya. Twice)
Panzer is the german name for armoured vehicles and isboft used outside of Germany (like in hollywood) because it allows to ve accurate yet vague and call everything a Panzer without regard for actual type.
The tank in question here is a Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (more commonly known simply as the Panther since a certain Adolf didn't like the roman numeral V)
So long as it rolls, nit having tracks actually makes recovery by towing easier. It probably took them half a day to assess whether the access ramp could take the weight of a Panther tank
As for why it took so long, nothing moves more imperceptibly slowly than the cogs of government, yet inexorably they move.
The judgement is lower than the amount the elderly person can likely sell the tank for (which will probably go for near or above a million Euros). So it basically amounts to "we can't let you profit off of Nazi war memorabilia TOO much". Which seems quite inline with German sentiment on the matter in my experience.
As above, they used the currently in service Leopard 2 based ARVs. Why they needed more than one I'm not sure though. Probably to spread the load and not tear the pavement to absolute bits. A panther is a bit on the heavy side and a Leopard ARV on full tilt will probably pull the bricks out of the street and break through normal asphalt like it was paper
It takes time to sell a near running condition Panther tank (with the correct paperwork for export and to show he complied with the court order) especially with a "live" gun. I bet there's some US collectors chomping at the bit to buy it though. They're not as fussy about people owning functional pieces of artillery and afaik a working 7.5 cm KwK 42 L/70 for a panther is a rare thing indeed. Most that survived have been chopped or welded shut in a way that pretty much makes re-activating them impossible.
I don't think we'd have seen that particular throbbing vain on the PFY's forehead if he'd been in on it. And I suspect the Marmite might well serve to get the git who got the infection started to confess it was his doing all along and give them the decryption key.
Because it all sounds a little TOO convenient in terms of timing and EVERYTHING getting locked. We might well be dealing with a BSFT (Bastard Shitstain From Hell). The type that knows exactly how to start shit and profit from it, not caring where the filth and stink rub off on.
I don't know many forklifts with rapid change batteries though. Almost all the ride-on forklifts I've ever encountered or seen for sale use the very tall lead acid cells that'll hold enough charge for an 8 hour days shift (with potentially some charging during lunch breaks) and then charge overnight. Even the electric walk-along or step-on pallet jacks usually just have a fixed battery pack.
But why would you be creative in the use of language? It seems nowadays people that put pride in their use of language get told off for "showing off" or "making it more complicated than it needs to be". And thus we get stuck with management buzzword bingo words like "impacted"
Once goes off the rails due to a problem (broken wheel or track?) and the 2 others slam into it because they couldn't detect the other robot being in their way?
If they're running on LiPo or Li-ion battery packs a hit in the wrong spot can internally short a cell. It's game over really fast after that. --> The usual result.
"The researchers said the system was compatible with modern-day infrastructure and shouldn't take long to adopt because the fibre still has a standard outer diameter of 0.125mm."
So is it using the standard everyday fibers (and fiber connectors) that are in use already or does it require special fibre or connectors? Because if the only similarity is that the core is 125 micrometers then that's not really useful for existing infrastructure.
"fuck! why did no one tell us?"
Probably because other than you and maybe some other smart enough residents of those houses nobody knew that that was the actual situation. Good chance when the houses got joined someone got paid to remove all the old stopcocks but couldn't be arsed and just capped off the ends of the lines. Plans got updated to "should be" and after some time and retirements those "should be" plans become "reality".
The problem is that these 12 people are specialized in getting attention (and money) from their bullshit and know exactly where the line is. So they toe the line to where what they are saying is very very very close to, but not actually illegal or legally actionable. They'll be able to claim: "What people take away from anything I say is their own problem". They'll always put weasel words in like: "but talk to your doctor about what's right for your health" (One sentence after a 5 minute diatribe over the evils of X or Y) and that basically absolves them from being legally responsible.
I'm assuming you're still an active account holder there? I don't see why a bank wouldn't reasonably just keep hold of all transaction information. I suspect legally they have to hold onto the information longer to begin with and I also don't really see a reason for them to delete it. As long as that information is securely held and only accessed for whatever legitimate purposes may exist (you or law enforcement asking for it, or internal audits or something) there is no problem in just storing or archiving that information. Imho.
I my experience on corporate networks, wifi is fine until too many people are using it. So put 20 people in the same room with their laptops all on wifi and things get slow and/or even questionable.
In my home I have my desktop PC and the smart TV wired up (with some other ports around the house not currently connected because I'm lazy). There's about 25 to 30 different wifi networks in the area (mostly from the modems/APs of the same 2 ISPs) and not a snowballs chance in hell of having a good reliable wifi signal all through the house. So I put in CAT6 UTP (with some freebie keystone jacks I received during a network cabling training, thanks boss!). Works a treat and no more network issues. Only the longest run doesn't quite want to go to gigabit speeds last time I tried, but that may have been a dodgy patch cable. The wifi has been relegated to use by the the mobile phone only.
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