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[Urwumpe]

Right, I thought he'd stolen or in some way misappropriated the collection.

I'm trying to collect an example of an Ampex AVR-2 video tape machine(cheaper the better).
Hopefully I don't end up in a similar position....

I think it would be a more expensive and possibly illegal hobby, trying to build an Admiralty Fire Control Table with Lego Technic....

 

[Notebook]

That sounds like a workable project!

 

[Notebook]

European bison rangers chosen for Kent woodland herd

The European bison will restore a rich habitat for local wildlife when they are introduced in 2022.

www.bbc.com

I don't understand this need to re-introduce animals that have become extinct in the UK for various reasons. Usually hunted out because they are dangerous or tasty.
Kent is hardly un-tamed wilderness and seems totally unsuitable for this experiment.

 

[Urwumpe]

European bison rangers chosen for Kent woodland herd

The European bison will restore a rich habitat for local wildlife when they are introduced in 2022.

www.bbc.com

I don't understand this need to re-introduce animals that have become extinct in the UK for various reasons. Usually hunted out because they are dangerous or tasty.
Kent is hardly un-tamed wilderness and seems totally unsuitable for this experiment.

Depends on where. Don't you also have training grounds for the army there? In Germany they are important retreats for rare animals, since they are mostly undisturbed there, because only few humans go there....

 

[Notebook]

Yes big training areas on Salisbury Common and Otterburn, Nortjhumberland. Never heard of any wildlife there. Army did seize large areas during WWII for training and security. Especially coastal areas, but I think they went back after.
I think most areas have public access except during exercises. Not a big place England.

EDIT: Well, as often wrong again.
The MOD has gone all ecological and quite an emphasis on the wildlife potential of the training areas.
Keep your head down while admiring the butterflies.

The defence training estate

Find out about regional training areas and operational support, managed by the MOD's Defence Infrastructure Organisation

www.gov.uk

 

[jedidia]

Depends on where. Don't you also have training grounds for the army there? In Germany they are important retreats for rare animals, since they are mostly undisturbed there, because only few humans go there....

Heh, reminds of the time some protected eagle landed in a shooting range during target practice. Of course somebody took the shot. I wasn't there, but the thing caused quite an outrage. I can only imagine the superiors of the guy who did it made him eat his rifle in reverse for all the trouble he caused them... ?

 

[Urwumpe]

Heh, reminds of the time some protected eagle landed in a shooting range during target practice. Of course somebody took the shot. I wasn't there, but the thing caused quite an outrage. I can only imagine the superiors of the guy who did it made him eat his rifle in reverse for all the trouble he caused them... ?

Oh, I can only imagine... for the regular total damage to a roundabout, that was build too small by some expert who did not consider that tanks have to pass it on the way to the train station, we had prepared a pad with many forms with all the necessary information to compensate the damage, that only required a new date to be inserted. Otherwise, the bureaucracy would have been overwhelming. We even included a small text which curbstones got damaged in advance....

 

[jedidia]

for the regular total damage to a roundabout, that was build too small by some expert who did not consider that tanks have to pass it on the way to the train station, we had prepared a pad with many forms with all the necessary information to compensate the damage, that only required a new date to be inserted.

Bwahaha, that sounds like the military alright: Efficiency in all the wrong places! ?

 

[Urwumpe]

Bwahaha, that sounds like the military alright: Efficiency in all the wrong places! ?

Of course. Somebody at the frontline has to fix a problem, somebody in the high command caused. ?

 

[HAL9001]

man, it's been a while
this forum was like half my childhood, nice to see it still exists

 

[steph]

European bison rangers chosen for Kent woodland herd

The European bison will restore a rich habitat for local wildlife when they are introduced in 2022.

www.bbc.com

I don't understand this need to re-introduce animals that have become extinct in the UK for various reasons. Usually hunted out because they are dangerous or tasty.
Kent is hardly un-tamed wilderness and seems totally unsuitable for this experiment.

Mostly for hunting, I guess. At least that's what they did in Eastern Europe with bison. A few years ago 'twas a big project to 'repopulate' a nature reserve with them, now they have a yearly bison hunt, Apparently hunting is a very lucrative sport, with huge sums paid for thde 'right' to shoot certain animals.

 

[Notebook]

I can't imagine that going down well in the UK. Except for farmers and the Aristocrats, not much hunting done here.
Banning fox-hunting went on for years, not sure if its legal or not at the moment?

Can't imagine little Billy's school trip when Ernest Hemmingway bursts out the shrubbery and blasts "Petting Bison" right between the eyes.

 

[steph]

I can't imagine that going down well in the UK. Except for farmers and the Aristocrats, not much hunting done here.
Banning fox-hunting went on for years, not sure if its legal or not at the moment?

Can't imagine little Billy's school trip when Ernest Hemmingway bursts out the shrubbery and blasts "Petting Bison" right between the eyes.

I don't know. In France they hunt foxes, boars etc. In theory they put signs for people to avoid the area etc, but screw-ups do happen and it can be quite terrifying to get caught up in a hunt. For bison I guess it would be more like a bear hunt, a targetted killing rather than a chase. Especially since they'll probably have geotagging etc

 

[Notebook]

Fox-Hunting generates a lot of heat here. Mostly based round class-warfare, though animal rights are involved as well.
Just can't see Bisons wandering around Kent, its called the Garden of England.
Due to its soft fruit orchards and hops for brewing...another good reason to keep Bisons out!

 

[jedidia]

Can't imagine little Billy's school trip when Ernest Hemmingway bursts out the shrubbery and blasts "Petting Bison" right between the eyes.

That's still less traumatic for little Billy than when Ernest Hemingway bursts out of the shrubbery and blasts himself between the eyes, I'd guess...

 

[Notebook]

Easily done, long beard, ground covered in soft fruits.
Trip, Blam!

 

[jedidia]

I was more refering to the way Hemingway is assumed to actually have died, but I guess that's a possible version...

 

[Notebook]

Ah, not a big fan, though the For whom the Bell tolls film was good.
Didn't know he killed himself, thought he'd got trampled by an elephant with his history?

 

[n122vu]

I tried to resurrect my old, old gaming desktop yesterday. No luck. So, I pulled the 1TB data drive and plugged it into my current flight sim machine to see what data it contained that was worth keeping.

On that drive was a folder I'd titled "Black USB Key Backup." I was not prepared for the treasure trove of old things I had saved. The most valuable? All the meshes and textures from my long-lost Babylon 5 Agamemnon project, including the specular reflection settings in the mesh, as well as the normal maps. Even better? The entire development project in the orbitersdk samples folder.

And as if THAT wasn't enough, it also contained the project and all development work I had done on the Maintenance Fury. The Probe has smiled on me.

 

[Fabri91]

Make a backup of that immediately!

I had a related scare a couple of weeks ago: after a thunderstorm my Synology NAS wouldn't boot up.

Now, everything remotely important on it exists in at least another copy, but setting it up from zero would have been a major pain.

In the end by inserting an older blank hdd and letting it re-download the system partition (which is mirrored across all installed drives) and re-connecting my main hdd and letting the system repair the "old" system partition from the new one I only lost a number of settings which were quickly restored.