History, Politics And Current Affairs

And is leaked to a media professor, while they're desperate to release a scoop. Uh huh.

Some 'Red' sanctuaries are protected by local 'Pine Martens', nimble sorta-weasels who demolish small rodents, but whose agility is matched by 'Reds', who have co-evolved. Greys, however, represent 'Big, Juicy Targets' for such. It's the weight - Red Squirrels are smaller (300g on average) so can t...

What's interesting is the automation. There's some more that can be done, but it looks fairly up to date. Most of the hands touching the shells look like they're in the packing and shipping department. TBH it looks like they've only robotised the high hazard areas (presses and furnaces), the rest i...

Simon Darkshade wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 9:23 amhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000

Poohbah wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 12:11 pmMcNamara's Morons

Significant difference here in that nobody is getting to boot camp without passing the test criteria. That's a major filtering criteria that wasn't there under McNamara.

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 2:33 amWe’ve seen this playbook before.

It didn’t work out very well before.

What was the previous scheme, and what were the problems with it?

Not totally clear from that extract, but reading the lawsuit filing the gun incident happened 3-4 minutes after the search had been concluded and the employee released. The room had already been searched (probably by someone else) and those guys were leaving the premises when they decided to do a li...

Lordroel wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2024 5:41 pmThey are both Damen designed and build.

It's the same ship - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XV_Patrick_Blackett

Complete with pods even...

I've seen this design somewhere before...

There is a conclusion here that I'm reluctant to acknowledge, but . . . could this mean that the RAF 'winning' the Battle of Britain might (given an otherwise phantasmagorical temptation to the Germans) have prolonged the war in the West, in the absence of a German loss of nine divisions and much o...

They sound like a bit of a nightmare tenant to be honest.

You mean D, R, F, S, L etc. or the actual numbers? The letters have swapped around a few times over the years so you probably need to be quite specific.

Rocket J Squrriel wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2024 10:26 pmOh and the PO in the USS Montgomery only getting a reduction in rank? I know she would've screamed racism and sexism if they had actually thrown the book at her.

Given that they only NJPd the rest of the Goat Locker for conduct very nearly as bad, she'd have half a case. Easily fixed...

Found this on Instapudit https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-cant-the-us-build-ships?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=104058&post_id=148503520&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9bg2k&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email This is what Glenn Re...

Poohbah wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2024 12:07 pmAnd that raises all kinds of questions in itself.

The biggest red flag for me is the ringleader being demoted a single rank (to E-7) and the rest getting NJPs. That isn't one small group of rotten SNCOs, but a rotten system creating and protecting them.

It's interesting that all of the junior enlisted knew the score long before the wardroom did. If I'd been one of the junior guys, I would have started hunting for the antenna and taken it down to the Skipper's cabin... Given that there were several attempts to pass notes to the CO/XO to inform them...

One other effect - it will significantly increase shot dispersion. With a weapon designed for use at very short range with small calibre shot (it's fundamentally a predecessor to the shotgun), that's a desirable trait.

Sorta-kinda? Doesn't really map across very well, but many of the thought processes will be the same. Certainly the stuff on the website appears to be disconnected from reality.

Bill McEwenheir COO is the former President of Amiga (yes, the computer game lot), and the photo is from 10 years ago. Their office is a dumpster rental site in New York, and the Chief Scientist has a safety consultancy and worked as an expert witness. The only question in my mind is if they actuall...

Honestly, I can’t really blame Boeing for the KC-46 debacle very much by this point. Most the residual problems are due to the price and spec they had to hit to give the DOD a fig-leaf for not selecting the A330.