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Cheers...

Apple also has a large share holding in ARM.

Guess Apple cover all bases that way.

Does Arm design Apple chips?

Apple silicon - Wikipedia

Apple silicon refers to a series of system on a chip (SoC) and system in a package (SiP) processors designed by Apple Inc., mainly using the ARM architecture. They are the basis of Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods, AirTag, HomePod, and Apple Vision Pro devices.

BUT

As I understand, Apple uses the ARM instruction set, but apart from that completely designs their own processors to create their M1 & M2 chips.

TROAJAN

The three battlecruisers that blow up were the largest ships we had. - 15" guns

Battlecruisers are fast battleships with armer-plated steel but not so thick or heavy as slower battleships.

look at this list....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_sunk_at_the_Battle_of_Jutland

Community volunteering: Spending one weekend every month - which equates to 25 days over a 12-month period - volunteering with organisations like the NHS, fire service, ambulance, search and rescue, and critical local infrastructure

Military training: Or applying for one of up to 30,000 “selective” military placements reserved for teenagers deemed the “brightest and the best” in areas like logistics, cyber security, procurement or civil response operations over a year-long period

The vast majority of 18-year-olds would not take part in any military training at all.

As of 2021, there were around 775,000 18-year-olds in the UK, according to data, external from the Office for National Statistics.

If that number were the same today, it would mean only one in 26 18-year-olds would do a military placement. The vast majority would instead do community volunteering.

A CRAZY GIMMICK.

George C. Scott (RIP) played Patton perfectly in the movie? Even looks like him.

Should have got an Oscar.

"Old Blood & Guts"...the general the Germans feared the most, but some of his troops thought that it was rather a case of "Our blood...his guts"

Nick Robinson to Riski Sunak

"There were three different prime ministers in a year, four different chancellors in a year, a home secretary sacked for six days then hired again and sacked again a year later, a prime minister who was forced out of office because he was judged to be lying by his own colleagues in Parliament, and another who even *you* think crashed the economy: Why on earth should people give the Conservatives another term?"

Sunak (long pause)

But we have a plan and the plan is working.....

ho-hum

TROAJAN

Your garden is a wildlife paradise.

SPRINGWATCH will be calling you.

hehe!

TROAJAN

Military the Germans performed better.

There was a fault in our battlecruisers ..3 blow up.

The Brits counted on a rapid rate of fire.

More shots more success as firing at 15mile targets was inaccurate and hits were a v low %.

Cordite charges were stowed in the magazines in flash-proof protective cases.

But the Brits kept the Magazine doors open and stacked the Cordite charges UNCASED outside

the magazine room to speed up the rate of fire. An enemy hit on a gun turret caused flashback down to the stacked cordite and immediately blow each of the 3 ships up.

But as our fleet was larger the Germans never came out of port again helping the Allies to starve the German people/military into a ceasefire (Armistice)

From now until the General Election the Tories will issue hundreds of dead cat gimmick polices

and media stories. This is to defect away from their dreadful performance of 14 years in Government.

DON'T BE FOOLED.

The young can't be forced into this scheme.

Our prisons are full.

Bursting....just 12 places left (latest data shows)

Yet more unfunded unworkable policies.

Troajan

The largest Naval Battle EVER.

Admiral Sir John Jellicoe (HMS Iron Duke): Commander-in-chief of the British Grand Fleet

"The Battle of Jutland (31 May-1 June 1916) was the largest naval battle of the First World War, involving 250 ships and around 100,000 men. Over the course of the battle there were periods of intense action and inaction. In the end, 6,000 British and 2,500 German sailors were dead. The British lost 14 ships to the Germans' 11. Here's what happened over those critical two days...."

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/battle-of-jutland-timeline#:~:text=Admiral%20Sir%20John%20Jellicoe%20(HMS,of%20the%20British%20Grand%20Fleet

I missed National Service by 4 years.

Close shave.

Https://x.com/mrdavemacleod/status/1794646240615166033

If Starmer went on holiday with his family for a rest.

He would still win the election overwhelming.

Hunt on the BBC R4 today

Claiming "UK is top for foreign investment in Europe" (as ever unchallenged with "better than EU" claims)

Note he carefully dates it back to 2010 - thus chalking up 10 preBrexit years

If you look at the LAST 5 yrs, since Brexit, France clearly wins EACH YEAR

No chance to bail out without an ejection seat.

Horrendous death.

RIP

Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (21-22 May, all fieldwork conducted prior to the election announcement)

Con: 21% (+1 from 15-16 May)

Lab: 46% (-1)

Reform UK: 12% (+1)

Lib Dem: 9% (=)

Green: 7% (-1)

SNP: 3% (=)

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49501-voting-intention-con-21-lab-46-21-22-may-2024

BEWARE of cowboy builders‼️

ATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on allies to consider allowing Ukraine to use their weapons to strike Russia.

"I think the time has come for allies to consider whether they should lift some of the restrictions that are put on the use of weapons they have donated to Ukraine," Stoltenberg said in an interview with The Economist, explaining that now when a lot of fighting is happening near the border, denying Ukraine the "possibility of using these weapons against legitimate military targets on Russian territory, makes it very hard for them to defend themselves."

The comments come after the United States stressed several times it "does not encourage or enable" strikes on Russian territory with American weapons, but noted that Kiev does have to "make decisions for itself about how it's going to conduct this war." Meanwhile, media reports claimed Ukraine used US weapons to hit Russia's military complex in Crimea.

Baha Breaking News (BBN) / NP

The most famous French missile is/was the Exocet missiles that were supplied to Argentina.. They sunk or destroyed several British warships in the Falklands War.