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Commented on Countdown to Crazy
BT (or possibly the GPO) did a similar thing over here in 1974, with a 10 mile test waveguide at Martlesham in Suffolk. The plan was to break ground on a UK wide system in 76, but by that point...
Commented on Countdown to Crazy
Depending on depth, they'll either use an ROV/dive team to effect repair, or they'll pull the cable to the surface. And you wouldn't try and splice a tap in to the cable when you can just tap the fibre amplifiers...
Commented on All Glory to the New Management!
Just spotted OGH being heavily mentioned in El Reg today. https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/10/13/cyberfirst_ads_cancelled/ As a sound engineer who has been shat on quite royally by UK.gov in the past 7 months (including being rejected by Arts Council England for a share of...
Commented on Peak Brexit
Surely you mean 109..?...

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Moz commented on Countdown to Crazy
the belly is at about the height of a car bonnet/hood Maybe there's an evolutionary arms race between taller moose and taller cars? Which may be how we got giraffes?...
David L commented on Countdown to Crazy
Moose and elk are a particular danger to cars because the belly is at about the height of a car bonnet/hood. Saw my first such in northern California 2 years ago. Grazing in a small park. I knew they were big but in person, wow....
JohnS commented on Countdown to Crazy
Ongaku @ 2721: I've always thought this was crap. It means you can't use a pardon to right a wrong--say a racist jury or a conviction later proved wrong via DNA evidence. And if you know you're innocent, it's a helluva choice they force you to make. Actually, at the State level you can. It's called a "Pardon of Innocence" or something similar. It's a pardon that explicitly states it's purpose is to undo an injustice....
Robert Prior commented on Countdown to Crazy
Just got an email from Congressman Jim Banks (R-Illinois) with the following item: "Thanks to the success of President Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed, a vaccine is on the way. Now it's time for Indiana to start planning how best to distribute it." Interestingly, it then goes on to talk about the Pfizer vaccine which isn't part of Warp Speed. Seems entirely normal to give credit to Trump for something he didn't actually do…...
David L commented on Countdown to Crazy
Like legislation passed BEFORE he became President? https://apnews.com/article/375515aecedb4aed949e4f2eb9c54eb6...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
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