Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
It seems likely that the binary systems could be a result of tidal forces within the original accretion disc, causing the material to separate into two distinct bodies. There could be a threshold for where the minimum and maximum amounts of material could allow this to happen.
I am not by any stretch of the imagination, any kind of astronomer and the maths are totally beyond me.
Curious as to what a couple of reporters were doing poking around in a caravan park ? Also
, It sounds as though the engineer were in there so anyone trying to cause trouble would get a twat round the head while one of the others would be calling the cops.
I terrorists really knew where the place was and wanted to damage it, I don't think they would need to wait for someone to open the he doors.
Usual Wail mountain out of a mole hill stuff.
Regardless of whether you want an outside loo built or a piece of code, if you don't specify all elements don't assume you are going to get them.
When hiring any freelancer or contractor, you need to know what they can do and have references, if you don't understand that you have no business hiring anyone.
Can't say I think much of the quality of research.
There are already mechanisms that can be injected into a human body and even penetrate a cell. They are called viruses, genetically modified viruses don't need a power source and can be targetted to specific areas of the body. Still not something I'm keen on having introduced to my body but I think GMO viruses probably have a better future than micro-machines
I worked on job around that time helping to construct a fallout shelter by burying two 40' containers in a bloody great hole and covering them with about five feet of concrete.
The client spent a fortune kitting them out, it seemed unsporting to point out that there were two large underground ordnance stores in the vicinity that the Russians were almost certainly aware of, so his shelter was in a probable multiple hit target zone.
Ah, memories. I have rebuilt both the carb and the distributor on the roadside on my 2 1/4l IIa, with a leatherman supertool.
As for crank starting, I did that for several weeks one year while broke and between jobs and couldn't afford to repair it, It had uprated half shafts, a new tilt from Derbyshire LandRovers and never let me down when it counted, even pulling two horses in a trailer through axle deep mud and shit.
I had a big red battery isolator key under the dashon my old IIA, it went in with me at nights or if parked anywhere a bit iffy.
One of my mates had a '54. Series I that had no ignition key, just a big round starter button on the floor like the original Mini one. A neighbor told him he had seen a young would be thief go in through the unlocked door and spend quite some time looking for the ignition then giving up and walking of.
The ignition was a toggle switch on the centre dash.
The last place I had anything to do with stock control, we had a fair amount of pilfering, so we found a supplier of self adhesive security labels. We would engrave the number on the label onto the stock and then stick the label over it.
UV flourescing ink was good for marking inside some items too.
That they couldn't even cobble together some sort of BS just to keep the ICO off their backs for a bit longer.
If I was the ICO, after such an obvious demonstration that there is little or no security for personal data, I would be after them like a Jack Russell on a rat .
It seems likely that other than the fact that the data is valuable and they don't want to give it away, they are unable to show anything concrete in terms of protecting personal info within the meaning of GDPR.
All of the major telcos in Spain also depend on Huawei phones as a part of their marketing, they offer comparable features to a lot of Samaung kit, the cameras arr mostly pretty good and I am sure they get a good deal on a truck load of top end phones.
I suppose the Yanks can't really put limits on Sammy kit as they are allies with Korea.
I beg to differ on the ear stretching hoops, the snot catcher nose rings through the philtrum are even uglier especially on a girl.
Not too sure if I have ever conformed, aside from my time in the army, I have never been a member of any group so I haven't conformed to nonconformism or conformism.
Who authorised the destruction of the Windrush data does still have a job, although I am not too sure ehe is doing it well.
The files were destroyed six months into the maybot's stint as Home Secretary, then she tried to blame it on the previous Labour government.
Unelected, unimaginative, unliked and unsympathetic to thousands of people who helped the UK to recover after the war.
Barcelona has the Catalan loonies who all seem to have fallen off their collective perch lately. The rest of Spain is peaceful and civilised, though I live in Valencia,I think Madrid has the nicest vibe of any major European city, friendly people, good food, micro breweries al over and surprisingly cheap good qualty accommodation.
You could do a lot worse than Madrid or Valencia where I live. Spain has a growing IT market, the Government is fairly progressive, the weather at this time of year can be fantastic ( today a forecast of sunny 22°. Prices are cheap and both cities have good facilities. An added bonus would be some of the best wines in the world at stupidly low prices.
AI works for bananas?
I am starting up an SAI venture; Synthetic Artificial Intelligence, the AI isn't real but it almost works the same in as much as it's not intelligent. Looking inside the box is forbidden because it upsets the monkey.
Of course the monkey is much smarter than any AI but it still isn't intelligent.
Why would any government agencies want to enforce anything that would bring down what s probably one of their first ports of call when they want to start investigating somebody.
The data that Faecebook holds is a wet dream for most goverments and I'm sure they wil have access o anything they want .
For a price.
@ Mark110
I'm an old fart in my 60s, I got over mind altering chemicals (other than alcohol) way before Prodigy was a thing but the first time I heard them I liked the music. If you need drugs or drink to enjoy yourself I would recommend some counseling or something. The stuff we had in the '60s and '70s was fun but that's all
, those who depended on it were the unlucky ones. Up until a couple of years ago I was still doing security for visitors to Ibiza stone cold sober still enjoying the clubs.
I met him fleetingly at an amateur bike racing meeting at Cadwell Pk in the nineties, he had not long started competing and had kitted himself out with a Ducati. He saw the bike my mate was racing while walking round the paddock and stopped for a chat.
A nicer more down to earth guy you couldn't meet, his riding wasn't bad either but his music to me stands the test of time.
He was a Prodigy, RIP Keith.
Between the time of application and training.
Might I suggest dumping Crapita, then put together a few teams of NCOs armed with a sock full of sand and a pocket ful of specially minted shillings, give each team a van and a list of Wetherspoons.
Basic training will sort out the men/women from the boys/girls, if they're not up to combat there is always a need for spud peelers and other support persons.
In my early working life as a painter and decorator in the UK, the worst words you would hear from a potential client was ' I just want a clean up' or 'I just want to freshen the place up'.
That meant they wanted to pay peanuts and then complain about the lack of quality of the job and then try to pay even less.
Just should just be stricken from the language.
I feel the US is nervous of companies like Huawei who have grown large enough to affect markets that the US only a few years ago thought they controlled.
It's also the rapid development of China as as whole that threatens Western economic dominance. China has recently announced the dicovery in existing oil fields of huge previously unknown reserves if natural gas. There is a chance that China may change from being the World's biggest importer to being energy independent and an exporter abd it will be a pie the US doesn't have a finger in. North Korea is next door to these fields, who knows, they could become the next oil/gas rich state?
Just because their billing is often grossly inaccurate (usually to their benefit) and they make an issue of it before you do, doesn't stop them from being a billing company.
It just means they are a crappy one.
Here in Spain, the so called Vodaphone shops seem to be mostly franchises, so when you have real issue with them, they can't do much about it because they are a 'sales' franchise.
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