Not mention run down every stockpile that Russia had since the Cold War. All the tens of thousands of slightly rusty tanks, SPGs, artillery shells, missiles. All gone. They've had a superpowers worth… (View Post)

And regulations and laws often represent the ossification of these beliefs. See the War on Drugs. Which must be waged. Because Drugs are Illegal. (View Post)

They could break the maintenance contract - under which we share a pool of missiles with the US Navy. That wouldn't turn off Trident - just cause a slow degradation. (View Post)

Indeed So government is trying to stop people installed A/C at one end - to the point of fucking up flat designs. At the other they are now subsiding them.... (View Post)

The animus against A/C in the UK is an interesting cultural thing. I actually had a planning guy ring me up - the architect included the A/C units in the diagrams of the work we were doing, even thou… (View Post)