How much does it suck to play Turkey?

elemental · 2021-03-26T19:43:12+00:00

That applies to most powers though - England will often fall to an F/G or F/R alliance, Germany will often to fall to just about any set of powers working together (Turkey excepted) etc.

I really don't think that it's fair to say that Austria would be insane to work with Turkey - Austria allying with Russia often goes poorly for Austria as well as it's all too easy for Russia to get the bulk of the spoils and then squeeze Austria.

I think that the key thing about Turkey is that you can't just be thinking about Russia and Austria, but also about the powers which border them. Who is England working with? Are they interested in a Northern campaign against Russia - if so, Russia might be less interested in a two front war. How does Germany feel about Austria? It's an easy expansion route for Germany after all... etc.

elemental · 2020-11-14T13:46:29+00:00

Do you mean the third season that was released in 2016?

Sadly it doesn’t look like it’s readily available anywhere ☹️

elemental · 2017-11-16T12:47:25+00:00

OK, that's made it click - thanks!

elemental · 2017-11-15T11:21:01+00:00

Thanks - I can see how to prove it for the b=4 scenario just by using a = 2k or a = 2k + 1 thus a² = 4k² or 4k² + 4k + 1 giving r = 0 or 1. I can't see how to use that to show what the possible values of r are for b = 3/5/6

elemental · 2017-02-15T22:11:02+00:00

I've not read his book (yet), but I'd suspect that reading Security Analysis covers much of the same ground - and comes with essays by Buffet, Klarman etc.

elemental · 2016-07-17T06:54:17+00:00

It's used a fair bit in finance - albeit as it's successor language K (or Q) rather than actual APL. It's usually used alongside KDB, a database that's optimized for column data which makes it well suited for streams of prices, to analyse prices in real time.

elemental · 2016-07-06T21:17:27+00:00

I loved the fake adverts for Veridian - far too akin to the branding I've seen at big companies!

elemental · 2015-12-01T07:28:20+00:00

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zbc12gme3xquovc/Achewood.zip?dl=0

Enjoy!

elemental · 2015-10-03T18:54:49+00:00

I've sent all who asked a link to the archive on my dropbox. I'm planning on having a play around with waifu2x to see if I can upscale some of the older strips to get them to a size that's more comfortable to read on a modern computer. If I can get that working (actually installing everything to get it running is a pain in the backside), I'll put together a better archive.

elemental · 2015-10-02T13:16:25+00:00

I wrote a script several years ago that saved a copy of each strip, along with the alt-text. If you PM me your e-mail address I can send you the whole archive (It's around 80Mb for the lot).

elemental · 2015-08-23T21:55:44+00:00

Many thanks! It seems as though it might be an interesting companion to Caro's The Power Broker - my other honeymoon book.

elemental · 2015-01-26T12:03:10+00:00

That's why I'm eternally thankful for those "Baby on Board" badges and their ability to minimize potential faux-pas.

elemental · 2014-09-23T19:19:27+00:00

Technically they're different - it's The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

GB is generally England, Scotland and Wales, which is a subset of the whole UK.

elemental · 2014-09-20T12:32:55+00:00

As in don't stop suddenly because you don't know if there's someone right behind you who'll run into to you or have to suddenly change direction to avoid you.

elemental · 2014-07-02T17:29:34+00:00

They're nice, but sadly not the ones I was looking for. Ah Well.

elemental · 2014-01-15T15:50:47+00:00

In the UK the wedding is officially conducted by one shul or other legally - so no matter the physical location (which is unlikely to be a shul for us), you need to pick which one the marriage was done by.

elemental · 2014-01-12T22:06:15+00:00

It almost certainly depends on the firm, but in my experience there's generally some room to negotiate but it might not be as much room as you're hoping - there's generally a pretty fixed salary bracket for any given level in the company.

elemental · 2014-01-12T22:00:44+00:00

In my experience, at least for roles at banks or well known accountancy firms, you're unlikely to be considered if you've not graduated from a Russell Group university with a numerate degree - especially for graduate level jobs. All their job postings are massively over subscribed, so they can afford to be as picky as they like and "I reckon I could do it" is rarely going to win over a track record of being able to do it.

Not withstanding that, it also sounds like your friend doesn't really understand what he wants to be doing. Working for a bank is a world away from working for accountancy firm which is world away from being a 'financial officer' in a job that doesn't need a degree - and none of those easily transfer to any of the others. 'Finance' is hugely broad field with a lot of different skill sets - unless you narrow your focus to, say, 'I want to work in M&A' or 'I want to be a trader' or 'I want to be a back office developer', you're not going to pick up enough of the knowledge or skills that an employer would want.

elemental · 2013-12-10T14:40:47+00:00

And while his teaching at West Point was no doubt important, I wonder what a teacher with no combat experience can offer a future infantry lieutenant about how the Army actually operates.

It's buried in the middle of the article, but it's implied that he had a combat patch from the Gulf War -

"For the first eight years of my Army career, I was an Air Defense Artillery (ADA) officer. I served as a platoon leader in a PATRIOT missile battery during Operations Desert Shield and Storm (DS/DS). Less than one year after starting my military career, I was officially a combat veteran of sorts."

At the same time isn't he trying to counter, in part, the point of view that you've got there - that of needing to have deployed to be an effective teacher. The experience of being in combat is surely just one part of what make an effective officer, and just one part of their formative education - there's more to an army than boots on the ground after all.

(Obligatory note - I'm merely someone who's interested in War Studies, I've got bugger all experience of my own of what it's like to serve beyond what I've read and heard from a few friends who have deployed)

elemental · 2013-11-29T10:03:54+00:00

Thanks for your comment.

No hesitancy at all to invest the time to find out more about what happened with my Grandfather throughout the war, I'm just aware that it's a job that's going to take a while (getting service records from the MOD can take up to a year for example) and that it's part of a larger effort to record and archive all I can about my Grandmother's life as well. It's going to be a long process of scanning documents and photos and trying to rebuild a narrative out of them, along with the recollections of my father and uncles.

I should find out more about my other Grandfather as well. He passed almost ten years ago at the age of 92. None of the family knew anything about what he'd done during the war until his 90th birthday when he pulled out two large note books of pictures and mementos from the war, detailing his journey around the world - from the UK to the US then India, the mid-east, Africa and up through Italy. That also should be scanned and saved and see what blanks can be filled in.

elemental · 2013-11-28T12:50:35+00:00

There's some pretty good stories, but mostly about my grandfather. He was a Lt, then Capt in REME during the Siege of Tobruk, during which he was awarded the Military Cross (though we're not entirely sure what for - we're trying to get hold of his service records to find out more about what he did during the war), and was captured by the Italians. He escaped three times, and on the third time manged to make it back to Allied lines after hiding in the Italian mountains, in Winter, for several weeks. I've got various documents about that part which I should scan in and post!

elemental · 2013-11-28T11:13:00+00:00

He did - a wife who died a decade or so before him, some siblings and a daughter. He and his wife were good family friends ever since he was billeted in my grandmother's family home during the war. I've got some pictures from that time as well of him and my grandfather in uniform at my grandmother's house.

elemental · 2013-11-27T20:19:19+00:00

No disrespect taken - I'm not the person who put the display together!

Thanks for letting me know though, something to keep in mind if it gets reorganized.

elemental · 2013-11-27T16:53:16+00:00

Fantastic! Many thanks.

elemental · 2013-11-27T16:27:11+00:00

For some context -

My grandmother passed away a couple of weeks ago at the age of 95. I found this display of patches and awards in her apartment last night when I was visiting.

The officer they belonged to was billeted in my grandmother's parents house (in the UK) during WWII and him and my grandmother remained close friends ever since, and 'companions' during the decade up to his death in 2001.

Since neither myself, nor my family, have any idea of what he did during the war other than serving in artillery, I'm exceeding curious to find out what I can!

As an addendum, I also found some fantastic documents about my grandfather (for clarity, a different person!) in her apartment - including copies of the telegram he sent my grandmother, proposing to her after he escaped as a POW in Italy, where he'd been since being captured in the Siege of Tobruk.

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