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Bob Dedmon wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2026 10:54 amyeah, Kieth Richards seems to defy the rules/odds.

I was assuming the reference was to another famous Home Alone 2 actor in his 80s?

I understand that what they're talking about is the adjudication of seizures under a different set of laws, but I thought prize courts were included under the banning of privateering. In the UK at least, the major customers of prize courts were RN crews who were paid for capturing enemy ships. Inte...

WTAF is he thinking?

Point to it and acknowledge the reason for naming it after him, and put a great deal of emphasis on the fact that he was a segregationist, and that his Navy backing does not remove his racist tendencies. He was also the prosecutor responsible for Brown .vs. Mississippi, where the Supreme Court unan...

Sounds like they've been playing with Fiber Bragg Grating outputs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Bragg_grating A lot of that article sounds like marketing puffery however - signal processing is likely to need to remain onboard due to limitations in datalink bandwidth and that'll push costs wa...

More seriously: Would such a major and expensive change require congressional approval? That's improbable now and vanishingly unlikely after November. The redesign cycle being instructed is what killed the Constellation class - and I'd be very pleasantly surprised if you can get the design signed of...

He's turning into a stereotypical technologically challenged and slightly senile old guy. Where's DOGE when you need it?

Before and after - it was a quad bike.
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with knives in their hands…. You know they have the perps on camera, right? Only footage I've seen is from a great distance away and you can't see anything in their hands (footage too grainy) - if you've got better footage I'd be curious to see it. I haven’t seen the footage but the reporting from ...

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2026 2:47 pmwith knives in their hands….

You know they have the perps on camera, right?

Only footage I've seen is from a great distance away and you can't see anything in their hands (footage too grainy) - if you've got better footage I'd be curious to see it.

Yes. He needs a cup of tea and a lie down.

Couple more for you...

Bit arguable about being the last one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloriana_(barge)

Just stick with the baseline C-17, going with a B or FE variant will be ripe for issues on top of the Boeing QC. Realistically that's long gone - the corporate knowledge of how to build it, tooling, capability to do new-build engines, etc. will all be gone to the four winds by now, so if they "...

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