Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects 1355 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2007
One had his wrists slashed. Nobody came up with the idea to CSI case the place the deadly deed was dun to see how fertile the ground had suddenly become. Wonder not for ever.
"Yo, Tony, get rid of him and I'll make you a multimillionaire when it's over".
Probably had to include an alcoholic in the contract, a potential whistle-blower with a photographic memory?
What could anyone rate his chances?
> The article mentioned where most of it went: to the agricultural nexus in the heart of the state.
No it didn't they had that war with the sheriff of Youtube in the Grapes of Wrath revolution. But at least the Injuns managed to escape from the Oklahoma concentration camps.
The Colorado has been suffering from extraction for decades (maybe about the same era) and they built a giant U-shaped motorway to divert any rainwater out of lost angleiron so fast it doesn't touch the ground.
San Diego wouldn't have a problem had the environmentalists from non San Diego regions come and voted San Diego close its power plant then the saw the drought coming and buggered off to not build fairy wind castles and glass palaces that run on sunlight and antifreeze. Suppose you kick the politician that licked their arses out of office then sue the bastards for damages.
If you uses marsh lakes with mussel beds and reeds it will clean up effectively. I'm not sure you can convince people to drink it but most people drink Thames river water after it's been used three or four time. The trick is: Don't tell them about it.
The trick worked in Chernobyl too, apparently it killed thousands but Russia only reported some 60 or so. They thought they were going to get away with it but the Swedes noticed it made their shoes dirty.
You don't quite understand Thatcherism do you?
Thatcherism is that you sell all the socialist schemes to bring water to the unwashed to bring money to the washed. Problem solved. Since it is legal they don't even need a laundry. It works best under compression where you change all the vehicle manufacturers into one giant lame duck and offer it to China or was it India?
Someone had to set up monopoly in the poorer countries, they'd never cope just selling our shirts.
I went around the Cemaes Bay reactor before they shut it. They got a license extended to keep it open because the graphite core was uncontaminated. Then Thatcher went to war with the miners then shortly after they closed a spate of nuclear power plants. Since then I have been looking at lots of videos on Thorium reactors and it has been a mind opener.
Large firms in the business of farming plutonium residues do so only with the connivance of corporate and political scum. The actual grunts: nuclear physicists have no say in what is best policy or why. Harvesting spent plutonium is a racket that will continue to make money for all concerned for 24,100^2 years until we start building thorium plant and shooting large power company/environmental agency management.
If yellow-cake turns out to be the stone cut out "not by human hands" we can only tell ourselves that we have none to blame but our wise men. And that we chose them. I am not looking forward to being right but it is nice to think that it might be nearly over. I am going to have to start behaving. I certainly don't want poetic justice I'd much rather have forgiveness.
What is special about Chernobyl is that it was a nuclear pile run by a country with a dark ages mentality in the Soviet era, built without containment or any safety measures and run by monkeys; yet it only killed everyone ever killed in accidents at nuclear reactors.
But it was not even an accident. It was sabotage by someone who had a poor translation of The Simpsons, a "People's черный рынок" version and missed all the nuances.
I'm impressed that Spain had learned how to build a set of windmills and use half of them in a storm. That is remarkable engineering.
FYI in Britain inclement cold weather is related to increased volcanic activity. A bête noire. I not only hate the cold the weather but the charts inevitably bugger about. If you would like to know how to interpret them, ask and ye shall receive. (But ask loudly I listen quietly.)
The idea of buying a failing under-performer and cutting off its testicles just so you have a machine you can sell in Woolworth's is a well known bad idea. Once a company saddles itself with anything like Compaq, it's time to bolt the stable door and take the horses to market.
> if you are a long-time AdBlock user, I suggest you try switching it off.
From time to time a storm of whatever sort rips through televisionland and all the queer ninnies come out of the woodwork. I'm presuming this is a national culture thing. Are there enough pragmatists there to make chimpanzocracy possible?
Or is scatocracy and financial ruin the inevitable result?
I imagine you'd be fairly immune to it if you are still using Windows but it was a culture shock to me. Please be careful.
I have just been looking at Californian news bulletins. They all seem to have the attention span of dogs and children. I was so upset by the lack of maturity and the pointless adverts that I was ill and got quite nasty about it. (My usual response to internet folly these days.)
Nobody engages in high finance because of altruism. In recession national economies are controlled by their own wild politics. And the most innocuous statement from a foolish politician can wipe millions from a firm's share prices.
We saw it from Margaret Thatcher's fumblings and we saw it from the chimpanzee's bumblings and when the people running the Autotrades at the demise of Detroit all turned up for government handouts in their company jets.
The only way out of financial close-down is if someone inspired comes up with a good idea and people are willing to back them. What might have saved Stoke on Trent, two decades back is someone supplying free electricity.
http://thoriumremix.com/th/
It might happen to Mitsubishi if the directors of Tepco can be convinced (or forced) to do the "Honourable Thing" and leave the way open for thorium based generation by people who actually know what they are doing. (That is: not anyone from Microsoft.)
The ability for the average prawn to get any use out of HSBC 's online services supposing they forget any one of a long list of unrecoverably hard to remember code words/passwords is starting to bother me now that Apple have some unspecific hook to my money. I almost read something about it before deciding to go to another machine rather than wait in the queue this afternoon. (Both machines were borked, so I suppose I should have mulled it.) I suppose I could always go in tomorrow and reassure myself it isn't true. /Or open an account at the bank on the corner. ANY EFFFING Corner.
I recall a friend showing me the points from a Nissan in the days just before electronic ignition. The car had been used around the clock to within limits a driving school car would have. After going around the clock a fair bit he took it in for its service and the mechanic found the points worn down to the bone.
He had not noticed any problem with the engine as the car was firing perfectly.
He had thought the car was running with electronic ignition and was surprised to find he needed to replace them. Cut to an adjacent Talbot whose computer problems required it rot away in a yard waiting for parts. I have never been in any hurry to get the latest greatest.
I can still remember the thin skin of platinum that was all that was left of the Nissan's points. I was duly, truly amazed.
Yes; if you think the Spitfire was the icon of WW2 you'd be surprised how well designed it was that by 1939 they still had to find a way of producing them. Kind of highlights British Management to think that the RAF thought it was so good by then they ceased all thought of alternative specie.
After that we invented the motor bike and did it so well that everyone was the same one. And continued being the same one until the motor cycle industry went broke trying to sell motorcycles that didn't work in the rain.
They have so much of it and are intent on keeping it. I recall moving to Linux for similar reasons. An ardent supporter of all things selfish (Black Viper) received a copy of Vista or something of that ill (k?) for all the hard work he put into his Microsoft support website. And he thanked them!
What a bunch of shmuck.
> As a point of history, New Horizons will be making its closest fly-by 50 years to the day after Mariner 4 became the first man made satellite to fly past Mars. During its brief visit to Pluto, New Horizons will collect 5,000 times as much data as the earlier probe to aid our understanding of the mysterious dwarf planet.
If.
Let's hope the sunny hack (https://weatherlawyer.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/the-end-of-an-odd-spell/) wasn't Sony hacked. I remember buying a pile of Sony CDs from a car boot just before throwing my computer away around about... no it couldn't have been that long ago, could it?
I once had a set-to with an expert from NCAR over a broken window. I used it to forecast a large earthquake or a tropical storm - I forget which. He doesn't post on uk.sci.weather these days but recently, neither do I. Scientists can be natural disasters. I had no idea who he was and went for the throat in my usual impeccably impervious manner.
So no great loss there. I on the other hand get upset too easily so my going AWOL is best for everyone, me included. I wonder if he post anonymously. I won't.
Natural big weather depends for convergence on gravity wells called weather fronts, a form of Lagrangian Point. Neutral points tend to attract convergence. Wiggins, a Canadian, in the era of the cowboy was using them to forecast the Storm of the Millennium. He died thinking he was a failure but he forecast Krakatoa instead. You can get his manual on the Gutenberg Project.
Today the Canadian-EFS is perfect for forecasting US tornadoes or world-wide volcanic eruptions. IKYN, anyone can do it if they know the rules for noughts and crosses.
Another mystic (in Coimbatore) with a lousy IT facility, uses/used? (retired now?) a ladder fixed top and bottom to a concrete wall. You can quite easily imagine how that works, he has no idea. California a land of eccentrics that easily matches Britain's quotient has any number of adepts. It has something to do with purine nucleotides I think. I believe they become more soluble during volcanic unrest. the solute is liable to sedimentation on a tidal scale. Just guessing obviously.
But back to the subject, old kit is liable to disruption during earthquake activity but so is modern stuff. The problem is likely to be crystals in the electronics. For that reason old kit that has stood the test of time can still be working perfectly in the periods of high outages. (Look for Blocking Highs in the Atlantic Approaches.)
Keep a couple of spare old-faithfuls running as a back-up. If you don't switch them off too often, they may never be needed. Good luck.
“The Chinese are finding now that there's a trade-off between wanting to be a global economic player. So they've not made that mistake with Alibaba. They are delighted that Alibaba is in the markets and that the IPO was a stunning success. Once in a while they call [founder and chair] Jack Ma and remind him it's a Chinese company – the propaganda people do.”
....a chimpanzee wakes up with a tequila sunrise that needs a coke to stop blinding him, picks up the phone and calls the White House and tells the operator that Syria used to be a hewckuvva good place to sneak people on unmarked aircraft.
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