StringJunky

Another thing I notice in our media focus, is the amount of detail we are seeing and reports from the Israelis, with their vastly superior media resources, to overwhelm the optics towards Palestinians..

What kind of answer is that?

UK et al. Our colonial past.

Yes, they don't have a lot of options. This is not out of the blue if one follows it frequently, as I'm sure you two agree. Hamas have compressed in a short time what Israel does everyday to them.

Batteries are dear... £5000+. More gadgets and repair costs. Probably, there isn't the user base yet to bring the costs down.

I know, but it's over-kill, and as for showing strength, which is the US motive, can Hamas even see it? I'm sure they don't have much radar and recon capability.

That's why they took hostages. They might be fatalistic, but they aren't stupid. From what I've been reading it was a very well-planned operation and obviously feinted their intent to everyone sufficiently until the day.

Do you know what a strawman is? Funny can mean bizarre.

An aircraft carrier in a street fight... about as much use as chocolate hand grenade. That's why it's funny.

As an afterthought: Will Netanyahu try to bury his legal problems in amidst the Western faux outrage and hand-wringing we are seeing?

Funny. All the technology in the world won't beat commitment to a cause. As Ukraine shows as well earlier in the war and it is still pretty artisanal in its weapon development.

This wouldn't happen in a private company, with profit as it's core motive?

I don't know, but relatively. The operating and maintenance temperature of the cylinder wall is 180c about. Even at 27-32c atmosphere you still have to raise the temp of the engine block 150c.

Right.

Liquid water has a density of 1g/cm3. Ice has a density of 0..91g/cm3. Anything less dense than the medium will float, so ice floats on water. It's the same with atmospheric air: any gas or vapour less dense will rise through the air.

At those distances, you'll always be running the car at sub-optimal temps most of the time, I would have thought, which means the the air/fuel ratio will be rich most of the time.

Yes, many are in their own preferred information bubble. But they are a minority as part of the general electorate. They don't matter really. Trump will be singing to a much smaller group.... if he's not imprisoned or otherwise engaged. Once the GOP collapses sufficiently, I think the Trumpites will be heading towards history. I think this is a cult because the followers are in impenetrable denial, regardless of their leaders antics and once the leader goes, they dissipate.... or fracture to a new, probably, pathological cause. They'll probably be left with an ideological vacuum; history repeats itself.

It looks like to me they are veering so far right, in total, and this is not even the the election cycle. Picture all these people who used hard-right tactics and platitudes to stay in the race.... they aren't going to look very convincing to the whole national electorate walking back to their previously more moderate lines in the '24 election. What should happen then is the GOP will get trounced, Trump will have lost all credibility, then the collective navel-gazing will start. They need to be left humiliating for some time by their own actions, with as little Democratic input as possible, as we have just seen with the deliberate inaction towards McCarthy. Sometimes, it seems to me, it's better to do nothing.

I think if Jordan gets the gavel, what's just happened in McCarthy's tenure will be relative sideshow. How do we think the political landscape will change now ?

Newsflash: De Beers buys diamond planet to preserve gem prices.

Not elliptical orbits?

The human body constitutes 30 trillion cells, add another 38 trillion non-human cells... and yet we largely still roam around unencumbered from one day to the next.

Correction to my previous post. I divided the drive with Partition Wizard first.

You learned something about him. Absorb it and don't do it again with him. Being family does not automatically mean one will receive honesty. C'est la vie.