Posts by Naughtyhorse

or....

at least AV <liddle bid-a-politics there>

Duh-huh!

sticking extra wires on poles increases the loads on the supports enormously (srsly). Only bt really know how knackered their oh support equipment is. There is bound to be some small print in the agreement along the lines that anyone wanting to up the load on bt's infrastructure must foot the bill for feasability studies and upgrades/replacements. This is costly - very costly.

Ducts is even harder!

I know from experience that you can forget about sharing fibres in the same cable with anyone - the commercial risk is untenable. and blowing new fibre into existing ducts is a nightmare/impossible.

so yes you can legally do it, but practically... no, or at least prohibitively expensive.

everybody wins :D

tru dat!

must have been the wrong roads, same as every other bleeder that day :-)

lulz

consider world minus jock inventions.....

we'd all be rubbing sticks together for fire

dullard

no im not of a sottish persuasion!

kinda

sounds just like a church to me

tons and tons...

I used to be a bench engineer for a company that did about 1/3 of european warranty repairs for one of the big named mfrs.

the <nudge-nudge wink-wink> deal was:

10 you bought a new lappie,

20 took the extended warranty.

30 destroyed said lappy when warranty was nearing expiry date.

40 got replacement lappie.

50 goto 20

the cost of the warranty was not a lot less than the cost of the machine

punters feel good, cos they got one over on 'the man' and an upgraded lappie every few years. (okay this relies on lusers inability to count)

we were happy, everyone kept their jobs and occasionally got a funny story to tell down t' pub (laptop fell in a bucket of turps anyone??)

MFR was happy, they got to shift boxes and stay in the top 1/2/3/4 slot

the only quibbles were - damaged screen (aka closing\slaming the lid with a pen left on the kbd) spills on the kbd (for pitty sake not 4 day old milk... again) which were damage, beyond that pretty much anything was accepted as accidental.

lol

lots of issues

i hear you, even over the rumbling of that dirt flywheel a mere 150 miles away

Strange it died on it's arse really...

you would have thought the lizard people would have helped it along (but on the down-low of course)

apart from anything else you could have had a cast of 1000's of holywood A-list lizardworshipers in it, i mean would you turn down a chance to be in a story written by god?

go figure

lol

you forgot the part where the paper is treated to you cannot annotate it :-)

or the way random chapters will, without warning, disappear when ever the books _real_ owner desires.

I smell a maffs teacher

desperately trying to justify the cliff that standards have dropped off in the last 30 years.

average school leaver today is funtionally illiterate

average graduate today is functionally inumerate

close but no cigar..

started out encouragingly... yep a parabolic reflector would be good, then blam you completely fuck it all up with " if you apply pressure whilst polishing a flat surface you will induce a very slight curvature."

how much pressure, in what direction, for how long, on what thickness of substrate, youngs modulus of which is what?. cos you get any number of curves, only one of which will be parabolic.

(i'll give you a mulligan on the 'bond a bolt to the back of a mirror' - we'll assume cyano acrilates were avaialable to the greeks and they did have the capability of producing _perfectly_ flat sheets of glass or reflective metal with a _totaly_ uniform cross section.... ho hum)

but im afraid "The focal length of a parabolic mirror does not change its effective concentration" is pretty unforgivable. the POINT of a parabloic reflector is that it takes the energy impinging on the whole surface and delivers it to 1 point - the focus (same ammount of energy over a smaller area), passing beyond the focus the reflected beam diverges, therefore dissapating the energy, so that at a point that is as far from the focus on the opposite side from the reflector will see exactly the same concentration of reflected energy.

to reitterate: The reason this didnt work for mythbusters, or archimedes is that the whole thing is bollocks.

QED

break the law as a civilian and you end up in gitmo

thats all....

actually theres no need to break the law, luckily for manning he's not of a brown skinned persuasion

typical

feckless, lazy bone idle downvoters, prolly asleep against a fence with blanket with a hole in it for a coat etc etc etc

down with this sort of t'ing

thats all....

NUNS!

undermines the whole concept of a local representative...

in a way that being a labour supporter in the south east, or a conservative in the valleys of wales, or a lib dem supporter.... pretty much everywhere at the next election :-) doesn't?

the first past the post system has given us parties with huge majorities in the commons, with share of the vote in the 30-40% region. yet that minority support gives 100% power to (nutjobs like blair and thatch), say go to war, flog off anything we own, introduce poll tax, make being gay illegal (ok bit of poetic licence), ram through 'anti-terror (anti fredom of speech & ascociation) regulation, the fecking mandy bill FFS, and many many more.

whats even remotely democratic about that?

I'm not the greatest fan of AV, but it will clearly provide results in each constituency that are 'the least disagreeable' candidate with over 50% of voters choosing.

and anything thet results in less disagreeable politicians _must_ be a good move