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Not sure why we have a computer model of the spaceship on screen instead of a camera. Spacex do the presentation bit a lot better.
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Somewhere like a bar, or somewhere on TV? NASA have their own YouTube channel and there are a bunch of others who will be showing it with their own commentary.
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What is consistent about China signing up to "one country two systems" and then going back on their word less than thirty years on? It's comforting to think that we can deal with Trump by swapping a close relationship with one large country for another, but life isn't that simple. We need to distance ourselves from China…
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The US is paying companies not to install wind turbines now. The appropriate response is to point and laugh. Condemnation would be a waste of effort.
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The reason the strike prices have increased is precisely because money has to be borrowed to pay for renewables in advance, compared to fossil fuels where most of the costs are for the fuel later, as money is being earned from energy generated. Since interest rates went up from their post-financial crash lows, this makes…
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They have recently acquired some F-16s, but generally I think the Argentine armed forces are in relatively much worse state than the British compared to 1982. I don't think even Dura could foresee a failure of the British garrison to defend against an attempted Argentine invasion.
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Current police tactics seem to be to concentrate on dispersal at the time and then use CCTV to identify people to round up over the days and weeks following. In that sort of situation you might think that making more arrests at the time would do more to deter a repeat.
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I like big rockets and I cannot lie.
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I think it's fair to describe, "..a failure to learn to adapt doctrine from an actual live ground war that's going on at the moment," as incompetence, particularly when the Ukrainians are keen to teach.
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Trump has always taken self-enrichment and self-aggrandisement very seriously. He simply doesn't care about the things you care about and he isn't going to start doing so. Regime change in Iran would be too much effort for too little personal reward for Trump to commit to. You should never have allowed yourself to be…
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I don't think the Iranians could force navigation of the Strait if the US decided to close it to Iranian shipping, so I wouldn't say that they have control of it, but it's easier to deny freedom of navigation than it is to secure it.
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That's all true, but never waste a crisis and all that, and if you repeat a lie often enough the truth doesn't matter. But hopefully the government is also addressing the major issue of energy security in a meaningful way behind the scenes, while doing something different in the political foreground.
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You kinda can't just carry on with NATO, because a new member only becomes a member when they've lodged their form with the US Congress. I'm sure a lot of copy-pasting could be done to stand up the same sort of structure in the same building with the same people (Americans excepted) but you'd legally need a whole new…
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it's really tragic.
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There are still people who think Trump is constrained by the law? I've lost count of the number of laws his administration has broken. If Trump says the US is leaving NATO, if he orders American soldiers to return home from European bases, if he pulls American officers and personnel from NATO headquarters, what is Congress…
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The number of tankers that normally transit the Strait is so high, and oil tankers so large and slow, that I think it would be really hard. Plus, of course, Iran could target ships all the way up the Gulf. The aspect in the tankers' favour is that the Iranians would put a lot of effort into targeting US warships, but even…
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GW once announced a new product on April 1st, so you never can be entirely sure if it's a joke or not...
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I heard that a lot of tankers heading to Europe from the US rerouted to head to Asia, because they were offered higher prices to do so. I don't think we can assume that all of the 20% cut in supply is going to fall on countries that used to get their oil from the Gulf. Those countries will be looking to buy from the US now…
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The Houthis proved that it's dangerously easy to keep a shipping lane closed with a bunch of drones, and the US found that you couldn't stop drones being launched with air power alone. And there were European warships involved trying to protect shipping then, and it still couldn't be done, and a deal had to be done with…
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Do you have a source for that conspiracy theory, or did you make it up yourself?
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The US letting Belarus back in from the cold is a trial run for doing the same with Russia and there's basically been zero reaction from Europe.
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The main thing the Iranians seem to want is for the US to withdraw its troops from bases in the region. So a separate deal with Europe doesn't really get them what they want, and it reduces the pressure on the US to make a deal to end the conflict. The consequence of the schism between Europe and the US seems most likely…
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How many air defence systems are left in Britain?
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Wind in channel, migrants stuck in France. I'm these times of fake news a politician might see it as an advantage not to know the truth. I'm sure they'll post all over social media that the gangs have been smashed on every windy week until the election.
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More than 2,600 in the four weeks prior to last week.
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For example, in a 4-member STV constituency the quota is 20%+1 of the vote, so a candidate that receives 20%+1 of the vote is elected on the first count.
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I think you are misunderstanding how STV works.
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You can choose between candidates of the same party under STV only if the party stands more candidates than it wins seats. Often that doesn't happen, and so the voters are denied such a choice. It just goes to show that there's no perfect electoral system, and people will game any system you create.
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I would have thought that if you simply add more people to count the votes, then you can get the result almost as quickly as you want. In Ireland the parties have an unofficial system of tallymen, who have a pretty good track record of discerning the result before the official first count is completed.
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PB Centrist Dads reject a them and us framing. That's the sort of divisive language they would quibble with, mildly. Everyone is part of us. Even you Leon, even you..