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Test after a near-eternity.
Zero-information test ( Read more... ) -
November 11 1918 - November 11 2015
Lest we forget.
A lasting peace is forged by defeating the enemy on the field of battle and then having the courage to impose upon them, without fear, favour or relent, the conditions of victory, for as long as it takes.
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Sir Terry Pratchett, RIP
I've posted this before, I know - it's from Arthur C Clarke's Astounding Days, quoting Lord Dunsany - and while it doesn't relate to the universes Pratchett created, I felt it was appropriate to repost it in his honour.
And there came upon him at last those mortal tremors that are about the end of all earthly journeys. He hastened then. And before ( Read more... ) -
Principia
Originally posted by wemyss at Principia
Here are a few principles. They are the agreed principles of the partners in Bapton Books. It strikes us - as Borno State, in Nigeria, burns and Islamists hold hostages at (of course) a kosher shop in Paris and in Dammartin (where is Jeanne d’Arc when she’s wanted) - as important to state them anew.
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Kindle Fire HDX
It's a wonderful second-line web browser, and this is 90% of why I use it. (The other 10% is as a PDF reader so I can read drafts of things I've e-mailed to myself when I don't want to go to the hassle of unpacking and firing up my Laptop.) But seriously, now that I am also using it to review large amounts of video, I do wish mine had more than a ( Read more... ) -
Charlie Hebdo
What was done was vile ( Read more... ) -
Why I disagree with trigger warnings.
"It is difficult to say which would be worse: if the nation were really so populated by fragile twentysomething toddlers so mentally brittle and incurably neurotic that the deployment of a perfectly good verb could send them over the edge into some sort of 1980s concept-album psychic crisis or if instead (and as I expect) all this hysterical ( Read more... ) -
"Crush your enemies, drive them before you and hear the lamentations of their women."
Yep, it's the anniversary of Trafalgar Day, when the British did just that to the French and Spanish Navies.
With that out of the way and the absolute, unquestioned supremacy of British sea power assured for the next hundred and eleven years, the Royal Navy had both the time and manpower to pursue other worthy goals.
