Brexit, for once some facts.
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There is a good article in the Guardian, which indicates that this is not about the ships at all. Its about the land they are on and their status as Freeport's. What a State gives a State can take away, so the UK State could simply rescind the Freeport Status of these properties owned by P&O.
This is an interesting take on cards in Russia:
The disappearance of plastic bank cards in Russia is predicted
Gawd knows who is behind that site. Never heard of it.
Hardly surprising and probably deliberate, since it neatly fits their propaganda that they are friends of Ukraine, rescuing the Ukrainians from Western sourced Nazi infiltration with a "special operation"!
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Well done! Wow, given the wholesale discarding of paperwork that goes in in many companies, you're lucky they even had mimeographed shees! I still regret throwing away so many old motherboards, cards, monitors, RAM, hard drives and laptops etc.etc. etc. about 10 years ago (four wheelie bins full), and the ones I threw away about 10 years before that (even more wheelie bins full), because they were all still functional and would have been useful for people with very old systems. Much that I threw away would be extremely difficult to source working examples of now. I even threw away a couple of "Useless" (to me at the time) but functional PCs and laptops which are now increasing in value. I have been too ruthless in my downsizing of the old computer and parts heap... Old computers can work for far longer than modern ones: someone I know still uses a Commodore PET to do his accounts (local garage). My old Sinclair ZX81 still runs my central heating system.
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They're also being used in renewable energy storage:
Azelio launches electro-thermal storage system for commercial applications
Developed by Swedish manufacturer Azelio, the system stores renewable energy in recycled aluminum and has an electrical and thermal energy output, with a total efficiency of 90 %. One unit’s storage capacity reaches 165 kWh of electrical output and on top of that thermal energy between 55-65...
www.pv-magazine.com
Azelio Signs Order in South Africa for its Renewable Energy Storage TES.POD®
Azelio has received an order for eight units with 1.3 MWh clean electricity supply of its long duration energy storage, TES.POD, from South African-based farming company Wee Bee Ltd...
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Europe's leading car-parts maker Bosch is halting production at its Russian factories.
Blaming supply chain issues and disrupted deliveries, the German giant admitted it may have to end its operations in the country for good.
But the pullout comes amid claims by Ukraine that it discovered "one of the main components that power" Russian infantry vehicles is supplied by Bosch.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told German media that Bosch has been supplying these components to the Russian military "for years".
An investigation is now said to be underway in Germany to find out whether the use of Bosch parts by the Russian military violates sanctions imposed on Moscow by the European Union.
The company says it had launched its own inquiry into the matter and is taking the allegations "very seriously".
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Blaming supply chain issues and disrupted deliveries, the German giant admitted it may have to end its operations in the country for good.
But the pullout comes amid claims by Ukraine that it discovered "one of the main components that power" Russian infantry vehicles is supplied by Bosch.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told German media that Bosch has been supplying these components to the Russian military "for years".
An investigation is now said to be underway in Germany to find out whether the use of Bosch parts by the Russian military violates sanctions imposed on Moscow by the European Union.
The company says it had launched its own inquiry into the matter and is taking the allegations "very seriously".
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Lviv to Calais, 1788 km.
I'd hope this war will stopped one way or another before they get that far.
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The local dry cleaners, ran and maybe still does run, its system with a Amstrad 6128. The conveyor belt with all the clothes hangers has each location numbered. When a jacket is entered, it is given the number of its location and the client a little slip. Then when you come back. The number is entered into the keyboard and the rail trundles around until the code matches.. Now they used it the last time we got stuff dry-clean ed ..which is a few years ago.. On one level its very simple ..just an up counter with a reset switch ..it only rotates one way. On the other its a brilliant use of cheap technology.
Somewhere in my shed, I have a Zenith minisport .. look it up. A really miniature PC complete with monochrome LcD. And CP/M. And in my attic a real live working Ti59 Programmable Calculator from ,1978... But I just tend to use a simulation of it on my phone and PC nowadays.
This certifiable Russian stooge has done it again
I'm fairly sure I still have the thermal paper printer for the Ti calculators in my attic. Unfortunately, the calculator gave up some years ago.
I had a look at the Android Ti emulator and it looks very good.
Yes the Android emulator is first rate. I use it on a number of phones and now the tablet . I bought a number of different calculators for Android over the years, but I just always go back to it.
Great use of an Amstrad! The Minisport looks innovative, very neat small useful package. This chap revived his, used an IDE to CF converter:
I've always been a fan of TI's programmable graphing calcs, your working Ti59 has got to be very rare by now.
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If Russia appears to win, then never. Some Ukrainians, whether in the country or outside, will continue to operate against the occupation for at least decades.
If Ukraine appears to win, then never. Those Ukrainians who believe that Ukraine is really a part of Russia will continue to act against any future Ukrainian government. Especially if Ukraine were to take back Crimea and continue to govern Donetsk.
If Ukraine appears to win, then never. Those Ukrainians who believe that Ukraine is really a part of Russia will continue to act against any future Ukrainian government. Especially if Ukraine were to take back Crimea and continue to govern Donetsk.
Some of the early PCs I used to see in use, and sometimes use myself, had a motherboard design fault. If you plugged in the keyboard after it was powered up, the board would fail and need to be replaced. (Can't remember if the same happened with mice - or not.)
Probably not many of them still working. Especially if used by people familiar with hotplugging devices with USB.
Between end of April and end of May latest, maybe cease fire before.
It will end in one of two ways, either a cease fire with each settling for enough to satisfy them for the present, or less likely Russia installing a puppet government controlling a major part of Ukraine.
Ukraine can't win outright simply because Putin cannot lose, so he'll escalate if necessary. The sanctions won't work, indeed they are already failing as they always do, and Russia still has a largely unused air to ground superiority to greatly intensify the attack on Ukraine.
Using helicopters to be more selective clearly hasn't worked well. Once he escalates by letting loose his Sukhoi SU34's, the planes that were so devastating in Syria, it will speed up the end. Putin may have held back to avoid prompting NATO involvement, but the more the West says it will not get directly involved, the more likely he'll feel bold enough to escalate.
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I'm not sure about the war in Ukraine per se, but the 'war against Putin' will keep on going until another entity is created to replace the current Emmanuel Goldstein figure we currently have.