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November 30, 2008 by yorksranter 4 comments

UAV cost scissors watch

I’ve long been sceptical of the UAV future. Basically, back in 2005, I reckoned that as the things get more complicated their advantages over manned aircraft disappear; the biggest advantage is that they are meant to be expendable, and things that are expendable get expended. Therefore the loss rate is much higher, both from enemy…

June 1, 2008 by yorksranter 0 comments

People say to me just be yourself, it makes no sense to follow fashion. How could I be anybody else?

Ackerman reckons we should be impressed that he suggested a Turkish-Kurdish rapprochement two years ago. The evidence for the rapprochement is pretty good – there are meetings going on between the KRG and the Turks, under the chairmanship of (Kurdish) Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, about issues connected with all the business Turkish companies are doing…

March 9, 2008 by yorksranter 1 comment

So Why Was Viktor Bout in Thailand?

So why was Viktor in Thailand? Well, there are some possible explanations beyond the CTB theory that it was something to do with the Burmese junta, or the Chinese, or someone. Specifically, there are reasons to think that South-East Asia might have been the next stop in the VB caravan, after Ostend, South Africa, and…

Who is Hamish Badenoch? Banker, father and husband of Tory leader Kemi | The Standard
For the past 14 years, Mr Badenoch has worked at Deutsche Bank and is currently the global head of “future of work and real estate transformation” according to his LinkedIN.
We’re supposed to ‘put politics aside’ to celebrate Kemi Badenoch – but how can we? | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
It’s not just anyone who gets to the top in British politics, but those who adhere to a particular story – one in which their experience, success and racial identity allow them to undermine the concerns of other ethnic minorities and attack those minorities for not toeing the line in terms of their “integration” or […]
Petaluma captain piloted raft across Pacific to Hawaii - The Press Democrat
In early July 1954, Baker and his small crew sailed the Lehi out of Richardson Bay, heading into a week of violent coastal waters. A few days into the raft voyage, its radio operator Donald Smith, of Santa Rosa, was sending out Morse code pleas to “get me off this damned thing.”
Kathryn Kelly - Wikipedia
She bought him a machine gun and gave him the nickname "Machine Gun Kelly"
Samsung and SK Hynix heat up next-gen memory race with cryogenic etching breakthroughs
South Korean industry forecasts suggest cryogenic etching could also apply to through-silicon vias (TSVs) in HBM, where low temperatures enhance precision and efficiency. While challenges remain, the future applications of cryogenic etching are expected to expand significantly.
Nvidia steps in to restructure Supermicro orders, reshaping AI supply chain
Supply chain sources indicate that Gigabyte and ASRock have benefited from Supermicro's rerouted orders, securing contracts with major clients like CoreWeave. Gigabyte, known for its high AI market concentration in Taiwan, has raised its fourth-quarter and annual server revenue forecasts.
World invention wifi comes ‘just’ from the Netherlands. ‘Many were skeptical’ - IO
Special rules were established for the ISM radio bands, frequencies on the radio spectrum specifically reserved for industrial, scientific, and medical applications. In that context, I first worked on a feasibility study to demonstrate that NCR could wirelessly connect its POS systems. Shortly after we presented a successful prototype, NCR was eventually transformed into the […]
Jonathan Haidt Started a Social-Media War. Did He Win?
Haidt said he was surprised to be accused of not adhering to the science, when the same could be said of Ferguson. “What are the odds,” he wrote, “that a dozen errors, randomly made, would all pull the results in a single direction?” // Haidt is such a contemptible hack. Here he is literally arguing […]
Hundreds of Babies Harmed by Homeopathic Remedies, Families Say | Scientific American
but surely the homeopathy didn't actually have anything in it? YOU WOULD THINK. You would think.
Impact_on_households.pdf
got to say I like Figure 1.A. Labour af. Osborne curve, he dead.