Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
'We' already are - we helped them develop their first telecoms sat because export restrictions wouldn't let us launch a Eu built sat on a Chinese rocket because it contained US components.
A bit like how we were banned from using Sharp/Toshiba LCDs in our computers in the 80s to protect our domestic LCD technology - good job the Japanese could never work out how to make laptops wasn't it ?
It's not that easy - the technical challenges of making a decent cup of tea in free fall are considerable, but as soon as they are solved the UK's space program is back on track.
IIRC one of their earlier craft used a wooden heatsheild which suggests they have stolen plans of the Morris Traveller
But to catch up with something ahead of you in orbit you have to slow down (and go into a lower faster orbit).
To slow down you have to speed up backwards, to stop slowing down you need to drive forwards, every manouver you make uses fuel which changes the CofG of the vehicle, before you can start a burn you need another burn to slosh all the fuel to the bottom of the tank...and so on.....
So worse than parking a transit van with a broken wing mirror.
Shots of happy smiling beautiful young people punting along the Cam and cut to shot of science student stuck in lab staring at computer screen.
Shots of HSBYP graduating and getting their sign-on bonus as management consultants and cut to shot of science student stuck in lab staring at screen for another 4-5years of PhD
Shots of HSBYP comparing their BMWs as you grind through a series of dead-end postdocs until you can apply for faculty jobs.
Then of course the future starts to get bleak....
The Google maps cycle routes here will take you miles out of your way to use an "official" cycle route and doesn't know which bits of the freeway you can/can't cycle on.
Although the local uni has a cycle trip planner site based on Google maps that can trade distance/steepness and does a reasonable job
Instead of starving children into being short we could just breed for thinner
If perhaps the typical slightly rotund programmer could be paired with an over skinny super-model the average size of the offspring could be reduced gradually.
I commend this idea to the house.
If he didn't file a complaint, he simply said he had been shot then it's not his fault the police went in a tire screaming chase across the county.
It's like posting an essay on the internet saying Iraq might have WMD and then finding that somebody took it seriously and started a war.
Since they will be in American consulate type places and have content selected by the American equivalent of the British council - I don't think this is exactly part of a massive covert surveillance operation.
ie Somebody in Afghanistan is reading the Anarchist Cookbook or we have detected a user in London reading Das Kapital - send in the CIA
Yes if you have enough PV to run your house.
But in Texas/Arizona/Ca etc most of the power demand is for AC, if you cut out all the cost and efficiency losses of power converters, safety cut-outs,feed-in tarrifs etc you could make a cheap and efficient enough system for everyone to use.
Logging the content would actually be safer.
So it logs that you connected to 123.123.123.123. That server hosts KnittingPattern.com, but it also hosts NakedTherasaGorman.com and JihadWeekly.com - they just didn't record what you accessed.
It logs that you made a cellphone call to a certain number and somebody on their terrorist watch list made a call to the same number later. You were ordering a curry and somebody in their kitchen has a relative that's a bit naughty - but now you are logged as part of a terrorist network.
