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Now things have just been taken up a notch. While pirates have said that they would perhaps start killing crew, everybody's asking the US Navy for help. Rather than the Navy, the shipping companies should help themselves. The first step would be to actually arm a ship. A good first step is a small arms locker with ... |
Cheeth said... |
This is pretty much what I have been thinking -- I say mount 50 cals on the bow, stern, starboard and port, baby. Then when a skiff with AK-toting lanky types comes speeding toward a ship, a few big rounds will convince them otherwise. Though I know nothing about this, it would seem that this would become a deterrent, ... |
Sorro said... |
I would agree. I think I'd get some more powerful weaponry, because I'm sure that the pirates either have or could get RPGs pretty quickly. As a result, I would have no problems at all deploying something along the lines of the Harpoon anti-ship missile against them. That might be overkill, as they cost close to a mill... |
Saturday, August 16, 2008 |
Why Blog? - My Take - Part 1 |
Way way back, when I was following Arts Marketing's Martin Rodger's suggestions about holding a successful exhibit, I wrote to the local paper and asked to consider putting something about it in the paper. Matt Lawry (who can now be seen/heard on television and National Radio from time to time, by the way,) said he wou... |
1) How long have you been weaving? |
2) What will be in your show? |
3) Why do you blog about weaving? |
4) Why do you weave? |
In retrospect, I remember talking about a whole lot else but what was on the list, but sometimes I think about these questions. For a general circulation newspaper, it's the human interests that sell, so a personal story relating to weaving is the best approach. I learned during the interview that if you have a cool, c... |
Re-reading the linked post, I see that incoherence in my posts is nothing new. Phew, I was worried for a moment there. |
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Thailand: Yellow Shirt leader Sondhi L sentenced to 20 years, released on bail |
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Sondhi Limthongkul. Pic: AP. |
BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai protest leader whose movement helped topple three prime ministers was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for falsifying financial documents aimed at securing a $32 million government bank loan for his media empire. |
Sondhi Limthongkul faces separate charges in connection with the aggressive protests of his People’s Alliance for Democracy, or Yellow Shirts, who in 2008 occupied the prime minister’s offices for three months and Bangkok’s two airports for a week. The group is still active, though less influential. |
The 64-year-old Sondhi pleaded guilty to crimes involving documents he submitted for his Manager Media Group to secure a 1 billion baht loan in 1997 from the state Krung Thai Bank. |
He was sentenced to five years each on 17 counts, but the 85-year term was halved because he pleaded guilty. The final sentence was capped at 20 years because it is the maximum allowable on the charge. |
He was later released on 10 million baht ($328,000) bail pending appeal of his sentence. |
The alliance recently said it opposes efforts by the current government to change the constitution. It alleges that changes would benefit former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is in self-imposed exile to avoid serving a jail term on a corruption conviction. |
Sondhi founded his movement in 2005 to topple then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, alleging he was corrupt and disrespectful to King Bhumibol Adulyadej. A skilled speaker and canny organizer, he staged protests that eased the way for a 2006 army coup that deposed Thaksin. |
Its subsequent protests in 2008 added to pressure that saw two pro-Thaksin prime ministers forced from office by court rulings. But the increasingly aggressive protests by the Yellow Shirts and their ideological rival Red Shirts further polarized Thai society. |
Sondhi and Thaksin were among the maverick businessmen who built empires during Thailand’s boom years of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when loose regulation fostered speculation in the stock and property markets. |
Though his media holdings, notably the business daily Phujadkarn, or Manager, were the core of his group, Sondhi diversified into other areas including hotels and a telecommunications satellite, only to see much of his business collapse during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. |
He rebuilt his media wing and was an enthusiastic supporter of Thaksin — a former causal business partner — when he became prime minister in 2001. |
But the two men, both notorious for their strong egos, fell out. The Thai press speculated that Sondhi was unhappy that Thaksin did not reappoint a friend of the Manager group as president of the Krung Thai Bank, suggesting that’s what triggered his long-odds campaign to oust the prime minister. |
As his involvement in politics deepened, Sondhi expanded his targets to include members of the Thai establishment and military. He also earned enemies, and was shot in the head in an apparent assassination attempt in 2009 by parties unknown. |
Destiny 2: Where is Xur? New location and how to find Legendary Shards currency EXPLAINED | Daily Star |
GUARDIANS favourite Destiny vendor is back - but this time he's harder to find and takes a different currency. Here's everything we know so far about Xur, Agent of the Nine in Destiny 2! |
Bungie has just released their latest 'This week t Bungie' blog post and boy does it contains an awful lot of new information about Destiny 2. and the plans for the game |
The key piece of information with regards to Xur at least is a start date for when the curious Agent of the Nine will once again return to players once again. |
A roadmap for the month ahead shows that Xur will once again start peddling his wares to Guardians starting NEXT Friday, September 15th. |
No time has been provided, but we imagine it's safe to assume the vendor will stick to the usual times we've seen him come and go as during his time with Destiny 1. |
Speaking of which, it's worth noting that for anyone STILL playing Destiny 1, Xur will continue to arrive every Friday, as part of Bungie's legacy support commitment to the game. |
Interestingly another tidbit of information was revealed with the roadmap and that's final confirmation that the Trials PVP mode is indeed now known as Trials of the Nine. |
It would be safe to assume them that this new competitive mode replacing Trials of Osiris could and should provide more details about the Agents of the Nine who have remained something of a mystery to Destiny players. |
You can see the roadmap for yourself just below: |
Destiny 2 launch roadmap |
Destiny's Xur is one of the most popular vendors in Bungie's shared-world shooter: he's a merchant that sells rare and Exotic items - items that often can't be found elsewhere. |
In the first Destiny game, his role was to provide players with guaranteed Exotic items every week: he'd turn up somewhere in The Tower or The Reef and offer a weapon and an item of gear per class. |
Unlike other means of obtaining Exotics, this was the only definite way of getting an Exotic per week - Nightfall rewards wouldn't always proffer the gear, neither would killing enemies with the Three of Coins item active: for many, Xur was the only certain way to get an Exotic. |
But the 'Agent of the Nine' comes with conditions: he only appears on a Friday and will always go by Sunday. He needs payment in certain items, previously Strange Coins, otherwise his mysterious wares are not available to you. |
The random nature of the character's appearance in the game earned him a reputation - every Friday morning (in the UK, at least), there would be legions of Destiny fans hunting for the vendor - often creating a community-led social environment in-game, which is always nice. |
An in-game description describes the character: "Xûr comes and goes freely, his strange curios eagerly sought by adventurous." |
But in Destiny 2, Xur's weekly appearances are set to become even more mysterious. |
In Destiny 2, Xur will behave slightly differently. |
He won't appear in a social area like The Farm where a player is safe from danger - instead, he'll appear somewhere in one of the four main zones in the game: Titan, Io, Nessus or the European Dead Zone. |
According to a leak from a GameStop guide, Xur will appear in a Public Sector in one of the four new worlds, 'depending on planetary alignments and Bungie's whim'. |
According to the leaked image, 'Xur sells Exotic equipment and only takes Legendary Shards in exchange for them. |
Legendary Shards work differently to the previous game's Strange Coins: they're a currency that must be earned, according to Accelerated Ideas. |
• Dismantling Legendary weapons and armour (x 2) |
• Dismantling Exotic weapons and armour (x 10) |
• Strike bosses (rare) |
• Weekly Nightfalls |
• Flashpoints |
• Planetary chests (rare) |
• Lost Sector chests |
• Raid chests |
• Raid encounters |
It's likely that each of Xur's items will cost more Legendary Shards than Strange Coins in the previous game, so refer back to this list if you find you can't afford an item the Agent of the Nine is selling. |
Xur's backstory is shrouded in mystery - he himself is a strange character in the world, and The Nine that he belongs to seem to be even more mysterious in their own way. |
In Destiny 2, we expect to learn more about Xur and the Nine: in a recent interview, Destiny 2 project lead Mark Noseworthy explained 'I know there are parts of the universe that people have gotten really excited about and want to know more about, and we’re certainly going to explore those things both at launch and in ... |
Bungie has also renamed the timed PvP event Trials of Osiris to Trials of the Nine - indicating there'll definitely be something else about the mysterious collective in the game, and potentially more information pertaining to Xur specifically. |
Trials of the Nine will be a 4v4 PvP mode that will test players and allow those that excel in combat to progress and gain special gear - it's likely there will be an area that only victors of the arena will be able to access, with powerful gear available for those that pass the eponymous Trials. |
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Saw a calculation of stress in a datasheet (page14) here - |
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(The device drives a Mosfet.) |
How do you relate the P^2 t stress calculation in the datasheet to the Safe operating area curve in a Mosfet datasheet. |
If the Stress is 20W^2 sec, then how do you interpret it? The Mosfet should be able to withstand 20watts for 1sec. |
The watt square is confusing me. Why watt square*t? why not joules. |
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