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8y ago
That’s the global pop, not the UK’s. The UKs pop should dropping, if not for immigration which the UK can control if they wanted too (being an island surrounded by rough seas and rich neighbors).
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8y ago
And how much does a drone and a drone hour cost?
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8y ago
They’re great to muscle little countries around.
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8y ago
Well glass tastes better, so sure. But the benefits are not obvious. If we assume diesel as a substitute good for plastic [1] then the additional weight of transporting glass could cause more waste (by burning additional diesel) So, if a co
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8y ago
Thnx. Now that Nekochan is dead I’m really lost in the Irix world. Btw, do you know if there’s a way to make the boot drive a network drive (not the install drive)? I thought I remembered the post-doc in the lab keeping a half dozen O2s ali
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8y ago
I used an old SGI Fuel (700Mhz, 2GB Ram) as my daily driver @ work until 2013. I would rdesktop to use heavy websites, but other than that it rocked. Stopped using it because I graduated and I didn’t want to pay the electricity bill or keep
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8y ago
The Russians have cut their military budget. The neocons assume the Russians can’t match the US for “tactical” nuclear capability and will stay put if, say, a small tactical nuke is used against an ally. But the Ruskies have also been very
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1. The US never bothered to prove their allegations 2. The US’s ABM batteries are more likely to be afoul of the INF 3. The Ruskies invited the US to explain what concerned them about their missles - they never answered. 3. The US - particu
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That’s really the genius of Trumps foreign policy. He knows the heft of the USA and the spinelessness of EU leaders. Which really obviates the only real reason to have the EU - combined, all the EU countries are stronger in any field than t
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“ I guess things might be a bit tougher at the base where they house the American nukes“ You’d think, but if an 80 old nun can get in and et a selfie with a nuke, it can’t be too hard ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Hmm the BBC didn’t mention Kosovo, which, after Cyprus, is maybe the most geopolitically significant quasi-state