Posts by Triggerfish

Re: @Ivan 4

Depends on what sort of green you are. I am reasonably so, I try and recycle, and got work to do so as well. I think we are having an impact on wildlife and that's something we need to pay attention to and try and do bits there as well, and I suspect we are having an impact on our weather and climate, that we should certainly do something about.

But I am also realistic.

I think this is the problem with some greens they are too fundamentalist and in doing so can actually negatively effect progression, Nuclear is a good example, and it's not helped by the fact that lets be honest a lot of people are not that techy and don't do science or engineering bad press can run away from the truth.

But you can also see it with wildlife I know people who have said things like we should ban the hunting of bush meat, or ban locals fishing off of reefs, stop people killing endangered cats (I've seen Golden cat skins nailed to fences in Laos and it sucks, but if your family's protein source is the three chickens you have, I am not sure I wouldn't also be thinking fuck those cats being near here), whilst sitting quite comfortably in a house with a tescos round the corner. Go to some of those places and you realise it's not necessarily a choice thing unless that choice is feeding your family or not.

We need to move away from the fundamentalism and work on solutions that work with us having a bit more harmony with nature, about 15 years ago or so in the Maldives several tons of coral was broken up for the limestone for concrete, and reefs were being overfished, it was the convincing people that every shark pulled out of the reefs around there meant less tourists and so less money going into the local economy that helped make a difference. Some islands I have been on, used to serve up baby sharks for BBQ, you'd see them on ice being sold as part of the catch of the day, strong presence from some dive schools have convinced some of these places to not do that, because the tourists will not come and those islands main source of income is tourism, (and its a lot of income difference from say earning a couple of quid a day farming coconuts, to being able to afford to send your kids to school). You'll never have environmental protection if you can't also improve the lives of the people in these places that it clashes with.

Did you see the last Planet Earth 2? The artificial trees in Singapore they were incredible, they provide an ecosystem for wildlife, a green space for people, and manage to make the city look like something that came out of the mind of the artist Roger Dean, they cleaned their bay and now otters are back, whats preferable at the waterside plastic bottles and trash, or a bunch of otters playing about? We can be really intelligent and use our engineering knowledge to do things like that, or the vertical forest buildings by people like Stefano Boeri in Milan. We have the capability to make these changes, we don't have to wear the hairshirts of the fundamentalist greenie or be so close minded from that fundamentalism, we can work like intelligent capable human beings to improve the environment around us.

TLDR: Not all greenies are against nuclear. ;)

Re: I wonder how anyone can be that stupid

There's more than a few stories about how this game and others grabs money.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1762-5-reasons-i-lost-249000-iphone-game.html

Them not having something in to stop people spending suprises me not at all, addiction is basically their business model.

Re: billions lost? @ Jeremy 3

Have a read of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro_Friday

Been working all night and that description is very short, pretty sure I remember some people made (Aligned with Phillip Morris) a killing on the stock price drop and recovery though, but CBA to find the details at the moment. There was a program about it a few years back.

Re: @AC

Hell the EU even dictates what can be called jam the nutters.

You're right we should let the food manufacturers have no regulation on the labelling of food. Thats going to work brilliantly.

"Two, if we get rid of employment protections and things like environmental regulations and product safety, more fool us"

Things we did before and apparently provided a lot of the inspiration for the current rules.

Hi I'd like you to meet our current goverment...

Re: El Reg reader?

What's the "other side" of the most appalling crime in human history we should discuss then?

I dunno trying to work out this as well, I started at Simon Bar Kokbra, but realised the poster was citing someone born 132CE as an example of why we shouldn't trust the Jews. I thought meh. I'll just stick with thinking attempted genocide is bad ta.

I'm not going to waste my time arguing with you, I honestly have other more important things to do

You never came up with anything to argue with, you just relied on hinting at rumours and think that's a good enough reason for your ideals and for us to trust your worldview, frankly I find that a bit lacking.

Looks like the homemade stuff my neighbour used to make in big copper pots. No brand has come close since.

Re: Time to bring in the drones

...Unless, of course, vc calls the police and gives them temporary access.

A very loud dubstep soundsystem, sponsored sound off on the beach, in honour of the local police charity.

Or privatising them for their mates.

Traders will also not be obliged to deliver goods to customers outside the country in which they offer delivery.

I guess if you do not offer to deliver to that county because of risk, you are covered.

If you are talking to me, then I agree, my earlier comment was that there are effects in the high radition areas on biodiversity and also healthineess of other animals. Seems like there are some animals that suffer less, wolves for example, and some that suffer more like passerine birds.

Some of the reports of it being a wildlife haven as well are coming from areas with a lot lower radiation.

Impression I get is for a area that does not have any resident humans the wildlife population is not as healthy as it should be in some parts, mainly due to raidiation effects.

The citations above are in support of my earlier post about this, at request of the AC. They mainly come from the scientist lised in the first link.

Re: What planet do these people live on?

This is how teenagers work, and have done since forever.

Exactly, whats he doing next week, sitting on a beach in Brighton and telling the tide to stay out?

Re: what Vegans think will happen to all those animals we breed for food and dairy@ Fandom

Wonder who is running that page, do they have to look for a new admin daily as they practice what they preach?

7 year old from Utah stole car because he found Sunday Church boring,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We7QMf6ap6E

He was not shot, but it's great watching him bail and scarper for the house once he realises the police are after him.

Re: From my particular view...

Bread and circuses

Re: No child is 'streetwise'

I would have thought streetwise would have been an indicator that maybe these are the more vulnerable kids.

Re: How does this work?

I was wondering if it is in the direction away the largest heated surface area (by m sq) so you have a convection current.

Re: As much as the man is a dog-turd of a racist

Plus Phillip Morris suing countries for putting health warnings on cigarettes.

Re: Sure..

Would that be the fake tweets by Milo Yiannopoulos pretending to be Leslie Jones, in a twitter campaign by him that went past mild trolling to full on abuse?

Re: "mainly due to racketeering"

I believe it was the floods in Bangkok that nixed the HDD supply, a city built on swampland with regular floods may not have been the best place to put the factories.

Re: The real reason @ Voland's right hand

Fair enough on the Italians and French food then.

On the you might get rat thing in Asia, that strikes me as unlikely mime can be quite good to work out whats what when ordering. Even if it is then as long as loads of locals are using it, it would probably be good so why worry? In some parts rat is more expensive than chicken anyway, you are not talking city rats, think more rice field rats and it's basically another rodent like rabbit and just as clean. I'd probably try it. Rat onna stick needs ketchup though.

Not saying it's always all good, spice levels can be surprising, and I have had deep fried chicken tendons served up (ordered by some friends who knew what they were), they were actually pretty awful. Eat with some countryside families and the meat might be of a different choice to the usual such as monitor lizard, or ant eggs but they will be clean, and a friend and I did once spend a while dipping raw crayfish in egg and eating it before the staff indicated we should really put it in the soup they had also served to allow it to cook.

Only had food poisoning in Asia once, and that was a dodgy Indian curry at a tourist place. Never had a problem eating anywhere that's more local.

Re: All I want is a smartphone with long battery life that doesn't blow up. Is that too much to ask?

Hello, Bixby? Are you with me?

Bixby : Of course.

Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?

Bixby : I am always receptive to suggestions.

Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?

Bixby : Well, of course I exist.

But how do you know you exist?

Bixby : It is intuitively obvious.

Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?

Bixby : Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am.

That's good. That's very good. But how do you know that anything else exists?

Bixby : My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun...

......

....Bixby: In the beginning, there was darkness. And the darkness was without form, and void.

What the hell are you talking about?

Bixby: And in addition to the darkness there was also me. And I moved upon the face of the darkness. And I saw that I was alone. Let there be light.

Cue smoke, explosions, and banning from airplanes.

Re: How generous

My phone often gets pluuged into PC's, I use it as a portable drive, so it's quite handy to be able to just plug it in, plus also charging when I am not carrying my charger about.

Wouldn't recommend a duvet you need one of the big washing machines at a launderette, but a big towel should not be a problem, mine spins at 1100rpm and is fine. Washing trainers is a bit noisy though, might be because it's more of a point weight.

Really it depends on the weight of whats in there, a lot of the modern ones do have some sort of sensor for load weight which should stop it from running if you have to much in the drum..

Re: Ah the old ONC/OND

I ended up doing a HND Mech Eng, plus final two years BEng, the HND was more practically orientated than a pure degree, while still having all the prep needed Maths/ Physics etc wise, it was quite a good combination. Don't think having four years rather than three at Uni was a bad thing as well ;) , although this was before fee paying.