Posts by james 68

Re: "Always keep a second passport"

@Pascal Monett

"I would venture that, in every country that delivers passports, having a second one is against the law.

Of course, in democratic, civilized countries, you most likely don't need one unless you are a foreign agent (aka spy) or a hardened criminal."

That's a load of old bollocks.

I have both a UK passport and an Irish passport, possession of both is perfectly legal (even in Japan where I currently live, where Japanese citizens cannot possess more than one passport) and their possession by myself doesn't make me a spy nor a hardened criminal. Possession of both simply offers me more options when traveling, for example I can use the Irish passport to quickly pass both myself and my Japanese family through customs in Europe and the UK passport for the same in any commonwealth countries.

Your statement is either profoundly ignorant based solely upon bad 60's Hollywood movies or pathetically poor trolling.

That was my thought too.

Then I considered ionisation, a metal structure would provide a path for the charge accumulated by ionising radiation whereas wood would act as an insulator? I ain't a rocket scientist so that's just a best guess.

Re: Says Biden?

Covfefe much?

Re: Great last line

If you get a spare moment, read the lyrics for Babylon Zoo's "Spaceman".

All will become clear.

Re: sort of on topic...

Coningsby, Aberporth and Bruggen. Would have been early to late 80's.

Re: A couple of issues to be sorted?

That rather depends on how far away from the target systems star they start braking.

Munich being in Germany would suggest that the European patent office rubber stamped these ones.

But it is much the same, you pay the fee - you get the patent, they don't bother much with checking for prior art so long as you can supply the cash.

Re: Soled

Microwaves are a specific range of frequencies, it's right there in the name. Note that the emitter is microwave only, not longwave, shortwave, millimeter wave etc. other frequencies can pass through materials which block or reflect those microwave frequencies. Which is why the microwave oven analogy is not specious. GPS, cellular and many other wireless coms will happily keep working inside a microwave blocking layer or box. Now as to your actual specious suggestion, why don't you turn on your microwave at full power and place your phone right up next to any of the surfaces, you'll notice how the phone is perfectly safe and unaffected. Almost as if those microwave frequencies can by easily blocked. And yet a phone will still get signal inside a closed microwave oven.

Egads, what foul sorcery could this be? The magical mysterious microwaves have been defeated. Oh noes!

Re: So Musk has blood on his hands

And yet the ratio of smouldering Russian tanks compared to smouldering Western tanks completely disproves your argument.

Re: What I cannot understand ...

@Rafael #872397

Don't know what they are specifically, but I know that they are grown on a beach in Norway.

https://www.boredpanda.com/donald-trump-hair-growing-prairie-dropseed-tromso-norway/

Re: Pity

To be clear, you want every game brought to PC to be a shitty, rushed console port?

Because that's all that comes out of Microsoft owned games companies.

Auto correct can be bothersome

"to protect his beloved kickbacks."

Fixed that for you.

Re: In Vino Veritas

It does, however it's not an internally generated magnetic field like Earth (much lower iron content in the core) but externally generated by the ionosphere interacting with the solar wind and is much weaker.

It's interesting stuff.

Re: Would I fly to the moon in a reused spaceship?

My biggest worry would be the mounting points for the parachute lines and the sections of the main body to which they mount, They will be experiencing pretty horrendous shock loads on a low cross section on every use, plus the thermal cycling of said parts. However I'm pretty sure that the folks at NASA know a thing or two about x-raying materials for stress fractures and would hopefully see these as "consumable" components.

Re: Can you imagine the headlines if Huawei had done this ?

Kind of similar to how Cisco has been shown to add NSA backdoors to their equipment but that's fine and dandy, Huawei on the other hand has not been proven to do the same for Chinese "intelligence" services and have in fact shown their hardware and software to prove it but OMG WTF CHINESE BAN THE BUGGERS!!!!!!

One might think there is some kind of double standard at play and perhaps security is not the issue.

Re: Look to Dinorwig

Indeed, "old school" can be very very good indeed - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell

These dry piles (fnar fnar) have been in constant operation since 1840 and will continue to operate for the foreseeable future.

Re: Bumby rides ahead

Look at the last section of the video, the car is sliding diagonally off the rail to the left by a large margin. I'm guessing that the clip stops at that point to hide the resulting crash/rollover.

Re: It's pervasive.

Yup, that's why on hot days at low tide half the damn city stinks like there's a leak in a sewer.

Currently I'm living in Sakura and travel through Funabashi every day for work, I in fact use the Toyo line which services Kaijin-eki. You got some local knowledge though, did/do you live nearby?

If you consider electrons moving from one point to another where or when they aren't supposed to go, then yes.

Russia = Ouroboros

Add to that: they have a limited supply of aircraft and missiles and unfortunately for Russia they can't currently build more/repair what they've got because the components and spares were all made in Ukraine. Ooops.

Did you miss the part where this is a story about space flight and bit rockets etc?

Re: All parties

@Cederic

"Yes, the Democrats have been accused of being complicit. Pelosi explicitly, for instance, relating to multiple curious decisions made."

Would these be the Republican accusations which ignore that she does not in fact control the Capitol Police and has little to no input on how they perform their roles? Or the accusations that blame her for not calling in the National Guard which she doesn't actually have the power to do?

You realise that you are accusing Pelosi of trying to help Trump right? How exactly does that fit into your worldview? Does it make you lay awake at night in sweaty dilemma wondering if that means you should in fact be supporting her because your conspiracy theories claim she actively tried to support Trump?

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Maybe she's Q!!!

They would also have needed to apply a reverse spin, but one would presume so.