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Barry

  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    "Training people to be acceptably proficient is not too bad in terms of time. Up to about lieutenant. Then, well, we're talking decades and a whole institution with memories and actual battle experience." You misspelled 'sergeant'....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    "And no, weapons now are not more complicated than they were back then. In fact, they were probably more complicated back then." I drove a M113 back in the day, and have seen videos of the inside of a Bradley....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    "You're massively overestimating how much training the weaponry takes. The British Army's specialist weapons school (including anti-tank training) is about 10 weeks long. The Armour School course is similar." Ay which point one can join an established unit as a...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    BTW, in terms of a certain somebody pulling the US out of NATO, we've seen how little the law binds various parties in the USA....
  • Commented on The coming storm
    "If Putin was to win in Ukraine you can expect the Baltic states and Poland to go on a rearmament spree. " If NATO goes down and Taiwan is left on its own, I would expect a serious nuclear bust...
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    "Actually, what I've read is that HAL was psychotic, because of secret additional directions from the military...." It was instructed to not lie/conceal information, and to conceal information from the crew....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    "putin's going to get what he wants in ukraine (neutrality) next year" You misspelled 'conquest', I believe....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    "I hate to say this, but if given the choice between Trump or Biden+Harris, it will be even money who becomes president and it will barely matter because either outcome is likely to trigger a civil war." I'm always amazed...
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    "So, once Iran gets nukes, how long do you reckon it would be before one got passed to Hamas and Tel Aviv becomes a glowing hole in the ground?" Somebody once pointed out that as far as we know, nobody...
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    "Gaza residents learning about the flaw in passively going along to get along as well the downsides of Hamas as a government. " Note that Hamas established themselves as a one-party state. Which means 'go along or die'. With the...
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    BTW, I mean that in the USA they could run all of those within 60 seconds of each other and have people believe it....
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    Charlie: "The only lever they can't pull is anything to do with COVID19; they own it, and they ain't getting out of that one." You wish, and I wish. The Tories and their media arm might pull that off: It...
  • Commented on Pass or Fail
    From regency romances, tall, dark, mid-30's, who is sexually experienced but have never been in love with a woman....
  • Commented on Pass or Fail
    "But even so in the US in all of those brownstones and row houses in the northeastern cities that have been around 100-150 years there is an odd thing. Many of them have the plumbing exposed. " Presumably this was...
  • Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
    "Isn't that why those states often have a square grid of counties of that size, so people could ride to the county seat?" In one US state (Georgia?) the law was that the borders of a county could be no...
  • Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
    "Yet, for no obvious reason, a vowel shift took off within a part of the USA. The resulting dialect is called Inland Northern American English. I moved from New England to Western New York in 1969, and it was immediately...
  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    "Anyway, apparently a lot of Trump supporters think he's president now. Which means he's in his second term. Therefore can't run again... so how can they support his current campaign to be the Republican candidate? Assuming they're American Patriots like...
  • Commented on WTF
    "Gambling winnings is one way to do it but it would take time to convert, say, a million quid in used twenties into half a million in the bank clean as a whistle assuming I visited several betting shops in...
  • Commented on WTF
    "https://jonathanturley.org/2011/01/10/gao-u-s-has-fired-250000-rounds-for-every-insurgent-killed/" As always, Turley is ... not a reliable source. There was supposedly a phrase from the Napoleonic Wars, 'It takes a man's weight in lead to kill him.'. The idea of this being somehow special is in itself special...
  • Commented on WTF
    About previous comments on a couple leaving Texas due to their children entering school. The Texas government is going through public records looking for transgender people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/14/texas-transgender-data-paxton/ I can't imagine a good reason for such a list, compiled by such...
  • Commented on WTF
    "I struck up a conversation with the dad and found out that their daughter was had left a high paying tech job and her social networks in Austin Texas (I believe that is in the USA?) because... one of her...
  • Commented on WTF
    "In other local news here in North Carolina: Emu on the loose in Person County Not fodder for horror, but weird." I live in southeastern Michigan, and have seen an emu/ostrich running around on a farm, in February. I didn't...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    Charlie: "I wonder how the anti-vaxxers -- who are often also pro-forced-birth (i.e. anti-abortion) -- will square this magic circle ..." Robert Prior: "I suspect they will continue to do what they do now: criminalize miscarriage and make it entirely...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    "The responding police officer listened to the other driver's protest, looked over at the Big Orange Van, and asked, "You didn't see that?!?"" You would be surprised at the angular width blocked out by the driver's side front pillar....
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    "Release the Dogs Of The AntiGrowth Coalition!" Yes, as opposed to the current system, which generates so much growth that the UK had to leave the EU and get physically towed to the middle of the North Atlantic....
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    Poul Henning-Kamp: "But I wouldn't be surprised if he installs a bland C-Team, tells them to not rock the boat and not loose too much money, and for the rest of his life, changes the subject whenever somebody brings up...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    "If there was any contamination at all you were risking all sorts of very nasty bacterial toxins. " If he had a home nuclear reactor, then he could sterilize them, and provide his own heat and electricity (and hot water!)....
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    "Ha ha nope: even the most Tory bits of Englandshire are, by US standards, middle-of-the-road Democrat. (What you think would be "liberal" would actually be considerably far to the left of Bernie Sanders.)" Note that the Tories have gone bonkers-crazy...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    (re: 'unelected' prime ministers') "I keep seeing people say stuff like this, with the clear implication of "this is illegitimate," and speaking as an American this baffles me." I think that this is now justified; you guys are now on...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    "The thing most people mention about MRIs is the noise. " It is a bizarre set of sounds. Electronica this, buzzing/pinging that....
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