Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
I grew up Catholic in Belfast in the 70s - I don't have quite the same "Dixon of dock green" view of the police.
I now live in a N American city where the police in plain clothes pose as window washers / panhandlers to catch drivers at stop lights touching their cell phone / GPS to score the $150 fine.
That was the ideal - unfortunately the partnership between police and community has gone.
Even if you aren't in a black community that see "accidental" police shootings as a major risk to your life.
As a reg reader you are likely to see the police as an extra tax for speeding / parking / driving with a phone
If they are simply legalised pirates then I'm not going to cry too much when one of them dies
If you look carefully the efficency an effectiveness of dinosaur Walmart's supply chains and logistics beat Amazon
Of course as a cheap market place for anonymous tax avoiding 'entrepreneurs' to sell counterfeit stuff to be delivered by underpaid unofficial couriers Amazon is really innovative.
It's not clear that equatorial launch helps so much for this.
It has the biggest boost for GSO orbits but anything going to GSO is going to be too big for this thing (see todays other reg satelite story). Smaller payloads are going into LEO at a whole bunch of orbital inclinations that don't need equatorial boost as much, ones in a polar orbit don't benefit at all.
It's all about the size of your nozzles (ooh-err missus)
In vacuum you want great big wide open nozzles, at sea level you need narrower ones. The result is a rocket that is less efficient at all stages of flight and least efficent at the start when you need the most thrust. The nearer you can be to vacuum when you light the blue touch paper, the more vacuum designed nozzles you can use.
>It's quite normal for a vehicle to be worth more as parts than as a whole;
Jeep Wranglers also have a more than typically robust market for spare parts.
Although supposedly some of the newer models are able to drive off the dealer lot under their own steam rather than be towed directly to the service dept
Unless North Korea is a hoax cooked up by a movie studio
Nobody has ever been there, the actors playing staring roles never change, half their missile tests have been revealed as photoshop - I think the whole country is done on a back lot at Sony
Britain is safe though.
One of the excuses for upgrading Fylingdales 20years ago (violating a bunch of ABM treaties) was that it would protect Britain and her allies from Iranian and N Korean missiles.
So we can prevent any ICBMs that decide to fly from N Korea via Russia and head over Harrogate on their way to Washington - somehow
This was a sophisticated targeted cyber-attack it could only have been launched by a sophisticated state level actor like North Korea.
This was a crude script-kiddie attack which would likely have been launched by a poor backward country like North Korea
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