Obviously George Lucas has licensed his patent to the Mexican government.

To honour his work, in Mérida, Yukatán, Mexico, a memorial has been erected modelled based on that photograph.

Wikimedia

Although it’s from biological origin, one won’t infect with surströmming when exposed to its aerosols, but one would suffer from the smell, thus it’s a chemical weapon.

As the BMDs are fully amphibious, it should be able to be driven and move after landing even in a swamp. Then, the core crew can collect the other crew members at their individual locations.

Is this essentially different to the current use of the FlAK-Panzer Gepard / SPAAG Cheetah in Ukraine?

Thanks. I’ve corrected the wording.

Reading his Wikipedia article gives the impression that he is somewhat special.

However, looking on the cite of the director of BAA, Will Cloney, in the Wikipedia article on Switzer, made me feel glad I didn’t have breakfast yet:

Boston Athletic Association director Will Cloney—who had rejected Bobbi Gibb’s entry into the 1966 Boston Marathon giving as his reason his claim that women could not run that far—was asked his opinion of Switzer competing in the race. Although Gibb had completed the marathon the previous year with a good time, the race rule book made no mention of gender, and Switzer had a valid race registration, Cloney said: “Women can’t run in the Marathon because the rules forbid it. Unless we have rules, society will be in chaos. I don’t make the rules, but I try to carry them out. We have no space in the Marathon for any unauthorized person, even a man. If that girl were my daughter, I would spank her.”

Later in life, Semple [the name of the official] reversed his position on women competing in the marathon. According to Marja Bakker (a later organizer of the race), “Once the rule was adjusted and women were allowed in the race, Jock was one of their staunchest supporters. He was very progressive.” Semple later publicly reconciled with Switzer. “Old Jock Semple and I became the best of friends,” she told a reporter in 2015. “It took a long time: six years. But we became best of friends.”

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

Yes, the other two guys - with numbers - are her spouse (directly behind her) and her trainer (behind him). The official previously has knocked down her trainer in a prior attempt.

The athletic guy pushing away the official is her spouse boyfriend and later husband Tom Miller, a hammer thrower. The other guy, with less hair, behind him is her trainer Arnie Briggs. https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-boston-marathon-first-female-20170417-htmlstory.html
Her Wikipedia article elaborates deeply on that incident.

Basically any larger German city was turned into rubbles. The website trolley-mission.de (! The different language versions don’t show identical content !), named after the documentary mission of the USAF, shows interesting photographies of the aftermath, here some pictures of Cologne.

Ilovaisk

I’m impressed that the tuk tuk seems to withstand the recoil of the MG3.

Heli tired. Heli needs to rest.

Even the V1 didn’t just fly until the fuel went out and it fell down. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#Guidance_system

KIO GDrive is the KDE equivalent https://feddit.org/comment/1494000

The KIO GDrive module allows access to Google Drive from KDE apps like Dolphin.

Right, installing a DE is usually not something a direct bloody beginner would/should do. But a beginner who installed Mint, e.g. because of recommendations, has already installed some programs and worked with their system for a while, but now is not confident with Cinnamon DE. For someone like them it’s feasible to ‘simply’ install a different DE e.g. KDE onto their system. (I’d also suggest uninstalling anything GTK related and reinstalling only those packages that one deems useful). As there are no essential differences between Kubuntu and Mint, I don’t see the problems here. KDE is in the same sources.list that Mint uses (in the official Ubuntu repos), so there shouldn’t be any strange dependency conflicts. Thus it’s not going to end up as a Frankenstein system.
Personally, I use Debian btw. 😉, I’d also suggest installing the original, i.e. Debian or LMDE, if one likes the Mint stuff, and get rid of the Ubuntu dependencies. But I consider that basically as a matter of personal taste.

AfaIk, Linux Mint delivers it’s own version of apt, specifically some scripts interacting with apt, which does not default to Snap packages for e.g. Firefox, Kubuntu doesn’t (can’t). Basically, you could also install Kubuntu 24.04 and transform it to Mint 22 with KDE e.g. to have Mint-like behaviour of apt.
Mint has the reputation of being a beginner friendly distribution, Debian doesn’t (not isn’t).
If one uses Mint and does want to use another DE without reinstalling the OS, after all why not?

Or people with the mindset of a kid.