Youtube comments of Tim Murphy (@timmurphy5541).

  1. Few people understand how the things in their supermarket get there and yet they are asked to vote on issues that greatly affect the whole process. It's obviously a recipe for trouble.
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  2. No reason why at all - just the statement of the fact endlessly repeated. about 30s of information in 13 min.
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  3. "We are a civilised people ...we are fighting so that we remain part of the civilised world." .... wow. What an honourable attitude! It is a difficult struggle. I am not religious so I cannot say "God Bless you" but I can say that your heroisim has meaning for everyone in the world and it has already made a difference. You have fought for ALL civilisation and if our species climbs out of the mud and becomes worthy it will be because you saved it here at this time.
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  4. No, they want to feel superior and make a few bucks. The idea that it could backfire hasn't occurred.
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  5.  @argus0ia  I think you're right but the more people who've been to university the better the quality of the misunderstanding IMO :)
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  6. Someone did point out to me that when you're designing a family of cars you're doing a packaging problem on many models at the same time. You want to reuse all the same elements and you want to put everything together in almost the same way to keep costs down. That is going to result in empty spots in some models just because the overall system is engineered to allow e.g. a HUD or a heat pump at that point even if that model will never have it.
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  7. History is full of leaders who made miscalculations.
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  8. You're an unusual person. It's quite impressive to be able to admit to having made a mistake. This is a great strength. Congratulations to you!
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  9. If you watched 'the right stuff" the first astronauts had to be incredible people and all military but later on they wanted scientists - less amazing at flying fighter planes and more useful at experiments. As space gets cheaper people will go up there who are not qualified in any special way and the specialness of being qualified to go to space will be meaningless - it will be the skill you have that matters e.g. pilot or navigator or "mission specialist" or whatever.
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  10. Are there actually any people there by the time the rockets are fired anyhow? I thought they got fired on a timer.
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  11.  @EE-kt8sh  Much nicer than having Putin up your arse.
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  12.  @Marco-wz3ff  Without a competitor to Boeing, what could anyone do about their aircraft problems? They would be under no pressure.
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  13. My god. The M777 is modern and state of the art and made in Britain!!!!! And the defence expert doesn't know!
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  14.  @drowe2  exactly. You couldn't possibly have made a mistake. Unless you personally get hit. Then it might be a mistake.
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  15. I have a Mazda 6 which I love - a large liftback - and this is a bit of a dream come true
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  16. The angles make it hard to be sure but it looks like a 105mm L119 supplied by the UK. It's not a super long range gun but it's light and "easy" to move.
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  17. We should learn lessons from the situation: i.e. that one's assumptions can be very wrong and we can find ourselves in situations we didn't expect. Iraq was not expected (not far in advance), nor the IED problem there and in Afghanistan, nor the need for artillery in Ukraine etc etc. Hence it might be best to have some flexibility in one's mindset and to have flexible equipment in enough quantity that one can lose some of it. Another way is to train in lots of different scenarios and make the changes that are needed to ensure each scenario isn't a total disaster - but not to optimise purely for one scenario.
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  18. This is all about the electorate electing people who tell them the lies they want to hear and one party decided that losing power was worse than lying.
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  19. This with a radar would be of immense value.
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  20. SAMP/T is important because it uses Aster missiles which are used by the navies of several countries. The French apparently make 50 per month and the countries concerned have recently contracted for a much higher rate of production. It has less operational experience than Patriot but has some technical superiorities. If it has any issues then now is the time to address them. The missile is good. By the way the company name is "tal-ess" not thay-les
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  21. One reason is to have a ship which other navies might want to buy when Britain finishes with it. Hugely expensive submarine hunters have a more limited market.
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  22. One has to get to the point eventually of being happy to be of the human race and not to worried about any further divisions. Being British is not the best or worst thing in the world. Being accepted by decent people of whatever nationality is more important than being accepted as British by 'Albert'.
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  23. Poor old Ivans not happy to have their bubble burst.
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  24. I think these people are doing their best but we as a country are not - if they need more staff to do their job we should be providing them. If they need to start waking up British Industry with big contracts then we should be providing the money.
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  25.  @zenithperigee7442  astronaut /ˈastrənɔːt/ noun noun: astronaut; plural noun: astronauts a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft. [NOTE: doesn't even say they've been to space! And nothing about what training]
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  26. "England built"..... Britain. :-(
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  27.  @andrewpinson1268  Risking your life for your country is not typical of traitors. I might be wrong, I admit, but I think they tend to be people in the back office, not the ones taking the real risks.
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  28. The Russians are not paying their bots enough - poor attempt!
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  29. That is all about face saving. I think it's completely obvious that they consider themselves superior to the Ukranians and that the whole issue is about feeling superior. The only ego-saving way to explain their lack of success is to suggest that they're fighting NATO.
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  30. worry about your Rubles and we'll worry about the pounds.
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  31. NATO IS the bear. It's a very sleepy bear that doesn't want to fight but it has the population, the technical ability, and the economic might to be a very scary bear if it wants to.
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  32. Thank you! I think I can watch this with my daughter and she will a) understand much of it b) see that she too could be an engineer.
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  33. "These are the ones who restore the combat effectiveness of complex mechanisms and put equipment and weapons on "wheels". These are the ones who save the lives of our soldiers at the front. This is a real monolith, an alloy of youth and experience, which consists of artillery repair and restoration specialists. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are the hope of our people! Together we will win!"
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  34.  @maxmagnus777  Yes, there's a particularly horrifying bacteria from South Africa which turns white people into black people - my god. The first effect is that people start to be good at dancing and start taking an interest in rap music.
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  35.  @3drs0s  Afghanistan, The Cold War itself. Russo Japanese war.
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  36. These attitudes exist in lots of places. I'm from Zimbabwe and it's very much the case there. Blaming outsiders is easier than changing one's own culture and actions.
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  37. I sometimes think that Western companies overdo the features and end up with something that's very expensive to lose and that cannot be in many places at once.
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  38.  @urbandream7051  It shows how Russia is also losing the information war because of incompetence.
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  39. Of course it's an instrument of power - people like Putin don't leave such things alone.
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  40. I think the most interesting aspect is the use of Boxer. These are about 4-5 million euros each, I think. If this is not too much then we might see an explosion of incredible boxer modules that we wouldn't have imagined being possible until we saw this one.
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  41. The danger here is that the Jazz is extremely reliable, enjoyable to be inside, conveniently small on the outside and huge on the inside. German cars are not reliable by comparison. To compete, manufacturers have to push their cars as status symbols....but the new status symbol is a Tesla.....
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  42.  @AW-uv3cb  it's a way to deflect anger that would otherwise have to find its "true target" closer to home.-
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  43. It's getting to feel more like Zimbabwe every week. Well done you lot. :-) I know how the slide into basket-case goes: usually starts with some nationalistic claptrap followed by one economic misstep after another and a lot of excuses and attempts to put the blame on "the media," "foreigners" etc.
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  44. We should be thanking Ukraine. That's the truth.
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  45. I found this very interesting and enjoyable. I love the SIMPLIFY notion. I'm a software engineer and that's my personal feeling about how to make things succeed - we tend to feel ashamed to go for simplicity everywhere that we possibly can but it's what makes things reliable (and achievable before the project gets cancelled).
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  46. Turkish drones seem to be a lot more useful than British ones - and much more widely exported. This desire to look down on them is very unwise IMO. Turkey still has a manufacturing industry and they spend a lot on defense. They can also send people to the US to get engineering degrees just like anyone.
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  47. You can make any accusations you like - the invading, murdering and raping is being done by the other side. Why don't we talk about what bad names they deserve to be called?
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  48.  @robertdug495  Those are all comforting thoughts so you should reject them. Most of what you do while your vehicle charges is sleep. Power can come from coal one day and wind the next and an electric car will instantly become cleaner but your ICE car won't.
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  49.  @Motherslapper  They might not be noobs at tank warfare.
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  50. Much more efficient, so lower logistics cost, huge torque, lower maintenance, low IR signature, ability to power other things like e.g. electric armour. It doesn't have to be all-electric - could be hybrid.
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  51.  @ejw1234  NATO membership for Ukraine.
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  52. It's the rate of wear of the barrel that has taken effort to deal with as I understand it. We are unlikely to be told what the end of that story turned out to be though.
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  53. The innovation is that they can produce the mirrors and tube roll-to-roll which makes the whole thing cheap. Apparently it also takes less water to clean them which is a big issue for solar collectors in hot and dry countries.
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  54. It could be hybrid and just much more efficient.
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  55. We have a range of other uncomplimentary things to call them if you like. No fair minded person could be suspicious either - the causes are quite clear.
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  56.  @rasheedh7043  only western media? I can read the news of eastern and western countries without any problem.
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  57. Croissants are from Austria, not France :-) The general term for that kind of pasty in France is even "Viennoiserie." Sorry for being pedantic - I just think it's interesting and it's a misconception I had for a long time myself.
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  58. It's being given the equipment not the money so hard to launder and pocket shells. :-) Try again Vlad.
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  59.  @FrostbiteDigital  We've been fed a diet of fear in the past about how amazing all the Russian equipment is and recent events showed up that for all the published specs, what's actually put out there doesn't match up. The current mood is opposite but not very wrong. How many Armata tanks has anyone seen? How effective were those scary "Terminators" ? How many of these Kurganets things has anyone seen in Ukraine? Making a few high end pre-production models is a lot different from mass producing something sophisticated.
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  60. That seems to be a convenient redefinition to exclude some people you don't like.
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  61. "The stock market always recovers"......that's an extremely facile statement.
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  62.  @netscrooge  We manage to learn by trying things too - we don't copy everything.
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  63. "57 Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade named after Kostya Hordienko, Chief of the Kostya. Congratulations on the Independence Day of Ukraine from the 95th ODSHB"
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  64. If we did anything good, we did it despite Boris - he ran off to Kiev to hug Zeleinsky every time he got into trouble at home for lying because basically Ukraine is popular here. I'm sure the optics of it were great from outside but not as much from inside since from our point of view he handed peerages to the rich son of a KGB officer and his party took lots of money from Russian oligarchs - who he also gave lots of time to get their money out before sanctioning them.
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  65. He built up the army according to my Ukranian friends who liked him. I think he did right.
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  66. I feel sad that it was the usual platitudes without specifics. Also sad we didn't see the CTA 40mm cannon firing. "digital" is soooooo vague as to be almost useless and of course that's great for security but I'm sure that more can be said without giving away anything critical. I also wonder why 2 weeks of no problems is considered "good" as most of us civvies would expect that with brand new cars/buses etc.
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  67. Presumably a lot of people think lying is fine if it suits their politics - hence they elect liars. The excuse for this is "politicians are all liars anyhow" and so it spirals down ....
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  68.  @MrShaun1011  keeping space engineers employed and learning is quite a good way to spend civic money compared to lots of other things which have more money spent on them. Now there's a big pool of skilled people to get headhunted by all the space startups for example ...
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  69. @UClCirhVDKMttkhRaaC8_VRA ....because the US has a functioning democracy and some people sought to attack it. It's all about who one is serving - oneself or the people of the country. We know that autocrats #1 priority is to gain power and then remain in power and that this is more important than "the people."
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  70. "More than two dozen destroyed enemy tanks, half a hundred more heavy equipment and more than 300 liquidated rocket launchers. Attack pilot Oleksandr Kukurba instilled real terror in the occupiers. During his lifetime, he received the highest state award - the Gold Star of the Hero of Ukraine. With the beginning of a full-scale invasion, he took on the most difficult tasks and actually lived in an airplane. But the hundredth combat sortie for the deputy squadron commander was the last. What he was like - see."
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  71. It homes in on hot air. You should stand off.
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  72. There are a few elements of truth IMO. Management, for example, is a very important thing to be good at as it affects everything else. There are brilliant people all over the world who can only "shine" when they go somewhere that's managed properly. Also there is a shallowness to friendly social interactions with strangers in America but what does that matter when compared to the obvious disinterest, outright hostility, rudeness or contempt that you might get in other places? On the other hand I think Russian Oligarchs certainly care about money.....
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  73. Please get your UK passport if you're allowed dual citizenship and vote with it
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  74. possibly BECAUSE they feel better than him - where other politicians try to seem smarter.
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  75. У нашій історії моя країна не завжди чинила правильно, але цього разу ми можемо пишатися – ми допомогли країні порядних людей, які стали героями. Слава Україні!
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  76. ​ @reevs2153  as an example: Brits live in a "big country" where there is always someone whose job it is to do whatever. Zimbabweans need to have the mentality that if they don't sort out a problem then nobody will. i.e. if you see something broken it becomes your job to sort it out. There's nothing odd about this - it's just adaptation to the situation. In the UK if you take responsibility for things you end up annoying the people whose job it is. The state will also never look after you in Zim so one develops a very different attitude to not being in work or having debt.
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  77. If you think of the disparity in the size of the two armies, it has to be Russia that's suffering huge casualties otherwise they would have won already.
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  78.  @v4skunk739  Starstreak are likely to be very cheap compared to zircon so that will waste Russian money very well.
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  79. How many people are upset by those statues? Are you? Is anyone still experiencing Roman oppression and racism ? Your argument is quite pathetic. As for the ottomans I think that they are already well disliked in some places and people in those places have probably removed the reminders they most object to.
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  80. A person I knew at school apparently became a major and I've always worried about the quality of the Army since I heard that. Hopefully nobody who knows me and him will read this. He was a person who liked being part of an institution and since our school (in Africa) was quite different from the easygoing UK ones I think he liked the idea of being in another place where someone would tell him what to do and what to think. He was inclined to boss people around without the authority to do so and wasn't all that bright about it either. It struck me that if he is typical then the Army isn't a place where one can get away from boneheads and exercise one's brain to the best of one's ability.
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  81. Please build them to a high standard and don't embarrass us like the Ajax has !
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  82. No mention of Concrete Canvas which can already "make chairs and tables" etc and is in fact in widespread use already and doesn't need to be made with expensive carbon fibres.
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  83. "In the Kharkiv direction, Russian units using tanks, barrel and rocket artillery are trying to restrain the Defense Forces from advancing deep into the territory temporarily captured by the enemy."
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  84. It's about how their failures aren't their fault. i.e. they don't have to change.
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  85. I think this shows that there's more than one way to learn something. Look at how cheap it was to do this compared to flying to learn it!
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  86. What a wonderful chair that lifts her into any position to work!
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  87. Also Zimbabwen. My dad used to work for the government in the ministry of agriculture. Incompetence always seemed to be vastly more of a problem than corruption. The corruption was that incompetent people made decisions. They could have stolen a lot without much damage if they had only been competent.
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  88. "Democracy stops when I get the decision I wanted." uh huh.
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  89.  @Hassan-pe2mu  unfortunately they didn't have a loving and kind leadership - it continually threatened other nations in the region which supplies so much oil.
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  90.  @Hassan-pe2mu  Perhaps Iraq shouldn't have invaded Kuwait? It seems they got their own medicine?
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  91. Pity that the UK version of this: Magma just disappeared "off the radar".
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  92. Ukraini Slava!
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  93. I have been following this for a long time and find it fascinating. Its wonderful to see a story like this. It leaves out what the challenges were that lead to the long development time, however. The barrels apparently wore out quite quickly and things were done to alleviate that but everyone has been very quiet about it recently so I think we probably wont know for a long time how good it really is.
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  94. What do you expect? Only someone without morals would have taken on such a negative task anyhow. He knew it was bullshit and he knew that he could use the gullability of brexit voters to raise himself. He did his "British bulldog" impersonation and they absolutely loved it.... until covid showed them what kind of a person he is.
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  95. Being a hatchback makes that space much more useful.
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  96. Sky SABRE is quite good. The Viper system on the destroyers can be improved since the work has already been done by the French. We could join SAMP/T which uses the same missiles as the destroyers so we could share.
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  97. That's ok because the South Africans never reference the Rhodesians who taught them. :-)
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  98. A lot of your current wealth depends on providing security to other countries in return for which you get access to their markets and they don't shut down your monopolies. If you take the benefit out of the equation, it will be China that walks in as it is already doing.
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  99. The tanks were just a way of getting other countries moving. They got some Leopards and Bradleys in more useful numbers.
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  100. It's the language of someone who has lied or cheated to get what they want and desperately wishes for everyone to forget it.
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  101. People who have had years of training in S300 probably won't be as difficult to train as totally new soldiers.
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  102.  @gr6373  because Russia has 140 million peeps and NATO has...what...8-900 million? And much richer and more skilled people who are there to help Ukraine.
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  103. It may be that it lets the operator choose to attack a target and then carries out the attack on its own. That might be enough to overcome some kinds of EW.
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  104. Fascinating that people who experienced dictatorship in Slovakia are trying to vote for it in the US. Experiencing something seems not to defend you against it.
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  105.  @mrt4622  I'm sorry. We want the Ukranians to be free and it would be better if it could happen without fighting. I saw a horrible video today of a man being injured and even if he was a bad guy (I don't know) I don't like it. We were all children once and not evil.
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  106.  R S  Germans always manage to be fine - worry about your own criminal.
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  107. They/we have their own serious problems but they're obviously different. They cannot fully understand you guys because of leading a very different life - your views and behaviours can be seen but not fully empathised with because they have no idea what it's like to be you. I'm originally from Zimbabwe and have given up trying to explain myself or my attitudes as it doesn't work. From far away, someone else's culture/behaviour seems odd/comical but some English people don't realise yet that this applies to them also.
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  108. I don't know but it seems like rather a lazy attitude to say "they'll just deploy another". The Ukranians have been forcing Russia to move systems from all over the place and that when they "deploy another" it means leaving a hole somewhere else for drones to reach refineries or airfields.
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  109.  @getstuffed2391  I'm not "expecting" it - there is a long history of this happening,. I used to walk past the Brazilian Naval Commission's office in Putney every day - Brazil has bought quite a few former RN ships. Lots of other countries have bought second hand RN ships too and refitted them. I think he market is more competitive now, however.
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  110.  @PetraKann  indeed - he's the puppet master making all of Russia dance.
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  111. He has already "pulled out" by showing that he cannot be trusted. What's his commitment worth? Nothing.
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  112. I keep wondering about heat pumps (in the UK) and whether there's a way to feed them waste heat of any kind so that they operate in their most efficient mode - so I'm really wondering if a system like this could be plugged into an air-source heat pump to any benefit in a colder climate.
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  113. Probably they have to an extent. The Bohdana mobile artillery for example and 152mm shells. They've also spent their money on drones which are not made by the big defence companies. They've developed their neptune missile and so on.
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  114. The Russians were also winning in Afghanistan until they weren't
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  115.  @konstantinmanchilin4198  no need. The world is obviously much more than a match for you.
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  116. It's when people think they're superior and have the means to do something about it that we all get into trouble. Doesn't matter what country. The idea that "might is right" is very very worrying. Also to suggest that Germany has political dominance is .... a recipe for disaster.
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  117. The public rewarded those that did lie. The public like lying to themselves to a degree.
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  118. It adds up to Russia being a country where human life is not valued.
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  119. What they are likely to mean is that the operators can decide to "unleash" the drone at some distance from a target and after that point it can take over and complete the attack even if EW becomes too intense.
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  120. "Chornobayivka again. Ukrainian soldiers hit Chornobayivka, where the base of the occupying forces is located. It was reported in the operational command "South". As a result, 20 tanks, 2nd Russian tanks and a howitzer, and 4 more vehicles and armored vehicles were destroyed."
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  121. I'm typing this on an RPi 5. I absolutely love it. As an upgrade from the 4 it is great. I have quite a few other Pis and it is already convenient that I can plug cameras and other devices from one into the other and compile the same code without issues on all of them. I have a fairly powerful desktop so I'm not trying to use the Pi for everything. It's primarily my daughter's computer. Witha really nice keyboard and a decent monitor it is a joy to use.
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  122. There's a lot to be said for politeness but in a way it doesn't stop people from being rude. In the UK politeness is exceedingly important but people have developed sneaky ways of being rude and nosey without breaking the rules. They feel very clever if they have managed to insult you without you quite being sure about it. I think this kind of behaviour is far worse than direct rudeness and it's cowardly too. Really decent people seem to find ways to be kind and friendly no matter what their culture is.
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  123. People talk about blockchain a lot but it's not easy to understand how it delivers and what precisely it offers. I think it's rather a black box which we don't question a lot because it's "cool". At some point human effort is required - all the cryptography does is ensure that records aren't changed and that they were created by known people. It doesn't prove that those people are honest.
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  124. 55% of the people voted against the conservatives. . . .
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  125.  @marchvertochko0056  It's pretty glaringly simple - get out of the other people's country.
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  126. I don't like to overly encourage the Americans but....jazz....? An entire musical genre - did Russia ever do that? As for architecture........they invented a lot of the modern forms such as sky scrapers which are "so awful" that everyone is copying them. And how can "history" be superior?
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  127.  @ddmarsh21  In depth? i.e. repeating the same information 20 different ways? It seems more like hypnosis to me
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  128.  @knowledge3563  people from all over the world go to America and become American. The Americans were British and fought to be independent. It's just poor old Putin is upset that he isn't the leader of the 2nd most powerful country in the world anymore - hence all this scheming and aggression.
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  129. A martlet in English heraldry is a mythical bird without feet that never roosts from the moment of its drop-birth until its death fall;
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  130. From what I have read there is a big problem with nuclear in that many countries build different plants every time so that every one of them is a huge learning experience which is then lost when they don't build the next one exactly the same. I read that they also get built mostly on-site and the geology etc of the sites make each one slightly different even when they're the same basic technology. It seems to me that there's scope for remedying some of this.
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  131.  @Ammotive28  in a country with an aging population, babies are needed.
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  132.  @scratchy996  ha, of course it's quite unique - where else can you buy a similar gun? Unique doesn't mean first ever.
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  133. But we ARE on the same side, Ivan :-) Sucks to be you...
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  134.  @jawadad73  That will be difficult as the S-400s seem to have been asleep for a long time. Can't even stop those drones.
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  135. The hand that fed him is youtube, basically, and all the people that are interested in China. Are they only interested in good-news? Maybe not.
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  136.  @johno1544  no the brimstone is a British redesign of the hellfire and is made in the UK. It appears that the US wanted the new abilities it has but didn't want a foreign supplier so they added a dual mode seeker to the original design. The British Army doesn't appear to care about supporting the production of a UK weapon that was originally made for the RAF. It appears to not be "Team UK" at work.
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  137. It doesn't matter what Apple's intention was. What's it's intention now that it knows?
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  138. Only Oman bought them so ..... most people don't seem to agree.
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  139. AI is being hyped in the hope that people will buy into it i.e. pay the Americans a big whack of money. I strongly question anyone who promotes that idea because it is fostering more dependence on a country that isn't reliable now. Hyped areas generate lots of projects which lead to nothing - an expensive way of finding out where AI applies best. With less money we are going to be a bit behind and looking for ways to be ingenious (as the Chinese were with Deepseek) and efficient. We have home-grown technologies Imagination GPUs for example or the Spinnaker neural chips but are going to abandon them to prop up some very rich foreigners who will tell us when we are allowed to use our own weapons and when not?
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  140.  @wyvernliberatus8474 for the same reason people use Greenwich as the 0 meridian or any other standard. Someone has to be the inventor of standards and sometimes its' not going to be you.
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  141.  @johnallen7807  Nimrod was a dog because the airframes were all old and different sizes and it had a lot of problems.
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  142. I want my daughter to see this when she is old enough to understand.
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  143. Because they are doctors and scientists who rely on data and follow the scientific method unlike you who are just some random person on the internet with an opinion who is too frightened to use your real name.
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  144. ​ @knowledge3563  Russia has made Ukranians feel more Ukranian and more separate no matter what their language is. I speak to people from there so there's no point in bullshitting. Everyone can see who is the bully.
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  145.  @PetraKann  Ivan, why would I need to waste words on you - I'm sure you read the news.
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  146. They can get more than enough accuracy using fins on the projectile. We're just up a dead end and should stop trying to pretend it's because we're really clever
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  147. Paveway IV was developed in the United Kingdom although it has US IP in it. Apparently it's a guided Mk 82.
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  148. Italy has a helicopter industry - why support someone elses's?
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  149. It sounds like it doesn't use any kind of radar which is a good thing these days.
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  150. I love Tampere - used to go there for Nokia. :-) Walking on the lake in winter, sweating in the sauna and swimming in a hole in the ice. It's a red-brick city. :-)
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  151. It's not just politics - these connectors offer a wonderful target for an enemy. I think they are still far to attractive to give up on.
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  152. With any luck there is no such person. This will just start a witch hunt and potentially cause a lot of trouble.
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  153.  @CityRedesigner1945  I am Zimbabwean and married to a Turk. I lived there for a while. I'm used to people in the UK continually being surprised that other people in the world are intelligent and capable. It's normal though - people all over the world like to be nationalistic and Turks do it too.
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  154. People who flip flop are not choosing on logic - they chose for other reasons and the logic is just window dressing.
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  155.  @ramonpilgrim6623  The rock is in a sensitive position for shipping and for monitoring Ukrainian aircraft. As for the other land - the Russians "bought" it at a high price and it will be interesting to see if they can continue to pay like that.
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  156.  @Solrac-Siul  Americans have lots of regulations that they expect to work without even thinking about them. Every population has it's hallucinations but the American one is about being able to be totally unencumbered by one's fellow citizens. As for Trump, he's just like Erdogan, Orban, Putin, Mugabe - a person who the population has decided will tell them what they want to hear and bugger everything else.
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  157. Other industries are picking up software approaches and tools. This is really like a version control system for buildings - amazing in one sense that it isn't being used by everyone already.
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  158. I feel comforted - that there people in the world's superpower who are just as self-deceiving as in any tin-pot African dictatorship like the one I am from. There's no need to feel especially cursed that some of your fellow citizens support obviously corrupt men, with their hands in the till, simply because they feel the person shares their prejudices. It even happens to the richest countries!
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  159. She complained about bad behavior, the chances are that behavior will start to get fixed. To me that seems very strong especially as it attracts so many comments like yours which do nothing to improve the situation at all.
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  160. @Zionnist Squatter we don't need to be told about fairness or honesty by some superior being. They are simple enough to understand. Some people do need to be told a story though because otherwise they cannot see why they should be altruistic - for them you need a God who can see all their crimes and punish them.
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  161. Gobsmacked that we didn't have one before and that it's only one!
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  162. the older people are voters - if one cannot see the morality then at least the politics of his words should be obvious.
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  163. "This system is ideal for intense artillery battles, because it has a simple design, small dimensions and impressive mobility. The L119 is a high-quality replacement for the outdated Soviet D-30 guns of 122 millimeters caliber. Western weapons are more accurate and capable of inflicting significant losses on the Russian invaders."
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  164. Thank you for this excellent video. I find this story inspiring. I have a daughter and like everyone I hope for her to have a great future so I love hearing about someone who seems to have done it.
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  165. ​ @TheBarnster75 the carmakers would have to build cheaper cars. Unfortunately for the planet there are a.lot of people who waste resources competing for statua so this will never happen.
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  166. "Near the land I just stole"
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  167. There is no way to smoothly jumpstart a country like Zimbabwe. Britain had colonisers (the Romans) and they couldn't do it and eventually left Britain to degrade for 100s of years until its people were able to get civilisation going by themselves (of course they were also invaded again by the Angles and Saxons and Normans who did NOT leave). How could Zimbabwe go from subsistence farming to a stock exchange and steel making in 100 years (whenever you decide to start and end that period)? Buildings can be built, schools can educate but there are millions of people still living like their ancestors who have not changed much about their culture or way of thinking yet. And with 3% population growth, how can any country keep up with the provision of services, education and jobs? All we can hope is that it won't take the same amount of time to sort itself out that parts of Europe had to. This is a modern age of the internet after all - information is nearly free. Zimbabweans need to have less children and educate them more.
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  168.  @mukomapapapaps4358  That statement has no meaning to me. I see a man who wishes to be in power for ever and to increase his power and I call that undesriable for the rest of us.
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  169.  @getstuffed2391  You are talking about the Type-26 which has been designed to be muiltpurpose, if expensive, to be exportable. Australia has bought the design so it's not actually a market for our future second-hand type-26 ships - in fact we will have enabled a competitor when the time comes to sell them off. AFAICT Canada is the same.
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  170.  @getstuffed2391  that's how rude people love to excuse themselves. It's pretty clear that you're not informed.
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  171. ...not to mention that the huge success of ARM is an in-EU story and that it's story starts with Acorn computers founded by Chris Curry and Herman Hauser who is Austrian. Those horrible immigrants, eh.....?
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  172. I don't think that's how the voters see it. Labour has presided over bad periods too.
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  173. Looks like a Mazda to me. Don't much care who makes it. The size, looks are important and also the reliability. If they all match then I'd love to replace my ICE Mazda 6 with it.
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  174.  @ringtail1410  ... and Australians aren't Australian, Americans aren't American, people born in Africa like me shouldn't even exist..... You just fundamentally have a racial and tribal attitude which is not very British as Britain has has to bring together people who used to fight each other to make a bigger more successful country.
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  175. Who cares? This is the country thst ruined my country and is busy ruining others. why shoul I be impressed with people who cannot change their leadership for decades?
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  176. Like some others I'm not eager to see this project finish. I really would like a video when it is done of you just enjoying the car and driving it! I think that realistically, I'm never going to have this experience and I can only enjoy it through seeing you enjoy it. So please enjoy and don't be stressed.
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  177.  @SocialDownclimber  This particular design has had huge problems - the one in Finland is another epic tale.
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  178.  @TheMrAHead  It would make most sense to stop drinking unhealthy things out of cans.
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  179. It's not actually IN Ukraine AFAIK. At least that's not what they are saying. The Ammunition is currently very expensive - possibly because it's new and there's only one gun that can fire it and it might be getting produced on too small a scale. The barrels also had a somewhat low life in the development and we haven't been told how well they have overcome that - because it's obviously a secret!
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  180. The only thing that the PI really lacks for me is the ability to play youtube acceptably. It doesn't have to get better in any other dimension to make a desktop replacement for me.
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  181.  @news2hedz227  possibly the most major difference is the way Gripens have to be able to operate off roads with minimal equipment and small teams. Not much good having a fancy jet when your airbase is damaged and all the snazzy equipment to fix it needs lots of trucks to move it.
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  182. @margaret why are you proud of being born somewhere? What did you do to earn it?
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  183.  @gr6373  because that population can provide incredible resources to Ukraine without effort and without exhausting or weakening itself.
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  184. He seems ok at the job he has - he's not in charge of the Home Office or the Treasury so his opinions on that stuff don't matter too much.
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  185. ​ @davidgomez79 why the anger? Some company didn't do what you want and some person doesn't care about it like you do...so what's the problem?
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  186. The aged population is the major home of the Brexit emotion. Horrible as it is to say this, it will gradually become less of a division by natural means.
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  187. Nous ne sommes-pas tout "Brexiters". Principalement ils sont des personnes âgées. A la longue nous reviendrons.
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  188. That's the kind of trolling a Russian would do. Or some complete tool who's been picking up on Russian information warfare.
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  189.  @mcspikesky  laziness is a silly thing to accuse car companies of, especially successful ones. Cheapness , on the other hand, exactly what we want.
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  190. @Caveat Emptor The great thing about it is that they don't have to walk around with that bastard looking at them as if nothing was wrong about it. As for evidence....that statue is evidence of nothing and serves no useful purpose.
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  191.  @jedidiah5131  They're moving very slowly.
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  192.  @souradeepchoudhury8515  we will get off gas and never have to buy it again. Then you will be asking to buy the technology we developed to do it.
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  193. well, now there's a bit of history about how the statue got into the sea. Divers can show people around it and they can learn about the 21st century.
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  194. Don't bully - unless you want to be like Putin.
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  195. Carriers need resupply - logistics wins wars. What is complicated about it?
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  196.  @robbieevans6536  You're not hilarious, unfortunately.
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  197. No, it's not only you - lots of people feel this way but it's a kind of trap. X years ago it might have been true but the UK gave up it's armoured vehicle industry to a large degree and didn't retain the ability to build them. It didn't spend money upgrading Challenger 2 and it didn't build thousands of them (like the Germans did with Leopard 2) so it cannot compete forever in such a situation. Other counties can see how the UK doesn't care about it's own equipment enough and don't see the point of investing in something that has a doubtful future. The people who like things because of national pride don't help because they don't direct their dissatisfaction at being #2 or #3 at their governments.
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  198.  @Gfdsa40  ...whereas Challenger 2s are safely out of harms way because nobody else wanted to fight in them.
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  199.  @atheist6598  atheists might not believe in God but they can believe in the better nature of humans which is at work all over the place in Ukraine.
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  200. Fabulous. It is somehow confusing to see this most motherly and comforting of food being made by women looking like they could be supermodels out of the pages of a glamour magazine.....in such a friendly, no fuss way.
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  201.  @mmassehs3251  The problem with the number of lies your side has told is that we cannot really believe a single thing you say. If you were prepared to admit the truth most of the time then maybe there would be a point in listening.
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  202. It's the English of whom some don't care because they see it as a foreign problem. They sort of want to hang on to NI for pride but other than that it's of no interest to them.
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  203. IMO Religion is a way to get people to behave properly who cannot think how to do so for themselves. You can see how it's not all that successful.
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  204. He's an attention seeking drama-queen - Zelensky didn't kowtow low enough so there had to be a disaster.
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  205.  @marchvertochko0056  in the EU we've shot all the troublesome bears and the rest are in the zoo.
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  206.  @kevinjewitt6347  We don't have many bears left - when they caused us trouble we finished them off.
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  207. Poor little Brits...so hard done by by everyone.
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  208. Practise has been shown to help throughout history. Trained soldiers work better than untrained ones.
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  209. AI is overhyped. The only people who can use it safely are people who know what it's doing anyhow i.e. skilled people.
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  210. Why does this even matter? surely it's more important how it compares to a kornet missile or a 152mm artillery shell or something?
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  211. I don't think they're the slightest bit ashamed - they are determined to have it and want to make it "safe" by making it a taboo subject.
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  212. At least it would be our energy and not Russia's
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  213.  @herrbonk3635  If you don't like the war you should complain to the Russians, unless you are one - in which case I'm sure it is safer not to complain about anything.
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  214.  @knowledge3563  boo hoo. Every country is built on conquest and Russia no less.
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  215. Moth eaten dead rabbit perhaps. Don't poke the moth-eaten dead rabbit!
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  216.  @user-pq4by2rq9y  You're right and I don't think that full-electric is practical today so hybrid will happen first.
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  217.  @PetraKann  hey Ivan, say hi and FU to Putain for me. :)
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  218. Nice pictures of the car in Cape Town there on the N1 :-) Can't imagine too many people will own one there though.
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  219.  @wohdinhel  I'm, from Zimbabwe where there was a one-party state for a time and people called each other comrade (as long as they were the right colour). So no I don't think it's worth trying to use Brexit as an issue to fight your old war. This is not about that ideological battle at all.
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  220.  @mogznwaz  You all misinterpreted me. People who have done higher education have that much better chance of realising that they don't know everything because education shoves it in your face again and again that the amount there is to know is a lot more than what you know. Not everyone is "saved" but there's just a higher chance.
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  221.  @mogznwaz  the word communism doesn't seem relevant anymore. There are no communists left. It seems to be one of those extreme exaggerations that is used to describe anyone who isn't a racist, xenophobe or mysogenist.
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  222. Good, the further away the better :-)
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  223. ​ @Tekagi502  Medals are a public form of recognition to encourage right behavior. If a soldiers accomplishments are disrespected then the whole thing is fails and we will not get the army we need.
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  224.  @nicholasblair197  If you're against pot smoking and you suddenly find out that your hero does it and then change your mind......it shows you're emotionally committed to them rather than rationally.
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  225. No, the other leader is protecting a world in which he is Tsar at the cost of anyone including his people - there's no public service component to it.
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  226.  @user-lp7wo7og4x  that's an argument for maintaining friendly relations and not self-isolating.
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  227. Much less...than the Russians.
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  228. We're not that marvellous, unfortunately. Anyhow thank you for wanting us back.
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  229.  colinstevens6837  No it's just expensive so you want them to be be able to fire a lot of shots before you replace them.
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  230. It's all an investment in the production base.
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  231. ​ @normanchristie4524  if nobody voted for UKIP the Tory party would never have changed their tune. This is absolutely the fault of insecure British voters who did it regardless of knowing the cost because they thought nothing mattered more than saying FU to all the foreigners they decided to blame for their problems and fears.
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  232.  @zimtage1744  It's ok, they can go grab more when they want it from Russia.
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  233. The problem is that Russia is still the largest donator of tanks to Ukraine.
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  234. It's not so much about palatability - we have a fixed amount of effort we can deploy - so many engineers, so many skilled workers. Nuclear engineers are going to look at nuclear solutions probably but the rough conclusion from this video is that everyone who can look at wind, solar and storage probably should be spending their time on those.
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  235. I see EVs all over the place, they seem very popular.
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  236. I'm from Southern Africa - not everyone needs a "truck" (and ours are relatively smaller Japanese style ones) but it's always very useful to know somebody who has one. It makes that person slightly more socially important.
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  237.  @JasonX2  Why would any of us give you what you want then?
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  238. The problem with this analysis is that it relies on what has been published and as the Ukraine conflict has shown, the details in real life don't always match up to the specs. It can use guided rockets for example, but how many of those are there? Why, with 800 of these, has Russia not already won? If it's so good at counter battery fire why is there any Ukranian artillery left? Is it just because they've dispersed? I do notice it needs to be reloaded by another vehicle with a crane where the Himars and M270 (I think) can reload themselves from a dropped off pack so I can see logistics issues there. I imagine that accuracy is a huge boost to logistics too.
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  239.  @ffffuchs  ........really? The whole industry that sells us crap - $200 sunglasses which cost $5 to make, clothes, $2000 phones - it's ALL about people "rubbing it" in our faces.
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  240. The apache is a huge problem for us because it is now difficult for it to take the huge upgrades the Americans have made because of our "twists".
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  241. Indeed the whole issue was about electing people who were prepared to tell the voters what they wanted to hear - that it was all possible and going to be great. Our system selects people who are prepared to do anything, say anything. How can honest politicians survive ?
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  242. You missed something that I really loved from an earlier video about it - the way the front passenger seat can be folded forward fully to create a very long load bay - ideal for carrying long bits of wood or concrete fence posts from the local DIY shop.
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  243. Well, should have invested many years ago - too late now.
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  244. The books just make me think that Heinlein was an arsehole. The female characters are all apparently strong then turn out to be weak and he is one of those "respect strength" kinds of people. I.e. the bastards who call other people decadent because they want to have a peaceful and happy life.
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  245.  @BigRed2  VAT is not sales tax at all but that's a distraction really, the point to remember is that in the UK you pay 0% tax on your income up to $15,000 (approx) then 20% on the income from there to $61800 and over that 40 up to $190K roughly. This is quite different from what you have been quoting. This level of taxation provides the services that get governments elected and prevent the poorer people from starting revolutions and it has been the democratic choice.
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  246. ​ @colonizingpuertoricoisunde2971  soldiers are what's left when the rest of us have screwed up totally. They pay the price of our mistakes. It's worth recognising that kind of soldier.
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  247.  @evolassunglasses4673  No they don't - immigration is our only defence against exploitation - that we are not forced to accept the deal that the oligarchs offer. They can move their money to wherever production is cheapest with ease - but if exploited people can leave then that scheme stops working.
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  248. As space access gets open to more people who need no skills to get there what are you going to call them?
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  249.  @nihilistcentraluk442  The point was that the fall was N years later than it would have been. X many more people got educated in a period of economic stability and were able to leave and create lives elsewhere. Funnily this includes most of the "indigenous" people in my class at school who are in America or the UK or scattered over the world. You might not care but I have every reason to be glad. As for Zimbabwe, your points make a theme that conveniently excuses everyone for the mess that has currently occurred other than the Zimbabwean population and that is not at all fair. The Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, surrounding countries and the Western countries that at best did nothing all carry some responsibility for the current situation.
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  250. ooh the Russians don't like your comment - well done!
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  251. It's the ideal such as saying "please" and "thank you" which we have been trying to sell to "the masses" for the last few hundred years but it seems like an impossible task.
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  252. It might not be the education itself but just the chance to meet a lot of people from other places. On the other hand I think university does make you realise that life is more complicated and difficult to understand than it looks and that "common sense" doesn't work or isn't sufficient to understand things.
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  253.  @bloggalot4718  So now it cannot influence the EU's policy at all - not too smart really.
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  254. Love this. İt's a perfect introduction to the kinds of things one imagines doing with a Pico. I did a show and tell video last week at work about the Pico but I should just have played this :)
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  255.  @reditv5749  It's only relative to you - from your point of view everyone who isn't a Nazi is "liberal'.
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  256. Every country has something to be embarassed about. We could also be embarassed to be human when you see what humans do. Lets cheer the heroes like this man and try to be like him.
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  257.  @allen5513  I think it's so funny that you are scared shitless of some Europeans.
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  258.  @adoatero5129  Since I worked at Symbian I got the impression that criticism was always about "Symbian" and praise was always about "S60" (the huge pile of crap built ontop by Nokia). This idea of creating a new OS was really a huge distraction from the real problems: making too many phone models with too cheap components. When there are many different devices there get to be lots of bugs which the software has to fix and there isn't enough memory on the device or the GPU or whatever because Nokia wants to make $1 extra profit per phone. Nokia's idea about how to work didn't change with Maemo or Meltemi really. Same stupid way of selling phones and a new piece of software from Trolltech to eventually screw up.
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  259. There will always be people who will vote the way you don't like for a party you don't like.
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  260.  @Dannyhunter1970  We're all dead men walking but some are brave and good. Slava Ukraini!
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  261. I was born in a country which at the time was called Rhodesia. That ought to remind people how the US and the UK behaved when it suited them, resulting in Robert Mugabe. I love that Ukraine is getting support now but it's a mistake to think that this is all about love and humanitarianism.
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  262. Perhaps no more big arms contracts with US companies though. I mean if they won't provide the service why should we pay the price.
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  263. I remember being called a "Nerd" at school. I think I earn more than most of the people who used to do that now. Of course, if not then I don't want to know :-D
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  264. Through a district heating system which countries like Finland have and cheapskates like us in the UK mostly don't.
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  265. The "advisoriness" is not really the issue - the issue is that the Conservative party looked to lose a lot of votes to UKip. Now it has killed off UKIP by adopting its policies. That's what the whole thing is about.
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  266. God, these guys talk around every point so much it's impossible to understand what they're talking about. e.g. "adding value".....how. Defence Industrial Collaboration....OK ... 1 thing. More standardisation means countries losing industries, accepting equipment that's not perfect for your own needs because it's generally works for other people. .....and yet if we don't do it then we WILL find it difficult to train and operate effectively.
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  267.  @wnose  everyone else did it.
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  268. I found that it depends on having a personalised explanation. One needs the explanation that fits you. In desperation at university on one topic I read every book in the library until one of them had an explanation that made it clear. The impossible became possible. Obviously I have never done a partial differential equation since then :-D There is also a motivation issue because if one cannot see why one is learning it then there's no oomph to get over the problems. Being taught by people who just like it for itself is useless.
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  269. There's no such thing as pure economics at that level.
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  270.  @jb76489  What argument did you present? What data?
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  271. They should indeed because we will be able to use our aircraft and our money to fight them more efficiently if they're not doing transport duty.
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  272. They are exceedingly specialised aircraft and very expensive to develop. It takes years to get them right. Airbus would need to invest a serious amount of money and its military aircraft business is already experiencing problems. The advantage of Poseidon is that the Americans are spending a lot on it so it will stay up-to-date and it works right now and several countries are using it. There's really not a lot of choice if one wants that level of performance.
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  273.  @kevinjewitt6347  yes Ivan, I notice that when I see their threats against us and their complaints. I also notice the Ukranians seem oddly happy for our help. I look forward to more of your insults to prove how much we matter
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  274.  @davidlysaghtlegupability2924  Really? How is NATO going to operate?
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  275. People who don't want to change their minds won't and one is only making the effort to question to reach people who are not emotionally invested.
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  276. @Drew Peacock Perhaps Aster 30 missiles from a Type 45 destroyer or longer range systems provided by NATO allies such as the US or Germany. The UK doesn't have a longer range missile system - I suppose that combat aircraft are the "long range" option for the UK.
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  277. It would seem their use is limited against a peer adversary. We see Russian and Ukranian helicopters flying extremely low and then "lobbing" rockets from far away because the air defence threat is so extreme. It makes me wonder what good the sights and sensors would be if this helicopter had to face the same situation?
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  278.  @herrbonk3635  Elect a pro-Russian party next time then?
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  279. Sure, what's the point of tools at all? They should be undoing bolts with their teeth and when one of them dies you just pull another random person off the street and set them to fixing your expensive high-tech jet.
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  280.  @ianroy6668  We can't be strong if we're economically weak. That means more rather than less integration to be efficient.
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  281. Oh come on....they're buying 33 aircraft from us...helping them to train is part of the deal - want to hand the money back?
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  282. Drop them on the sea floor to make artificial reefs perhaps? That could be very cheap if you put them near the windfarm itself - and useful for sea life.
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  283. Well, the Russians cannot counter it in Ukraine because it is laser guided.
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  284.  @kasaljf  all baloney. NATO is required for any chance of peace and to threaten article 16 is a bitch move.
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  285.  @getstuffed2391  I'm Zimbabwean, not a "pom" and you're being rude. Money is the engine of war.
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  286. One attack after another ..... what is the problem? Who would rely on commercial providers in some other country or some other ally whose president might decide to withold information on a whim? Or some billionaire space magnate who decides he likes traditional Russian values and doesn't want to co-operate...??
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  287. It's got to be very galling to you that its' all unwinding :-)
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  288.  @user-pq4by2rq9y  That's just not what the evidence shows. Hybrids bring back the reliability problems. Batteries can be cooled and heated to make them work well just like the people inside get cooled or heated to make them work well.
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  289. Less complex because the moving part is a ball valve.
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  290.  @mogznwaz  well, obviously people with big commitments to a certain viewpoint won't let anything influence them.
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  291.  @mogznwaz  Usually people start off with narrow preconceptions and try to travel and get educated to widen their view so they essentially see things and understand the world in a way they couldn't before. It's fairly obvious that we start of knowing nothing and will continue to fail to understand the world if we don't make an attempt to learn. Some learning is very uncomfortable and there's a great temptation to reject it totally. Some information that shakes one's own view of oneself, one's own origins etc for example.
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  292. A new weapon like this needs orders for it to become economic so it has to be at least a joint venture and the factory has to be somewhere.
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  293. Russia: kicked out of Ukraine by women. It has a good sound. Keep running!
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  294.  @chriswalsh3814  I'd take it all with a pinch of salt. Putting components together IS design and the seeker is a major part of what brimstone is. You don't really know who is who on the internet anyhow or what their bias might be.
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  295.  @kaidyno4480  but if Russia goes to war with Finland then NATO will be involved - that's the point.
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  296. I applaud the honesty. So many people have this attitude and won't admit it.
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  297. It keeps wasting it by trying to save money - this seems the default UK strategy: try to get the fanciest tech for the lowest price possible - then end up paying much more and getting nothing.
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  298. ​ @evolassunglasses4673  Negotiations, are such an extreme sign of weakness that it would be only a short time before we were facing the whole problem again but worse. Ivan, you're not fooling us.
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  299. Against whom? We made these weapons to deal with Russia and thats what they're doing. We should not lose this chance to get what we paid for.
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  300. They're bringing it up so that someone can say "no effect" because they know that will be the line anyhow.
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  301. Because then electronic warfare, flares and directed infrared countermeasures can save the enemy. Laser guided weapons are hard to defeat. There are obviously trade offs.
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  302. Since there's no democracy and no freedom it's appropriate that another undemocratic country would provide us with this building where the government can put on its theatre production: a Comedy of Errors
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  303. I worked out today that I've been using Linux for 33 years - since 1992. I find it amusing that this interview is all in the UI and not a command prompt to be seen. How times change! All these items are just side effects of the underlying reason why Linux was better back then and is better now. The reason is that it's something FOR YOU and not FOR EXPLOITING you.
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  304.  @moistman6930  From what I've read they need quite a lot of equipment and people to keep them going and the Gripen is specifically designed not to. It all means that 1 aircraft can do more sorties and against an opponent with lots of aircraft that is an equaliser. "Gripen E can take off in strips of road that are only 16m wide 500m long and can land in a 600m long road, without any tailhook or brake chute. This capability also allows the fighter to take off from small taxiways, small civil airfields or highways. A Gripen can also taxi using its own power to flightline positions for maintenance, refuelling and rearming, with the help of limited crew members. Gripen was designed for a minimal turnaround time - tasks like refuelling and rearming do not take more than 10 minutes, further increasing the operability and availability of the fighter. Gripen was given a canard in order to be able to land on short airstrips and also to increase manoeuvrability. The canard, along with the wheel brakes, help Gripen to stop quickly after landing. “We use the canard and the wing rudders to create aerodynamic downforce to make the brakes more effective,” says Eddy de la Motte, head of the business unit for Saab Gripen E/F. By making Gripen self-contained, the need for a large number of ground support equipment was eliminated. For example, the aircraft uses an auxiliary power unit, handles many of its start-up systems, and also performs diagnostic checks internally. Other small functional details like the master arm switch for weapon system checks, access panels that can be opened and closed with the push of button latches, bolts that can be removed to detach the engine while disconnecting the fuel, hydraulic lines, and more, have been designed to save time on the ground and make missions last for a longer period of time."
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  305.  @kazdean  The high barrel elevation can be achieved without any special design considerations. It's compact so you can fit it to many kinds of vehicle and it's still multipurpose because it can select the ammunition type itself. IOW your IFV can take out drones AND other targets. It doesn't need constant attention from a loader - it has a system that autoloads the desired ammunition type. You obviously need to refill at some point - just like any system. It's going to allow people to get more usefulness out of each vehicle. The compromise is cost.
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  306. It's important to hear from you because there is a temptation for us in the west to become very negative towards Russians. In a way you save all Russians on your own - I can't condemn them all when I know you are one. Not only do you save them but you save us from becoming hard, cruel and prejudiced ourselves.
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  307. Nuclear is the only other option and it's hugely expensive and the occasional refuelling takes the ship out of commission for a long time.
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  308. Redundancy. It is a highly redundant aeroplane so that it will survive those 1000km trips in all weather.
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  309.  @tonyharrison2112  we could have had cv-90 with this cannon though .. probably.
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  310. @margaret yes, so nothing you did.
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  311. I think it's recognised but they're talking about manned efforts and India isn't yet at that level. It probably will be in future and a time will come when nobody will be able to ignore it.
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  312. We're not weak. We have limitations as does everyone and they relate to what our economy can support. We still pack a punch in various areas. We have to fix what we can but nobody can have it all.
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  313.  @ciaranperry4677  irrelevant and also pathetic given what the Russians did in Syria "legally".
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  314. seems like no Brimstones and instead the Americans have decided to make an equivalent and get us to buy it.
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  315. The judges decided it, not GM. She just brought a case like anyone can.
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  316. The difficulties of translation and different terminology.
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  317. Why not go and complain outside a Ferrari dealership then? Pointless, wasteful expenses are all around us.
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  318. Don't want to be horrible but it's just "Ukraine" now and yes it would be nice if they could have a lot of them. Unfortunately the UK didn't build a lot and has partially lost the ability - not that it couldn't build it back but all at great cost. To me it seems wiser in the end for NATO to choose a standard tank and buy the intellectual property rights so that any country in NATO can make the same tanks locally and still be able to share components, ammunition, etc.
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  319. I think the head of the lettuce is rotten now :-)
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  320.  @markbullock1931  there will just be a few more accents. :-)
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  321. ...as long as the important bits are German (gun, engine) !
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  322.  @tiendinh2554  when Russia let's Chechnya go we'll believe that it is possible for part of a country to leave
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  323. ​ @Ianmundo  oh, indeed, I am very stupid to doubt the value for money of any military procurement. It's not like the clever people ever try to sell the government expensive solutions.
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  324. Does give the tank transporter squadron some practise which could even be the real reason why it's happening like this.
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  325.  @alanjameson8664  Cars are not phones anyhow. There's a shift going on which is a time when values get shaken up and it's true that Nokia responded badly to the fact that the game it was good at playing had new rules but it's not the same. There's no app-store really, and that is a very critical part of why Nokia got into trouble and the market could support only 2 systems at most. Phones are no longer about making calls and to have the wrong OS is to be locked out of the magic but for cars I don't think that is really true.
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  326.  @ANDREWHALL28  desperation is a weak excuse as it looks like anyone could have done a better job of filtering the bullshit companies out.
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  327.  @denisdaly1708  well, nothing more gullible than deciding to fool yourself and demanding that other people help you :/
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  328. i.e. you're going to have to nearly die to learn.
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  329.  @mowabb  Everything he mentioned, the Gripen could do long ago and the Swedes were doing long before the f-35 was thought of.
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  330.  @mosh.4245  No, they had a shared picture between fighters with their own datalink. Gripen was the preview for the American efforts.
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  331.  @mowabb  The Gripens can see the same picture as their AWACS and one ship can "see" for the others without them having to expose their own positions. They have Meteor missiles which are not available for the F-35 yet. It's a bad thing for a Russian to face.
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  332.  @HALLish-jl5mo  Shatner is a man of course. I wonder if it's because some other famous singer didn't get there first and the fans don't like it for that reason? It definitely seems emotional.
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  333. @oba73_ Do astronauts all really "pilot"? What about mission specialists - are they not allowed to be called astronauts?
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  334. I like they way they drew a line by saying "the RAF Typhoon" and the "German Eurofighter". Slick bit of spin there. Imagine how many pink-faced "patriots" it would upset if they said "the RAF Eurofighter".....
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  335. The point of these exercises is to ensure that.
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  336. So you'd rather spend money on your ego instead of e.g. sick or homeless people. How is that loving your country?
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  337.  @ianworley8169  this kind of wanking about who did what and whose creative accounting adds up to 2% better than the other's - it all helps Putin.
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  338. I think they are getting some 152mm guns but there are limits to how many of those are available and probably limits to the amount of ammunition and eventually we have to wean them off Russian stuff so we can supply them properly.
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  339. The Honda "Jazz" (Fit) is a wonderful car. Feels huge, parks anywhere. We had one when we were living in Istanbul and it was wonderful for parking in tiny spaces. Every night when we got home and had to start the hunt for a parking space it was a bonus to be in that car. Plus the space under the rear seat !!!!! The way you could flip that rear seat up to make the back useful! I know you're not into EVs much but I'd love an EV version of that car. Unfortunately there would be nowhere to fit batteries I expect.
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  340. We would like that to be normal and accepted and no surprise.
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  341. Excellent. Split that vote.
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  342.  @davidsummer8631  the UK has weaker (or no) growth and the EU countries we compare to usually do have it. They are recovering from COVID and we aren't.
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  343. Not having a dairy industry is a bit pathetic. Zimbabwe used to have one so it's not really that much of a big deal.
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  344. @Anglosaurus Rex and getting smaller compared to Germanys (per capita) since 2016....
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  345.  @chrismath149  I believe there was slipshod manufacturing of the hulls (in Spain?) so they're all slightly different sizes and that makes everything worse. So obviously the issue is with nobody being in overall charge somehow.
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  346. They did have to beg for missiles from North Korea...
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  347.  @FordFalcon1962nBlue  Yes and you can see the tanks disappearing from the storage locations in satellite photos. Quite alarming for you guys,
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  348. @@joelynch550 Go complain to flightradar
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  349. It's hard to hire people who know CS. The cost is astronomical. If you temper your expectations and show you're interested in the subject you'll find someone that gives you a chance because they're desperate to hire and haven't got enough money. The first step into a programming job is the hardest. AI doesn't really matter - its' another tool. It is something that cannot be trusted except when used by a person who is already an expert.
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  350.  @lachlanchester8142  Really? Or was it that the Americans joined in and sorted it out?
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  351.  @lachlanchester8142  well, jokes don't always pan out.
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  352. You cannot understand mostly because you don't live in a violent place, particularly the US. I think you're 100% right to not like it but often I despair of explaining any aspect of life where I'm from (Zimbabwe) to Brits because they cannot mentally transport themselves to that situation - they have not even the concept of what it's like to be afraid. FWIW my Uncle in South Africa had his house robbed and the robbers beat him to death. Up the road from where I was staying at university there were AK-47 casings all over the road one day after robbers took a cash-in-transit van and it didn't even make the national news. Zimbabwe is less violent than SA if you keep out of politics but there's lots of robbery. You can see when the cops are no help or they're even the ones trying to do you harm that it would be nice not to be helpless. I think with parts of the US - you cannot grok them and they cannot grok you because neither has walked a mile in the other's shoes. As for the idiot in the picture, I think it's all political - looking for support from gun owners and NRA of course.
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  353. yes it is absolute genius - we've been offered an incredible bargain basement price for stopping the threat of Putin.
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  354.  @SimonPullen-i3h  because they're not. When people's birthdate isn't known a default date is used.
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  355. Not learning what has been done before in your profession is a huge waste of time. In computers we have lots of people who don't get a degree and their whole career is about making all the mistakes they can learn not to make in 3 years at university. Forever afterwards they need to have basic concepts explained to them and they rebel against being told anything by someone who they feel they're competing with. This attitude of Mr Sutherland's is absolutely ridiculous. If you want a useful degree then don't do Art history but for goodness sake learn something relevant to your profession.
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  356. @Noctis-lg7xp I get to see a lot of CVs without one. I have hired people without one and they haven't been a mistake. I've hired people with better quals who were really difficult. But.. if the other issues are equal, the person with a CS degree is easier to work with. I don't want to discourage people who cannot afford it. You can learn a lot on your own - it's just that people often don't know what they don't know - don't know what to try to pick up. I forgot a lot but I sort of know what I don't know and can go learn it again easily when I need it.
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  357. The Russians just won the election, so I doubt they are cross about their new F-35s ;-)
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  358. @John W I think I missed your irony, I agree that there seems to be a lot of mudslinging a bit like in the phone world with people being quite emotional about their choice and the status that they feel it gives them.
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  359.  @GlynBoughton  You can really see how much richer UK is now. Penny wise pound foolish.
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  360. There's a top-end of the market and all companies are going to want to own that because it's very profitable for a lower investment. A company that does well in that space will have more borrowing power for its investment in mass market cars. In Mercedes case it split off its research and development arm into Continental and a Continental computer is in the VW ID.3 and ID.4 so I think that investment at the top really does filter down.
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  361. Behind every dead civilian there is an imaginary target . Mariupol was just one huge target so it had to be obliterated. Don't ever get next to a target yourself or your friends will blast you.
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  362. You could try but he wasn't a slave trader or a dictator and not that many people really hate him specifically.
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  363. They tried to save money on the warrior and found out it was too difficult to reuse all their old and oddly different hulls I think. They chose the turret IIRC because LM suggested they could upgrade the existing ones and not build them from scratch like BAE wanted to. Of course in the end they had to build them from scratch. It's all predictably stupid.
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  364.  @moshedayan6698  we will see how you do it, or how fat you get as you age. It will be interestingnto know if you are perfect.
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  365. @Oldie But Goodie we have laws to prevent speech that incites violence and to prevent libel. I think that's just reasonable. There are limits to all our freedoms when that freedom impinges on other people's freedom.
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  366.  @Jamie_D  not really, you can work that all out by knowing a N points along the arc and then solving an equation in N-1 unknowns. I'm no expert but the shooters know 2 points (the firing point and the target) and the angle and initial veliocity and with that they can predict the whole arc of the shell's flight at every point in time from firing to impact. To have the same amount of information, the tracker needs to know the current velocity and the precise location of the shell at 2 points as it moves along the arc. When the tracker has the same amount of information as the shooter they know just as much and can work out the whole arc including the firing point and target. Obviously one needs to know wind and temperature and probably other things. It's also probably necessary to know more than 2 points for other reasons like guessing what type of shell it is (whereas the shooters know that).
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  367.  @justmr9553  Ahhh, you're so right and I'm wrong. thank you! I don't know where I got the impression that it was the American one. Forgive me - only an armchair wikipedia reader.
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  368.  @JB27888  Because we could do some of the moving around and it would be the legal kind where a business that needs to hire e.g. a programmer can just do it - thus allowing work to proceed.
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  369. Tovarish, I think it's Ukraine that's getting donations from the Russians, not the other way around.
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  370. I think the Ukranians look after their soldiers better because they have less of them.
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  371. A big plane is the go-to accessory for any banana republic leader. It really puts one in the ranks of a lot of questionably honest 3rd world presidents. Fitting.
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  372. To buy safely second hand without being an expert you look at insurers reports on the. Total cost of ownership for various cars and brands. 2nd hand Japanese cars are a bette bet usually. Don't buy a BMW - expensive to fix apparently. Then you get something with low mileage. There's always a risk but the risk with new cars is huge anyhow - you lose a lot of money just driving it away from the showroom.
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  373.  @marchvertochko0056  a trillion is a thousand million just to clarify. The thing about NATO is that it COULD offer trillions because it has a huge population compared to Russia. But it hasn't. Britain is spending more on its high speed rail link than it ever spent on Ukraine for example.
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  374.  @kevinjewitt6347  Ivan, only a someone who thinks like a poodle tries to accuse others of it. We are not Russia's poodle and that is all you need to know.
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  375. That's the kind of excuse unreliable people almost always use to excuse their behavior. Doesn't matter to the commonwealth though - they have experienced the UK's absolute self centredness and aren't about to become 'vassals' again themselves because that really was what a colony was. Their actions will show the same cold self-interest that Britain showed to them.
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  376. The colonies had no choice over who they traded with for one thing - if that doesn't make them vassals what does? It ain't going to happen again.
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  377. "He singlehandedly..........." "......built upon the work of....." :-)
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  378. No they are embedded in the panel.
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  379. It took dishonesty to get out, we will have to get back in bit by bit.
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  380. If the missiles were going to be destroyed then their effective value is 0 so might as well use them up.
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  381.  @huldu  The sea is far bigger in area than the land - also suitable nodules are only in certain places. So its' going to be a choice of damage to x% of the land versus damage to < x% of the sea.
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  382.  @irashishonkova8626  I think you imagine that everyone lives in a police state like yourself. I suggest an experiment - criticise the "WAR" in public on your own (not a demonstration with 1 person is it? ) and see what happens to you.
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  383. And so does VW.
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  384. Electric is not hot - no IR signature and hybrid vehicles can use fuel but much more efficiently.
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  385.  @mattbrody3565  Hub motors would allow layout improvements inside and perhaps offset some weight too - plus all the potential traction improvements.
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  386. I would say that we don't know that at all. It has already bought equipment from other countries that it didn' have and donated it and that's just as possible with aircraft. Britain also has some older and not fully modernised types like the T1 typhoon which can still carry the meteor missile. One or two of those might be something for Russians to think about because of the very long range.
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  387.  @timscott3027  indeed. I work at home and my wife's daily commute is quite a lot less than 10 miles. There are obviously other trips and shopping and so on but it would just reduce the need to think about charging more than once a week.
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  388.  @maelgrum  Then why did you need to send the "green men" to get it ?
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  389. Il'y a longtemps depuis Erdogan etaitent Gulenist lui-meme, n'est-ce-pas? Il les utilisait et jete.
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  390.  @inge-9280  That's a mistake. Turkey has a large army and a large population and it's in an important position. Erdogan is not Turkey - even with all his evil tricks he couldn't stop nearly 50% of people voting against him in the last election.
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  391. @Andrew Lee as others say, scientists don't believe things till they're proven and even then keep an open mind whereas you think you know stuff but whether you are right or wrong is just chance.
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  392.  @oskaraper  or some brave anonymous person on the net like you who could be paid by anyone......hmmmm
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  393. @Andrew Lee What an amazing argument, clearly you're a genius.
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  394. It can carry blood for people who are injured or possibly even critical spare parts and that could increase the ship's combat capability by one or more aircraft. It's really a bit juvenile to not understand that logistics wins wars.
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  395. Some British people only defend it because they would defend any stupid thing with the label "British" on it. They want to feel special even if it means "special."
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  396. It is but there are some important bits in there from Europe - like the service module that powers and propells the command module up to just before it returns to earth.
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  397.  @lucidjuicekid  It's just difficult because all of us do need telling about something or other. Someone has to do it, and while we call them wankers we tend to listen anyhow.
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  398. I don't understand all the details really but I do love that bit about "stop saying people are your greatest asset" - it's the kind of thing that gets said only by people that don't mean it. :-)
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  399. @P JL Then perhaps it should fall apart.
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  400. The tanks, APCs are at least partially a kind of old investment made many years ago. They were sitting in depots doing nothing. So it's not quite the same as losing X billion dollars of money that they could have used for something else. You could say that it makes Russia far less resilient in future - more at risk from NATO.
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  401. Just more legroom in the front.
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  402.  @jb76489  Sorry Ivan, cover blown.
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  403.  @albert7311  you're not one of me anyhow, fortunately.
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  404. They're sending you drones already, Ivan.
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  405.  @user-pq4by2rq9y  Electric cars have offered plenty of data about reliability. There are far fewer moving parts and that makes them much more reliable. Battery packs can be designed for heavy use (i.e. high power output) and are working successfully for everything from those huge house-sized dump trucks in open cast mines to buses and trucks.
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  406. An example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_xrpYC_FFQ&t=2m03s
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  407.  @knockedoutloaded279  No we don't, we need leaders who will protect our freedom against oppressors - without becoming oppressors themselves.
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  408.  @DanielRoblesHdez  well, real capitalists think markets should be free. Money should be able to move around freely to wherever it finds itself needed along with products and resources. That includes labour. Allowing money to move but not people just benefits those who have money. It's a socialist thing to protect any market including the one for labour. So Brexiters are socialist when it suits them.
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  409. South African voters can choose to kick the ANC out ... if they want. That's the problem. They haven't cleaned the house so there are "rats". You had the example of Zimbabwe to warn you .....
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  410. I think we rely on our much more modern airforce rather than tanks. We're further from the front-lines so we've let other people like the Germans concentrate more on those. British NLAWs are one of the things that prevented those Russian tanks from succeeding in Ukraine and they would surely expect a similar result anywhere else that we faced them with such weapons - before we even consider the other things we have to use.
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  411.  @edomane  It's different but not worse if you make it properly.
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  412. It will indeed make an impression on them and they will complain a lot. The Chinese influence relies on intimidation and showing courage against it reduces that influence. They don't like it.
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  413.  @johndonson1603  Why does the heritage of the murderer actually matter?
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  414.  @khar12d8  You heard that it's not getting easier outside. Perhaps they are just generally making poor decisions - not just about Brexit?
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  415.  @coreluminous  I don't think the House of Lords or the Queen made Brexit happen.
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  416.  @s0ycapitan  It hasn't managed to stop the Ukranians producing weapons in quite large numbers anyhow so this is irrelevant.
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  417. Lots of people claim to have invented computers including the Germans. It just depends on whether you think vaccum tubes or electro-mechanical logic gates or transistors or a design on paper or whatever is the critical distinguishing factor.
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  418. I enjoyed that explanation a lot. It's easy to criticise and please forgive me for my one minor gripe: "to beg the question" is a very very frequently misused expression. It actually means that someone has given an answer that doesn't add any information - often it is just a restatement of the question. It's a trick that e.g. politicians use to avoid answering. I think you want something more like "which raises the question".
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  419. No but it's bigot-proof.
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  420. Perhaps you could start the ball rolling.
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  421. The worst case for London is much worse than the worst case for the EU though.
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  422. This is great. It means the UK has experience working in and with the countries that it is obligated to help. It doesn't have to be huge to make sure that NATO is prepared and it means that sneaky options like "green men" and so on are off the table - the Russians would have to take serious action and risk a wider war if they wanted to dislodge this. So it's a useful deterrent. As for anyone trusting Russian intentions.....why would you do that without being an idiot - they are people who respect only strength which is why Russia is so large.
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  423. @anthonybrett  moving physics is very difficult but e.g. in the software world there are lots of day to day problems you cannot find answers for - you have to try yourself and work it out. Current ai doesn't do this.
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  424. Right. They should decide if they want to eat a tasty meal of Sovereignty for supper - and of course keep their current government in power for ever by shackling the law.
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  425.  @fcandfm3000  I'd have to ask if they were reform voters first. If not then why fight?
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  426. Inequality could probably be very high in communist states and 3rd world countries - everywhere that's corrupt in essence.
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  427.  @brianevans4  everyone tries to give their kids advantages naturally and if that ran away with itself it would lead to people being in powerful positions without merit and that could be quite bad for everyone.
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  428. "old timer alert".... I'm busy refactoring the crap that an AI enthusiast generated right now. It looks like it works but it doesn't. It's horrible to maintain. How did the guy generate this crap? Nobody knows.
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  429.  @VictorBonello  That's because people of the world know the US will pay. They don't lend that kind of money to other countries because they don't believe in them. How much debt you can take on is just the measure of how successful the world thinks you are.
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  430. Some people seem to be unable to take advice without moaning and mocking - so very childish.
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  431. Very little. We might end up with a new ship though, if people don't behave.
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  432. No, they have new prototypes, new hardware inside. All the things you don't normally see are getting filled in now.
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  433. Slava Ukraini!
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  434. James Bond had at least that part of it right - yes the Russians are the baddies. :-) We don't want to be part of your Rusky Mir thanks.
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  435.  @akkudakkupl  first the target must be detected - this can be done by another radar. Then the missile can be fired in the correct direction and can be corrected until it's close enough for its infra red to not be "fooled" by flares etc.
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  436. I do love the crying by the Ivanbots as they see their nemsis :-) Slava Ukraini!
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  437. Why not? I think a few years of "Russian friendship" might change various people's minds.
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  438. That's a weird way to think about it. If the story is that they're bigoted then we should be fixing it until the story is a lot better.
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  439. So firing some air traffic controllers and veterans and handing a huge tax cut to rich people is going to fix that for you. Tanking the stock market. Allowing an unelected person to fire people who are investigating him. It seems like you aren't really very serious.
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  440.  @blackblack1167  2/3 forces committed was the last estimate I heard. That's not good for them.
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  441.  @hussaingahlot2318  Other countries don't value reliability enough to make the appropriate trade-offs.
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  442. What's unique about Tesla's technology?
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  443.  @beachnmountains  No, actually I'm from Africa which the Russians can't keep their stinking fingers off - every murdering dictator turns to them for help oppressing his nation.
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  444.  @minimax9452  Losing will help the Ukranians much less. They'd just get murdered quietly. So there's no giving up.
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  445.  @SimonHorrocks  I'm from Zimbabwe so I understand the playbook - the successors will be nasty men but will be able to exit from Putins failed direction and put the blame on him. Then they will go back to sharpening their knives for later but Ukraine will be free and so will we until they try again.
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  446.  @gustavmeyrink_2.0  the Ajax is based on an existing successful design but it didn't apparently prevent the contractors from apparently failing to build them to specification.
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  447.  @user-lp7wo7og4x  we do have some manufacturing ability - just not in the latest military trucks - but it's at that time in history where each country cannot economically produce everything. It's only worth it if you're going to make kit for other countries too and Germany has made that huge and continuous investment for tanks and trucks and several other things and they've got other countries to buy them so there's a bigger market and spares etc. We keep blowing our wad of cash on custom projects like Ajax which only we want and there's no way to amortise the cost of all the failures that one needs to get over when developing anything. One should buy products that are under continuous refinement and will continue to be for many years.
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  448. Ah, didn't agree with you then?
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  449. Every country has that problem right now to some extent and more so in the past and Ukranians haven't had the exposure to people from round the world that we have in the UK, especially London and other big cities of course. A lot of them have never left Ukraine and are in strange countries, feeling homesick like fishes out of water. This is their big learning experience where they find out just how different the world really is and that their way of doing and thinking isn't the best (just as nobody's is). Perhaps it's like the UK in the 1950s and 1960s.
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  450.  Anon Anon  for themselves and me.
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  451. South Africa is an outlier.
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  452. It doesn't seem like something that would make you happy about the money you spent on it. At that price why not get a fully electric car that cannot go offroad rather than a hybrid which only looks as if it can. I do dream about an electric Honda Jazz though (think it's the "Fit" in the US). That is a car which has no performance and yet somehow turns out to be magical for completely different reasons.
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  453. The Soviet Union didn't allow free movement though whereas the United States does....so maybe that's your parallel. Except the US didn't allow states to leave.
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  454.  @MarkLaw-xy9vf  I think we should just ask you to show us the money. All your slogans: what do they add up to?
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  455.  @MarkLaw-xy9vf  Wheas in Westminster virtue signalling has made way for full on culture wars. i.e. lack-of-virtue signalling.
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  456. The new software/hardware should be a lot better than the 2021 stuff. I expect you won't love it unreservedly but from what I've seen online there's a lot of progress. I strongly suspect that some of that is not really just about improved software at all but better hardware for the software to run upon and generally better and more reliable sensors etc.
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  457. ...and on this special occasion there are many other parts of the world that can say they didn't block their ears or refuse to do what was right to help Ukraine. I am proud of the rest of us for not being stupid this time.
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  458. The way to punish such a person is to not give them any attention. Humiliation ...whatever you do that puts a focus on them will make them have enduring influence.
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  459. Not by comparison - I mean the US president doesn't have the entire nation's media under his control so the difference is enormous.
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  460. Everyone shares the risk at some point. It shouldn't be controversial for us all to see that.
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  461. It's more about whether we enable the world to become a worse place for ourselves to live in. If we ensure that we get surrounded by authoritarian regimes because we enable them then that could be bad for us in the long term.
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  462. Martlett and Starstreak - designed and built by the same company (Thales) in Belfast. Also CAAMM and ASRAAM if you're thinking of missiles.
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  463. With any luck the main effect would be to put a lid on insurance costs - I imagine they might be even worse than losing one ship.
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  464.  Chirag Patel  Well, the corrupt government officials, yes. They will get public fast charging outside their house, backed up with solar panels and at work and drive around in the latest Porches and Teslas and the rest of us will ride bicycles when ICE cars aren't being made in anymore in the industrialised nations and hope that today is the day we get a couple of hours of electricity to charge our phones with.
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  465. They can have remote drivers perhaps. Someone in a developing country can drive your car for you by remote control perhaps.
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  466. Where are the gulags then?
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  467. ​ @schnizzyfizz7832  when the British are in a desperate situation they are also capable of innovation. This doesn't mean the Ukrainians wouldn't take an Ajax with a ct40 cannon if they could because it can do more than shoot drones.
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  468. You still need "things" to improvise - if you don't include tape or bags or cardboard or just generally useful stuff. It also suggests that you should be using common components everywhere even it it's not optimal. What is the most useful thing to have in your own backpack when you get stuck far away from help? I personally have decided that it's either string or a paperclip and I'm not sure which. What do you think?
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  469.  @williamgreen6716  why do you care if we give up or not? I'd guess that you know your voice was wicked and you live in fear of it being reversed.
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  470.  @gregorymalchuk272  no they're not - they're providing cheap unsubsidised power here in the UK - they are the cheapest to build, the fastest to get going. There's really no point in being a luddite.
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  471. We choose what to teach kids at school and would fire a teacher who contradicted the curriculum by any significant amount. So why would we provide assistance such as monetization to known bullshit?
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  472. Zip is one model - file based . The Unix compressors are interesting because they compress any stream. i.e. they can compress output data before it is even written to disc or over a network link between 2 processes.
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  473. They will cleverly avoid each other and bash into the level 0 cars instead.
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  474.  @JackKing12  Battery recycling is already happening. I'm sorry that you're unhappy about it but ICE is on the way out just like horse-drawn carriages. Horse lovers can still ride horses and I'm sure that it will be possible to drive classic cars but an era is ending.
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  475. I think we have put in place the measures for quite a large increment in production. Nothing is fast enough because its' all needed yesterday.
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  476.  @jimcronin2043  You seem to object, which is reason enough to believe that opinions matter.
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  477. The nerd doesn't have a car so he can't travel 2000km to attack it.
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  478.  @leneanderthalien  I think the Charles de Gaulle was an obvious example and the RN decided not to follow it. They're not dumb.
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  479. You Russians. We'll get hold of some of the money your politicians stole from you.
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  480. I think you have it the wrong way around: we're producing EVs for people who are status conscious because they are prepared to pay over the odds for status. All the huge costs of bringing a new technology are being kindly subsidised by such people and I thank them. No jokes.
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  481. @Jordie Just another 5 years before they start to see the benefits of communisim....er....I mean Brexit.
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  482. They don't need us to tell them. After all there has already been Chechnya and the holodomor. So they know that fighting offers a better chance than not fighting.
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  483.  @dimaadamov8501  They're not blowing up - Russia is just making gestures of good will!
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  484. Aren't people so delighted by a bit of nationalism? You might as well be in bongobongoland.
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  485. It's ironic that the "networked" stuff he was talking about was in the Gripen first....
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  486. The pilot is just the top of a quite large pyramid of people that are needed to keep a jet flying.
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  487. A lot of them have indeed given it up to go and live in the west. Many more would like to do so. The number of people who come from the west to Russia to live, however, is very small.
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  488. All of this stuff parallels what happened in Zimbabwe when I lived there: why can't we just train X? Well it takes N years to train X and we need some people who can do that now so that we can employ Y other people in our company who ARE local. At the base, it's really rather like centralised socialism because it's about trying to run the country according to the understanding level of the "average voter" who doesn't understand things outside their own profession very well.
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  489.  @thomasfyfield6756  sharing ammunition IS a big advantage and it will not now be shared with the RAF. Last time I looked this was the British Army, not the British division of the US army.
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  490. My concern would be about the freedom to do things that matter to me - will I get planning permission for solar panels on my roof, for example? I also don't think that "modern" automatically means ugly. History has many periods and building styles that one could choose from and they all had to be "modern" at some point. I remember a library in my hometown that was modern in the 1970s but it was just lovely to be inside. It would be sad to be stuck in a timewarp country. OTOH there are some horrendous buildings in the UK and horrendously ugly towns which are not in any way "modern" so much as just crap. They're pretty much places which must have happened because people didn't care. At least Poundbury is a place where someone cared.
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  491. "provincial housewife" - so you're a person who doesn't respect women because they work at home or people that don't live in the capital - because these comments are insults to you.
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  492. Yasa is the company in the UK which is known for championing axial motors. It seems strange that McLaren wouldn't have got it from them even though Mercedes bought them.
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  493. Lzop deserves mention because it is so fast that it is faster to decompress a huge text file and pipe it into grep than to grep the uncompressed file. The efficiency isn't high but the speed makes it useful to compress files that you commonly wish to access.
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  494. Mercedes just bought YASA - that's a very great move for them as that's a company with great motor technology and you could say that the problem is solved for Mercedes. It seems a bit strange to suggest that the entire world has so few clever electrical engineers that the established players won't be able to buy what they need. Just as a side note, I don't think they have been really that dependent on ICE engines to distinguish themselves - I would always buy Japanese for reliability for example - so I think they faced that problem long ago.
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  495. How to maintain skills - join other countries to buy large quantities. ...er....like the....er....well.......er....eu...er.....
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  496. Short summary of what I've read: It's small because it needs to fit into ships hangars and it's small enough that some ships can host 2 and always have 1 in the air. Small size is not what the army wants obviously and the Army is the loser here - the Navy couldn't buy enough to justify the purchase on its' own so the Army was forced into accepting something it didn't really want. It apparently has only 1 pilot which some people complain about - too small to have much redundancy. One reason why some ships seem under armed but aren't is that they have a helicopter which is a potent weapon. The Merlin is perhaps a more fearsome sub hunter with extremely long range but ships can usually only host one. The component count has drastically reduced through the use of large composite structures that are made in 1 piece. I read that there have been troubles with it and yet what aircraft has no troubles at the beginning? What were they? Have they been solved? I couldn't find any information. Is it now in a period of stability ?? No idea.
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  497. You start of well and show your true attitude. Who said anything about removing names from history - what does this statue add to our knowledge?
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  498. Faith is lazy - one has to be critical and change and think.
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  499. That's just a lack of Imagination. The generator could power an EMP weapon. you might be using this in a huge desert with no frontlines where short range drones would be almost useless. We still have to move around with or without drones.
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  500. What's wrong in the story above is that companies seem to be expecting more than they themselves pay for or offer.
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  501. .... why? You guys are watching a video over the internet - possibly on a mobile phone that can let you talk to anyone on the planet and I can tell you times when nobody thought that would be a possibility. Besides almost all of the things you mentioned are already possible. Even nuclear fusion is getting there.
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  502. Facebook helped me connect with people in the real world at a bad time in my life. It has degenerated now into scrolling through adverts with almost no input from people I know. I do occasionally see something from one of them though and real social possibilities arise from it.
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  503. I don't want to soil this comment section with the name of the enemy but where is he? Where is is gun and his tough-man image? Hiding back in the Ural mountains and sending young boys to die for him?
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  504.  @bunnitomoe3866  We ARE protecting our own citizens, Ivan. :-)
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  505. That is a comforting thought but I think the quality debate was shown with phones to be a losing argument. These new cars are computers on wheels and get loved by their owners in the same way that people loved the first Apple phones. This is not about interior quality anymore really.
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  506. I find that you have to be careful when joking about the English sense of humour - they're so proud of it.
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  507. I suspect that this is just a video aimed at satisfying Americans so they will watch through the ads. Even in the US, SI units are used in space engineering so I would not be too surprised if that also applied to big aero engines. In the UK SI is already dominant except for what you see in your car's speedometer.
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  508.  @lsfornells  they have the largest aerospace industry in the world. It's good for the rest of us if they create small hurdles for themselves :)
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  509. I doubt he's as rich so probably not.
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  510. I love your videos. Always interesting and realistic.
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  511.  @nothere572  ...because all this bullshit is about reminding people of the good old days and some people feel that nothing can do that. The kind of bus that would create truly new "good days" would be cheap and limited and would get lambasted by all the reviewers (and the former bus fans) because of "the interior finish" or not having 300m range some other crap.
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  512.  @billyfyre158  that's very sad! It was a great feature.
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  513. Apparently there were 2 issues - one is that all the hulls were not built exactly the same so it has been hard to be sure they have identified the general problem and made a general enough fix that it will work on the next and the next. Things tend to have resonant frequencies based on how long they are and whether there's anything to damp them. So dimensions matter and the input frequency matters (e.g. the engine vibration). There was also another issue with their headset which actually enhanced the kind of noise that they were experiencing instead of cancelling it.
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  514.  @deangullberry5148  To me he seems much more like a fascist but irrespective of labels I get the feeling of him being a bastard from all of them.
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  515. A lot of Putins fans in Russia use nazi symbols.
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  516. Private companies do stupid things all the time and they pay by going bust. Government services are serious and cannot be allowed to "go bust" because there's no replacement or alternative for anyone to switch to. Government ISN'T a private business - it's a monopoly and monopolies have some inefficiency and we treat them differently. The man in a suit is just that - another ape-descendent like the rest of us who is trying to use his "listen-to-me-I'm-a-businessman' manner to bulldoze common sense.
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  517.  @YouWhatMate28  the government probably did make enough difference but there are also just insecure people who revert to tribalism and for whom the ideas of their youth cannot be adapted.
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  518. So ....people chose Brexit first then thought up reasons and when those reasons get knocked they think up others. There's not that much point being exasperated since the choice wasn't based on the claimed logic at all. It's also the choice of people who don't think it will hurt them and don't care if it hurts anyone else. IOW you're dealing with selfishness which is an impossible thing to debate on - selfish people have no honour/decency/fellow feeling to grab onto in any debate. Our problem is that Brexit "precipitated' these people and made them a political unit which nobody wants to take on - Starmer is avoiding it. We would ideally find some way to split them - not easy - but the only other way is to really build a coalition of "sense" which will mean co-operating between groups that have not naturally been that friendly and finding some middle ground. Ex conservatives like me are going to have to bite down on our feelings and vote labour and it will be helpful if the leftmost bits of labour don't choose now to start a fight in the labour party.
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  519. Emotional problems relating to loss of perceived status and fear of foreigners obviously drive Brexiters and you can't really expect those feelings to change as everything they've done makes the problems worse. It's like all those interviews of Russian citizens commoenting on the west and the war in Ukraine - the more shit things get the more they retreat into fantasy and conspiracy. We could end up doing the same - getting worse and worse and simply enlarging the huge chip on our shoulders to compensate. OR we could show some actual self-belief by admitting we screwed up and fixing it.....
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  520. Since it hasn't done any damage I don't think so. Some ship afterwards will be there to do the damage using the data this one gathered.
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  521. YASA motors existed for quite a while before Mercedes bought them. They're in various products already including electric aircraft.
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  522. I think they obviously need western freindship and not jets truly.
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  523. With the reserve currency you could do what you wanted. Richest country in the world - not particularly suffering from anything other than an infestation of oligarchs.
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  524. History repeats itself but not the same way. I see people ripping out Huawei products - so perhaps they will own the rest of the world but not here. They don't seem to have much foreign competition on their home ground but the Chinese car makers do.
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  525.  @nickbreen287  what makes you think the UK has that much experience ? People retire and to train the new people there is only one military aircraft development programme going on now and before that only one. The pool of talent cannot be all that deep. We don't make drones. Our big thing is we make components for a lot of large commercial aircraft.
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  526. I've been reading some challenges with gearbox life in some of the larger offshore turbines - would be interested in what you thought about this. i.e. whether it's a big challenge or just one of the more minor issues.I was intrigued by one company that has a magnetic gearbox for wind turbines and I always wondered why that idea got stuck in the "valley of death." It's not dead but one might imagine it getting a much bigger boost if the problem was really that bad.
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  527. Oh, I was in my first petrol queue since I lived in Zimbabwe the other day - at Sainsburys. That was quite a blast from the past! :-)
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  528. If they had gone on SpaceX that would have prevented a lot of negative comments about "how astronauts are serious". It's the way they're on Blue Origin that makes it all bad. The heroes of the story aren't allowed to be on anything else.
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  529. The problem is that while you're having that debate some other people have decided where the market is going.
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  530. Because that kind of thinking is stupid. Other people wouldn't buy it if they had no stake in its success and the UK would bear the total cost and the not buy enough systems, run out of budget. The UK would waste time and money duplicating technology and ironing out the many problems. This is the very 1reason MBDA was created from national firms.
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  531.  @johnwoods7650  Russian population: about 145 million. China: 1.4 billion. These countries organised themselves on a larger scale than the UK can. The UK can only get scale by making friends. Patriotic fantasies .... not going to help really.
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  532.  @johnwoods7650  modern weapons are a lot harder to make and there's no Empire to help pay
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  533.  @johnwoods7650  look, if you want to be a footnote in the history of the Russian empire then go ahead and try to stand alone. Many peoples have been assimilated and all their pride in how they could make bows and arrows means nothing now.
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  534.  @rwmroy  More like Africa doesn't have a good track record of democratic, honest government. Why invest in it when the leadership there will just use the money to ensure they never lose power?
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  535. Comwell was a dictator wasn't he? Tried to pass his Protectorship to his son.
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  536. The scientific method allows hypotheses, theories etc to be modified by new, verifiable data. Your conspiracy theory-mind is the opposite - it's like some primitive tribal superstitious throwback.
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  537.  @jorgepreciado6984  lying is not necessary - only being careful about what you say.
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  538. You're morally bankrupt because apart from being false, two wrongs don't make a right. This is what is meant by saying that you have no Christian values.
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  539.  @korolev-musictobashbrexitby  I wish it were as easy as that. I think it's really the parents. Bad leaders make it worse, obviously. i.e. if we don't teach people about acceptable behavior then they have kids and cannot teach them and so on. The problem is too big for one person to be responsible entirely. I don't want to be too mean - when both parents (or one) is struggling to pay the bills and keep a roof over there is less time to give kids what they need.
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  540. Because this is VW, not BMW.
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  541.  @chadimirputin2282  All companies can do what they like within the law but they don't need to get praised for it.
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  542. There's no honesty or freedom or peace anywhere so just give up and accept the rule of the leaders! This is how it goes in Zimbabwe at least - you know the dictatorship arguments very well.
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  543. He wasn't that bad (and I say that as a former conservative), but the UK press is owned by people who didn't like him and he wasn't able to get his reasonable points across. You can see on here how hyped up and ridiculous some of the complaints against him were. He didn't appeal to people like me who might have voted for Blair if we thought we had to.
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  544. ...it's only strong over a short distance.
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  545.  @eDriver  If I could afford fun I would already be driving a much nicer car and changing to an ev would be easy.
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  546. not relevant. We are defending our future and future children from having to die by defeating the barbarians far away.
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  547.  Kev J  Well, back in Zimbabwe, the common behaviour was to treat public money as something that could be used to buy favours and defeat the opposition. Now everyone in the world can see that leaders in rich countries behave like this too. It's also obvious that a lot of people don't care how badly someone behaves if they think he shares their prejudices and that is exactly what politics in Africa is like.
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  548. A lot of people in the West want to blame foreigners for their misfortunes too. Don't feel superior - if you look at home you will see the same shit happening. Perhaps only the scale is different but we too could end up with people like Putin if we try to evade responsibility.
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  549. "once again it has been another extraordinary year" ... how can it "again be extra-ordinary" ?
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  550. ​ @martinelespes1706  J'ai lu des articles sur SAMP/T en Ukraine - les missiles actuelle ne sont pas si effective contre le Khinzal mais l'Aster 30 1NT missile qui debut en 2026 sera tres effective. J'espere que vous m'pardonnerez d'utiliser cet occasion pour practiquer le Francais. :-)
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  551. oh yeah Ivan.
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  552. Also doesn't need anyone's confirmation. I wouldn't bother brown nosing him unless you're getting paid....
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  553. Every day we watch the world champions of lying in Russia - their performance is too impressive to notice anyone else.
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  554. This is very simple stuff - a 360degree camera and some headsets - and that is fantastic. I bet it pays for itself extremely quickly. If there's one less failed flight that's probably the cost of 1 set of equipment.
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  555. Mainly begging for support of BJ. This isn't BJ's help to Ukraine but the help of the British people and BJ is trying to take credit
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  556. a long self-excuse.
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  557. This is what you get in the United Kingdom whenever you do something new and retire something old: a lot of extreme moaning.
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  558. MBDA - same company
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  559. Excellent video - thanks :-)
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  560. ​ @Taxladysells I'd have voted for Reagan probably but not your guy. Your guy isn't right wing, he's just another personality cult.
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  561. No more smelly vibrating machines, no more oil changes or gearbox replacements!
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  562.  @gamerkecske07  Well, I rarely get to hear sounds while I'm driving my current car - there's nothing special about it. On the other hand I do get to walk beside cars spewing nasty stuff into my lungs quite often and I just feel that .... you know one can get a computer in the car which will play vroom vroom noises on it if that's really essential.
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  563. Thanks
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  564.  @johnmartin9451  India is a competitor to China. That's the point in ensuring that China gets balanced.
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  565.  @johnsullivan8673  Then why was BYD a producer of phone batteries before it made cars?
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  566. FWIW I don't think that's a bazooka. It's probably something like an AT-4 rocket launcher and would be extremely relevant today. I don't care about Johnson ... in fact this whole thing of using the military for PR is sleazy IMO but it does seem to have worked out better for Starmer.
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  567.  @Demun1649  by thinking??? Are you really unable to see why fairness is needed in a group of people? You frighten me if you need a command to tell you That would mean that if you got the wrong command you would be evil and couldn't change.
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  568. This is very helpful - especially the bit about getting as many resources as possible. I found this at university - it was the 10th book on partial differential equations that explained the application to a a sphere in a way that I could understand and up to that point I had felt hopeless. Everyone else in the class who passed must have found the prescribed textbook good enough but it didn't work for me.
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  569.  @sandygrowler7384  I don't think the crime situation is at all worldwide - that's what I'm trying to explain. British people expect to be safe to an incredible degree and do not expect to take a wrong turn in a large city.
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  570. Britons not "Britans"...surely?
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  571.  @cspace1234nz  why would the Ukranian pilots want to 'use themselves up' with the plane? They seem to lob rockets at the moment to stay at a distance - presumably that won't be possible in an A-10.
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  572. The man who made Zimbabwe what it is....
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  573. What interestt does Telsa have in saving German jobs? 0
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  574. and apparently you're supposed to blame everything on foreigners and accept whatever shafting you get given from the higher ups as long as they're English.
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  575. the joke is how Russia will be beaten up by an old man...
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  576. Stocks plummet, someone buys them up....Trump can then back off. His pals can win if they know what he's going to do.
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  577. because there are literally 1000s of people dying every day still.
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  578. We are worried about our country :-) Bad luck on this attempt.
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  579. as above - through a district heating system.
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  580.  @patdbean that is precisely what we have to do. If they lose we'll be in big trouble - we're defending ourselves now.
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  581. Apparently they were not all built properly - bits of the hull are different sizes - and that means that the problems are slightly different in each one which is why apparently they had trouble coming up with fixes that worked across all of these things. It seems like insufficient quality control early on.
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  582. The problems that have to be dealt with in the world don't respect language and just sharing a language also doesn't prevent very considerable cultural and legal differences. One the other side of it, once you start speaking another language you find out that people are very much people wherever they are., If you insist on sitting in your ghetto then you won't ever understand.
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  583.  @lbbotpn5429  it impacts everyone negatively as it makes trade much harder when there are different standards and measurements and types of power and so on.
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  584. Meritocracies - do they ever exist? Isn't there a problem with the decision over what merits are most important and whoever is in the majority decides that whatever they are is the best thing to be. Is the RAF blessed with amazing management so you can say it doesn't need the slightest change in perspective?
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  585.  @moshedayan6698  indeed - those tobacco companies and the media have a lot to answer for and it's incredible that we let them hook people on their drugs legally.
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  586.  @berova  That it takes an enormous investment to get started and that each new model or variant is costly.
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  587. Merci beacoup, Xavier, et a tous vos abonnés. Slava Ukraini!
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  588. Ultimately we don't want any country to use more oil or gas and Africa especially could avoid building an whole infrastructure based on an out of date technology.
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  589.  @reggie2261  ah, right, so the money pouring in from them is a liability...
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  590.  @reggie2261  They have a large income from their ICE sales - without that there would not be anything to invest in EVs.
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  591. British gun that fires American Ammunition.
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  592.  @antdunning590  depends on what charge you add being the shell. Apparently upto 19 km
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  593. They watch the parabola and extrapolate it backwards - it's just a bit of maths. There are things like wind and temperature and so on. It's the reverse calculation that the Ukranians are using to try and hit their targets.
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  594. The L119 is a 105mm gun. It's a British design (Light Gun) adapted for the Americans. Not sure why Britain cannot hand over its own light guns which are supposed to have slightly better range but possibly there aren't enough of them. I assume there's a point to it but I worry that they don't have very great range and will only be usable in situations where they are not facing bigger guns.
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  595. Scotland can invest in energy projects anywhere - otherwise it's the investors who put up the money to build the farms who are going to see most benefit. They may not be British at all and often are not.
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  596. I think vulnerability is where the other person wants to feel that you need them in some way. Since your job is about convincing people that you are well rounded and can handle anything, you seem like you simply stand alone and need no-one. I think it also makes a lot of people feel better if they can think you have some great flaw since they don't have to compare themselves to you and always come up short. So in a way it's quite useful to have flaws and let the right people know what they are and big them up a bit.
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  597.  @ThatCarGuy  It's not really a ramjet so that's not true. Anyhow There are lots of American missiles in warehouses so it's the right thing to use when you expect to fire a lot.
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  598. Russia is what makes us uneasy - not Germany.
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  599. Yes, he's drinking champagne at home so he's very fine.
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  600. Only if you're deaf.
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  601. That would be a mistake - they need to find a price that controls demand enough to match their production capacity - otherwise they will miss out on money that they could have had to build more factories with.
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  602.  @fiskersproductions  Apartheid is a South African thing and mixing up Rhodesia with that word is a mistake. It was not great but not the same as SA. And to be honest, its' hard to imagine how Zimbabwe could be what it is now if it hadn't been Rhodesia first. That's for the good and the bad. It wasn't even a country at all before it was Rhodesia.
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  603. The Russians merely replaced one danger with another so excuse me if I have no gratitude.
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  604.  @arfon2000  He spent his money on foreigners but now wants to make money out of the UK. There were UK space companies he could have invested in.
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  605.  @matthewbaynham6286  We have aircraft to do it all. SF have a few options crossed off their list for a while - questionable if they would need them or not.
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  606.  @TheNinjaGinger  no. It was one of those stupid attempts to be cheap. They used old frames which were not made to modern standards so things made to fit the one they measured didn't fit others.
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  607. Nobody can do everything in life. It's not long enough for anyone. But there is only one thing worth doing IMO and that is loving people - the rest is not very important. Have courage. Don't feel fear - just tell everyone that you love that you love them and you will have done everything that matters in a lifetime.
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  608.  @anthonywebb6479  That success you're claiming was achieved within the EU where we can access a large market cheaply. 500 million people can ensure that they get a fair deal when they want to trade with China or the US or India but Britain on its own is going to suddenly find out what it is like to take a paper knife to a gun fight.
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  609. I'm not sure you would really like the "equality" part.
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  610. I am a colonial Henrey, I don't need the pep talk. Nobody is grateful for being colonised, least of all the English (Romans), Welsh, Scots and Irish. Nobody colonises someone else for the other persons benefit either - payment for modernisation has been extracted in full.
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  611. You're unhappy with the management so that has to mean the Airforce isnt a meritocracy and has not been for a long time.
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  612.  @sundog60  there were no trenches there. İt was street fighting. You're cruising for a big ego bruising really though because it has happened throughout history.
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  613.  @sundog60  You like to make statements about things you don't know with great confidence. What is the point of that? just trying to confirm your world view?
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  614. Aren't the Google founders 2nd generation Americans with Russian origins? I do at least know that a large number of the worlds websites run on the nginx web server which is Russian. America's big success is being a place where talented people want to go because it has a huge market and enough law to provide opportunities.
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  615. it's too spread out to kill anything that doesn't decide to sit in it for hours.
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  616.  @Ineedahandle75  you can't be incompetent when you're attempting the impossible. I think this is what populist politicians understand. They're going to blame their inevitable failures on foreigners and internal enemies. This situation had both. It was perfect.
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  617.  @mrfrisky2997  Currently I'm on the paying end of it despite my name :-D but I think it's in the UK's interest that Ireland doesn't become a staging post for Soviet anything :-) and the population size is not huge so even if Ireland does field some aircraft they won't necessary be able to afford ones that are up to the whole task. It's probably more efficient to trade some other duties (perhaps naval tasks or UN peacekeeping duties?) in exchange for sone degree of Air Defence.
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  618.  @alanhutchins5916  I'm from Zimbabwe, just to let you know :-) We know what brave and trusty friends you are when it turns out to be inconvenient.
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  619. Try it on the really big arms providers first. e.g. the AK-47 tax is going to be a big deal.
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  620. They have a community of customers and it was designed with input from them. Seems that kind of person can put up with this kind of car.
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  621. That comment about Zelensky taking up the issue being "unnecessary" was a filthy excuse.
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  622. Sky are idiots. the M777 is extremely modern and one of the best (and most expensive) systems in the world.
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  623.  @irashishonkova8626  At least we don't get thrown in jail like you will if you "change your mind" :-) enjoy your freedom to think what you're told.
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  624. It wouldn't. What will make it worse is to give Putain the idea that we are not determined.
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  625. Congratulations on the excellent new studio :-).
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  626. I loved Bunnings and thought Homebase was awful. I liked that it was a hardware shop with lots of tools and not a home decorating place. Plus it had a play area that my daughter still remembers. Pity but I suppose I'm a colonial so my view of what I want is similar to the Australians.
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  627.  @goddepersonno3782  Rubber tracks are quiet and they're becoming very popular because they're easy to repair and don't damage roads. The bit about guns is humorous but as you can imagine, reconnaissance vehicles don't want to get into fights at all and tanks etc want to be thermally and acoustically quiet in some situations so they can surprise their opponent.
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  628.  @DavidFMayerPhD  I'm not inventing it. You can watch ICE cars filmed against electric ones with an IR camera on one of the recent Fully Charged videos about their Fully charged live event. It's plain to see.
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  629.  @mn4169  You're used to viewing someone as a bogeyman instead of a human so the washing might be something that happened to you.
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  630. So Labour remainers are supposed to not be angry and always vote for labour and get shafted to make the leavers happy?
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  631. China is investing an extremely large amount in electric cars and their market is growing the most so it's the most important place to win with the most significant competition. That doesn't stroke the Telsa-fan's ego perhaps.
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  632. and what was Tibet?
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  633. You're thinking miles versus km possibly. The Sion claims 34 km or 30 miles per day at peak. It'll be less in Germany. It's the sort of car that would suit me down to the ground because I do short trips most of the time.
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  634.  @joshuarosen465  Again I think you're mixing up miles and km it's 20 miles - 34km AT MAXIMUM (which will be in a sunnier country)
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  635. Most British people didn't care either as it is not an important part of the economy.
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  636. It's in use in Ukraine. We have seen some videos which suggest it is effective. Why not be proud of that?
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  637.  @онименноон-ц9ж  Really who cares? America was nearly 100% English when it decided to become independent. Doesn't belong to anyone else now.
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  638. The F-16s are American made but not given by America.
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  639. Negativity certainly won't get us back in. Also expecting people's attitudes to truly change is probably not very realistic. Being in is the best way to get overall attitudes to change by keeping young people involved and travelling and getting them to work abroad and so on. Older people won't change their ideas and their ideas will only go when they do.
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  640. Indeed and Corbyn is the reason Labour stopped winning.
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  641.  @amacca2085  oooh dear, Ivan....deflecting onto immigrants again? wow. keep bashing away at your keyboard otherwise you might be sent out to face the Ukranians!
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  642. @Andrew Lee So why did he insist on social distancing from reporters? Is he two faced?
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  643. A factory at Zwickau is being converted. It has space for 3 lines and 1 is running now but so far the cars are being driven by VW staff until the release date. Round about now (spring) it's getting to 800 per day. With the 2nd line it will be 1500/day and I read some suggestion that that will be up sometime this year. I don't think that these are guaranteed to all be ID3s - the platform is being used by other VW brands so they might bolt a different top onto the standard skateboard. How would I be able to tell you the profit margin....? Well, I don't think you can plan to build a large production capacity without an acceptable margin - it would be a suicidal risk.
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  644. ​ @wilfdarr ... No tender... corruption etc etc. As you say it's like a policy to co-opt countries politically and make them dependent.
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  645. Being brave.
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  646.  @mukomapapapaps4358  he isn't but he wouldn't be there if Russia was a different kind of place. Some of the people have responsibility for them.
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  647. We have plenty of T1 Typhoons but they are not easy to maintain and probably the F-16 is better but we can train them in how to use modern air weapons and that training is useful no matter what plane they fly.
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  648. Everybody looks down on everybody - its just a fact of life and we have to get over it.
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  649.  @himzohamzo1646  right, because everyone has to look down on someone and everyone thinks their way of looking down is fair and that when other people do it to them it is unfair.
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  650.  @brettharter143  You don't want freedom of movement so that's your tolerance right there.
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  651. Because we all need to be brave and learn to trust each other. You need to fight your prejudice - great that you see it BTW.
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  652.  @5888max  It's being human and it recognises their needs not just yours. Being old doesn't give you the right to get whatever you want at other people's expense. This is decent behavior not politics.
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  653.  @5888max  such concerns are irrelevant. You get the doctor who is available.
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  654.  @mylesturnbaugh  straight to and hominem attacks because you have nothing else :-) thanks for giving up!
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  655. I think the comments about obsolescence are the key - they are not really aiming to upgrade the tank but are just making sure that for each bit of equipment in it they can get spare parts and have a supplier to go to for problems. e.g. The active kill is "optional" as you heard and I wonder how many of the other "new feature" changes also optional and will be rejected to save money.
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  656.  @r200ti  If Russia spends a large percentage of it's GDP on war it probably will break its own economy but we don't want it to "win" before that happens - so we have to increase our effort - just not as much as them in percentage terms.
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  657. Wow. Or because they want a hatchback and have seen that Tesla build quality is a lottery.
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  658. .... hope you enjoy your socialist benefits like holidays and free healthcare ... if you live in such country that is.
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  659. The con victims often desperately wanted to believe the con and quite a number still do despite all evidence. I don't feel much compassion for anyone other than those who are prepared to admit it was a mistake.
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  660. shh....the glorious mongols are always advancing and they "just don't care" about the already-destroyed HIMARs. The VKS is having a rest at the moment because the army can handle it and the Moskva is having a deep clean ....
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  661.  @verdebusterAP  The high cost of Type-45s lead to attempts to save money by not testing the WR-21 engines properly. Cue massive problems and huge expense and ships sitting in docks. When you go for high specifications you tend to run out of money early and then you have a piece of crap that isn't fit for anything. I work with people every day that block progress because they want perfection that they cannot afford - it's a path to failure.
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  662.  @deputyVH  That suggests Brexit is right wing and it's not - it's nationalism.
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  663. Same back at ya.
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  664.  @alexd302  ah, I think there was a misunderstanding. I was trying to say that giving the id4 the same deal that Tesla got in the US is normal and Tesla will benefit in the EU from similar subsidies.
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  665. They are the same "shells" - rockets - in both. That's what you might not understand. Himars is just a baby MLRS that can be more easily transported by air and can travel fast on a road.
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  666. No point in creating a fuss - we're a teeny tiny country compared to China and have nothing it really needs. This is our new Brexit level of influence. and we should get used to it.
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  667.  @anamarvelo  That's why a) they should not be elected frequently b) the "commons" as we call them in the UK do their best to take all power away from the representatives (house of lords in our case).
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  668. I think she's quite likely to be a bully and to have succeeded in life somewhat because of it. Perhaps she has not yet worked out that the other side are more than a match for her favoured tactic.
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  669. The defence industry surely has a problem as we realise that Russians can make shells for 10x less than our lovely private companies supply them to us for.
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  670. the Harrier was a French concept though.
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  671. Make that choice for yourself then and leave the rest of use out of your hate.
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  672. As it is there's a cheap and functional solution and a more expensive one that is quieter. This stuff isn't all aimed at perfectionists with plenty of disposable income.
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  673. I have heard that but I think it's politically difficult and there's some suggestion that it has been rejected. The other suggestion is dumping MBTs altogether and concentrating on "cyber". I'm a programmer and when I hear that kind of thing it makes me cringe even if there is a certain amount of need for protection against such things, I think the threat of tanks is never going to go away.
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  674. I always found that the problem with people that were 'better than me' is that they didn't have problems with the stuff that confused me. So it was great that it was no problem for them but that simply made me feel more hopeless - that I was just not up to scratch. There's a meme about Einstein having problems with maths when he was young and I think that it's popular because of the way it gives people hope for themselves - even if it's not particularly true. The issue is how to deal with failure to understand and the way that feeling makes people want to never pick up a maths book again.
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  675. There have been many breakthroughs. It's an extremely complicated subject and lots of experiments have been done to get to this point. This is a small company not a government. That's an incredible thing - that it's possible for this research to be done and for there to be 10 or more companies trying their different approaches. They're all spending less than the multinational ITER project is. It is trying a fairly safe but expensive approach and everyone else is trying out things which might not work but will be much cheaper if they do.
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  676. The people who promoted Corbyn when there was no hope of getting him elected need to rethink their priorities. Obviously those who voted Conservative too but what can one really do about them? We need people who are a bit more in the middle that can attract an acceptable amount of the vote and not be a total disaster in power.
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  677.  @douglasreagan4979  you have to think why law exists at all - it's about deciding what is fair so that people never need to have confrontations. If you don't agree what is fair and are always looking for an advantage you'll end up in a conflict which is what happened in 2 World Wars. Millions dead. The question is: can humanity learn?
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  678.  @paulpaisley5291  That is how you Orcs behave but the reason that the rest of the world is more civilised than you is because it's not how we behave.
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  679. we will!
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  680. It's silly to suggest that the media would crucify the Government really - I mean nobody cared when the ability to produce tanks was been allowed to disappear so why should they give half a poo that we buy from people who paid to retain their industrial capacity? I mean pay up or shut up really.
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  681. The pressure on the pound is making us less able to buy the equipment we need.
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  682. If house prices go down a lot of people will be "under water" which means in heavy debt with something they cannot afford to sell. But of course you are thinking about yourself.
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  683. The only reason the US gets to borrow heavily is because people trust it. Being able to borrow is a sign of great success.
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  684. That's thinking about it the wrong way around completely. There is X money on the market for investment and the country that can soak it up can invest it to grow its economy faster. If people won't trust you or think they won't get their money back then they won't lend it to you and some other country will get it instead. So the big debt is a sign of the faith investors have in America and a sign that America's economy is able to make good use of all that borrowing and pay back. It's shitty untrustworthy countries that cannot get debt because no-one trusts them.
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  685.  @bigbadallybaby  The approach that is being used now is not all that biologically inspired. So it is very expensive to train and use in terms of power. There's research out there and actual hardware that works in a quite different way and that may be the thing that pushes us towards an AI that can learn realtime and even teach itself.
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  686. ...and why the obsession with acceleration? There seems to be a lot of status involved.
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  687.  @allisterbullock213  Well, that suggests that high acceleration isn't really needed by most people - it's there to give VW a higher profit margin car that some people will buy because they can. I don't like the idea of making acceleration a point of competition in EVs though - efficiency maybe but acceleration leads us to nothing really valuable to net0.
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  688. The story is much more complicated than that.
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  689.  @SCscoutguy  you didn't work at MBDA though?
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  690.  @Evermoregreen23451  culture changes without any help from the EU. The US, for example, seems very good at doing it to others without any union. Little isolated countries have no sovereignty anyhow because when the us or Russia or even the EU tells them to bend over they have to. It is that weakness which you advocate as if you cared about them.
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  691. How many hundreds of times did it do that?
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  692.  @Nooraksi  They blew up the chinese embassy thousands of times?
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  693.  @Nooraksi  The Americans got criticised for collateral damage and started using smart munitions back in the 90s. It's 2022 now and Russia hasn't got past firing grad rockets at cities.....
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  694. ​ @Brookspirit our helicopter industry is Italian owned
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  695. Tax cuts aren't "cutting spending"
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  696.  @derloopkat  people pay money for expensive education because it works.
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  697. "Where is the washing machine?"
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  698.  @eroccha  so all the other republican candidates are even lower forms of life according to republican voters?
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  699. People without leadership cannot survive an attack.
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  700. Yes. It has been explained many times - it's a smart choice.
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  701. Hovercraft?
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  702.  @JFrazer4303  I'm wondering if a hovercraft would be more likely to succeed.
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  703.  @shephusted2714  I'm just saying that it seems to help bullshit artists quite a lot ... at the expense of those who end up having to make it all work. Possibly the contemptible "old timers," whom you will certainly join one day, can see how this is going to be a nuisance.
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  704. Yes it is delicious and very one has to realise that just as children take time to get used to some foods so adults do too. I hated mushrooms as a kid and love them now. Hated mangos and love them now. It doesn't work with every food but a lot of it is in one's mind.
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  705. "Alpha males...Beta males".....this is why muscled men get looked down on sometimes - they're trying to look down on other people themselves and it creates a reaction.
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  706. It seems to work, has less civil servants than the UK has and who's the Dictator in your dictatorship?
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  707. ​ @mogznwaz  i.e. you smelled which way the wind was blowing and trying to end up on the victorious side. Perhaps you need to have another conversion.
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  708. Interesting. I don't think China is about to back off electric just yet and Europe has moved so those car companies are going to give up their international potential by not doing R&D? I think not. There is just a reason for them to try to sell every last possible ICE car that they can to maximise the use of their current assets. Meanwhile they can be all environmental overseas if they have to with all the benefit of their big ICE sales at home.
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  709. The people who are accountable are the government and the MOD - they add all the unrealistic requirements and insist on giving the contract to people who tell them fairy stories.
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  710. I think you would say that corruption happens at a certain level in the UK rather than being universal - hence we have a chance because there is still a portion of the population who can feel outrage.
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  711.  @Tekagi502  balls. Respect is shown to elders, veterans, superiors and that is what it's about
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  712.  @akkudakkupl  they have lock on after launch and a datalink so they can be guided before their own sensors lock. It's possible that this might help them overcome countermeasures but I don't know for sure.
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  713. HMS Thunderchild is so heroic and its actions so just and it's name so great that it deserves for this scene to be about it. The human drama here is the people who valued others lives so much that they cast their fear aside and offered their own instead - that's love.
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  714. Climate philanthropy seems like the modern billionaire equivalent of how rich merchants built churches after lives of ruthless trading. :-) So It's great and it forces me to think better of BG but in his business days he really was a monopolist.
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  715. Sure Russia felt safe with the old guy in office and only started this crap when it started to feel unsafe because the new guy doesn't think pootin is a "genius"
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  716. Major Kaulback: sounds Zimbabwean to me. I'll probably be wrong and he'll be from .ZA instead.
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  717. There is value in formally educated programmers. Obviously I would say that, but working with people who haven't had training is very difficult sometimes because they're so stuck in their bad ways and have well developed excuses for the things that frequently go wrong for them. We are all like this and need to put effort into learning stuff that doesn't immediately seem relevant and giving it a chance to convince us - it doesn't stop after graduation.
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  718. Is it British to threaten people with violence or encourage others to do it? I thought that was what happened in 3rd world countries?
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  719. ... well, we do want it to perceive that it's going to lose. That would be good.
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  720. Low productivity growth. You can't sit back while other countries improve and expect to be richer.
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  721.  @casteretpollux  possibly but ecause we have an environment where investing in productivity is risky and unrewarding and possibly people haven't studied enough or the right subjects to be highly skilled and productive.....? Other countries have rich people too so I think it's a more general attitude here.
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  722. Those of us who are used to other cars are quite accustomed to living without them. Perhaps some more legroom would be nice or a shorter car to fit into our tight city spaces?
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  723. Sadly for you this isn't going to work - even in countries that are politically aligned with Russia, popular opinion is against you.
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  724. The situation in Ukraine shows how unwise it is to build small numbers of an unusual tank though. We should just get the common tank so the logistics become easier.
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  725. The speed limit in my part of the world is 70Mph - why would I need a car that can exceed 100Mph?
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  726. Legalization has 2 aspects. Once you get large companies selling it, they'll want to promote it. As for regulating such companies....how long did it take us to do that to big tobacco? What about the companies that produce those opioid drugs that are causing so much trouble now. Do their profits get taxed enough to deal with the misuse of their product? Do they suffer if misuse increases? Nope. Eventually a portion of the population will make its living from other peoples addictions and will want and lobby to expand that living - I suggest that is the case right now - how easy will it be to put them back in their box? We made mistakes with alcohol and tobacco because we didn't entirely understand and now that those 2 cats are out of the bag you want to add another?
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  727. Telling people to grow up adds nothing to your argument - it's just rude and why would you be rude if you didn't have doubts that your argument was enough? Alcohol was already "out of the bag" long before prohibition and it's obvious that attempting to stop it dead in less than several generations was going to be too difficult. There are countries where drinking is far less common than in others and that's at least partially due to efforts to discourage it. Once drug production is legal consumption will increase to the point where it too will be extremely hard to deal with. Think about opium in china for example. The pushers (the British) even fought and won a war to keep their market open.
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  728. cannabased  No, that is not rude, it's an issue and one can debate issues without ad-hominem remarks. Wiki tells me: "The drug policy of Portugal was put in place in 2001, and was legally effective from July 2001. The new law maintained the status of illegality for using or possessing any drug for personal use without authorization. However, the offense was changed from a criminal one, with prison a possible punishment, to an administrative one if the amount possessed was no more than a ten-day supply of that substance." So it's not quite decriminalisation. It might be a sensible policy but decriminalising supply would be a very different matter.
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  729. Long term investment has been missing and that doesn't necessarily mean paying people more so it's not going to appeal to Labour voters OR Tory voters.
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  730. It's not being bought because it's a solution looking for a problem. And an expensive one too. The Ukranians have come up with drones they really need which have mostly been aerial - you see unmanned ground vehicles from them too but hear very little about them in the long run. They might indeed love to have a try with this as long as they're not paying for it - but if you gave them the money they might spend it on flying drones instead.
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  731. Your president. Presumably there's a reason for giving them something really good.
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  732.  @красотуля6  What are you talking about? Africa doesn't oppress me, I'm Zimbabwean, Zimbabweans are oppressed and the ** Russians and Chinese help to do it.
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  733.  @Unknown-hq4cp  Free grain....exactly. Why haven't you booted out your hopeless government who cannot even operate the country to make enough food? Because they are being helped by the Russians to round up any people who oppose them, to run propaganda campaigns and frighten, corrupt, imprison the citizens. Then you fawn over them because you got some grain from them after they robbed you.
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  734. In the next Superman film, "The Man of Steel Collects," Clark Kent creates a new website rento-save where people who are in trouble can bid for help and he becomes an instant billionaire.
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  735.  @flingborg  I don't think it's a volvo anymore - at least not for the newer Gripens. They used to make an older licensed version of a US engine but now I think it's actually the US one. Anyhow it is a problem either way. Europe needs to get over the nationalism and the desire of each company (e.g. particularly Dassault) to erase the others.
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  736.  @SimonHorrocks  Putin will die eventually.
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  737. It's just odd how all the free democratic countries whose leaders get changed regularly seem to be saying the same things. It's the places who cannot change their leaders who seem to be supporting Putin.....
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  738. Ammonia (as already mentioned by others) is interesting. I also wonder about algae-based biofuels.
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  739. Starship is really far from relevant :/
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  740. A perfect Putin-supporter "meme" for the UK. i.e. you want to concentrate on internal conflicts and stay away from Ukraine - just perfect from the Russian point of view.
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  741.  @mapryan  if God is there he can listen to both by ending the war as he sees fit.
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  742.  @СерегаЛавр-л7с  .... and that is the reason that the Russians ran away from Kyiv ....
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  743.  @konstantinmanchilin4198  I'm impressed that you speak English but you need to get better if you want people to understand you. Anyhow slava Ukraini.
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  744. because it doesn't kill Russians.
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  745. The open stuff is whatever they consider won't really help anyone else. Their patents will do the job of making them rich.
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  746.  @gustavmeyrink_2.0  that's not going to help if the precision isn't right.
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  747.  @gustavmeyrink_2.0  apparently the Ajax hulls built in Spain are all slightly different. Not blaming Spain but rather the failure to manage quality by the contractor.
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  748.  @gustavmeyrink_2.0  Well, :-) I hope it's better! :-D
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  749. Don't worry fat-man. Russians will go home 200.
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  750. Those eyes :-/
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  751. They should stop being silly and pay Russia for it .... ...... ......
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  752. Sounds like it would be great if it had a datalink - obviously it does - but one which could immediately send back everything it found and/or communicate it to friendly aircraft. Perhaps a satellite link would do what was needed?
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  753. I wonder about half-tracks now :-)
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  754. The company is looking at TSTO designs instead because Skylon is just too expensive to develop and too big to be of use to hypersonic flight. Quite possible a hypersonic aeroplane will come before space access.
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  755. These guns have had more than enough real combat experience and everyone knows they're awesome - just a bit expensive since they're made partly of titanium.
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  756. If you're older you may well own your house, so evil furriners who want to change everything are more real to you than some "ungrateful" young peoples' complaints about mortgages and jobs. We have an aging population and people are not very altruistic and think they're all right jack even though they probably aren't.
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  757. Yeah, that would really teach them a huge lesson. After that they would cry probably.
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  758. I feel attacked from all sides. Brexiters make me feel European. The Czech arsehole in my office in Ulm spent so much time moaning about the British that I felt strongly British. When I hear anyone make Irish jokes I feel Irish and when I hear someone disparaging Africa in some way I am Zimbabwean again. It's very tiring to be connected to so many things that you must needs defend all of them and sometimes from each other. :-)
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  759.  @tonyjedioftheforest1364  we should replenish but the best way to stop him turning on us is to make Ukraine a total failure for him.
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  760.  @EvidensInsania  we only made them because we feared Russia. When the cold war ended we stopped making many of them. They were designed to blast Russian tanks and aircraft and now they are doing the job we made them for and we aren't even forced to fight. It's a huge win win situation for us.
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  761.  @rkadius001  ...of death
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  762. What if you could have a good enough new car and 3 international holidays?
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  763. It's a liftback not a sedan.
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  764.  @Matheus545  it's like a hatchback but at a more shallow angle. Anyhow it is very nice for putting stuff in the car - lots of room.
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  765.  @Matheus545  I have no idea about the us. My current car is one and I love it.
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  766. She's making the argument to republicans who don't fancy Harris - I think it's smart. She's showing them a way to say "I better vote for Harris even if I don't love her".
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  767. It's quite easy to close petrol stations. If you want energy independence buy solar panels. I think the real reason for electric is that they see an opportunity to get ahead of every other country.
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  768. war is peace.... etc etc. hahaha. You Ivans....you're almost funny.
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  769. RE: cookies. just because you click yes doesn't matter - I want the choice. Sign your own rights away if you want.
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  770. Those issues are voted on by the elected representatives of the UK - it's government - so yes we do have control. We also vote for MEPS and they can vote out the commission in a vote of no confidence so your statement is, unfortuntely untrue. It would be interesting to see your reply and how you wiggle around the inaccuracy or whether you are able to admit it.
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  771. They already have had successful votes of no confidence. You can look it up.
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  772. In the 50s the people selling out to the Russians called themselves communists. Now the people selling themselves out to the Russians call themselves MAGA supporters. It's funny how the Russians always find some disaffected people with an ideal and use them.
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  773. Nobody forced Putin. He offers only the peace of death.
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  774. cost, I'd imagine. No fancy types of stone, manageable temperatures, no attempt to produce electricity. All fairly simple.
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  775. They have a huge electric car industry and are investing very heavily in wind and solar so yes - they will laugh at us if we fall behind....
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  776. I'd not be surprised if the worst problem isn't financial - there such a lot of competition in the steel market anyhow, isn't there? There has to be an incentive to toss out the old processes and put in the new. Also the first company to invent some process needs to not throttle the market by overcharging to license it.
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  777. Just a little YAY for the way you use millimetres. :-) metric FTW.
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  778. I think the British (Protean) and Slovenians (Elaphe) were there long long long before and their in-wheel motor designs have been used in various electric cars already. They haven't been as successful as one might wish yet. Protean have converted a Mercedes Benz to demonstrate it though :-) e.g.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SbkCew_nfA
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  779. It has seen a lot in the centuries and to your horror it will get along just like the US has done.
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  780.  @entropic8708  I think not but what's the solution ? For all the people in the US to go back to their grandparent's country of origin? Leave the land free and empty ? :-)
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  781. Much better than flowing into Russian Oligarch's accounts :-)
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  782.  @dm32904  no, because if the Russians win we'll just face more and more battles till there's no NHS.
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  783.  @dm32904  sorry but you don't make the slightest sense. All wars should be fought overseas and never at home.
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  784.  @dm32904  It's just obvious isn't it - if you don't help other countries that you consider friendly then one day the countries on your doorstep will all be unfriendly and at that point you will end up fighting your wars at home.,
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  785. Economics is exceedingly complicated but the man who pretends its simple gets listened to. This is classic politics.
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  786. This reminds me of another simple and even easier dessert: bread and butter pudding. In it's original form (with currants) I think it's extremely boring but it changes magically if instead of them you liberally cover the slices of bread with thick cut Orange Marmalade. Suddenly it's a taste sensation and takes about 5 minutes to prepare (liberally butter and spread marmalade on 4 slices of bread, mix 600ml milk, 2 eggs and 2 tablespoons of sugar, pour over the bread in a bowl and bake in the oven till it puffs up and browns on top). If you can't get marmalade where you are then any strong flavoured jam is good - plum and apricot are both nice if they're good quality.
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  787.  @sawtooth808  I doubt there's anyone that would hate him more than her.
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  788. I think other countries have these problems, soldier on and spend the money to get it right in the end, then other people buy it without mods (if they're sensible).
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  789. Train travel in Europe makes most sense if you want to get in and out of a densely populated city where there is good public transport so you can journey on from the train station to your destination easily. If your transport options to and from the train station aren't great then you're not really solving the user's problem.
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  790.  @sh4969  ...and yet ironically the Bradley is turning out to be great in Ukraine!
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  791.  @haaxeu6501  I wouldn't be surprised if the programme was a disaster that resulted in an eventually good machine. That kind of story could be written about the F-35 and might be written about Ajax.
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  792. The g is silent so although I'm not an expert I think you'll find it's like Dough-al (well with my attempt at thinking in an American accent). It means "natural".
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  793. All the patriots who don't respect the law . . . .
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  794. Because it's a military secret duh! Peace is when you give up and Putin murders you so why not FIGHT?
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  795.  @aflyingcowboy31  ... and Charles Babbage invented the computer in the 1800s....but it took other people to make it work properly
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  796.  @aflyingcowboy31  really, so where can I buy one?
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  797.  @aflyingcowboy31  We wasted time arguing over the meaning of the word "unique". Now as to why the US tried and failed to make them work but others did it.... why make up a story? Technology moves on and things become possible that weren't before. Also trying and failing makes people conservative.
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  798.  @aflyingcowboy31  So they failed because they couldn't make it economic .... that's a fail.
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  799.  @peterwait641  I'd expect the current numbers to be a secret so I don't place an especial reliance on the ones you quoted. I have seen them too - long ago.
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  800.  @peterwait641  presumably rounds will get cheaper if they get made in larger quantities.
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  801. What's agile about the Puma's software development? Seems like it is the opposite.
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  802.  @justonecornetto80  i.e. you're being forced to do what's decent for NI and you don't like it. You'd rather just $%^$%^& the Irish quietly and have everything your way.
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  803. If you have to put up with it for less time then the discomfort matters less.
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  804. I've been using it since 1992 and I think you cannot increase adoption that much because is too diverse and too free. Android is a perfect example : it is already a popular Linux because it has been commercialised and now you see it as "not Linux" because of that. You want to toss out the FOSS ideals but they are what made this great diversity and freedom possible. I'll never get Adobe anything without having to kowtow and go for whatever distro Adobe decide to support and won't be able to help port it to my distro because it won't be open source. So for me the place to put effort is open source photo editing and I should be encouraging that in every way possible. If you think I'm pulling in the wrong direction....welcome to freedom....😅
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  805. I'm very glad it's happening but if you look at how big eastern Ukraine is, 10 is a tiny number.
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  806. i.e. if you did something dumb once then double down and do something even dumber FOR THE WIN!
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  807. How about training that number of pilots? I think that's the reason why it would end up being better spent on drones.
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  808. ​ @jonsimmons4150 don't care about business bottom line...alright jack?
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  809.  @jonathansimmons5353  nicely munched up by inflation. Perhaps you should have learned a more useful trade. Meanwhile the stats show you're a minority so Brexit is not safe.
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  810.  @cosmicdebris2223  I like that in the US, you have a huge country to look in for jobs or other opportunities. I think we can only have that via the EU here even if it's a bit different. I like the idea of my daughter having choice the way an American kid might
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  811. ...and the Poles are producing them faster than stingers apparently - about double the rate if defence24 is correct.
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  812. This isn't a convincing refutation. What's wrong with radioactive waste being in a high orbit for example? Why would we crash it onto the moon instead of neatly landing it there? etc etc. Only cost and the danger of launch seem valid and both of those things can change in future.
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  813.  @CGoffgrid  if they all have it - what about the cars that don't?
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  814.  @Bigbluecollector316  America protects its interests and fights battles far away so that it never has to fight them at home. That's why people want to live in America - it's the most potent country
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  815.  @dgd865  the sanctions only apply to some individuals in the government and not the country. Freedom is being taken not by foreigners but by the army and ZANU. Unfortunately it seems easy to lie in Zim with bullshit like what you said.
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  816.  @Alex-ninibe  wow, you've probably been reading the herald too much. Exposure to that shit has an effect on anyone
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  817.  @Alex-ninibe  I was trying to provide an acceptable excuse for the nonsense you wrote. The alternative - that you came up with it on your own - is worse.
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  818.  @Alex-ninibe  it really will if you ever let it but I don't think you will
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  819. ​ @DJWESG1 .... identity crisis because of 'clever' people who make it clear they are not going to be accepted
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  820. The Russian's haven't been able to attack like that for a long time - they've had to wait and build up - so the average requirement is much less.
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  821.  @ehren5347  Then you don't really want an end where Russia spends a couple of years rearming and comes back to finish the job - since it knows that it can just take many bites at the apple....and of course has already done that.
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  822. If the lettuce can keep her name in the news, there are people who will vote for her. I think that's really what this is all about.
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  823. The cruel response is that if possible we shouldn't be using formula. A lot of things are missing from it like antibodies and stem cells and so on. I think ironically if people were able to not use it, their kids would be better off and that would truly threaten politicians like Widdecombe.
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  824. Balls. We have plenty of jets - they just might not be the best kind for Ukraine - but we can give them weapons training.
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  825. I recently went to Luxembourg to see my cousin but I caused a huge fuss and insisted on going to Trier to find Bretzeln. And I did find them - fantastic ones that you cannot get here in the UK. I lived in Ulm once for a while and discovered many things I loved there -Sele brot and spetzle and even currywurst. :-) Schweinshaxe is also delicious. I feel sad that that time ended.
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  826. So we now know what kind of person you are. Fired the curation team huh? i.e. a platform for lies.
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  827. it will shadow some area in space - not the earth. The beam is mild and spread out so it won't fry anything.
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  828. @@johnevans647 spreading out just means a larger receiving array is needed and I would guess that the microwaves themselves can be tuned to frequencies that are not like the ones used in ovens.
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  829.  @Awake-Free-CT  We already have lots of microwave dishes for transmitting data on land from one point to another - saves on putting up wires.
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  830. Is it possible to consider any criticism of Telsa as valid? It reminds me of religious discussions.
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  831.  @keysersoze1855  Oh, indeed - that's why all those ammunition dumps were destroyed by drones ... you cannot waste missiles on that. That's why the ATACMS get through and zero those people training - there just aren't any targets.
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  832. ​ @ironhockey116  Harris is the one that's never been president before - you're just voting for something old that has been tried before.
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  833. what if lots of people qualify?
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  834. Logically, they should pension off Putin and withdraw from Ukraine.
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  835.  @nalinux  It horrifies me that it's so much. Seems like yesterday
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  836.  @news2hedz227  why niche? You guys are getting far too comfortable with the idea that you can operate from safe airbases with super clean runways. The Ukranians had that kind of problem.
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  837.  @terriblepainter7675  You haven't flown over the UK's windfarms in the sea recently - they're huge and they make a very big contribution.
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  838.  @gregorymalchuk272  They're the cheapest form of energy in the UK now.
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  839.  @gregorymalchuk272  you provide no scientific basis for your claim, meanwhile we'll just install more ...
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  840. As you mention at the end, our brains don't use photonics and we haven't yet learned how to make an intelligence that's even as good as our own. So there's something more to the design than just going fast.
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  841. Pounding while they retreat, yes. :-)
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  842. The electric part of it might end up being more reliable than the generator
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  843.  @Celtictribes  electric motors tend to be reliable if they are not excessively cheap. It's the generator that probably has the most potential for failure. It could possibly be more reliable than a defender if they design it that way as I assume the engine can probably run at a fairly constant speed in whatever is the most optimal way to reduce wear.
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  844. It would be worth knowing what software version you had as the big update (2.1) that's bringing OTA updates is supposed to be coming out this month. The prior build was 0783 and the OTA one is apparently 0792. People are getting it as we speak - mostly ID.3 owners in Europe. I think it's likely in NA that you will have it from the start except on these kind of test drive cars that have been imported early.
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  845.  @axiomic  ... and they have armies of lawyers working out how to keep their wealth up and their taxes down...which most people don't have. So this means they get more and more rich by carefully not realising their gains instead of having to pay up....by chalking up all sorts of losses So that means they get more and more powerful.....and then one day they're telling the government what money it can spend.... 11B is cheap to buy the US
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  846.  @gian.4388  The GCAP is supposed to have some empty spaces I think. i.e. room for upgrades and changes.
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  847. I think there's a strong possibility of us deciding that the lessons don't apply because people who spent all their lives thinking one way may be reluctant to see the writing on the wall. One issue that strikes me is just that we get more and more special tools but the Russians don't mind losing masses of equipment and people and they just have more and more and more to throw away. They could exhaust us. The Ukranians have wiped them out in droves and it doesn't seem to matter. Another thing that struck me is that air defence missiles are terrifically important and we don't seem to have a system in the UK that's anywhere near as good as the Ukranian one is now - and even that is not enough.
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  848. With laser guided rockets - how would you get a lase onto something behind the enemy frontline like a concentration or a mortar battery if you can't get a direct line-of-sight onto it?
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  849.  @joetuktyyuktuk8635  indeed but as you can see in other videos, drone operators can be located by their radio signals and artillery directed onto them. You need super co-ordination to ensure that the drone is only there for the minimum time needed - just in time for an aircraft to fire. Additionally you might not really want all your rockets to hit one point - not sure how the laser-designated rockets handle that.
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  850.  @georgejohnson1498  Not facing up to problems until after a catastrophe is rather typical of democracies. The situation in Crimea should have been the trigger and it wasn't. I am almost surprised that we have been as supportive as we have. Putin has been festering as a problem for a long time and if we had let it go on we'd be in a much worse state from Russian influence in our politics and economy to the inadequacy of our defence and friction with countries that are allies. This is has been a huge wake-up for us. That might prove to be important.
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  851. Is there anything worse than your mother in law slamming your door shut as if it was your head she was crushing and you knowing that it's only going to last a few more of those? Self-closing is great because there's no more excuse for that crap.
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  852. I hope that whoever ends up driving it will appreciate the work and care for it. IMO it's sometimes necessary to pay at least a bit - to sacrifice a bit to get a great thing - to truly feel the value of a great thing.
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  853.  @Joker-yw9hl  possibly another 5 years - like those 5 year economic plans the soviets were into. And after 5 years, possibly another 5 more while you search for ways of trying to make sense of it. And all the while we're bleeding out thanks to the problems of the world we're avoiding doing one obvious thing to make them better.
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  854. It does have some advantages. The same missile works on ships so it should make logistics easier. It's soft-launch so you can put it on many different vehicles comparatively easily.
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  855. It forces one to think of one's own mortality, and that of everyone one loves. We do tend to spend a lot of time ignoring that looming problem :-). After a while you'll be able to forget about it again which I think is important for happiness.
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  856. we see people who want to enjoy the fruits of democracy without accepting any loss of power. It's like those gentlemen in Africa who make helicopters out of bits of junk metal from the scrapyard - an imitation of the form without any understanding of how it is really achieved.
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  857.  @Observer-xc6fp  If you're riding your bike on an attack at the frontline yes, if you're driving 1000km across a huge desert to set up your own drone recon then maybe it's a different equation.
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  858. You mean Russia will never win and it will never be over? Possibly!
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  859. We can afford a muich more expensive multi-billion HS2 railway.....doesn't seem like sharing a part of the Ukraine bill is really much compared to the immense danger it removes from us - and no UK citizens need to fight!
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  860. IMAGINE HAVING TO USE CAPITALS TO GET WESTERNERS TO LISTEN TO YOU, IVAN! :-)
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  861.  @catinthehat906  It should not be forgotten. Everyone needs to see their own capacity for evil exists so that they are ready to guard against it. Most nationalists try to pretend that their history is full of nobility and use that to argue that their view of the world is justified and should prevail. I've seen Irish people behave badly in Africa just as the English do - when they have the upper hand you find out what people can be like. The English think they're right and the most ridiculous conceit is that they think they're fair. On the other hand it's important to believe in fairness so other people can show you when you're not. The conceits are almost a saving grace because showing them to be tainted elicits shame and it would be worse to be unable to feel shame. One cannot go around feeling shame all the time and I don't think we should ask anyone to do so, also I don't think you can ask people to not feel that they are "better than you" because EVERYONE feels that at some level. All one can do is to ask everyone to remember that we are all human and fallible and that although we lean on the crutch of conceits about ourselves we know they are crutches.
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  862. Hurray for the anti-gun rhetoric. You need a license to drive a car, presumably a gun needs at least that. You also wouldn't let someone buy a nuclear weapon for home use - so what point is a weapon too dangerous to be put in the hands of someone who isn't being supervised? Maybe this thing is the on the other side of that line. Now think of this thing in the hands of an amateur who isn't really interested in guns but just wants to kill someone.
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  863. ​ @Sjb-on5xt we can vote again to join, after all slots of people from the first vote are dead and lots of new people are at voting age. You want to profit from a moment I time where things suited you but you're going to get hoisted on the same petard.
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  864. ​ @Sjb-on5xt  If remainders can spoil your party the why did you go ahead with a doomed plan ?
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  865. You obviously think in these terms because you haven't worked out why anyone would persist in not agreeing with you.
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  866. So you are feeling annoyed and accuse other people of being childish.....
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  867. I don't like Truss either but why would one have nuclear weapons and then tell people that you don't intend to ever use them? That is a very ridiculous attitude which plays completely into the hands of people like Putin. He'll certainly use them if he thinks we won't.
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  868. We're all using the internet - lots of us work via it - what's wrong with MPs using it? Clearly nothing.
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  869.  @lc4biker  It should be started right away in that case - in the hope that by the time they are ready they will be able to do good.
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  870.  @alecshneider6953  it obviously worries you otherwise you'd be happy to just let us be "losers". Your comment shows you fear losing.
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  871.  @peterwait641  all newly developed technology is hyper expensive at the start until the development costs are amortized over many units.
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  872.  @peterwait641  Someone else reported that barrel life was greatly improved by changing aspects of the ammunition - I think your number could be old but even if not, there's still time to improve and therefore become cheaper.
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  873. Is that Africa or just where you live?
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  874. There are all sorts of weirdos out there with whatever belief you can imagine. We can't stop people believing things but we could stop making guns and selling them.
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  875. If you don't make them, they can't get them. If you have a bad neighborhood, police it properly and get rid of the guns.
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  876. @@user-nu6bl4ru2q I'm a conservative as in the Thatcher sense not as in the current set of bullshitters. İt is embarrassing to be played by a man like that when English is your first language.
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  877.  @APW554  the conservatives kicked him out because her was losing them votes. That means losing popularity because unlike some foreigners we don't generally admire a cheat.
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  878. Wonderful explanation, great effort put into it. Whoosshed over my head unfortunately. Lost you at the point where you introduced e to a complex number. It all sounds so reasonable that I feel stupid about it but I can't follow from there. e.g. it isn't clear (to me!) how you can multiply g(t) which is a property of the input by e^(2pi*f*t) which is the length of the part of the circle that the vector has moved across and end up moving the vector in and out - how that happens to be the length of the vector - or if it isn't that then what actually it is.
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  879. It's hard to see the disadvantage in having large amounts of cash from ICE sales to invest in EV - except that its about replacing something profitable and paid for with something new that requires much more investment.
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  880.  @donjohnstone3707  I can see that possibility but I don't think it's been made clear that they would actually be better off if their ICE plants magically vanished tomorrow.
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  881.  @donjohnstone3707  that's because it will be illegal in many countries to produce ice vehicles in 2030.
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  882. Lockheed bought a UK company which is doing the work.
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  883.  @chaz8758  That's what trolling is.
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  884.  @martinwebb1681  OTOH the majority shipped in from the rest of the UK so many 100s of years ago .
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  885. but he was right about BJ and it is hard to hold out against all the people who thought BJ was great without some kind of mental defence if smugness is it, too bad.
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  886.  @gr6373  it's very interesting that you should invent things which I did not say. I find that quite Russian
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  887.  @cuentaprincipal3225  no point trying to drive a wedge between allies, Ivan. We like the Americans much better that we like you no matter what. :-)
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  888. It's your courage, IMO. The belief that you can cope even while you're chopping away at the foundations of your beliefs. Wanting to be "right" so much that you are prepared to admit being wrong even when it's humiliating.
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  889.  @jooseppielleese7156  almost everyone thinks they're right. I think he often is and a lot of the people who are against him certainly have few doubts about themselves.
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  890. I'm interested in Magnomatics who have a magnetic transmission for wind turbines (i.e. replaces the gearbox) and it's interesting to know that there is a good reason for them to be at least trying to make gearboxes smaller and lighter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAELukfr2oY They have what looks like a direct drive - i.e. it looks like a motor that doesn't need a gearbox but really the gearing is just achieved within the motor so it's a Pseudo-Direct Drive. Obviously in reverse it's a generator.
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  891. Well, you can read the forums to hear about the software updates people are getting on their VW ID.3s so that's just not true. The 2.1 release with OTA update ability is set for release this month.
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  892.  @ownerspride8305  China has a space station and has landed on the moon and Mars. I think it's in a different league at this moment.
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  893.  @ownerspride8305  I said I thought it was about manned space efforts which India doesn't have yet, right? But China does.
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  894.  @ownerspride8305  sure, but making man rated spacecraft is a step up in engineering. I think India will do it, obviously, but it doesn't yet.
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  895. That's just now..... with a few people still left alive from the last world war and a degree of memory about the mistakes of the past. Europe is full of a lot of very warlike and capable people who have bashed each other for centuries and finally let it go a bit far. The post WW1 economic hardships helped extremists to gain political power and start #2. You might say that's what created the situation now in the US. While the US was concentrating on military and economic power it perhaps forgot about the little guy and that little guy is now a bit cross and over-reacting. So at some point in the future, Americans might realise that to avoid social disaster they might eventually need to be fractionally more like Europeans are. It's not as if Europe hasn't been learning a great deal from the US too.
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  896. People stick with abusive spouses so I'm not sure whether this will do anything.
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  897. At least some of us are capable of reading wikipedia....
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  898. because power changed hands peacefully from a party that had been there a long time. This is what you don't see in the dictatorships - instead the same old man hangs around for decades and changes his "toilet paper constitution" to allow himself to stay even longer. I once saw a baboon drink tea from a cup and saucer which seemed very clever - but it was still a baboon and could only consume and not create.
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  899.  @anydaynow01  shakers could do it if it's worth it - a motor with an unbalanced load.
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  900. Only after a lobotomy.
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  901.  @splodge561  We've had a great deal of bias against the EU in our media for many years and it doesn't take much brainpower to see it. An external enemy is a very common way for people in every country to shift blame off themselves for their situation. It's been done endlessly.
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  902. Plot hole 10^9m wide: Zod survives, Krypton doesn't. How can they be so dumb?
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  903. Technology doesn't go backwards unless we have some kind of fall of civilisation. So I don't think this is the end overall. It will get picked up.
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  904. What about black granite? That's what we have in Zimbabwe :-)
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  905.  @GB-mu9ue  I haven't found that at all. I find that nobody cares about you anywhere in the world and some are just honest about it.
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  906.  @johnalden5821  I was trying tone down the criticism. All over the world there are some people who actually will care about you and they signal that by being "nice". So being "nice" without caring is fake and misleading.
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  907. It's very cheap for what it does - assures everyone that the US will keep on operating. An enemy cannot hope for an easy victory.
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  908. They are fighting for us now. Not really "for" but it's in our interests and we would have to be complete morons who deserved to be enslaved if we could not help people who are saving us a nasty job.
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  909. Very much like other bad leaders the world over - they can do any old shit and hurt anyone "as long as it isn't me" and as long as they "affirm my views".
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  910. Putin has balls too but we don't admire him
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  911.  @OlexiiZaparovan  yes we have leaders who don't lie and give knighthoods to Russians. You guys don't understand this man - he cheated us so we are angry - you are lucky he has not had time to cheat you.
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  912.  @ek8710  clever bit of confusion. How you could accuse him of being left wing.....:)
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  913.  @ek8710  to be fair, if he came and whacked you in the head the boat crisis would be over but that would be illegal.
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  914.  @ThisHandleSystemCanGetNicked  Yes they are and everyone in the world can see it.
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  915.  @jimohara  wow, I thought it was utterly obvious. Wars end with the oppression of the loser and the Ukranians know from the Holodomor what is in store for them if they lose. You must think they're stupid and don't know their own history.
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  916. I'm afraid that lying too much has a price. Nobody believes you.
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  917. He addressed the lack of any known psychological factor.
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  918. How will humans cope with the low gravity? We know from the space station that 0g is very bad for us (bone loss etc) so how is .38g going to be dealt with if that turns out to be only .38 times better?
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  919. If you like him, perhaps it's because he is a decent person and if a decent person disagrees with you, it's worth questioning your opinion.
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  920. So e.g. ARCASpace's ecorocket? Superheated water, electrically heated to generate steam?
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  921.  @thomasfyfield6756  ideally with f35 we would use meteor, as with typhoon and spear and I imagine also paveway 4 which are all made by us.
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  922.  @willw8011  I feel we're talking about different things. I'm annoyed that the British Army won't pay to integrate Brimstone and I think you're going off on some other odd tangent. The US is making plenty of money and doesn't need to complain about anything including that some poor UK citizen like me isn't falling on his knees to worship your missile.
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  923.  @willw8011  off you go again tlting at some other windmills
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  924. ​ @willw8011  you probably should let it pass as you don't appear to understand. I suggest you imagine for a second that other people have concerns about their countries use of tax money that have nothing to do with you.
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  925. I always look at Oxford PEV because the cost of cells isn't really the worst thing in the UK - installation is expensive. Roof area is also limited. So getting a high efficiency panel makes the most of those other expenses. So e.g. cheap and pure perovskites would not really help much since the dominating cost is the cost of putting them up (scaffolding, labour) and of course the inverter. If the inverters could be cheaper or more durable and there was some way to install without scaffolding the whole market would probably boom.
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  926.  @TheFloorface  We could build copies of the same thing though. Ajax is partially that. Then we could get basic spare parts almost anywhere if we are short and expect them to work.
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  927. You're losing your "anchor" to a place and a person - I know what its' like as I'm also an immigrant whose parents are dead. I have no family left back home. When I became a father I suddenly had to be the "anchor" for someone else. It sounds a bit mean but I had to stop feeling sorry for myself and it helped me.
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  928. What if lots of people qualify?
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  929. Yes there is, one is a car that I can imagine affording and the other isn't. :-)
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  930. Possibly by being 30cm shorter, and 30cm thinner and maybe by giving the rear seat generous leg room.
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  931. The US spends much more on other things and possibly the majority of the contribution is equiment it had in storage that were doing nothing but waiting for such an occasion. So bad luck Ivan - don't think your argument is going to work.
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  932. .....and VW? Uses Linux. Based on the open source Yocto system where Tesla is based on buildroot.
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  933.  @LinuxGalore  how can you ignore Linux? They use Qt for their GUI for example and must use C++ at some point for that reason so they're using a the gnu or apple c++ compilers. I haven't come across any company where open source is not used as much as possible because why write code you don't have to? What is so different about VW by comparison?
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  934.  @LinuxGalore  there is a large software team in Germany for VW which is being built as I understand it by hiring and also by buying smaller companies.
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  935.  @TimeFadesMemoryLasts  Well, you have licenses for driving and for storing explosives and plenty of other restrictions on your freedom which you accept. Many of us get on quite well with restrictions on guns as well and all of your gun-freedom didn't stop you almost getting a dictator recently.
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  936.  @TimeFadesMemoryLasts  I've lived in a tyranny unlike you perhaps and I cannot help it if you are so simplistic as to imagine that guns are of the slightest use in such a situation.
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  937.  @TimeFadesMemoryLasts  You cannot tell the military to ***k off because tyrannies always engage some of the population so you're always going to be a minority and the military can squash you easily. If all of public opinion is against the tyranny then it will fall over without any need for weapons. In the meantime all those weapons that people in the US buy end up killing people which is not freedom from fear.
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  938.  @JasonX2  nobodys forcing you to watch. You can always search for the propaganda you like best
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  939.  @edmurks236  Great. i.e not some bunch of narcissistic nationalist weirdos.
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  940. It would be safer to find some way of solving the problems with Hungary and Poland and get some generations of peaceful co-existence under the belt first IMO. Britain only needed 1 more generation probably.
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  941.  @JacksonStarMining  You will pay to enrich a company whose job is to give you as little as possible for as much as possible. So you pay them to go to the moon and they will go. Yay! They will own the tech rather than the nation that paid for it. You won't be achieving any science goals that aren't stated in triplicate. Eventually you'll have rebuilt an abusive monopoly and all the expertise needed to manage your space program will be in people who are desperate to get jobs in that monopoly.
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  942.  @TheB1nary  That has nothing to do with what he said though.
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  943. Glad to see they are diplomatic because we need allies. I don't see why we should call terrs using the names they want us to use.
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  944.  @death_parade  one should be diplomatic to ones allies and one should not call terrorists by the names they choose which just promotes their propaganda that they are Muslim. In fact no terrorists are really religious, it's just a claim they make to get support. None of this has anything to do with India.
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  945.  @rachelbennett9150  It's a thing which can go wrong and a lot depends on the recipe. It shouldn't be too stodgy. My mum's was excellent but I had horrible ones from time to time at other people's houses. Another issue is that one shouldn't eat huge slices because it has a potent flavour.
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  946.  @americanrambler4972  Many electric vans? ...??? It's going to be the must have family vehicle with the driving ease and road holding of a car and the internal space of a van.
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  947.  @americanrambler4972  I think that's why they're providing a long wheelbase version for you Americans (which has not been shown to the public yet) but what I see is a vehicle that's more spacious inside than lots of cars without being a lot bigger and that is highly important when you try to park it in a British car park. I have got into a VW ID.3 and it was fine - the Buzz is at least as wide (and I hope not much wider) but the shape and driving position seem to give it a hell of a lot more useful space.
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  948. Because Americans are always the best and everyone else isn't.....according to them :-). Plus they seem to have tonnes of equipment to ensure they give everyone else a hard time.
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  949.  @DirtyMikeandTheBoys69  You wouldn't be able to teach it at least! :-)
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  950. As you know Hyundai have a good record for making efficient EVs with the existing Ioniq and Kona so it's a complete shock if they manage to have smaller batteries than others for greater range.
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  951. ​ @alexanderwolf8766  it would be nicer to think that Russians on average were more intelligent than this video suggests.
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  952. I feel guilty about saying this but I enjoyed this more than car videos. I have no chance of doing any real work on my car but I do have a sewing machine and have wondered about one that was strong enough for leather. I really applaud your courage at attacking something so new and uncomfortable and not giving up till you got it.
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  953.  @chrism415  What hype - there were only 14? nevertheless I did read that they got used in Kursk. And that's the story - everyone needs to move around without having to walk.
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  954.  @mirandela777  HIMARS is 6, M270 is 12. HIMARS is faster to deploy but M270 has tracks so it can deal with bad ground. The SMERCH also has 12 larger rockets but for example I think they're often unguided whereas Himars and M270 are now all guided. As for warheads HIMARS has quite a few (submunition, tungsten pellet, high explosive, tank killer, extended range etc) - just not thermobaric. The HIMARS can fire 1 much larger ATACMS rocket as well which is something that the Smerch tube design cannot handle. There's a new thing called GMARS which will have a truck chassis like HIMARS but 12 rockets instead of 6. There's another Israeli rocket system called PULS which is being adopted in Europe too.
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  955.  @mirandela777  I'm no expert. Iskanders get used and have an effect obviously. But one vehicle that can fire multiple types of rockets that are accurate: that's a logistical benefit. I don't know how it stacks up but Ukraine is still standing so obviously the Russian equipment - which is in huge numbers - isn't swinging the balance in their favour.
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  956.  @mirandela777  I find that the more laugh symbols a person the more hopeless their argument. Enjoy your tanking economy Ivan.
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  957. I think ithe variety and quality of new models is exploding - that explosion is only just beginning to reach the 2nd hand market so I feel it's worth waiting a year or 2 - some of the great cars that were released last year might be entering the second hand market by then.
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  958. There's a "modern" building in Harare - the City Library - which always had a wonderful atmosphere. It wasn't that beautiful outside but inside it always had an incredible feeling of space and peace and shade and light. There was a courtyard with a fountain so that you got this wonderful sound of water at the entrance and the newspaper room along one wall with its huge windows and comfortable chairs just gave you a fantastic feeling of quiet and nature. It was rather like being in a forest with multiple levels that you could look up to and down from - shadows and a bright central clearing. The building has suffered terrible neglect until just recently when some donors helped repair the roof and put some books back but I don't think it's the same.
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  959. Who wants to be the judge that blocks Trump? I can see that person being scared of their safety.....and to a degree it's because Americans ARE NOT ALL good people (no country can say that) that this whole thing is an issue.
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  960. It takes brains to fly so your kind of BS won't work on them.
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  961.  @clincpb8903  vos espoirs ne comptent pour rien.
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  962. So it's possible to be patriotic and to want to remain in the EU.
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  963. @kylecrane4376  the companies do the publicity for us.
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  964.  @SanxBile  Every time I see a Formula 1 race for example - that's a big commercial.
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  965.  @jim-es8qk  How much of that price increase is inflation? Just using the BOI's inflation calculator 250p in 2015 would be 389 in 2022 and we're now into 9%. The CPI might not be relevant to farmers - their situation might be much worse. The cost of their exports may be higher. The currency has devalued etc etc. Your statements really aren't definitive.
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  966.  @jim-es8qk  And inflation has helped to make that devaluation less useful.
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  967. I'm so glad nobody is uncool enough to not have an Apple laptop. :-)
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  968.  @gabrielkdc17  perhaps the input is great and the output is just poor?
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  969. Ok, we get it - no virtue.
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  970. Only those non-existent Africans and South Americans that don't even have reliable power supplies, live in big countries with no charging network.....because in like...10 years they're going to sort out problems that they haven't sorted out in the last 40 or have gone backwards?
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  971.  @2ebarman  I don't know if the launch vehicle is the major part of the price. If you have a lot of satellites on one launch it might be the satellites themselves and the cost of the insurance which dominates. I personally would like us to build Skylon. :-) It was a bit sad for that company to go bankrupt.
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  972. How are they outnumbered? there are 40 million of them.…..fighting not to have their country and ethnicity "eliminated"....the Russians are ****d .
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  973. Thank you DW! I love your documentaries. I don't know if you think of this as a compliment but they remind me of the wonderful Transtel programmes that I used to watch when I was younger.
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  974.  @leadoucet1432  it makes some of them feel superior that they "don't take themselves seriously" and when one suggests this pride is a case of taking yourself seriously the humour is all gone....:-) I think this is justice for all their mocking.
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  975. bollocks. Every primitive society knows that older people have to be treated with more care.
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  976. You can imagine the possible Russian attitude to this: Ukraine clears out the Russian prison population at cost to itself - double win for Russia.
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  977. Surely there's something more constructive for people to take an interest in than collecting these things. It just seems like some sort of emotional issue after you have 1.
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  978. @pete w difference is exactly what they want to avoid. e.g. you spent 100s of dollars on tools that fit imperial size bolts and screws and then suddenly they become useless?
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  979.  @Koz4concern  Zelensky is respecting his own nation by dressing for war. Putin doesn't respect anyone and wears a suit.
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  980.  @kinomusic9110  That's what we all wear at my job. I'm a team lead with employees in 3 countries.
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  981. "UNITED......" oh....kingdom. Oh.......oh well....
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  982.  @crumpets1410  Yes! I'm joking about the response of people who spot the plane on the runway somewhere, as you say. I think it's somewhat notable to see Airforce one, but the imitators - not really.
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  983. All these points against wind power are not quantified and compared so we can't really tell whether to be bothered about them or not. I have read that they are becoming much cheaper whereas nuclear power isn't so all the nuclear fanbois (I am probably one) really have to re-evaluate their insistence that nuclear is the way to go. It looks like wind+solar+storage+ a bit of nuclear might be what happens.
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  984. bullshit. This is a false choice.
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  985. More people would live for other reasons but out of 100, 6 would die without this treatment.
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  986.  @stevecowham1017  It seems that is in addition to the number that survive for other reasons. There's a cost to losing people of course - especially if they are working age, so saving 6 might make very good sense financially not just emotionally.
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  987. Hate speech is just stirring up riots and violence. We don't let people do that because we've had plenty of experience with it.
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  988. Perhaps real life isn't the way you'd like it to be.
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  989. Porsche EVs have gears so I doubt its' a problem - it's not like they need many ratios. They'll be going for this for the torque.
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  990. They needed exhausts in those 2 locations apparently so the islands don't make the situation worse.
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  991. We are directly benefitting from their blood. They ask nicely enough all that considered.
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  992.  @tiendinh2554  ... :) Let Russia give up on its regions and show Ukraine how to do it nicely :)
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  993.  @tiendinh2554  We will never find out if the Russians have to be nice first.
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  994. Kissenger...the genius that "fixed" Rhodesia to make Zimbabwe.
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  995. the idea of uninventing AI seems ridiculous to me. No matter how you try to get rid of it, it will continually be re-invented somewhere.
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  996.  @Alejojojo6  Ideas tend to get reinvented all the time and by multiple inventors. To erase a technology across 1000s of worlds permanently would require a quite unbelievable level of control imo.
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  997.  @Alejojojo6  some people might think they could avoid it but there would always be a Putin or someone somewhere who would think he could control it and would bring it back.
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  998. If you want someone to disappear you have to stop talking about them.
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  999.  @rogerwilco5918  It's all part of a very clever plan that western minds cannot understand.
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  1000.  @rogerwilco5918  Well, "it's good to use up your old and useless generals first - since Ukraine is not very important" - at least I think that's the explanation. Also the Moskva has long been in need of a replacement.....er...I think :-)
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  1001. Seeing your VHS video recorder I started thinking about how to get my VHS tapes into my PC. I did have a go a long time ago and it was not easy although I was using Linux. Another thing that's not easy to do is to get slides digitised. I can imagine videos on this might have some appeal.
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  1002. I like sewing machines :-) I'd be interested to see what you got :-).
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  1003. There's no need to. The "mention T***" brigade always turn up to do it for you. No one can get a bit of attention without T*** getting its free advertising.
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  1004.  @mikegarvey718  Reform are skanks and will sell us to Putin at the drop of a hat - or Trump - whichever they think they can get the most money from.
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  1005.  @Evan_Case  I tried to point out months ago that since they are fired on a timer it is not very useful to have an automatic response.
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  1006.  @Evan_Case  I think in this case there is no installation. There might be some tubes but they are set up, the timer started and then abandoned. The shooters have no interest in being there to take return fire.
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  1007. This kind of reactor has been under development for a long time - I'm not sure what the problems were but it has had troubled development in various places.
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  1008. There would be no panic if there wasn´t any shortage and that panic didn´t happen in the EU so things are not right and the ease with which fear made things worse shows that the population know things aren´t right.
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  1009. Rolls Royce are likely to make use of their investment in Reaction Engines. An REL pre-cooler in the engine inlet would allow such an aircraft to fly more efficiently at high mach. It hasn't been done before, unfortunately, so there is risk.
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  1010. How much of the time are the RAF fighting and how much training?
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  1011.  @David291  The Enigma code was really broken by the Poles first. I don't want to contribute to any "phobias" but lets just be generous with credit ourselves if we want to experience generosity. Bletchley Park was amazing on its own without needing to borrow any other credit. And anyhow, we shouldn't really waste time on who did what - it's a highly complicated story which could include some debits if we really want to do accounting for each nation.
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  1012. It's looking more and more lovely. :-)
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  1013.  @SchoolforHackers  I was trying not to make that joke. She must have so many thousands of such comments from random strangers that it cannot really be very pleasant.
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  1014. Porche Taycans will have better handling than a Kia probably and be nicer to drive around corners.
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  1015. presumably they have to pay more to the depositors but still get the same from the debtors.
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  1016. Young people want cheap cars so they're likely to go for a test in a manual and convert to an automatic car later in life. This would make the test situation seem quite static even as the number of automatic cars increased. Electric vehicles are all (almost) automatic and we're moving over to them completely. I think this and things like emission zones are going to make it less of a fashion issue and might make the change non-linear: with sudden bursts of new automatic test takers.
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  1017. Андрей Назариков  The evidence maybe is the relative size of the forces.
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  1018. ...or eat them?
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  1019. Probably not out of kindness but self interest. That's the way of the world though.
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  1020. They are paying all of us in blood. We're getting a cheap Russian removal service.
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  1021. You're writing with the alphabet they forced your ancestors to learn, using 1000s of words they also forced them to learn.
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  1022.  @Abefroman-lq3md  of course it's the same people who built apartment blocks while your ancestors lived in mud huts and most likely they could still teach you a few bits of civilization like how wash your arse properly.
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  1023. It's STOVL not VTOL. Short Takeoff, Vertical Landing. I don't have a precise number for you but it uses its lift fan to shorten the takeoff run, together with the ramp and continues for a few seconds after it is in the air.
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  1024. Only because he might damage our ability to act as allies.
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  1025. All weight is bad - Lightyear showed how to make a long range car with a small battery by using lightness.
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  1026. It's just about whether the heat can be converted back to electricity with an efficiency level that's worthwhile. Not every country has district heating systems.
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  1027. That's science for you - scientists don't say definite things when they aren't definite because they are not bullshitters like politicians.
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  1028.  @gregorymalchuk272  Hydro and compressed air are already in use - so I think your statement is incorrect.
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  1029.  @gregorymalchuk272  Liquid air storage is a thing which can be built with todays technology and, actually is being built.
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  1030.  @gregorymalchuk272  liquid air storage is built and larger and larger plants are being put in its not fancy technology.
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  1031.  @gregorymalchuk272  you should probably be telling Ofgen to take a course - apparently you know more than the entire industry. Meanwhile more turbines are built of larger size and our industrial society will have a small chance of not being broken by climate change
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  1032. They decided to take a way a military capability (temporarily) to use it for floating around a lot of two-legged hot air machines instead of spending more money. i.e. they are trying to be cheap.
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  1033.  @GiraffeCrab  I'm from Zimbabwe so I know that one cannot overcome a tide of stupidity. It's important to try to survive it.
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  1034. Hope you feel better soon.
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  1035. It seems the main chance is with the youth but even then....
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  1036. that means many many many more bugs and much less reliability - unless they're using some fancy new programming methodology and I've not yet read anything to suggest that.
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  1037.  @fredmercury1314  Yes it's the fault of brexit because the number of staff needed is gigantically more. Who needs to pay the cost of this? Obviously us since it's our choice.
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  1038.  @fredmercury1314  it clearly does.
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  1039.  @fredmercury1314  it takes longer to process people because they cannot be waived through anymore. I should think you heard that.
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  1040.  @fredmercury1314  it takes much less seconds to not check a passport so.....the relative cost increase is very large. Thanks to Brexit.
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  1041. Its an awesome car for anyone whatever their age but of course if you're concerned about status and image......well...go pay up for that with some other car. I mainly like the oodles of space whilst being extremely good at parking. The lifftup seat base in the back is also freaking excellent.
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  1042.  @Veritas419  To the last Russian, Ivan - to the last Russian.
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  1043. I think it's better to have the shipyards working a bit at a time for a long time to keep skills than to have a feast of work followed by a famine.
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  1044.  @fdllicks  They might not say it but quite a lot of people in the US clearly want it.
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  1045.  @fdllicks  you came within inches of finding out and you're not out o danger.
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  1046.  @fdllicks  I'm British and have a Ukrainian flag on my jacket right now. Slava Ukraini! I was only trying to point out a warning to people in the US that they are in danger of making exactly the same kind of mistake that the Russians made by allowing a very dangerous man and his political party to have power. He has already nearly succeeded in a coup d'etat. Don't think you're so superior that you don't have to watch out.
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  1047. Just to be a pedant "high pressure" would be better than "high PSI" for the worldwide audience.
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  1048. Ivan, they just take your weapons when you run away from them. Sorry, it would be wasteful not to!
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  1049.  @liamward8247  exactly. When you've had it you will be able to say it if was better than a couple of injections...if you survive of course.
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  1050. 3d scanners are a thing - so you scan one of the components that you have that's intact and then make more.
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  1051. Come on America - show us you're better than us. :-) I don't want to believe that you can go down the same old road of demagogues as everyone else.
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  1052. I like it but Africa is not very stable. It could easily end up like it has with Russian oil and gas now. Africa will also need its own energy. So IMO this is a kind of "extra nice to have" where we could trade energy but we wouldn't want to totally rely on it.
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  1053. If one needs nurses or drivers today, and it takes N years to train them then it doesn't help you to prevent the hiring of immigrants. today. It's stupid to squeeze the economy now just because you might be able to satisfy a need several years later. There's also no guarantee that you can convince people to study to do the jobs you think are needed and no way to ensure that they don't learn and then move elsewhere.
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  1054.  @mosh.4245  Sure, after a megaton of money has been spent on them they might end up being cheap - until the next block 5 or whatever is needed to update them.
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  1055. Which? Those dams in Switzerland work now. Liquid air storage is working now too - it's just about whether it will become commercially viable. There are a lot more schemes than these ones which are being tried out too - some will work. Batteries are already working in big storage plants - they're just expensive.
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  1056. They are comparable, one to the other, even if they don't match your exact driving style and represent what you personally will get.
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  1057.  @miteshghadi3146  i.e. people are happy to lend them money because it's a safe investment...
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  1058. doesn't work at night though - if you listened to them.
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  1059.  @solapaul2490  I'm not German and I'm not trying to get green energy from you.
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  1060. They remind me of Chinese Greenhouses - minus the reused bottles and tyres of course. That makes me think about how one might roll down a blanket at night to keep the heat in. I've seen a video about someone doing this in Canada - his greenhouse has a double plastic wall with the blanket rolling down over the inner one. It also has vibrating machines to get the snow off. I imagine that one might build a fairly standard house inside something like that - effectively a dome. It's not a new idea of course.
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  1061. or that he has charm but not integrity...
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  1062.  @simonjohanson3418 first catch of the day :)
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  1063.  @urbandream7051  To be brutal: what does that matter? The support they need is of the wealthy countries, particularly the US. US sanctions have the most brutal effect and the US is the only country that can begin to threaten China not to support Russia. South America is not a great help to Russia.
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  1064. Good review but obviously even something good (like this car) can have some comments: I think you complained about some buttons and sliders but gave us no idea at all about the actual software which, as the name implies, has nothing to do with physical stuff.
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  1065.  @Liberty4Ever  And yet it was redundant enough and safe enough in the event of both failures to keep astronauts alive. Apparently this mission would have succeeded in docking if astronauts had been onboard and I think that's the important point. I think they will be looking at their software again and it's their review of that and the test procedures they're using which will determine their level of confidence.
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  1066.  @Liberty4Ever  i.e. you're a spacex fan which is irrelevant to the starliner issue. Merry Xmas.
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  1067.  @Liberty4Ever  didn't the dragon crew capsule explode? Seems a much worse failing to me.
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  1068.  @Liberty4Ever  You're just making all the same excuses that can be made about Starliner except that in Starliner's case the astronauts would have survived the mishap if they had been in it.
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  1069. ​ @Liberty4Ever  No, I just detect favoritism.
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  1070. Voters identify themselves with one side or another and then it can do no wrong.
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  1071. I can at last see how beautiful it looks. What a special thing! :-)
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  1072. There are good people there but they don't have the microphone. We should always remember that we need Russia to become better or even "good" to have a peaceful future so we should be trying to help those who are decent. We could start by not accepting the money of rich Russian criminals in our own countries. We have accepted a lot of dirty money which shows our own evil is not defeated.
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  1073.  @MK_ULTRA420  yes we are. If they cannot behave properly we should de-elite them. That's what laws and a legal system and jail are for.
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  1074. Brexit will have a huge effect because we'll struggle to afford this sort of thing after it.
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  1075. It doesn't matter one iota what life used to be. How you're going to do it with an economy that shrinks several percent is the issue now.
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  1076. It's not just about green energy - without storage you have to build huge power stations to meet the maximum demand. With it you can build to meet the average need.
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  1077.  @kentershackle1329  Not before they had kicked the Russians out.
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  1078.  @Vitjany_35cm  Because I come from one of those countries and I know nobody really supports Russia except the mafia gangsters in their government and then only because they want cheap oil. It's the scumbags of the world club.
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  1079.  offroadguy7772  bang, it, bang, failed, retreat! BANG. The Ukrainians, BANG, aaaaaaaaàh, failed..... :) Enjoy your new bridge
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  1080. Crap, you don't have it that bad. Your government is rightly ensuring that you have a future with some possibilities in it by defeating your enemies before they get anywhere near you. You're a Putin fancier.
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  1081. You don't mention hybrid vehicles which is by far the most likely possibility and avoids the concern about having to include a huge weight of batteries. I don't know how much time combat vehicles spend running their engines at full power but if it's not 100% of the time then you could get away with a smaller engine and get the instant power from your battery. This is not bullshit - it's one of the benefits people in aviation have been thinking about - take off and climb on battery+jet power and cruise on a just jet lets you have a much smaller engine. Car batteries now need less cobalt than phone batteries do apparently - they've been redesigned and their temperature is better managed so they need it less. Your estimate of 20-30 years for batteries to improve is really not taking into account the immense efforts being put into car batteries. There are many promising alternatives with lots of teams working on them - solid-state batteries, Lithium sulfur, etc etc. Batteries are going to get used in aerospace because the economic appeal is so strong and this will create the incentive to deal with the weight issue.
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  1082. He's "Allright Jack" so everyone else who isn't can ** off in his opinion.
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  1083. Whatever your opinion I wish you would consider its effect. You are not neutral, I hope.
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  1084. One thing that's wrong with all of this is that we're not generating enough "new" wealth. It's all too zero-sum.
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  1085. everything is dry so obviously got out of hand in the grass.
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  1086.  @3strikesyouout643  Upset you did I :-) NATO: 950 million people, Russia: 150 million. Your economy only exists to service ours with oil which we will replace.
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  1087. Check out Red Dwarf: Better than Life.
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  1088.  @RobertLutece909  Red dwarf? Better than life?
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  1089. The Corbyn fans enabled this government much more really by trying to offer an alternative that the country didn't want.
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  1090.  @TheAlchaemist  If you live in authoritarian state, anyone that does stick their neck out gets it cut off. It's a lot harder than you might think. It's not any use being the only brave man on the street.
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  1091. I think it looks awesome. There's always this spectrum of opinion on cars.
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  1092. They're defending all sorts of values that I think you'd call "woke". If you want to be "not woke" you might find that Russia suits you better.
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  1093. My guess before watching: population growth rate. Corruption etc would hopefully reduce as people got more educated but they cannot because there are too many new people to educate, house and find jobs for each year. After: blaming colonialism is getting to be an old excuse IMO - most of Europe was colonised by the Romans and it didn't seem to stop them. It did take hundreds of years for Europeans to get from living in mud huts to reading and writing and doing science though.
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  1094. They humiliate themselves.
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  1095. Why would it be amazing? I find it completely normal. Nobody truly cares about the internal politics of other countries if they even care much about their own.
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  1096.  Goron  This guy sold them which is worse when you think how many died and the bribes he paid to the people of the city to make himself seem good were paid with money dripping blood. Who said we have to tear anything useful down? This is just a statue.
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  1097. He explained his problem whereas you just issued a flat denial. That's not in the least convincing.
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  1098.  @nickopedia5669  Isn't the idea of lots of smaller engines (N1) and building engines on an assembly-line also Russian?
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  1099.  @nickopedia5669  Thank you - an interesting reply. I only point out that whether or not Henry Ford invented assembly line production, it took (if I am not wrong) some Russians to conceive of a strategy in which it could work for rocket engines. If you don't know about it then it seems as if one company invented the whole thing. To be more fair it's not just Russians whose successful approaches are silently adopted and taken for granted but I think various other companies including US ones.
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  1100. That's a very unintelligent attitude. Strategically it's very important to be able to make fuel and of course the cost of transporting it to where you need it can be extreme - so what if you can make it there instead? Plus why pay Russia to upgrade its air defences?
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  1101. Feeling insecure? :-D
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  1102.  @LineaDeus  how could a serving person say anything useful or even admit who they work for?
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  1103.  @souradeepchoudhury8515  either way you backed the wrong horse in this race because Russia is headed down the tubes and we are going to have the next industrial revolution here whether it's a struggle or not.
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  1104.  @souradeepchoudhury8515  :-) Europe has done quite well in history despite wars and so on, now in an era of internal peace it is doing quite well and I think you're exaggerating the US's role and power. It's certainly powerful and influential but I think it at least as much gets influenced itself.
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  1105.  @souradeepchoudhury8515  the Russia/Ukraine war is happening in Europe and you can see the Baltic nations reacting not just at the international level but at home with big weapons purchases because they know Russia from experience - the kind of experience that you do not have. So I see them acting in their own interest and the US interest happens to be fairly similar which is great.
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  1106.  @souradeepchoudhury8515  They seem to know their interest far better than you do -= after all they had their experience in the past with Russia.
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  1107. Putin is getting sensitive about window jokes so this time a bomb....
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  1108.  @wronggg  If "heavy assist" + "driver staying in control" is better than autonomy then that would be the lesser evil - would you be happy with it?
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  1109. "petit bourgeois" ... how terrible. Imagine a woman not listening or being quiet and then being bourgeois ontop of that!
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  1110.  @calion7643  How do you advance a square kilometer? :-)
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  1111. Don't know if you've watched the itchy boots channel. Its not about weather but it is great escapism since you don't really have the option of escaping through "Sarah n Tuned" yourself 😀
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  1112. Only a Russian would think like that. You're definitely sweating.
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  1113. The problem with not taking tough decisions is that problems build up until the only thing that can be done is extremely brutal. I think Thatcher provides a lovely figure to blame for taking a lot of unpleasant decisions that other politicians avoided. It was a time when some people still believed in the kind of socialism that existed in Eastern Europe and naturally the sword that was stuck into that whole philosophy by Thatcher and then by world events like the fall of the Berlin wall must have been extremely upsetting. Even if people had to admit that the East was desperate to become less socialist they wouldn't forgive a person like her for being at least more than 1/2 right.
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  1114. Not their first full ev by a very long way: e-golf, e-up and if you mean exclusively electric then the ID.3 were first.
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  1115.  @JohnCSmith-lp1qr  It's great, it's the size of the world - Moscow.:-)
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  1116. It's agonizing, but I think it's a mistake to believe that Trump doesn't understand. He is shafting the Ukranians thinking that they will now obey him.
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  1117. diddums. Poor Tories...unable to do anything with their huge majorities.
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  1118.  @lfield2494  Frustrated maybe but they are still doing and giving and it's not as if anyone else has donated modern battle tanks or western (sic) air defence systems (i think). It does indeed seem to me that they were caught unprepared and in a difficult situation. OTOH I'm sure Russia has made big efforts in the past to ensure that Germany was in that situation and it's closer and easier for them to do so than places like Britain and the US and yet both those countries have suffered interference.
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  1119. you don't like your racism being considered as a negative in other words - you just want to be free to indulge yourselves.
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  1120. If it orbits us far enough away then what's the problem?
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  1121. no because you've simply eaten the bullshit that was put on the plate for you. Your version of Corbyn is a cartoon charicature.
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  1122.  @jamesinson3488  What vehicle can outrun and outmaneuver or be resistant to drones? Until there are lots of them, the Ukranians still need to move. What people are taking is that you don't get how desperate the situation is.
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  1123. @jamesinson3488  right. So if you need transport across mud you have to wait a month till someone sends you a troop carrier with enough armour ... Or you just try to walk without anything...again I think the Ukrainians are smart enough to know everything you've said and still have a need for these.
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  1124. I don't think so - we did it with a lot of nastiness and insults.
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  1125.  @SuzannaKiraly  There won't be any compromise because we know the Russians cannot be trusted to honour one. So there's nothing whatsoever for Ukraine to gain by compromising - they'd just be waiting for the next and even tougher attack from Russia.
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  1126. The percentage will apparently be displayed all the time in software 3.0 from what I could see in Battery Life's video.
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  1127. Who told you it didn't have OTA updates?
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  1128. Long haul trucks are a problem but there is apparently plenty of short haul trucking so lets not sit around moaning while there's something that can be done.
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  1129. Britishness has turned into a disaster mot of the world doesn't know what that even means but many that do believe it's about low quality and mechanical problems. It might be as well to great a global brand which isn't trying to harp on and on and on about all the cliches.
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  1130. It's a huge change. Guns don't change all that much - we still use many quite old designs. This one is shockingly different. It has to change the game given how different it is, if it doesn't fail because of some disadvantage they fail to fix.
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  1131.  @Masterafro999  it has several effects as the video shows. As an example, Gepard AA tanks are successful at shooting shahed drones in Ukraine but M2 Bradley's cannot do it. This cannon would allow you to perform both roles with one vehicle. That could be quite a change of the drone game since you'd have much more air defence than an opponent for the same money. Another change is being able to select exactly the desired type of ammunition. Another is that vehicles that are carrying this typically had much smaller calibre guns because they had no space for bigger ones or the bigger shells. The size of this gun plus the ammunition let's you fit it on small vehicles and hugely increase their capabilities .
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  1132.  @Masterafro999  I get your point. I suppose they might have optical tracking which is probably very inferior. At least you can imagine fitting some kind of radar if needed.
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  1133. A classic pattern is people leaving a company and being hired back as consultants.
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  1134. He is at least in the "post lettuce" phase.
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  1135. It's a perfect warning because its success required help that no other European nation is likely to give.
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  1136.  @gvs376  US GDP per capita is a lot higher so the extra cost of these vehicles deters less people.
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  1137. The shorter one is already available in Europe - not sure about this longer one - I think not.
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  1138. It took economic disaster to break the USSR, what less than that will break Putin? The really real problem is that too many Russians don't agree with this chap at the moment. For as long as they're ok personally, it doesn't matter what crimes Putin does and a bit of nationalism is enjoyable. The Russian economy will have to start falling apart and although lots is going wrong, the disaster now isn't enough. Waiting for disasters is just a terrible way to change governments.
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  1139.  Kev J  why not read the newspapers?
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  1140.  @nigg2811  Its much easier to let you do it for me. 👍
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  1141. Their desire wasn't about economics or anything else so the way things have turned out now doesn't matter. All they need is an excuse i.e. the "didn't do it properly" excuse. It's more along the lines of a chip on the shoulder, resistance to change a reaction to the thought of "Europeans telling us what to do." Older people who think their future is secure are able to indulge in the luxury of pride and prejudice.
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  1142. Vegemite completely won me over from marmite because it's a little milder .............until........marmite peanut butter. That stuff is just unbelievably good. So now I have to be a fan of both.
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  1143. NATO is already buying AWACS to be shared so why not other aircraft? If that happened then the national industry part of it might be helped by insisting that the basic designs be licenseable in a reasonable way so that countries could make any amount or selection of the basic components themselves. I don't see why that wouldn't work with tanks and a few other basics. Specialised equipment could still be bought outside of this but really we woud want to remove the reason for too much specialisation.
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  1144.  @jimtitt3571  America should have at least as many roles but it has one main battle tank so I'm suspicious of that.
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  1145. Actually Skylon is on pause because there isn't the money to do it. TSTO is going to get done first and won't defeat the purpose because there are lots of advantages to being able to launch from an airport and land at perhaps another one. An engine of suitable size is also going to be the basis for hypersonic aircraft (albeit with a max speed of Mach 5 but at least you can get there from 0mph with the same engine). Hypersonics is getting a lot of attention right now from the military thanks to the Russian and Chinese boasts. The real reason why Skylon had any difficulty competing with SpaceX is that the entire cost of developing a new engine cycle was to be dumped at the door of one vehicle. The precooler now will be tried out in military jet engines to improve range and speed and there are hypersonics applications and several different TSTO design studies with different groups like the US AFRL and ONERA etc so the development won't need to be paid back by the first couple of Skylons. The TSTO designs won't need the unique materials and avoid other considerations about wing and foreplane size or heat shielding which make them that much less expensive to develop quite apart from being smaller.
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  1146. We have lots of windmills - we just call them wind turbines now as they've become incredibly powerful. The problem is that they don't work at exactly the same speed all the time and sometimes we have to feather the blades to stop them producing electricity because we have too much and sometimes there's not enough. So if we could store energy on the good days and use it on the bad days that would be very useful.
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  1147.  @yvonnetomenga5726  Turkish doesn't have words for "she" and "he" - but it does have words for "mother's sister" and "father's sister". People don't consider things of similar importance in different cultures. I don';t know the answer about "mines" in Ukranian but I'm not surprised if there is only one word.
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  1148.  @yvonnetomenga5726  Wow, you are very determined to ignore what people say.
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  1149. People in Britain would do anything when faced with the same danger.
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  1150. I'm finished with caring about what other men think is "real". If I want to cross my legs and sip tea I fucking will.
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  1151. It's much cheaper to build on land but some numpties ...
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  1152. With radar you tell everyone where you are
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  1153. It really showed that NATO is prepared to stop any more Ukranian adventures.
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  1154.  @allen5513  You're so frightened of foreigners. Perhaps they're too much competition - worried that they're smarter or better than you? "Just walk away" is your answer. :-). It's so emotional.
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  1155. ​ Peter Peters  Here you type into a phone or computer provided by science, probably you have been saved from many different horrible illnesses that people suffered in the past but for some reason the science and medicine the made the world safe for you isn't to be trusted. A caveman with a phone basically.
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  1156.  @sidjames6846  of course it is about health - we know enough to respond ASAP rather than waiting for a disaster to happen - that's the mathematics of the situation and you're just looking for some way to justify your mistrust of the people who are trying to do their job of protecting us.
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  1157. I think one just needs a timer in the wall that will charge at a particular time in the night - then your battery will have a chance to cool down before charging starts and you can catch the cheaper electricity too.
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  1158. it's just exposing how desperate people are to pretend that climate change isn't happening so they don't have to change their behavior.
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  1159. We should choose the things we really want to make in the UK and spend some continuous amount to keep an industry alive. If we don't want to keep an industry alive then we should accept the fact and buy from abroad. We should be trying to build commonality with NATO so we can share equipment without spares or training problems. Does NATO really need N different tanks? It's certainly harder to supply Ukraine because of the variety of stuff.
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  1160.  @passion4movies374  that just shows you don't know the meaning of the word "dictatorship."
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  1161. ​ @passion4movies374  You found a definition but seem to have trouble with reasoning about how it fails utterly to apply to the US.
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  1162.  @mauroscimone8584  not all top of the line though. They may have expended most of their best already.
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  1163. It just is. War happens. If we don't want it to, now is a bit late to complain - we should have made the Russians aware that it wasn't going to be ok long before this time.
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  1164. ​ @lestrem11 to defeat impartiality people just take ridiculously extreme positions so that the middle ground is still biased towards them.
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  1165. The Eurofighter however has been sold abroad so I'm not sure how that affects it whereas the carriers have not (yet).
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  1166. Why is Britain the worst in Europe then?
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  1167.  @Bob_Brown  are there any still-oppressed people who care about the colosseum?
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  1168. Look at all the tools who voted Tory - suckers to a man.....trying to pretend that their arse stink of a party offers credibility even in defence.... 😂
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  1169. Impossible is an unwise word to use. Developments are happening all the time and the RAF is future proofing itself. As fossil fuel costs go up, biofuel is going to look more attractive and the cost of producing it will only go down with technology.
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  1170. what smuggling?
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  1171. Where is Putin - where is his gun? he's sitting safe at home.
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  1172. So nobody is going to drive anywhere, right? We're just going to sit at home?
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  1173.  @Observer-xc6fp  of course not. I'm an armchair commentator. This vehicle is getting attention from other people though who are military now and I don't think they're complete idiots. The Russians are using tractors to move people around now because they still need to get around whether or not drones can attack them.
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  1174. possibly because they are more concerned about holding their guns and staying alive than getting good camera angles.
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  1175.  @Taxladysells  oh yeah, I should watch people who don't do any journalism, obviously. Watch any weirdo with a microphone...
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  1176. 70 year old violent criminals versus cops in body armour.............what heroes.
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  1177. One problem is that people who leave a place do so for a reason. Some of them may be less insulted than one might think at first.
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  1178. slave trading was a mean business. Don't think I would have liked this man if I met him. Glad he's in the drink.
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  1179.  @MrXMysteriousX  I would not, Mr X, you courageous person for using your name, otherwise nobody would have stopped slavery.
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  1180.  @estebanhernandez722  With motivation they will learn just as quickly as they learned all the other western systems they have.
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  1181. I think we've heard a lot of FUD about the software and no specific complaints so far. What can any company do but refute such vagueness and what good does it do to repeat rumour? As for kmh versus mph........oh dear.
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  1182. you can create a big site and put one reactor in at a time - that might reduce the capital cost without increasing the planning problems. The main issue is that one needs technologies that we can spend money on now, as you say so we should be spending the most on solutions which are already mature
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  1183.  @Miller6616  At least we know his name. You prancy coward :-)
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  1184. ​ @yunhanchen because they only like the visible success and not the way in which it was achieved.
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  1185. WOW. Crime can be punished. How terrible!
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  1186.  @supernick2072  why didn't someone bother to try to bring a case?
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  1187. Russia can move its threat anywhere it wants to, including right next to places it wants to attack.
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  1188. The problem is that they're doing a very powerful thing: supporting other people's world view. I think most of us defend our view of the world very strongly as it's what makes us feel competent and confident. BJ has worked out, like many a demagogue before him, that some people very much want to believe certain things and he supplies them with the bullshit and projected confidence they need to be able to carry on.
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  1189. Presumably because his old office in Moscow has windows.
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  1190. Milk powder cannot replace all the antibodies, stem cells etc that are in natural milk. There was a study not long ago which showed a difference in life outcomes where the controlling variable was being breast fed for 6 months. A C-section makes things much harder but not impossible. Think of the effect on a country of a small improvement in ability multiplied by hundreds of millions of children.
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  1191.  @spartan-ml7nk  ... but want others to buy these things and rely on France....it's sort of like calling customers stupid.
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  1192. You might be able to make more jobs by not wasting money on this. As to being home grown - does the UK really want to be in the AFV business? Is it going to continuously invest or is this a once off? If it's a once off then it seems better to me to spend in the areas where we do absolutely want to make a continuous effort. Also, just to play the devils advocate, the effort to supply Ukraine suggests that Europe has far too many different systems so when you need to borrow some from your ally or use their repair shops or get spares it's got to be harder than for your enemy with only a few variants.
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  1193. Love this :-) Well done.
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  1194. Looking at Ukraine I wonder how the world will change for helicopters in general. They're getting immensely fancy and probably quite expensive and yet from what has happened over there they seem very vulnerable to me. I'm no expert of course!
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  1195.  @themainten4433  sorry, the bad guys are you and we all know it.
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  1196. @Мандарин Клементинов the bullshit coming from the other side is sooooo stupid and obvious that we can at least enjoy this high quality output and sympathise with the ideals. It's very smart to put guys like him on TV. We understand people fighting for their home against the Ives and killers.
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  1197. Engineers alwas have reasons why they do not need to adopt their competitors design strategy - I remember this at Nokia when the iPhone came out. There was this reason and that reason etc so in the end - failure.
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  1198. Zimbabwean here: don't get upset with the Americans. Every country has idiots in it and they win some of the time. I know only too well. Non-idiots of the world have to unite whether or not the idiots are in power here or there.
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  1199. The bible was written nearly a couple of thousand years ago - there wasn't anything in that about how the standard for immoral behavior was on a time limit. Everyone knew they should love their fellow man.
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  1200. Isn't it simpler to blame the current leader for current problems? No No obviously not - if we lost we must keep going in the same direction and try again!
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  1201.  @515coldfire  Nation building and war are opposite things.
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  1202. They already had a contract with OneWeb which OneWeb tried to get out of. OneWeb was the ridiculous suggestion for a UK positioning system so presumably that means that it IS a viable launch system but perhaps not automatically the cheapest in the long run.
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  1203.  @1chish  You make the excuse that the US has more money but don't apply that to the difference between Estonia and the UK.
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  1204.  @1chish  excusing the UK by saying that it cannot be anything but second to the US in absolute terms. I said that you then fail to use the same excuse for Estonia versus the UK. We could just look at % of GDP of course.
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  1205.  @1chish  Percentage of GDP is a distraction to people who don't like it to be felt that they're making less effort.
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  1206.  @kazdean  Not inherently. But what it does have is much more compact ammunition so you can carry more - and the gun is very compact too so it fits in a tiny space relative to the power of the gun. The real penalty is the cost of the ammunition and wear on the barrel.
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  1207.  @atheist6598  get out of their country.
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  1208.  @kapran03gm60  Ukraine had nukes and gave them up to get "security" but that didn't work. Apparently Russia thinks it owns all the countries around it and can just walk in and take them. Then it's going to be bigger and some other country will be "near" and that will have to be taken. Perhaps when the whole world is Russia they will feel safe to rob and steal from everyone?
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  1209. @James Herndon That's why I only got it on book 10 - it was the only one which wasn't a copy of all the others. I think life depends on whether a person with exactly your own mindset has trodden that path before and written down how they managed it.
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  1210.  @Max_Da_G  ... it's just not evident. T-xx tanks have a fast autoloader....win? No. Turret toss. Russia has active protection systems? Well maybe but we see lots of tanks getting taken out by Stugna or other missiles and we hear quite a lot of stories about reactive armour not even being installed in the panels. Russia has electronic warfare for vehicles - but it seems it often doesn't work properly and occasionally is a scam - empty boxes. Russia's aircraft are incredible - but they seem to be hiding. Russia's air defence system is unbeatable - but drones make their way through to oil refineries all the time. .... and so on. We have a right to be quite sceptical.
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  1211.  @Jamal_dont_mess  Oh, I don't think that the Leopards were overstated. The M1 is obviously too difficult but it's there in such small numbers anyhow that it's not important.
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  1212. ​ @Based_Lord  I think the west has probably had lots of tanks to look at so the overt capabilities weren't a surprise to us but it was a surprise that Russian trucks had problems with their tyres and that tanks arrived with nothing in their ERA boxes....and that they use EW systems which often don't work at all. They had many thousands of tanks so it's the RESULT that is surprising - that this advantage has been largely ineffective. Their S400 air defense has turned out to be vastly less impressive than we thought....for whatever reason. The western tanks have shown their weak points too IMO mostly that there aren't enough and that they're too hard to maintain unless you have lots of highly trained mechanics which is something one expects to run out of eventually. It does seem that quality matters, however since they can be used effectively at night.
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  1213. Russia is still medieval. Putin is a king. There's just a social problem there and the country is not going to get better leaders until it's people become better people. They depend on oil wealth because they've not created a fair and honest basis for other businesses to succeed. Their leaders are just the most successful robbers who floated to the top of society. Civilisation demands that honest people rise more successfully than robbers on average.
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  1214. We are turning on the renewables - no more need for Russian oil or gas. Yay!
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  1215.  @mohismail4129  We still develop things but people don't realise it. Small UK companies have no chance because they're invisible and of course we don't support them at all.
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  1216. Pity that Sky Sabre isn't ready to do that job too.
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  1217. All over the world older people cling to the way the world was when they were younger - when they imagined they were safe and happy. I don' think there's anything specifically Russian about that. If you put them through a period of stress and uncertainty they'll start dreaming of the old days.
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  1218.  @dancroitoru364  Dealing with climate will require a change in attitude and behavior which is what older people resist. So it's more comfortable to pretend the problem doesn't exist. Some people are just playing stupid - they think the problem won't affect them in their lifetime and resent anyone younger ... so "screw it." Those of us who care more than 1/2 a shit about our children have no excuses.
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  1219.  @dancroitoru364  Not quite sure what you're talking about but I have a kid and I don't see why some bunch of old bastards need to be coddled along and allowed to prevent us from fixing the problem that will affect her.
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  1220.  @dancroitoru364  The people who created the problem can help pay for it to be fixed.
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  1221. Putin isn't a socialist.
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  1222. There's a lot more sea than land.
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  1223. So like Turkey is the EU because it's in the customs union? Yeah.....
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  1224.  @lacdirk  If they can have a customs union we can.
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  1225.  @lacdirk  Better than nothing perhaps. I mean not leaving would have been the sensible thing to do but ...
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  1226.  @moa-wg3bo  So, essentially, you get to really enjoy the first 2.1 seconds of your drive and after that what? What about 60-100? What about cornering, general handling etc? Can you keep that kind of driving going? We're not all into drag racing.
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  1227. people wished to dismiss Russia as a threat ...but they were wrong and now people wish to dismiss other things that frighten them and we don't really want to wait for a similar disaster for them to decide to shut up.
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  1228. Only people with tiny appendages need a car to do that.
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  1229.  @cspace1234nz  I know you didn't mean that and I was making the point that it is not a survivable aircraft, it's expensive to operate and they'd probably be much much better off spending their time and energy on learning and maintining one type of aircraft that fills the main roles.
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  1230. Well, you've said that there are bad ones but it's not really as useful as telling us about some good ones.
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  1231.  @solarwind907  Thank you!
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  1232. We fart around and do tests and nothing comes of it. We buy extremely expensive drones and then don't have nearly enough of them.
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  1233.  @MegaWilderness  Rimac has its fanboys but Tesla is American so some nationalism is mixed in.
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  1234. Unfortunately those who are nostalgic and patriotic etc get in the way of replacing it with something modern. In a few years we will get the Challenger 3 - a tank that would have seemed modern 10 years ago.
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  1235. This is great. There's more and more reason to become energy independent to invest in renewables.
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  1236. It depends on what you're doing. A computer science degree absolutely is useful for example - people who don't have it are at a disadvantage and they're a pain in the neck to work with.
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  1237. Because not funding the Russians should help us not to have to spend so much defending against them.
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  1238.  @rod1514  i.e. that the other Republican choices were even worse....
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  1239. After this I wonder if Lithium Sulfur batteries might not suit it better - they are bigger but lighter. They are also at an early stage (lower cycle life) but aircraft have flown with them and at 2 million pounds these cars might be the sort of thing where you could include a few complete battery replacements in the price without noticing it.
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  1240.  @kcimb  Your strategy: ignoring large Russian donations to the Tory party :-) BTW, you're probably radically more like a socialist than me.
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  1241.  Justin Time  Boo to you too. Ever thought of arguing the point?
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  1242.  Justin Time  I think you can look up the newspaper stories, it's not difficult. I assume though that you have your fingers in your ears and are shouting "nyaaaa" because that's about the level of your comments.
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  1243.  @neildeakin4454  Insults but not arguments. Because you know you have none. Those Russian donors weren't handing out the cash for nothing.
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  1244.  @MrHowardMoon  That's simply unlikely because they are the defenders. attacking usually has far higher casualties. So I don't think I'm going to be believing that figure.
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  1245.  @MrHowardMoon  That is rubbish for the reasons already stated.
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  1246. He's a total idiot and you can have him but even though I say that I still think: Slava Ukraine.
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  1247.  @rickylocock9068  It's leverage vs the EU doesn't seem very great.
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  1248. @John W Oh, is the model 3 a compliance car too then?
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  1249. is it the government which created the situation or the one that has to deal with it that you're complaining about?
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  1250.  @ernsteck6582  Well, it started at 48% so we're improving :-)
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  1251.  @Rob22511  I don't want to be mean but I think the point went whoooshing over your head. Brexiters didn't want a referendum because they would lose and that's clear now. They wanted an election because it would split the remain vote.
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  1252.  @Simonr501  maybe they did bit some like me were voting for the anti Brexit candidate. This just goes to show that thw only way Brexiters could win with their smaller numbers was to confuse the issue and use the way the voting system works. A referendum would have made them lose which is why they were so against it.
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  1253. @LuciusEsox1 indeed and thats why you wanted an election rather than a referendum. As for letting up, well, to get to the right level maybe a lobotomy would do it.
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  1254.  @TheRisingFury  Actually 2 referendums already and if you practised your own beliefs you'd accept the first one. But don't let me stop you from being a complete hypocrite.
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  1255.  @millwallholdings  You seem to be mixed up. Gammon is the nickname for Brexiters :).
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  1256. Who want's it? I don't think anyone really - it's a big mess. We just don't want the mess over here, thanks.
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  1257.  @mmassehs3251  A lot of excuses for stealing someone else's land.
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  1258.  @mmassehs3251  boo hoo hoo.
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  1259.  @mmassehs3251  Thieves always try to accuse other people....
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  1260.  @mmassehs3251  you're a supporter of murder and you have a lot of excuses from the past to say why it is ok to murder today. You're as bad or worse than the people who are doing it.
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  1261.  @mmassehs3251  ....because they have functioning democracies where nobody can completely control the media.
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  1262.  @mmassehs3251  It seems you don't understand anything but lets remember who is doing the stealing today: Russia - where it is illegal to use the word "war".
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  1263.  @mmassehs3251  blah blah blah blah. It' s like a toilet broke and fountained up in the air. Russians get out of Ukraine! Slava Ukraine!
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  1264. Tolle!
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  1265. If large numbers of people feel conservative you cannot expect to ever escape entirely whatever happens to the political parties.
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  1266. If you see people like this you are making them non-human which is not fair. It doesn't matter really but it would be interesting to see you trying to solve the problems of a country and how you justified your difficult decisions.
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  1267. Used as a noun it means one thing and used as a verb it means another.
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  1268. A laser grid is projected, not a beam. It's easier to keep this on the target.
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  1269. ... rather than blame themselves for their own tardy and unbelieving response...
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  1270. Seems like a cynical attempt to connect with the very young to me. It's university degrees that help you "understand tech" not playing 3-D shooters.
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  1271.  @John-rr9fv  Not a boomer. But on the whole believing that computer games prepare you for life is pretty credulous - perhaps that's what they want.
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  1272. Not attending the inauguration because of sulking. That's small - no bias needed.
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  1273.  @cardrivingdude  What critical role does anyone perform in a rocket flight? It can all be totally automated up to the point of docking at the space station - at least the ATV did that even if the current spacecraft are more primitive.
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  1274. We think he's a liar for other reasons and this Ukraine business has probably saved his political career so he is jumping on the chance. I'm glad it's helping Ukraine at least.
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  1275. The pot comment really upset him because it jars with his fantasy. He was excusing it but he left so that he could stop thinking about it.
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  1276. The issue is where the burden falls. I'm happy for it to fall on super-rich tech titans and the people who benefit from AI etc but why would those who have knuckled down to do the boring, difficult jobs that don't make them super-rich have to pay for the AI that benefits the people at the top the most?
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  1277. @@RR1-gn2hv you're right - we'd have been 10x more screwed.
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  1278. Pamberi ne Ukraine, pamberi ne Zimbabwe.
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  1279.  @xo121w  Tanks with turbine engines - not really desirable for Ukraine compared to the Leopard.
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  1280.  seeyouseemee3863  Who needs to make excuses for the USA? They've done more than anyone.
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  1281.  @At_sk  They seem to be doing quite well and there's a great incentive to move to renewables now !
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  1282.  @At_sk  America will be buying European Wind turbines....
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  1283. No evidence.
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  1284. The comments section is like the complaints from a bunch of ex public schoolboys who are worried that they put up with all the fagging and buggery for nothing now that its being banned. 😊
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  1285. ​ @Iazzaboyce it is possible to be Zimbabwe if you want to be.
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  1286. ...because you can get it from a supplier who is your friend instead of paying an enemy - or at least you can spread your cost. If it turns out to work well you can get them to invest in UK production.
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  1287. It's those two men who don't belong. Time such people got the boot.
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  1288.  @babakopoulo  your comment is ridiculous because there are lots of old fools in leadership positions and they are often elected by old fools.
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  1289. Old people love to ***t on younger people ... "they are lazy"...it's so predictable and stupid. Don't end up doing it yourself :-). Also do learn about computers - companies struggle to pay the going rate for people in the software industry. AI isn't changing it. I know from my experience trying to hire people. You'll struggle and struggle to get your first chance but when you get it the next step up is immensely easier.
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  1290. '.....I suppose time pressures and contracts and the cost of keeping factories running idle etc encourage companies to build the things before all the bits have been tested together to a great extent. Anything to do with technology or software is usually complex and almost always gets vastly underestimated. A sensible government would start with some simple goals and just demand that space and power budget was added to allow all the fancy stuff to be added gradually.
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  1291.  @tjmarx  you have put a 'spin' on the situation with unnecessary rudeness: an upgrade (a defect fix) needed because of unsatisfactory performance from the beginning is so bad that they are considering cancelling it: this is much more than 'teething trouble'. I speculate that this failure is due to the usual reasons of too much ambition and too little testing.
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  1292.  @tjmarx  "On 6 December 2010, the first two serial vehicles were handed over to the German Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung." That doesn't seem to be 20 years.... are you really an expert?
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  1293.  @tjmarx  oops. not 20 years then....switching to generating smoke.... :-D
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  1294.  @aaronj2296  Yes, and in every city that the Russians go near it has just been unfortunately necessary to destroy everyone and fire again after 30 minutes to kill the ambulance crews. It's just so unfortunate that if anyone gets in your way you simply have to kill them and even in their home. :-) I know you're very sad about it. Don't worry - eventually someone will do the same to you and it will be unfortunate.
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  1295.  @eriihf  what is a person who tries to excuse theft by saying "everyone would have done it if they could"?
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  1296. @timothylowe8327 yes of course. Lots of equipment has a troubled development history and then turns out to be great - witness the Bradley IFV for example. The good thing about Ajax is that at least it's built on the common ASCOD platform. If we cannot be completely interchangeable then lets at least use common platforms.
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  1297. Reminds me of Zimbabwe: although there are sensible people the lying has been so bad and so persistent that those sensible people are overbalanced by huge numbers of confused people. Leaving is a good option.
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  1298. Classic, accuse the guy of a lot of shit so you can pretend you're being moral when you stab him in the back. Are you Trump voters really that easy to bullshit?
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  1299. I know this is ridiculous because the whole thing is not man-rated but.....500kg - could it fit one person in a tiny capsule? Google says a space suit is about 130kg so I'd assume that either a capsule would need to be that heavy to support life for some useful time or the astronaut would be in a space suit in a capsule that wasn't pressurised. A not fit person like me is a bit under 100kg, so you'd have 500-130-100=270kg left for structure, for oxygen needed until the capsule could be grabbed by the space station arm and propellant to maneuver. It would be kind of cool in a way if it were possible.
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  1300.  @stevec6427  the engines for example - the first ones are left over IIRC but as it goes on they start to use a newly cheapened "use once" version of the RS-25. It doesn't really feel like progress but it isn't nothing.
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  1301.  @MikeOxlong-  I thought it was 4 billion per year and 1.6 per flight?
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  1302. "The study found fish tapeworm eggs to be surprisingly widespread in the Roman Period compared to Bronze and Iron Age Europe. One possibility Mitchell suggests for the rise in fish tapeworm is the Roman love of a sauce called garum. Made from pieces of fish, herbs, salt and flavourings, garum was used as both a culinary ingredient and a medicine. This sauce was not cooked, but allowed to ferment in the sun. Garum was traded right across the empire, and may have acted as the “vector” for fish tapeworm, says Mitchell."
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  1303. We all want it to be happy and rich because we know what happens when it isn't.
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  1304. Well if you're very stupid then you might not think this is the offer of the century to get rid of Pootin and all those oligarchs crowding up London's fancy houses.
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  1305. It's not the most modern - the Polish Krab's turret is based on the same design though newer. It's solidly useful. Specs are nice but just having more guns is important too.
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  1306. It's a beautiful and interesting car that I would love to own (but am never going to be able to afford) but it's hard not to be influenced by such a cheerful and friendly presenter. I hate subscribing but I think you fineagled me into it.
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  1307. those turtle tanks are for carrying people and you can't see them inside because they're under the shed.
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  1308. Given up its nukes....and shown us what Putin really is....and delivered stunning defeats to him at no cost in life to us. It is only bad if you're a pootin fancier.
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  1309. They want to make sure Ukraine is "in the box" aligned with the US. i.e f*** you, shut up, do as you're told. Accept what you get, pay up..,....." I listened to this man but he's making a long excuse
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  1310. The whole thing is cultural. Some countries have a picture of how they will fight that suggests to them that they don't need to disperse and be full of autonomous elements. This picture might be completely right for the kind of foreign intervention they're doing now but it might not be right in a more serious situation where they were threatened at home.
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  1311.  @ThaiSoup39  So should you
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  1312. Yes - have you seen the video where he craps on Trump.....and now he has been bought?
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  1313.  @weneedcriticalthinking  You go and make the peace happen then.
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  1314. Those numbers are a bit of a shock - i.e. that they are not worse.
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  1315.  @leanatale7251  desperately seeking sympathy for a bigoted attitude perhaps.
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  1316. How unspeakably ugly! WOW. Thanks China! not.
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  1317. Hatchback.....plus 5700 Euros to spend on solar panels to power it and possibly more money depending on the level of extras I choose.
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  1318.  @mauroftw  Some people love them for their other qualities - each to their own. I agree that it's nice to think your car is well put together. I wish that Europe in general (including the UK) would get it's act together on software and realise how important it is. Cars should not be throw-away anymore - one should expect the software to have a continuous life of updates which doesn't involve buying new cars.
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  1319. They built the hulls wrongly apparently - all sorts of accuracy problems is what I read. i.e. insufficient quality control. This is the excuse for it taking a long time to work out how to fix things because each vehicle is slightly different. It sounds incredible but I can almost believe it.
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  1320. Endless repetition of the same words, first by one person then another......gaaaah!
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  1321. That will be too late to help people. It's better to give people a clue now and let them save their lives - if some new evidence comes to disprove this then it's not a disaster.
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  1322. The scientific evidence so far is that he was wrong, actually.
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  1323.  @sarukravitz4981  A fry up and fish and chips are as good as anything you can eat at the most expensive restaurant. Bread and butter pudding, if you make it with marmalade, takes about 3 minutes to prepare and is arguably the finest tasting dessert I've ever eaten. It's not that I don't like other things but there really is no point pretending that simple things can't be 100% satisfying.
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  1324. Britain is a union. You guys want to be part of that?
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  1325. Indeed, who needs health?
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  1326. really? You cannot think of any examples of bad behaviour or leaving allies in the lurch since, lets say, 1945?
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  1327. The other manufacturers have 2 sources of income - you can try to spin that as a disadvantage if you like.
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  1328.  @ОльгаБоголепова-щ2л  change your leader. Then get back to us on how democratic you are.
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  1329. Relying on Russian gas is far worse, surely?
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  1330. They were harder to knock out and the Ukranians found that out, hence this new tool.
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  1331. If tanks need so much support and need such expert use then possibly they are not so valuable anymore.
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  1332.  @robertmoyse4414  I think they very specifically didn't because the US has a great supply of the L119 shells. It shows how having bespoke equipment is a nuisance IMO.
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  1333.  @d.c.4lifeking602  wikipedia, hahaha, and other stuff like that. Not real knowledge.
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  1334.  @randallturner9094  no, just at one time Britain had very good designs and licensed them e.g. m777
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  1335.  @arejaycee5484  I agree with you but I was trying to explain why there are other things we are not free to say.
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  1336. Yup, he got eaten. He did lots of work and got nothing. The Tory party borrowed his philosophy for as long as it's useful and cut him out. Now they can do any Brexit they like and he can do nothing about it.
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  1337. So the new way to assasinate someone will be to throw a child-sized mannequin into the road in front of their car.
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  1338. "scaremongering" = "I am going to stick my head in the sand over here and I don't want anyone to challenge me over it"
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  1339. Don't get too proud - it's a blindness that can stop you from doing what is right now. All countries have good and bad things going on - it is wonderful that we had among us such men as Dowding and Keith Park and their pilots but we also have a capacity for evil and (more so) stupidity which we have to continually watch out for if we want people to tell stories like this about our time.
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  1340.  @alexroberts6416  oh come on. There are loads of lower class people with newly obtained money trying to buy class by sending their kids to a fancy school. Social climbers are far worse snobs because they're deeply into the effort of "reaching the top". New money is always scorned and eventually accepted. The classic story is the newly rich industrialist marrying his daughter off to some layabout son of an aristocrat facing hard times. Most recently the invasion of super rich Russians - buying class by sending their kids to British schools.
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  1341. Why would nationals from other states be in Poland? I thought it was the Poles who had gone everywhere else?
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  1342. A mention of Griffon Hoverwork would be decent - they are designing and making hovercraft you could actually ride on at least.
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  1343. Yes, this guy is making slimy excuses.
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  1344. Yes, Hatchbacks are so much more useful.
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  1345.  @jesperrosgaard5788  Nothing wins over my current ICE car yet. It cost me less than the battery on an EV and is bigger. So for me they are all losers. But at least the ID.3 is a hatchback.
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  1346.  @jesperrosgaard5788  Performance is ..... a matter of status really and I don't care about it. I regularly need to fit big things in the back of my car so I need at least a hatchback. I've had a look at the model 3 and ... well ... it just doesn't make sense for me. All the amazing features it has don't make up for missing the utility I need - and costing 6 or more times the price of an old car that has that utility. The ID is also more expensive than I need but at least maybe in future I might be able to pick up a second hand one.
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  1347. I think some of this is "bravado" from the older people.
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  1348. If they can....but they might get taken out themselves by all those western missiles that are going with the artillery.....
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  1349.  @JasonTaylor-po5xc  It's odd that you characterise them as dictators since they only get 4 years. Only one of them has denied an election and incited an insurrection. I imagine you don't like democrat policies but probably realise the alternative crew are unprincipled. IMO being principled always beats policies. You can be certain that KH will go peacefully in 4 years if that's the outcome, having made some mistakes and potentially even admitting some. On the other hand you cannot be sure what the other guy will do since he has already shown that he has no respect for the rules.
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  1350. It's intellectual dishonesty. I have plenty of experience of people like this. They feel they are battling for their viewpoint and aren't going to admit anything. You can see that they aren't proud of tarriffs or they would mention them.
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  1351. The assessment that people respect a politician who "is his own person" was very enlightening for me.
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  1352. It's new understanding that's letting them become useful. I don't want to say what's wrong but IIRC the diameter of these new ones is much less than before and that has made them useful in cars.
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  1353.  @okeyezeilo6187  Germany already has tactical nuclear weapons and all countries face the threat of rightwing weirdos trying to take power just as Britain has experienced with Brexit and America with Trump (a Putin fancier) and France with whatshername- the female Putin fancier. It actually happened in Russia, Turkey, Brazil etc.
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  1354. There are cold blue skies here today which is great and it's just very enjoyable to hear your cheery voice. Many thanks :-)
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  1355. Sounds like something that would be useful for "responsive launch" like where someone had attacked your infrastructure and you couldn't get RP-1 easily. Jet-A would let you launch from many many more locations where aircraft were being supplied with it.
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  1356. It's the unprofessional nature of the Russian army that has allowed a much smaller country to humiliate them.
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  1357.  @tymonpiorowski6724  You do have "Grom" or the "Piorun" however? Only manpad but apparently excellent.
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  1358. ...well, nothing else you do makes any sense....
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  1359. It's not the attitude of quite a lot of other people who have driven this car so ....
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  1360. When it doesn't move the plane will experience higher stresses which will shorten the life of the wing but the overall design will have to be strong enough to put up with those maximum loads for the duration of a flight....I expect.
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  1361. Wrong question. The Tories don't care about Brexit - they only want to stay in power. He might be essential to that.
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  1362. That NATO calculation was by politicians who didn't want to pay for anything. The retired officers are finally getting their voices heard and they can say the things that their serving counterparts want to say but cannot.
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  1363. Living in a bubble is typical of everyone who goes to a foreign land. It is hard to adapt. My wife is Turkish and she had this problem living in the United Kingdom and always finds it easier to communicate with Turkish professionals when she needs something. Even though English is my first language it is still a great pleasure to speak to someone from my home country who I know will understand me at a deeper level. I have the same problems in Turkey and learning the language is only part of the solution. IMO you need to marry someone and experience the conflict of culture before you begin to see with different eyes. :-)
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  1364. What value do you add to a 747?
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  1365. @ ....or people are on holiday or whatever. The value is just that they paid for their ticket. ...snap with this lot.
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  1366. That old man should go - he hasn't got a long time left and some young person should be sent back - someone who has more life left to live.
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  1367. This is about getting a lunar space station which becomes a base for landings on the moon.
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  1368.  @Convergence_Corner  How much of the Poseidon though? Anyhow this is all because of a massive screwup in the past with the government trying to be cheap by reusing old Nimrod airframes which didn't work and this is just the ignominious end of that story.
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  1369. The name Typhoon came along quite a while after development started so it got called "the Eurofighter" for a long time IIRC.
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  1370. Generally one has to sit on one's arse unless e.g. you have something else to sit on.
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  1371.  @orlas5861  I'm paid to do work, which I do over the internet and attendance is of no use to my company. Same with MPs. Obviously you're trolling because it would be hard to be that obtuse for real.
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  1372. It will change the game off planet for sure. :-) That might be quite an extreme change of game.
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  1373. Because HUD is standard.
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  1374. It's not too bad if you manage to grind your enemy's "boot" off while they're trying to kick you with it.
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  1375.  @frankfisher99  Your wishful thinking really most people got themselves vaccinated and are busy getting the booster and you are in a minority.
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  1376.  @frankfisher99  Quite a lot of people have discovered that 0 vaccinations was not enough but it's too late for them.
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  1377.  @frankfisher99  no, the ones who are dead.
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  1378. Time spent is a trade off. I screwed up high school so I wasted 2 years before I got into university. From then there was no let up until I'm here and old. I'm still behind my schoolmates. I should have done a masters but I was too eager to get into earning. That was a trade off too - for a little while I did better than the people who did go into a masters but they waltzed past me in my late 30s with better jobs. So you can spend time not working but what's the best thing to do with that time? The Armed forces? I think you have to really want it and accept that there is a tradeoff. I don't mean there is no benefit but however you look at it, you're going to spend a lot of time and effort on something of which not all is learning and not all of that time improves your prospects.
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  1379. deniers believing what they live not living what they believe.
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  1380. He apparently thinks Pootin is a "Genius".
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  1381.  @ivorbiggun710  That claim about business confidence is quite incredible given the drop in exports and that the CBI index was at -22 in January
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  1382. "HMS Tamar also has the distinction for being the ‘Greenest Ship in the Royal Navy’ – fitted with ‘catalytic converters’ which reduce nitrogen-based emissions from her engine exhausts by up to 95 per cent. She weighs in at 2,000 tonnes, has a 6,000 mile range and a flight deck capable of carrying a Merlin helicopter. She also has accommodation for up to 50 Royal Marines Commandos and is considered by her crew as the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of Royal Navy vessels. "
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  1383. How many people relate to horses anymore? As he said, once you know the energy usage of one car that you have driven, you'll just be able to relate every car to that.
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  1384.  @llkk290  ... the kind of brother that rapes his brother's wife and shoots him, obviously.
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  1385. One shouldn't do something one doesn't want to do - but - don't mistake concern about your ability for "not wanting". Lots of non-geniuses bring up kids well enough. Also don't be put off by other people's kids. When they are yours you tend to feel differently.
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  1386. Thank you once again for a wonderful distraction. :-) BTW I always like to say "snip snip and Bob's your aunty" ... just to see if anyone notices.
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  1387. Demonstrating weakness towards Russia would be an invitation to China. My impression is that defense budgets go on forever so it doesn't seem likely that NATO will have any big problem supporting Ukraine. You're right though, Ukraine cannot keep bailing us out forever with blood - we must help it to win as fast as possible.
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  1388. I believe that Lockheed initially won the contract by proposing that they could upgrade the turrets as against BAE's offer to make new ones......then it turned out that they had to replace them anyhow. I read that the next problem was that the cannon used to need a new barrel after 700 rounds (that might have changed as that news is a bit old). The last problem that I read of is that they can't cheaply convert all the hulls since some are not in as good condition. So as usual....the cheap offer wins by not being realistic and then one pays more anyhow.
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  1389. Some people in the UK are in desperate need of confirmation of their silly choices at the moment - hence their interest in this.
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  1390.  @7stormy334  I think they probably have up to a point or it would have been abandoned. I should think one problem is that they will need more customers to be able to scale up the production of ammunition to make it cost effective.
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  1391.  @Iv4Bez I think the west sees a huge country with a tiny economy. The population doesn't change its government which is a sign that it is a very corrupt place - like so many countries in Africa. All it has is oil and gas and with climate change policies that will be less and less important. Nuclear weapons will stop working without money.
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  1392.  @richardloach610  indeed, we should expect that governments are incompetent and are going to ** everything they touch back to the stone age. Nobody should expect normal behavior at all! We should never take any risks because we all know that the other half of the British population is stupid and elects morons to break everything!
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  1393. He was an idiot that helped the Russians to nearly lose. His ruthlessness got them into terrible trouble e.g. wiping out the officer corps.
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  1394.  @marchvertochko0056 who's stagnant in Ukraine? NATO countries are ensuring the damage to their own economies and their own citizens is limited while Russia opens its belly on a Ukrainian knife. Russians have no choice but to suffer as much as Putin demands because they're not able to remove him.
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  1395. ...using a US launch system thus depriving the UK of the title of first to launch....
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  1396.  @arfon2000  ...but an entirely US system that has not really helped us and now he wants to come and eat at the table he spurned.
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  1397. We're going to help the Ukranians to smash you Russians and that's the only bit you need to understand because we can chew nhs gum and kick your ass at the same time.
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  1398. enjoy your wait.
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  1399.  @AnthonySpringall  I'm no authority but that's what I understood. So there is a gap in time where some things that the SF might want to do won't be on the menu.
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  1400.  @Eternalduat  Teslas and 1 BMW aren't really much of a sample. That would boil down to 2 cars. If one picked 2 ICE cars at random, one of them American and 1 German what are the chances they'd be fun?
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  1401.  @kevinjewitt6347  ...because it's greatly in line with our self interest and of course because we don't subscribe to Russian propaganda because we know how terrible it is like everything else they do.
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  1402. Yes she asked what are called "leading questions" as if she was trying to force the story along a particular line and it did seem like she was assuming her audience to be too stupid to understand the complex situation.
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  1403. It sounds like something out of the USSR i.e. "do not criticize the 5 year program otherwise I will denounce you for being defeatist." Obviously there's going to have to be another 5 year programme when it turns out that Brexit isn't delivering and then another 5 and we must carry on marching because that's patriotism? There are plenty of good reasons why we don't want our country run by soldiers.
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  1404.  @anthonywebb6479  The UK was used to having a captive market - it's Empire in which it could sell at an advantage and that isn't the case now. The world is organising on an ever bigger scale and the UK has decided to be a minnow. It's definitely "going back" as you say, while other people go forward.
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  1405. You're better off being able to change your organisation rather than building assumptions about it into hardware. A lot of things are going to change with time and situation.
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  1406. His lack of arrogance is why people like him.
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  1407. They live in an alternate reality - many like it and those that don't are very frightened. There are people like that in every country but perhaps just not so many.
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  1408. As one born in the commonwealth can I belittle that idea instead? The UK has been a totally unreliable ally first to the Commonwealth and now to the EU. Expect to have to offer up something special and have a serious prenuptial agreement if you want to get anyone to take a chance on the UK again.
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  1409. Of course people look down on them and the first clue is in how you exclude e.g. South Africa and Rhodesia. Just try being a colonial in London - there are certainly people who look down on you all over the place and it's no surprise because British people look down on each other too based on accents etc.
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  1410.  @liul  no, we forgive lots of things and unless you're dead it's never too late.
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  1411. They are telling the world something but not everything.
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  1412. If it happened it would obviously make you feel quite pathetic. for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRQ7A_9Phpw
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  1413.  @sundog60  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miyhqsMwAac
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  1414. At about 2/3 though, the usual feeling of despair....
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  1415.  @MrNikoback  I was trying to leave out the less admirable things :-D
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  1416.  @MrNikoback  also you're wrong about Russian music. Tchaikovsky for example (LGBT btw). İf you haven't heard of him, for example then it can only be lack of education. This is why I said I don't want to encourage Americans because you guys already have big heads.
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  1417. @ because you chose the opposite....?
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  1418.  @sotahullu1  indeed, you can see the MAGA chaps like it when another nose joins theirs in Trumps' ass.
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  1419. ... which is why he's getting fact check links on his tweets now..... :-)
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  1420.  @imalloutofbubblegum3274  well, one can follow them up and find out - scientific method as oppose to blind acceptance of the words of your hero.
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  1421.  @chatham43  oh yes. We are not in Zimbabwe yet - there is no secret police or dictatorship to force us. You exiters had your time at the wheel and you crashed the car....
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  1422. Perhaps you're being modest but if not then you've got a very wrong impression of how you look. The funny thing is that it's almost irrelevant because the humour, cheerfulness and passion about the subject that bursts out of these videos fills you like a bright light and all the fans of this channel can see it. I hope there is someone, or that you find someone, who tells you that kind of thing every day till you believe it.
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  1423.  @chrimbus71  I do love it when people start calling me "Timmy" - that's really scraping the bottom of the barrel :-)
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  1424.  @stanleywoodison8699  Well, perhaps England should have treated them better in history. I think it's quite a surprise that so many joined your side anyhow.
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  1425.  @huldu  well, we depend on other things so we don't really want to destroy anything but we only have a choice of different evils and must weigh them against each other.
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  1426. Chinese cars have already got there AFAICT. They get exported and I think the price is set to whatever the external market will take but the Chinese prices show what is possible. The MG ZS EV and MG.5 are just a couple of examples.
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  1427. To be fair, "modern" is not really a guarantee of appropriateness. It used to be "modern" to give babies milk formula and now we know that's a bad idea, for example. Also traditional medicines often find their way into commercial "modern" medicines e.g. aspirin. Modern medicine can be abused too like the overprescription of antibiotics.
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  1428. Himars changed the game A LOT :-) And Storm Shadow has done a lot too. And all those bullets and shells - they make it all possible. Bad luck Ivan. :-)
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  1429. With freedom they can rebuild. Turkey did it.
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  1430. That's also quite an American aesthetic, I think. American cars can't be too beautiful or they will not be seen as macho enough.
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  1431. You should probably be selling this idea in Moscow.
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  1432. I can see Putin's point: he doesn't care who suffers and if he can grab land that may end up belonging to Russia forever. New Russians will be born to replace the dead. Its a view we should understand - do we want to be under the thumb of people like him?
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  1433. It's so embarrassing the way we seem to beg for praise in this kind of way ^^^
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  1434. You commentators are projecting their own feelings of inferiority on the rest of us. So what if our army made massive mistakes in Iraq or Afghanistan - the very book implies that the Americans did too including the whole WMD issue to start with for example. All armies make big mistakes at one time or another because the people in them have to balance between doing what they're told (including impossible things that politicians tell them), following their training and learning something new based on the situation they are in. The Americans could have said "don't come thanks" or... "it's ok from here on" but they didn't. Please don't give us that hyper-gloomy funk about "are we really important or useful". In itself this is pleading for praise and you're only setting us up for a fall later. There is nobody who is going to come and make you or I feel proud or "ok". It's all on us. Vance is a waste of space. The issue to hate is the betrayal of Ukraine.
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  1435. Defense spending created the industry and when the war went away defense spending dropped. Airliners and military jets are somewhat a vanity industry anyhow - they get support either because their parent company gets massive defense contracts and turns the resultant knowledge to civilian use, as in the US, or by cheap loans as in the EU. Britain was really the demonstration that it wasn't very economic and couldn't survive without that support.
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  1436. Unfortunately "Falsehood flies and the truth comes limping behind it." But at least it does come :-) thanks!
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  1437. The NHS serves a purpose of contributing to the pacification of the less well off to prevent them from killing the rich. It is an equaliser as is free education and it's just as well for social stability that it exists.
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  1438. Depends on what equation you're using and how well that models the real situation. Also depends on the correctness of the input data. Quite a lot of people never thought we'd be here at this day in this state and that's because they had bad input data and a wrong model. History suggests that having a faint heart ensures disaster whereas having courage keeps the door open for luck, for mistakes by your enemy and for finding out that your initial assessments were wrong. i.e. honesty is to admit that life is a gamble and you lose if you don't play.
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  1439.  @mikemason6345  That total number of soldiers is highly in question because Russia is a land of corruption - people taking money and claiming they have done their job. The quantity of equipment is large but a lot of it is extremely old and they have sent their best to Ukraine already. You also assume they can empty their reserves. Secondly you're viewing them as inhumanly cruel to their own people and that is one of those assumptions that is quite likely to be an oversimplification because here they are not fighting for their homeland - the Ukranians are. An attacker generally is considered to need a 3-1 advantage and Ukraine is not small and every citizen is an enemy. So I actually think you're dishonest because you pretend to know more than anyone can.
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  1440. Poland and Ukraine have an intertwined history.
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  1441. @reardelt  ok but my name isn't Zimbabwean either but that's what I am.
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  1442.  @larslover6559  I think you're right. Current progress is hyped up. It's sometimes hard enough trusting the driving of a person that you can talk to and say "watch out."
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  1443.  @Joanna-il2ur  Cannot look at the tools in the screwfix I've been to - might as well shop on the internet.
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  1444. Another 17 minutes of happiness :-) thank you.
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  1445. No - no moral safety in it and probably no actual safety either.
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  1446. Probably you only want to buy an EV when you are forced to buy a new vehicle and then get it 2nd hand. At some point it will not be smart to get an ICE because the resale value will drop off a cliff and petrol/diesel will probably become harder to find as less people need it and less petrol stations can economically offer it.
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  1447. @Drew Peacock I think the main defence is supposed to be the RAF to shoot the shooters before they launch. But I don't really know
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  1448.  @graveperil2169  when we need the navy again we won't be able to suddenly buy one - and that's if anyone accepts the idea that we aren't using it right now to protect our interests.
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  1449.  @Gibson99  OK I Think I'm going to say Teeeeeeslah and see how many complaints I get on that.
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  1450. Another keyboard warrior hiding behind no name - what is your word worth if you can't even stand behind it?
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  1451. They won't laugh - they will complain. Then they will do what they have done for a long time and leave Taiwan alone because it won't be worth it.
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  1452.  @lmaoroflcopter  The sentries will be replaced with wedgetails but probably not nearly enough. Whatever the case the UK already decided the carrier needed Merlin helicopters with "Crowsnest" to make carriers safe enough - so this would just be a longer endurance version of the same thing - possibly higher flying too. Imagine a Falklands type situation and trying to fly a passenger airliner from the nearest friendly country who didn't care about upsetting Argentina.
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  1453.  @lmaoroflcopter  I think the Hawkeye obviously exists because It has been seen as impractical to do what you're suggesting. Crowsnest must have been justified for the same reasons. The RPAS shown above would not need a catapult and I'm certain that the Navy is doing tests like this while considering it's options for replacing Crowsnest.
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  1454. This is the alternate reality in back to the future II and trump is Biff 😂
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  1455.  @danielross7983  Please don't try - I've grown up with Russian trained propagandists. You are simply liars from the first word and don't understand the meanings of the words you use. Other people cannot believe that you would be so animal but I know.
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  1456. I wouldn't get too concerned about specifics because why would anyone publish the truth about such important military information? We're helping somehow and that is all.
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  1457. They obviously are only a small additive feature that's going to help a bit. I don't see why we shouldn't make use of them even if they are only a small part of our eventual solution. Some "free" energy is better than none.
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  1458. Why would that be? Do you want lots of ex conservative voters joining your party and changing it? If they don't then they'll join whatever other party comes along and that can easily be worse. It's not really the party that's the problem but people who demanded that it be like that and voted for it when it became what they wanted.
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  1459.  @markwelch3564  I'm not so sure. The Cons had exactly that problem with UKIP and became UKIP to defeat it. Most people who were not UKIP supporters seem to have tagged along. It's really the weakness of the "old" conservative party that opened up the Brexit can of worms - something a Labour supporter might have cheered about lead to an even worse situation.
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  1460.  @mowbreck  IIRC there were 3 months free lease deals etc for 1st edition buyers and extra options to compensate them for being the pioneers.
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  1461. THIS IS COMPLETELY.....THE RIGHT WAY TO LEARN SOMETHING! GREAT WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)
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  1462. You didn't really answer the question. China takes colonies - what's so nice about China?
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  1463. To be fair, the US put chips in routers long ago apparently - China is just copying them.
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  1464. On the whole though, most of the world would prefer America to win and has a great financial stake in America winning and I think that counts for something in the end. No matter what annoyance there is with the big brother, when it comes to a showdown with China very few would want to swap living in America's shadow for living in China's.
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  1465. Ammonia could be used as an energy store and for powering ships - I think you wouldn't really want it in a car. It has also been studied for aircraft engines.
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  1466.  @joshuarosen465  but they didn´t say that? So how can they be lying? I read via Google that it was was their best case in a sunny climate.
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  1467.  @timscott3027  Yes, I think it's just a case of "not enough money to go fast" as usual.
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  1468. This is what happens if you let a bunch of mafia skanks get into power in a country like Russia. The rest of us were not paying attention and were glad to have their dirty money spent in our countries.
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  1469. Why do we want do do this? ultra-expensive buildings squashed into the centre just because we think we have to flock like sheep? So old-school.
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  1470. it has more battery and that's the big cost driver.
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  1471. Obviously it's not "the best" from the customer's point of view and needs.
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  1472. At the high end people do all sorts of interesting buildings now but at the low end I get the general impression that there are not really enough skills. If you want to get work done in the UK - like fixing your house or whatever - it's easy to find people who know how to build with bricks, who can fit gas-boilers, plaster walls, whatever. There's a standard set of parts and skills that is copy-n-paste from the traditional library. Who can build you an aircrete building or put in an air source heat pump or whatever? It is hard to be different. Hence I think that there has to be some very determined attitudes to training and legislation to get the part of the country that is not living in skyscrapers to partake a bit more of modern ideas.
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  1473. That's a very unfair comparison and, for exampe, if I criticised the British sense of humor I wouldn't expect to be popular at all because theres' always something that people in any country are proud of.
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  1474.  @SwillMith16  no it's about the English in general. I often hear complaining about how the Americans are this or that or how American tourists are awful and yet there are so many examples of any nation including the English behaving stupidly and badly and I note that it's Americans who get the worst of the criticism because they are the country whose power and status force themselves on our notice and make us feel small.
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  1475. AI lets you fight more efficiently which is essential if you have a smaller force.
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  1476. it's not nearly focused enough to do damage.
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  1477.  @michelcleark1802  We're a bit out of practice. Today one has to look at Russia to see how it's done.
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  1478. I think the Ukraine crisis shows that it's not much help to have a small professional army - it'll just get chowed up in the first few months of mistakes and learning. We'll need numbers. In that sense, high standards are bad because eventually the women and the slobs like me will still end up have to learn and there won't be time to teach.  It seems to me to be important to get more people of acceptable ability than a few who are hard to replace.
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  1479.  @charlesreddington6834  I don't think that those of us outside the fighter pilot community really understand modern combat enough to know what constitutes an advantage apart from the most obvious things like being able to shoot first.
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  1480. I've tried the buttons and I think that most of the complaining about it is from fans of other car makers because it didn't bother me at all.
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  1481. I'm more interested in that Australian automatic bricklaying machine - Hadrian X.
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  1482.  @mesolithicman164  because the Ukranians started with the older men - seems right to me. They need their youth to keep the country going. People like me have had our chances at life.
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  1483.  @mesolithicman164  that was the professional army. The conscripts have been from older age groups and that age has recently been lowered.
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  1484. ​ @ed-te1fp most don't know about them and while we waste time talking about them, the Chinese are busy helping the scum of our society stay in power- I say this as a Zimbabwean.
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  1485. After a few years, at second hand price, a person with a lot of traveling to do might justify it. So many people buy cars that they don't truly need anyhow so they can be the first to own and then the rest of us can have a go.
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  1486.  @sleepyjoe7843  everything has limits, including Russian production.
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  1487.  @pjay3028  Blair is now used up, as happens with all politicians, but he managed to be considered a viable alternative by a lot of people. JC might be a nice man but he has not managed to offer a "political home" to enough people. His supporters love him and want him at all costs and the cost is .... losing.
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  1488.  @pjay3028  some people remember bad things about nationalised rail. At best it sounds like a change that will simply have different tradeoffs. It's a "back to the old days" idea as well which depends on how great you really think the old days were and it doesn't seem like there's any truly new thinking in it.
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  1489.  Ian Brown  As many as me and I'm not PM either so it really isn't relevant. Corbyn didn't even get the chance to "kill" anyone.
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  1490.  @pjay3028  I worked for Nokia and it took a huge hit because it made some fundamentally terrible decisions and within the company there was never any recognition that X or Y was a mistake. It was always "try harder the same as before." Hence it was clear to me that being able to go bust (or be forced to sell) is not a disaster overall. It stops unworkable schemes from going on endlessly and lets people with other ideas get their chance. I would be opposed to any situation, private or otherwise, where there was no way for new thinking to get in and perhaps demonstrate that it is a better fit for new circumstances.
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  1491. ​ @pjay3028  Sorry for mis-answering you. I think that the great challenge in life is to create something which can change without breaking down, for sure.
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  1492.  @pjay3028  It was the other way around. Nokia dumped its disastrous phone division on Microsoft and lived to fight another day. Microsoft then poured money into a lost battle. On various social media groups, ex-Nokians debate what happened and still can't agree what should have been done to save the company. That's why I think it was hopeless - our competitors knew what to do and we could not adjust our culture to match them even after years of data and analysis..
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  1493.  @pjay3028  he sabotaged the S60 platform I was working on by calling it a "burning platform". It had a little truth but his words immediately got out and trashed whatever chance it still had. He then killed off the next platform I got to work on called Meltemi. It was Linux based. He said the OS war was over and thee was no point. I have to say I laughed a lot at how he failed to apply the same logic to his favourite platform, Windows Phone. Now the world can see American behaviour in a trade dispute the time for alternative operating systems is sort of back.
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  1494.  @pjay3028  I think Nokia sort of knew the game was up when it did the deal. Microsoft's actions were dastardly but the joke was on them in the end :) Nokia saved it's shareholders a fortune and is back in the phone business again now after a hiatus. How can I put it? They got Elop so that he could pave the way for what MS wanted, he did destructive stuff and then Microsoft swallowed the bait. The blinder was played by Nokia, ultimately.
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  1495. BJ is not the UK - I hope the Ukranians understand this.
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  1496.  @ussocom3644  They are extremely well educated and probably don't get caught up in "conspiracy bullshit" so easily and don't tolerate stupid news.
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  1497.  @ussocom3644 I've been to both Finland and the US. Tertiary education at a higher rate doesn't mean a better educated population at all - quite a sneaky statistic realty :)
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  1498.  @ussocom3644  come on...you cannot really expect to fool people by quoting the wrong set of statistics can you?
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  1499. no, I usually find out that the theory was full of shit.
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  1500. @ we've transmitted our way of thinking to many many many people - including our language. The world is filled with people who don't like you Ivan.
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  1501.  @herrbonk3635  if you're pro Sweden you will want to not be in Ukraine's position ever and as for provoking Russia......what does provocation or lack of it mean to them? There is only desire and opportunity and complaints about provocation are just the current public excuse for doing what they want. They know how little our people want any kind of fighting very well because they take advantage of it.
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  1502. I'm also from 1974 - obviously a good year :-). This is cold comfort perhaps but there are lots of other animals out there who need to be loved. Yours was fortunate.
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  1503.  @michalklucz6907  Think about brand name clothes - even more of an incredible rip off and people still buy them. They buy phones for > 1000 pounds .... to doom scroll. If you get caught up in that game, better be rich but what makes me a bit sad is how many people get pulled into it when they're not.
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  1504. So in other words it's hard to be objective in Russia because a fair number of people want to believe in the crap they're being fed. Every country has people with views like this but just perhaps a lower percentage. You can also see the one who lived through the soviet era haven't forgotten their programming.
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  1505.  @PRtawan  Hopefully it won't have you in it then.
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  1506. They know Trump is childish - so they're resisting the temptation to make things worse. He may find himself in trouble in the future and in need of pulling back and they're not going to make that harder.
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  1507.  @thebenevolentsun6575  Martin Clark isn't trying to salvage anything and the Foreign Office are - they would not bedoing their jobs if they didn't. Their feeling about the chances for success isn't something they can talk about publicly.
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  1508. if you actually had any respect you'd question your opinion. Probably you had no respect to start with.
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  1509. The REL guys already have a design for that because it would do the same for Skylon.
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  1510. They are already being used in shipbuilding in Korea and other industrial situations where they save people from injury when they are repeatedly lifting heavy things even if those things are not too heavy for a normal person to lift once or twice. I would expect it to be used in the army/airforce in similar situations where they are stacking/loading/whatever. Also what do people do with packhorses when a fight starts or whatever else they use to carry their ammunition etc when they're in the mountains?
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  1511.  @jayspik6498  difficult to know what you're talking about really. Ridiculous complaints about unimportant issues.
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  1512. Standing up for what's right.
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  1513. in-wheel motors are a thing already and cars like the lightyear 0 use them. Protean makes them too. Like everything there's some price and a lot of advantages.
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  1514. You'll never keep up because you don't develop and try out new weapons every day. You keep buying big expensive things that get "finished" after many years and then reach "operational capability" and then all the work is done. One big company gets a huge contract and chooses one path to follow and that's it - no alternatives. The Ukranians are working continuously, trying many things on devices they can afford.
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  1515.  @MrAlwaysBlue  I think one has to "get over" other people not treating you as special - to them it is "The British" everything and they are right.
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  1516.  @MrAlwaysBlue  It's just the facts from one point of view - that's the point I'm making.
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  1517.  @MrAlwaysBlue  If I was talking to people who might not know know what the Luftwaffe was or where it came from then yes. If I talked about the Luftmacht then I'd have to clarify whether it was Belgian or Dutch. The issue is what the audience of the message needs to be told and not some desire of Brits to be the "one and only"
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  1518. Surely this is about helping people to make money on stock trading? i.e. pretend to do tarrifs then pull them back - buy stocks cheaply then sell them when they recover?
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  1519. @Andrew Lee it seems that not everyone does obey the rules, especially the people who make them and should be leading by example.
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  1520. I think if one doesn't need space for an engine then it's bullshit to design that space in. It is beautiful but I contest that it has to look like an ICE to be so :-)
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  1521. He might fear being invaded by Russia - that would not be a good outcome for this whole situation at all for the West or for Ukraine. So there's something to be said for eager and ineffectual co-operation on his part - lots of noise and nothing too useful.
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  1522. I don't think of anyone as "better" than me really but I understand when someone has a job to do that requires some respect. I wouldn't want to be rude to the King, for example, but I'm not kneeling in my mind. As for snobbishness, that is typically most intense amongst social climbers. People who feel "ontop" may not have flattering opinions of you but if they don't need to compete with you then you're not going to be under attack from them. So I don't think Americans or anyone else are free of snobbery - perhaps money matters to them a bit more than blood.
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  1523. How are you going to manipulate people in the UK into wanting to work in an abattoir or spend many hours on the road away from their families or whatever? huge salaries? Make them so desperate they'll do anything? It's so extremely like the thinking of the government in Zimbabwe when I lived there - I heard all this kind of stuff and yet in fact what happened was that skilled people left because they didn't want to "suffer to victory".
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  1524.  @wolfyys  Japan as the aging population problem though and Britain has it too. They will end up needing immigration and so does the UK.
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  1525.  @wolfyys  it's still heavily weighted towards old people and they at the same time want to have their pensions paid but not to import the people who can generate the money to pay them.
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  1526.  @BigBoomOfDoom2  not possible - everything is skewed against the young and now that most voters are older they are doing things to keep it that way - including Brexit, property prices etc. Once the bulge of old people departs it might become possible but Britain will be a midget by then. Also if you made everyone have another kid tomorrow you'd need 21/22 years before they were educated - plenty of time to get very poor as a country.
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  1527.  @BigBoomOfDoom2  too bad. The mistakes were made long ago. UK culture is not so fabulous that it cannot accept change and people can learn some of it but dying out completely is another option...
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  1528.  @BigBoomOfDoom2  the smaller the UK gets the more overwhelmed it's culture will be anyhow. Better to try to teach your values to more people than disappear.
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  1529.  @BigBoomOfDoom2  I think you feel financially ok so you're happy to throw everyone else in the UK under a bus economically because you're afraid of other cultures. It's a fearful attitude. Brexiters could have got easily integrated Europeans but have effectively chosen to pull in people from more different and difficult countries.
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  1530.  @BigBoomOfDoom2  because there is no short term fix except immigration and if you don't get on with it then there will be permanent damage. The other reason is that the current situation suits people with the most voting power. Anyhow the human race is much of a muchness I find as all these debates happen everywhere, with everyone fearing change.
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  1531. So there's a price for saving the planet. vroom vrooms will have to come from a computer if you want them.
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  1532. If you want to end up fighting Russia in Europe then don't bother to stop them in Ukraine.
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  1533.  @senatorjosephmccarthy2720  obviously your programmer doesn't understand JavaScript loops properly
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  1534. @untapistim no I mean everyone from Stalin to Hitler. All made enormous strategic mistakes. The Americans also make mistakes but so far they have recovered from most of them.
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  1535.  @M0butu  leadership changes hands in the US. That's th test.
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  1536.  @juan-pierreleroux8323  The dragon had its turn long long ago. Maybe you mean it's second/third chance?
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  1537. Can you trace a picture on a bit of paper with it? i.e. does the pen have to have direct contact onto the pad?
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  1538. An aging population in the UK - that's the be all and end all of it.
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  1539. I'm sure we will but we might have more difficulty paying for it.
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  1540.  neil eastell  or we should be paying them to be the buffer between us and Russia?
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  1541.  neil eastell  We help them so that they will fight hard and bravely and keep the trouble away from us. As for underestimating the Russians, I go to Ukraine quite often - everyone there knows that strength and unity are the only things the Russians comprehend.
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  1542. "57th separate motorized infantry brigade named after Kostya Gordienko, the chieftain of Kosh."
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  1543.  @ianroy6668  I am a fanboy of all these things - I read up about them and I really was a huge fan of Reaction Engines. We just cannot afford to shoot ourselves in the foot economically. We can't afford the luxury of saying FU to some Europeans just because we don't like "being DOMINATED by the EUSSR" or any of that horse dung. The real enemy is arseholes who want trade wars or wars and want to pick off European nations one at a time.
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  1544.  @SS-yj2le  Where did I deny that? You just didn't do absolutely everything.
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  1545. Companies like Protean are doing this and there is one Chinese electric car apparently coming out with them.
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  1546.  @ВячеславМосква-и1в  Moskva eh? :-)
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  1547.  @raphaelpattel1644  Brave always looks like stupid to people who are not brave.
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  1548.  @raphaelpattel1644  You're not really an authority are you though - I mean that the idea that protesting won't help is just an assertion backed up by no evidence and it's easy to think of counter evidence. Either way it's brave to risk your life for what you believe in. You make another assertion about "fighting the police" - who said he was doing that? Just a baseless accusation.You know it too because you are trying to construct a justification for your position by bending the facts to suit it.
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  1549.  @dm32904  it really needed to go to Russian education but now it is - the school of hard knocks unfortunately. -
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  1550.  @f.kieranfinney457  there are a lot of vintage car enthusiasts who drive extremely awful cars out of nostalgia. What is a brand except a form of nostalgia anyhow?
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  1551. I think it's easy to be confused even by this gentleman The UK's system has allowed me to buy my energy from a provider that buys only from renewable sources. I pay MORE! What a disaster! :-) But I do so knowing that my money is going to something I believe to be right. Other people get tariffs which are cheaper at night so they can charge their car then. There are many choices and they are not all the same. We have a huge installed wind power capacity thanks to "contracts for difference" which allow companies to have some certainty about return on their investment so they can borrow money to do it - no public money needed.
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  1552. The entire Russian state is glued together with bullshit - that's why Putin controls all the media. You are part of that bullshit - assuming you're not just a python script.
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  1553. You sound like you are still interested in aircraft. Would you ever consider working on one? I suppose it's a much more costly game to play in...
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  1554.  @CensoredbyYTforhavinganopinion  you seems unable to understand the profit motive: either give the customer what they want or stay poor. It's not rocket science.
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  1555. Looks like police don't know how to treat old people.
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  1556.  @alyb731  If there were no driver shortages how could it have happened?
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  1557.  @wullymc1  I know, you have to hit yourself with a hammer before you realise that it hurts.
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  1558.  @wullymc1  nice to see I annoyed you enough to make you respond :)
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  1559.  @wullymc1  indeed but usually people don't like mocking unless there's something basically that irritates them - it's a desire to feel superior to someone or something you don't like.
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  1560.  @Villain1874  Every blow to the economy is naturally going to hit the armed forces too. But apparently for some people that is fine as long as they don't hear people speaking "furrin" on the bus.
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  1561. If the west managed to keep Russia discouraged for the entire cold war without spending as much of its wealth then you can see why it won.
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  1562. Putin got votes, hitler got votes and so did many other third world dweebs ... So Americans turn out to be not all that much better than the rest of the world - with many happily choosing the man who tells them the lies they like about themselves. Its just the same..... "your problems are caused by other people, not you...."
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  1563. IMO it would be more desirable to package the car so that space was inside - then I'm definitely enjoying it all the time.
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  1564. Even the lunar landing was done with a computer and would have been impossible without it IIRC to time thrusts and control the throttle accurately. As for humans in the loop - you can think of them as a manager checking in every week to try and make silly decisions that will have to be "interpreted" to stop them from doing dumb stuff.
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  1565. Soon we we will find out about what their WW1 tanks are like and after that we will find out about the wagons they made in 1890...
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  1566. This was very good. I wish that more had been put into explaining the prefix sum - some of the mechanics were quite obvious and didn't need as much explanation as that did. I know it's a lot of work to do these things so thank you and at least it has given me a question to find an answer for.
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  1567. ah, Ding! now I get it - after writing that...duh. :-)
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  1568.  @dmitripogosian5084  I don't know how deep these places are but we do sometimes sink ships to make artificial reefs.
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  1569. The Royal family have little real power and without them you'll just end up with a dodgy president like Trump, Erdogan, Putin or Mugabe. Then you'll complain about them but they will have obtained real power. The monarchy is a plug stuck in the hole so that nobody worse can fill it.
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  1570.  @kopite8971  no those kind of people are fighting - these ones are the new guys.
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  1571. Of course there are good people and of course you have to be stupid to generalise. Russia probably just doesn't have a big enough middle class - the people who want stability and comfort and have the political power to get it. To put it another way, I think all countries have arseholes in them but they are not empowered to the same degree.
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  1572. "custom rear end": <insert joke here> 😂
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  1573. He meant releasing weapons while in supercruise - not supercruise itself.
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  1574. The Ukranian war shows both sides using thousands of cheap Chinese drones that they can afford to lose. They're keeping their aircraft away from the frontline because it's too dangerous and they cannot afford to lose them. Would be ironic if the US/UK ends up with super fancy drones that they cannot afford to lose.
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  1575. Why did you bother to learn English?
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  1576. Please excuse the pedantry. I think it's fitting that I was going to pick on what I thought was a mistake and found that I was mistaken :-) I was interested in the pronunciation of "von Neuman Architecture" becuase I've always heard it as "fon Noy-mun" and maybe that's what a German would say but according to Wikipedia Hungarians don't have the von (so that must mean "architecture of" Neuman rather than being part of his name) and they actually say names with the surname first: something like "Nai-man" or "N'eye-man" [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ];
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  1577.  @sage0001  They lost millions of people because they had incompetent leadership who were initially trying to make friends with the Nazis. How you can turn that into "winning the war" is a wonderful bit of propaganda...
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  1578. Because Trump is a demagogue similar to Putin and Hitler. He's a liar and completely unworthy of the American people. We all have our low points where we elect bad people, I am from Zimbabwe - we had Mugabe - I live in Britain and it had Johnson. It's just the battle all peoples face to build a future world of peace and hope. We started with tribes, built nations and are now building a world.
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  1579.  @rockingtrucker23  The USA hasn't become poor suddenly, it seems to have a lot of huge companies using tax transfer schemes to pay Irish tax while competing in Europe. It seems to use forceful means to encourage countries to buy expensive American aircraft etc. excuse me if I don't cry a lot about the richest country in the world paying for its status.
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  1580.  @rockingtrucker23  I'm Zimbabwean. We know people like Trump because we've fallen for their bullshit already. It's a bit depressing to see the worlds great superpower isn't immune.
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  1581.  @user-st2zc6pk7t  Afganistan was all set up by Trump Biden only arrived to press the button. Ukraine .... Trump trying to get political advantage in exchange for aid......what an absolute scimbag. But you know it all and don't care...so.
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  1582. I hope European car makers don't give up on software. We can never develop if we outsource everything.
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  1583. Thank you :-)
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  1584.  @claudermiller  That's America. I think abortion isn't legal in Brasil but birth control is.
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  1585. Would be interesting if they got excess electricity - what would they do with it?
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  1586.  @thomaspearson5898  It was left to deteriorate a very long time ago. Now you're talking about starting afresh and given that budgets are limited is it really critical for us to make a truck - perhaps we'd rather use our money to invest in making aeroplane components or other higher value items instead?
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  1587.  @jb76489  Please forgive me. It's not always easy to tell. :-)
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  1588. You're an adventurer. It's boring to stay at home.
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  1589. Why? Is it German?
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  1590.  @verdebusterAP  cost!
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  1591. ​ @verdebusterAP  To me that seems ridiculous - money is the controlling factor in almost everything.
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  1592.  @verdebusterAP  I think you should justify how people should build ships without money.
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  1593.  @sergarlantyrell7847  Apparently Argentina bought the type 42. If you want to sell older ships then they need to be designed to be multi-purpose where the UK has been used to designing submarine hunters for the North Sea. You probably also want to sell them a bit sooner. And, there is at least a chance that you could sell some new ships if your shipyards are open and have got the bugs out of their process by building ships for you. All of that is much harder with big, expensive, special purpose ships. I pretend to be an expert but I am not. I've just read enough to be dangerous, so add a pinch of salt :)
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  1594.  @sergarlantyrell7847  I'm familiar with the idea of buying high-end limited ships because I've dealt with that kind of choice often in different technical areas. Since ships are for the long term I think situations change and therefore flexibility wins in the long run. Plus I can see that stopping and starting the shipbuilding industry is incredibly expensive. Part of the job is to ensure that when needed, the country would be in a position to make better ships if it had to. To me that all points to a longer run of cheaper ships that are less exquisite.
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  1595. ....someone who won elections.
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  1596. Of course! First Russia says "that's mine" then they defend it. We in the rest of the world have a word for this but in Russia it's just normal.
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  1597. Lynch is the Brexit instigators backup plan in case labour win.
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  1598. There's more to performance than 0-60 in a straight line too.
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  1599. If you think brexit is a disaster because it was sabotaged then it must be because a lot of people don't want it and you should have convinced them rather than forcing them.
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  1600. Who scares them off? Us I think. :/
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  1601. Yes, his whole speech is angled that way he's saying that everyone must bow to Trump because otherwise more of their people will die until he has made his point. "Just do it" and "it was all unnecessary". I think Zelensky's behaviour was totally necessary as it showed everyone the truth. NATO is @#$#$ because of that little office spat.
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  1602. Windfarms actually. Bye bye Russia..... :-)
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  1603. Unless they statistically sampled to get the audience, you cannot draw too many conclusions from the opinions of the audience. For one thing its people who want to be on TV and that can mean they're of a particular opinion.
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  1604.  @LeukipposOfAbdera  indeed, standing on their own and not needing to pay you or host your tech giants. Since you don't make much anymore because you can't do it cheaply, if you don't supply defence then what do we need you for?
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  1605. @ You have called us the last 3 times at least.
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  1606. @ I'm sure we won't unless your leaders are as dumb as you but having forward bases is a thing you want - to spot missile launches, to gather intelligence, to defend your imports. If you're very stupid you'll ensure that your next war gets fought at home instead of far away.
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  1607.  @LeukipposOfAbdera  Our largest trading partners aren't the US. We trade amongst ourselves far more. As for defence, it cuts the west into 2 so it's that much smaller facing China and Russia. It's so transparently stupid ... well what can I say - I'm from Zimbabwe originally and I know very well that stupid people just don't ever learn.
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  1608. because then they might get freaked out at some point and decide to launch even when the US is doing nothing.
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  1609. IMO it's all about the loss of power of the two major parties. Labour lost votes that went to the SNP making them weaker. The Conservatives started losing power to UKIP. The Labour response was Corbyn perhaps? The Tory response was to emulate UKIP. Extremists had to be courted. First past the post makes the stakes very high. Voters had a choice of the Cons or Corbyn. So they were really being presented with choices that were not ideal for them either way. We should not be attached to parties. We should ALL be swing voters. We should lower the stakes with PR so that a party doesn't have to flatter extremists.
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  1610. Making you feel alone...you're right that this is a strategy which you have to resist.
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  1611. you need a german SIM card probably. Hopefully they will sell one to you without an EU home address.
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  1612. People above a certain age won't change their minds and probably some below a certain age won't either. The reason for all this crap is a cultural attitude and I despair of that changing much in the short term. You can see even in the US and other western countries that it's a daily battle to keep such cultural attitudes from turning those places into dictatorships.
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  1613. I think Dyson is an idiot. He supports Brexit but from what I can see he also shifts jobs overseas and makes his biggest investments outside the UK too. I think you're much better off buying Bosch or Miele products which have less theatre but are reliable.
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  1614. The helicopter is one of the main weapons. The Wildcat, for example, can carry quite a large number of LWM Missiles which might be suitable against small attack craft.
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  1615.  @lennifrost2006  I'm a million miles from being an expert but it might be that the strategy is to keep problems as far away from the ship as possible. No more "crossing the T" and all that Hornblower stuff.
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  1616.  @lennifrost2006  possibly. One thing I think that landlubbers like me suffer from is a slightly odd perspective. e.g. I just realised that these ships aren't there so much to protect themselves as others and they have to be able to do it from a distance because they cannot be near all the shipping that might need protection.
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  1617.  @lennifrost2006  I assume so but I looked up the Wildcat helicoper's range - about 400 nautical miles? so lets say it could fly out 150nm spend a few minutes shooting things with missiles that have e.g. 10nm range and then fly back. I think that's still much more than the best extended range shells. So essentially if you're trying to defend a shipping lane, you can potentially do it with fewer ships. Anyhow this is all uninformed speculation on my part!
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  1618. It only matters if his supporters care and I worry that only a few do.
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  1619.  @utzius8003  read up what a gallon of diesel cost to transport to Afghanistan. Quite horrifying. My googling says the US army was paying USD 400 per gallon.
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  1620.  @utzius8003  You just charge them by plugging the vehicle in to some power source. If it's a hybrid you don't even have to do that. No need to import batteries continuously.
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  1621.  @utzius8003  To charge the tank you have many options from portable solar, to the grid if there is one to ammonia-powered fuel cells to wind and in the worst case, diesel generators if nothing else can be found. If your tank is hybrid then you still need fuel but less because of the increased efficiency. Options are good.
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  1622.  @utzius8003  I'm sure the enemy might also try to blow up all its petrol dumps - might not succeed though. How is it that solar panels exist in desert countries, BTW? I have noticed turbines that are all sorts of sizes. Fuel cells are just another possibility, in this case you can run them on a byproduct of other industrial processes for example without even needing oil. I think that since armies already have to take power generation with them, they will work out something that uses several factors and ends up being quite rugged - something that will be able to provide limited power even when diesel isn't available and that will be more reliable.
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  1623. He gave up on it because of the way it handles heat, IIRC. The situation he cares about is probably not one that ships encounter than often.
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  1624. Yes it's time we stopped using Russian Gas and oil so we can produce less carbon. :-)
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  1625.  @Azrael1st  sheeple...funny because the ones getting mobilised to die at the moment are all in Russia :) perhaps we will learn from you how to go to die for nothing?
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  1626. Could the reason for including SRBs in civil launchers be partially about providing money to keep alive the knowledge that is needed to make missiles? I have seen this being suggested for the Ariane V boosters because apparently they are similar to the French ICBMs but I'm not sure how much to believe that.
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  1627. Never heard of the CPU's TDP? That's about how much heat it puts out and obviously the hotter it is the more cooling you need to provide. 150W TDP, for example, is a hot CPU whereas 65W is usually slower and cheaper but easier to deal with too.
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  1628. ​ @leoprg5330  You're all benefiting from China's hard work at the moment - and its lack of human rights.
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  1629.  @davidesantarossa9592  I just think that it's hard enough to build charging networks in the US and Europe but it might be a while longer before SA builds one up - also some of these cars should really be built locally if the takeup is going to be good enough to justify a network. Don't let that chip on your shoulder get too big - it's tiresome to hear it from South Africans who are so rich compared to us Zimbos.
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  1630.  @roychung1479  you might if that kind of design decision has been repeated a few times.
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  1631.  @laser_simon922  ... and the heads up display perhaps... and some real buttons?
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  1632.  @laser_simon922  you mean it talks a lot of moonshine about self driving which still isn't safe enough to leave alone i.e. it's still only assisted.
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  1633.  @laser_simon922  so... VW has equipment and software updates and promises too. I don't take videos as proof of safety and I don't trust people who talk about AI being nearly there because I don't see any signs of that as a programmer. I see some clever tricks that look good up to the point where they suddenly don't work properly.
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  1634. Lots of money and no taste IMO. The quick shot of Venice......makes a great contrast for me.
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  1635.  @Nicodemus1971  The British like to believe they have cultural similarites but the language hides the fact that Americans are more German than English - more Irish than English too.
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  1636.  @michaela4024  launched a lot of sattelites, made bits of the space station and made the ATV which supplied the space station. Ever heard of Ariane 4 or Ariane 5? If not then you must have been reading heavily filtered space news.
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  1637. I imagine that foreigners subsidising US cars in their markets suits you fine.
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  1638.  @alexd302  .....??? Subsidies are happening in almost every EU country for example. Including Germany where the ID.4 comes from. Want to start a trade war?
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  1639. ... when you realise that in neither country are you going to find complete acceptance. So anyhow we can be citizens of the world and probably that's how it should be in the end if we're not going to end up nuking ourselves.
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  1640.  @scottw5315  yes but they can go where himars cannot and in the kind of mud that would instantly trap a himars. I think the point is that the US realised that it needed something that could travel long distances quickly so they mounted 1/2 an MLRS on a truck. It's less potent but much easier to use in many situations.
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  1641. I've never been made to leave like that. What a strange concept!
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  1642. His behavior would be illegal in the UK anyhow. You have to have consultations for firings over a certain number.
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  1643. It's sad for Russia - watching them bleed their way millimetre by millimetre.
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  1644. The tolerance that will be interesting to see is when foreigners like me murder German culture and language. I remember a German exchange student who explained to me, in the most broken English, how he hated hearing foreigners speaking German badly. He seemed to think that we English speakers should be happy with his lack of expertise as if our language wasn't important but German was sacred. I have noticed my cousin's wife complaining that his mistakes pain her. :-). Anyhow, for what its worth I think we all should be trying to rationalise and simplify our languages, including English. One might not want to remove expressive power but I think a lot of what we have is not expressive and is just the junk of time that makes it harder for everyone to be multilingual.
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  1645. @Firm Buttocks What is the the point - arguing with you is like trying to convert a Chinese Communist party member to sense. You have your own logic and your own world in which the bad things are not happening or have every other possible explanation. You are not the first or the last person to drive your country into ruin - its an old old game which has played out many times before all over the world. Those great civilisations of the past that fell apart and seem 3rd world to us now - got there by screwing up.
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  1646. Ultimately people voted the Conservatives in and a mess has been made and no politician can magic away the years of bad decisions. So of course people WILL suffer and have horrible things happen to them. I'm not going to vote for him but in a way I think it's disingenuous to pretend voters are all innocent. People have got themselves huge mortgages and others have been delighted to become rich on paper. I mention investing to someone and they immediately talk about spending money on the house instead of putting it into some new company that's creating jobs. NIMBY - a thing everyone with a house starts to believe in suddenly. In other words other people can suffer without housing but I'm not going to accept change in my area.
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  1647. given their revenue, a 100 million speculation is nothing much.
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  1648.  @loc4725  before the UK was one unit the bits fought each other. The way to resolve a problem was to fight. Integration is just a way to solve problems and provide normal, relatively cheap ways of doing it by having common laws.
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  1649.  Macavity  hope the insults made you feel better. If you ever allow yourself to realise what you voted for then you will feel worse than any insults I can think of.
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  1650. We already have post quantum encryption algorithms. We're really waiting for Quantum computing to become obviously dangerous to start using them.
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  1651. ....because we're not seeing the exact same issues.
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  1652.  @musaran2  Skylon was a way of proving the design and justifying the effort to make the engine - if Skylon had been impossible then why build the engine? Also what size would the engine have to be to make Skylon possible? They certainly did hope that it would get built up to the point where Alan Bond retired, I think. After he left a less initially ambitious approach was developed which switched to Two-Stage to Orbit. This makes everything cheaper at the expense of a non-reusable upper stage. Their engine is now actually a family of engines that scale all the way up to a Skylon one by increasing numbers of the various modules. So it should not be a from-scratch effort to build bigger engines. In the meantime they are trying to diversify in all sorts of directions to apply their heat exchanger technology. It can help jets to fly more economically at supersonic speeds or cool hotspots in electric car batteries or a number of other interesting things.
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  1653.  @DavidKnowles0  they have been studying TSTO with CNES (the French space agency) too.There was a recent report on how to adapt Kourou as a base for such a launcher at least one more that compared a CNES design to an in-house REL one for missions from Kourou. The SABRE version they're going to test is also going to be TSTO sized rather than Skylon sized. So I think even if DARPA set them on that course they are staying on it.
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  1654.  @jasondevon481  ... just a lot of it's ideas.
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  1655. It's rather like communism which is not working because it wasn't done properly and is always going to be implemented properly after the next "5 year plan".... and of course there are always external enemies and their internal puppets who are "making it not work".
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  1656. It's a disarming reply because we now cannot accuse him of personal enmity. We are listening to an intelligent politician who knows how to play the game. It's not a bad thing but it's worth seeing the moves for what they are. It might even be true, actually, but it's said this way for a reason.
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  1657. C'est merde, ca. Ukraine, comme La France, n'acceptera pas le vol de son territoire.
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  1658. I wonder if they could hit the aircraft that launch cruise missiles. Turning on Radar though has a cost in that the radar can be located and become a target.
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  1659. ... and perhaps also they can afford cost of using the better equipment like LIDAR.
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  1660. No building need be torn down - you are launching into hyperbole to try to make your point strong when it is weak. A useless statue disappeared, nothing else.
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  1661.  @quillo2747  why not post bravely with your name?
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  1662.  @mytech6779  America is very important but it isn't NATO and it's not the only owner of electronic reconnaisance aircraft and satellites of good capability and indeed of the skills to entirely look after them or even create them from the ground up if that were needed.
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  1663.  @mytech6779  you just describe the intelligence service of any modern army. That sort of thing existed in WW2.
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  1664. It's emotional so you can't get through to Brexiters - they feel deeply inferior to immigrants who they cannot look down on - and the English ones just cannot get over the idea that they can't be the top dog in the EU like they are at home in their existing Union.
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  1665.  @rcsart6409 that is the first line of defence English people tend to use to any criticism and I'm 1/2 English myself so I understand it. "Move on" is a lovely one too but usually it is someone who wants to get away from the consequences of their actions who is so keen to do it.
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  1666.  @rcsart6409  I didn't aim my comment at you - you responded because you felt it did apply to you for some reason.
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  1667. They tried. Putin doesn't care about peace.
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  1668.  @CCoburn3  for some people out there, if the thing isn't cheaper they won't be able to buy it. That's what I am trying to say. The rest of us make sure they have it by paying for a couple of small things we intend to replace.
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  1669.  @hans-peterwurst1070  Just a dictionary. You and I aren't the definers of words.
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  1670.  @swimlaps1  ...so kill him?
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  1671.  @nobodyspecial4702  EXACTLY - so the ones that lie get the job -> all the problems. Honesty or realism is for losers in our culture.
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  1672. With aircraft orders!
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  1673. Every improvement is good. This battery might become more useful as we get better infrastructure. Today i think something like price per megajoule is more critical.
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  1674. If there's anyone that still feels oppressed by the Romans then they might.
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  1675.  @disobeytoday4685  Obviously ridiculous complaint so no.
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  1676. Go and listen to some other media - if it's not owned by Putin it will tell you a story you don't like.
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  1677.  @JulianJLW  When your country gets invaded and overrun next time we'll see if it's some national characteristic of excitable foreigners or something you're susceptible to.
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  1678. ​ @Kaiserbill99  "greatly overrated" is a subjective statement that really depends on how bad you feel about the credit that is given to them. The fact that you want to have a go at their record indicates that you think it takes away from you somehow.
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  1679.  @Kaiserbill99  I'm not Polish but I can see a put down. If you used numbers for the count of pilots you could use them for successes and then nothing would be subjective.
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  1680.  @Kaiserbill99  numbers involved isn't a measure of Impact as one might gather from the tiny number of pilots ... "The few" compared to other combatants.
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  1681. I could rewrite your sentence about some drug lord or whatever - causing misery far away and ingratiating himself with people at home who also turned their eyes away from the misery for the sake of handouts. 100s of years make no difference to what's right in the bible. It's pretty disgusting really and long past time that the people who benefited from all that disgusting behavior did the least little thing to pay back their victims. It makes the whole ruckus about a bit of illegality quite hypocritical.
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  1682.  @hhughes9465  You can't erase him, only put his statue in a more appropriate place - like the sea.
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  1683. They're just trying to go for the top of the market first. As everyone would want to. Once that is oversaturated then it will be worthwhile allocating batteries to cheaper cars.
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  1684. We can tell a cowardly twit who hides behind a made up name though.
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  1685.  @johndonson1603  What does heritage have to do with religion and what does religion have to do with murder?
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  1686. why should people not remember the bad stuff - the good stuff was simply him bribing his city with the misery of other people.
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  1687.  @NomenClature-o8s A senator is a threat?......who is playing victim?
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  1688.  @NomenClature-o8s  If the president did it, would he also be on the floor?
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  1689.  @hughmarcus1  I assumed so but at least it could be mixed with the rest of the air going in so that it could help the heat pump to be efficient. Another thing one would want is to mix stale, old air that has come out of the house be mixed with the air coming in to the heat pump too.
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  1690. What British engineering? OK, It's a license-built version of an S-61 according to Wikipedia. So fundamentally it's American .
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  1691.  @s0ycapitan  Self propelled howitzers, 152mm shells, the drone-boats that have made Russia hide its ships, lots of FPV drones which are built locally from components. The Neptune missile which sank that ship (Moskva?) and has now been upgraded... ....That's just a few of the things I know about and I merely read the news - I don't have any special knowledge. Oh, the Grom missile too apparently - that got tested recentrly.
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  1692.  @attilamarics3374  "Large numbers" is a phrase that could mean anything. They produce huge numbers of drones by any standard and that should worry you, Ivan.
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  1693.  @attilamarics3374  Russians are getting creamed by drones in huge numbers. So ... their "pravda" about numbers has no meaning.. They have to buy from Iran because they're not smart enough to make their own. It's all a joke. What we can see is the Russian tank storage depots emptying because Ukrainian drones are zapping everything they have. Don't get mobilised, Ivan. You'll be gone in week if you do.
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  1694. Anyone looking at Word War 1 followed by WW2 where exactly this happened.
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  1695. Forgot to say that electric motorcycles are probably going to be great because gears ARE a major issue to manage on them - the whole throttle/clutch/gear interaction on a bike is quite hard to master ontop of balance and having 2 brakes. Also when I do go back to a manual car I realise how much extra effort it is causing. I make the effort without being forced to think a lot but I notice it's still affecting me. I have more "bandwidth" without it.
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  1696. To me it sounds like the mission was planned without an acceptable margin for problems.
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  1697. It would be interesting to know what portion of the money spent on things like this was honestly acquired.
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  1698.  @philwhiting5769  How much are you going to pay for the blood of Ukranian soldiers who defeated your enemy for you?
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