...welcome our new Tau Cetian overlords!

... is that it's true whether you believe in it, or not.

Pretty cool. The ship was locked up though, so I only got to check out the outside. It's bigger than you'd think.

Sea Shadow in the floating dock

From what I understand they tried to find a museum for the ship but there were no takers. The dock was in rusty/poor condition, but the ship looked garage-kept ;-)

This is complete nonsense. There were more Nazi sympathizers in the US than in France at the time. Some of our 'captains of industry' were helping Germany build it's war machine.

When defeat was inevitable some in France looked around themselves - the British had been decimated on land and had retreated to their island. The US was uninterested. On France's borders were fascist Germany, fascist Spain, fascist Italy, aloof Switzerland and occupied territory. It looked as though Britain would fall quickly (few thought they could hold on alone as they did at the time) and that the new world order would be one of fascism or communism. It was a dark day, and in those times some people will choose a dark side versus the unknown.

And then come the opportunists - you have those kind in any country, who will gravitate to the winning side in hopes for gains for themselves.

But, the Maginot Line did work perfectly. The Germans were denied crossing that territory. The contingency of what to do when the Germans drove around it was not addressed sufficiently.

Well...not really. The "Schlieffen Plan" was the move through the Netherlands and Belgian plain, but that was not really what happened in WW2 - it was not the 'second time Germany pulled the same trick'. In WW2 the Germans 'faked' the Schlieffen Plan and lured the French and British into a trap.

The Schlieffen plan *WAS* anticipated by the French and British, and they placed the best of their units along the Belgian border. The Belgians were supposed to have allowed French and British troops to move into Belgium into forward prepared positions, but Belgium decided to declare neutrality until invaded (in some foolish hope that Germany would prefer to pound it's head against the French Maginot Line to the south instead). Silly Belgians.

As soon as Germany invaded Belgium the French troops were allowed to cross the border, but now were not able to reach their designated defensive positions (Germany having gotten a head start) and had to have meeting engagements in the field (losing the defender advantage).

However, THIS was the trick. The main German effort was planned to occur through the forests just to the NORTH of the Maginot Line, but also SOUTH of the more open land considered better suited for the warfare. The French and British thought the Ardennes forest was impassable to tanks, and as such put 2nd class divisions (with very few tanks) and reserve troops guarding it. So, as the British and French raced into Belgium to encounter what they thought was the main German attack (in a Schlieffen Plan replay), the real thrust was happening to the south of them. They were soon caught in a salient - a 'bulge' - and quickly the best Allied units were vulnerable to being cut off.

Despite being warned by their own reconnaissance aircraft and captured plans from a downed German aircraft, they ignored the Ardennes until it was too late. By then the Germans had a solid advance going, which thereafter cut off the Allied troops with amazing speed for the time (eg Blitzkrieg).. then there was Dunkerque and the loss of all the equipment of two major armies. 300,000 troops did manage to escape, including 100,000 French.

Now that the Germans had knocked out the British Army and defeated the best of the French units in the north, they turned south. They met occasional stiff resistance but now they severely outnumbered the French units and the end was only a matter of time.

Contrary to some popular beliefs, the Maginot Line was never breached from the front (once surrounded a few smaller forts were captured) and the French had more tanks with better armor and guns than the Germans did. The defeat was really one of leadership, strategy and tactics.

So you are saying then that any product who's raw materials have already been taxed and the labor to create the finished product has been taxed shouldn't be taxed? And, the profit made from sale of such widget shouldn't be taxed because it's been taxed earlier in the production chain?

Then be leery of the House majority.

... and several other vendors deliver desktops and apps to end-user devices remotely and increasingly efficiently. TFA is on the wrong side of history - IT will own and control the apps "locked down" and delivered remotely, device-independently. Administration of the endpoint device is a nightmare, and through VDI and app delivery endpoint management is becoming nearly irrelevant as these technologies improve. In fact, the end point becomes irrelevant - the always-on, use anywhere application service is coming (just don't say "cloud" because I'm tired of hearing it).

All your apps are belong to us.

Exactly. This does not mention diesel, pure ethanol, natural gas, hydrogen ICE, or any other kind of ICE besides petrol (gasoline) engines. There are plenty of other fuels you can combust inside a cylinder to move a piston.

These same people would have been dying taking those secondary roads over the mountain pass in their Thomas Guides. All this article shows is the steady hand of progress - turns out there are still stupid people out there.

... and then he'd pack it in for the day, take the camera crew out for a nice dinner at the nearest steakhouse, check into his hotel and be all fresh for the next day's shoot.

Bear is at best entertainment (think 'fear factor' outdoors), at worst a fraud. A real "survivorman" is Les Stroud, who packs in all his own gear and films everything himself, alone... and actually stays out in the wilderness for the duration.

Huh? How is providing healtcare to those that can't afford it wealth redistribution?

It's called using "grade school math" to make a judgement - something that is the pinnacle of the ability of a disturbing number of people in the US's ability to master. The burden on society, costs of treating emergency room versus prevention, and cascading effects of unhealthy people in the population (lost productivity, spreading of health problems, etc) are beyond the grasp of too many people. Calculating the 'total cost of health' is 'voodoo math' to many people.

Many seem to think it's a zero-sum game - if it's helping someone else then it must be hurting me.

It's illuminating that Costa Rica has a higher-ranked healthcare system than the US (ranked 37th), and that the US is ranked next to Cuba. None of the talking heads on the right have anything to say about this. All those 'darn socialist' nations dominate the top 10.

And while we're on that topic, why is always considered a bad thing when wealth redistribution benefits the lower-middle income, but it's a good thing when it benefits the upper 2% (e.g. tax breaks for the wealthy)?

Because the brainwashed masses believe that they have the ability and the real possibility to become the next Trump or Buffett - ya know, ya can't put a lid on the "American Dream". Also, see above regarding the zero-sum game.

Would it be easier to detect the existence of large (small planet-sized) moons around a gas giant than earth-sized planets around a star? Would not the perturbation of the gas giant be easier to detect because the mass ratios are closer (large moon to gas giant vs earth-sized planet to star)?

If so, detecting the gas giant in the habitable zone and then looking for evidence of large moons or companion bodies could allow detection of candidates for life.

I assume this would entail detailed, direct observation of the gas giant, but I would imagine that will happen sooner than detailed, direct observation of an earth-sized body.