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FFS sakes how naive are you lot?
We've been sending this kind of "waste" to the USA for years, because its enriched uranium is just what they need for bombmaking.
If I remember correctly it was part of the tradeoff deal that gave us the original Polaris missiles cheaply, it wouldn't surprise me if the same deal was extended when the Trident missiles were purchased.
You have to understand: this isn't "waste" in the conventional sense of the word: its the product of used nuclear fuel rods which as a result of their use are now life-expired for power production purposes, but are now enriched in weapons-grade uranium as a by-product
never piss off the IT Team?
If you're an IT company never piss off the help desk....in case they hack the security on the servers, and the managements & directors PCs and place caches of compromising images at key locations as blackmail.
Yep, it happened at the Islamic Computer Company near Blackburn and Burnley.....The lowest paid had the highest technical skills and always managed to get round whatever blocks the Networks team imposed
Also best to make sure all the technical records have backups (they didn't......scuppered intentions to offer tech support from the "new" company post bankruptcy).
"Because when the file system is FAT or FAT32 you can't remotely connect to the C: share like you can with NTFS."
so all those networked Win98 boxes I used to look after were running NTFS were they? I don't think so - they were on FAT32 and we had no problems with network sharing. Likewise nowadays I have no problems sharing FAT32 pen drives. Methinks someone is reciting old wives tales
"you go in there to go to toilet"
actually.....no you don't. "Toilet" is derived from the french word "toilette" and simply means "to wash". SO "toilet" is just another euphemism. "Loo" is another - it comes from l'eau, or water. Both words are as technically incorrect as "bathroom"
The truth is, the "correct" words such as piss, shit, crap/crapper have all fallen out of use due to Victorian (and possibly earlier) fake notions of modesty concerning bodily functions.
Chaucer had no such hangups over the use of correct words. When did the rot set in? I guess around the same time we started to hide sex from the children? How were personal dignities kept within families when all lived and slept in the same room? Or maybe there were no personal dignities - its another Victorian artificial construction and constraint
"So, when you see Bruce Jenner (a fully male individual) wearing typically female attire and saying he is a she, what goes thru your head?"
more appositely, I wonder what his daughters think when he shares the ladies loo with him. Hi Dad come and shag me? Given that they drop their knickers at the whiff of a lens cap, I wouldn't have thought he would have needed to be so extreme
"a racist genocidal mass murderer, "
@raj
thats claiming a bit too far.......your Indian and Pakistani brethren were quite capable of genocidal campaigns without British help. If anything, we delayed the inevitable Hindu vs Muslim confrontation for 200 years or more. See what happened after we left - at your (collective) request. ...How many died during separation? That wasn't us firing the bullets then
"plastic nipple shipment"
we make those in the UK - a company in Glemsford in Suffolk (at least they did, I presume they're still there)
Some of the staff used to get bored at night and make giant-sized floppy penises around 3 feet long.
Highly funny when someone walks into a pub with one dangling out of his flies, and his mate jumps on him in front of the bar and cuts it off with a pair of scissors. Cue fainting women by the barload
the only gullwing design I've seen that worked was on the Spectrum Maximum Security Vehicle - see
http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/msv_blueprint.html
You'll also note that its one of the earliest hybrid vehicles, with electric transmission, backup battery power - and solar charging
Gerry Anderson got there first - again!
"the engineering prototype weighs 580 kg"
to put it into context, thats about the same as an original 1958/9 Mini Minor (~12 cwt) - with slide windows, minimal padding on the seats and none of the later safety features added - which pushed the weight up. 850cc engine producing 34 bhp (~25kW) and around 75mph top speed (downhill,,,,,,,with a following wind)
This thing is going to be seriously underpowered.
"Hydrogen fuel is 100% the future of power."
so just how do you propose to generate the hydrogen without using energy?
You can't use fossil fuel
You can't use nuclear fuel
Wind power doesn't have the capacity, and never will have - nor the constancy of supply
Nor does tidal power
Solar energy is totally inefficient in the sense of resources used to manufacture the panels
Biofuels are unsustainable as they increase deforestation, remove farmland from food production, and create extreme food price increases
what does that leave? Mining interstellar gaseous hydrogen?
or maybe we should just lop a few billion off the worlds population? Thats the only survivable option on a global basis
" "a €2m EU grant and six figure investment from Innovate UK and OLEV (the Office for Low Emission Vehicles)", and Riversimple has opened its door to investors, seeking to match that funding by selling company equity to the private sector."
Yet another magic car scam being foistered on the taxpayer and public
Think De Lorean, think Africar. New disruptive technologies that were supposed to revolutionise marketing, but instead created accounting black holes.
This car need massive investment. But the product isn't viable.
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