Posts by Steve Crook

Labour

Well, true the Coalition haven't exactly shone in their handling of this to date, but then most of the real trouble took place during a Labour administration. Particularly the (deliberately???) botched police investigation.

The truth is that no-one is going to come out of this without some shit sticking to them, politicians, police or the press in general, let alone Murdochs various 'organs'.

The big question is, will the various parties finally regain their collective nerve and try to bury the worst of it???

Locked, but not permanently..

You can install on one device and then unregister and and install on another (if you upgrade phone for instance). But it only applies to the same OS, so android for android for instance...

In your dreams

But that will be ready when and at what cost?

It won't be much good if the weather across most of Europe is the same on any given day (which, surprisingly, it often is).

No, the problem is inherent in wind power and most other renewables. I'm sure that in the future it will be possible to store the power somehow. But at the moment it's a liability.

Cornell Report

Is that the one where one of the authors said that their data was both incomplete and inadequate and the reports conclusions were not to be trusted? If it is, then there's no need to have a long article about it, as it's already been done on plenty of other sites/blogs

Just asking...

Whoaaaaa

It's a support office. You know the one you ring when the wheels fall off or the engine backfires. afaik these will be flown by Brits, from British bases.

This is a tacit acknowledgement that the Watchkeeper is actually not fit for anything, except target practice for ground to air missile systems.

So it's their Attitude???

America are hypocrites and that makes them worse than anyone else? That was a troll right?

The govt in Burmah are not as bad as the US? But if you asked them, they'd say that their people had just voted in a free and fair election. The USSR happily promoted itself as a workers paradise just as their eastern European colonies did, and they'd have been just as happy to see you live the same way, Gulags and all.

I'm sure, if asked, the Russian govt. would describe their society as free and fair, yet Russian journalists are routinely murdered and beaten up, and the crimes are not investigated.

Given a choice between Russia, China and America as top dog, at the moment I'd pick the Americans every time. You might like to say that there should be no top dog, but that's not the way the world works. The Americans are a bit like democracy, they may be rubbish, but at the moment, they're the least worst alternative.

Even the Swiss who have a reputation for peace and harmony used to supply mercenaries to the highest bidder.

They are all flaky

Frankly, having looked at reviews of freeview pvrs, they all have problems this seem to hit some, but not others. The divergence of opinion on Amazon user reviews is pretty amazing.

I've had Humax 9200T for some years, and generally been happy with it, until the sluggish remote problem started happening. There was a long wait for Humax to finally decide what they were going to do about it, but they did eventually fix the problems.

I'd be interested to know how long the reviewer had the box before writing the review...

You got it right

Frankly, I wish futureologits (misspelling deliberate) would just shut up. If they read a bit more, they'd know they're almost always just parroting ideas put into print 20 years earlier by plenty science fiction authors who have already moved on to something more interesting.

/rant

It's the bit where he says...

'It is unlikely to mean the end of climate-change concern, however, as various other "runaway" mechanisms are also postulated'

However, the carbon feedback business is the most often quoted when it comes to these sorts of things. If these boffins have come up with more accurate figures to feed into climate prediction models, then I for one will be happier.

True but...

This is an interesting exercise because it illustrates the mindset. People get a good income selling iPhone apps. They don't cost much, but you sell a lot, you make a lot. Same thing with waste. You may only throw a few pennies away, but if you do it often enough...

Unfortunately, there's a tendency to focus on a few big salaries or obviously wasteful projects, all the the while there's a constant bleed of *our* money out of govt in departmental vanity projects.

The audit commission should be made entirely independent of govt, and given powers to bite, not just to report.

Helium Reserves

Helium is extracted from gases from oil wells (US great plains?), where it's actually quite abundant. The US govt. used to mandate its collection and storage. But some years ago they decided they had enough, and stopped collecting. So, while you're correct there are limited reserves, there's still quite a lot underground.

All we have to do is extract it, and not piss it away in floating balloons for kids or making silly voices...

Nukes.

There's no actual suggestion that what is proposed will work. There is no idea of the consequences of building something of this scale in the Sahara (assuming it can be built). Just because there's a lot of 'useless' sand, doesn't mean that there's not something using it, or living in it, or something that depends on it being heated by the sun.

This isn't a panacea, and building it will have consequences. Plainly you know what they are. I don't, and I suspect that so far the research hasn't been done. I'm just being pragmatic. You're being (IMO) overly optimistic. Personally, I think history bears out my POV.

The operative words are...

MAY NOT. Which appear right at the front of the article. This implies a possibility that will require further investigation. Not a certainty. Seems a reasonable report of what the people were doing. Unless you know different.

Increase in turnout?

Mmmm up from 61.4. This for an election that was billed as one of the most important in 20 years, and has had all parties busting a nut to get their vote out and the benefit of massive increases in postal votes and the best WEB2.0 that man can devise.

Can't agree with you.