Posts by envmod

dig. grave. own.

oh please mock 4chan some more mr crossley.... i mean, who the hell do they think they are? these people need to be stopped. i believe you are the man to stop them.

you're right - 4chan won't do anything serious, it's all childish pranks and minor inconveniences... keep at it mr crossley!

this is a title that i am writing in the space allocated for needless titles

lol, at any form of climate "research". what a fucking joke.

Pain Olympics

I have seen the BME clip - it is a close up of a man's genitals (not erect btw), laid on a chopping board. he then produces a very small hatchet and proceeds to cut his willy off. stuff comes out and it's all very eeeuuuw. not remotely sexual in any way, and also probably faek.

but i am sure some bitter old, daily mail reading judge, being shown it for the first time, would be utterly horrified and take the whole thing as an insult to his/her sensibilities, leading to the sort of sentences for extreme pr0n we are now witnessing.

unfortunately, a lot of the "establishment" involved in law making/sentencing etc have no fucking idea of the sort of stuff that gets sent around on line and probably don't even have email. us, tech savvy people have got used to goatse, tubgirl and two-girls one cup etc so do not see this kind of extreme material as extreme any more. it has become almost normal...but sadly, not to the people in charge.

btw, what's the laws on scat porn? my mate's into it. ahem.

Here's how it plays out

* start discovering other planets - keep things low key. only discover gas giants unable to support life.

* discover more and more of these and keep the stories in the media. get everyone used to the idea of other planets.

* start discovering more rocky, earth-like planets - although still of course unable to support life due to position in the star system/composition of the atmosphere. have lots of stories in the media about them.

* finally find an rocky, earth-like planet with all the requirements for life, but none of the signs. start media speculation about what kind of life could be hiding there that we can't see due to technology limitations.

* start finding more and more earth-like planets capable of supporting life, all still with no signs of life however. have lots of media stories about them and statements from scientists claiming that it is now only a matter of time before we discover some sort of life on another planet. get everyone used to the idea.

* find some potential signs of life on one of the numerous earth-like planets, but nothing concrete. Have lots of media stories about the kind of life it might be, but always stressing that it is not INTELLIGENT life, rather that someone has discovered an anomaly in the CO2 levels of the planet in question (or something like that), which could indicate some kind of large algae population or something.

* confirm the above. let the media go bananas about finally discovering life on another planet, always stressing that it is simple life and not in any way sentient or DANGEROUS.

* repeat the discovery of simple life on some other planets, and keep finding evidence to support more complex life forms, starting with perhaps some kind of small worm, eventually leading up to finding evidence for some sort of large herbivore creature.

* keep stories in the media about life on other planets, it's type and origin. again, get everyone well used to the idea, whilst always reassuring everyone there is still no evidence for sentient life anywhere.

* launch some sort of probe to a planet which will take at least 50 years to get anywhere and start returning any data.

* meanwhile, discover a SIGNAL. a very simple one. speculation in the media as to the origin and potential threat.

* discover signal is a beacon, leading to further signal discoveries. scientists begin to try and decipher the new, more complex signals. this takes years and years with no results until...

* eventually the probe lauched years earlier starts returning data which turns out to be vital to deciphering the signal. signal turns out to be a "hello" type affair (not the magazine) and confirms there is other intelligent life in the universe.

* it's official. there's other sentient life out there. everyone is stunned. let everyone calm down a bit and keep stories in the media to get people used to the idea we are not alone.

* eventually, after years of speculation as to the type and intentions of any new sentient life, attempts to send return signals and new probes sent out to other planets, the aliens finally land somewhere very public and say hi. No one is that surprised.

* a new era is born.

personally

i throw all my glass bottles away, leave lights on all day, run an air-con unit in a room i'm not even in and regularly take nice hot baths instead of showers.

fuck it eh?

PLEASE stop moaning

please. it's so boring...

bloody apple steve jobs who does he think he is grumble grumble...everyone loves to stick the knife in.

move along, nothing to see here.

stop bloody moaning, works fine

i have an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4, both of which are running iOS 4. i upgraded my 3G and encountered no problems whatsoever during the upgrade. since the upgrade i, (ok, actually my bird - i've given her my old phone) have encountered no problems whatsoever.

i am now using my iPhone 4 every day. i have had no problems with either signal strength, dropped calls, proximity sensor or OS problems.

both phones are incredibly good and work very well indeed. i have used other smartphones (most notably Nokia N97 and Blackberry Storm) and they are shit in comparison with the iPhone.

i believe the appropriate term is:

"haters gonna hate".