Helped to land but the pilot probably still imprisoned. It's what happened to Rudof Hess when he defected from the Nazis by air.
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Brexit, for once some facts.
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I think Hess piloted himself and bailed out, parachuting into Scotland. It was actually no mean feat of navigation, compass alone and at night. Didn't do him much good though... His end was hardly glorious.
One thing which surprises me in all of this is Why is Kyiv etc all lit up at night?
Surely it would be easier to defend if A, The enemy had to find it in the dark and B. Most of the defending forces probably know their way around the city in the dark far better than the invading army.
I know it was mainly useful against air strikes but even in WW2 blackouts of populated areas were an effective weapon to confuse the enemy.
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Surely it would be easier to defend if A, The enemy had to find it in the dark and B. Most of the defending forces probably know their way around the city in the dark far better than the invading army.
I know it was mainly useful against air strikes but even in WW2 blackouts of populated areas were an effective weapon to confuse the enemy.
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The intent behind a no-fly zone is to enforce it, by shooting planes down? Rapid escalation could ensue... Maybe they could waggle their wings to demonstrate the intent to have a stiff drink in the free world, to straighten up and fly right?
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Mmm.. Spending 40 years in Spandau prison and voluntarily ending it suspended from a rope is not what I, d call glorious.
There is no glorious way to go - "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
Mmm. Its not the death... Its the journey to it..There is no glorious way to go - "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
It's owned by the UK, and despite not being designed for providing GPS can have "GPS-like" functionality, therefore of course it may have military applications - so how can the UK give assurances that it won't be used for military applications? Unless it's very poor GPS. Galileo will be far better, too late now - maybe the UK can become a subscriber, paying painfully through the nose when it goes live? Looks like it'll have to be Musk, Lockheed Martin , Boeing or other launching the remaining 186/648 bits of killer asteroid obscuring space graffiti.
"Live a life you won't regret when you're 90" - Jeffrey Bezos jeff@amazon.co.uk (he reads his email)
Amputate and disarm the nuclear warheads in the arms
I'm certain there are funnier collections of words out there, the world could do with a bit of levity just now. Zelenskyy's newly conscripted mime artists become able assassins, their psi-op invisible walls halt Russian tanks
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Today's aircrafts advanced navigation instrumentation and laser guided weapons have changed the target finding situation beyond all recognition from WW2. Cruise missiles don't even bother with eyesight but unerringly find their target.
And even the warfare is very different now. In Kharkiv the Russian soldiers are strolling around on the same streets as the Ukrainians. Despite all the propaganda they aren't there to personally kill people. The weapons like missiles, shells and bombs are to used instead to destroy sufficient infrastructure to get surrender, those who are killed are unavoidable of course when the weapons are used for that. You only have to look at the way the Russians went for the infrastructure like oil depots, water and electricty utilities for the first two days to see the methods now, wrecking the quality of life.
It's no different for the Ukrainians, they are destroying the Russian assets like tanks and helicopters, not specifically aiming at the individuals who happen to be inside them. They just take them prisoner when they survive.
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Namecheap employ a lot of tech support staff - they're really knowledgeable and very friendly, efficient. Can't say I know if they smile, but their verbiage suggests they might consider the inkling of the possibility, more often than any of the Russians I've met.The Register has another interesting issue:
Ukraine asks ICANN to delete all Russian domains
Plus: Namecheap tells customers in Russia they are no longer welcome, citing 'war crimes'
Thomas Claburn in San Francisco Tue 1 Mar 2022 // 20:11 UTC
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In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine last week, Mykhailo Fedorov, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, on Monday asked the head of DNS overlord ICANN to disable country code top-level domains associated with Russia.
Ukraine asks ICANN to delete all Russian domains
Plus: Namecheap tells customers in Russia they are no longer welcome, citing 'war crimes'www.theregister.com
I agree, what's happening is terrible but not to extent it could be.
This same issue - all lit up - was very much discussed in the first Gulf War.
Allegedly. While refusing to condemn Russia. Putin kissing babies come to mind
Edit - to be fair to the generous, altruistic chap, he did specify that all "net proceeds" of the sale would go to a charitable foundation. Reminded me of corporations that, through no fault of their own, remain unprofitable (all those expenses) and so do not have to pay corporation tax.
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They're not expensive, and I've yet to find anyone cheaper for registrations and renewals. I've got hundreds of domain names with Namecheap - I might have to look into becoming a Registrar myself, if doing so brings prices down significantly. 20 years ago, search engines would include the words within a domain name, as part of their indexing algorithm calculations - in this case the owners of Namecheap targeted people looking for a cheap domain name, to get listed higher up. Search engines have become (somewhat) "Smart" since.