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iso947

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    Comment #25580484

    Can’t read it. Opened on my phone and there are at lost 7 letters per line - communications is split over 3 lines for example. Rather ironic that a letter to a group that is about …

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    Comment #25568045

    Why do LTO manufacturers always quote compressed sizes, like we’re in the days of stacker?

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    Comment #25564841

    It’s no wonder there’s so much call to “defund the police” in the US with te number of anecdotes that come out It feels to me that the only solution is to completely shut it down

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    Comment #25563995

    People do not need educating not to spy on teenage girls with drones, they do not need training to not do it.

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    Comment #25560742

    “dragon cum house” Are you sure it’s a kids book?!

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    Comment #25558349

    Compared with coal and oil, and ignoring waste. Nuclear costs more than wind and solar though.

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    Comment #25558213

    To land the volume of one starship on the moon takes 3 or 4 launches of a fully reusable craft - so just the fuel. To land that with Apollo would take 100 launches of a single use …

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    Comment #25555173

    In the billion or so years life has existed on earth, there’s no evidence any species built a nuclear bomb or had large plastic manufacturing or left anything in GEO, all of which …

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    Comment #25550030

    Yes, two simultaneous shuttle launches from neighbouring pads Watching the two heavy boosters landing on neighbouring pads was similar - except real. It was that shot that made me …

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    Comment #25549997

    Statistics say you shouldn’t call your reusable ship a word beginning with ‘C’ In 1963 a LES killed someone, in 1983 it saved lives.

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    Comment #25549965

    Humans aren’t landing propulsively on f9 either - if the landing fails it just costs money. The capsule lands with parachutes.

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    Comment #25549957

    About that yes, but remember that a fully loaded starship in orbit can land on any solid surface in the solar system and return to earth (except for Venus) Starship’s usable volume…

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    Comment #25549936

    Laptop, it wasnt a CRT Like this https://gtello.pagesperso-orange.fr/t3200_e.htm

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    Comment #25543630

    Even then it still relies on knowledge that the certificate has been compromised.

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    Comment #25539877

    First colour monitor I had was orange, light orange, dark orange and very dark orange - a CGA laptop from my dads work. I remember Railroad Tycoon Ran with option 5,1,2 but Civilis…

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    Comment #25532943

    Netherlands seems to cope fine with pot inside the EU. The whole goal of brexit seems to be to lower U.K. food standards to that of the US.

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    Comment #25532929

    Wales is a principality. Kingdoms are England Sctland and Wales

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    Comment #25532925

    The United Kingdom hasn’t been United for 4 years and hasn’t been a kingdom for nearly 70

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    Comment #25532921

    Business meetings will mean an esta - like America, same as tourism. Work will mean a full blown visa. For each country. Imagine if you were a musician and needed a separate work v…

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    Comment #25532873

    Yes no deal would be far worse - months of disruption, not days.

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    Comment #25502258

    I gather a lot of “local” press is owned by the same conglomerate

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    Comment #25502024

    The common problem seems to be the car

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    Comment #25501983

    Sounds like crowne plaza in Birmingham (UK), a stones throw from new street station. Birmingham is very walkable.

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    Comment #25501932

    Venice and Siena come to mind Anecdotally last time I was in central London I counted the vehicles going past parliament. About 1 in 10 was an unmarked car, the rest were commercia…

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    Comment #25485249

    I moved fro black box to xfce as my WM About a decade ago for the wifi integration. I remain With it on my desktop as I like having the docked apps (pidgin, slack, teams, vlc and v…