TonyC

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  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    A run-down which has been well under way since 2010 It was happening well before that. The British contingent in GWII was known as "The Borrowers" by the Americans due to their habit of scrounging kit....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    There seems to have been a fair bit of clarification/backpedalling since the initial story broke. It's not now a call for peacetime conscription (If it ever was.) but a predition that we'll end up going to war with Russia sooner...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    I wonder what will happen to NATO if the Short-Fingered Vulgarian takes America out of the alliance? Do you think that Britain and Europe would be able to keep it on the road? If Putin was to win in Ukraine...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    Sunak has said that he expects the election to be in the second half of this year. Of cpourse he might just be saying that to dampen expectations of a May election (May is more likely than June as it's...
  • Commented on Pushing it back
    There's a fair bit of Roman concrete still in existence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete) and the stuff that got thrown up round Europe during the last great unpleasantness shows no signs of falling down. The stuff that's crumbling now is barely worthy of...
  • Commented on A fistful of tropes
    Have we done "End of Civilisation -> Post-apocalyptic Wasteland"? I used to be quite keen on that genre but "The Road" may have cured me of it. Also is "Revolutionaries in Spaaaace" a thing? Fighting the evil empire/federation/corporation? Might be...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    What's the actuarial outlook on a 69-year-old with MS? And further to that what does the line of succession look like in Russia? Dictators don't tend to provide much in the way of planning for their successors, lest the candidates...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    The presence of Russian pilots in the Korean War was established some time ago. https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0291russians/#:~:text=Soviet%20veterans%20finally%20have%20begun,the%20truth%20has%20poured%20forth....
  • Commented on Oh, 2022!
    On the subject of bored apes (kinda). Tether is exposed as a massive fraud and Bitcoin goes to zero. or Ransomware bandits fuck up a really important piece of US infrastructure (They came close with the recent pipeline shenanigans). The...
  • Commented on Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
    Yes and I wonder if the blocking effect of the arrays would actually act as a sunshade. You can't beam out more energy than you put in so it may even have a cooling effect....
  • Commented on Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
    Won't people be worried that Elon might find a way to focus that multi-TW power source on to a small area on the ground? That would be proper Bond villainy....
  • Commented on Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
    "Assuming a roughly 70% transmission loss from orbit (beaming power by microwave to rectenna farms on Earth is inherently lossy) we would need roughly 60TW of PV panels in space." So that's 42TW being pumped into the atmosphere on a...
  • Commented on Submarine coming through!
    Gotta feel sorry for that kid. Nine years old and he'll probably never do better than that....
  • Commented on COVID-19
    Interesting* piece on the news this morning about Statutory Sick Pay and contracted out NHS staff (Cleaners, Securoty Guards, Catering Staff who work in hospitals but are not directly employed by the NHS). It turns out that most, if not...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    the only fly in the ointment being that when Scotland joined the EU it would have to commit to eventually[2] fully joining the Schengen Area The RoI has an opt-out from the Schengen agreement (I presume this is due...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    I'd like to say "in favour of Dianne Abbott" I'd like to say that too if only for the LOLs. She could only attract 7% of the vote when she stood for the leadership in 2010. She makes the Magic...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Scexit would be a negotiation nightmare and a clusterfuck with horrible short-to-medium-term economic effects. Brexit in miniature (somewhat mitigated by a return to the EU fold). Sadly Brexit makes the economic case for Scottish independence worse. At the last referendum...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    It is quite the CatastroFuckingShambles of an election, isn't it? I can't think of one bright spot in the whole thing. A Tory leader whose whole career has been a masterclass in shafting anything (Both literally and figuratively) that crossed...
  • Commented on Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
    This is an interesting thread on the flood situation in Houston. https://twitter.com/CorbettMatt/status/901959336850804737...
  • Commented on 2117 revisited
    If the EU is still in business in 2117 wil they still be translating everything into their core languages? French is still pretty widely spoken in some of its former colonies and you can assume that the Acadamie will still...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    "so the government in Westminster will be put in the impossible position of simultaneously defending the right of a nation to leave a larger federation, regardless of the economic and social uncertainty this causes, while opposing exactly that position in...
  • Commented on Defining space opera
    The Expanse series seems to qualify and it is stuck firmly in our solar system. Musical opera seems to cover a multitude of sins. What do you think you should aim for in a space opera? The Ring Cycle, The...
  • Commented on Clickbait spasm: 14 gizmos I used in 2015
    The LiveScribe can also run Infocom games. Some genius ported the Infocom software to the pen. It reads your written input as the command and shows the output on the pen's display. Just got a 1Tb drive for the Raspberry...
  • Commented on Thoughtcrime
    Regarding the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. While I have no doubt that there is blood on his hands there is no record that he "spent many years in British prisons for murders he allegedly committed while leading a...
  • Commented on Why we're not going to see sub-orbital airliners
    Minor nit to pick: Lossiemouth is still an operational RAF base. Leuchars has a runway long enough to support sub-orbital jaunts (Space in the morning and golf in the afternoon) and RAF Machrihanish comes up from time to time when...
  • Commented on Let's put the future behind us
    "Trapped forever, unable to pay the robot it's exit fee, they live feral lives trapped in the interstices of a tropical future ..." J. G. Ballard would have a had a field day with this place....
  • Commented on Who ordered THAT?!?
    "but deeply resented being told that they were too wee, too poor, and too stupid to go it alone" That's an SNP strawman and always has been. The No campaign never told anyone this (They weren't totally stupid). T...
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