Posts by Richard 126

Re: Keep the Frogs happy.

That factoid was the basis for an Issac Asimov short story.

Why is there a need to wash dishes? Today's food cleans most of yesterday's food of the plate and tomorrow's food will clean most of the remains of today's off.

I have a Tesla Turbine it is indeed a cool thing and well worth the time it took to build.

Tesla coils abound in my bedroom in the form of violet wands again great things to play with.

Re: Fragile. Very fragile.

Maybe I have a personality disorder but if I saw my boss doing that I would have just turned around and gone to the tea room to make a cup of tea and let him get on with it.

Re: The real reason most people here in Oz buy overseas...

When I lived in Launceston (Tasmania), nearly 30 years ago. I was told by my local grocery store that peas where so expensive because of the cost of freight across Bass Straight. Which was odd as I knew they were grown about 5 miles away out towards Hagley.

Re: affected by the West's TWAT (aka The War On Terror).

No it should be TWAT (aka The War Against Terror).

Re: Amazon Prime "2 Day" shipping...

TDCU 1ZZ is a perfectly good British Post Code it is for the overseas territory of Tristan da Cunha it was assigned in 2005 so Amazon should have managed to find it by now.

Re: You know that fire stations are for putting them out, not starting new ones?

I believe it should be renamed back to the War Department. Might make people think about what it actually does.

Re: Teching self-help

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

Jingo

by Terry Pratchett

Re: Reuters

"It also clears the way for employers to cite religion in determining workplace policies on dress code, grooming and bathroom and locker access."

Does this mean as a devout follower of the flying spaghetti monster I can require all my workers to wear a colander on their head?

Re: When I get a gigabit pipe with no limits

I would pay good money for a browser that did that. Dump all the ads and trackers to /dev/null and just show me the page.

At present I use ABP+ and Adnauseum as far the advertisers are concerned I am interested in and click on every ad on every page I have opened in about the last 2 years.

Re: Useless bus? @dan

"The war on terror" has been around for more than a decade,

It is The War Against Terror (TWAT) So called because it is run by a bunch of twats.

Re: Works for me @ AC

1. These people are insane in the way that rabid dogs are and need to be stopped.

I don't believe they are insane and any method of combating them based on this belief will almost certainly be a total failure. They are extremely religious believing that every word of their holy books is literally true.

Any Christian who lived according to the bible would be virtually indistinguishable from ISIS. (Stoning people to death, keeping slaves, eating shell fish in an abomination etc) I feel it is very important that we understand this when trying to combat them. We need to talk to them and and understand not just listen to the UK / US government point of view.

Re: now they have a "mandate to govern".

>Until this country becomes a republic, true democracy simply isn't possible

The problem with an elected head of state is that they will be a politician and therefore almost inevitably an arsehole bought and paid for by whoever puts up the money to get them elected.

At least in a monarchy or a dictatorship you don't get that particular problem.

Re: looking for apps

The trouble with search for everything and the time you really need a good menu is when you have no idea what is installed on the computer. This happens when some Luser who appears to be stuck irrevocably in dummy mode brings me a laptop with the complaint that some program they have forgotten the name of, made to do some job, but they can't remember what is doing or maybe not doing something that maybe it should or shouldn't be doing. Really handy at this time to have a good menu to scroll though to find out what on earth is on the box. Not perhaps as useful as an over voltage cattle prod but useful.

If ground source heat pumps and PV roofs were mandated on all new build, the price of installing it would plummet and therefore be more accessible to retro-fitting for owners of older properties.

Nice idea but in reality the price would go up not down. Once something is mandated you have to have it and then the manufacturers can and do charge whatever they like. In this situation the price always goes up as the manufacturers exploit the market and all manufacturers maintain similar prices.

Richard

Re: ANY photos of GCHQ staff?

I suggest that perhaps you are wrong. A photo of Joe Blow in a High Street pub is harmless but this photograph could then be matched to another photograph (perhaps not yet taken) showing him working for GCHQ. At that time the photograph in the pub becomes targeting data, i.e. where he goes to relax and possibly depending on what else is in the photo what time and day of the week you could expect to find him there. Publishing information like this is certainly in breach of the law.

With facial recognition software I guess this is not very difficult.

Re: So what is going on?

It is an arc because the only thing measured was time to get a ping from the satellite to the plane. So the plane is somewhere on the surface of a globe centered on the satellite. From that you have to work out that it is lower than 43,000 feet as that is as high as the plane can fly, it is higher than sea-level as we are looking for a plane not a submarine. The extreme north south limitations are the amount of fuel on board and the break in the middle of the arc is the area where the transponder would have been picked up by two satellites and as it wasn't it isn't there.

Electrical model of the universe

There is an electrical model of the universe that doesn't require dark matter. It assumes that gravity is relatively unimportant in holding the universe together and that the main forces are electrical / electo-magnetic. Hence no need for the missing mass required by the gravity model. The predictions of the electric universe theory seem to be true but it is regarded as very much a fringe science as everyone KNOWS that the universe is held together by gravity. This latest finding throws a little more support towards the electric universe model and away from traditional astrophysics.

Re: Aren't all physical corners round?

At least to the resolution of an electron microscope all corners are round.

Re: If this is true...

They are already slaughtering each other for control of resources and have been for a long time.

America & Britain murder their way through the Middle East to steal oil, maybe started in the 1950s with the overthrow and murder of the democratically elected leader in Iran just so that BP could keep control of the oil.

Israel murders their way through Palestine partly to fulfil their imagined religious destiny but mostly to steal water because the Palestinians have it and they don't.

A side effect of these wars is to reduce population. Britain, America maybe Israel have dumped thousands of tons of Depleted Uranium throughout the Middle East during their wars, which leads to massive rises in birth defects, cancers, death, disability and will keep right on killing for the next 10,000 years at least. Seems our "civilized" western nations are already doing something to get rid of what they perceive to be surplus and inferior populations.

Re: TV Licensing RSoles

They have been doing this to me for 8 years now. They demand I take prompt action. I promptly put their letter in the bin. They have only visited once, I opened the door wearing nothing but a condom and told him that he had just pulled me out of my girlfriend and that it had better be important. The look on his face was priceless. No inspector has ever been back but they continue with the hysterical and threatening letters. As I have no TV I see no point in wasting my time with this crap.

Re: Old-Timers need not apply

Go to New Zealand they have a limit of 55. Once you have an NZ passport you have defacto Australian citizenship.

Re: I laugh at these simple "security" scenarios :(

I have a friend who works in a place with this sort of security. Every 2 months she changes her password 24 times in one day to clear the usage limits then reuses the password she started with and carries on. Not good but better than writing it down on a post it note.

@No such thing as an Anonymous Coward

Check the following it is all easy to verify:-

Which part of Poland has murdered tens thousands of German civilians with full support from Britain especially the British bankers do you not understand?

On March 31, 1939, Poland received a blank check from England, which unilaterally offered to guarantee her sovereignty; not only if Germany invaded Poland, but also if Poland invaded Germany! This merely served to stiffen Polish resistance to Hitler’s genuine desire to achieve a permanent solution of all outstanding issues emanating from the Treaty of Versailles.

During the next five months the Polish government progressively intensified the oppression, harassment of and attacks on the 1.5 million ethnic Germans living in Poland. These attacks, in which over 58 000 German civilians were killed by Poles in an orgy of savagery, culminated in the Bromberg Massacre on September 3, 1939, in which 5 500 people were murdered. These provocations and atrocities were stoically ignored. Eventually Hitler was forced to employ military intervention in order to protect the Germans in Poland.

On August 30, 1939, in an act of great statesmanship, Hitler again offered to the Poles the Marienwerder proposals, namely retention of the existing 1919 borders, the return of Danzig (97% German), the construction of a 60-mile autobahn and rail link connecting West and East Prussia (from Schoenlanke to Marienwerder) and an exchange of German and Polish populations. On the orders of the international bankers, the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, strongly advised the Poles NOT to negotiate. This is how and why World War II was started. The ensuing forced war resulted in victory for the international financiers and defeat and slavery for all the people of Europe.

You can't patent the wheel it was patented in Australia in 2001

People believe what they want

I will not have a different perspective if one of my friends or family members dies as a result of these leaks. If they are stupid enough to obey illegal governemt orders to go to far off lands to kill innocent civilians they deserve to die.

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There maybe limits to freedom of speach in America but Assangei is not in America and inspite of the insane beliefs of American politicians and many other Americans, Amercian law doesn't apply to the rest of the world. Free speach is just fine.