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by Steve44 8y ago
On a related note I visited Hughenden Manor, near High Wycombe, last year. That was used in WW2 for map making, one of the maps they made were daily specialised target maps for the bomber raids. They have a 1940s weekend in September where
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Yes you could see it like that but my thoughts are more we are in one of the many phases the planet goes though and it is part of evolution. I still don't want it to happen any time soon, or at all really, but have an acceptance of ou
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I sometimes get a little irritated at some of the "save the planet" type arguments. The planet will be just fine, it's gone through a lot of changes over the years and will continue to go through changes. One example I ofte
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It's very possibly a quality control issue. The design of the alarm will work so if you're lucky enough to get a well build one with working components you're in luck. The problem is not being able to rely on them, if you&#x
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If you let your circumstances swamp you and you end up being a victim you don't have the fight to change it. If you have that internal spark to drive you out of the situation then that drive always stays with you and you keep on ridin
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Because they are paying a lot of tax in real terms, also remember there is a lot more to tax than just income or corporation taxes. The 'not paying any tax' meme is grossly oversimplified and misleading IMHO. For example if they
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by Steve44 8y ago
> Anything that enables tax evasion .... should be banned Do you know the difference between evasion and avoidance? Tax evasion already is illegal. Paying your car mechanic in cash and it not going through the books is evasion and is i
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> If they think they're being taxed too much, they can move themselves and their business somewhere with lower tax rates A different way of looking at it would be if they did move themselves and their businesses then we'd be in
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Thanks for the extra info. I vaguely remember the frame counters, we had a Rolli twin lens reflex too in the early days and ISTR that had the window.
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A couple of years ago I took my 16 yr old son to Moss Bros to get a suit for collage, he's had some from Next but I wanted him to have that extra attention of having a suit fitted. No one came over, when I eventually went off and got s
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> No, but German kinda is. It almost always sounds like someone in authority is screaming at you I disagree, I find German very clear and as Silhouette explains "They also tend to enunciate more carefully than many native English sp
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> I've been tempted to convert my digital sensor to mono-only Have you come across the Leica M-Monochrom? When I first heard of it I thought it was odd, but understanding how the sensor work I can see what an advantage it could be
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> Digital is not always better, People are currently getting excited about the picture quality of 4k and beyond. The old cinema film is, as I understand it, roughly equivalent of about 12k digital cinema. The way the work is quite dif
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I had a Mamiya 645 which had 120 and also 220 backs. The 220 roll had double the number of exposures, this was enabled by a thinner film and less backing paper from what I recall. I recently sold it all and was told the 220 backs were wor
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> I only have a few hours every night to tinker with stuff Count yourself lucky, I reckon I usually get at most 2 hours if I really force it and most nights hardly anything. We've family, kids, house, own business etc and that just
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by Steve44 8y ago
Same here, but I'm not sure if some of it is that my job has changed. I was a programmer for about 15 years and could really get into the 'zone' for hours. I'm now doing a very different job where there is no deep crea
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> the romans supposedly used a superior cement which we can no longer replicate. I read a few years ago the 'secret' had been discovered and it was to do with volcanic ash which made it self healing. Doing a quick search there
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You can also see them spending some time getting into position and locking their boot in, there are dancers in front so the audience will be distracted for much of it. The perils of rewindable video!
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As far as I'm aware not in any dose you're ever likely to ingest. What are your sources?
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Possibly from the same source but one useful thing I learned was to do with check lists. Rather than ticking a box to say how many scalpels you used, is the tyre pressure OK etc etc you write down the number. The persons doesn't just
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Ah, OK. I read it as upgrading it to a six engine bomber and carrying the load internally - that would require significant airframe modifications though so probably a silly idea. Given the rest of the Air Force fleet I can't see that
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> Even though, counter intuitively, the long hump has less drag. Not directly related but readers may be interested in the Area Rule. This is more aimed at trans and super sonic flight so I don't think that applicable to the 747.
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I was taught to not rinse, I just wash the outside of my lips & face to freshen you. I presume that lets it linger longer and also you'll swallow some so will be absorbed that way too.
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I saw a programme about this a little while ago. That's why the cockpit and crew area is high, it allows a larger flat load area.
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No, there is one mount just on one side and the engine also has to be prepared for ferrying. There are quite a few planes which can do this, sometimes the engines have a pod put around them, in this case I think the fans are removed to red
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> not just "believable" data filled in by the net Your brain already does this in may ways. Last year I watched a fascinating series, The Brain with David Eagleman [1], and one of the main points I got from that is how the vi
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> If you are a pretty good hobbyist photographer, one of the worst things you can do is shoot a wedding. Shooting a wedding, even for professional photographers, is one of the highest stress environments possible for photography. I clas
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> Always remember that stealth is not a boolean. And also it's not just about the technology in the design of the aircraft. It's a combined strategy such as knowing where the radar stations are and flying a path to minimise ex
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Going slight OT but related is the use of Gravity Anomaly Maps to aid submarine navigation. There are quite a few diverse papers about it but I think information about any real capabilities are largely under wraps.
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> It's interesting to see how manual the process still is. This reminded me of a programme I saw a couple of years ago about making a perfect sphere. From what I can remember they said that was hand finished. I've just done a

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