PoachedSausage

For those of us in the UK, would you be able to recommend the consultant/practice?

I have a private practice locally that specialises in ADHD but I've no idea about their reputation.

Perhaps the question isn't where but when.

40 years ago my parents were able to buy a large modern home for about 3 times times one of their salaries. For young people today it is more like 6 - 10 times the combined salaries of two people.

I agree that the basic human need of shelter should be more affordable. I remember 10 years ago, when prices dropped after the financial crisis, people were saying "this is it" but it is politcally untenable to allow prices to drop. So those that didn't own eventually got tired of waiting and then when they have bought they don't want a drop, because who wants to burn money?

The housing situation is one giant prisoners dilemma loose-loose, nobody wants to loose out. I've long believed that houses/land are overpriced but I've recently (Just prior to Covid) become a home owner because I needed somewhere to live and the mortgage repayments are cheaper than rent here. It could have been a spectacularly bad move.

The same could be said about the interference of the US and UK in Iran. Our whole history in the area seems to be one shot after another in the foot.

Ascension has lots of interesting techy history. BBC Atlantic Relay Station for Short Wave, NASA Tracking Station, Outpost belonging to GCHQ etc.

For reference:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-52630...

>"Make a reverse L shape without hitting any cones" the L being a very tight fit.

When I did my driving licence test in the UK that was one of the exercises. In my opinion, anyone without the hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness to reverse around a corner should stay away from operating ~1 ton heavy machinery.

You can skip all that and just become a P.O.E.E Pope, just print out the card, easy.

Nice idea. Half the UK population could apply for dual British/Sealand nationality and still be in the EU.

>Being of low status, avoiding markers of low status is extremely important.

It doesn't seem that many see it as important. I see lots of loud attention seeking behaviour, vulgar displays of material goods etc.

Presumably the advice is to limit refined carbohydrates rather than the natural ones in fruit and vegetables.

From Cheltenham perhaps?

>Le Roux was sentenced to 25 years in prison in June 2020 after agreeing to cooperate with authorities in exchange for a lesser sentence and immunity to his most serious crimes.

Surely he will have to serve his sentence in solitary because I would imagine cooperating with the authorities makes you rather unpopular in prison.

It is surprising that there haven't been any more incursions by either government or privateers given that it seems its only guarded by one person at any time.

I wonder what state the concrete caissons are in. Maybe the sea will reclaim Sealand in the end as it probably will not be easy or cheap to repair.

These tactics are as old as international drug smuggling itself. Howard Marks(Mr Nice)[0] says in his book that he stationed one of his associates in Amsterdam to operate as a communications node, he finds out later that the Dutch police had tapped the phone lines within weeks.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Marks

>But criminals are usually just dumb in regards to this

I'm reminded of the film Sneakers:

Marty: Organised Crime?

Cosmo: Don't kid yourself, its not that organised.

I don't see much difference either. Maybe one factor in something being a Black Swan is just how widely or not the predictions are believed. There were plenty of whisperings on the internet about a potential problem with sub-prime mortgages way before 2007. I even had a lecturer at university talking about Kondratiev waves[0] and how we were possibly nearing the end of one.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave

Think of it as a free muscle toning workout for your ass. I miss the days of 8 miles a day bike commute on thin road tyres on bumpy roads and paths.

You may be interested in a history of Philips TV Tuners:

https://www.maximus-randd.com/tv-tuner-history-pt1.html

I wonder if there are some effects from the reduced pollution over the last few months of lockdown. We have had some unusual weather in the UK, like the sunniest spring on record.

Not to worry, you guys will be sending us boat loads of Chlorine Washed Chicken and pink liquid cow shortly:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47426138

It seems humans are bad at long-term thinking, the ongoing environmental collapse is evidence of it. We're quite smart on short time scales but then seem to become yeast-like on longer time scales.

I'm personally very thankful for the library of knowledge that is Wikipedia. For a lot of searches on technical matters I usually bypass Google and go directly to Wikipedia. I find that you can often use the references and links to bypass the Ad infested web to some extent.

Have a look at the photos of the Rugby VLF Transmitter to see why it is not practical to put one on a sub:

https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/rugby-radio/

I remember reading about his bike in, I think, Wired magazine when I was growing up in the 90's. Very inspiring.

Now he lives on a boat and appears to have a better equipped (and better organised) lab and workshop than I do living in a house. Still inspiring 30 years later.

A Solid State Tesla Coil is basically a power inverter so technically its DC/AC.

I did not realise that NDS is actually the News Datacom referred to by McCormac in European Scrambling Systems. The wikipedia entry for them makes interesting reading.

You also had Bucket-Brigade devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket-brigade_device

I see that has a reference to European Scrambling Systems 5 – The Black Book by John McCormac. I actually have a copy of that, it gives a rather entertaining overview of the arms race between the broadcasters and the hackers.