Well, Mick Smith quotes the Parachute Regiment’s journal as saying that Brigadier Butler was forced into going along with Operation MOUNTAIN THRUST, the offensive the US command in Afghanistan initiated the month before General Richards arrived in Afghanistan. Read the whole thing. This is much as I thought at the time – essentially, neither the…
Read More Here we go again, again, againOK, so this guy’s designed a little program that is intended to provide access to pay-for-play wireless LANs. The idea is simple – one host actually pays up, and connects to the WLAN, and then acts as a proxy for other users, who treat the “WiFi Liberator” as a WLAN router. My initial thought was…
Read More This is Radio Clash on pirate WLANJamie K, hence the Madchester title, takes issue with a Johann Hari column arguing in favour of National Service on the grounds that it will make politicians less likely to go to war. Two points: first, as a commenter points out, making the army less efficient as a way of preventing war is stupid. It’s…
Read More why not just bounce it and see just what goes wellOK, Slugger O’Toole quotes the complete lobby briefing by PM’s Spokesman Tom “Walter Mitty figure” Kelly. What struck me is not just that the Big Kahuna moving through the joint is a cop these days. That was obvious enough, ever since Angus McNeil and Norman Baker punched through the crust of elite consensus. No-one had…
Read More Sheena’s party, that’s a case in pointDoes the idea of “embodied energy” convey any useful information whatsoever in the vast majority of its applications? I ask because I recently read about the difficulties faced in calculating this metric. For the uninitiated, it means the energy consumed in creating one unit of product X. People concerned about climate change and the supply…
Read More Useless metric of the decadeWell, I haven’t read the IPCC report yet, but I can report that I got my hands on an advance copy of Tim Worstall’s reaction to it. Here goes: Those scientist chappies are awfully clever. But what about this tangential issue? Here’s what the MSM isn’t telling you: if you make entirely different assumptions that…
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