NeedMoreTea

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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Sent them anyway as the brass's belief in the Norden bomb sight was far in excess of its ability. Tests had been in perfect steady level flight, in perfect visibility in the desert. Daylight raids had horrific losses, yet were repeat
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
The most recent example might be the Australian aborigines fire rituals. After this year's bush fires there have been many calls to use their fire ritual burnings once again. I gather this has been done in the Northern Territories for
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
It was often not Chinese whispers though -- that's dismissive. Our being "modern" there's a tendency to think because they didn't have ink cartridges and internets they were stupid and all knowledge ephemeral. How
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
There's been studies and research into this quite a few times. I'm sure there's lots more out on the web. Here's a story I remember reading recently: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/resea
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Freedom to what though? I'm at a loss why a structure that's OK for FF, is not OK for TB. ...unless there are plans for profit and charging a subscription or some such.
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
No it's not dubious at all. It's hilariously beneficial considering how far north we are, where I honestly thought it would be very borderline, and probably not worth it at all. We just about eliminated the electricity component o
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Well the regions with the most wind tend to concentrate in Western Europe, conveniently with lots of Atlantic, North Sea, and to a somewhat lesser extent Baltic coasts. Summer winds down in N Africa. I include Norway as we're talking a
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Sure, and that's not ever in dispute. That's what the grid manage on a daily basis, and the reason we have a mix of sources, and need to always have a mix of renewables. We're also only using a tiny amount of the renewable po
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
It's the Orkney interconnect that's at capacity. They really need an extra one. Sure it's a lot of PR, but it's not just empty PR with a grid that's controlled mainland wide, and chooses sources minute to minute dep
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
For the odd day. It never happens for lengthy periods. Most of the time wind will be the right answer for significant generation in Britain and Ireland, with great interconnect export potential, so we'll use proportionally less solar a
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
RAF museum in Hendon has extensive archives, and holds a fair selection of squadron records, though mainly maintenance and base records I think, and a huge archive of photos and other papers. The National Archives holds most squadron oper
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
There's just about zero chance of no wind even if you only consider the East and West coasts of Britain and Ireland. Both of which have colossal wind generation potential. Chances of the whole of Europe from Portugal to Romania, Malta
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
This is based on what? Europe has some of the best spots on the planet for wind generation. Winds are in many places, a near constant companion, and usually within the range that turbines prefer. Any one of Britain, Ireland and the Nordics
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
It does mean some interesting work is being done using hydrogen as storage, and for the ferries (not sure how far along the hydrogen ferries are).
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Pretty sure the UK National Grid does not have interconnects and pricing between Scotland and England in the same way as between UK and interconnect partners in the EU. It's part of the same grid. Scotland has no choice but that some
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Here, the bespoke cabinet makers doing things the traditional way are often on par or even less than the installation companies. I think people simply assume they are right at the premium end so don't even ask for a quote -- as a resul
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
It feels that way because it has been exactly as you describe. I can only assume it's youngsters who have been doing the undeserved downvoting. If you look at the timeline, you can get a feel for why, and who: 1988/9 First ISPs an
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
A lot of what's in the market for UK bathroom remodelling is actually very poor and unsuitable materials (e.g. cabinets with a veneer on top of particle board that will just love the humidity and blow up nicely once the surface or a
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Like currently moving to front loaders? Top loaders were once common in the UK, but I don't think I've seen one since the seventies, maybe eighties.
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
> I can't tell if this is ideology or a mistake, but this is not true. Neither I hope, just hard won experience of 40 years of buying stuff, getting things repaired (or not) and talking to the repair people, trying to buy sustainabl
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
> blame the western world or "corporations" - no, it is your (our) fault as individuals. Hmm, here I diverge. I can demand a long lasting, repairable, sustainable appliance (and most products) until I am blue in the face, no co
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
The penalties were fairly stiff too -- if anyone is unsure if harsher sentencing cuts crime, Medieval times are a pretty strong argument against: Hanging was the penalty for dozens of crimes, not just murder. Hanging was public and a slow h
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Having seen the effect of China and India getting a pass in the UN Climate summits -- because of where they were 30 years ago, no one should get a pass. Otherwise it'll be a source of much future regret.
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Which appears to have been one of the main aims of WTO and most international trade deals over the last 30 or so years.
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Presuming every country has the same ability to pay. Once you get outside the G20, or top 40, you may well be asking the impossible.
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Piracy is not theft, it is copyright infringement. If I steal your car, you no longer have a car and are deprived of the benefits. If I pirate your book, you are deprived of the vague possibility of some income from me -- there's no
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Trading Standards in the UK are able to detect organic products, and will periodically take samples from farms and manufacturers for lab testing. There have been samples taken from stores, and prosecutions -- not enough, but the ability is
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
They built a 1,000 bed isolation hospital for SARS too, near Beijing. Also in a week. It was demolished about ten years ago.
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Only with a completely new definition of the word. Oxford: nature [mass noun] The phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
By the time you get to the opening up of the internet to mere non-defence mortals, there was plenty of fun. There was a beautiful sweet spot between the earliest ISPs around 1990, and the end of fun once the effects of the mid 90s ending of

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