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by tggzzz
Fri Jan 31, 2025 2:21 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
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Wendy Grossman's net.wars column always worth reading, even if you don't necessarily agree with all her points. The latest issue mentions "...Google now classifies the United States internally as a “sensitive” country, treating Donald Trump's USA in the same way as China, Russia, Israel, Saudi ...
by tggzzz
Mon Jan 27, 2025 8:59 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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... MIL being rushed into hospital with a stroke and being placed on palliative care and DNR. Eventually passing after 4 days and now begins the process of clearing of her house and disposal ... Firstly, my condolences. Secondly I went through something similar a couple of years ago, so let me know...
by tggzzz
Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:58 am
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
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Marham. (as in RAF Marham). We also make a fair chunk of the parts of it. Includes critical electronics and most of the arse of the fuselage. It is not entirely clear who much they can do. Last I looked the F35 engines were being maintained in the US and Turkey . I hope the geopolitical realities o...
by tggzzz
Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:40 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
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I've got a new favourite unit, replacing furlongs/fortnight...

Neutron fluence is measured in neutrons per kilobarn ...

https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-p ... s-fluence/
by tggzzz
Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:30 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
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Nice idea, but things are too intertwined now. Example: we have F35 fighters. Where are they serviced? (Hint: not a one word or even paragraph answer). Example: BAe is a UK space and defence company; true or false? Shame about Brexit and Galileo. Marham. (as in RAF Marham). We also make a fair chun...
by tggzzz
Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:16 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
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There are no men (real or otherwise) in the USA. While we already knew it, now it has been officially defined as USA Government policy :) Moments after the presidential inauguration, US President Donald Trump signed several anti-scientific executive orders (EOs), such as taking the United States ou...
by tggzzz
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:37 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Yes, despite the madness I am still alive. The intardnet over here is totes FUBAR; I guess all the MAGA-morons are searching for "oligarchy" and "how do tariffs work" . :roll: You may be alive, but you've changed gender, viz https://teanonymous.com/f1/viewtopic.php?p=9862#p9862 ...
by tggzzz
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:33 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
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Views: 264240

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There are no men (real or otherwise) in the USA. While we already knew it, now it has been officially defined as USA Government policy :) Moments after the presidential inauguration, US President Donald Trump signed several anti-scientific executive orders (EOs), such as taking the United States out...
by tggzzz
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:09 am
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Replies: 3402
Views: 1203706

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

mansaxel wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:32 pm
tggzzz wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 10:03 am
mansaxel wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 4:23 am There's a railway station 1km away.
Is that railway open?
No idea, but on Street View, there's still tracks and they look recently used.
That google maps view is maybe 3km west, and nothing is going to be going along that track, either in the cutting or at the farm road crossing :)
by tggzzz
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:03 am
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Views: 1203706

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I would like to interject with a comment: fuck Dan-Air! :) I remember one of their Comets taking off a thousand feet or so underneath me, from their maintenance facility. I'm not sure if it was one of theirs that caused a plane an acquaintance was flying to flip upside upside down and crash into a ...
by tggzzz
Mon Jan 20, 2025 3:47 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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I remember the winter of 81/82, when it was exceptionally cold[1] from early December to mid/late January. I had just moved into my first flat, and couldn't get any coal since the coalyard was frozen solid. Things went on, including my push-biking along a snow-covered back road to get to the train ...
by tggzzz
Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:03 am
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Views: 1203706

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Went to store for soda for the kids... everybody is there stocking up on everything from milk to bread to yes, dozens of rolls of TP. Lines literally 3/4 of the store deep. Why? 80-160mm of snow forecast over the next 2 days. :roll: Panic buying is a strange mentality. You'd think folks would keep ...
by tggzzz
Sun Jan 19, 2025 10:10 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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MED6753 wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 9:04 pm By the time it's done there could upwards of 10 inches (25cm) and then the bottom is going to drop out of the thermometer with temps all next week around 0 degrees F (-17 C).
Meanwhile over here, further north at the latitude of Hudson Bay, next week the temperature is expected to fall to +1C.
by tggzzz
Sun Jan 19, 2025 7:18 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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That stone is worth seeing. I also like the Sutton Hoo stuff
by tggzzz
Sun Jan 19, 2025 10:03 am
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Trains are great, but try getting one to this wonderful place Theater of Segesta https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ya7d5yBwZHKWtHns5 There's a railway station 1km away. Is that railway open? Openstreetmap doesn't show that railway. Gurgle can't find a way to get to Segeste (from Palermo) using public transpo...
by tggzzz
Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:47 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Replies: 3402
Views: 1203706

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Very interesting indeed. I will have to try driving in Italy. No, you don't. I've driven a large Volvo straight into, and out of the Spanish Quarters downtown Naples. I will never do that again. Trust me on this. No damages, but quite stressful. Down to but not including Rome probably is fine. For ...
by tggzzz
Sat Jan 18, 2025 9:25 am
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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mnementh wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 12:35 am Her ghost will stalk the halls of power long after I'm gone, I have little doubt.
As a kid I enjoyed coming across ghosts of Victoria in my pocket.

The oldest, which I still have, was a 1d coin from 1863.
by tggzzz
Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:29 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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I did notice in Naples the parking was insane. Literally just like someone had just rolled their car into the parking space. Every single car was smashed to bits! Now you are beginning to appreciate the north-south divide in Italy. In Palermo a numerical majority of cars had noticeable damage, up t...
by tggzzz
Thu Jan 16, 2025 5:35 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

I did notice in Naples the parking was insane. Literally just like someone had just rolled their car into the parking space. Every single car was smashed to bits! Now you are beginning to appreciate the north-south divide in Italy. In Palermo a numerical majority of cars had noticeable damage, up t...
by tggzzz
Thu Jan 16, 2025 5:26 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Views: 1203706

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

vk6zgo wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 1:59 am ... I'm from a very large island ...
Everybody lives on an island (and is an island :) )

If one hemisphere was water and the other land, would there be an island in the sea or a lake in the land?
by tggzzz
Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:54 am
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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took me 10 minutes to figure out that you guys like to rhyme things. ginger beer apparently equals engineer? what's next....videos of morris dancing? guess that's what happens when you are isolated on a little island. too bad the roman empire pulled out and left you to alone to develop your strange...
by tggzzz
Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:26 am
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Views: 1203706

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took me 10 minutes to figure out that you guys like to rhyme things. ginger beer apparently equals engineer? Haven't heard that, but Cockney rhyming slang continually mutates. If it is that, then you would only ever say "ginger"; the "beer" must be omitted. Hence "I'm going...
by tggzzz
Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:20 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
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Views: 264240

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From the mailing list that will be 40yo this year, and which everyone should read[1], I give you a pointer to a database that AIn't going to be getting smaller: the AI Incident Database https://incidentdatabase.ai/summaries/incidents/ [1] Originally usenet, SNR>>1, low frequency. I spot what's chang...
by tggzzz
Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:52 am
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Correctly guessed. It is the Pompeii archaeological site. Currently lying in bed in Naples. Off to the archeological museum in an hour. Hopefully the rain stops by then. Yes it’s bloody raining. Do try some local excessively sensual fresh fruit, but don't gorge on them. Ficus carica, of course. You...
by tggzzz
Sat Jan 11, 2025 10:48 pm
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Civilisation comes in waves I suspect. People who lived through wars tell stories. Eventually they wear off and new people demand more wars. Civilisations rot from within. A classic warning sign is when an unnecessarily high proportion of the total wealth is held in too few hands, and too many peop...