silburnl

silburnl

  • Commented on A fistful of tropes
    Did you catch The English when it aired earlier in the year? It ticked all those boxes....
  • Commented on Shrinking the world
    The Duellists is a favourite, the production filmed in the Perigord for a lot of the location work so the landscapes and built environment are just gorgeous. YouTube has a bunch of historical shorts done by HEMA enthusiasts to showcase...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    "I am afraid that this is the USA getting its excuses in first, as it ramps up its hostility to China. That does not fill me with joy." This is the Murdoch Cinematic Universe cranking up the salience up anti-Jyna...
  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    You're right of course, Greg. My mistake was to only be looking at the Terminal 5 services while drafting my comment. There are other services that go from the Terminal 2/3/4 station....
  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    Elizabeth Line is 35 minutes to Paddington vs 20 minutes for the Heathrow Express, frequency is every 30 minutes for the Lizzie vs every 15 for HRX (every 10 minutes for the Piccadilly). Lizzie line scores if your timing is...
  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    "That is an impressive conspiracy theory, considering that even the second Chechen war started 2 days before he became prime minister, and the terrorist attacks (and the first Chechen war) dated back to before he was in the government at...
  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    Greg, a SIM-only contract gets you the itty-bitty chip thingy (plus associated network account with defined call rates, X free SMS and Y GB of data per month) that you put in a phone to tell the network that this...
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    Regarding the use of Wagner Group prison troops, today's ISW assessment suggests that this was probably a stopgap to give the Russian military some breathing room to focus on force generation over the autumn/winter ahead of a renewed offensive when...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    I'm seeing reports that the Russian army are pulling back from the right bank of the Dnipro and withdrawing from Kherson. Interesting that they are going public about the retreat, rather than adopting the tactic of obviously bullshitting and then...
  • Commented on I can't even
    Does this mean a Tesla driver can't use "I didn't know that was the speed limit" as an excuse? Pretty much, yes. Of course I'm doubtful it ever helped beyond giving a traffic cop an excuse to, ahem, exercise their...
  • Commented on I can't even
    Regarding the 'controls on a flatscreen' problem, over the last two years with a Tesla M3 I have found that none of the driving controls need me to interact with the screen - gears (Drive, Park, Reverse) are handled by...
  • Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
    What is thegrayzone.com?...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    "A quick question, about which I’d guess we have someone who knows the answer. What is the yield/damage zones of the typical Russian warhead? I figure that since I’m under four miles from Manchester Piccadilly Station (and the Manchester inner-ring...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    The coverage imbalance between Ukraine and Yemen is over-determined. Certainly a war in Europe was always going to garner more attention than a war in Arabia and there's a lot of structural racism sitting behind that. But a permanent member...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    That's hilarious. They are mostly missing, too, which is funny but not when you think about bystanders. Hey now, they shot up that fascist telephone pole at the end there....
  • Commented on Bad news day
    David L Unless the topic is incredibly interesting, for me to watch a video from almost any source, it had better be under 10 minutes. Most times under 5. It's wildly breaking your rules here (and also going OT, although...
  • Commented on Quantum of Nightmares: spoiler time!
    The unpleasantness in the Balkans was precisely that. Unpleasant, deeply so - but it was not a major war....
  • Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
    @SFReaderTherefore depending on your personal access, the speed at which your data reaches its destination (or the speed at which - how long it takes - your laptop gets info) can vary. If you're a stock trader - where microseconds...
  • Commented on Lying to the ghost in the machine
    fajansen @1434: Because they have no budget, our "internal suppliers" are a lot more busy with robbing the "Work Packages / Projects" blind (project managers have budgets, so they are cash pinatas), than they are with delivering the actual work....
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    "It vastly adds to the quality of Charlie's blog, and I am pretty sure there is an equivalent for Chrome." I use Blog-Comment-Killfile: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blog-comment-killfile/kpoilnkelonbaapoapibddjaojohnpjf Others are likely available....
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    The Specator is owned by the Barclays, so a high proportion of right-wing nutjobbery in the Oz offshoot is unsurprising....
  • Commented on All Glory to the New Management!
    "...interacts with Congressional operations which is also huge." Trump met with Mitch McConnel at the Capitol a couple of days back. Just sayin'...
  • Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
    On the topic of stealing the election/blocking transition etc (Greg and others). I thought the analysis of my favorite US politics podcast (Pod Save America - it's worth a listen) was good - which was of course DJT and the...
  • Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
    Charlie @ 1156 TLDR of Heteromeles: "Trump is a coward". ... Compare with Saddam Hussein: also a narcissistic psychopath -- and rapist -- but not a coward One thing that has boggled me (in a season of bogglement) is that...
  • Commented on No comment necessary
    @JBS 674 It's obvious to me that before Hitler declared war on the U.S., the U.S. was preparing to do exactly that; turn it's back on the U.K. & Europe to pursue a "Japan only" war in the Pacific. I...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
    @Trottelheimer "I don't want to join Mensa, but I'd have no problem with the test" The intelligence test for MENSA is coupled with a less well known wisdom test - you need to fail that in order to want to...
  • Commented on Roll the dice
    "First Contact with any interstellar-capable aliens who happen to be compatible with our biochemistry is going to go very badly for us." Heh, in the canon background for Traveller first contact went exactly the other way - the Ziru Sirka...
  • Commented on Roll the dice
    "An app, to roll up a character? Why?" Not to roll up a character*, to run the character in play. You have the sheet in a free floating window and when you need to make a STR save or attack...
  • Commented on Roll the dice
    "We're using the Rolld20 app and Discord..." Yeah that's the setup my group uses and it's pretty smooth - Roll20 has some nice pre-built character sheets for the more popular games which speeds up handling time and it being totally...
  • Commented on Cough Cough
    The local constituency party selects their candidate in an internal selection meeting. Different parties have different rules around how the longlisting/shortlisting process happens (plus procedures for deselecting an incumbent who pisses enough people off) and the central party organisation has...
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