Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects 1355 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2007
It all started with the corruption that wiped out Chan Kai Shrek's government. They were so bloody awful that they made Mao Tse Tung's idiots popular. Once the government gets taken over by zombies, it is difficult to clean house.
The boy was brought up as the pride, joy and only hope for his parents. There were no alternatives. The worst thing about the situation was that having a moron in China means you don't get to benefit the gene pool further.
Avez vooz thoughte zate ze Concorde was doomed the moment we got the French on board?
It was bad enough it remained a government project all its life, it died still wearing valves in the digital age. Good grief. In effing France!
How many versions of jumbo jets got produced in its lifetime?
Machrihanish sounds perfect. We need a multinational civil engineering project to join Scotland to the UK once more. And they have all the oil. The sooner we use it all up the better.
This made me feel old and also that though I have had 63 years, a lot of it was wasted waiting for my dreams to grow up with me:
> "The SABRE engine has the potential to revolutionise our lives in the 21st century
> in the way the jet engine did in the 20th Century. "
It summed up just how short a century is and how much can change in 100 years since Wilbur and Orville gave Frank ideas.
And to think we could have had jet powered Hurricanes in 1936 if only the British Government had been able to come up with a fiver. Hell they could have had jet powered, 25mm calibre firing Mosquitoes in time for the Battle of Britain if it hadn't been for the Ministry of Defence.
We are going to find out how much regualr posters get to know about sociopolitics when we find out that god badgers are more badger than gold around here.
No offence Fred, you can have my brass one if you want but...
Having lots of people to mind fuck makes you pretty good at what Voland has intimated. Let me tell you how GCHQ got started...
Once apponner time there was this really average sized country but it lived in a place called Atlantic Approaches. Then one day, one of the wicked witches came to the feast......
<to be continued.>
Don't buy slave products.
All the super size companies in the world get their labour and materials from China because China stinks.
So stop buying Chinese goods and make the world a better place.
Can't be done and won't be done. Not until wages rise there and botom out here.
And maybe not then, philanthropists don't get jobs as bean counters and certainly not at Microsoft, Apple or Samsung.
I despise the BBC.
Listening to the World Service a few days back (World Have Your Say) I was surprise how eagerly the presenters cut off everyone who made a valid point about the atrocities in a recently recurring war in Africa.
None the less it was a superior article from the Register.
Looking at the design of the website's early offerngs I wonder if the Reg is considering doing an Apple Jobbie?
When interviewed by the police, you get one copy of the recording and they get another. I forget who has the thirds.
So who gets the copies of the harddrives and who watches that the police are procuring evidence honestly?
When the finnish Faltfeet trod all over that 9 year old non-adult (AKA little girl AKA moppet) for not downloading a song, who was acting in locum parentis, so to speak, for the impounded evidence?
> That is like arguing that quantum physics violates Newtonion mechanics.
Except of course Newton never got to deal with ferrets.
Radio frequencies change with the weather.
During periods of sustained anticyclones terrestrial TV became impossible and that was after decades of hi-tech development.
> "Holland and Kwok reckon their new satellite research has at last shed some light on the mysterious (to climate science) ice gains around Antarctica"
It's a mystery to climate science but not to people who no longer believe what the artists formerly known as scientists tell us.
Climate science is based on logs that were buried in a marsh in coastal Siberia.
From this they have deduced that carbon dioxide is poisoning us all.
What if the problem could be cured by not chopping all the trees down but by growing them instead?
Microclimates all over large continents would change dramatically in 4 years or so. And all the excess carbon dioxide would be used as plant nutrient.
All you would have to do then is stop the idiots in the small continents overgrazing. That would allow aquifers to recover, natural ground cover to rebuild and fewer large ruminants farting green gasses all over the place and upsetting all those suicidal Kiwis.
> We quantify dynamic and thermodynamic processes in the internal ice pack and show that wind-driven changes in ice advection are the dominant driver of ice-concentration trends around much of West Antarctica, whereas wind-driven thermodynamic changes dominate elsewhere.
Ice advection means transport of ice as opposed to creating or melting it as is the case elsewhere. You can actually watch what happens to water content in the air there:
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/viewer/index.shtml?type=mslp-precip&tz=UTC&area=SH&model=G&chartSubmit=Refresh+View
The effect has just changed dramatically as the season and this is also the explanation for the timing and the geography of the ITCZ. Come back in April when the world's tropical storm seasons start again.
BTW, who lives in Crib Coch?
You think that an agency the size of the BBC should be treated differently to an old people's home or an hospital ward where the staff have committed similar offences?
Not using the TV and very little radio, I can tell you now that wat you lose is brainwash and what you get is focus in your own thinking. You get to live in a world without sound bites and without political promises. Be careful what you wish, for it pays dividends.
I would have thought it obvious. I won't be a lack of commercials that kills watching TV so much as the lack of entertainment value to those of us already fed up with commercials.
You can only adulterate food so much, after that people will begin looking for a change of diet.
Obviously couch potatoes are immune but obese people tend to confine themselves to the TV anyway, hell they might even get cured by watching TV.
You are wrong to say:
> the opportunity to prosecute Gary in the UK has been missed,
It never existed. People shpuld not be at the mercy of lawmakers who can't make up their minds what the bloody law is. If they can't understand it how the hell do they expect anyone else to? No case to answer.
Besides which as the accused's repreresentaive says:
"If this was the case it would mean they could have prosecuted Gary in 2002 and saved our family more than 10 years of absolute misery which has destroyed Gary’s life and caused his mental health to deteriorate further, and has all but ruined our lives too,"
This 10 uear long scandal is torture and McKinnon should be able to claim compensation from the British bunglers involved. Screw the USA. When they finally get around to shooting that Chimpanzee, releasing all those innocent people incarcerated in Cuba and stop the rapes and murders in Iraq and Afghanistan, maybe the rest of the world should than begin to consider them a safe country to return their refugees to.
And never in my life time, ever consider sending any Brits to the bastards. Not unless it is one of us that assassinated one of their presidunces and is to recieve a medal, money and honours for the act of humanity.
I think your percetion of ice cores is over rated. Unless ice flows linearly, which it can't do on a slope as it is standing in water...
Or do they allow for that by drilling in a curve?
Wait...
Jump form one sample to the next. That would explain why they need so many.
Is that it?
Did you know that the art of dendocodology is based on 12 logs from a marsh in a region where weather is somewhat unclimatic?
Not only do marsh and semidesrt exist side by side but the weather changes dramatically in a day. Sometimes by a matter of several degrees. Like 50 of them for example.
Then you have the problem engendered by fogs and frosts all without knowing which is what.
As for podsoils:
If a fire has removed it, the fertility may increase in the region due to access to minerals or not as the case may be. So they can stick all twelve logs in in a fire and smoke them for all the use they are. Counting smoke rings might prove more accurate.
But I am not against the idea of doing something about the environment. But it isn't cutting out fires. It is in allowing the land and the sea to recover from big business and monocultural/agrichemical farming.
And that is never going to happen.
It is strange that the people who have no property have been guilty of all of the industrial conspiracies, and the people who own all the earth have not been guilty of any industrial conspiracy.
A few men today can control all the industry and do control all of the industry of this country. A dozen men sitting around the table in a big city can bring famine if they wish...
And they are able to say to the working man engaged in industry just how much of his product they will take, and from him they take just enough to leave him alive. They have got to leave him alive, or he can't work, and they have got to leave him enough strength and ambition to propagate his species or the rich people can't get their work done in the next generation. And that is all that they are bound to leave him.
They have managed to control the price of their products, and charge what they see fit and all they need is to buy their raw material in the open markets of the world as cheaply as they can, and labor is the principal raw material that they use.
So the employer and the capitalist have combined in all industry, and they fix the price to suit themselves and insist that the workingman shall come to them individually and unorganized and compete with each other for a day's labor, so they can buy labor at the smallest cost and if, perchance, there are not working men enough here, they want the ports of the world opened so they can draw on China or Japan or any other country on the face of the earth, and get working men there to work for them at the smallest price.
And do you think under any fair system of industry and life we would ever need a law to keep a child out of a factory or a mill?
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30731/30731-h/30731-h.htm
I am grateful to all concerned with Open Office and Office Libre.
In centuries to come the world will have something better but will remember both applications for my research the way Latin is fondly rememebered today by every one of the millions of readers of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Thank you.
I thank you.
Quite right. Wars are always about the bloke in charge though they never apologise if theylive that long.
Personally I hope that he doesn't too, if he lives that long.
This is my quote of the week:
Google This is a digital copy of a book that was prcscrvod for gcncrations on library shclvcs bcforc it was carcfully scannod by Google as pari of a projcct to make the world's books discoverablc onlinc.
It looks even better if you read it in the marquee text, here:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.archive.org/stream/elcastellanoena00jagoog/elcastellanoena00jagoog_djvu.txt&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dvagarda%2Bperu%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dubuntu%26hs%3Dfwq%26channel%3Dfs%26prmd%3Dimvns&sa=X&ei=hJ-DUKuhGubH0QWmzoHAAw&ved=0CGUQ7gEwBw
If I had a 20 billion big red ones to play with, I'd spend it on getting the scanner fixed rather than lose it to a bunch of second rate accountants.
Off on a tangent, thinking of the monopoly's money:
How many full double decker buses is 20 billion big red ones?
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