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by lb1lf 8y ago
I haven't looked into satellite work in fifteen years or so, but back then it was definitely possible to work the LEO FM repeater satellites using a handheld and a small yagi - typically two elements 144MHz, five on 432MHz if memory se
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by lb1lf 8y ago
-In Tegel's defense, it was built when area was definitely at a premium, seeing as it was in former West Berlin which simply didn't have the luxury of expanding into the surrounding farmland. The other West Berlin Airport - Tempel
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by lb1lf 8y ago
-I guess the key here is "too little evidence". The courts would need to establish that the prosecutor either withheld evidence, knowing it would strengthen his case or at the very least through gross negligence caused evidence to
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by lb1lf 8y ago
> ...maybe a "strike" system where you would be suspended after x cases of unethical behavior. -If by 'suspended' you mean 'being sentenced to X years in prison', I'm all for it. In my book, wilfully to
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by lb1lf 8y ago
As far as I can tell from the relevant (I believe) 18USC §1621 [0], the failure to volunteer information is not perjury; it requires actively providing information you do not believe to be true. That would, in my non-lawyer eyes, make it in
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by lb1lf 8y ago
I have come to realise that there's quite a survivor bias in childhood experience, too, whenever someone suggest that today's kids are pampered and parents are hysterical and after all, when we were kids we did all these fun thing
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by lb1lf 8y ago
-That is quite probable, I just looked up a couple of the maps I had on the shelves. Incidentally, if we make the leap from 'sparsely populated' to 'sparsely detailed', the winner on my map shelves probably is a map issu
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by lb1lf 8y ago
For a truly sparsely populated landscape, you could do worse than getting a copy of the Michelin 741 (Sahara) or (a personal favourite) the Norwegian Polar Institute 1:250k maps of Dronning Maud Land in Antarctica.
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by lb1lf 8y ago
That makes sense - I consider myself reasonably fluent in three languages - my native Norwegian, English and German. I can, however, make small talk without embarrassing myself too much in three additional ones - Portuguese, Russian and Mon
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by lb1lf 8y ago
"Poisoning pigeons in the park" by Tom Lehrer Spring is here A-suh-puh-ring is here Life is skittles and life is beer I think the loveliest time Of the year is the spring I do, don't you? 'Course you do But there's
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Years ago, I found myself in an exceedingly remote backwater of Central Africa for work; it was fairly safe to state that I was the only person within a hundred mile radius who wasn’t born there. As I stop at an intersection, some guy I’ve
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by lb1lf 8y ago
I guess it depends on whose definition you use; Norwegian papers at the time quoted experts (presumably a professor of international law, though I can’t remember) who claimed that legally speaking, having troops in uniform venturing into an
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by lb1lf 8y ago
A couple of Norwegian conscripts technically invaded Finland earlier this year; while patrolling the border, they accidentally strayed onto the other side. (Not as hard as it may sound; the border isn’t marked as such, only with the occasio
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by lb1lf 8y ago
>If you want to have some fun, you can smoke pot while standing on the border and holding it in your left, Dutch hand. If you're really daring you swap it over to your right, Belgian hand, and congrats, you're an international
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Land swaps can be a royal PITA; the highest point in Finland is most of the way up a mountainside; the peak is just across (as in, within a stone throw) the border, in Norway. To mark the centennial of Finnish independence, there was a camp
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Numbered pages is a plus, but I’ve found the Moleskines to be brilliant field companions - there’s always one in my boiler suit’s breast pocket, and no matter how wet it has become, be it rain, seas or hydraulic oil, no matter how greased a
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Considering the near uniform praise I see for Leuchtturm’s offerings both here and elsewhere, I think I’ll give them a go next time I need to stock up on writing materials. (Go-to notebooks for ages has been Moleskine squared hardcover smal
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by lb1lf 8y ago
The V5 and G7s are nice; I have also been pleasantly surprised by the Pentel BL77 rollerball pens we’ve had in the office lately; dirt cheap (otherwise, sigh, we wouldn’t have had them), writes well, long-lasting and even refillable. Comes
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by lb1lf 8y ago
...and in a related vein, anyone with a hacker mindset ought to check out R.V. Jones’ ‘Most Secret War’; Jones was the UK senior scientific adviser during WW2 and the book reads like an endless string of anecdotes about one-upping the Germa
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Depends on the time span; a once mentor of mine always quipped that the ultimate act of laziness was to do things properly the first time and be done with it; much the same goes for the economics of cost savings - long term, quality tends t
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by lb1lf 8y ago
...a former employer (based in the EU, exports perhaps 2/3 of production outside the EU) took a major financial hit when it was found that a valve sourced from a cheaper supplier than the ones originally used contained an (undeclared)
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by lb1lf 8y ago
I guess the point is that if your residential solar setup attempts to backfeed a dead grid, it will effectively see a short circuit which it, try as it might, will be unable to generate any voltage across, trip and your house is as dead as
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Indeed. Kudos to the author for stressing the point that there are colour blind (well, chromatically challenged) people out there. If I'd had a dime every time I stared blankly at a data visualisation where accessibility hadn't be
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by lb1lf 8y ago
Swedish journalist Anders Rydell wrote a book called 'Plundrarna: Hur nazisterna stal Europas konstskatter' a few years ago; with any luck it has been translated into a language you're comfortable with. It deals with how the
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by lb1lf 8y ago
The last time The Scream was stolen, it was meant to create a diversion; Norway had recently had a Heat-style armed robbery in which a police officer was shot dead; The Scream was stolen in an effort to divert resources from the robbery inv
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by lb1lf 8y ago
> There are also many manuscripts spread out across private basements in Timbuktu, those have survived several threats but who’s to say they will survive more? -Which reminds me of Joshua Hammer's brilliant book 'The Bad-Ass Li
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by lb1lf 8y ago
-I was two years old at the time and only know this from photo albums, I'm afraid; he got out of the air force at first opportunity and started working on the 727/737 for a commercial carrier instead. I still never fail to get an
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by lb1lf 8y ago
The F-104 is almost Korean war era; its maiden flight was in 1954, it entered active service in the late fifties and remained operational at least into the early eighties in some countries - my uncle was conscripted as a mechanic on the Sta
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by lb1lf 8y ago
One major benefit of microfilm in my book is precisely the simple tech - even after the zombie apocalypse, just about anyone will be able to quickly figure out how to read what's on them. (Yes, 'zombie apocalypse' is just a p
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by lb1lf 8y ago
I happen to have a slight Scottish accent, despite never having lived there (or in any other country where English is the dominant language, for that matter.) Reason is simply that when I was a kid, the house next door - the only house next

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