It would have helped if I had pasted the BBC link in I had intended. To make up for this oversight I am supplying a second link.
I love Brit tabloids……
The Register is a tech news site that covers many stories from a rather different angle, love it!
aequitas et veritas…
I wonder if anybody will be as offended from your reply this time as they were last time? Not that I find anything offensive with it :-)
Thirty years ago, on 26 September 1983, the world was saved from potential nuclear disaster.
In the early hours of the morning, the Soviet Union’s early-warning systems detected an incoming missile strike from the United States. Computer readouts suggested several missiles had been launched. The protocol for the Soviet military would have been to retaliate with a nuclear attack of its own.
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IL, a source was cited and you dis-missed it with a “Wiki is not that accurate”. I disagree, I think the citation was a good one. In any event, no doubt wiki has errors. I just wouldn’t dismiss the information wiki provides on something like that. shrugs There can be no argument in taste and your taste is that wiki is no good, we can agree to disagree and be civil.
The real point is that there is a real Lancaster flying out of Hamilton and that is darn cool!
Witt, it was pretty awesome especially seeing it this year with my dad. He first took me to the Hamilton air show nearly 40 years ago. I have a bunch of pictures I should get off my camera and make available. They had a ME 262 which flew for a bit before mechanical issues forced it to retire for the day.
There is a private airstrip near my other house and I often see the rich guys taking off with their vintage planes. A number of WW II planes actually! I have some pics but not good enough I can identify them. I will investigate!
IL, can you point out just one article in wikipedia that is not accurate?
The plane in that article is based out of Hamilton which is less than an hour drive. I saw that plane on Father’s day with my dad this year. Sounds awesome hearing those 4 merlin engines but better yet that bomber and a few hurricanes and spitfires flew by, there were 10 merlin engines flying in formation that day, what a sound!
I knew .22 semi autos are not restricted along with shotguns but that weapon surprises me but I can see the extension of the logic/rules to the ridiculous end. Damn I want one……
40, 000 guys….so a few days of combat on the eastern front…
Sounds like you are on the right track, don’t disagree with anything you said.
I did most of my programming using MS visual basic. It is VERY VERY easy to whip up quick applications but allows very poor programming habits to occur. People always asked me why VB……cause that is what the client used and requested. Period. So I hear you on the linux thing, until there is demand in your specific domain…
A spent a few years with a company that did data migration from old legacy systems (AS-400 but really anything) and whacked the data into a new software system using MS sql server or Oracle. We used alot of MS products, MS Access was HUGE for us. I will admit it can be easier using MS products for a quick and dirty solution but it will cost in terms of long term life cycle costs. Often you don’t have the luxury of thinking of next month never mind next decade!
I did come across an article again I was thinking of earlier but was too lazy to find. When not looking you stumble across things…
Gabe Newell: Windows 8 is a ‘catastrophe’ for PC biz
Gabe Newell knows a thing or two about microsoft and windows……
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/26/gabe_newell_windows_8/
NOPE actually a lil less then the 6,000…
Oh I see where I made my math mistake, I forgot to ‘borrow’ one from the right hand column. Hence a bit more becomes a bit less…… :-D
but I’m still puzzled by the suggestion that an H-bomb can arm itself by the simple action of being dropped from a plane.
I don’t like that one either as it would mean anytime a plane crashed or engaged in sever violent maneuvers the nukes could go off.
I don’t think wheatbeer meant The country of America but rather American citizens vis-a-vis the Spanish civil war, but I could have the wrong take. Fighting fascists in Spain mean support the communists basically and they were supported by Stalin so……
America did investigate support of Mao with the Dixie mission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Mission
Interestingly, although it came to nothing and the authors of the report were treated poorly via McCarthyism, it did serve as a bridge between the two powers under Nixon.
I guess that just shows you should always support both sides in a civil war just to make sure you have connections with the winner…
Defence was the problem. You have 100s of points to defend but the attacker can bring all his power to bear on just one point at a time.
The best defence is a good offence, so tactics and u-boats to go with new tactics. But that’s two things……
Seriously, we have 6,000 years of human history without nuclear weapons
I’m pretty sure humans AND the world have been around a bit longer than 6, 000 years……
I always enjoy reading your factoids!
Whether or not blocking a UN action actually does or doesn’t do something, it’s the perception the counts.
All things being equal, I’d rather be a citizen of a country that appears to be doing something for the majority of the citizens of a country (read US of A) over that of being a citizen of a country that appears to be blocking actions that hold a dictator to account against the best interests of the majority.
If you want to argue that its better to be lead by the Chinese in the case of Syria then let’s hear the premesis and conclusion. I was just observing that the US seems to be doing the right thing on Syria. Again, me say USA good on this one, but feel free to disagree or cast negative votes chuckles
The PRC’s foreign policy is universally non-intervention.
Abstaining from UN votes is non-intervention.
Casting veto votes blocking action the rest of the world and the majority of citizens within a country is not exactly a text book definition of non-intervention.
Huge engineering project may signal geopolitical changes in a region Washington sees as its “backyard.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/09/02/nicaragua_china_bet_40_billion_on_a_canal_to_rival_panama.html
Sure it’s a “private individual” just like it was a private individual who bought that Ukrainian air-craft carrier for a floating casino project I believe.
For historians, wreckage from a World War II German bomber in the French Pyrenees is an exceptional find, but some local residents are less keen on digging up the past.
Learning something new is great. Spending time learning how to do something old you used to know how to do one way but now are forced to do another way is a waste of effort.
I don’t believe it was a transport mission but an armed bomber ready to go. I’m not sure they would use a B-52 to move a bomb as cargo but ya never know.
I find it strange how a plane just ‘starts to break up’. But I guess it does happen.
MS is unethical but not because of that per se. They have every right to abuse their market position. And the market will respond as it is. MS is in real danger in their desktop operating system business. Getting to the point you don’t need a MS OS to do day to day tasks. They still have MS Office but if that bastion falls too they are in real deep do do.
It’s called a lifecycle, which they extended before Win8 even came out. Every other OS/Application developer does the same lifecycle.
Jermofoot, really? I would qualify your statement with “some”, especially at microsoft. Do you personally know a developer?
Extends hand…. Pleased to meet you Jermofoot. If you didn’t know a developer personally before, you do now. I fancy myself a renaissance man so I won’t claim I have 31 years of software development just because I got paid for my first program in 1982. But over the years I obtained a 4 year BSc in computer science and software I wrote over 15 years ago is still running just fine on fortune 500 companies and in fact some modules are still being sold unchanged 15 years later. Of course, I didn’t weld my software to microsoft solutions. I modularized them and my modules still work and sell whereas the modules where I isolated microsoft specific technology don’t. Microsoft broke them. Specifically the MDAC dll database connectivity stuff. RDO upgraded to ADO then upgraded to ActiveX gosh all over the span of 4 years. All quite defunct now. All the database stuff switched over eventually from SQL server to a linux based and now cloud based system. My modules STILL work untouched in the new paradigm.
Software and operating systems don’t have to break every few years. You should research emulation, you’d be surprised how many legacy software solutions are running decades and decades later on simulated computers running on cloud platforms.
Just be flexible with technology ‘camps’ and diversify the knowledge portfolio.
Admiral Graf Spee
I was a kid when I was given one of my first history books, the story of the Graf Spee and the battle of the River Plate.
It was also an introduction to the treaty of Versailles which led me to further reasons of the war itself and deeper history.
Yes, perhaps not exactly a ‘heavy’ warship even with such an impressive name as ‘Pocket Battleship’, but I believe it was the third heaviest class of ships that actually put to sea by the Kriegsmarine. It certainly had a more glorious career and ending albeit shorter……than either of the other two sister ships I forgot to add
