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• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Atrocity Archive(s)
  I think the sponsoring minister would have to be one of the great officers of state. Classically the Security Service has the Home Office and SIS the Foreign Office as their sponsor. I suspect in the laundry verse its the...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Atrocity Archive(s)
  MM lets hope so :-) Am in the process of applying for a couple of Civil service techie posts. Though if I get any where it will make my plan to have a laundry service t shirt for the next...
• Commented on Minor hiccup
  Don’t forget that the Laundry and Mahogany Row had the luxury of developing over several hundred years of lower threat levels and being able to fly under the radar as the UK tends to keep a lot more things secret....
• Commented on Crib sheet: Singularity Sky
  Yes at my last job we had a presentation by our autonomy expert and some of the stuff that autonomy are experimenting with are quite freaky not quite at SCORPION STARE level but along those lines. There has always been...
• Commented on Books I've written
  Would not the Haber process would take care of the short fall of fertilizer?...
• Commented on A message from our UK sponsors (again)
  Well I also noticed on p24 of the UK paperback where Mo is teasing Bob about getting his officers commission. Civil service grades (and ex civil service like BT) already map to Milatery Rank and Bob and Mo (as M&P...
• Commented on Forthcoming UK Audio Books
  Yes woudl sort of imply that Bobs parents live in a home counties commuter town possibly in the leafier bits of surrey or some where on the south coast woudl certainly fit. As Bob and Mo live near the route...
• Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  err not sure I woudl buy that try treading "small wars" the 1930's USMC manual on how to invade the small Latin American country of your choice. Ironically they ignored a lot of the advice of handling the post conflict...
• Commented on Forthcoming UK Audio Books
  Quickly makes SAN saving role for imagining Bob with an American accent :-) BTW last weekends Dr Who did anyone think that the male guest star (Dougray Scott) was how they imagined Alan....
• Commented on The Fumes of Mordor & Other World Building Models
  Interesting that they used that as practical lighting for the set which reduced the amount of CGI needed....
• Commented on The Fumes of Mordor & Other World Building Models
  There was one at Farringdon they are supposedly going to be some new ones as part of the Cross rail at some stage....
• Commented on What are words worth?
  And Corby which still has a large Scottish accented group I went to an event held at a big working mans club in Corby and going into the gents and hearing the locals you woudl think you where in Glasgow...
• Commented on What are words worth?
  Ah yes cp snows 2 cultures still lives at the BBC. Notice that they put people like me and a dare say a lot of us into a sub class of middle class the "technical middle class" - obviously terrified...
• Commented on What are words worth?
  Sounds like you have a similar accent to myself though I left Birmingham when I was 4 so it’s mostly gone now. And there are graduations in accents in Birmingham depending on which bit you come from. Its interesting that...
• Commented on Press Release: Stross Uncloaks Secret Media Project
  Sharks v Tanks - well funny you may say that :-) In the Traveller RPG there was the D class battle dress for (Uplifted) Dolphins and those packed a Plasma or Fusion gun as the main armament. I am sure...
• Commented on Press Release: Stross Uncloaks Secret Media Project
  I think you forgot the "cute kid" Tm JMS. And as the leads called Amanda presumably you are going for Helen Tapping for the lead :-)...
• Commented on The jet lag game
  and some cargo ships will also take paying passengers which some more adventurous tourists use. http://www.cruisepeople.co.uk/freighters.htm http://www.freighter-travel.com/travel-itineraries.html seems to be about 85/90 per day - could be a good way to get way from it all and write :-)...
• Commented on Project Stargate
  re Dunkirk - I have read that the main reason for the halt was that the panzers had outrun their supplies and had needed to resupply. I also think that the German high command over estimated how many troops could...
• Commented on Project Stargate
  I though in the UK at least spooks came into common use as a result of the TV show - though they changed the name for PC reasons in the states....
• Commented on Project Stargate
  An a lot of AI and machine learning research is funded for similar reasons back in the 80's I knew one of the guys where I worked on campus at Cranfield (we did some rnd into expert systems in fluid...
• Commented on Unbreakable (part2)
  given hitlers patern of breaking agreements that was obvious why do you think that the british empire woudl give hitler a free hand in europe. Arguably if britain and france had put the boot in erlier say prior to checslovakia...
• Commented on Unbreakable (part2)
  um not really Fascism did take some things from the Left, National Socialist Party - it is one of the tensions between the SA and SS that lead to the night of long knives...
• Commented on Unbreakable (part2)
  Well there are the east German Female athletes who took so many drugs at least one ended up transitioning FTM....
• Commented on Women in SF and Fantasy
  Slate has an Article on it here http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2012/12/21/jill_peters_documenting_sworn_virgins_women_who_live_as_men_in_albania_photos.html...
• Commented on Women in SF and Fantasy
  Personally I always preferred Keith Douglas from WW2 as a poet....
• Commented on Women in SF and Fantasy
  Arguably Gondor is Byzantium cica 1400 (without the 4th crusade and the Latin Kingdom) (and Peter Jackson had them explicitly use byzantine styles in Gondor. The one thing I like about the first LOTR film was Theoden as a full...
• Commented on Women in SF and Fantasy
  Look at who Merry and Pipins dads are the real word equivalent in the UK are probably the minor aristocracy / old money upper class family....
• Commented on Women in SF and Fantasy
  Read the family trees its obvious what social status the various hobbits are Bilbo is upper middle class trust-fund hobbit Merry and Pipin are Upper class Sam is the yeoman working class....
• Commented on It's a Wonderful Life
  Or madame Vastra, Jenny and of course Strax...
• Commented on Where's Charlie?
  Presumably you will be attending the world con in 2014 in "that london"...