ArendPaul Spijkerman

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@ShawnDevDedalus Which sort of killed of the whole fighter industry in Canada and the UK. Which the UK is trying to reInvent with taking part in tornado/typhoon projects and now making the Tempest.

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@ShawnDevDedalus Well sure .. Canada was making the Avro Arrow but the US lobbied to cancel it and to buy boeing rockets & voodoo fighters instead. The UK made the TSR2 but the US lobbied to cancel it and buy the F-111 instead .. same for UK orbital rockets.

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@ShawnDevDedalus Well thats happening .. Airbus400M instead of C130 hercules. SAMP/T instead of patriots. Leopard2 instead of AbramsM1. We have Airbus A330 MRTT aerial tanker aircraft. The Tempest & FCAS 6th gen. stealth fighters.

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@ShawnDevDedalus Weapon systems in NATO are standardized like pallets in a C130 or Jets talking to each other and awacs. Or A2A missiles & tomahawks that fit jets. Or you can borrow patriot missiles from a neighbour country to put on your launcher. So US also makes money on NATO.

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@ShawnDevDedalus We just in april had some "rush" orders on things like a Patriot fire unit thats not on the budget but funded through a supplementary budget and the specialized Defense Materiel Fund. https://t.co/0lIzzU3GT0

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@ShawnDevDedalus Like netherlands is spending 3% of GDP on US F-35, Apache, Chinook, hercules, Patriots, tomahawks, Boeing etc. Should we leave NATO and spend it on eurofighter, Eurocopter, Airbus A400M, SAMP/T etc.

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@ShawnDevDedalus Its not like they pay that 69% to NATO, a lot of it is US owned carriers & AWACS etc. Which can be used for NATO. So if the US gets out of NATO they still pay for those carriers. Europe is still financing base in europe which the US uses to attack iran. https://t.co/8pfI5tyqaN

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

MAGA calls Europe freeloaders. Here’s what they’re not telling you.

​1. Ramstein Air Base, the most important US military hub outside America, is built on German land provided rent-free, with Germany contributing hundreds of millions to its upkeep. The US couldn’t replace it anywhere in the world.

2. Every US military operation in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia flows through Ramstein. Lose it and US power projection in the Eastern Hemisphere is crippled.

3. The UK provides and maintains RAF Lakenheath used almost entirely by the US Air Force. Italy provides Aviano. Greece provides Souda Bay. Turkey provides Incirlik. European land. European infrastructure. American operations.

4. The US Sixth Fleet depends entirely on European ports for fuel and supplies. Souda Bay, Naples, 11 Greek ports. Without them the Sixth Fleet cannot operate in the Mediterranean or project power into the Middle East.

5. The majority of NATO’s intelligence and surveillance capacity is hosted on European soil and fed directly to the CIA, NSA and Pentagon.

6. Early warning radar at Fylingdales, UK. Missile tracking in Greenland. Norwegian monitoring stations near Russia. All dependent on European goodwill.

7. It would cost America MORE to bring the troops home than keep them here. European hosts subsidise roughly a third of all basing costs.

8. Europe is America’s largest arms customer. Stop buying American and part of their defence industry goes bankrupt.

9. The bases aren’t charity. They’re America using European soil, European money and European goodwill to project power across the world.

10. We’re not the freeloaders.

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@OfMikeAndMen @Vincentt1987 Engineers take .. Why doesn't that gate have a diagonal beam so it will stay in its shape. Biologist take .. if wind always comes from the same direction trees will grow like that. Architects take .. why is there grass in front of the door. heh.

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@RueNahcMohr Makes you wonder if there are schottky bridge rectifiers. oh well i guess you can just use diodes..

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@ShawnDevDedalus @OfMikeAndMen @fjzeit I had different electronic magazines with articles about new homecomputers and programming, so i started saving for a sinclair or acorn. But then the Commodore's where announced. My first Linux was SuSe on a cover CD of a linux magazine. But now i mostly have Fedora i guess.

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@DirkBruere Looks like an NFC reader on a phone uses a different frequency so you cant read the chip, but a vet might do it for free. Or put some paper collar on the cat with your phone number to see if it has more owners. Maybe its fleeing a house with dogs/kids.

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@eevblog @BrianRoemmele Reminds me of this old phone PCB i have where they used the carbon they put on the contacts to print via's.

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@rey1rey1 @PeterBrandEgypt @HistContent How about the bent pyramid. Which started at a steep angle but apparantly that caused problems and then they made the angle more shallow. https://t.co/Fm6Nr9oN7U

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@gregnacu @ComputerLove_ They did something like it with the ZX81, memory packs had a connector at the back to daisy chain modules. As the sinclair printer also plugged into the expansion port and also had a through connector. Imagine doing that on the C64. But maybe have a module to stick cartridges in

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@OfMikeAndMen @fjzeit With things like programming or electronics/robotics you can just start doing it in your free time. And at the same time acquire the skills. Like i started programming communication & graphics etc things which i later used in jobs. Or like installations that where used in museums

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@OfMikeAndMen @iNeo_G Funny thing is that in star trek tng for an episode they made him decades older with makeup, but when he was really that old he had not changed (that) much.

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@OfMikeAndMen @fjzeit Something like this, there also seem to be much brighter versions around. But then you cant see the cities at night. https://t.co/oeUT15lDfH

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@OfMikeAndMen @fjzeit I think they also took a picture of the night side of the earth with a long exposure as it was dark and a solar eclipse, and those did show stars.

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@ElecNotes I know the colors. But as i am red-green colorblind the oranje/red and yellow/green bands can be tricky with some brands. So i store them in compartment boxes per value, and might double check with a meter. I remember that old TVs had the values printed on resistors.

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@ElecNotes I have a bunch of BPW34 .. you can use them to power tiny things, but also if you wrap them in metal foil detect radiation. Elector had some circuits for that long ago. https://t.co/5ld3uzh8Xt