Posts by BorkedAgain

Re: Silent Running

...Although I did find the question of how his dickish shipmates ever landed a job, let alone a job in Space, something of an unanswered mystery...

Re: Would

What is with the spelling around here these days?

I think you mean "Wood."

Naughty boy.

Re: a crappy fortube spent then

...and the Tuba Mackerel random post generator prize goes to... Alan Denman!

Re:Grandfather's Axe

Perhaps we should deploy Ganto's Ax instead...

Re: "Liquid Metal"

I read "Australian accent" and had a brief headful of imaginary Crocodile Dundee / Terminator 2 crossover.

It wasn't bad, actually...

"Hasta la vista, mate!"

Re: Where I work -

How does this fit with equal opportunities regulations?

Au contraire...

My Samsung Note was anything but cheap when I got it, albeit some time back, but it's functional as all hell and damned good value, all told.

Cheap? Pah.

@Spoddy

I'd upvote you but I like the fact you've got 69 supporters. Wouldn't want to spoil that...

Re: Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather...

Yeah, me too. One for two; not Derren Brown material, but pretty cool...

Re: Geometry fail

But lots of tiny spheres give a higher surface-to-volume ratio than a single sphere with the same mass, which is (I think) the idea.

The way my Dad explained it to me when I was a nipper was something like: "If you take a big lump of ice* and split it in half, you've got the same volume of ice, but two whole new surfaces where you split the halves apart. Now split those halves in half, and you've got the same volume again, but some more new surface. Keep making the chunks smaller, and you increase the surface area while always keeping the volume the same. Now go find me the formula..."

* We were talking about big ice cubes vs small ice cubes, as I remember...

Another difference with cars...

...is that cars are designed to carry people and payloads from one place to another. That's their purpose, and it's what they do well. If used as a weapon (or even if causing injury through accident) it's as a side-effect of their primary purpose - the fact that they are heavy and move fairly quickly and hence have potential to do damage.

Guns are designed to kill people. That's what they're for, and it's what they do best. Okay, you can use one to hammer a nail into a wall, or to abseil down a ventilation shaft, or to scratch an itch in the small of your back, but you're not using the tool to its best effect. It's designed to be used to kill people with the greatest ease and efficiency possible.

There you go, Matt. More lovely troll food. Mmm...

Re: That blooper always annoyed me... @relpy

Ah, good point. My mistake. Real it clearly is.

Re: How about ....

Dammit, I came on here to say " Yo momma's so fat she demands a re-assessment of theories about the universe." thinking I was being all hip and street and original, and you guys got there first with funnier variations.

You guys... :)

Re: Disrespectful to investors

"...ties just seem to strangle you, end up in your food and dangle around uselessly..."

There's a joke about ex girlfriends or male genitalia in there somewhere but I can't seem to spot it this morning. Need more coffee.

*insert punchline here*

Re: provided that all your property is forfeited [...] when you die

I'm guessing you don't own a house?

Dammit Tony, you got there first...

I was going to say that doesn't sound like a bad deal - and after Microsoft have paid them to take the software they don't actually have to install it, do they?

Re: Ironic!

No, geese in glass kettles shouldn't throw sauce. Pay attention.

Re: What!

You don't write for Doctor Who by any chance, do you? That prose was just about the right shade of purple...

Re: Obligatory XKCD cartoon...

"...people hate wikipedia..."

[Citation Needed]

Re: Stop the presses

@AC 13:24

Good point, quite true. But you posted it anon, so I don't trust you.

Re: Useful to scrutinise charities

There was an interesting report on Radio 4 last night about more-or-less this subject. The author founded a charity that isn't in the least bit interested in that self-perpetuating-keep-asking-for-money model, but has a proper, strategic plan to deliver sustainable solutions on the ground and they're working on a timetable to shut themselves down in 2018, with their job done.

An incredible, inspirational woman. Can't recommend the article enough: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20762278

Re: 4 years from now

I like the solar sail idea, but would it be a terrible thing if we forgot to pack the sail and just turned on the lasers anyway?

Re: Micro gravitation changes?

@ BoldMan - Is that the fastest you can go? I'm travelling at an average rate of 60 minutes per hour, although some afternoons it seems considerably slower...

Yes, I liked that too... :)

Re: Nice story, Good quality recording,

It's better than your zombie movie. So there.

(Also, as a bonus, quite unlikely to have the line "The neutrinos are mutating" in it...)

Re: It looks just like a Telefunken U47...

With leather?

@Martin 47

Spot on. They'd sort it out in about no time flat, then...

Re: For a refund, natch.

"legitimately CE marked..."

This story worried me at the time. Now I know why...

http://www.labnol.org/gadgets/ce-marking-on-electronics/13845/

Re: 9 years old

I remember my old Casio being similar...

And now my mobile phone, using RealCalc, tells me with no discernable pause for thought that 170!=7.257415615*10^306... Remarkable...

Wow. Thanks, Coen.

Some previously untapped resources of crazy there. That's wonderful.

If only there were some way to convert internet-sourced lunacy into power, we'd be all set...

Re: I have a solution

Close, but you forgot the blob of superglue to hold the battery in place.