Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
> I didn't realize Daily Telegraph is one of the whatdoyoucallthem... tabloids.
The Telegraph certainly is NOT one of those tabloids who show some topless model on page 3.
Instead we have several pages of tasteful pictures of the teenage daughters of some minor royal in their bikinis and a journalistically acclaimed 10page special on a new lingerie range - with pictures.
It's difficult to steer parachutes precisely with a big rocket hanging off the end.
With the Apollo modules they were aiming for an ocean. It's a lot harder to open a parachute 100km up and steer to a barge or landing pad.
The only use for a parachute would be to lose some velocity at higher altitude and then release it to steer back to the pad, but the mass of fuel to lift the extra mass of the parachute is likely to be higher than the margin of fuel needed to slow it by the same amount
> AND could potentially be able to clamp the rocket beyond the unstable point,
But then parts of the rocket would be subject to big tension and shear/bending loads. So you need to make the rocket body + fuel tanks much stronger than if they purely go up and then powered vertically down. Then they experience almost entirely compression loads on axis
Unless Malta or Slovenia offer a lower rate than Ireland and an even more accomodating regulator.
Traditionally Ireland was chosen as a european HQ for your American business because they spoke English, you could play golf, they had a close approximation to Whisky and the wife could pop over to London for a weekends shopping.
For a dot-com multinational that just need a single server and a brass plaque they aren't as sentimental.
I think there will be a little behind the scenes deal where Apple pay 1% of this to Ireland and stay there.
If Ireland actually extracted the fine, then Amazon, Google, Microsoft and all the other giants of the Irish IT industry with their literaly several Irish employees would all leave for a more accomodating Eu country
Container ships already have crews at pretty much the minimum to staff 3 watches = 12 people for a vessel 1/4 mile long.
The crew are really there for fires and other emergencies - the words biggest container ship nearly sank in the Suez canal when one of it's prop blades decided to take a short cut through the hull. It was only saved because of the crew.
Obviosuly not going to pass - but it is something we should start thinking about.
Schools ban parents taking photos of their own kids in a school play - but if the kid was lying dying in the road you could splash that photo across Facebook.
The definition of "professional news media" is probably an organisation that wouldn't do that without some serious public interest reason
We need a constitutional amendment for the right to bear badminton rackets and a Nation Racket Association to defend our freedom to defend ourselves from small model helicopters.
Obviously following a series of tragic incidents in schools squash rackets will be banned
Yes but before to spy on a person 24x7 you needed half a dozen agents, and then another few to monitor those - so you could only spy on 10% of the population by having the other 90% work for the FBI.
That was the problem the Stasi faced - even with informers, it had more people working for it than it was spying on.
