Posts by Chris G

Re: "Legalising a lot of drugs would reduce the value to criminals"

The wholesale manufacture if opioids and their overprescription is a significant part of the problem.

There are direct correlations between oxycontin and it's cousins and opioid abuse in the US, psychotropic doses are said to be a better high than heroin but US doctors are encouraged bu manufacturers to prescribe these drugs.

If anything is a gateway drug to normal members of the population, oxycontin is a good placr to look. Along with the other names, fentanyl, oxycodone etc. Enough seems to be produced apparently legally to fuel a huge level of abuse, how does that hsppen?

Re: "legally, a member-based non-profit organisation"

Okay! How about .BI or .HC (Home Counties) since everyone wants to devolve.

Re: Structural Batteries?!

With the current prediliction of lithium batteries to burn with the slightest puncture, structural batteries are a dumb idea, if you don't believe me, have a walk around a scrapyard and look at the bent bits on a few write offs.

Current battery technology really requires secure installation in a well protected compartment to prevent the incineration of the occupants in a crash.

Unless Musk has something new up his sleeve, it's just the weed talking, generally I am a fan but occasionally he does talk rubbish.

Re: Need a rubber hammer

As far as I know, a clout in that context, is a spade full if soil, think clod of earth.

Re: Actual threats and menace?

Going to a federal prison he is going to get first hand experience of how it feels to be on the receiving end of threats and menace.

Re: Storing hydrogen at altitude

What Airbus are considering is a series of hydrogen powered turboprops for shorter haul and hydrogen fueled jets for the larger longer haul aircraft, in both cases, based on the pics they released, the fuel will be stored in the aft section of the fusleage and will feed the engines mounted on the wings.

These are nothing like the previous fuel cell electric motor powered aircraft they had considered, although a fuel cell power pack to operate internal services and avionics would make sense.

In any case fuel (hydrogen) feed systems from the aft fuselage to wing mounted engines will necessitate high integrity lines to avoid leakage more for economic reasons as trace amounts of hydrogen should not really present much of a problem unless it builds up in an enclosed space and finds an ignition source,

Re: scrum management

The thing with scrum management is, there are always a couple of hookers involved, with scum management, they all prostitute themselves.

Re: House cleaning

"-pinterest is your friend."

But only if you want to continually have to sign so that you can click on images that take you to pages of total irrelevance.

Re: Who wouldn't

"have you ever been mistaken for a man?"

Frequently, I have been a fairly ugly man (and boy) for the past 69 years!

I would regard my question as rhetorical but like irony it seems to go above some people's heads.

Re: This has nothing to do with where data is stored

Stadiums full of adoring fans, patriotic flags draped everywhere, torch lit parades and people snatched off the streets by unmarked vehicles.

Now where have I seen that before?

Re: His methods are unsound.

Rogas' methods were definitely unsound, considering the nature of the business he helped to found, you would have thought he could do a better job of defrauding his company and investors.

At least if he goes to a white collar prison, he will have the opportunity to join discussion groups with similar professionals where they can help him to identify where he went wrong.

Re: Hmm

Read it in a kayaking mag.

Re: You get what you pay for

Quite so. Outsourcing anything requires the direct employment of enough people who are expert in a subject so that the specifications are adequate.

The beancounters tend to think, 'If we are outsourcing this, why do we need any experts of our own?'

I have seen this happen too many times, incomplete specs and no one who can be held directly to blame.

Re: so, a 'Network Computer'?

If the price is right, I can see a lot of people going for it, however, it does make a good environment for lock in.

Re: Tobacco Road

I have been making that mistake for over 50 years, too late to change I suppose.

Re: Trumps cut

I take it he's presidenting on a commission basis then?

" its own isolated network"

It may be a little inconvenient but still less so than digging out a ledger as in the old days.

Re: A strange memorial?

That was my thinking too, I am sure there are better ways to honour their memory than this.

Re: You had one job...

Her "Job" was to supervise an experimental and unproven autonomous control system for a vehicle on public roads, she failed to do that so she is culpable.

In slight mitigation, it seems that her training and instruction was lacking.

Also Uber were the owners and developers of the system, she was supervising on their behalf, so both the supervisor and Uber ought to be considerer culpable at minimum for not exercising duty of care.

Re: regarding asteroid defence as not a national priority

Asteroids and extinction sized meteors will be defeated by the immigration paperwork and the Britishness test after the end of this year so hopefully they will avoid the UK entirely.

Re: Jingoistic Juices are flowing

I am guessing you are a cotton wool wrapped ignorant millenial or gen xer who understands little or nothing of what that war means to Britain and the world.

I'm a boomer, when I was a kid all of our parents had fought in the war, either in the forces or played their part in the civilian life of the country,nearly every family had lost members or friends due to combat or bombing, certainly no-one was unaffected by the war.

As a kid up until the sixties we played on bomb sites in and around London, it wascommon for bombs and ordnance to be dug on most construction sites, I remember watching a group of Paddies digging a trench, pulling out dozens of small incendiary bombs and chucking them into an oil drum full of water.

The North bound entrance to the Blackwall tunnel under the modern cladding still has the 20mm cannon shell marks from where an Me 190 strafed the traffic.

So it has feck all to do with gammons and everything to do with the fact you are able to make your vacuous comments here.

Re: China ARM and a leg

Did you mean Softbank 'says' the matter is resolved.

I definitely think some due diligence is required before everything is signed, sealed and delivered.

Re: computers will be used for low-priority work

I wonder if any of them have read Fred Saberhagen's Berseker?